Skoltech is an international graduate research-focused university that was founded by the group of world-renowned scientists in 2011. Skoltech's curriculum focuses on technology and innovation, offering Master's programs in 11 technological disciplines. Students receive rigorous theoretical and practical training, design their own research projects, participate in internships and gain entrepreneurial skills in English. The faculty is comprised of current researchers with international accreditation and achievements.
Course Catalog for 2022-2023
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3D CAD Modeling and Design
3D modeling is an integral part of a modern design. This course will help students to learn basics of CAD modeling, approaches of design and engineering of parts and assemblies needed to work in various fields of engineering and Computer-Generated Imagery (CGI). This is applied course relies in design development through CAD software, which allows engineers and designers to quickly implement technical ideas, conduct experiments, perform calculations, create electronic product models and detailed drawings.
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Artem Aleksanyan | 3 | MA030526 | ||
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Academic Communication: Preparatory English for PhD Exam (Term 1-2)
As a PhD student, you should already know that effective professional communication is the key to academic success. Are you an ambitious person who wants to maximize their academic potential? Are you eager to boost your ability to write research papers, present in front of multidisciplinary audiences, participate in scholarly discussions and engage in other forms of academic communication — and do it all in good academic English?
Join this course and learn how to produce clear, correct, concise, and coherent texts related to your research, and how to present your data in front of a multidisciplinary professional community. You will be guided through all stages of paper writing, editing, peer-reviewing, and presenting. Academic communication is not limited to formal writing and professional presentation. As in a real conference environment, you will take part in networking activities, interacting with your peers from different fields, exchanging ideas and pitching your research achievements. The course is interactive, communicative and intensive, with various speaking, listening, reading and writing activities to be performed in class and at home, individually and in teams. By the end of the course, successful participants will |
Elizaveta Tikhomirova |
31.5 per term
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Advanced Quantum Mechanics
Lecture Course “Advanced Quantum Mechanics” comprises a number of topics which are not included in standard courses on Quantum Mechanics. Meanwhile, these topics acquire increasing importance during last 2-3 decades due to developing applications in various branches of quantum condensed-matter physics theory. The first set of topics refers to examples of adiabatic or weakly non-adiabatic behavior of quantum system: Berry phases and Landau-Zener tunneling. Secondly, we discuss Feynman path integral representation of quantum mechanics. The third part of the course is devoted to the density matrix formalism for description of open systems.
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Konstantin Tikhonov | 3 | DA030207 | CANCELLED | |
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Advanced Reservoir Modeling and Engineering
This course is is covered base and advanced theory and practice of reservoir engineering aimed to merge development, technological and modeling parts that leads to digital oilfield. In addition, main part of this course is practical hydrodynamics modeling of reservoir development:
1) Modern physics of oil and gas displacement/hydrodynamics, stages of reservoir development, well drilling and problems during reservoir development. 2) Russian and international ways of oil and gas reserves calculation, required technical documentation of reservoir development plan. 3) Advanced of hydrodynamic modeling, including theory of hydrodynamic, practical course of modern hydrodynamic simulators (CMG Stars/GEM/IMEX – for EOR modeling, including thermal and chemical methods, RFD tNavigator – as modern Russian simulator, which allow to fast solving of practical tasks) 4) Expertise of hydrodynamic models (input information, quality of model building, quality of matching and forecast results). 5) Complications during lift of oil and gas through production wells and pipeline systems and methods of prevention. 6) Digital Rock: Introduction, obtaining initial data on the structure (Technologies). 7) Digital Rock: Building 3D digital models. 8) Digital core: Modeling. 9) Digital Rock: Application of digital rock. |
Alexander Cheremisin | 6 | MA060540 | ||
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Advanced Solvers for Numerical PDEs
Partial differential equations (PDEs) describe many phenomena around us: from tsunami propagation to neural currents in the human head. Given today’s accuracy demands in industrial and academic applications, numerical solution of the PDEs typically involves millions and even billions of unknowns. This course presents and analyses efficient algorithms for their fast and economical solution.
We discuss established approaches based on iterative solvers (Krylov subspace solvers) and robust economical preconditioners (FFT-related, geometric and algebraic multigrid, and others) for the arising large discrete problems. We also look at the possibilities of machine learning and dimensionality reduction methods for numerical solution of the PDEs. We will concentrate on diffusive, time-harmonic electromagnetic and acoustic systems and models of fluid dynamics. Special emphasis will be on the design of the solvers for anisotropic and/or highly-heterogeneous problems, problems on nonuniform and unstructured computational grids. Numerical modeling with both standard (finite-difference) and advanced discretization methods will be considered (finite volume, finite element, mixed finite element, and discontinuous Galerkin). This course is intended to attract student of all majors interested |
Nikolay Yavich | 3 | MA030470 | ||
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Basic Molecular Biology Techniques
The classes take place in the operating molecular biology laboratory and include practical experimental work along with lectures covering the theory of molecular biology methods used through the course. The purpose of this course is to provide students with the opportunity to obtain and develop the basic set of skills required for the work in a molbiol lab. We see it as important to give a comprehension about how molbiol methods work, what are their mechanism, scope and features of application. During the course, students will perform molecular cloning, point mutagenesis and gene knockout in E. coli cells. The course is adapted for students with varying levels of lab experience. A mandatory requirement for joining the classes is a successful passing the lecture course in molecular biology.
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Alexey Kulikovsky | 6 | MA060022a | ||
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Bayesian Methods of Machine Learning (Term 1B-2)
The course addresses Bayesian approach for solving various machine learning and data analysis problems. It offers the framework for solving inverse problems, model selection and continual learning. The most attention is payed to the fusion between the deep learning techniques and the elements of bayesian approach. This fusion is possible due to the development of a range of approximate inference techniques in the last 20 years.
Modern machine learning papers frequently use machinery of the approximate inference techniques. The main learning outcome of the course is the ability to read and reproduce related papers, and to apply corresponding methods of approximate inference for the development of Bayesian machine learning approaches. In order to reach this goal, the course contains theoretical and practical assignments and the final project. The purpose of the theoretical tasks is two-fold. Firstly, we would like to develop skills of equation derivation, that is used routinely in papers and is usually suppressed. Secondly, some theoretical tasks provide the intuition about properties of the methods through toy models. The purpose of the practical tasks is straightforward: to translate discussed methods to the code and observe properties of the methods through examples. These assignments leads to the course projects: reproducing and discussing a relevant paper from a recent conference, and/or development of some students' research ideas using methods of Bayesian machine learning. |
Evgeny Burnaev |
63 per term
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MA060129 | ||
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Classical Integrable Systems (Term 5-6)
A self-contained introduction to the theory of soliton equations with an emphasis on their algebraic-geometrical integration theory. Topics include:
1. General features of the soliton systems: Lax, zero-curvature representation |
Igor Krichever |
63 per term
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DA060179 | CANCELLED | |
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Cohomology of Groups and Classifying Spaces (Term 1B-2)
The course will include an introduction to theory of cohomology of groups from geometric viewpoint. The concept of a classifying space of a group will be central in this course. We will start with general algebraic definitions and theorems concerning homology and cohomology of (discrete) groups. Then we proceed with various constructions of classifying spaces of groups and methods for computing their cohomology. An important part of the course will be devoted to examples such as certain finite groups, braid groups, Coxeter groups, mapping class groups, etc.
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Alexander Gaifullin |
63 per term
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Communication Technologies for IoT
The course "Communication Technologies for IoT" prepares students for the applying modern telecommunication technologies, both wired and wireless, in the Internet of Things area. The course combines lectures and labs related to hardware, transmission techniques, the medium-access control layer, networking, applications and standards for the IoT communication technologies. All technologies are considered with use-case based approach that shows their practical application in real industrial and research scenarios.
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Dmitry Lakontsev | 3 | MA030234 | ||
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Complex Networks
The aim of the course is to overview network science, and to explain basic ideas and tools used in analyzing large networks. Many modern networks are rapidly changing and growing, and the course emphasizes techniques suited to such classes of networks. We will start with networks growing via the addition of edges and show that at any instance they can be interpreted statically as random graphs. Other classes of growing networks are genuinely dynamicал. We will analyze the re-direction algorithm that is very efficient in generating rather realistic networks. The power of the choice algorithm, as well as the redirection algorithm, will be also covered.
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Pavel Krapivsky | 3 | MA030469 | CANCELLED | |
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Computational Fluid Dynamics
Fluid flows are ubiquitous in engineering. Fluid mechanics provides the theoretical foundation to a broad spectrum of engineering applications that range from tiny laboratory-on-a-chip devices to the largest thermal and hydroelectric power plants. The rich dynamics of fluid motion leads to numerous effects that engineers may wish to exploit or suppress. Mathematical description of fluid flows most commonly involves non-linear partial differential equations that make analytical solution impossible or impractical. Therefore, approximate solution using numerical methods has been widely implemented since the advent of digital computers. Nowadays, the Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD) is a well-established discipline. CFD is widely used in science and engineering alike. It accelerates optimal design and offers important insights in the flow dynamics.
The course will introduce the students to important theoretical and practical aspects of the CFD. It will explain how to describe the fluid flow by partial differential equations with suitable initial and boundary conditions, and how to transform those equations into computer algorithms. A brief overview of general-purpose numerical methods will be provided, with comments on their relevance to the CFD. Then, specialized methods for different types of flows will be introduced. This will be followed by a brief discussion of the advanced topics of fluid-structure interaction, turbulence modelling and high-performance computing. Computer practice classes will allow the students to acquire basic skills of programming simple methods from scratch, get acquainted with existing CFD software packages, develop intuition for distinguishing physical effects from numerical artifacts, and learn to use the CFD wisely. |
Dmitry Kolomenskiy | 6 | MA060450 | CANCELLED | |
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Computational Imaging
In the computational era of everything, imaging has not become an exception. Computational algorithms allow both to extract valuable information from a scene and to improve the very sensor that forms the image. Today, computational and image processing enhancements became integrable parts of any digital imager, be it a miniature smartphone camera or a complex space telescope.
This crash course is designed as a prerequisite for those students who would like to venture into the field of Computer Vision. We will cover foundational mathematical equations that are involved in the image formation and in the geometric projection principles. The concept of Point Spread Function that distorts the object will be explained on particular examples and will be experimented with for the tasks of image reconstruction and denoising. Image processing will be covered with an emphasis on the Python libraries to be used in the rest of the imaging-related courses on the DS/IST tracks (openCV and others). A basic DSLR photo camera will be considered as a model for understanding Fourier Imaging and Filtering methods in a laboratory exercise. Hands-on tutorials on how to select a camera and a lens for your machine vision application will be provided. The theory of color and stereo light-field cameras will be covered using the models of commonplace Bayern RGB sensors; as well as state-of-art spectral and multi-lens imagers. The course will consist of three theoretical lectures riffled by three graded in-class laboratory coding sessions on the subjects covered in the theoretical lectures. 100% attendance is mandatory. There will be a single in-class exam during the evaluation week and no homework. |
Dmitry Dylov | 3 | MA030121 | ||
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Critical Points of Functions (Term 1B-2)
The theory of critical points of functions is of the main subjects of Singularity theory studying local geometry of singularities of differentiable maps as well as its relationship with global topological invariants of manifolds.
In the course we will discuss classification of critical points, its relationship with the ADE-series of simple Lie algebras and the corresponding reflection groups, their deformations and adjacencies. The study of a local topological structure of singularities will include description of Milnor fiber and vanishing cycles. We will discuss also application of the theory critical points to the study of caustics and wave fronts in geometric optics and classical mechanics, as well as enumeration of contact singularities in complex projective geometry. |
Maxim Kazarian |
63 per term
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Options | MA060424 | |
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Design Factory - Part I
This course seeks to emulate real world product development process. It is a project based hands-on course and it is aiming to allow students to develop a concrete product for the market; they will learn and experience a detailed product development cycle including
its modelling, business case, industrial design, prototyping and testing in both the virtual and physical realities. The course comprises a series of lectures on product development methodologies and on the integration of the various dimensions to successfully achieve a product or system demonstrator with a credible market value. Products are assumed to consist of electrical, mechanical and data analysis components. Teams of 4 or 5 students with various backgrounds will be expected to work with industrial clients or bring their own product proposals to develop a valuable product or system starting from a Technology Readiness Level (TRL) of 2 or 3, and aiming to reach a TRL level of 4 or 5. The teams will present their product to external experts and stakeholders; the best products will be promoted by Skoltech to seek external funding. |
Clement Fortin | 6 | MA060523 | ||
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Energy Conversion Systems Optimal Management and Integration
This course will provide a graduate level overview of modern energy conversion systems ranging from state of the art commercial technologies, real world ones, generating electric/mechanic, heating and cooling power, as well as innovative solutions yet to be deployed massively, e.g. Flow Batteries, Power-to-Gas, Carbon Capture, Storage and Utilization (CCSU). During the course, the energy conversion units will be always studied from an integrated point of view considering their interaction with the surrounding energy infrastructures, electric, thermal/cooling and gas networks requirements, as well as the loads to be fulfilled. The whole course will look at the units from their optimal management point of view within such integrated framework, identifying the more suitable way to characterize their performance (e.g., constant, linear, non-linear) consistently with the objectives, economic and/or environmental one. Such task is continuously increasing in complexity due to the uncontrollable Renewable Energy Sources increasing deployment, therefore units are facing technological developments, increasing their flexibility, and the energy infrastructures are increasing their level of mutual integration. Overall learning how to assess the adopted solutions is always more important, thus the core of the course is indeed represented by the identification of an integration problem, which will be assessed via the development of an optimization model to utilize assessing the validity of the investigated solution, both in economic terms as well as in environmental (primary energy consumption/CO2 emissions) on a research based teaching fashion.
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Aldo Bischi | 3 | MA030395 | CANCELLED | |
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English. Candidate Examination
This is a blended meta-course for the English Qualification Exam needed for the Russian PhD Degree. The Exam is designed as a multidisciplinary conference where the participants present results of their PhD research structured according to the general principles of conference materials submission, peer review, resubmission, presentation, and discussion.
