Fourth JINR IT School’s summing up: "Continuously learn and master new things"
Monday, October 6, 2025 - Friday, October 10, 2025
On 6–10 October 2025, the Meshcheryakov Laboratory of Information Technologies held the fourth JINR Autumn School of Information Technologies. During this time, participants were introduced to the Joint Institute for Nuclear Research and its scientific objectives through lectures and excursions. Nearly 60 students from universities of Belarus, Kazakhstan, Russia, and Uzbekistan came to Dubna to participate in the latest JINR IT School.
MLIT Scientific Leader and JINR IT School Founder Vladimir Korenkov highlighted that the School aimed to engage young specialists in solving scientific tasks that face JINR using state-of-the-art information technologies. This year, the number of universities whose students participate in the School has almost doubled. “The School is in its fourth year, and during this time, over 60 bachelor’s and master’s students have defended their theses at the School. 20 undergraduate students are currently working on projects related to JINR. We also consider the fact that, thanks to it, almost 30 people have become staff members of our Institute in various Laboratories to be one of our School’s achievements,” Vladimir Korenkov said. At the School, he delivered a talk on data processing methods in heterogeneous computing environments and MLIT accomplishments in developing the IT infrastructure. “Those who see their professional future in information technology must be prepared for the fact that they will need to continuously learn and master new things throughout their lives,” Vladimir Korenkov emphasized in his address to the School’s participants at the opening.
The students’ introduction to the Joint Institute started right at the School’s opening with a report by JINR Director, RAS Academician Grigory Trubnikov, in which he described the NICA collider, the “Govorun” supercomputer, and other exciting scientific projects of the international research center, as well as gave an overview of JINR’s activities in general. “I believe the week you will spend in Dubna will be useful and fruitful for you. I am sure you will enjoy the School, primarily thanks to communication with people and secondly through engagement with the MLIT ecosystem,” JINR Director Grigory Trubnikov pointed out.
On the first day, the students were able to listen to a lecture by RAS Academician Yuri Oganessian, a legend in global nuclear physics who made a decisive contribution to the synthesis of new superheavy elements. Among the invited lecturers at the JINR IT School was Assistant to the President of the NRC Kurchatov Institute Vasily Velikhov, who gave a talk on the development of a national computer telecommunications network for science and higher education in Russia. SPbSU Professor Nadezhda Shchegoleva spoke about the development of barcoding technologies. Head of the SUSU Department of System Programming Leonid Sokolinsky presented a report on linear programming in the era of exascale computers and artificial intelligence. At the plenary session, MLIT Director Sergei Shmatov discussed computing for high-energy physics and the application of information technology to scientific experiments. In his presentation, he demonstrated how Nobel Prize-worthy discoveries were made on the basis of experimental data analysis. Deputy Director of the MSU branch in Dubna Alexander Olshevsky presented information on the branch’s scientific and educational activities. JINR UC Director Dmitry Kamanin enlarged upon the Institute’s educational activities.
The IT School’s Scientific Secretary and MLIT Researcher Daria Priakhina noted the high level of students at this Autumn School. “The students are highly motivated; during breaks, you can see how enthusiastically they discuss what they have learned in the lectures. It is clear to us that the JINR IT School is proving to be an effective mechanism for attracting talented young people. This year, the MSU branch in Dubna opened a new master’s course in applied mathematics and computer science. Out of 13 people enrolled to the master’s course, 10 went through the IT School,” said Daria Priakhina, who worked in the Admission Committee at the MSU branch in Dubna this summer.
The School featured over 30 lectures by specialists from the NRC Kurchatov Institute, MEPhI, SPbSU, SUSU, and, surely, JINR. The topics were broad and covered distributed computing in JINR’s experimental and theoretical research, mathematical modeling, numerical methods, along with data processing and analysis methods and technologies. The students learned about the Laboratory’s engineering infrastructure, how automation and monitoring tasks are solved, and were also introduced to the JINR Digital EcoSystem. The School’s participants were given a detailed overview of the JINR Multifunctional Information and Computing Complex, not only in theory but also by visiting the machine room and seeing the JINR “Govorun” supercomputer. The students visited the NICA accelerator complex at the JINR Veksler and Baldin Laboratory of High Energy Physics and later attended an interactive exhibition dedicated to all JINR basic facilities.
