Category Archives: Seminars

Skoltech Open Doors in Telegram

On February 9th we invite you to join our online Open doors in Telegram chat. Skoltech international students will talk about their admission and learning experience, scientific work, professors, laboratories, and the atmosphere of Skoltech. And then, together with representatives of the admission committee, we will answer your questions.

We will invite everyone who registers to a private telegram chat, where current international students will record live videos with honest answers to your questions. You can ask anything about programs, professors, areas of research, admission and selection process. The event will be held in English.

Registration is required.

You will receive the link to the private telegram chat 2 hours prior to the event. Also, what a great reason to check out the much-talked about app, huh? :)

 

An online lecture by Andrey Somov:  E-sports: from research to a startup

Skoltech at Technopark is a joint science education project of the Skolkovo Institute of Science and Technology (Skoltech) and the Skolkovo Technopark. Its lectures focus on the world-changing science, technology, innovation, and business topics presented by Skoltech faculty and researchers at the country’s best Technopark. 

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E-sports has evolved into a thriving industry and a large promising market. The first weeks of 2021 have witnessed an enormous number of e-sports transactions – a testament to an ever-growing interest in e-gaming as a competitive sport and an entertainment industry with extensive audiences.

E-sports which was perceived as an odd career choice just a few years ago is now widely known as a way to win multimillion-dollar prizes at tournaments and enhance computer games with a significant sports component. The e-sports market is catching up with and even outstripping classical sports, such as football, hockey, and basketball.

Artificial Intelligence (AI) is an important element in training e-athletes and enhancing the visual appeal of e-tournaments. AI-based solutions help deal with a wide range of tasks from team and individual gamers’ performance analysis to prediction of their actions and prevention of injuries. These ideas were taken as the basis for many e-sports startups.

Join the lecture to find out what e-sports is, how e-sports data is gathered, and what data can be used by AI. The speaker will explain how to create an e-sports startup, what the top market trends are, and what hidden challenges young startups may encounter.

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Andrey Somov is an Assistant Professor at Skoltech, Deputy Head of the NTI Center of Excellence) in Wireless Technology and the Internet of Things, and co-founder of Head Kraken e-sports startup. 

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Lecture: What is a mass spectrometer? How and why do scientists “weigh” molecules?

One of the greatest things ever invented by man, the mass spectrometer now ranks among other indispensable research instruments, such as microscopes, telescopes, X-ray devices, and accelerators.

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What is the mass of a molecule and how do you “weigh” a single molecule? Skoltech Professor Evgeny Nikolaev will answer these questions and walk you through the history and the current state of the art of mass spectrometry. The speaker will also talk about mass spectrometry applications in biology, medicine, and space research.

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Speaker: Skoltech Professor Evgeny Nikolaev, Doctor of Science, Corresponding Member of RAS, and Head of the Mass Spectrometry Laboratory at the Skoltech Center for Computational and Data-Intensive Science and Engineering (CDISE).

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The alchemy of startups. A few unicorn stories.

Skoltech at Tochka Kipeniya and its Leader-ID online platform present: A lecture by Skoltech Professor Dmitry Kulish. 

Startups that saw the light of day back in 1976 did not thrive until 15 years later, driven by the so called ‘economic bubble’ forming as a result of countless dotcom companies entering the market and older companies going online.

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Upwards of a hundred million new startups emerge every year, each striving to quickly become a unicorn worth a billion dollars. Is there a universal recipe for success?

Professor Kulish will walk you through the history of startups, using Skolkovo’s first unicorn, “Hepatera”, and its Skoltech’s cousins as an example and share secrets of success from the best companies. Join the lecture to find out more about how to combine science, technology and business and why innovation is especially profitable in Russia. 

Dmitry Kulish is a Professor of the Practice at the Skoltech Center for Entrepreneurship and Innovation (CEI), Director of Innovation Workshop and the Best Professor 2020 according to the student vote. In the past, he led innovation, product development and manufacturing teams at R-Pharm, Nanolek, and Fresenius Kabi. At Intel Capital, Dmitry made venture investments in IT, Internet, and digital medicine companies.  He is the founder of DrugDevelopment.Ru that engages in angel investments and management consulting in pharmaceuticals and healthcare.

Professor Kulish holds a PhD degree in Biochemistry. He was a Postdoctoral Fellow in Molecular Pharmacology at Harvard University and earned his MBA degree from the Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania. Dmitry is an author of 11 peer-reviewed publications and 2 patents.

Skoltech at Tochka Kipeniya is a joint science education project of the Skolkovo Institute of Science and Technology (Skoltech) and Tochka Kipeniya Coworking Space, aimed at cultivating well-rounded intelligence in young Russian leaders.

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