Columns - Polytechnique Insights

Quantum computing: 15 minutes to understand everything

Loïc Henriet, CTO at Pasqal, Landry Bretheau, Professor at Ecole Polytechnique, Quantum Physicist and Researcher in the Laboratory of Condensed Matter Physics (PMC*)

How to optimise CO2 capture by the ocean

Laurent Bopp, CNRS Research Director at Laboratoire de Météorologue Dynamique de l’Institut Pierre-Simon Laplace, T. Alan Hatton, Ralph Landau Professor of Chemical Engineering Practice at MIT

LSD, MDMA… how psychedelic drugs can treat psychiatric disorders

Daniele Zullino, Head of Addictology in the Department of Mental Health and Psychiatry at Geneva University Hospitals

Black-Scholes: the formula at the origin of Wall Street

Peter Tankov, Professor of quantitative finance at ENSAE (IP Paris)

Biohacking: medical promises or ethical perils?

Andrew Steele, PhD in physics from the University of Oxford, Science Writer and Columnist at Polytechnique Insights

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Say on Climate: the influential role of shareholders in company policies

Ekaterina Ghosh, student in economics of smart cities and climate policies at École Polytechnique (IP Paris), Patricia Crifo, Professor of Economics at École Polytechnique (IP Paris), Researcher at CREST (CNRS) and Associate Researcher at CIRANO

Industry 4.0: what can be expected?

Thierry Rayna, Researcher at the CNRS i³-CRG* laboratory and Professor at École Polytechnique (IP Paris), Nicolas Jaunet, Head of Fabrication Engineering and Industry 4.0 at Michelin

Politics and science: the upcoming end-of-life legislation

Jean-François Delfraissy, Chairman of the French National Consultative Ethics Committee

High-frequency trading: what are the risks and the returns for financial markets?

Thierry Foucault, Professor of finance at HEC Paris

How social interactions mitigate extremist views

Michele Starnini, Senior Research at Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya