Foreign students of South Ural State University, who have taken courses “Preparation for University Entry” and “Russian as a Foreign Language”, will be awarded certificates on June 26.
Over 150 foreign students from China, Iraq, Jordan, Syria, Mexico, Sri Lanka, Laos, Congo, Nigeria, Yemen, Venezuela, Vietnam, Zimbabwe and other countries will receive certificates.
An awarding ceremony will be held in the conference hall of the academic building “Sigma” at 13:00.
For the 38th time in a row, Russia is celebrating the Day of Inventors and Innovators. Traditionally, on this day a special commission at the Russian Academy of Science presents the most innovative creators the title Honored Inventor of the Russian Federation and Honored Innovator of the Russian Federation. At South Ural State University an Office of Scientific and Innovative Affairs (OSIA) has been founded, the main goal of which is advancing the university’s scientific and innovative potential.
As part of a partnership with Magnitogorsk Metallurgical Factory PAO, staff of the Department of Ecology and Chemical Technologies and the Office of Scientific and Innovative Affairs participated in a technical conference entitled Issues of Ecological Safety for Companies of the Mining and Smelting Complex and Monocities.
Tikhon Podshivalov, candidate of legal sciences, head of the Laboratory of Private Law, received a grant as the winner of the contest Support of Young Science within the 5-100 Project. He offered the study of the effects of the good faith principle as a criterion for lawful human behavior.
The Day of Inventors and Innovators is celebrated annually on the last Saturday of June in Russia; this year this is June 24th.
Initially, the Day of Inventors and Innovators was something like the Nobel Prize awards. On June 25th, the Academy of Science considered all innovative propositions put forth in the year preceding, chose the best, and awarded their authors.
The South Ural State University’s Experimental Mechanical Engineering research institute includes five breakthrough laboratories: the Laboratory of Physical Modeling of Thermomechanical Processes, the Laboratory of Experimental Mechanics, the Laboratory of Mechanical Engineering, the Laboratory of Composite Materials, and the Laboratory of Electronic Management System Shell design. The institute is led by candidate of technical sciences Ramil Zakirov.
One of the visitors to SUSU as part of the International Research Council was physical chemist Muthupandian Ashokkumar, who visited the South Ural capital from the University of Melbourne (Australia). The researcher’s specialty is the production of materials for food and dairy manufacturing.
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“The people who do not want to feed their own army will end up feeding somebody else's…” - these immortal words of Napoleon still remain relevant.
The Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation has reviewed and accepted the results of the project “Scientific research in the field of determining the residual life of the main units and aggregates of military automotive equipment”. The project became a cooperative development of the leader of domestic trucking industry, OJSC KAMAZ and the SUSU Center of Computer Engineering.
On Tuesday, June 20, South Ural State University has launched an enrollment campaign. The first prospective student is Ekaterina Chernova, who has decided to take a master’s degree course at the Institute of Sport, Tourism and Service. She enjoyed the privilege of cutting the red ribbon.
“Applied science should bring a common sense for industrial development of the Urals. Today the cooperation of research teams from universities with key industrial sectors of the region is particularly important,” the Rector Alexander Shestakov emphasized this pivotal trend for development of modern science, welcoming the participants of the strategic session “South Ural State University: A Source of Ideas and Technologies for the Industry of the Big Urals”, which started on June 19 at the premises of the university complex “Sigma”.
In the framework of the International Research Council Doctor Jaewan Kim, a professor of the School of Computational Sciences of the Korea Institute for Advanced Study (Republic of Korea) delivered a lecture on quantum entanglement for students and academic staff of our University. We have asked the professor how quantum computing will affect the future and what skills are required for work with computers and what foreign scholars think of SUSU.
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– At the moment I am a member of the Council whose goal is to help the university improve its rates in the world rankings by increasing the effectiveness of its operation. This is my second visit. We also came here in the last year’s October. Now we are still at the stage of giving recommendations without having started scientific collaboration yet.
As part of the International Research Council (IRC) that was held at South Ural State University June 12th through 14th, the university was visited by researcher from Leiden University, professor of the Royal Netherlands Academy of Art and Science, Doctor Ron De Cloet, who is famous in the international research community for his discoveries in the study of the effects of stress on the brain. He told the university press service about his research, his participation in the IRC, and SUSU’s prospects in the international scientific arena.
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.
