News & events

This year's final of the Swarm Rescue Challenge took place on 19 and 31 March. Organised by the Interdisciplinary Centre for Defence and Security Studies (CIEDS) of the Institut Polytechnique de Paris (IP Paris) with the French Defence Innovation Agency (AID) and the Indian Defence R&D Organisation (DRDO), the Swarm Rescue Challenge is a Python programming competition. Its aim is to stimulate students' interest in defence and security issues, with a particular focus on strategies for navigation, exploration and coordination between agents.

As a result of malformations or genetic diseases, some children experience a distraction - an elongation - of the mandible. Jean Boisson, a teacher-researcher at ENSTA's Laboratoire de Mécanique et ses Interfaces (LMI*), is using his expertise in mechanics and magnetic systems to develop mandibular distractors that are more precise and less painful than existing devices.

In this very first episode of the "Les Entretiens du CIEDS" video-podcast series dedicated to defence innovation, the Interdisciplinary Centre for Defence and Security Studies invites you to meet Colonel Thomas Brucker, Director of the French Army's Battle-Lab Terre. The interview was conducted by scientific journalist Didier Jamet.

Anticipating the effects of a treatment on a patient, informing the decisions of anesthesiologists... Digital twins open up new perspectives in medicine and limit invasive procedures. Dominique Chapelle, Director of Research at Inria and researcher at the École Polytechnique's Solid Mechanics Laboratory (*LMS), is developing these “patient twins” using mathematical models based on the description of cause and effect in numerous phenomena. On World Health Day, April 7, 2025, we focus on these digital patients and their predictive capabilities.

Join the first MicroscopAI conference, an unprecedented meeting of researchers focused on quantitative microscopic imaging, with an emphasis on the needs and opportunities for innovations driven by AI. When? June 20, 2025, from 10 AM to 4 PM Where? At...

On Wednesday 2 April 2025, ten doctoral students from the Institut Polytechnique de Paris took up the incredible challenge of presenting their research topic clearly and in a compelling way to an uninitiated audience in just 3 minutes.

Vicky Kalogeiton is a researcher at the Computer Science Laboratory of the École Polytechnique (LIX*). As a specialist in generative artificial intelligence, she improves and develops learning models leading to the generation of images, videos and other multimodal data, including a Generative AI model capable of leveraging data more efficiently. Her work has applications in the medical, defense and creative sectors.

On Wednesday April 2, 2025, ten young researchers will present their thesis topics at the local final of the "My thesis in 180 seconds" competition organized by the Institut Polytechnique de Paris. The public attending this flagship science outreach event will be able to vote for their favorite candidate.

Meet six experts in defence innovation by watching the brand new video-podcast designed and produced by the Interdisciplinary Centre for Defence and Security Studies (CIEDS) and (re)discover the underlying issues! The video-podcast is part of one of CIEDS's five missions: to raise awareness of defence issues.

The Hi! PARIS center for artificial intelligence and data science announces the appointment of Vincent Rapp as Executive Director. He takes over from Raphaëlle Gautier at a key moment in the center's growth.

Following the BIOAM workshops held in 2016, 2018 and 2023 the BIOAM-2025 workshop will take place at Ecole polytechnique. The BIOAM-2025 workshop will take place over three full days (1st - 3rd of September 2025). BIOAM-2025 is aiming to provide a forum...

On February 11, 2025, the Institut Polytechnique de Paris hosted the event "Gérer ses données sur le plateau de Saclay", co-organized by the libraries of the Institut Polytechnique de Paris, the Department of Libraries, Information and Open Science of the Université Paris-Saclay and the Data Infrastructure and Scientific Computing service unit of the Ecole Polytechnique. This event brought together around sixty data professionals (engineers, researchers, librarians, research support staff) to identify the data management issues and challenges faced by scientific communities and the solutions implemented by the Plateau de Saclay services and infrastructures.