From June 12th through 15th a few notable events occurred at South Ural State University: another meeting - the third - of the International Research Council, a meeting of the Supervisory Council, and lectures and seminars by IRC members – world-renowned researchers who work in the most advanced areas of science and technology including chemistry, biomedicine, and quantum information sciences.
Graduate student of the South Ural State University, 25-year-old Lolita Bunyaeva, has become First Vice-Miss of the beauty contest “Miss CIS-2017”. For her beauty and intelligence, 11 jury members awarded second place to the South Ural beauty who represented Russia in this big contest. Running ahead, we should note that the contest was held in Armenian city of Yerevan; 25 beauties from 13 CIS countries competed for the crown.
South Ural State University is famous for educating future engineers not just for the region but for the whole country. Special attention is paid to educating specialists for the metal-working industry, the professional education for which is held at the laboratory of Physical Modeling of Thermomechanical Processes (Experimental Engineering National Research Institute) under leadership of Aleksandr Akhmedyanov.
MC-21 (“mainline aircraft of XXI c.”), a next-generation passenger aircraft has performed its third shakedown flight, lasting one and a half hours. It is the first passenger-carrying aircraft which has been designed in accordance with Russian technologies. Recently MC-21 has performed its flight task completely.
The Supercomputer Simulation Laboratory of SUSU has made a contribution to the creation of a traditional for Russian Civil Aviation airplane.
On June 15, opening ceremony of the 4th forum and exhibition “China-Russia EXPO 2017” was held in the city of Harbin (PRC). Organizations and enterprises of the Chelyabinsk region presented their stands in the framework of the common exhibition space of the region. During the exposition review by official representatives of Chinese party and top public officials of the region, the SUSU stand excited special interest.
On the final day of the third meeting of the International Research Council, the curators of the international research laboratories from SUSU and representatives of the university’s institutes and schools presented the results of their work and strategies for advancing the university in field-specific international ratings to the international researchers.
Despite the intense research of carbon nanotubes over the last few decades, interest in it is not waning neither among researchers nor theoreticians. With time, the tasks are becoming even more difficult, and solving these tasks is becoming possible only for professional researchers. Associate professor of the SUSU Department of Computer Modeling and Nanotechnologies Sergey Sozykin is studying carbon nanotubes, applying various methods of modeling to them.
On May 13, open lectures of scientists-participants of the university’s International Scientific Council were held at South Ural State University. Scientist from the University of Leiden, professor of the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences, doctor Ron de Kloet is known in the world’s scientific community by his discoveries in studying the influence of stress on the brain. He also conducts research concerning the reasons for a person’s vulnerability to diseases caused by stress.
A scientific seminar was held as part of the third International Research Council at South Ural State University. The moderator of this event was world-famous researcher in organic chemistry, doctor Panayiotis Koutentis. At the seminar, six scientific developments were presented to the professor by young, talented SUSU researchers.
On June 13th some of the world’s leading researchers held lectures at SUSU as part of the second day of a meeting by the International Research Council. The notable guests shared their knowledge with students of the university’s schools and institutes over a few hours.
On June 13th, doctor Jaewan Kim, professor of the school of computational sciences at the Korea Institute for Advanced Study (South Korea) held a lecture on quantum entanglement for our university’s students and staff as part of the International Research Council.
The third meeting of the International Research council will be held at South Ural State University from June 12th through 14th, during which the world’s leading researchers will hold lectures in current scientific problems, and hold practical scientific seminars and unique discussions at SUSU.
On Monday, June 12, a scientific event of global scale started in Chelyabinsk – the world’s leading scientists working in the sphere of physical chemistry, biomedicine and quantum informatics came to South Ural State University.
On June 2nd 2017 a round table was held entitled “Philosophy+Theatre”, the topic of which was discussion of the philosophical ideas of the play by the New Artistic Theater based on the novel by F.M. Dostoyevsky, Demons.
At the beginning of June, Tianjin Foreign Studies University held a forum “Innovations in Foreign Language Teaching in Russian and Chinese Universities in the context of One zone – One Path Initiative”, to which the head of the Department of Russian as a Foreign Language Elena Kharchenko had been invited. 14 representatives from 8 Russian universities and Chinese instructors of Russian, postgraduate and master’s degree students learning Russian took part in the forum.
Earlier, the university’s scientists more than once were involved in ecological projects of Chelyabinsk as experts.
South Ural State University and the Federal Service for Supervision of Natural Resource Usage have been cooperating at different levels for more than one year. Today the agreement on collaboration was signed officially. This time, the parties set other goals: to implement into the university’s system of education a study plan for students’ training for working at the directorate of the Federal Service for Supervision of Natural Resource Usage.
The Laboratory of Micropowder (Aerospace Technologies REC) has been operating at South Ural State University for a few years already.
In the beginning, the laboratory was tasked with manufacturing high-quality metallic powders which can be used in additive technologies. Pavel Lykov, candidate of technical sciences, head researcher of the laboratory and Rustam Baitimerov, engineer and researcher at the laboratory tell us about the developments.
South Ural State University has held a photo contest «SUSU on Camera». Students were asked to express their love to the university with the help of photos in social networks. Valeria Aleksandrova, Yana Osinskay and Uvindu Ayas, a student from Sri Lanka, became the winners.
The QS specialists Shadi Hijazi and Jacques Faisant de Champchesnel visited SUSU. The company conducts expert and analytical research and annually publishes competent rankings of the best universities in the world. In the framework of implementation of the Action Plan on realization of the Competitiveness Enhancement Program (Roadmap), the QS specialists and SUSU discussed the development and implementation of measures for increasing the University’s reputation in the international arena.
Aleksandr Sergeevich Pushkin, a great Russian poet, who is often called a founder of the modern Russian literary language, was born 218 years ago. Today this language is studied not only by residents of Russia, but also by schoolchildren and students around the world. At SUSU the robot Vanya, which serves as a teaching assistant, helps to teach foreign students Russian.
The national university ranking Interfax 2017 has been published on June 6. SUSU was ranked among the best 22 universities of Russia and improved its performance by 16 positions in comparison with the previous year.