The Autumn School’s program annually comprises practical classes. This year, the students mastered software tools for data processing, storage, and visualization, as well as explored a toolkit for studying systems based on Josephson junctions. Throughout the week, the students not only attended lectures, learned programming, and became familiar with the JINR scientific infrastructure during excursions, but also competed in hackathons. Following the intellectual battles, the winners of the Big Data Analytics Hackathon were a team consisting of Andrey Budnikov (VSU), Veronika Pavlyuchenkova (Dubna University), Nikita Kolotushkin (SUM), and Nikita Pletnev (TSU). SPbSU representatives Mansur Zainullin and Ilya Bublik won the Mathematical Modeling Hackathon.
Пройдя обучение на ИТ-школе ОИЯИ, заинтересованные студенты смогут выбрать задачу для исследовательского проекта по одному из тематических направлений Школы и выполнить его под руководством ведущих ученых ОИЯИ и руководителей от своих домашних вузов. Те, кто успешно выполнит свои проекты, будут приглашены представить полученные результаты на предстоящей Весенней школе ОИЯИ по ИТ-технологиям в начале 2026 года. Самые успешные работы будут отмечены наградами и рекомендациями быть представленными на серьезных научных конференциях. В дальнейшем выбранная тема может стать основой для выполнения квалификационной работы студента. After completing training at the JINR IT School, the students will be able to choose a task for a research project in one of the School’s directions and implement it under the supervision of leading JINR scientists and supervisors from their home universities. Those who successfully complete their projects will be invited to present their findings at the upcoming JINR Spring School of Information Technologies in early 2026. The most successful projects will be recognized with awards and recommendations for presentation at major scientific conferences. The chosen topic may subsequently serve as the basis for the student’s final thesis.
A general snapshot from the closure of the Autumn School of Information Technology - 10 October, 2025
The IT School students shared their impressions of the week spent in Dubna:
In 2025, the Autumn School was attended by students from 22 universities, including MEPhI, ITMO University, RUDN University, MPEI, State University of Management, Plekhanov Russian University of Economics, MISiS National University of Science and Technology, SPbSU, SUSU, Tula State University, Tomsk State University, Tomsk Polytechnic University, Voronezh State University, Platov South-Russian State Polytechnic University, Khetagurov North Ossetian State University, Kazan Federal University, Dubna State University, Korolev Samara University, along with Polessky State University, Sukhoi State Technical University of Gomel, Al-Farabi Kazakh National University, and the SPbSU branch in Tashkent.
Photos by Igor Lapenko and Elena Puzynina and Alexei Vorontsov
Information from the JINR website (October 07, 2025): Autumn IT School taking place at JINR.
October 13, 2025
RUDN scientific youth on an internship at MLIT
Friday, February 21, 2025
On 21 February 2025, students from Patrice Lumumba Peoples’ Friendship University of Russia (RUDN University) completed an internship at the Meshcheryakov Laboratory of Information Technologies. Throughout two weeks, 3-5-year students in the Fundamental Informatics and Applied Informatics majors took training courses on parallel programming on the HybriLIT platform and completed projects under the supervision of MLIT leading specialists, namely, Gennady Ososkov, Konstantin Lukyanov, Evgeny Perepelkin, and Yauheni Talochka.
In addition to studying and completing projects during the internship, the students got acquainted with MLIT’s scientific directions, about which MLIT Scientific Secretary Olga Derenovskaia told them, and visited the MLIT Multifunctional Information and Computing Complex and the NICA accelerator complex at the JINR Veksler and Baldin Laboratory of High Energy Physics. The internship completed at the Joint Institute for Nuclear Research will be counted as pre-graduation work for the RUDN students.
On 20 February, the students defended their projects on the following topics:
Danila Starikov shared his impressions of the internship: “I was attracted by the fact that JINR is a large international organization engaged in several megascience projects at once. During the internship, I worked on the particle identification task. We have a DSET model that simulates the work of the MPD experiment at NICA. It was not easy, I had not done anything in this area before, so I am glad that I succeeded and that we agreed to continue this work after the internship.”
