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In August 2025, a group of students Faculty of Geology and Geophysics Novosibirsk State University (NSU GGF) took part in an internship in sedimentology, stratigraphy and paleontology organized by Peking University for the first time. The group included one foreign student – Avishka Alagiyavanna from Sri Lanka, a second-year master's student at NSU GGF. The group was led by NSU postgraduate student Margarita Luzan.

The internship lasted two weeks and took place in southwest China in Guizhou Province, known for its unique habitats of marine vertebrates that existed in the Triassic period of the Mesozoic era. These places are important for understanding the restoration of marine ecosystems and the evolution of marine reptiles after the mass extinction at the end of the Permian period. This academic year, students from Peking University will visit the NSU geological training ground "Shira" (Khakassia), where students of the NSU Faculty of Geology and Geophysics undergo geological survey practice.

NSU GGF students underwent geological practice in mixed groups with Chinese students. Each route group included 1-2 NSU students. They worked together at observation points, attended theoretical classes and prepared daily reports on their activities.

— Our internship began with studying the most ancient deposits, dating back 900 million years. We gradually moved on to younger layers. Our acquaintance with the unique geological and paleontological artifacts of China began with the museum at Peking University, which houses rich mineralogical and paleontological collections. Then we flew to Guizhou Province, where the main internship continued, including sedimentological and paleontological aspects. This province is home to two lagerstätten — unique fossil sites where, due to special conditions, not only hard parts of skeletons are well preserved, but also imprints of soft tissues of animals and plants. We studied rock sequences and observed changes in sedimentation settings, including sections with coal interlayers. It is known that coals are formed in continental conditions, and limestones formed in marine shelf conditions are found next to them. We found various traces of ancient life – brachiopods, foraminifera and mineral samples, – Margarita Luzan shared her impressions of the internship.

A highlight for NSU students was a visit to the so-called "golden nail", which serves as a reference point on the stratigraphic section and defines the lower boundary of the stage on the geochronological scale. In these sections, the boundary between geological systems is clearly visible. The students also visited the Xinyi Geopark, which contains lagerstätten, and unique finds from them are housed in museums around the world.

— In such a short time, our students have seen a great many geological artifacts, which they were shown both in museums and on specific outcrops. Now they have a clear idea of the structure of sedimentary basins that formed many hundreds of millions of years ago. This knowledge is extremely important for geologists. For our part, we can offer Chinese students an internship at our educational geological site "Shira" (Khakassia), where all the conditions for practical training and accommodation have been created. As part of mixed groups, they will be able to get a detailed idea of the structure of sedimentary basins and the formation of igneous rocks already on our territory, — noted Dean of the NSU Geological Faculty, Academician of the Russian Academy of Sciences Valery Vernikovsky.

This internship was the result of agreements on cooperation in the field of earth sciences reached during the visit of the Peking University delegation to NSU this spring. As cooperation develops, the parties will form joint research projects. The leadership of Peking University expressed interest in conducting geological internships for their students.

— In the near future, a cooperation agreement between our universities will be prepared, which will spell out all the important points. The signing of the agreement is planned for the end of this year. Such internships allow our students to get acquainted with various geological practices, which is very important for young scientists. Peking University is one of the oldest universities in China, founded in 1898. It ranks second in Chinese university rankings and is among the top 50 universities in the world. Therefore, we are interested in cooperation with this university, — noted the head of the NSU education export department, Evgeny Sagaydak.

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At the opening, students had a unique opportunity to communicate with the 2GIS team, receive individual consultation, and also take part in a drawing of cool prizes. The new coworking area for study and relaxation is located in the NSU academic building in the 2nd block on the 2nd floor. It is equipped with a marker board, where you can write down and visualize your ideas, solve problems, and much more. This is also the first coworking space at NSU with a TV, which is available to all students – it can be used, for example, to rehearse a report.

