In order to remain available for students, regardless of the current CoVid-19 situation at Ecole Polytechnique, I will be maintaining regular, virtual, office hours, by way of WebEx. I will try to make myself available, on weekdays at the following…
One of my students recently asked “what do you guys actually do when you are not teaching classes?”. While answering “research”, and pointing him to the scientific publications on the website of my team was a good answer, it still…
Three different shades of red, so ready for three different levels of frustration ? No, but seriously, all-inclusive, I am looking forward to reading these 213 pages of densely packed science.
A PhD “midway defense” marks the end of a busy “back-to-school” week — to think that it took me almost 20 years of working in Paris academia before I got a chance to visit LIP6 the UPMC campus. Next up…
It’s summer…which means that while our engineering and graduate students are leaving campus, we’ve got an occasion to spend important quality time with our PhD students and colleagues, and make (attempts at) leap and bounds on our scientific production ……
The other morning, Google Scholar shot me another email, indicating new citations to my papers. It’s often interesting to see how other people build on what I’ve done in the past, and so it’s become somewhat of a tradition that…
This other day, when trying to mark-up a final proof of a paper that my colleagues and I had accepted to an Elsevier journal, I had a flash-back to the 1990’s – you know, the good old days when not…
Marceau Coupechoux, professor at Telecom-ParisTech, and adjunct professor at Ecole Polytechnique – and, thus, in addition to being a good friend, also a good colleague – has conspired with two of his collaborators (A. S. Bedi, K. Rajawat) from IIT…
….maybe that title needs a wee bit of an explanation. To enrol in the the Engineering program at Ecole Polytechnique, candidates first suffer through a gruelling delightful “Classe Préparatoire” — roughly 2 or 3 years of “undergraduate maths, physics, and…