“I came to study at RUDN from Ecuador. I found it very interesting here in the Laboratory. The fact that I did my internship at the Institute, where there is both a collider and a supercomputer, is just a delight. For the first time, I had the opportunity to work with a supercomputer in practice, it is very exciting. It was great to work under the supervision of Gennady Alekseevich Ososkov, he always helps to understand any question and explains everything. In the future, I plan to continue working in the field of data sciences,” Leon Atupanya Jose Fernando said.
“This is not my first time at the Laboratory of Information Technologies. I already did an internship here last summer. My supervisor Konstantin Lukyanov helped me a lot, he always found time when I approached him with questions. Until I choose my future specialization, I am interested in trying various directions. I will definitely come back here again soon,” Yana Lantsova added.
February 21, 2025
Spring IT School’s summing up: “JINR is a place where your ideas can be brought to life”
On 10 April 2025, the JINR Spring School of Information Technologies concluded at the Meshcheryakov Laboratory of Information Technologies. Throughout two days, students from universities of the Russian Federation and the Republic of Belarus presented the results of their work performed on the topics of JINR research under the supervision of MLIT specialists.
Traditionally, the Spring IT School holds a kind of summing up of the results of the preceding autumn stage. The School’s founder, MLIT Scientific Leader Vladimir Korenkov, reported that 58 students from 11 Russian universities and over 30 lecturers from the JINR Laboratories and other scientific and educational organizations participated in the Autumn IT School, which took place in October 2024. Based on its results, scientific groups, including students, their supervisors from universities and the Institute’s specialists, were formed for joint work on JINR projects. As a result, 33 young specialists from nine universities of Russia and Belarus, who chose JINR activities as the topic of their bachelor’s and master’s theses, presented their investigations at the Spring School.
This time, the scientific directions were divided into six topics:
As Vladimir Korenkov said, a number of interesting reports were delivered at the current School. First of all, he highlighted work on elaborating the architecture of a distributed data storage of various levels and its virtualization. The range of works related to machine learning methods in application to various areas, especially in the field of tracking for NICA, namely, SPD, MPD experiment tasks, event analysis and selection, was noted. Several prominent reports were devoted to mathematical problems, for example, the use of the neural network method to solve complex multidimensional integrals. “Holding the School not only gives the students an opportunity to gain new knowledge, but also provides new experience to our project supervisors, helps them improve in teaching and managing student work,” Vladimir Korenkov underlined. “It is also highly important that during this time we get to know the students well and understand their potential and abilities. It is not enough for us to educate good programmers, we are looking for young scientists. People who are proactive, creative, independent. Those who are capable of not just completing tasks, but searching, pushing through, setting tasks for themselves and looking for ways to solve them. We strive to ensure that the IT School tempers the guys in this regard.”
MLIT Director Sergei Shmatov pointed out that the vast majority of young employees who came to work at MLIT after their graduation theses went through the JINR School of Information Technologies. At the same time, he highlighted that the JINR IT School was a tool for forming a personnel reserve not only for MLIT, but for the entire Institute. “Information technologies are needed in any scientific field and especially for the implementation of our megascience projects, such as NICA. For this reason, staff members from various JINR Laboratories, who, in one way or another, employ information technologies in their work, act as lecturers for the autumn part of the School. Nevertheless, we expect to attract young people to MLIT on a long-term basis. Therefore, our specialists here are not just lecturers, they are people who supervise scientific projects, those who are able to lead the youth,” MLIT Director said.
Certificates for the participants and diplomas for the winners of the report competition at the closing of the Spring IT School were presented by JINR Director Grigory Trubnikov and JINR Vice-Director Latchesar Kostov. JINR Scientific Leader Victor Matveev highly appreciated the large volume of work done by the students and their scientific supervisors.
“MLIT is able to create a unique working atmosphere in which scientists, specialists, students are all interested in communicating with each other and implementing projects, and even defending the work is a source of enthusiasm and courage,” Grigory Trubnikov noted, congratulating the participants on completing the School. “The School is beneficial both to our Institute and to the students’ home scientific organizations. Thanks to it, there appear qualified specialists with serious work, the results of which, programs, developments, algorithms, if not today, then tomorrow, and some have already been applied in real scientific projects.”
