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Novosibirsk State University sums up the interim results of the 2025 admission campaign. At the priority and main stages, 1,333 people were admitted to budget places for bachelor's and specialist's degrees, including places of separate, special and target quotas, this year, of which 116 people are winners and prize-winners of the All-Russian Olympiad and Olympiads from the list of the Russian Society of Schoolchildren. The geography of those admitted includes 64 regions of Russia, the share of out-of-town applicants is more than 70%.

This year, the number of applications for all bachelor's and specialist's degree programs exceeded 23 thousand, which is 17% more than in 2024. Also, the number of applicants who applied for admission to NSU increased by almost 7% and amounted to more than 8,200 people. The average score for the budget for the main competition remained at the 2024 level – about 85.

At the stage of priority enrollment within a separate quota (children of SVO participants) in 2025, the number of students increased threefold and amounted to 93 people from 21 constituent entities of the Russian Federation, including 29 people without entrance examinations. Within the special quota, 40 people were enrolled, of which 10 were orphans and children left without parental care, and 30 were disabled. Within the targeted admission, 20 people were enrolled, most of them in the direction of "General Medicine".

Schoolchildren from all over Russia entered NSU, and the geography of applicants expanded: if in 2024, students represented 58 regions, then this year – 64. The top 5 regions include Novosibirsk Oblast (40%), Altai Krai and the Altai Republic (9%), Kemerovo Oblast (9%), Irkutsk Oblast and Zabaykalsky Krai (6.5%), Sverdlovsk and Chelyabinsk Oblasts (4%). The largest number of out-of-town applicants is in the Faculty of Natural Sciences, Physics and Mechanics and Mathematics Faculties – more than 75%.

An innovation, compared to 2024, is the development of programs by the university with the support of industrial partners.

— This year we launched several new promising areas. For example, a new bachelor's degree program "Applied Artificial Intelligence" to train top specialists in the field of AI, which is being implemented with the support of the Ministry of Digital Development of the Russian Federation and the Analytical Center under the Government of the Russian Federation. The anchor partner of the program is the multidisciplinary IT holding T1. More than 300 applications for 150 places with tuition fees were submitted for the program. Also, for the first time, recruitment took place for new programs of the Institute of Medicine and Medical Technologies of NSU: "Medical Cybernetics" (specialist) and "Industrial Pharmacy" (master's degree). These are network educational programs, implemented jointly with the Engineering School of Moscow State University, the industrial partners are the companies "Generium" and "Pharmstandard". New medical areas will be developed on the basis of the infrastructure of the NSU campus under construction, — said the rector of NSU, academician of the Russian Academy of Sciences Mikhail Fedoruk.

If we talk about the most popular areas, then traditionally there is high competition in areas with a small number of budget places. This year, the top 5 included "Jurisprudence" (67 people per place), "Linguistics" (44 people per place), "Business Informatics" (42 people per place), "Sociology" (34 people per place), "Informatics and Computer Science. Computer Science and Systems Engineering" (33 people per place).

— We are seeing an increase in interest in engineering and IT specialties. Thus, the following areas showed the greatest increase in the number of applications, compared to 2024: "Informatics and Computer Engineering", "Mathematics and Mechanics", "Mathematics and Computer Science", "Applied Mathematics and Physics". The last of the above-mentioned programs is relatively new: we launched it only last year, this year we doubled the recruitment, and the area turned out to be very popular: the competition was 31 people per place. Also this year we are seeing a positive trend — interest in the "Physics. Fundamental Research" area has grown: both the number of applications and the average passing score have increased, — added Mikhail Fedoruk.

Every year, digital channels of interaction with applicants are becoming increasingly popular: this year, more than 80% of schoolchildren submitted applications through the State Services portal.

 

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Novosibirsk State University has been implementing the Digital Departments project since 2022 along with other universities participating in the Priority 2030 program. Currently, NSU has seven educational programs within the project. Students from not only Novosibirsk State University, but also from universities in all regions of Russia can study in them. Upon completion of the training, students with higher education are awarded a diploma of professional retraining (250 hours), while others are awarded certificates and a diploma upon completion of a bachelor's/specialist's degree, which opens up additional opportunities in the labor market for graduates of the program.

