ECMI has been running annual Modelling Weeks for students since 1988. This year for the first time we were going to host it on Russian soil. Unfortunately, the coronavirus forced us to postpone the 35 the Modelling Week until next year. But it is not all that bad. Today it […]
Read moreWe continue our collection of stories about Great Petersburgers. Now he is considered the creator of the so-called mathematical economics. But during his life he was better known as a man who put “mathematics in the service of socialist construction.” That is exactly what was written in the program documents […]
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Hi, this is Artem Eliseev again and today I would like to say some words about mathematical competitions for students. We’ve already written about supplementary activities in mathematics, which take place in Saint-Petersburg (https://ecmiindmath.org/2018/02/09/supplementary-mathematical-education-in-russian-schools/), but only activities for high school students were discussed. Of course, studies at university are completely […]
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Researchers from Peter the Great St.Petersburg Polytechnic University (SPbPU) in collaboration with colleagues from Southern Federal University and Indian Institute of Technology-Madras (IIT Madras) suggested using machine learning methods to predict the properties of artificial sapphire crystals. It is a unique material widely used in microelectronics, optics, and electronics. The […]
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All of Russia’s science began on Vasilievsky Island in St. Petersburg. On January 28 (February 8) 1724, by the decree of Emperor Peter I the St. Petersburg Academy of Sciences was founded. In 1825 Peter I issued a decree “On the invitation of scientists to the Russian Academy of Sciences and on […]
Read moreOur next story about great Petersburger is rather unexpected by non-specialist audiences. Did you know that great founder of set theory was born in St.Petersburg and was Russian citizen for whole his life*? Honestly, we also were surprised to learn it. *According to Prof. Sergey Vostokov (in Russian) Georg Cantor […]
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Hi, this is Saint Petersburg and SPbPU again! My name is Artem Eliseev and in this post I would like to tell you about a new emerging direction of collaboration between SPbPU and Airbus SAS. Our university has a long-term and fruitful relationship with this company – my colleagues have […]
Read moreWe continue our topic about great Petersburgers that we started last year by the posts about Olga Ladyzhenskaya and Leonhard Euler. The new article is about Pafnuty Chebyshev. One of nine children, Pafnuty was born in Okatovo, a small town in western Russia, south-west of Moscow, in the small family estate […]
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Hello from St Petersburg. Like everybody else on the planet, we are also straggling the coronavirus. So predictably, our first post is about this topic that is surely the most actual and the most important one. Due to the coronavirus pandemic, Peter the Great St. Petersburg Polytechnic University switches to […]
Read moreDear colleagues, this year the ECMI Modelling Week will take place in Peter the Great St.Petersburg Polytechnic University, St. Petersburg, Russia, in July (05.07.2020-12.07.2020). For more information, please check http://mw2020.spbstu.ru/ We still have several vacancies for instructors. Don’t miss an opportunity to visit St.Petersburg in the High season and see […]
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