The goal of the Exam is Academic Communication, so the participants should demonstrate the ability to present their research results in front of a multidisciplinary audience and deliver the key ideas in good Academic English in terms of vocabulary, grammar and style. Pre-exam/ pre-conference activities, such as material submissions and peer reviews, take place fully online. They include: Project proposal V1+ 2 Peer Reviews; a 2-minute video annotation V1 + peer review; and a stack of presentation slides V1+ peer review. Version 2 of the Proposal, video annotation and the slides should be improved using the comments of the Instructor and the peers. Depending on the applicable regulations related to COVID-19, on the Examination day students make their presentations and participate in the discussion in person or via an online platform in front of the Examination Committee and a group of peers. Failure to submit an assignment by the due date may result in the loss of the grade. The participants will practice a variety of academic skills: – Planning and designing a well-structured and balanced presentation The grade is counted towards the PhD Qualification. |
Elizaveta Tikhomirova | 3 | DG030003 | ||
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Essential Engineering Toolbox
The course is a seriеs of tutorials on essential tools that are extensively used throughout coursework and research in the Advanced Manufacturing Technologies program and generally in engineering practice. The tutorials involve hands-on exercises on a computer.
The course introduces Latex, Python, Mathematica, and Matlab that are routinely used during research work. Each topic will consist of an introductory lecture followed by practical exercises. Students will be required to solve particular problems and write reports in Latex using the tools learned in the tutorials. |
Petr Zhilyaev | 3 | MA030351 | ||
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Experimental Data Processing
The course introduces students to practically useful approaches of data processing for control and forecasting. The focus will be on identifying the hidden and implicit features and regularities of dynamical processes using experimental data. The course exposes data processing methods from multiple vantage points: standard data processing methods and their hidden capacity to solve difficult problems; statistical methods based on state-space models; methods of extracting the regularities of a process on the basis of identifying key parameters. The course addresses the problems in navigation, solar physics, geomagnetism, space weather and biomedical research and will be useful for a broad range of interdisciplinary applications.
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Tatiana Podladchikova | 6 | MA060238 | ||
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Foundations of Software Engineering
This course is intended to serve as an introduction into basics of everyday industrial software engineering. Oftentimes students seek to obtain proficiency in complicated subjects such as machine learning, algorithms, or computer vision, but lack basic literacy in software engineering and therefore have little practical skills required to carry out research or industrial projects. The course focuses on Unix fundamentals (shell and command line, tools such as vim and awk, scripting, filesystem, streams and pipes, parameter parsing, remote machine and ssh, etc.) and software engineering in teams (code review and version control, building and auto-making programs, reproducibility and containers, testing and test-driven development, improving code style, software deployment and APIs, etc.).
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Aleksandr Mikhalev | 3 | MA030406 | ||
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Geometric Representation Theory (Term 1B-2)
Geometric representation theory applies algebraic geometry to the problems of
representation theory. Some of the most famous problems of representation theory were solved on this way during the last 40 years. The list includes the Langlands reciprocity for the general linear groups over the functional fields, the Langlands-Shelstad fundamental Lemma, the proof of the Kazhdan-Lusztig conjectures; the computation of the characters of the finite groups of Lie type. We will study representations of the affine Hecke algebras using the geometry of affine Grassmannians (Satake isomorphism) and Steinberg varieties of triples (Deligne-Langlands conjecture). This is a course for master students knowing the basics of algebraic geometry, sheaf theory, homology and K-theory. |
Mikhail Finkelberg |
63 per term
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DA060271 | ||
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Heterogeneous Volume Modeling and Digital Fabrication
The course covers methods and techniques of digital modeling of volumetric point sets with attributes presenting pointwise properties such as material fractions, color, and other volumetric object properties. Modelled objects are characterized by complex volumetric geometry, multi-scale microstructures and volumetric multi-material density distribution. Stress will be made on using continuous and discrete scalar fields for modelling both geometry and attributes. Associated methods of multi-material digital fabrication will be outlined.
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Alexander Pasko | 3 | MA030299 | CANCELLED | |
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Innovation Workshop
Innovation Workshop (IW) is a one-month full-time MS-level course that unites the entire Skoltech incoming MS class with Skoltech faculty and invited mentors to create the foundational experience in Entrepreneurship and Innovation (E&I) for all. IW is designed to instill a positive “can-do” attitude in the Skoltech culture, as well as to cultivate the art of prototyping quickly, under pressure, with help from others, and based on whatever resources are at hand here and now. The core IW workflow is the iterative progression through the tangible prototypes of the technological solution of the practical problem, that are produced according to the actual live end user feedback.
. Experiential inquiry-based learning leads IW students through the entire technology innovation cycle along the three pillars of innovation: (i) Impact (Problem + Feedback), (ii) Novelty of the solution (Science + Prototype), and (iii) Vision for the subsequent iterations (Next Steps + Picture of Success). This work is performed in cross-disciplinary teams operating under time pressure thus creating real life experience of complex innovation project. . IW is not a business class competition and not a hard skill class. It is less about knowledge and more about developing skills and attitudes necessary to lead successful life in innovation. It is also an opportunity for students to learn more about Skoltech’s basic values and meet the entire class and most of the faculty in an intensive relationship-building setting. . This file is the abbreviated version of the IW syllabus that carries only the most technical summary information. Please find the full IW Syllabus in the Files section of your IW Canvas page, as well as the attachement to this submission (the clickable "Upload" URL in the bottom of this document). Students of the IW are strongly recommended to read the full Syllabus as it carries plenty of information necessary to succeed in the IW and in innovation in general. . |
Dmitry Kulish | 6 | E&I | MC060001 | |
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Intellectual Property in Industry. Patents, Patent Search and Drafting
This course focuses on the basics of patent search. This process is an integral part of a significant number of R&D projects. Patent search is also the most important type of engineering activity that accompanies any process of new inventions development and application.
In this course, students will be generally acquainted with the concepts and basics of intellectual property protecting, including industrial property. Also as part of this course, students will master necessary knowledge and skills in the field of patent search. The course will be useful to a wide range of specialists who develop new technical solutions and introduce them into production. |
Vadim Sulimov | 3 | MA030528 | ||
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Introduction to Cluster Algebras and Varieties (Term 1B-2)
Cluster algebras and cluster varieties appeared almost simultaneously in the early 2000s; the algebras were introduced in the works of Fomin and Zelevinsky, and varieties in the works of Fock and Goncharov. These notions rather quickly found numerous applications and became popular, for the last 15 years this popularity has not decreased in any way.
The course will be devoted to an introduction to these concepts. We will mainly concentrate on connections with Lie groups, Poisson structures, and integrable systems. |
Mikhail Bershtein |
63 per term
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MA060509 | ||
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Introduction to Data Science
The course gives an introduction to the main topics of modern data analysis such as classification, regression, clustering, dimensionality reduction, reinforcement and sequence learning, scalable algorithms. Each topic is accompanied by a survey of key machine learning algorithms solving the problem and is illustrated with a set of real-world examples. The primary objective of the course is giving a broad overview of major machine learning techniques. Particular attention is paid to the modern data analysis libraries which allow solving efficiently the problems mentioned above.
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Maxim Panov | 3 | MA030111 | ||
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Introduction to Life Sciences Program
This is an introductory course aiming to give the students coming into the Life Sciences Program a birds-eye view of the research directions in the field of biomedicine at Skoltech. Soon after coming to Skoltech, the incoming students will be expected to join a lab and pick a research project. The objective of this course is to make this decision more informed.
