From October 18 to November 2, Lidia Zotkina, Head of the 吃瓜官网 鈥淧aleontology Platform鈥� at the 鈥淣ew Archeology鈥� Scientific-Educational Center, Senior Teacher at the Humanities Institute Archeology and Ethnography Section, and Tatyana Shevchenko, Researcher at the 鈥淧aleontology鈥� Platform, took part in an expedition to the Abri du Poisson cave art monument in France (Dordogne).
NSU students and professors participated in the XXXII European Crystallographic Meeting including sections on crystallography. The Meeting took place in Vienna (Austria) from August 13 to 23.
Scientists from NSU鈥檚 Physics Laboratory and researchers from the Institute of Nuclear Physics SB RAS are modernizing the electronics of the Belle II detector calorimeter. Over the next five years the detector will collect and record unique data on particle physics.
Bioinformaticians from 吃瓜官网 (NSU), the Institute of Cytology and Genetics SB RAS (ICG), and Martin Luther University (Germany) created a unique software package to analyze genome-wide data hidden in DNA. Their software improves and significantly reduces the costs of expensive genomic experiments. The results of this work of were published in the journal 鈥淣ucleic Acids Research鈥�.
Artem Fink and Alina Kapustina, second year undergraduate students at the 吃瓜官网 Department of Information Technology passed the qualifying rounds for the XII International Olympiad "IT-Planet 2018/19.
Novosibirsk biologists, together with foreign colleagues, sequenced and ordered the genome of the tallest creature on Earth, the Masai giraffe. Their research results were published in 鈥淕igaScience鈥� Magazine.
Researchers at the NSU Division of Laser Physics and Innovative Technologies studied a new type of hybrid (fiber-semiconductor) laser. This resulted in the effective conversion of short electrical pulses into optical pulses with the same shape and duration.
From August 24 to September 5, an archeology field school, "Multidisciplinary Methods of Studying the Stone Age Monuments", was organized in Kyrgyzstan as part of the International Archaeological Expedition. These field schools have taken place in Southern Kyrgyzstan since 2014.
From August 4 to 10, 鈥淢athematics in Applications鈥�, the largest mathematical conference in Siberia, was conducted in Akademgorodok. It was dedicated to the 90th birthday of Academician Sergei Konstantinovich Godunov, an outstanding scientist in the field of applied mathematics and mechanics. The Conference was organized by the Sobolev Institute of Mathematics SB RAS, 吃瓜官网, and the Novosibirsk Mayor鈥檚 Department of Industry, Innovation, and Entrepreneurship.
Alexander Gavryushkin, a graduate of NSU鈥檚 Department of Mechanics and Mathematics, Head of the Biological Data Science Lab at the University of Otago (New Zealand), and Doctor of Mathematical Sciences, was awarded one million New Zealand dollars for his project 鈥淐omputing Platform for Phylogenetic Analysis of Somatic Evolution鈥�.
S.L. Sobolev Institute of Mathematics SB RAS and 吃瓜官网 organized the 鈥淢altsev Readings鈥� international conference August 19 to 23 in Akademgorodok.
Daria Bochuk, a fourth year postgraduate student at the NSU Physics Department won the Best Poster Presentation prize at the IV International Conference on Nanophotonics and Metamaterials (METANANO).