— We looked at other areas of colleagues in your university and, of course, when creating the design project, we took into account, first of all, the needs of students: as many sockets as possible and the possibility of privacy. We added a little comfort in the form of small sitting areas, or green holes, as we call them, — shared Victoria Kostenko, 2GIS employer brand promotion specialist. Another interesting feature of the area is pillows in the form of popular emojis from the Friends on the Map app. In March of this year, the university hosted a lecture by NSU graduate, head of the 2GIS product marketing department Semyon Koltsov, who spoke about the creation of this function. With the help of Friends on the Map, you can track the location of friends and family, plan meetings in general chats and much more.

— 2GIS is a well-known company not only in Russia, but also in the world. Its head office is located in Novosibirsk, and many graduates of Novosibirsk State University work in the company. NSU and 2GIS are close friends: the company actively supports the initiatives of our university, and NSU, in turn, supports 2GIS events.

The result is a very bright and beautiful coworking space, equipped with electrical outlets, comfortable chairs and tables, as well as a recreation area, which is important. Judging by the number of students who are there all the time, they really like it, – said Svetlana Dovgal, Director of the Career Development Center (CDC) of NSU.

NSU and 2GIS have been fruitfully cooperating for a long time. The company takes an active part in the "Career Days" event organized by the NSU Career Development Center. Students have the opportunity to go on a tour of the 2GIS office by registering in advance at the Career Development Center. This fall, NSU will also host a lecture by the company's experts "Testing in IT: Modern Approaches and Career Opportunities."

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Today, voting for the elections of deputies of the Legislative Assembly of the region of the eighth convocation and to local government bodies has started in the Novosibirsk region. On September 12, the rector of NSU, academician of the Russian Academy of Sciences Mikhail Fedoruk, was one of the first to vote at polling station No. 1951, which is located in the rector's office building of Novosibirsk State University.

Mikhail Fedoryuk, voting for candidates for the Legislative Assembly of the Novosibirsk Region and the Council of Deputies of Novosibirsk, emphasized that we are choosing those people who will determine the future development of our region.

— By electing deputies, each of us will significantly influence how the legislative branch will work in the coming years, what the regional budget will be, whether all necessary measures will be implemented to develop the economy, scientific and technological, social sphere, to further increase salaries and pensions, to reform education and improve people's health, measures to combat corruption, crime and other significant aspects. If we want our lives to change for the better, it is important to come to the elections and fulfill the duty of a responsible citizen, — the rector of NSU noted.

From September 12 to 14, it will be possible to vote in Novosibirsk and the region both online and at polling stations.

In total, more than 2 million voters are registered in Novosibirsk Oblast, according to the Oblast Electoral Commission. All 1,757 polling stations in the region are equipped with video surveillance or video recording equipment.

On the campus of Novosibirsk State University there are two polling stations No. 1951 and No. 1953 at the following addresses: ul. Pirogova, 1, and ul. Pirogova, 10.

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Graduate Humanitarian Institute of NSU (Fundamental and Applied Linguistics) Ekaterina Kulyatina studied how the living conversational speech of the intelligentsia of the Novosibirsk Akademgorodok is structured. Her work expands the possibilities for research in the field of stylistics and genre theory, and also opens up prospects for teaching neural networks to understand the subtleties of human speech.

In the project, Ekaterina analyzed the recordings of memories of residents of Akademgorodok, paying special attention to the so-called modus – the subjective “superstructure” of the statement.

— If I say: it is raining — it is simply a fact. And if I say: it seems to be raining — I add doubt. That is the modus. There are many such semantic superstructures in the Russian language, and they can overlap, — Ekaterina explained.

The work is written within the framework of the structural-semantic approach, the founder of which is considered to be Viktor Vladimirovich Vinogradov. Within the framework of modern syntactic concepts, which Ekaterina Kulyatina relied on in her research (the theory of modeling elementary simple sentences, developed by Maya Ivanovna Cheremisina), the contradictions contained in V. V. Vinogradov's approach are overcome. Nevertheless, the structural-semantic approach allows solving a wide range of scientific problems. As Ekaterina Kulyatina explained, the dictum part of speech constructions is now very well described, many works on this topic have been published, but the modus component, which she emphasized in her work, has not yet been studied so well.