The course will be presented by Skoltech faculty involved in life sciences research, mainly those of the three centers, CLS, CNBR and DAL. These faculties are prospective research advisors for Skoltech LS students. The lectures will cover the context for the research, present the labs, and showcase the research projects performed in the labs. The final schedule (what lecture reads which professor, and when) is read by the end of October. |
Georgii Bazykin | 3 | MA030371 | ||
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Introduction to Materials Technologies
The course provides an introduction to the field of Materials Technologies and focuses on main research and educational thrusts of the Center for Materials Technologies (https://sci.skoltech.ru/materials): Advanced Manufacturing Technologies, Science of Advanced Manufacturing, and Computational Engineering.
The first thrust is focused on advanced technologies such as Advanced Manufacturing of Composite Materials, Additive Technologies, Thermal Spray Coatings. The second thrust consists of fundamental disciplines required to understand the mechanics and physics of advance manufacturing processes, to develop mathematical and computational models of these processes, to predict and improve the properties of the materials. Professors and research scientists from the Center for Materials Technologies will introduce students to the Center laboratories, to ongoing research activities, and propose possible projects for Master's thesis research. This course will help students to select a specialization and future research advisors. |
Alexander Safonov | 3 | MA030515 | ||
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Introduction to Petroleum Engineering
The course is an introduction to Petroleum Engineering and gives an overview of Petroleum Engineering and its various components and their internal connection.
The course will address the story of oil from its origin to the end user. The objective is to provide an overview of the fundamental operations in exploration, drilling, production, processing, transportation, and refining of oil and gas. As additional topics it is planned to consider Permafrost Engineering and Flow Assurance, which are actual for Russian Oil&Gas Industry. Within the framework of the course it is planned to invite speakers from industry. |
Alexey Cheremisin | 3 | MA030064 | ||
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Introduction to Wireless Communications
The course gives an introduction to the most important aspects of modern wireless communication systems. The course covers basic wireless communications processes like signal transmission, propagation, detection, and demodulation. Students will get familiar with some information-theoretic concepts like channel capacity and error-correcting codes. This introduction also highlights multiple antenna techniques and modern cellular system architectures, including the Internet-of-Things concepts. The practical part of the course includes a series of labs (MATLAB) that allow discovering basic principles as well as advanced methods for wireless communication systems analysis.
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Kirill Andreev | 3 | MA030409 | ||
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Leadership for Innovators
Successful innovators are distinguished not only by their scientific excellence as well as end user vision, but also by superior leadership skills. Scientists dream about being honored and awarded by fans on the merits of their science alone, but unfortunately it never works this way. Innovation is impossible without leading, cooperating, negotiating, and keeping resilience from the constant stress. This course presents the comprehensive skillset of leadership that includes theory and practice of: – leadership & teamwork – self-awareness and goal setting – stress management and self-presentation – empathy and 360 feedback – influence & negotiations The recurring topic of the class is that all these beneficial skills are fuzzy and overrated unless they are taken together in the globally accepted framework of "Emotional Intelligence" (EQ). The class is built as highly interactive action that starts with Q&A on a particular component of the EQ toolkit and then culminates in the intensive group and personal exercises. Considering the circumstances, we'll try to make this course as interactive as possible with your active participation in online class – sessions. Unlike your favorite hard skill classes, this course is lighter on homework, but harder on class participation. However, you will be given quite a number of home assignments, relating to self-awareness, emotional intelligence, and other leadership competences development.
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Maxim Kiselev | 3 | E&I | MC030011 | |
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Master Your Thesis in English 1 (Multidisciplinary) (Term 5B-6)
The Course offers concise and practical guidelines for writing and defending a Master Thesis at Skoltech. The course focuses on the main parts of the Thesis in terms of structure, vocabulary and grammar, and their transformations for a presentation with slides. Students will develop a conscious approach to own writing and presentations through thorough analyses of the best authentic examples combined with intensive writing and editing practice. The ‘process-for-product’ approach teaches the students to write – use (peer) reviewer’s advice – revise/edit – repeat and develop linguistic awareness needed to avoid the typical pitfalls in writing and live presentation.
The Course is offered in two modules which gradually build on the necessary writing and presentation skills. |
Elizaveta Tikhomirova |
31.5 per term
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Extra | MF030003 | |
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Materials Chemistry
The goal of this course is to provide a survey of materials chemistry with an emphasis on chemical, electrical, optical and magnetic properties. Some materials synthesis methods will also be covered. Further emphasis will be placed application of materials chemistry to energy storage and conversion processes (batteries, fuel- and solar-cells)
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Stanislav Fedotov | 3 | MA030530 | ||
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Mathematics for Engineers
The aim of this course is to refresh the basic topics that you are expected to get at bachelor level. If you do not feel confident with basic matrix manipulations, integration and differentiation, solving differential equations, operating with complex variables e t.c. – you should definitely take this course; fluency in these is a must for an educated engineer.
How to do it in 4 weeks? Sounds like impossible. Indeed, you will not recap each and every topic of your bachelor studies of math that took few years. But you'll have a chance to master some of the topics through specific engineering application. During three weeks you'll be given three sequential tasks associated with one application. Week 4 is devoted to summarizing the experience obtained and making final presentation. |
Elena Gryazina | 3 | MA030282 | ||
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Micromechanics
Micromechanics studies heterogeneous materials. They may be man-made (concrete, metals, composites, coatings) or naturally occurring (porous and cracked rocks, bone). Matrix composites – continuous matrices containing various inhomogeneities (pores, cracks, fibers, foreign particles) – constitute an important example. The goal of micromechanics is to relate the physical behavior of such materials – in particular, their overall (effective) properties – to the microstructure (geometric arrangement of the constituents and their properties). The course focuses on two groups of effective properties: the elastic and the conductive ones. The course covers the following topics:
Tensorial algebra Background results on elasticity and thermal/electric conductivity. Quantitative characterization of microstructure. Isolated inhomogeneity problem (Eshelby problem) in the context of elasticity and thermal or electrical conductivity. Property contribution tensors for effective elastic, thermal, and electric properties. Effective properties of heterogeneous materials: Variational bounds Non-interaction approximation Differential scheme Effective field approaches Cross-property connections. The lectures will be supplemented by weekly homework assignments and quizzes. Students will be evaluated on the basis of the final written exam. |
Sergey Abaimov | 3 | MA030247 | ||
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Modern Engineering Graphics and Principles of Design
This course discusses important principles of modern design and making engineering drawings. It studies integrated rules and guidelines for development, processing, and handling a design documentation, which is developed and applied at all stages of a product lifecycle (designing, running, maintenance, etc.). After the course, students will be able to apply the unified rules for development, processing, and handling drawings, providing its completeness, quality, and proper exploitation of products, implementation of the modern means and methods in designing, harmonization with corresponding international standards, minimization of the manufacturing costs and complexity, protection of a natural environment, customer’s life and health. This course will allow learning the basic requirements of high TRL designing and using them at practice via the modern CAD modeling software.
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Konstantin Makarenko | 3 | MA030507 | CANCELLED | |
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Molecular Biology (Term 1B-2)
Molecular biology course is based on learning the principles of replication, recombination, DNA repair. Additionally, replication strategies of phages and viruses will be discussed. Mitosis and meiosis will be described in a context of DNA biosynthesis. Also, the principles of RNA biosynthesis, i.e. transcription and processing, as well as protein biosynthesis, i.e. translation, maturation and transport will be described.
