February 17, 2016 anyone could feel the Chinese culture and celebrate the start of the New Year again at SUSU. In China it is common to celebrate the arrival of the New Year with the same broad scale as in the whole world but it is celebrated according to the lunar calendar, hence, it is sometimes called the Lunar New Year. For us the New Year is the winter holiday but for the Chinese it is the spring festival which symbolizes the awakening of nature and the beginning of a new life cycle.
The Day of Uzbekistan in the Urals timed to celebration of the 575th anniversary of a poet, philosopher and state leader Ali-Shir Nava’i’s birth was organized in Chelyabinsk at SUSU on February 18.
Special website of the scientific journal ‘Investment and Innovation Management’ published by the Faculty of Economics and Entrepreneurship of SUSU: http://investment-management.susu.ru/ is now available.
South Ural State University will be discussing the available areas of study and programs of specialization, showing research centers and laboratories, and introducing applicants to employers.
The academic and administrative staff of SUSU took part in the survey “Involvement”, designed to analyze a degree of involvement and interest of University members in the Project 5-100. The survey was conducted in two variants: on the University website and by sending to the electronic corporate mail.
Based on the results as of February 16, 524 people took part in the survey. The survey results have shown that on the whole SUSU members are informed about the Project and its role in further development of the University.
On February 11, 2016 the American physics journal “Physical Review Letters” published a report about experimental detection of gravitational waves. One of the authors of this publication is a SUSU graduate Ruslan Vaulin, who majored in Applied Mathematics and Physics. The young scientist conducted his first research study under the supervision of Prof. Valery Beskachko.
The Faculty of Physics of SUSU and Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology (state university) hold the final round of the All-Russian Olympiad “PHYSTECH-2016”.
On February 27 - 28 the Faculty of Pre-University Training of SUSU under the support of the Ministry of Education and Science of Chelyabinsk region and the Information Center for Nuclear Energy of Chelyabinsk holds 26th regional competition of participants of the international program for the development of creative thinking and team cohesion ‘Odyssey of Mind’.
More than 30 teams from Chelyabinsk, Asha, Kopeysk, Miass, Satka, Bakal, Mezhevoy, Ozersk, Snezhinsk, Magnitogorsk, Kremenkul will present their inventive problem solving with more than one correct solution.
Foreign post graduate students studying at South Ural State University within the framework of academic mobility programs will take active part in ‘Science of SUSU’ forum dedicated to the celebration of the Day of Russian Science. They are citizens of Iraq, China, Tajikistan, the Czech Republic, Kazakhstan and other countries. Within the framework of the Forum they will visit scientific and technical centers and university laboratories excursions, as well as visit SUSU Museum of History where they can learn the history of the scientific schools of the University.
The results of VII Internet Mathematical Olympiad for Students, which was held by Ariel University (Israel) on December 15, 2015, were summarized. 127 teams from Russia, Romania, Hungary, Bulgaria, Poland, Israel, Turkmenistan and other countries took part in this competition. Moscow State University, North-Eastern Federal University, Peoples’ Friendship University of Russia, universities from Irkutsk, Novosibirsk, Perm, and Chelyabinsk were among the Russian participants.
20 specialists of Volzhsky Pipe Plant (VPP), which is a part of TMK (Pipe Metallurgical Company) have completed a program of professional retraining “Metal Treatment under Pressure. Pipe Welding”. The special training course has been developed by South Ural State University and it corresponds to the specialist training program for universities. The training process was organized directly on the premises. As graduation works the trainees developed and defended project proposals in the context of pipe production.
Scientists from South Ural State University held a seminar on geoinformatics at the University of Guantanamo (Cuba). After this seminar the representatives Russia and Cuba will discuss the possibility of creating a geoinformation observatory.
“Creation of a geoinformation observatory will allow Cuba and Russia to continue collaboration in the field of geoinformatics,” reports Berenice Servantes, Director of the Russian-Iberoamerican International Center of RSSU.
The meeting of academic staff of the University with a leading expert in the field of Russian education, Professor of the Moscow School of Management SKOLKOVO, Deputy Chairman of the Council of International Jury of Project 5-100 Andrey Volkov took place at SUSU on February 10.
The selection of projects for a final round of the program “U.M.N.I.K”, organized by the Foundation for Assistance to Small Innovative Enterprises in Science and Technology will be held at the University in the framework of the forum “Science of SUSU”. The winners of the final round will get funding in the amount of 400 000 rubles.
Chelyabinsk branch of the Association of Foreign Students together with the Office of International Cooperation of SUSU invite everyone to celebrate the Chinese New Year which will be held on February 17, 2016. Guests will be able to take part in a traditional Chinese tea ceremony and a master class on making Christmas toys and win a prize in a Christmas quiz.
The scientists of SUSU together with engineers of ‘KamAz’ developed a charging device for electromobiles of this trademark, the turnout of which is planned for the year 2020. This was reported by TASS information agency in South Ural State University which deals with this development. Earlier ‘KamAz’ announced their plans to produce an urban elecromobile; however, as it was noted by the company, “development of electromobiles restrains the cost of accumulator systems”.
On the 5th of February South Ural State University celebrates the Day of Russian Science. This significant for the University day was opened by the exhibition of the results of scientific and technical developments of SUSU, where more than 50 expositions were presented: starting from anatomical insoles and titanic bioimplants of craniofacial bone to new diesel engines valves, systems of automatic inflation of the tyres and equipment of speed charge of automobile accumulators.
SUSU is the educational, scientific, cultural, and sport center of the South Urals, a member of the programs “5-100” and “National Research University”
There are more than 2 000 international students from 31 countries all across the world currently studying here, while the number of SUSU international alumni will rise beyond 1 000 people in 2016.