The student took the recordings for analysis from the project "Myths and Legends of Akademgorodok" and supplemented them with her own interviews. The sample consisted of interviews with ten respondents – people with a high level of proficiency in Russian, many of whom were engaged in scientific research work.

— In their speech, we saw a high density of meanings: complex phrases, participial and adverbial constructions. Such features make oral speech rich, but at the same time difficult to analyze — especially automatically, — noted Ekaterina.

According to the author of the project, understanding the mode is important not only for philology, but also for technology. In the future, such developments can be used in training neural networks so that they understand and convey not only facts, but also subjective shades of meaning.

“We are not yet at the stage where a computer can fully recognize and reproduce such nuances, but this is a logical next step,” she noted.

The results achieved within the framework of Ekaterina Kulyatina's diploma work may be useful for research in the field of stylistics and genre theory.

— We have outlined a methodology for describing the genre of memoirs from the point of view of structural and semantic features. This is useful both for stylistics and for teaching, — Ekaterina emphasized.

The graduate herself plans to slightly change the direction of her research during her master's studies, focusing on the automation of speech analysis.

"I want to try to teach the computer to extract modal meanings and compare the machine results with my manual ones. This will be an honest test of how technologically ready we are for such an analysis," Ekaterina concluded.

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Potanin Foundation published university ranking, participating in the Vladimir Potanin Scholarship Program. It has been published annually since 2004 and reflects the results of universities' activity in the Foundation's competitions and events for students and teachers. In the latest rating, Novosibirsk State University took 8th place, compared to last year – the total number of points taken into account when forming the rating has increased.

— In 2024-2025, 79 people took part in the Potanin Foundation scholarship competition from NSU, and 29 students became winners. 15 participants applied for the grant competition for teachers, of which three won. It is important to note that the rating is influenced not only by the number of applications submitted by the university, but also by participation in various events of the Foundation. Thus, in July, the Foundation School was held, where our representative, a teacher-grant recipient, was present, — commented Svetlana Dovgal, Director of the NSU Career Development Center.

Currently, the Potanin Foundation is implementing several competitions and scholarships:

1. Applications for the competition are accepted until September 15 "Practices of personal philanthropy and altruism". Winners of all Foundation competitions, as well as finalists of the 2023/2024 and 2024/2025 scholarship competitions, can take part in the competition.

2. Online Course on Artificial Intelligence for finalists and winners of the 2024/25 scholarship competition, the 2,000 students who participated in the second stage of the scholarship competition are available. Applications are accepted until September 18, 2025.

3. Competition "Professional Development". The application period for the IV cycle, which will be the final one in 2025, ends on October 2. The competition has 2 nominations: individual trajectory and institutional experience. It is applicable not only to teachers, but also to university employees.

A scholarship competition for students and teachers will be announced soon.

All the latest news about available scholarships and competitions is published in the TG channel "NSU Scholarships" 

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A press conference dedicated to the start of the IX season of the All-Russian Student Olympiad was held in Moscow "I am a professional" – draft presidential platform "Russia is a country of opportunity". The All-Russian Student Olympiad "I am a professional" unites the most talented students and makes professionalism a value. It is implemented with the support of the Ministry of Science and Higher Education of the Russian Federation. Registration will last until website until November 11.

The All-Russian Olympiad of Students "I am a Professional" is part of the national project "Youth and Children", launched by the decision of the President of Russia Vladimir Putin. The project contributes to the education of a patriotic, highly moral and responsible generation, ensuring the sovereignty, competitiveness and development of the country.

Students of Russian universities studying in any field of study – medical, agricultural, natural sciences, technical and humanitarian – can apply. Participants will have to solve practice-oriented tasks developed by leading universities together with industrial partners of the Olympiad.

In the new season, participants will be able to attend industrial and academic tourism events. Students will be able to visit the sites of the organizing and co-organizing universities in different regions, production facilities and industrial sites – civil aviation plants, nuclear power plants, mining and processing plants, and also see the work of scientific centers and laboratories.