In July and August, diplomas were awarded to graduates of the 2024/2025 academic year in the digital department programs. The most popular program was "Technologies for managing the properties of biological objects, methods of bioinformatics and molecular biology", headed by PhD Sergey Sedykh. About 400 people graduated from it. Great interest was also aroused by new programs that were launched for the first time in 2024 – "SMM Tools for Promotion" (jointly with 2GIS) and "Motion Design" (2D and 3D graphics), the graduation for them amounted to more than 250 people.

— The Digital Department is a unique opportunity for students to gain competencies in the relevant area of "Technologies for Managing the Properties of Biological Objects". At our Digital Department, we combine two main areas – bioinformatics and molecular biology. Akademgorodok has long been famous for its bioinformaticians and is considered one of the places where bioinformatics originated half a century ago. Another important area that is part of the strategy of scientific and technological development of our country is molecular and synthetic biology. Over three years, we have recorded more than 200 video lectures. We invite students to participate in the new season of the Digital Department! — commented Sergey Sedykh.

Professional retraining diplomas were awarded to specialists in two areas: "Basic Python Programming" and "Mobile Application Development". The first program is not aimed at IT specialists. Python is currently very popular: it is easy to learn compared to most other programming systems, effective for writing code and is highly valued by employers of large IT companies. The second is suitable for specialists who understand programming and is designed for students mastering IT competencies within the framework of basic programs. In the 2024-2025 academic year, about 200 people completed training in these programs.

— Today is a very joyful day, because we are presenting you with diplomas within the framework of the NSU Digital Department. These diplomas state that you have received professional retraining in IT, and now you can work in this field as a specialist with higher education, which, accordingly, opens up huge horizons for you. On behalf of the university, I would like to congratulate you! I sincerely wish you good professional growth and that the knowledge you have gained will be useful to you in life, — the dean congratulated the graduates. Faculty of Information Technology NSU Corresponding Member of the Russian Academy of Sciences Mikhail Lavrentiev.

This year, 200 people completed the Machine Learning and Neural Networks program. In the course, students from physicists and chemists to future doctors mastered key data analysis methods in one academic year: from regression and decision trees to convolutional and transformer neural networks. The course provides more than just a set of algorithms: it teaches how modern ML works and how to turn it into a solution to a real problem. And most importantly, graduates of the program can already apply the knowledge they have gained in their own projects.

— The program is focused on the practical application of AI in a variety of areas. We provide a general understanding of machine learning methods and teach how to adapt them to students' tasks. This year, graduates demonstrated a high level of proficiency in tools: from identifying rock boundaries in geology and predicting the structural properties of proteins to modeling the volatility of organic compounds. These projects show how the knowledge gained is directly transformed into results in specific scientific and applied areas, — noted NSU senior lecturer Sergey Bespalov.

The second graduation of the Digital Jurisprudence program took place. It is aimed at training modern lawyers of a new type, who have digital skills and are able to communicate with technical specialists in the same language. A digital lawyer carries out legal analysis of new business projects in the digital environment, understands the current legal regulation regarding new digital objects, personal data, intellectual property in the Russian Federation and abroad. Such a specialist is able to support IT projects and find the right legal solutions. In 2025, 144 people completed training under the program, not only from NSU, but also from other cities of Russia, including Moscow, St. Petersburg, Krasnodar, Krasnoyarsk, etc.

— As in the previous year, leading lawyers from Novosibirsk, Moscow, technical specialists, company executives, business representatives, teachers from NSU and other Russian universities, such as HSE, MSU, and St. Petersburg State University, acted as speakers and teachers of the Digital Jurisprudence program. Thus, in 2024-2025, PhD in Law, Associate Professor of the Department of Private Law at HSE A.A. Volos, Doctor of Law, Professor of the Department of Entrepreneurial Law at Moscow State University, Head of the Scientific and Educational Center "Center for Legal Research of AI and Digital Economy" Yu.S. Kharitonova visited NSU with in-person visits within the framework of the program. A special feature of the second year of the educational program was close cooperation with the Siberian Main Directorate of the Bank of Russia, the Investigative Committee of the Russian Federation; the most pressing issues of law enforcement in the field of digital technologies were discussed during lectures at NSU and return visits of students, said Elizaveta Zainutdinova, head of the additional professional development program “Digital Jurisprudence”.

