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COVID-19: A new detection strategy developed at Polytechnique Montréal

February 9, 2022

A team from Polytechnique Montréal and the CRCHUM has just demonstrated how Raman spectroscopy and simple saliva samples could be used to quickly detect SARS-CoV-2, the virus causing COVID-19. The breakthrough was published today in an article the Journal ...

https://www.polymtl.ca/carrefour-actualite/en/news/covid-19-new-detection-strategy-developed-polytechnique-montreal

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GENDER EQUITY IN PUBLIC TRANSIT: Transit systems must adapt to women's needs

February 7, 2022

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Teeth... as designed by AI

Integrating machine learning algorithms into dental prosthesis design process could decrease design error frequency. (Photo : Laboratoire de recherche MAGNU) Artificial intelligence (AI) could soon find applications.... in our mouths!? A Polytechnique ...

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Inventing 6G

Mobile antennas in the 5G range are small, which makes them easy to integrate into electronic circuits; here they are on a millimeter-wave beamformer circuit. Newer 6G antennas will be even smaller. (Photo: Mohammad Sharawi) While "5G"- aka th ...

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Renewal of Professor Beaudry and Professor Kéna-Cohen Canada Research Chairs

January 12, 2022

Polytechnique Montréal’s Full Professor Catherine Beaudry (Department of Mathematics and Industrial Engineering), and Associate Professor Stéphane Kéna-Cohen (Department of Engineering Physics) have received support from the Canada Research Chairs Program ...

https://www.polymtl.ca/carrefour-actualite/en/news/renewal-professor-beaudry-and-professor-kena-cohen-canada-research-chairs

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Québec Science Discovery of the Year: two Polytechnique Montréal professors among the top10 finalists

January 6, 2022

No less than two Polytechnique Montréal professors have earned a top 10 spot in Québec Science magazine’s prestigious Discovery of the Year competition for 2021. ...

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Jetting of towards planes… without pilots

The Falcon 10X business jet from French manufacturer Dassault is one of many new models that incorporate touch screens in the cockpit. The delivery of Dassault’s first planes is scheduled for 2025. (Photo : Dassault Aviation) In his Polytechnique Montré ...

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Polytechnique Montréal’s Professor Carl-Éric Aubin receives appointment to the Order of Canada

December 29, 2021

Montréal - Polytechnique Montréal is proud to announce that Full Professor Carl-Éric Aubin from the Department of Mechanical Engineering, Associate Professor in the Department of Surgery at the Faculty of Medicine at the Université de Montréal, researcher at CHU Sainte-Justine and Executive Director and scientist of the TransMedTech Institute, has been named Officer of the Order of Canada, Canada’s highest civilian honour.

https://www.polymtl.ca/salle-de-presse/en/newsreleases/polytechnique-montreals-professor-carl-eric-aubin-receives-appointment-order-canada

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Professor Carl-Éric Aubin receives appointment to the Order of Canada

December 29, 2021

Polytechnique Montréal is proud to announce that Full Professor Carl-Éric Aubin from the Department of Mechanical Engineering, Associate Professor in the Department of Surgery at the Faculty of Medicine at the Université de Montréal, researcher at CHU Sai ...

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Strategic research: Professor Lahrichi and Professor Pal principal investigators of two of several IVADO-funded programs

December 17, 2021

Professor Nadia Lahrichi is Principal Investigator of an Institut de valorisation des données - IVADO supported program on human health and secondary use of data. Professor Christopher Pal is Principal Investigator of a program focused on artificial inte ...

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Professor Ke Wu elected member of Germany’s acatech academy

December 16, 2021

Full Professor Ke Wu (Department of Electrical Engineering), has been elected to the Deutsche Akademie der Technikwiessenchaften (acatech), the German Academy of Science and Engineering. ...

https://www.polymtl.ca/carrefour-actualite/en/news/professor-ke-wu-elected-member-germanys-acatech-academy

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Appointments to the CIRAIG management team

December 13, 2021

The International Reference Centre for the Life Cycle of Products, Processes and Services – CIRAIG announces the appointment of Sara Russo Garrido as Executive Director and François Saunier as Assistant Executive Director. ...

https://www.polymtl.ca/carrefour-actualite/en/news/appointments-ciraig-management-team

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Cybersecurity: Creation of a Research Chair in Supply Chain Resilience

December 9, 2021

Canada’s Polytechnique Montréal and France’s Institut de Recherche Technologique (IRT) SystemX are launching the CRITiCAL Chair for Cyber-Resilience in Transport Systems Infrastructures and Supply Chains. ...

https://www.polymtl.ca/carrefour-actualite/en/news/cybersecurity-creation-research-chair-supply-chain-resilience

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Autonomous cars on the roads... and drones in the skies

Before driving on our roads, each autonomous car will have to obtain a certification from Transport Canada, a step that’s only possible if cars are shielded from computer attacks. (Photo: Eschenzweig, license CC BY-SA 4.0). By putting in-car artificial ...

https://www.polymtl.ca/carrefour-actualite/en/blogue/autonomous-cars-roads-and-drones-skies

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Professor Samuel Yniesta wins Earthquake Engineering Research Institute Innovation Prize

December 8, 2021

Assistant Professor Samuel Yniesta, (Department of Civil, Geological and Mining Engineering), has received the Shah Family Innovation Prize from the Earthquake Engineering Research Institute (EERI). ...

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Artificial Intelligence: a new Canada-CIFAR Chair in AI for Professor Foutse Khomh

December 7, 2021

Full Professor Foutse Khomh and his team from Polytechnique Montréal's Department of Computer Engineering and Software Engineering has been awarded a Canada-CIFAR Chair in IA. ...

https://www.polymtl.ca/carrefour-actualite/en/news/artificial-intelligence-new-canada-cifar-chair-ai-professor-foutse-khomh

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Seventh edition of the Order of the White Rose- Polytechnique Montréal announces recipient: Willow Dew receives $30,000 scholarship

December 2, 2021

Montreal – At the end of a ceremony held in the company of honoured guests including Ms. Danielle McCann (Minister of Higher Education), Polytechnique Montréal presented the seventh Order of the White Rose scholarship to Willow Dew.

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Willow Dew, seventh recipient of the Order of the White Rose

December 2, 2021

At a ceremony held with the presence of Danielle McCann, Québec’s Minister of Higher Education, Polytechnique Montréal’s university executive presented the seventh Order of the White Rose Scholarship to Willow Dew, a graduate of the University of Alberta& ...

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Activities commemorating December 6, 1989

November 30, 2021

Thirty-two years have passed since the anti-women attack that took the lives of 14 young women and injured 13 other individuals on December 6, 1989, at Polytechnique Montréal. To honour the memory of the victims of this tragedy, several commemorative acti ...

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Week of the White Rose and December 6, 1989 commemorations at Polytechnique Montréal

November 25, 2021

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