The project unites young people who strengthen Russia's technological leadership: they work in leading companies, develop their own initiatives, and engage in scientific developments. In the IX season, the Olympiad participants will be included in the national personnel reserve "I am a professional".

— The Olympiad "I am a professional" is one of the first projects of the presidential platform "Russia – the land of opportunities". This is not just a competition, but a real social lift for young people: almost one and a half million children were able to realize their potential, enter a master's program without additional tests, find like-minded people and build a successful career. We are especially proud that our participants do not just use opportunities, but create them for others – they themselves become mentors, develop social and educational projects, contribute to the development of their home regions. In the IX season, the Olympiad will cover a wide range of areas: from geography and design to nuclear physics and artificial intelligence. And the project participants will get into the national personnel reserve "I am a professional". I am sure that the new season will become a starting point in the career of students and will help them become part of a large community of professionals, – said the General Director of the presidential platform "Russia – the Land of Opportunities", the rector of the Senezh Management Workshop Andrey Betin.

Participants who complete the selection round tasks will have the opportunity to do an internship and begin their professional career with leading employers in Russia. Project diploma holders will be able to take advantage of benefits when entering the next level of education; medalists will receive cash bonuses of up to 300 thousand rubles.

In 2025/2026, “I am a Professional” will cover 70 subject areas: from geography and design to nuclear physics and artificial intelligence.

— Participants of the Olympiad "I am a professional" consciously choose the path of creation, professional and personal fulfillment. The share of project participants working in their specialty before receiving a diploma has increased by 3.5 times during the Olympiad: from 9% in 2017 to 33% in 2025. Their desire to work, to be useful, to develop advanced industries is the most sincere patriotism. Realizing their potential in the Olympiad, they make a real contribution to strengthening the sovereignty and future of Russia, – noted the head of the All-Russian Student Olympiad "I am a Professional" of the presidential platform "Russia – the Country of Opportunities" Valeria Kasamara.

Registration will last until November 11 on the official website of the Olympiad. The qualifying round will be held from November 14 to December 1. The finals in the areas will be held from February to April, and the results will be announced in June.

In 2024/2025, NSU will participate in the qualifying round of the Olympiad 827 students took part, 197 in the final. The top 5 most popular areas for participation among NSU students were Biology, Biotechnology, Bioengineering and Bioinformatics, Chemistry and Mathematics. NSU students showed themselves best in such tracks as Biotechnology, Bioengineering and Bioinformatics, Biology and Ecology. According to the results of the overall medal count, NSU students won three gold and three bronze medals.

The Olympiad "I am a professional" is being implemented within the framework of the federal project "Russia – the country of opportunities" of the national project "Youth and Children" with the support of the Ministry of Science and Higher Education of Russia.

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Master's student Faculty of Natural Sciences of Novosibirsk State University (FNS NSU) Valeria Meleshenko was among the winners of the Student Startup competition of the University Technological Entrepreneurship Platform. Her project to create an enzyme for cheese making received a grant of 1 million rubles and is aimed at developing domestic biotechnology.

The enzyme chymosin, which is used to coagulate milk in cheesemaking, is currently mostly obtained in Russia from calf stomachs or purchased abroad. This approach is both expensive and limited in its scope of application. Valeria's project offers a fundamentally different approach – genetically engineered production of chymosin. This involves using a synthetic gene obtained from a database and introduced into a yeast strain. As a result, it becomes possible to produce the enzyme in a laboratory, without using animals.

— This approach is quite popular in the field of biotechnology today, it allows to make production more technological, and at the same time humane, since it does not require mass slaughter of animals. For example, insulin production is organized in a similar way, but bacteria are used there, and yeast is used in my project, — explained Valeria Meleshenko.

At the first stage, which also became her bachelor's thesis under the supervision of Dmitry Shchebakov, an employee of the State Research Center of Virology and Biotechnology "Vector" of Rospotrebnadzor, Valeria had already obtained a strain capable of producing the necessary enzyme.