New recruitment for the Digital Department programs will begin in September 2025. Any student at NSU and other Russian universities, starting from their second year, will be able to receive free retraining.

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The Perseid meteor shower is the brightest astronomical event of August. The activity of this shower is observed for about a month – from mid-July to August 20, but it is uneven. The maximum level of activity falls on the night of August 12-13.

Composite image from the night of August 10/11, a total of 20 meteors, including 8 Perseids. Taken near the village of Novopichugovo, about 50 km from Novosibirsk, from 23:55 to 3:44, Pentax KP camera, shutter speed 13 seconds, focal length 16 mm.

A meteor shower is an ordered flow of particles in space, ejected from cometary matter and rotating around the parent comet. If we talk about the Perseid shower, its particles were once ejected by comet 109P/Swift-Tuttle under the influence of heating by the Sun.

When the Earth, in its orbit, crosses such a stream, it encounters many particles that fly in nearly parallel courses along a radiant from some prominent constellation. Meteors generated by such particles appear in the sky as if they were flying from a single point, called the radiant of the meteor shower. The radiant of the Perseids during the period of activity drifts through the constellation Cassiopeia, whose bright stars form a W-shaped figure in the sky, and the constellation Perseus, from which the stream takes its name.

Another parameter is ZHR, the zenith hourly number, which characterizes the activity of the shower. It shows how many meteors an observer will be able to see under ideal conditions. For the Perseids, the ZHR is usually around 120, meaning that under ideal conditions, amateur astronomers can observe up to 2 meteors per minute.

The Perseids are one of several meteor showers visible from the Earth's surface, but one of the strongest. In addition, its visibility from Earth coincides with the summer period, when conditions for observation are most comfortable. These factors determine its greatest fame and popularity.

This year, the maximum activity level of the Perseids almost coincides with the full moon. Thus, the light from the full moon will interfere with meteor observations. You can go out of town at least 50 km for better visibility. It is definitely not worth missing the opportunity to observe one of the most powerful meteor showers. Especially since we still have about a week to enjoy an unforgettable spectacle. And although the intensity of the shower will weaken, it will be more visible without the light from the full moon, which will wane over time and reduce the light.

This month we can see the conjunction of the planets Jupiter and Venus, which had a minimum separation on August 12 and 13. The planets were photographed on August 11 with a Pentax KP camera, 77 mm lens, 20 seconds exposure, ISO 500. In the photo, the planets look larger than we subjectively evaluate them visually through our eyes, because they are bright and the signal from the recorded photons "spreads" across the matrix.

Photo of the conjunction of Jupiter and Venus

Of the nearest interesting astronomical events – in September there will be the second lunar eclipse of 2025, it will be total, like the first, and will occur on the night of September 7-8 from 22:28 to 3:55 Novosibirsk time, the shadow phase – from 23:27 to 2:56, and the total eclipse will last from 0:31 to 1:52. The maximum shadow phase will be observed at 1:12 and will be 136.8%. This is a fairly deep phase, near the maximum of the eclipse the Moon will probably have a dark red color, although the exact brightness of the lunar disk will depend on how much the earth's atmosphere is saturated with dust, refracting sunlight, and to a greater extent its red component, which gives a crimson-red tint to the lunar disk during total lunar eclipses. For Novosibirsk, the time of the eclipse is very favorable, it will be visible in its entirety when the Moon is high above the horizon. Also, the eclipse will be visible in its entirety or almost in its entirety over most of Russia, with the exception of the extreme western regions of the country and the Far East, where it will be partially visible. And in general, the eclipse will be clearly visible over most of the territory of the eastern hemisphere of the Earth.

