Palaiseau-Villebon station

The canton of Palaiseau is an administrative division of the Essonne department, Île-de-France region, northern France. Its borders were modified at the French canton reorganisation which came into effect in March 2015. Its seat is in Palaiseau.It consists of the following communes: Igny Orsay Palaiseau

The arrondissement of Palaiseau is an arrondissement of France in the Essonne department in the Île-de-France region. It has 68 communes. Its population is 630,737 (2019), and its area is 484.0 km2 (186.9 sq mi).

The Office national d'études et de recherches aérospatiales (ONERA) is the French national aerospace research centre. It is a public establishment with industrial and commercial operations, and carries out application-oriented research to support enhanced innovation and competitiveness in the aerospace and defense sectors. ONERA was created in 1946 as "Office National d’Études et de Recherches Aéronautiques". Since 1963, its official name has been "Office National d’Études et de Recherches Aérospatiales". However, in January 2007, ONERA has been dubbed "The French Aerospace Lab" to improve its international visibility.

Palaiseau (French pronunciation: [palɛzo]) is a commune in the southern suburbs of Paris, France. It is located 16.9 km (10.5 mi) from the centre of Paris. Palaiseau is a sub-prefecture of the Essonne department and the seat of the Arrondissement of Palaiseau. Inhabitants of Palaiseau are known as Palaisiens.

Villebon-sur-Yvette (French pronunciation: [vilbɔ̃ syʁ ivɛt] , literally Villebon on Yvette) is a commune in the Essonne department in Île-de-France in northern France, about 20 kilometers south of Paris. Thanks to the presence of the business centers of Courtaboeuf and Grand Dôme as well as the commercial center of Villebon 2, it has become one of the richest communes in the department.

Palaiseau station is one of the four RER B stations in the city of Palaiseau.

Villejust (French: [vilʒyst] ) is a commune in the Essonne department in Île-de-France in northern France.

Lozère station is one of the four RER B station of Palaiseau, near Paris, France. It serves the École polytechnique university through a path with approximately 300 stairs.

Massy-Palaiseau station (French: Gare de Massy-Palaiseau) is a train station in the city of Massy. It is a junction of the RER B, RER C, Transilien Line V and tramway Line 12. In the future, Paris Metro Line 18 of Grand Paris Express will stop here in the future. It is a station in this southern outer suburb of Paris, with a connection to the Massy TGV station.

École polytechnique (lit. 'Polytechnic School'; also known as Polytechnique or l'X [liks]) is a grande école located in Palaiseau, France. It specializes in science and engineering and is a founding member of the Polytechnic Institute of Paris.The school was founded in 1794 by mathematician Gaspard Monge during the French Revolution and was militarized under Napoleon I in 1804. It is still supervised by the French Ministry of Armed Forces. Originally located in the Latin Quarter in central Paris, the institution moved to Palaiseau in 1976, in the Paris-Saclay technology cluster.Polytechnique's historic engineering graduate program has a highly selective admission process consisting of written and oral examinations, following classes préparatoires or a bachelor's degree. French engineering students undergo initial military training and have the status of paid officer cadets. The school has also been awarding doctorates since 1985, masters since 2005 and bachelors since 2017. Most Polytechnique graduates go on to become top executives in companies, senior civil servants, military officers, or researchers.Its alumni from the engineering graduate program include three Nobel Prize winners, a Fields Medalist, three Presidents of France and many CEOs of French and international companies. Among them are mathematicians such as Cauchy, Coriolis, Henri Poincaré, Laurent Schwartz and Benoît Mandelbrot, physicists such as Becquerel, Carnot, Ampère and Fresnel, and economists Maurice Allais and Jean Tirole. French Marshals Joffre, Foch, Fayolle and Maunoury all graduated from Polytechnique engineering program.

The Centre de mathématiques Laurent-Schwartz (CMLS) is a joint research unit (UMR 7640) of France's Centre national de la recherche scientifique (CNRS) and the École Polytechnique. It is located on the site of École Polytechnique in Palaiseau.

LULI : Laboratoire pour l'Utilisation des Lasers Intenses (LULI) is a scientific research laboratory specialised in the study of plasmas generated by laser-matter interaction at high intensities and their applications. The main missions of LULI include: (i) Research in Plasma Physics, (ii) Development and operation of high-power high-energy lasers and experimental facilities, (iii) student formation in Plasma Physics, Optics and Laser Physics.