“Communication with young people is highly important for mentors, since it is a source of creative energy and new ideas required for scientific investigations,” Latchesar Kostov commented on the School.
All participants of the JINR Spring School of Information Technologies received interesting questions, useful recommendations and comments on their reports from the members of the jury, which comprised experts from MLIT and leading Russian scientific organizations.
Following the Spring School, the winners of the best report competition were announced: Yulia Dranevich, Artem Belii, Grigory Shipunov (Dubna State University), Lev Simbiryatin, Polina Korshunova (National Research Nuclear University MEPhI), Evgeny Ibatullin (Saint Petersburg State University), Savely Omelyanchuk (Dubna branch of Moscow State University). More details about the works can be found on the School website. These students got the opportunity to present their works this summer at the international conference “Distributed Computing and Grid Technologies in Science and Education” (GRID’2025).
IT School’s Scientific Secretary, MLIT Researcher Daria Priakhina pointed out that the JINR School of Information Technologies was actively developing: “The School’s geography is expanding. We are glad that Belarus has joined this year, and we plan to continue working in the direction of other countries. The subject coverage is growing, the students’ reports have become more profound and elaborate. And it is highly important for us that all the Laboratories of the Institute are involved in setting tasks for the students of the JINR IT School. Since, at present, tasks related to information technologies exist in absolutely any scientific field.”
Several winners of the report competition shared their impressions of participating in the IT School.
“I learned about this IT School from my supervisor, who introduced JINR as a place where I can bring my ideas to life. My work is related to the development of a virtualized distributed data storage. My supervisor was Alexander Nikolaevich Moibenko, a specialist in this field. I wanted to elaborate my idea. When the opportunity arose to present my work at the conference, I realized that this was a chance to convey my idea to people and receive criticism from top-notch specialists. Now, after the presentation, I understand that this is also a great opportunity to grow personally. This is what I consider the most significant in research work. In the future, I am interested in continuing my work in the master’s program and am actively considering areas at my university, as well as at the MSU branch in Dubna, which cooperates with MLIT,” Evgeny Ibatullin, a fourth-year student at SPbSU, said..
“I got into the School thanks to my scientific supervisor Konstantin Alekseevich Chizhov. He offered my partner and me to participate, which I was incredibly happy about, because I really wanted to visit JINR. The Institute provides a huge range of possible tasks and directions. At the moment, I am developing a web application for neutron spectra reconstruction and at the same time completing a bachelor’s degree at Dubna State University. This is a great opportunity to learn something new and get involved in great achievements in science,” Artem Belii shared. «В школу я попал благодаря моему научному руководителю Чижову Константину Алексеевичу. Он предложил нам с напарницей поучаствовать, чему я был невероятно рад, потому что очень хотел побывать в ОИЯИ. Институт даёт огромный спектр возможных задач и направлений. На данный момент я занимаюсь разработкой веб-приложения для восстановления спектров нейтронов и параллельно заканчиваю бакалавриат в Государственном университете «Дубна». Это великолепная возможность научиться новому и прикоснуться к великим свершениям в науке», - поделился Артем Белый.
“A year and a half ago, as part of our training practice, JINR specialists offered us several topics related to the development of systems for the SPD experiment at the NICA collider. One of them seemed interesting and important to me, since I had not previously dealt with development-related things, but I wanted to develop in this direction. Now I am creating a data management system for SPD Online Filter under the supervision of Danila Anatolievich Oleynik and have managed to learn a lot during this time. Participating in the School was useful not only in terms of preparing for the diploma defense. It was interesting to listen to the reports of the other participants and find out what colleagues are doing,” Polina Korshunova, a second-year master’s student at MEPhI, said.
The Spring School featured reports by the students from the Peoples’ Friendship University of Russia named after Patrice Lumumba (RUDN University), Dubna State University, Saint Petersburg State University (SPbSU), Saint Petersburg State Marine Technical University (SMTU), Far Eastern Federal University (FEFU), National Research University Higher School of Economics (HSE University), National Research Nuclear University MEPhI, MSU branch in Dubna and Sukhoi State Technical University of Gomel (GSTU).
Photos by Alexey Vorontsov and Elena Puzynina
Information from JINR website (April 17, 2025)
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