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The first stage of training in the T1 IT camp started on July 8. As it was found out by the T1 IT holding, 25% of students of Novosibirsk technical universities associate their career future with system analytics. Statistics based on the assessment of the popularity of the IT holding's educational programs, the professional priorities of future IT specialists in Novosibirsk reflect the general trend in the country – system analytics is the leader in many regions, including Moscow, St. Petersburg, Yekaterinburg and Izhevsk. The second and third places in popularity were taken by backend and frontend development – these tracks were chosen by 23% and 17% of future IT specialists, respectively. Also in demand among young people are the specialties of tester and application administrator.

The bootcamp participants included 144 students from Novosibirsk. The largest number of students came from Novosibirsk State University — 42 students were enrolled in the IT camp. This is due to the fact that NSU is focused on practice-oriented learning. For several years now, IT holding T1 has been a strategic partner of the university — the company's employees participate in the development of training courses and give lectures, conduct career guidance events and train teachers to work with new digital tools. Over the past six months, more than 3,000 NSU students have attended events organized in partnership with T1.

Future IT specialists in the IT camp will be able to gain "combat experience" by solving real business problems. Experience is one of the most important criteria for employers when hiring. In 2025, the holding's initiative collected a record number of applications – more than 7,000, which is 2.5 times more than last year. Almost 3,000 candidates passed the entrance test, and 1,535 people were accepted to the educational intensive.

The IT camp is taught in a hybrid format. At the first stage, participants undergo online training, including lectures from T1 experts, master classes on developing technical and soft skills, and analysis of practical tasks. The second stage is project work: participants will unite in teams to develop real solutions under the guidance of experienced mentors. The IT camp will end with an in-person final. It will take place on August 28 in three cities – Novosibirsk, Moscow, and Yekaterinburg. All students will receive certificates of participation, and the most successful will be invited to an internship at the company. Last year, 80% of the camp participants became T1 interns.

— To quickly start a career, graduates of even top IT universities often lack practical skills and a general understanding of the trajectory of professional movement. To help young specialists overcome this barrier, we create an environment that brings together young people and expert practitioners who are implementing ambitious digital transformation projects today. This transfer of living knowledge is the basis of the T1 IT camp and our other educational projects, — commented Dmitry Kharitonov, First Deputy General Director of T1 IT holding.

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Novosibirsk State University (NSU) together with IT holding T1 is implementing Bachelor's degree program "Applied Artificial Intelligence". This year, 150 students will be accepted. Graduates of the program will master one of the most popular areas in the modern labor market. According to experts, 70% of Russian companies are already using AI in their work, and the demand for professionals with skills in working with AI and machine learning technologies has tripled in recent years. Submission of documents for the new bachelor's program at NSU ends on August 25.

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Meditation can not only improve emotional well-being, but also influence the speech functions of the brain, according to the results of a research project by a bachelor's degree graduate Humanitarian Institute Novosibirsk State University in the field of "Fundamental and Applied Linguistics" by Nadezhda Istomina. The results were obtained using electroencephalography (EEG) and concern both speech and motor (non-speech) control of behavior. Her project is part of a larger study conducted by a team led by the head of the laboratory of psychological genetics of the ICG SB RAS and the department of fundamental and applied linguistics of the Humanities Institute of NSU, Doctor of Philosophy Alexander Savostyanov.

— We studied how brain reactions differ in people who practice meditation and those who do not. It turned out that the brain of meditating participants reacts more actively to speech errors. Their neural response was stronger and faster. This indicates a more developed mechanism of speech control, — said Nadezhda Istomina.

The experiments were conducted at the Baikal Meditation Center in Buryatia back in 2018, where the participants were people who had been practicing Buddhist samadhi meditation for a long time, and a control group that had no meditative experience. A total of 204 EEG recordings were analyzed. The participants performed two tasks: stopping a previously started movement on a signal (motor control) and looking for grammatical errors in sentences (speech control).

— The example sentences were as simple as possible, so that even a child could handle them. This helped us focus on the brain’s reaction, not on the complexity of the text. We didn’t want to test grammar knowledge, but to understand how quickly and vividly the brain reacts to an error, — Nadezhda explained.

The most striking differences between the groups were found in speech control. Meditators showed a stronger neural response to speech errors than non-meditators. This effect was independent of age, gender, or personality traits such as anxiety.