The next step is to test it at cheese-making plants.

— My task is to produce a sufficient amount of chymosin and conduct tests in real production. If it turns out that there is no difference in the quality of the cheese or even improvements appear, for example, the bitterness goes away or less enzyme is needed to curdle the milk, the project can be considered successful, — the author of the startup adds.

The project already has potential partners. Successful negotiations were held with representatives of the Cheese Research Institute of the Federal Altai Scientific Center of Agrobiotechnology (FANCA), Barnaul. And in case of positive results at this stage, a cheese-making enterprise in Kuzbass is ready to join the project.

According to Valeria, the startup did not simply grow out of her bachelor's thesis. "It is important to note that my victory was made possible largely thanks to the teachers of the NSU Natural Sciences Department, who taught me flexible and analytical thinking rather than blind memorization. And participation in Technohack, a hackathon from the NSU Advanced Engineering School, gave me my first ideas about creating startups," she emphasizes.

An important component of the project is that it not only promotes the development of domestic production of an enzyme important for the food industry, but also expands the use of advanced technologies in this industry.

— Biotechnological projects are one of the most promising areas of development. For NSU students, participation in such initiatives is an opportunity to get involved in real research and create startups that are in demand in industry while still studying, — the university notes.

Valeria continues working on the prototype. She has a year to implement the project – that's how long the grant from the Student Startup competition gives. If the testing is successful, Russia will have its own technology for producing the enzyme, which today has to be mostly purchased abroad.

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On the night of September 7-8, residents of almost the entire territory of Russia could observe a total lunar eclipse. In Novosibirsk, there were ideal weather conditions that night – a clear and bright sky, so astronomy lovers could enjoy a rather rare astronomical phenomenon.

According to Egor Konyaev, an engineer at the Vega Observatory at NSU, the next total lunar eclipse, visible over most of Russia, will occur in 3 years, on December 31, 2028.

— According to local time in Novosibirsk, its maximum will be almost midnight (23:50). Therefore, it can already be called New Year's, — adds Yegor.

What is a lunar eclipse?

A lunar eclipse occurs when the Moon, in its orbit around the Earth, enters the shadow of our planet, and the Earth at that moment is exactly between the Sun and its natural satellite.

Why is the moon red? And why is it visible?

— The most important and interesting question that arises in the observer is: why does the Moon turn red during a total eclipse? And why is it visible if an eclipse occurs? It would seem that if the Moon is immersed in the Earth's shadow, it should not be visible at all. But this is not so. And here the Earth's atmosphere plays the main role, — explains Yegor Konyaev.

According to Rayleigh's theory, there is a dependence of the intensity of light scattering on the wavelength. Blue rays, which have a shorter wavelength, are scattered in the Earth's atmosphere 4-5 times stronger than red ones, which is why the color of the daytime, clear sky is blue.

— It is for this same reason that during a lunar eclipse the Moon takes on a red hue. Some of the rays that are refracted and not scattered in the Earth's atmosphere hit the lunar surface, from which they are reflected and "return" to the observer located on the Earth's night side. And we can observe such an interesting, beautiful effect when the Moon is painted in different shades of red — from copper-yellow to dark-dark red, — says Yegor Konyaev.

How often do lunar eclipses occur?

On average, both lunar and solar eclipses occur twice a year. But an observer on Earth has a much greater chance of seeing a lunar eclipse than a solar one. Why? The reason is geometry.

— A lunar eclipse looks the same wherever the Moon is above the horizon — its area is equal to a hemisphere. In addition, the Earth is larger than the Moon, so the Earth's shadow completely covers the Moon. During a solar eclipse, when the Moon moves in front of the Sun, the shadow cast by the Moon is much smaller than the Earth's and covers an insignificant part of the Earth's surface. Therefore, the chance to see a solar eclipse is only available to people located within a narrow strip of the Earth's surface along which the Moon's shadow passes, — adds Yegor Konyaev.

