A solemn ceremony honoring the winners of the All-Russian Public-State “Hot Heart-2019” Initiative was held at the Great Patriotic War Museum located in Moscow at Poklonnaya Gora.
The Geological Olympiad consists of distance and on-site competitions. The XLV Siberian Geological Olympiad on-site competition at NSU attracted 130 schoolchildren on 22 teams from many towns in Russia and Kazakhstan, including Alma-Ata and Ust-Kamenogorsk.
Amano Hiroshi, 2014 Nobel Laureate in Physics and Professor at Nagoya University, was awarded an honorary doctorate from Novosibirsk State University. Professor Hiroshi is the 20th scientist to receive this highest honor from NSU.
On April 1, the finals of the “Changellenge Cup IT” case championship took place in Moscow.
NSU scientists Sergey Kobtsev, Boris Nyushkov, Dmitry Kolker, together with their colleagues Victor Pivtsov and Alexander Antropov, from the Institute of Laser Physics SB RAS, published an article, “Femtosecond 78-nm tunable Er: Fiber Laser Based Drop-shaped Resonator Topology”, in the “Journal of Light Wave Technology”. This is one of the leading journals in the field of laser technology.
Back pain is a common condition with great social significance and poorly understood pathogenesis (causes). Research on this problem was conducted by members of the Theoretical and Applied Functional Genomics Laboratory (TAFGL) at the NSU Natural Sciences Department together with scientists from King's College London, United Kingdom, and scientists from the University of Washington, USA.
Elena Vladimirovna Boldyreva, Doctor of Chemical Sciences, leading researcher at the G.K. Boreskov Institute of Catalysis SB RAS, and Head of the NSU Solid State Chemistry Section at the Department of Natural Sciences, will head the William Bragg International Prize Organizing Committee.
On March 13–15, the XII International Forum for Dermatovenerologists and Cosmetologists (XII IFDC) was held in Moscow.
The NSU Scientific-Educational Center “Evolution of the Earth” is the only modern complex of exhibition halls, exhibits and interactive systems beyond the Urals in Siberia.
NSU hosted the ODS-meet-up, “Natural Language Understanding (NLU) in Russian: ELMO vs. BERT”.
The NSU Sustainable Development Conference dedicated to world trends, domestic experience, and practical issues related to the implementation of current approaches to the initiation, promotion, and financing of sustainable development projects in the Russian regions.
Novosibirsk State University is launching a new online course, “MOOC: How to Make a MOOC?” on the Coursera platform in English. The NSU team shows their work and the process of producing online courses at the University in detail.