The goal of the course is obtaining a comprehensive knowledge on the structure of DNA and processes of DNA replication, recombination and repair in bacteria and eukaryotes, as well as on replication of phages and viruses. To obtain a detailed knowledge on the processes of transcription, in bacteria and eukaryotes, on the regulation of transcription in bacteria and eukaryotes, on examples of complex networks of transcriptional regulation in bacteria and eukaryotes, on maturation of RNA in eukaryotes, on protein biosynthesis in bacteria and eukaryotes, on the transport of protein in bacteria and eukaryotes. Students activities include: |
Petr Sergiev |
63 per term
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MA060034 | ||
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Neuroimaging and Machine Learning for Biomedicine
Nowadays Computational Neuroscience and Neuroimaging are fast-growing areas mostly due to new methods of acquiring, storing and processing of experimental data. Application of AI systems in clinics (for example, creating medical decision support systems) and in adjacent areas (education, pedagogics, etc.) includes processing of Neuroimaging data acquired from different devices (modern multichannel “dense” EEG systems, high-field MR-scanners, multichannel fNIRS systems, which allow precisely and non-invasively record brain activity with good spatial and temporal resolution), automation of these data analysis, and new knowledge extraction from it. The majority of relevant tasks include: classification tasks for diagnostics and prognosis, finding clinically (biophysically) significant patterns, highlighting areas of interest and others.
Neuroimaging data has several distinctive properties: it is multimodal, high-dimensional and usually very noisy. An effective analysis of these data requires understanding of the biophysical processes in the organism and the processes occurring in the scanning equipment, which are both reflected by neuroimaging data, as well as the use of a number of mathematical models that adequately describe these processes. The aims of the course are: • to explain basic ideas and results in tasks and approaches for the neuroimaging data preprocessing based on biophysical principles and processes in scanning equipment, • to give a review of various mathematical models describing the neuroimaging data reflecting their specific properties, • to teach the student how to use the conventional or modified Data Analysis and Machine Learning techniques for extracting meaningful biomarkers from the data and solving fundamental neuroscience problems as well the applied biomedical tasks. |
Maxim Sharaev | 3 | MA030421 | ||
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Parallel Computing in Mathematical Modeling and Data-Intensive Applications (Term 5-6)
This interdisciplinary course:
— makes the students familiar with main scientific and engineering applications of modern supercomputers, — explains numerical methods behind the applications and their implementation — discusses efficiency of the common algorithms on modern supercomputer architectures — extends students background in modern processors and supercomputer architectures The applications includes computations fluid dynamics with finite difference and finite volume methods, Lattice Boltzmann and cellular automata, finite elements modeling, molecular simulations, plasma, quantum chemistry, distributed deep learning on multiple computing devices, processing big volumes of data (e.g. large graphs) on distributed systems. Each topic includes a lecture by a lead instructors, invited high-profile guest lecturers and students. Each lecture is devoted to a particular application. Students will form teams to work on projects in one of the application areas and then share their experience with the fellow students at seminar sessions and a final project presentation at the conclusion of the course. |
Sergey Rykovanov |
63 per term
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MA060411 | CANCELLED | |
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Path Integral: Stochastic Processes and Basics of Quantum Mechanics (Term 1-2)
One of the most powerful methods of modern theoretical physics is the method of functional integration or path integration. The foundations of this approach were developed by N. Wiener at the beginning of the 20th century, but it spread widely after R. Feynman, who applied this approach in quantum mechanics. At present, the functional integral has found its application in the theory of random processes, polymer physics, quantum and statistical mechanics, and even in financial mathematics. Despite the fact that in some cases its applicability has not yet been mathematically rigorous proven, this method makes it possible to obtain exact and approximate solutions of various interesting problems with surprising elegance. The course is devoted to the basics of this approach and its applications to the theory of random processes and quantum mechanics. In the first part of the course, using the example of stochastic differential equations, the main ideas of this approach will be described, as well as various methods for exact and approximate calculation of functional integrals. Further, within the framework of the course, the main ideas of quantum mechanics will be considered, and both the operator approach and the approach using functional integration will be considered. It will be demonstrated that, from the point of view of formalism, the description of random processes and the description of quantum mechanical systems are very similar. This will make it possible to make a number of interesting observations, such as, for example, the analogy between supersymmetric quantum mechanics and the diffusion of a particle in an external potential. In the final part of the course, depending on the interests of the audience, various applications of the functional integration method will be discussed, such as polymer physics, financial mathematics, etc.
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Andrew Semenov |
63 per term
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MA060542 | ||
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Pedagogical Experience
The main function of this course is to articulate Skoltech's expectations on PhD students who do their pedagogical TA assignment at Skoltech. The course describes the intended learning outcomes and how they are assessed.
The main bulk of the 81 hours of the course is spent in the actual courses in which the PhD-students do their TA-assignments. |
Dmitry Artamonov | 3 | DG030005 | ||
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Phase Transitions: Introduction to Statistical Physics and Percolation (Term 1B-2)
This is a course on rigorous results in statistical mechanics, random fields, and percolation theory. We start with percolation, which is the simplest system, exhibiting singular behavior, and undergoing phase transitions. We then go to more realistic models of interacting particles, like the Ising model and XY-model, and study phase transitions, occurring there.
The topics will include: Percolation models, infinite clusters. Crossing probabilities for rectangles Critical percolation The Russo-Seymour-Welsh theory Cardy’s formula in Carleson form and the Smirnov theorem. Gibbs distribution Dobrushin-Lanford-Ruelle equation Ising model Spontaneous symmetry breaking at low temperatures O(N)-symmetric models The Mermin–Wagner Theorem The Berezinskii–Kosterlitz–Thouless transition Reflection Positivity and the chessboard estimates Infrared bounds |
Semen Shlosman |
63 per term
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MA060427 | ||
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Photonics Research Seminar Series (Term 1B-4)
The course "Photonics Research Seminar Series" aims to provide MSc and PhDs with a broader perspective into state-of-the-art research in photonics, from fundamental insights (both theoretical and experimental) to engineering and applications. The course also aims to train students in how to structure scientific results, how to provide a coherent narrative and how to appropriately present it in the form of a strictly-timed oral presentation. The bulk of the course consists of a weekly one hour seminar on seminal topics of photonics, from guest speakers or Skoltech faculty, researchers and students.
The course is a prerequisite for the research thesis defense of projects of the following laboratories (and is as such compulsory only for the 2nd year MSc students of these laboratories): |
Pavlos Lagoudakis |
30.75 per term
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MA030553 | ||
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Plant Genetic Diversity and Adaptation to Stress
Plants, unlike animals, are rooted in a single location and thus forced to adapt to any environmental conditions. In order to withstand stressful conditions, plants have evolved an array of advanced physiological, biochemical, and molecular defense mechanisms, which help them in avoiding or combating negative environmental effects. Climate change is expected to exacerbate unfavorable environmental conditions caused by abiotic (drought, flooding, salinity…) and biotic (pests, diseases) stress factors, resulting in sharp reductions in average crop yields. On the other hand, societal demand for environmentally friendly farming practices with low inputs supports the need for new improved varieties tolerant to harsh environmental constraints. Understanding plant responses and adaptation mechanisms to extreme stress conditions is therefore critical to the genetic improvement of economically important crops.