For motor control, the differences were less pronounced.

"Here, personality traits played a major role – anxiety, neuroticism level and age. The influence of meditation itself was weaker," she noted.

However, one of the most interesting discoveries concerned the relationship between speech and motor control. Meditators showed a significant correlation between these two systems in the left frontal lobe of the cerebral cortex – in Broca's area, which is responsible for controlling the correctness of speech. No such relationship was observed in the control group. This may indicate that the brain of meditators coordinates speech and motor processes more closely.

"We have shown for the first time that meditation can not only improve general health, but also establish new connections between speech and motor functions in the brain. This opens up interesting prospects – both for science and, possibly, for practice," Nadezhda emphasized.

The study is not yet complete — the work is ongoing, and in the future it is planned to study other possible correlations and mechanisms of the influence of meditative practices on cognitive functions. The team working on the project hopes that the data obtained will help to better understand how meditation affects the brain, and possibly use this knowledge in the treatment of speech disorders or cognitive disorders.

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Russian oilfield services company BurService has become an investor in a project that is important for the oil and gas industry, within the framework of which NSU and the company signed an agreement on the joint creation and commercialization of a new generation software package for interpreting seismic and other geological and geophysical information in order to build digital models of fields. A pilot version of the new software, ready for introduction to the market, will appear by the end of 2025.

Currently, the software for building geological and geophysical models of hydrocarbon deposits is dominated by software products from Western companies that have left the Russian market and stopped supporting their software. Many of these products have become industry standards over the past 30 years and have formed the basis for corporate solutions for all leading Russian oil companies.

— BurService and NSU are jointly solving the problem of creating a new generation software package that will ensure a seamless transition of Russian oil and gas industry enterprises from Western software to a domestic product. Our company has accumulated extensive experience working with software that occupies leading positions in the industry both at the international and Russian levels. NSU is one of the leading universities in our country, which has a rich scientific heritage of the founders of geophysical science and practice in our country, as well as modern scientific achievements, technological developments and highly qualified personnel in the field of applied mathematics, geophysics, programming, — noted the project manager from BurService Stanislav Kopunov.

The software package being developed will not only be comparable with Western analogues considered the industry standard, but will also surpass them in a number of parameters. In particular, the best practices from the experience of Russian and foreign companies are being implemented, including those based on machine learning. The product will be created based on the architecture designed by developers from Novosibirsk State University. The package will be based on the open database management system PostgreSQL and will provide multi-user distributed access, and the modern technological stack guarantees cross-platform and compatibility with various operating systems, including domestic ones.

— This is a rare case in the practice of Russian universities, when a university and private business agree on the joint development of a large software package and its promotion in the industry. This is an example of how a scientific development in the field of geological and geophysical modeling of hydrocarbon deposits, after appropriate revision and adaptation, finds further development and is introduced into the real sector of the economy, — commented Sergey Golovin, Director of the Advanced Engineering School of NSU.

The cooperation between NSU and BurService involves joint work not only on the creation of a software package, but also on its further modernization, improvement and support.

OOO BurServis is an independent Russian company, one of the largest players in the oilfield services market with its own equipment fleet, production bases and a team of over 4,000 people. Range of services: drilling and formation parameter assessment, general contracting (turnkey drilling), completion and production, project management, consulting, IT solutions, pipeline services, controlled pressure drilling.

Official company websites: VV. Burervice.ru; VBV Burervice.K.

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The SberLab-NSU Summer School is held for the fifth year in a row and lasts for five weeks. The school is aimed at students of IT departments of Novosibirsk State University. During this time, participants solve real problems and projects related to modern technologies and industry trends, from web development and digital design to machine learning.

This year, 23 teams took part in the Summer School, presenting their projects in various areas. Both classic web development and front-end solutions in the field of digital design and programs that translate text written in a programming language into machine codes (Editor's note: compilers) were demonstrated.

Some of the Summer School projects have been in development for a long time, for example, a project dedicated to the identification of Amur tigers (Ed. note). Tigers. IO— a service that provides tools for convenient cataloging of animals and graphic interaction with their images), has been in development for two years. The Aqua Trainer software, presented at the SberLab-NSU conference last year, was improved as part of this year's school. They decided to add a system to the application for sports trainers that could track spinal defects (if any) from images and send the results to doctors.

