PRUE students and lyceum students visited MLIT On 12 December 2024, the Meshcheryakov Laboratory of Information Technologies held a seminar “Research Activities of JINR” for students who are members of the Student Scientific Society of Plekhanov Russian University of Economics (PRUE), students of the Special Faculty of Talented Youth “Foresight Higher School”, 10th-grade students from the Digital Technologies class of the PRUE Economic Lyceum accompanied by their teachers Olga Antonova and Lyudmila Gaskoyne, as well as by Deputy Dean of the Foresight Faculty Viktor Muravlev. The students and the lyceum students were welcomed by MLIT Scientific Leader Vladimir Korenkov, who is also the head of PRUE’s Scientific Laboratory “Cloud Technologies and Big Data Analytics”. He introduced the guests to the major directions of MLIT activities and modern information technologies for solving scientific and applied tasks. MLIT Researcher Maxim Zuev delivered a talk to the students about the tasks solved on the “Govorun” supercomputer, after which, together with his colleague, MLIT Researcher Igor Pelevanyuk, he gave a tour of the JINR Multifunctional Information and Computing Complex (MICC), where the students were able to see the supercomputer. Within their acquaintance with the JINR research infrastructure, the students also visited the Veksler and Baldin Laboratory of High Energy Physics (VBLHEP). VBLHEP Scientific Secretary Alexander Cheplakov and VBLHEP Researcher Dmitry Dryablov told the guests about JINR’s flagship project, NICA: what the accelerator complex under construction embraces, what makes it unique, and what experiments are planned to be performed on it. The students were able to see, among other things, the facility of the MPD experiment, in which PRUE is participating. At the interactive exhibition “JINR Basic Facilities”, Leading Methodologist of the JINR University Center Tatyana Strokovskaya delivered an informative lecture on physics, enlarging upon the history of JINR, the Institute’s basic facilities and their significance for modern science. Thanks to the interactive models presented at the exhibition, the students and the lyceum students managed to look inside all the Laboratories of the Institute and immerse in the atmosphere of JINR’s ongoing experiments. “We have an idea to perform parallel popular science work with PRUE, for example, so that we could regularly give public lectures on our research directions, and they, in turn, would deliver lectures for us on modern problems of economics and finance. Such a seminar can serve as one example of this work, and now we are already discussing a future lecture on regional economics with PRUE. Academician Yuri Tsolakovich Oganessian proposed this idea to the PRUE Rectorate after his public lecture on 7 November, and it aroused great interest,” MLIT Scientific Leader Vladimir Korenkov commented on the results of the seminar. During the visit, the students gained new impressions and knowledge that would broaden their horizons and become useful in further education. They said that despite the fact that the lectures were difficult to comprehend, they were interesting to listen to. The students were happy to visit the large-scale computing complex, look into its equipment and experience the power of the cooling system. The guests also got acquainted with the historical examples of computing equipment with great interest and learned about how rapidly technologies were developing in that direction. Head of the PRUE Student Scientific Society Victoria Shalko shared her impressions: “Thanks to a grant for the development of the Student Scientific Society from the Ministry of Education and Science of Russia, we managed to organize a trip for our members and the students of the PRUE Economic Lyceum to the Joint Institute for Nuclear Research. It was very interesting to listen to real scientists and understand what they are working on and what they want to achieve. The equipment I saw, the interactive demonstration of particle collisions, and the scale of the MPD experiment made a strong impression on me. We are grateful for such a warm welcome.”