Implemented in a project and problem-based learning approach, this teaching unit is built around an experimental project as a common thread throughout the course, addressing a current hot-scientific agronomic or ecological issue linked to the adaptation of plants to a key environmental constraint. |
Cecile Ben | 3 | MA030479 | ||
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Qualifying Exam: Computational and Data Science and Engineering
The Qualifying Exam is a compulsory 3 credits component of the doctoral program.
Its goal is to assess the PhD student knowledge and skills in the area of the thesis research. A Qualifying Exam includes the following components: The Doctoral Program Committee tailors the format and delivery mode of the Qualifying Exam to best suit the requirements of the doctoral program. |
Nikolay Brilliantov | 3 | DD030020cd | ||
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Qualifying Exam: Engineering Systems
The Qualifying Exam is a compulsory 3 credits component of the doctoral program.
Its goal is to assess the PhD student knowledge and skills in the area of the thesis research. A Qualifying Exam includes the following components: The Doctoral Program Committee tailors the format and delivery mode of the Qualifying Exam to best suit the requirements of the doctoral program. |
Henni Ouerdane | 3 | DD030020es | ||
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Qualifying Exam: Materials Science and Engineering
The Qualifying Exam is a compulsory 3 credits component of the doctoral program.
Its goal is to assess the PhD student knowledge and skills in the area of the thesis research. A Qualifying Exam includes the following components: The Doctoral Program Committee tailors the format and delivery mode of the Qualifying Exam to best suit the requirements of the doctoral program. |
Alexei Buchachenko | 3 | DD030020ms | ||
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Qualifying Exam: Mathematics and Mechanics
The Qualifying Exam is a compulsory 3 credits component of the doctoral program.
Its goal is to assess the PhD student knowledge and skills in the area of the thesis research. A Qualifying Exam includes the following components: Doctoral Program Committee tailors the format and delivery mode of the Qualifying Exam to best suit the requirements of the doctoral program. |
Andrey Marshakov, Robert Nigmatulin |
3 | DD030020mm | ||
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Qualifying Exam: Petroleum Engineering
The Qualifying Exam is a compulsory 3 credits component of the doctoral program.
Its goal is to assess the PhD student knowledge and skills in the area of the thesis research. A Qualifying Exam includes the following components: The Doctoral Program Committee tailors the format and delivery mode of the Qualifying Exam to best suit the requirements of the doctoral program. |
Mikhail Spasennykh | 3 | DD030020pe | ||
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Qualifying Exam: Physics
The Qualifying Exam is a compulsory 3 credits component of the doctoral program.
Its goal is to assess the PhD student knowledge and skills in the area of the thesis research. A Qualifying Exam includes the following components: The Doctoral Program Committee tailors the format and delivery mode of the Qualifying Exam to best suit the requirements of the doctoral program. |
Nikolay Gippius | 3 | DD030020p | ||
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Quantum Mechanics
The course will review the basic concepts of quantum mechanics. It is intended both for those who studied quantum mechanics previously and for those who did not. The purpose of the course is not only to introduce the main principles of quantum mechanics but to familiarize with them through active problem solving, which is the only practical way to study quantum mechanics. The course will cover the main topics such as one-dimensional motion, perturbation theory, scattering theory, approximate methods in quantum mechanics, density matrix formalism.
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Sergey Dyakov | 3 | MA030177 | ||
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Quiver Representations and Quiver Varieties (Term 1-2)
The theory of quivers is one of the central topics in various fields of modern mathematics and mathematical physics, such as algebraic geometry, representation theory, combinatorics, quantum field theory, integrable systems. The theory has lots of beautiful and deep theorems and is very popular due to a huge number of applications, including McKay correspondence, instantons and ADHM construction, geometric realization of the Kac-Moody Lie algebras. Many of the recent results and applications of the theory of quivers are based on the quiver verieties, introduced by Hiraku Nakajima 20 years ago. The course will cover the basic material on the structure theory of quivers and their representations, such as path algebras, Gabriel's theorem, Hall algebras, preprojective algebras and Auslander-Reiten quivers. Based on the general theory of quiver representations we will discuss the definition of the Nakajima quiver varieties and several explicit examples and applications. The course is aimed at the graduate students or advanced bachelor students. The basic knowledge of algebraic geometry, differential geometry, and the theory of Lie groups and Lie algebras is expected.
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Evgeny Feygin |
63 per term
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MA060425 | ||
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Reinforcement Learning
Reinforcement learning is a vanguard method of machine learning aimed at dynamical applications, ranging from video games to autonomous cars, robots, drones etc.
Composed of a so-called agent and environment, it is meant to resemble, in a sense, the behavior of living beings. Agents interact with the environment and optimize their actions to improve rewards. Imagine a video game speed run. An agent, the protagonist, interacts with the game environment and wants to beat the game as fast as possible, by dynamically adjusting his or her controls while learning on-the-fly. Reinforcement learning is truly an interdisciplinary subject that can be studied from different perspectives — machine learning, control theory, dynamical system theory, pure math etc. In this course, we dive into reinforcement learning for studyng the key principles and implementing them on real examples. |
Pavel Osinenko | 6 | MA060422 | ||
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Scientific Computing
This is an introductory course to Scientific Computing with a focus on mathematical and algorithmic aspects of High-Performance Computing (HPC) techniques and their areas of applications, including both the classical model-based and modern data-driven approaches. The course has also a practical component, consisting of learning basic principles of HPC and applying the acquired knowledge and skills to solving industry-relevant problems in bioinformatics, aerospace, food and pharmaceutics, etc.
The practical aspects of the use of a variety of computational techniques for solving scientific and engineering tasks will be taught during practical demonstrations and they will be integrated as much as possible with the corresponding theoretical materials given during the lectures. All topics in the course will be covered at an advanced introductory level, with the goal that after passing the course the students will learn enough to start using scientific computing and HPC methods in their everyday research work. Students should be comfortable with undergraduate mathematics, particularly with the basics of calculus, linear algebra, and probability theory. Some preliminary knowledge of Unix-like operating systems is a plus. Although the course will overview some popular pieces of commercial software used in HPC, all of the software used for practical tasks in this course is open source and freely available. |
Dmitry Yarotsky | 6 | MA060113 | ||
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Soft Condensed Matter
The course is tailored to (1) Computational Science students (especially DIMMS track), as it introduces to Machine Learning application to physics (2) Petroleum Engineering students, since emphasized in all sections are applications in hydrocarbon recovery and processing
The course introduces students to the physical, engineering and modeling aspects of soft systems, that is the systems that can be structurally altered by forces comparable to thermal fluctuations in magnitude. Soft matter is abundant in industry (oil recovery and processing, detergents, adhesives, etc) and in biosystems, including the very human body. Specific topics will include interactions in emulsions and dispersions, stability of thin films and colloids, rheology, and aggregation dynamics. The emulsion block is followed by the behavior of amphiphiles, self-assembly, liquid crystals and colloids stabilization. Soft polymeric structures are next, and the final part will feature foams. The course program may be slightly altered depending on the students taking (some topics may be strengthened and some omitted if there is no interest in them). The course will be useful to all students willing to improve their understanding of natural (e.g. mineral oil) and man-made colloids and polymers. The course will also provide a hands-on experience in data-driven modelling of soft matter gained via in-class labs, homeworks and term projects. Term project will involve both physics-driven and data-driven approaches, on students choice. |
Vladimir Palyulin | 3 | MA030365 | ||
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Statistical Mechanics and Kinetics (Term 1B-2)
In this course we will consider a broad range of fundamental topics in statistical mechanics and physical kinetics. We will begin with a review of basic concepts of statistical mechanics and thermodynamics, and will then progress to more advanced themes. These include quantum degenerate gases, phase equilibrium and phase transitions (including Landau theory of second order phase transitions), theory of linear response and fluctuations, and treatment of nonequilibrium phenomena using the Boltzmann kinetic equation. Examples considered in class and homework assignments will focus on applications of the general formalism to physical systems. The course is intended for both experimentalists and theorists.