— By the end of the training, students gain invaluable experience and significantly improve their skills. Over the course of a month, they have the opportunity to try out various modern technologies depending on the project. The Summer School works according to the same principles as work in large technology companies: daily planning meetings, the need to be at work for eight hours a day, planning sprints, in general, a lot of things. Naturally, based on the results of the school, we select students for practical training for the new academic year. Students can write their diplomas on the topics of the projects they are developing and receive a stipend for working in the laboratory, — says Artem Tregubov, Director of the Summer School, Industrial Associate Professor at NSU.

Every year, the school's pool of partners expands. As the head of the regional office of SberTech in Novosibirsk Denis Kolodny notes, this year SberTech and SberZdorovye joined the project.

All participants of the event received certificates.

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On August 6, the final of the international competition SynBio Challenge was held in Shenzhen (Guangdong Province, China). The team Faculty of Natural Sciences (FNS) of NSU GeneMeow won a gold medal in the Synthetic Cell category. The team solved the problem of developing a DNA sequence no longer than 140 bp, which ensures high expression of the green fluorescent protein. Two more teams from Russia, representing Moscow State University and Pirogov University, became winners in the Protein Design track.

The GeneMeow team included six students of the NSU Natural Sciences Department who completed their 3rd year in the Biology program: Valeria Romanova, Ekaterina Bolotova, Nail Bikeev, Nikita Ivanov, Ulyana Borovikova and Dmitry Kurbatsky. GeneMeow was formed from two strong teams that had previously participated in the Biotournament and achieved high results.

Nail Bikeev, a member of the NSU GeneMeow team, spoke about preparation and participation in the competition:

— We learned about the competition in May and spent a long time choosing the track we wanted to participate in. The Synthetic cell track seemed to us to be a more interesting and challenging task. We needed to create a DNA sequence that could increase the yield of the target protein, in our case, Green Fluorescent Protein (GFP), which glows a beautiful green color. In a short time, we had to develop a concept for the sequence, review many articles on the topic, highlight the necessary ones, and check the functionality of the design using bioinformatics methods. The trip to China and the presentation of the work at the international level was the best motivation, since we managed to assemble our sequence and send it! At the Olympiad, we met many guys from other countries: Japan, Thailand, and, of course, China, and also met colleagues from Moscow State University and the Pirogov Russian National Research Medical University. Such events are very inspiring, showing how many like-minded people there are all over the world.

The final was held in the format of a festival, where each team presented their solutions to the problems at the selection stage. In addition, the organizers of the competition synthesized the DNA sequences proposed by the participants, inserted them into plasmids with a gene of a fluorescent protein, which is used to check the DNA sequence, and during the festival visualized the synthesized sequences, compared which team's glowed brighter. The brightness of the glow became one of the criteria for assessing the work of each team.

Sergey Sedykh, PhD, Senior Lecturer Institute of Medicine and Medical Technologies NSU, a judge for the SynBio Challenge, commented:

— It was the first time I was a judge at such an international event. The Russian teams showed themselves very well. Our guys from NSU demonstrated that the field of synthetic biology and life sciences in general is actively developing at Novosibirsk University, both at the Faculty of Natural Sciences and at the Institute of Medicine and Medical Technologies, where a new Master's program "Industrial Pharmacy". I have no doubt that next year the team from Novosibirsk will include students of this new program. Our guys have confirmed by their own example that the NSU motto "We will not make you smarter, we will teach you to think" works at the international level as well.

The competition is organized by Shenzhen University of High Technology. A total of 1,800 students registered to participate in the competition this year, of which about 1,000 participants from six countries — China, Russia, Japan, Singapore, Thailand and Malaysia — reached the finals.

The participation of the NSU team in the international competition was financed within the framework of the academic mobility project of the Institute of Medicine and Medical Technologies of NSU Priority 2030 programs.