So, the next total solar eclipse, which will occur on August 12, 2026, in Russia can be seen only on the Taimyr Peninsula, but observation will be extremely difficult, since it is very low above the horizon and not all phases will be visible.

A total lunar eclipse has three phases. The first phase is the penumbral phase, when the Moon is still fully illuminated by direct sunlight, but falls into the Earth's penumbra. As it continues to move along its orbit, the Moon falls into the Earth's shadow, which completely blocks sunlight for some areas of the Moon – this is the shadow phase of the eclipse. When the Moon is completely immersed in the Earth's shadow, the total phase of the lunar eclipse occurs. This is the moment when the Earth's natural satellite turns red.

This time, the maximum phase of the eclipse was 136%, it was reached at 1:12 Novosibirsk time. The total phase lasted from 0:31 to 1:52, the umbral phase from 23:27 to 2:56, and the penumbral phase from 22:28 to 3:55.

What is interesting about a lunar eclipse?

As Alfiya Nesterenko, head of the Vega observatory at NSU, notes, this lunar eclipse was quite long, unlike those observed earlier. Thus, the phase of the total lunar eclipse this time lasted more than an hour.

“Also, during a lunar eclipse, you can discern relief details that are not noticeable on the Moon during normal times, due to the greater contrast of some elements,” adds Alfiya Nesterenko.

Photo: Egor Konyaev, Mikhail Maslov, NSU Vega Observatory. The photo shows all phases of the lunar eclipse.

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The final of the educational intensive course has ended in Novosibirsk, during which 18 students from Siberia received offers for internships at the country's largest IT holding company, T1, with four NSU students among the winners. The competitive selection for the internship was held among more than 7,000 applications from all over Russia. The final defense of the projects, which the students had been working on for two months, took place on August 28 at the Novosibirsk State University, with 38 students from different parts of Siberia participating.

As part of the intensive course, participants developed and presented their own solutions for real business cases, including the creation of a tool for booking meeting rooms and a service for verifying digital signatures.

In Novosibirsk, following the final defense of cases from real business customers of T1, the first place was taken by a team of six students, including Natalia Bedareva from NSU. While working on the projects, Natalia's team developed the corporate discussion service "MUZA". With its help, employees of the client company will be able to quickly resolve work issues, save the best cases, and also get access to a verified knowledge base, which will reduce the time it takes to find information. The holding will use the ideas and solutions of the camp participants in the further implementation of its own IT projects. Three more students from Novosibirsk State University became winners of the IT camp: Andrey Dutkin (2nd place), Dmitry Lutsev (2nd place) and Alina Brysina (3rd place).

IT holding T1 has been holding a summer educational bootcamp for the second year in a row, so that students from all over the country could try themselves in large projects, gain practical experience and take their first steps in their careers. This year, interest in the camp has grown significantly: the organizers received more than 7,000 applications – two and a half times more than in 2024. Almost 3,000 people passed the entrance test, and the best of them – over 1,500 students from 459 universities in the country – were enrolled in the intensive course. 73% of them are students of technical specialties from regional universities. The T1 IT camp was held in a hybrid format: the first remote stage was replaced by in-person team work on projects. The final defenses, in addition to Novosibirsk, also took place in Yekaterinburg and Moscow.

— The practice of the T1 IT camp once again confirms that regional training centers are becoming no less important than the capital. Novosibirsk is one of the main scientific and educational hubs of the country, and here we see very motivated and talented students ready for serious challenges in the IT sphere. I am glad that many of those whom I was lucky enough to meet during the defense of the final projects joined the T1 team in order to implement large-scale projects with us in the future, — noted Mikhail Knigin, Executive Director of T1 Integration (part of the T1 IT holding).

At the beginning of the training, the participants were given the opportunity to choose a specialization of training. The most popular was system analytics – every fourth student from Novosibirsk chose it. No less in demand were backend and frontend development, as well as manual testing and application administration.

Alina Brysina said that the process of working on the project became a real challenge for her.