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Anton Andreev |
63 per term
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MA060339 | CANCELLED | |
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Structural Optimization
The course is intended to give basic knowledge and skills how to formulate a structural optimization problem, including defining appropriate design variables, constraints, and objective functions. The main topics of the course are classification of structural optimization problems, calculus of variations and energy principles in solid mechanics, structural approximations, sensitivity analysis, optimality criteria, shape optimization, structures of maximum stiffness and topology optimization, SIMP-method. Computer exercises on structural optimization will be performed.
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Alexander Safonov | 6 | MA060452 | ||
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Technology Entrepreneurship Seminar: Foundation (Term 1B-2)
The course is designed to help you to learn and master practical skills of technology entrepreneurship and to accelerate your startup projects up to “external support/funding ready” level. It is intended for students: (1) interested in new tech venture creation and technology entrepreneurship; (2) having their own projects/ideas in development; (3) planning startup contest participation, pitch to investors, applying to Triple Point Contest, FASIE (“Bortnik Fund”), STRIP, accelerator/incubator program, etc. The startup project concept may be in the early experimental mode, or further along in its evolution such as seeking customers or pilot tests.
The course is conducted as practical and hands-on lab. We will not study entrepreneurship as a theoretical subject through external cases or papers. The material for learning comes directly from the class projects and the issues faced by students in converting their ideas into successful ventures. This assures projects real development and creates a highly dynamic environment for teaching where the faculty is a facilitator, mentor, tracker, and lecturer at the same time. The course subject areas represent “golden standard” for tech startups: (1) Problem and Market Need; (2) Product and Technology; (3) Market opportunity evaluation; (4) Business Model; (5) Startup Team; (6) R&D/Marketing/Sales/Funding plan; (7) Storytelling and Pitching. Upon the course completion, you and your team will The teams interested in the further development of their projects can continue seamlessly by entering the course "Technology Entrepreneurship Seminar: Advanced" (E&I track, 3 credits, Terms 3 & 4). |
Alexey Nikolaev |
31.5 per term
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E&I | MC030029a | |
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Thesis Proposal Defense
The Thesis Proposal Defense is a compulsory component of the program, whereby the PhD student defends a thesis proposal before the Individual Doctoral Committee.
The PhD student must develop in consultation with the supervisor, a thesis proposal in the form of presentation or written document. The proposal should contain the thesis research question, a proposal of an approach answering the question, a brief review of the literature, an overview of the proposed structure, the expected results, and a timeline to the thesis defense. The PhD student should provide the Committee members with a thesis proposal approved by the supervisor one week in advance of the defense, which resulted in the completion of the individual student digital assessment form by the Individual Doctoral Committee. |
Viktoria Mikhaylova |
6 per term
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DD060021 | ||
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Topics in Neurobiology Seminar
A research paper-based course.
Overview of current research relating to various ‘hot topics’ in neurobiology and discussion of current research articles on the subject. Analysis of experiments and research described in scientific papers are presented by students and critically discussed by the class led by the instructor. Novel methods in neurobiology – optogenetics, molecular magneto technique, transparent tissues imaging will be discussed in depth. Topics include mapping of the brain and behavior, optogenetic manipulation of memory engrams, mouse models of Alzheimer disease, synaptic plasticity, dendritic spines morphology, pathology, and neurodegenerative diseases. |
Dmitry Artamonov | 3 | MA030104 | CANCELLED | |
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Unconventional Hydrocarbons
The course provides an introduction to unconventional (shale) hydrocarbons as a perspective source of oil and gas. It consists of several parts describing existing oil and gas shale formations in a world and in Russia (Bazhenov, Domanik, Khadum formations), detailed data on lithology, petrophysics, geochemistry and geomechanics of shale rock and modern methods for prospecting, exploration and production of unconventional hydrocarbons. The course includes lectures, seminars and laboratory works. During the course students work individually and in teams compiling a comprehensive data set, analyzing of research results and developing of technological strategy on prospecting, exploration and production of shale hydrocarbons.
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Mikhail Spasennykh | 3 | DA030189 | CANCELLED | |
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Universal Enveloping Algebras and Yangians (Term 1B-2)
Tentative program of the course:
1. Reminder: the classification of irreducible finite-dimensional representations of a reductive Lie algebra $\mathfrak g$; the universal enveloping algebra $U(\matfrak g)$; the PBW theorem. 2. The structure of the center $Z(U(\mathfrak g))$; the Harish-Chandra map. 3. The symmetrization map $S(\mathfrak g)\to U(\mathfrak g)$ and related combinatorics 4. The Perelomov–Popov formula (mainly for $\mathfrak g=\mathfrak{gl}(N,\mathbb C)$; for other classical Lie algebras — without proof) 5. The Capelli identity 6. Quantum immanants (after Okounkov) 7. The Yangian for $\mathfrak g=\mathfrak{gl}(N,\mathbb C)$ and the $R$-matrix formalism 8. The twisted Yangians 9. Works of Gelfand–Kirillov |
Grigori Olshanski |
63 per term
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MA060513 |
Term 2
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Academic Communication: Preparatory English for PhD Exam
As a PhD student, you should already know that effective professional communication is the key to academic success. Are you an ambitious person who wants to maximize their academic potential? Are you eager to boost your ability to write research papers, present in front of multidisciplinary audiences, participate in scholarly discussions and engage in other forms of academic communication — and do it all in good academic English?
Join this course and learn how to produce clear, correct, concise, and coherent texts related to your research, and how to present your data in front of a multidisciplinary professional community. You will be guided through all stages of paper writing, editing, peer-reviewing, and presenting. Academic communication is not limited to formal writing and professional presentation. As in a real conference environment, you will take part in networking activities, interacting with your peers from different fields, exchanging ideas and pitching your research achievements. The course is interactive, communicative and intensive, with various speaking, listening, reading and writing activities to be performed in class and at home, individually and in teams. By the end of the course, successful participants will |
Elizaveta Tikhomirova | 3 | Extra | DF030029 | |
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Academic Writing Essentials (Life Sciences)
With the growing demands for every scientist to publish and not to perish, the quality of academic writing is of utmost importance. Successful writing presupposes the skills to communicate ideas, theories and findings as efficiently and clearly as possible. The way ideas are communicated is different in Russian and English Academic discourse. The course will discuss successful strategies and typical tactics to communicate science in English.
