The inaugural lectures of the 1st year

Every year, engineering students can take advantage of conferences given by experts and well-known personalities from the scientific and academic world. They also benefit from comprehensive seminars on specific topics. The aim of all these conferences is to enable students to broaden their scientific and cultural knowledge. The Inaugural Lessons are open to all.

The 2025-2026 back-to-School program

• 14 September 2026 : Bruno Tassin, Research Fellow Emeritus at the École nationale des ponts et chaussées, within the LEESU Laboratory - "Plastic and Planet Earth"
• 21 September 2026 : Bernard Vaudeville, co-founder and associate director of the engineering consultancy T/E/S/S - "Reflections on the Eiffel Tower and a few other, more modest structures"

The 2025-2026 back-to-School program

• 30 September 2025: Olivier Hamant, Biologist, researcher at INRAE, at École Normale Supérieure de Lyon, author, and lecturer - "Living in a changing world: robustness vs. performance"
  Watch the replay (in French)
• 6 October 2025: Yann Le Cun, Chief AI Scientist, Meta - "Deep learning and beyond: the new challenges of artificial intelligence"
  Watch the replay (in French)