XIX World Youth and Students Festival: «Knowledge Creates Our Future»
Date /Lomonosov Moscow State University presented the exhibition «Knowledge Creates Our Future» dedicated to the achievements of MSU young scientists in frontier areas of science and technology at the XIX World Youth and Students Festival. One of the first visitors was Rector of Moscow State University Academician Victor A. Sadovnichy. The organizers of the exhibition «Knowledge Creates Our Future» were Master's Degree students of the Faculty of Physics Felix Studenikin, Arkady Blank, Kerim Bekkiev and student of the Faculty of Computational Mathematics and Cybernetics Leo Kirichenko. Forward-looking international youth scientific projects in geophysics («Oil and Gas of the Arctic: New Discoveries and Opportunities» - higher senior officer of the Faculty of Geology Roman S. Sautkin and postgraduate student Anna P. Zavyalova), petrology, biophotonics ( «Hybrid constructions from photoactive proteins for biomedical applications» - by research officers of the Faculty of Biology Eugene G. Maksimov, George V. Tsorayev, Konstantin E. Klementiev), cognitive science ("Perspective technologies of studying cognitive and affective processes" – by junior research fellow of the Faculty of Psychology Artem I. Kovalev and research officer of the Laboratory of Labor Psychology Olga A. Kovaleva) and in the field of virtual reality («Manned Aircraft and Virtual Reality» - by engineer of the Laboratory of Mathematical Support of Imitation Dynamic Systems of the Faculty of Mechanics and Mathematics Pavel Yu. Suhochev and postgraduate student Eugene V. Hinenson) were presented in the exhibition. Young scientists of the Faculty of Biology demonstrated the photosensitive proteins, discovered by them. On the stand of the Faculty of Psychology it was possible to pass a test for stress-resistance and recognition of emotions and on the stand of the Faculty of Geology you could learn how to determine the types of oil and its location by smell and color. The multimedia capabilities of the global educational space were demonstrated in the exposition of the Center for the Development of Electronic Educational Resources "University without Borders" (junior research fellow of the Faculty of Physics Denis N. Yanyshev and students of this Faculty Alexander Safonov and Jacob Barkar) Visitor’s great interest was sparked by part of the exhibition dedicated to virtual reality, where they could fly on a hang-glider or on a modern manned aircraft, travel on a moon buggy, walk along the surface of Mars or dock to the ISS. The organizers of the exhibition are assisted by a group of Volunteers of the Student Union under the leadership of its chairman Vladimir V. Shishlov and co-chairman Ekaterina I. Zimakova. Young people of Moscow State University demonstrated their readiness to carry out serious organizational projects.
