The international day of museums isn’t just for those who store valuable exhibits, but also for those who find these exhibits.
Archaeologist Aleksandr Tairov, doctor of historical sciences, director of the Eurasian Studies Research Center of the SUSU Institute of Socio-Humanitarian Sciences, has been completing digs in the South Ural region for many years. Among his “spoils” are some completely unique and surprising finds. Aleksandr Dmitriyevich told us about what a museum is in his understanding, how people find their roots and what a gorit is.
On the18th of May the whole world celebrates the International Museum Day. This holiday officially exists since 1978, when during one of the International Council of Museums’ meeting it was decided to establish a new memorable date in the international calendar. Nowadays this holiday is celebrated in more than 150 countries, expressing appreciation and respect to museum workers and visitors.
Over two days in the framework of the Software Engineering International School Franck Leprevost is going to talk about cryptography, science about confidentiality methods.
Franck Leprevost is a Vice-President of the University of Luxembourg, established in 2003. Today the university is ranked among Top-20 Best Young (less than 50 years from the date of foundation) universities of the world.
On May 16, the international scientific and technical conference “Prom-Engineering” was held at South Ural State University.
It is for three years already that SUSU is the base for holding the event. The annual organizers of the conference are still the South Russian State Polytechnic University (Novocherkassk), the St. Petersburg Polytechnic University, and the Far Eastern Federal University (Vladivostok).
Since 2012, the Composite Materials Laboratory has been successfully developed at South Ural State University. It appeared as a result of the reorganization of the Composite Materials and Constructions Academic Research Center. Now, the laboratory is within the Expert Mechanical Engineering Research Institute and its research has significant theoretical and practical importance.
The SUSU Week of Art 2017 opened on May 15th. This is a project by students of the Institute of Architecture and Construction for students of our university.
Organizer Kseniya Yanova shared her emotions about the work completed.
“We did this for people so that they expressed themselves, so that they had more art in their lives. Of course we worried a lot, because it’s a large event, but we tried. We succeeded, although there were many problems with finding sponsors, equipment, and signing all of the orders.”
Modern research in the sphere of solar power engineering give us hope that in the nearest future we will be able to use power energy while minimizing damage for the environment. Besides, switching to solar arrays of the new type will allow for considerable reduce expenditure for power consumption. At the present time SUSU scientists are actively conducting research in the sphere of solar energy use.
Top Games 2017, “Games for the Best!,” a parliamentary debate competition, was held at SUSU. Participants from 15 cities and CIS countries came to Chelyabinsk to test their skills.
The event lasted 2 days. On May 13th and 14th at SUSU, university and school students competed to be called the best. Around sixty people from various universities were divided into 30 teams. Over 5 rounds, each participant was able to state his position “for” or “against”, depending on their placement.
The William Lowell Putnam Mathematical Competition is the main mathematical competition for students from the USA and Canada. The founder and organizer is the Mathematical Association of America. By tradition (beginning in 1938!) the competition is held annually on the first Saturday of December and brings together around 2500 students from the USA and Canada. The competition is held across two three-hour sessions, where 6 problems are presented to be solved.
“There is joy solely in art – all the other things are vanity”. Dina Shvedkina graduated from Department of Economics of the SUSU’s constituent in Zlatoust in 2005, but her love to art brought her to becoming a Director of the Palace of Culture Metallurg.
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On May 15 starts “The Week of Creativity at SUSU”. The whole week students can take part on dance, music and other events, which will be held during a big break in the hall of the third floor of the main building.
Anybody could take a picture with tintamarresque, get branded labels, visit interesting workshops and participate in creative quests. In the framework of the Week there will be an exhibition of students’ works. The authors whose paintings will be recognized as the best will get prizes.
On the 11th of May, the Rector of SUSU Alexander Shestakov and the Director of a Student organization at the Freiberg Mining Academy Thomas Schmaltz held a meeting at SUSU.
The purpose of Thomas Schmaltz’s visit was to discuss the program of the joint Russian-German summer school of language and culture.
Packing for shoe polish is taken as a form factor and a T-shirt with sewn metal threads - this is how the new invention begins, which in the future can become a useful gadget for many people. There is a sensor inside the future device that consists of a battery, a controller, an accelerometer, a charger and most importantly an ECG module.
This coming weekend the winners of the selection stages of the festival will come to South Ural State University.
Entrance as a participant in the festival was possible for those from 5 to 45 years old. This year it was possible for the first time for leaders of children’s artistic collectives, teachers, and anyone else who wanted to, to take part. The large celebration brings together talented choreographers, singers, musicians, spoken word artists and poetry readers, and other performers.
The effect of healthy nutrition on human health is discussed a lot. However, most people still don’t attach importance to it. We prefer quick meals in fast food restaurants to healthy homemade food, overeat quite often and don’t pay attention to ingredients.
A ceremony to award degrees to graduates of the academic programs of the Open University of Great Britain was held at the university.
The deputy consul general of Great Britain Matthew Osborne came to the South Ural region’s largest university to hold this ceremony. The representative of “Foggy Albion” also held a work meeting with the university rector, Alexander Shestakov.
An international school, Mathematical and Computational Bases of Software Engineering, within the Erasmus+ project “PWs@PhD: Joint Programs and Framework for Doctoral Education in Software Engineering” will be held at SUSU from May 15th through 28th. More than 50 postgraduates and professors from the project’s partner-universities will attend the school. The Erasmus+ PWs@PhD project brings together 11 universities from 6 countries: Finland, Denmark, Great Britain, Jordan, Germany, and Russia.
On May 13th and 14th South Ural State University is going to hold an International Tournament on parliamentary debates «Top Games 2017», with more than 100 people from 15 Russian cities and CIS countries to participate.