For his final thesis, Maxim Kochanov, a student at the NSU Mechanics and Mathematics Department, considered two problems. The first was semantic segmentation of brain tumors on MRI images and the second predicting the time interval of patients' lives based on images of segmented brain tumors established solving the first problem.
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NSU鈥檚 new English language Master's Program, 鈥淨uantum Technologies and Nanoscience鈥�, is designed for those who want to pursue scientific challenges at the forefront of modern physics. The competitive advantage of the Program is student鈥檚 ability to conduct research using unique experimental facilities.
The international Brain Tumor Segmentation (BraTS) Challenge - 2020 competition honored the work of a multidisciplinary team of Novosibirsk scientists. The team included researchers from the NSU Mechanics and Mathematics Department 鈥淪tream Data Analytics and Machine Learning Laboratory鈥� (SDAMLL), Physicians at the Federal Center for Neurosurgery, and the Head of the Research Institute of Clinical and Experimental Lymphology, a branch of the Institute of Cytology and Genetics SB RAS.
NSU scientist Valentin Portnykh, Head of the NSU Humanitarian Institute鈥檚 Laboratory of the History of the Ancient World and the Middle Ages, was editor of a catalog of valuable medieval manuscripts from German collections.
The XI Eurasian Economic Youth Forum took place from April 20 to 23 at the Ural State University of Economics (USUE). This year鈥檚 Forum, "Russia and the Regions of the World: The Embodiment of Ideas and the Economy of Opportunities", was dedicated to discussing current trends in the national and world economy with a focus on Eurasian integration. Students from 64 countries participated together with ambassadors from 19 countries.
This year, SvetlanaSchneider won the Research Excellence Award Russia - 2021 recognizing her as one of the most highly cited scientists.
The QS World University Rankings has released QS 鈥� 2022, their authoritative ranking of universities. For the fifth year in a row, NSU is ranked in the top 250 best universities in the world. This year it is rated 246th, third among Russian universities. NSU improved its position by 68 places in relation to the 鈥渟hare of foreign students鈥� indicator and improved the scientific productivity indicator.
NSU and Institute of Archeology and Ethnography SB RAS scientists were in an international team that demonstrated domesticated animals were introduced to Central Asia 4,000 years earlier than previously believed. Their work was published in the journal 鈥淣ature: Human Behavior鈥�.
Scientists at NSU鈥檚 Natural Sciences Department Protein Engineering Laboratory developed a software pipeline that predicts the effects of mutations on proteins responsible for cancer cell resistance to chemotherapy. Their results are published in the prestigious international 鈥淛ournal of Biological Chemistry鈥�.
The Russian Research Institute of Economics, Politics, and Law in Science and Technology (RIEPL) honored 天美mv, M.V. Lomonosov Moscow State University, and St. Petersburg State University with the Research Excellence Award Russia 鈥� 2021.
Johns Hopkins University, one of the leading universities in the world and home to a major coronavirus research center, developed a COVID-19 Contact Tracing online course. The Course provides an understanding of how to stop the spread of coronavirus. The English-language version is very popular on Coursera with over a million participants in just a few months. In response to the high demand, the University looked for partners in different countries to translate the Course 鈥嬧�媋nd adapt it to reflect local conditions. 天美mv was chosen to be the Russian partner.
