Students from École internationale des sciences du traitement de l'information (EISTI) and ParisTech (France) came to NSU on a student exchange program between Russian and France universities. We decided to collect some information on the students’ impressions and their instructors’ and the program coordinators’ opinions about the training itself and prospects for mutually advantageous cooperation with French universities.
Students Alexandre Senninger, Louis Fambon, Clement Merino and Damien Jeter worked under the supervision of Prof. Sergey Krendelev (Department of Information Technology). In the frameworks of a summer school NSU- Parallels this group investigated some issues in cryptology, and the work is to continue. Sergey Krendelev is satisfied with the fruitful cooperation. He says that the summer turned extremely productive. The students’ results gave so much material that four or five articles are to appear very soon.
Clement Merino says, ‘Our projects were based on C/C++, so we had to adapt. Before the summer school I used C, Java and Objective-C, but here we needed many other languages to compare the results. It was a challenge, but I think we did well. We were able to improve our mathematics background as well.’
Students Robin Algan, Arnaud Bidot, Rémi Delfosse and Derik Misquita were supervised by Alexey Romanenko, an instructor and deputy dean of the Department of Information Technology and a technical director at NVidia Ltd (Russia).
Alexey Romanenko comments, ‘We developed two projects simultaneously. Last year a French student performed the mathematical part for solving certain tasks on tide filtering and getting a “pure” tsunami wave. This year our French students translated the program from MathCAD to C/С++ in order to increase the program performance and separate it from the MathCAD package. Under the second project we checked the algorithm for deriving the form of complete surface divergence at the point of tsunami origin according to the data from deep-water sonars. Our task was to check the algorithm using the data of real observations.’
Derik Misquita says, ‘We often had to search for information while developing the project and learn a lot. I think it is natural and useful as I came here to improve my skills.’
Prof. Michèle Debrenne (NSU International Office, the coordinator of the exchange program) informed that Russia and France signed an agreement on mutual recognition of education, qualifications and degrees in June 2015, and such cooperation is likely to boost exchange programs. It will lead to more opportunities for EISTI students to apply for NSU postgraduate programs, for example.
The deputy dean of the Department of Information Technology Elena Nikitina remarked that the students should choose a postgraduate program and start the application process a year before coming to NSU so that they could get a quota scholarship.
The Pro-Rector on technological development and foreign contacts Mikhail Lavrentiev pointed out that NSU is an active participant of international student exchange programs, and it is important to continue the projects which started at NSU, during the summer school.
