Below are NSU undergraduate and graduate student April accomplishments that were not covered in individual articles.
April 2: “"Without Side Effects from Professor Yakmysh’s Laboratory", a team of students from NSU’s V. Zelman Institute of Medicine and Psychology (Rodion Ivashchenko, Olga Zudilina, and Polina Prozorova) and the NSU Department of Natural Sciences (Arseniy Moralev and Egor Ukladov), took the silver in the first Siberian Federal District Student BioTournament.
Rodion, Captain of the NSU team, talked about the event,
From my considerable experience participating and organizing scientific and educational events, I learned how much “hard-skills”, problem solving, searching for scientific articles, and working with material are developed and trained as part of a team. However, I believe that teamwork provides the greatest development in “soft-skills” such as communication skills and the ability to generate mutual understanding and assistance. These events bring people together, promote finding common ground with students from other departments, and provide an opportunity to look at the situation from a different, interdisciplinary angle. This is incredibly valuable in relation to our participation in the competition, but our future life and professional growth.
April 6th: Wang Huimin, 2nd year Master's student at the NSU Institute for Philosophy and Law, took part in the round table "Digital University: Education 3.0" at the 10th Moscow International Legal Forum "Sustainable Development of Russia: Legal Dimension". Her report touched on the application of artificial intelligence technology in education. Huimin presented the pros and cons of AI in education, described Chinese regulations that control its application, and considered its prospects.
April 7th: Stepan, a 1st-year Master's student at the NSU Department of Mathematics and Mechanics, took part in the Principal Engineer School in Tatarstan.
Karmushin shared his experience,
The PE School is a week-long intensive course for young scientists. I learned about it from my supervisor, Sergey Golovin. During the week we improved our skills in developing high-tech projects and bringing the resulting products to market. We were taught by successful scientists and technology entrepreneurs. Many of them worked in top foreign universities, but returned to Russia to develop technologies here. The General Director of TATNEFT, Nail Ulfatovich Maganov, also attended the school and spent several hours communicating with the young scientists, answering questions, and describing new opportunities for the Company to support our projects. This kind of information and communication is rare.
April 8th: Students at the NSU Institute of Intellectual Robotics took part in the National Technological Olympiad’s "Information Technologies in Construction" category. The participants created a "digital twin", a complex information model of a construction project and took second place in the final.
Mark Skvortsov, a team member, described the event,
There were two types of tasks at the Olympiad: programming and modeling. In the beginning of the competition our team had a hard time understanding what the organizers wanted us to do. In the tasks related to "digital twins" there were a lot of special construction terms that we didn’t know. On the second day, we realized that we perceive tasks differently. Participants from other universities solved the problem of "automation" by entering values into a ready-made BIM-program for modeling, tracing the contours of buildings manually. And for us, the term "automation" meant that the program should receive the original images and produce a finished 3D model without manual labor. Using the neural networks trained by us, we attained recognition of the contours of buildings and objects, obtained good floor maps, and created a 3D model of an engineering facility.
April 11th: Danil Bogomyagkov, a 3rd year student at the NSU Department of Physics, won the English Language category in the International Student Olympiad in Foreign Languages for university students in non-linguistic specialties.
April 12th: Alexander Repnyakov, a 1st year "Linguistics" student at the NSU Institute for the Humanities, had the best results for the oral sections 4, 5, and 6 at the "FEEL FREE TO FLY" II International Student Competition in English Phonetics on the second day of the competition.
April 15th: Sophomores at the NSU Institute for the Philosophy and Law, Ekaterina Pupkis and Danila Isaev, were winners in two subsections at the Lomonosov-2023 Conference. Students made presentations on the right to human organ and tissue transplantation as a way to exercise the constitutional right to receive medical care and save lives and the right to vote, freedom of movement, and to have more than one place of residence.
April 20th: Vyacheslava Chuprinova, a 2nd year student at the NSU Institute for the Philosophy and Law, was among the winners at the A:START acceleration program spring season. She will continue to work on the MVP Generation IT startup, a project to create MVP applications on no-code services using her own libraries and scripts as a resident of the Academpark.
April 25th: A team of NSU Institute for the Philosophy and Law students with Yusub Ozmanyan, Ekaterina Galdusova, and Vitaly Kamorny received a diploma for their participation in the "Best Performance" in the "Personal Data Protection" section at the XXII Russian Youth Delphic Games.