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The International Mathematical Olympiad is the most important student competition in mathematics in the world. IMC-2025 was held from July 28 to August 3 in Blagoevgrad, Bulgaria. More than 430 students from leading universities around the world took part in it. For NSU, this is the 12th Olympiad, and every year the university students take honorable places in it.

This year, Novosibirsk State University was represented at IMC by: Valery Pyatkin, Stanislav Yelovatsky, Timofey Vasiliev with Faculty of Mechanics and Mathematics and Ivan Frolov with Faculty of Natural Sciences.

The tasks for the mathematical Olympiad are selected at a jury meeting. Students' work is assessed according to the presented criteria by team leaders, professors and associate professors of universities.

Based on the results of the individual competition, the NSU team received four medals: two gold, one silver and one bronze. The team leaders are Anatoly Albertovich Ruban, associate professor of the Department of Mathematical Analysis of the Mechanics and Mathematics Faculty of NSU, and three-time IMC participant Danila Sergeevich Belousov.

– I have been participating in IMC since my first year, this was my third trip. The Olympiad was held in the IMO format. We solved 5 problems every day for two days. The problems are non-standard and quite different from those we solve in Russia. The Olympiad is taking place in a somewhat familiar place, the city of Blagoevgrad, which is located in Bulgaria. Students from all over the world, from South America to China, come there. I was surprised by the number of Russian students, about 15% were from Russia: they represented Moscow universities, St. Petersburg State University and NSU. In my free time from solving problems, it was nice to talk to everyone and take a walk, – shared my impressions Stanislav Yelovatsky, a 4th-year student of the Mechanics and Mathematics Faculty of NSU.

In the team competition, NSU students beat the teams from HSE and MSU, taking 15th place – this is the best result in the last 10 years of the university's participation in the International Mathematical Olympiad.

Congratulations to the guys on their excellent result!

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The 53rd IUPAC General Assembly, together with the 50th World Chemical Congress, was held in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, on July 12-19. A special feature of the congress was the allocation of a specialized section on “Artificial Intelligence in Chemistry.” Within its framework, Associate Professor of the Department of Solid State Chemistry Faculty of Natural Sciences of NSU, Senior Researcher at the Boreskov Institute of Catalysis SB RAS Anna Nartova gave an invited talk on “Artificial Neural Networks for Microscopic Data Analysis,” in which she presented the iOk online platform to the global scientific community (HTTP: //yok. HSSU.ru/), developed by scientists from Novosibirsk State University as part of the program "Priority 2030".

This platform includes a set of digital services for automatic image analysis using deep machine learning and artificial intelligence methods. Three services are freely available on the platform. Universal Telegram service No Code ML (HTTPS: //t. T.NSU_ML_VOT) is designed for classical training of neural networks on user datasets. The second service is DLgram (HTTPS: //t. TA/NANOPARITICLECLY_NSK) — is designed to recognize multiple homogeneous objects of various natures. Includes training of the neural network by the user using a marked area from the same image. Online service ParticlesNN (HTTP: // Partiklesnn.NSU.ru/) is designed for automatic recognition of nanoparticles in scanning probe microscopy (SPM) and electron microscopy (EM) images by a trained neural network. Cloud services No Code ML and DLgram provide training of a neural network on user objects, automatic recognition of objects in images and the ability to adjust the recognition results by the user. They also analyze the detected objects and determine their parameters, such as quantity, size, area and concentration. The services are able to work with various images – pictures from electron microscopes, photographs from digital cameras (including smartphones). They recognize various objects: nanoparticles, microorganisms, cells, plant seeds, as well as larger objects – animals, plants, various parts, vehicles and much more. At the same time, to work with the services, the user does not need to have any special programming skills or understand neural networks. Preliminary image processing is also not needed. The results are provided in the form of information about all detected objects, and the user can adjust them if necessary. Currently, hundreds of researchers from all over the world use the developed services. At the same time, the services are most in demand by specialists working with images obtained using various types of microscopy.

