Archive for July, 2010
Avangard conference report
Cambridge University Russian Society (CURS) proudly supported the XIX Russian national conference in science and technology for gifted school-students «Intel–Dynasty–Avantgarde» which was held for 9 days in January 2010 at the Moscow Lyceum of Chemistry.
The 89 participating students (28 female, 61 male) represented 27 schools from 19 Russian cities, including Moscow, Saint-Petersburg, Yekaterinburg, Samara, Stavropol’ and Tver’, and delivered 81 presentations in the following sections:
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Mathematics (14)
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Computer Science (10)
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Physics (19)
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Applied programming and mathematical modelling (11)
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Chemistry, biochemistry and chemical physics (20)
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Biology (7).
The independent jury, for the most part consisting ofLomonosov Moscow State University’s professors, awarded 9 first prizes, 21 second prizes and 22 third prizes for the contributions and presentations, and 23 special prizes for particular aspects of the contributions. Over 60 special prizes were awarded according to the results of various intellectual competitions. The Moscow office of Intel Corporation conferred diplomas on 15 contributions.
The conference sponsors – Dr Dmitry Zimin’s Foundation«Dynasty», Intel Corporation, Russian national school of mathematics and physics «Avantegarde», Moscow Lyceum of Chemistry, as well as CURS – endowed the participants, laureates and winners of the conference with a vast amount of books on science and popular science, and souvenirs, including mugs with the coat of arms of CURS, to travel with their owners to the sticks of Russia.
At the conference opening, a video address from Cambridge by the CURS executive committee was played to the participants. At the conference closing, the participants listened to and were given copies of an inspiring proclamation by Dr Anton Lokhmotov, CURS Trustee in Science and Technology, encouraging them to pursue careers in science and engineering.
Conference winners:
| Bolbachan Vasily | Stavropol | Infinite products and a new proof of Ser-Sondov’s formula for Euler’s constant |
| Matdinov Marsel | Moscow |
On a combinatorial geometry problem |
| Khonyakin Semen | Krasnodar | A new construction scheme for modern artificial lighting systems |
| Romashkov Alexey | Ryazan | Using a bipolar transistor and a light emitting diode for temperature measuring |
| Kulikov Alexey | Moscow | Development in C++ of a computer game «Labyrinth» |
| Nikitin Mikhail | Yoshkar-Ola | A robot can be made! |
| Vasiliev Dmitry | Moscow | Synthesis of dibenzyl glycosyl phosphates using ion-exchange resin |
| Mashtak Leonid | Moscow | Studying assymetrical ring-opening reaction of meso-epoxides with trimethylsilyl cyanide |
| Bogacheva Galina, Bogacheva Yekaterina | Moscow | Comparative analysis of «early» gene c-fos expression in mice with control and disturbed memory |