— We received a very complex and detailed technical task, which turned out to be practically impossible to implement in such a short time frame with the number of people we had on the team. It was very difficult to understand which solution to choose. We had several types of administrators for the technical task in the project, and we decided to leave one, but because we did not record this requirement, the decision was ultimately difficult. It was as if everyone was speaking different languages, — shared Alina.

Alina was a systems analyst on the team and learned to be much more punctual, attentive to details and ask precise questions.

"I learned a lot from my colleagues and realized that large IT companies need reporting that is actually used. All the documents that a system analyst prepares are not just put into a drawer," she added.

Alina also emphasized that the team’s support helped her not to give up and continue working on the project, which allowed her to show excellent results and achieve victory.

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From August 14 to 28, the first System Bootcamp from the YADRO laboratory was held at NSU. Junior students took part in the Bootcamp Faculty of Information Technology And Faculty of Mechanics and Mathematics of NSU, as well as graduating students who chose a topic for their future diploma work. Over the course of two weeks, 11 students worked on projects in three areas. The guys who successfully completed the Bootcamp will have the opportunity to continue working in the laboratory, participate in the implementation of projects on system development within the framework of cooperation with the YADRO company.

To participate in the event, it was necessary to fill out a questionnaire, write a motivation letter and provide information about your academic performance in key courses, such as operating systems, network technologies and the basic C course.

— Most of the Summer Schools held at NSU together with industrial partners are aimed at senior students, which is logical from the point of view of further employment. Quite often, graduates of such schools receive an offer to do an internship and then work in a company. We are focused on junior students in order to interest them in the tasks of system programming and give them the opportunity to specialize in this area. That is, our main task is to popularize system programming among students studying in IT specialties, — said Alexander Vlasov, head of the YADRO laboratory at Novosibirsk State University, deputy dean of the Faculty of Information Technology of NSU for Master's degree programs.

Bootcamp participants spent two weeks working on projects in three areas: development of CDM-16, a learning processor for the Digital Platforms course; UPX, an executable packer; and “Implementation of Thompson’s attack on the TinyCC compiler.” The first half of the day was spent interacting with mentors in the lab, and the second half was spent working independently. However, students continued working on projects in the classroom after lunch.

— These are new projects, there are no ready-made solutions for them. Students could not use search engines to find ready-made solutions or artificial intelligence to generate the “correct” answer. They had to apply their skills and knowledge that they received during their studies at our University to solve the task, — explained Alexander Vlasov.

A team of three people worked on the implementation of the project "Implementation of Thompson's attack on the TinyCC compiler": Matvey Sorokin, Vladimir Sharapov and Andrey Zverev. This is exactly one of the areas that the YADRO laboratory at NSU is engaged in – the topic of compiler verification, that is, checking for non-infection. The idea of the project at the Bootcamp was to first create such an infected compiler, and then verify this compiler.

— I had a very interesting project — compiler verification. The project is large, the task is huge — to "infect" the compiler so that it turns an ordinary program into a malicious one. We tested many different options for how this can be done. In the end, we can say that we coped with the task, — shared Vladimir Sharapov, a student of the NSU FIT.

The topics of the Bootcamp projects are highly specialized, however, there are many people at the FIT and other faculties who are passionate about system programming. And the experience gained can be applied in solving a wide range of current industrial problems.

— Bootcamp is a very good way to come and join the research topic within the framework of system programming. To touch, to see what it is. Bootcamp is people, a team of like-minded people with whom you will work on the project. It is networking, as well as an opportunity to get acquainted with the laboratory, — emphasized Alexander Volk, a student of the NSU FIT.

Students who complete the Bootcamp with high results have the opportunity to continue working in the YADRO laboratory and work on projects in the field of systems programming together with YADRO curators.

— I hope that we have interested the students who have successfully completed the Bootcamp in the field they have become familiar with. Even if the students do not specialize in the field of system development in the future, the skills they have acquired here will certainly help them in the future in other areas of IT, — concluded Alexander Vlasov.

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