– In general, the section “Artificial intelligence in chemistry”, despite the fact that the direction only – only the beginning to form and the number of reports was inferior to other, more traditional sections, was perhaps the most popular from the audience. Among the speakers there were many representatives of Russia. Nash the lecture aroused a very great interest in the audience. A lot of listeners went to her purposefully. Such an increased interest in our online platform is due to several reasons, including the fact that we promoted it at several scientific conferences. A number of articles were published, including in high -rated scientific journals. And, I must say that our team, in which A.V. Matveev and A.G. Okunev, was one of the first in the world to present their developments in this direction. Then, single work was devoted to this topic, and we walked alone with them and at times even ahead of them. Now their avalanche is huge, but we still recorded our championship. And even more so, we were the first to offer a “platform approach” when users are offered a ready -made service, and not just a code. At the moment, we have formed our own circle of users, so we received an invitation to make a lecture at this Congress. It was very pleasant to know that our development is known not only in Russia, but also in the world. So, young scientists from China, Malaysia and other countries who were already familiar with our work came to our lecture. During the discussions, after the report, young chemists asked a lot of questions, in most cases, interested in not how neural networks are arranged, but how to use them as a finished tool, while avoiding teaching the Python programming language. They were interested in neural networks, when using which the programmer’s skill is not required. And our platform is just such a product, ”said Anna Nartova.  

The section participants separately discussed the problem of the activation barrier, which is of fundamental importance in the use of neural networks in chemistry. It is the need for confident programming skills and deep knowledge of neural networks. According to Anna Nartova, the platform approach is the optimal solution to eliminate it and make neural networks a tool for working in the laboratory. The section participants, working in different areas, also related to chemistry, noted: if a chemist needs to have a high enough level of Python to use a neural network as a tool, he will most likely not do this. The situation should be changed by using a platform approach, which is a ready-made product that does not require the scientist to delve into the code, but allows you to simply upload your data to the application, process it and get a ready result. In this case, the return on using neural networks is maximum.

— We started promoting the idea of implementing a platform approach to solving the problems of accessible use of neural networks for scientists who do not have programming skills at our university several years ago. Now it has become a widespread trend. The first works in the direction of using neural networks in processing microscopic images were aimed at solving some specific cases, and usually the machine learning model was posted in the public domain. In our case, firstly, we are talking about the universalization of the approach, and secondly, about the creation of applications or services that facilitate work with neural networks. Thus, at the same time, a more universal tool is being developed, designed not to solve any specific problem, and a user-oriented product is being created. Currently, there is a trend: scientists are interested in working with neural networks, but are not ready to use them if they are not applications, — Anna Nartova explained.

Anna Nartova noticed that an important part of the congress was the section on chemistry. This is due to the fact that the Chemistry Congress was combined with the Assembly of the Jupak, so not only purely scientific issues were considered. It is very important that it was, first of all, about teaching schoolchildren chemistry. Teachers in this subject became a problem for many countries whose representatives participated in Congress. In the profession of “teacher”, and in particular the “teacher of chemistry”, they go reluctantly: it is labor -intensive and responsible, but, unfortunately, does not belong to the highly paid. Colleagues from different countries noted, based on their own experience, that in order to attract students to this science, it is necessary to focus not on high -grade, but on students of the middle or even junior school link. Section participants shared work experience in different countries. The Indian chemist Udi Maitra made a report “Improving the perception of science/chemistry through simple experiments associated with everyday life.” This project is of deep humanitarian significance, spreading the natural science worldview, as well as increasing the motivation for education. The scientist from Taiwan Khsien Chang Cao presented the message “Chemistry on wheels”, in which he spoke of a huge personnel hunger, growing since 2017. Working on the problem of attracting personnel, scientists -enthusiasts with mini -laboratories go to provincial schools and show the children experiments with various chemicals and in exciting form tell the children about chemistry as an interesting science. Many of these guys at the end of school make a choice in her favor and return to their schools already as teachers of chemistry or become volunteers of educational projects. It is interesting that this work is supported by both the state and corporations, since they are very interested in improving the level of school education and attracting motivated teachers to the school. Anna Nartova noted that this work exactly corresponds to the concept of the project “Entertaining science for schoolchildren”, which has been implemented at NSU since 2009, and in recent years has been part of the school center of the Faculty of Physics of NSU. And we had something to share with colleagues in this area. 

Material prepared by: Elena Panfilo, NSU press service

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