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News - IP Paris
Highlights from SPRING 2025
The Institut Polytechnique de Paris (IP Paris) took part in the 2025 edition of Paris-Saclay SPRING, the flagship innovation event on the Saclay plateau. Held on May 20 and 21 on the École Polytechnique campus (IP Paris), the event showcased IP Paris's strong commitment to scientific entrepreneursh…
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Page - CMAP Lab
History of CMAP
Creation of CMAP in 1974
When the Ecole Polytechnique moved from central Paris to Palaiseau, the decision was taken to reorganize research, leading to an overhaul of existing laboratories and the creation of new ones. There was already a fundamental mathematics laboratory, led by Laurent Schwa…
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History of the BIOC
On January 1st, 1975, the BIOC, the biochemistry laboratory, was officially created on the site of the Ecole Polytechnique which had just moved to Palaiseau. This was the School’s first biology laboratory. “There was a desire to establish research and teaching in biology, more particularly in its a…
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News - IP Paris
Hong Wang, former student at École Polytechnique, receives the 2026 Fields Medal
At just 35 years old, mathematician Hong Wang has been awarded the 2026 Fields Medal. The former École Polytechnique student (X 2010) and her colleague Joshua Zahl (Nankaï University) have succeeded in solving a mathematical problem posed over a century ago: the three-dimensional aspect of the Kake…
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News - E4C Interdisciplinary Center
How can the biogas subsidy be used despite the rebound effect?
Can biogas subsidies actually increase emissions?Biogas is often presented as an obvious solution for reducing CO₂ emissions. Yet, behind this seemingly efficient renewable energy source lie largely overlooked indirect effects.To stimulate biogas production, governments implement subsidies. In some…
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News - IP Paris
How ocean whirls affect climate
The WHIRLS project is led by a team of international scientists, including Sabrina Speich, a researcher at the Dynamic Meteorology Laboratory (LMD*). Its aim is to study the influence of small-scale processes in the ocean, such as whirls, on climate and marine biodiversity. It is funded by a Synerg…
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News - BIOC Lab
How ribosomes in archaea enter hibernation
The Structural Biology of the Cell Laboratory (BIOC*), in collaboration with Ifremer in Brest, the CBI in Toulouse, and Institut Pasteur, has identified a molecule in archaea capable of putting the ribosome, a cellular machinery essential to cells, into a state of dormancy. This “hibernation factor…
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News - IP Paris
How the Ocean Absorbs CO2: Laurent Bopp’s Innovative Models
As a CNRS Research Director at the Laboratory of Dynamic Meteorology (LMD*), Laurent Bopp develops highly detailed models of the ocean carbon cycle. To do this, he studies and incorporates into his simulations phenomena that have been little or not at all represented until now (ocean acidification,…
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How to find us
The LCM is located on the Ecole Polytechnique campus in Palaiseau, 20 km south of Paris. Directions to the laboratory are available on the Ecole Polytechnique website via this linkLaboratoire de Chimie MoléculaireÉcole Polytechnique, CNRSRoute de Saclay91128 Palaiseau cedexFranceYou can also contac…
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Page - CMAP Lab
HPC@Maths
The main objective of this team is to develop within the École Polytechnique, and more specifically at the Centre de Mathématiques Appliquées (CMAP), a competence in applied mathematics and High-Performance Computing (HPC) articulated around the laboratory's axes of excellence, in particular numeri…
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HYPER KAMIOKANDE
The Hyper-Kamiokande (Hyper-K, or HK) project in Japan represents a new generation of very large water Cherenkov detectors, a proven technique for neutrino detection. It will have a far detector with a payload 8.4 times larger than its predecessor Super-Kamiokande, and will be equipped with new gen…
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Event - POEMS Lab
IDEFIX-M3DISIM-POEMS Seminar : Maxime Breden (CMAP) and Charles Dapogny (Lab. Jean Kuntzmann)
Maxime Breden will speak about "An introduction to computer-assisted proofs for nonlinear equations: how to turn a numerical simulation into a theorem" and Charles Dapogny will speak about "Une stratégie basée sur la méthode des lignes de niveaux et des algorithmes de remaillage pour l'optimisation…
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