Prestigious conferences on the Paris-Saclay campus

At the end of 2019 and the beginning of 2020, the School welcomed distinguished politicians. The Symposium association was honoured to host:

• Mr. François Hollande, on the 15th January, who spoke to a packed lecture hall on "Responding to the democratic crisis".
• Mr. Bernard Cazeneuve, on the 18th December, who spoke about the law, from preparation to application, including the important role of interpretation.

2nd Year student publishes article in A-ranked journal

In January 2020, Benjamin de Bruyne, a CentraleSupélec engineering student and researcher at the SPMS laboratory, published an article in the leading international crystallography journal, Acta Crystallographica Section A. Congratulations!

SOEIST master's graduation

The graduation ceremony for Master’s students from the School of Engineering, Information Science and Technology (SOEIST) of the University Paris-Saclay took place on the 5th February in CentraleSupélec’s Michelin amphitheatre. Approximately 700 students out of the 1,425 graduates attended, accompanied by their families, as well as a hundred or so research professors and establishment heads. 100 CentraleSupélec students were awarded their degrees.

Creation of a new scientific chair with Lusis

CentraleSupélec and the company Lusis have joined forces to create a research chair in "Artificial intelligence in payment fraud and trading”. With this partnership, Lusis and CentraleSupélec are strengthening their collaboration in the field of artificial intelligence in the banking sector.
This is the first CentraleSupélec chair to be created with an SME, a French one moreover, and with high technological potential.

CentraleSupélec finalises Transmission Electronic Microscopy

On the 27th January 2019, the Soil Mechanics, Structures and Materials Laboratory (MSSMAT) officially launched a new transmission electron microscope (TEM) as part of the ATOMA project (Analysis and observations: from micrometre to angstrom). The microscope works in conventional TEM mode and in STEM scanning mode (Scanning Transmission Electron Microscope).

A campaign against everyday sexism

At the beginning of February, CentraleSupélec launched a campaign on all 3 campuses against "everyday sexism", CentraleSupélec says NO to sexism, using a series of six posters. The 6 sentences that make up this campaign were chosen with the students of the Capèse association, which fights for gender equality. There is also a quiz also allows you to test your knowledge of harassment and sexism: https://www.universite-paris-saclay.fr/sexisme-testez-vos-connaissances

Welcome to the new graduates of the international Ecoles Centrale!

Over the past 2 months, the Centrale community has further expanded, following 2 graduation ceremonies:

• École Centrale Casablanca- , on the 4th December, with approximately fifty students receiving their diplomas;
• École Centrale Centrale Beijing’s 9th graduation ceremony on the 11th January 2020, with 104 students graduating.

Partnership with the French Air Force with the Flextech Chair

Late December 2019 saw the signing of a partnership between the Centre d’Expertise Aérienne Militaire (CEAM or Centre for Military Air Expertise), l’Ecole Supérieure des Technologies Industrielles Avancées (ESTIA or School of Advanced Industrial Technologies) and CentraleSupélec. This partnership is part of the FlexTech human factors-oriented chair for flexible technologies, developed in collaboration by the two schools. The chair examines the theme of systems engineering and the place of humankind in complex socio-technical systems with increasing autonomy.
The French Air Force, through CEAM’s Ergonomics and Human Factors cell, and the FlexTech Chair will cooperate in the field of the evolution of collaborative air combat and training systems based on hybridization of simulations and artificial intelligence.

E-Lumi for Moselle middle school students

The e-Lumi project entered the deployment phase in early 2020. The e-Lumi “lit” school bag, developed on the initiative of the Moselle Department working jointly with the Metz campus photonics chair and the Nancy-Metz Academy, has been distributed to the 80 middle schools of Moselle whose students will now be able to use them.

"Bouge la Science” (Move Science) Forum: when science speaks to young people

On the 14th January 14, Bouge la Science, aimed at middle school students, attracted some 300 participants. The forum’s objective is to promote science and academic success in disadvantaged areas.