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• Vasiliy Leonenko: "If You Are Sure About Your Current Choice, It Is Better to Develop In This Direction

  …agues and get consultations from them. Staff members of the eScience Research Institute What are your future plans? Which fields do you plan to develop in? I really want to get a grant for solving some task that has to do with mathematical epidemiology, so as to start creating a corresponding research team at our laboratory. I’m also interested in establis…

  08.11.2017

• WorldSkills: How World-Class Specialists are Trained in Russia

  …cal competitions were also held. As Andrey Pivinskiy, member of the WorldSkills Russia expert council, notes, in the beginning this initiative was supported by enthusiasts who wanted to popularize their competencies, exchange experience, train qualified workers and improve the educational system. The first championships weren’t much to talk about, but they gave a sta…

  08.11.2017

• Artur Khanov: I Can’t Even Imagine A Profession That Gives You This Much Freedom

  …of their managers; as result, we’ve organized a summer school together. They’ve always told us that if we learn what we’ve decided to study, we’ll be able to do whatever we want to in the future. I’ve done lots of things - 3D engines for games, for instance, websites, applications - whatever I got interested in. I can’t even imagine any other profession that gives…

  07.11.2017

• 5 Science News Now

  …ntic gestures -- like someone showing compassion or snuggling with a child -- topped the list of what makes people feel loved. Meanwhile, controlling behaviors -- like someone wanting to know where they were at all times -- were seen as the least loving.…

  06.11.2017

• COMSOL DAY: Tractor Beams, Optical Traps and Nanoparticle Manipulation

  …y, described her work on the modeling of electrochemical processes. Alexander Shalin “I found the second report interesting as it has a lot of future. At our lab, we want to bring together chemistry and metamaterial-and-nanostructure optics and use the unusual properties of nanostructures to control chemical processes. The event was also an opportunity to e…

  03.11.2017

• Campus Festival: Why Data Science Is All Around Us And Why Memes Are Folklore?

  …o include yet another term - statistics. If one reads statistics definition on wikipedia, it will be just paraphrasing that of Data Science. So, what's the point? Someone just wanted to give a new definition to an existing term? In reality, Data Science and statistics are both terms that many people misuse. Whenever some new popular term emerges, many start using …

  02.11.2017

• Kinda Science: Festival of Absurd and Bizarre Ideas

  …us that the suggestion is absurd – at least by our standards. The “shocking revelations” are to be delivered with a straight face: after all, this is kinda science... “We want people to be dumbfounded; to get them to try and figure out what’s true and what’s not. We warn everyone right from the start: this is mockery and we want pe…

  02.11.2017

• Chemist Artem Oganov: On Blind Spots in Chemistry and Materials of Future

  …ossible to predict the structure of even the simplest crystalline solids from a knowledge of their chemical composition”. Why are people so pessimistic? The thing is, if we want to predict the stable structure of a compound (while the stable structure is that which has minimal energy), we need to find such an arrangement of atoms in space, for which the energy wil…

  02.11.2017

• WorldSkills Russia: Why Participate?

  …s, try the various operational modes of the equipment, as well as do something he just hadn’t had the time for during the recent contest - a huge color palette. “I really want to take a look at such a beauty. Hopefully we have enough materials and equipment at our department. I believe all of the contest’s participants were worthy of being victors, one can easil…

  01.11.2017

• Master’s Student: Why IT Specialists Need to Get Involved in Science

  …ics Faculty and graduated from the Computer Science Department there. I went there with the intention of getting a general education in tech, as I did not yet decide what I wanted to do in life. There wasn’t a specific focus in the program, we were simply taught about mathematics and programming. In my second year, I was recommended to a company that develops trad…

  01.11.2017