The aim of the course is to help the students plan the written work, understand its major parts, use the rhetorical devices, and master the linguistic repertoire appropriate in biological academic discourse. The integrative approach unites the top-down and the bottom-up ones. The general logic as well as the minute linguistic devices for presenting, advancing, and reformulating the argumentation will be given. The course teaches how to write, revise and edit your own work in a lingua franca of modern science. The course will familiarize the students with major problems the Russian authors have in the English formal writing as well as the ways to overcome them. Extensive writing, listening to lectures, self- and peer- editing and getting feedback from the lecturer will provide grounds for future autonomous writing in the discipline of biology ( including papers and a Master Thesis). |
Anastasiia Sharapkova | 3 | Extra | MF030002l | |
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Advanced Manufacturing of Composite Materials
This course is developed to give students a broad background and hands on experience in manufacturing of advanced composite materials. Both materials and manufacturing methods are discussed. A brief introduction to advanced composite materials and processes is presented. The course is focused on the innovative non-autoclave technologies of thermosetting resin based/fiber reinforced advanced composites. Manufacturing is covered in terms of the major steps required to fabricate laminated composite parts. These will be described and discussed in details and worked out experimentally through conducting a set of lab projects. The following technologies and methods will be covered: Vacuum Infusion, Press Molding, Pultrusion, Filament Winding, and Mechanical Testing. Typical problems of materials, tooling, cure, and technological defects will be discussed.
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Alexander Safonov | 6 | MA060298 | ||
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Aerosol Science and Technology
The course will introduce the basic phenomena of aerosol science, particle formation in the gas phase and their behavior, concepts and measurement techniques for the aerosol particles. Students will synthesize (carbon nanotubes, NaCl, metal, metal oxide and polymer) nanoparticles by two aerosol techniques: gas-to-particle and liquid-to-particle conversions. Students will be trained to operate spark-discharge aerosol synthesis reactor for production of nanoparticles and single-walled carbon nanotubes and spray drying and pyrolysis reactors.
The student will perform the on-line measurements of number size distribution of aerosol synthesized nanoparticles by differential mobility analyzer (size range: 2-1000 nm). Students will become familiar with processes of the aerosol particle collection (filtration, electrostatic precipitation, thermophoretic precipitation). The produced samples of nanoparticles will be observed with means of transmission and scanning electron microscopies. Totally 34 lecture hours and 15 exercise hours, 5 hours for seminar lessons, 6 presentation hours will be arranged. Students will write a short essay and give a presentation on one of the selected topics. |
Albert Nasibulin | 6 | MA060300 | ||
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Bayesian Methods of Machine Learning (Term 1B-2)
The course addresses Bayesian approach for solving various machine learning and data analysis problems. It offers the framework for solving inverse problems, model selection and continual learning. The most attention is payed to the fusion between the deep learning techniques and the elements of bayesian approach. This fusion is possible due to the development of a range of approximate inference techniques in the last 20 years.
Modern machine learning papers frequently use machinery of the approximate inference techniques. The main learning outcome of the course is the ability to read and reproduce related papers, and to apply corresponding methods of approximate inference for the development of Bayesian machine learning approaches. In order to reach this goal, the course contains theoretical and practical assignments and the final project. The purpose of the theoretical tasks is two-fold. Firstly, we would like to develop skills of equation derivation, that is used routinely in papers and is usually suppressed. Secondly, some theoretical tasks provide the intuition about properties of the methods through toy models. The purpose of the practical tasks is straightforward: to translate discussed methods to the code and observe properties of the methods through examples. These assignments leads to the course projects: reproducing and discussing a relevant paper from a recent conference, and/or development of some students' research ideas using methods of Bayesian machine learning. |
Evgeny Burnaev |
63 per term
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MA060129 | ||
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Bioinformatics
This course is aimed for the first year master students with no prior knowledge in bioinformatics. The main course idea is to get students from different backgrounds acquainted with basic tools and algorithms in bioinformatics, such as basic phylogenetic analysis, algorithms behind sequence alignments, protein structure analysis, gene and genome annotation, as well as main databases storing sequence, protein and epigenetics data.
The knowledge obtained during this course can be immediately utilized in the real biological and computational projects. |
Mikhail Gelfand | 6 | MA060307 | ||
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Biomedical Innovation and Entrepreneurship
This course aims to provide students with an understanding of applications and practices of biomedical sciences in social healthcare. To put it simple, we will discuss where and how Skoltech biomedical graduates may employ their skills beyond academy science. To achieve this goal the course will decompose the industry into the value chain of independent but interconnected entities and then make deep investigation of motives, profits, and costs of any segment/entity of this value chain. The incomplete list of such entities will include: R&D-driven startups, CROs, CMOs, regulators, integrated pharmas, marketing agents, distributors, retail, hospitals, doctors. The emphasis will be made on the value chain groups that are immersed into the challendge of transforming high technologies into the tangible patient benefit, from hardcore drug development to all kinds of medical devices and services. Such challenges will be taught through development of the group project that will be developed through the stages of Problem statement (indication, regulation, POC and QC), preclinical design, clinical design, manufacturing/delivery design and final integrative presentation.
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Dmitry Kulish | 3 | E&I | MC030013 | |
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Cancer Biology
The course is dedicated to basics of clinical and molecular cancer biology with emphasis on innovative drugs and technologies for cancer treatment and diagnostics.
The main themes to be discussed: What is cancer? Classification, staging, grading, еhe hallmarks of cancer; Mutations, oncogenes, tumor suppressors, пenomic instability, epigenetics in cancer initiation and progression (miRNA, siRNA, lncRNA, methylation, histones modification, etc.); Cell cycle and growth and it’s deregulation in cancer; Tumor energy metabolism (the Warburg effect); Cell death and it’s deregulation in cancer (necrosis, apoptosis, autophagy); Cell differentiation and dedifferentiation in cancer, EMT, Metastasis; Cancer stem cells hypothesis; Tumor stroma and heterogeneity, neoangiogenesis; The “seed and soil hypothesis” – pre-metastatic niche; Extracellular vesicles for communication between cells; Cancer diagnostics, tumor markers; Liquid biopsy; Biological factors in Cancer (inflammation, viruses, bacteria, microbiome); Target therapy, Immune checkpoint inhibitors; Emerging therapeutic modalities, Car-T, dendritic cells, viruses; Invited medical oncologists will give talks on the usolved questions in the field. |
Vera Rybko | 3 | MA030088 | CANCELLED | |
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Cohomology of Groups and Classifying Spaces (Term 1B-2)
The course will include an introduction to theory of cohomology of groups from geometric viewpoint. The concept of a classifying space of a group will be central in this course. We will start with general algebraic definitions and theorems concerning homology and cohomology of (discrete) groups. Then we proceed with various constructions of classifying spaces of groups and methods for computing their cohomology. An important part of the course will be devoted to examples such as certain finite groups, braid groups, Coxeter groups, mapping class groups, etc.
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Alexander Gaifullin |
63 per term
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MA060543 | ||
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Complex Technical Systems Verification and Validation
This course is final course in PLM series and is devoted to the manufacturing and different types of testing and numerical models validation for the technical system (UAV).
Students learn how to perform vibrational and modal testing in order to identify dynamic parameters of a given structure. The modal testing is performed using laser scanning vibrometry. The results of modal and vibrational testing are used for finite-element model validation and updating for accurate dynamics simulation. Also, so called Hardware-in-the-Loop (HiL) testing is an important part of the course. The idea of HiL is to upload the functional model of the investigated system to real-time board and test it in combination with physical parts. During the course students perform a number of tests with the system that was designed and prototyped during course "Digital technologies in design and testing of complex technical systems". Finally, the results are used for system model validation. |
Grigoriy Seregin | 6 | MA060538 | ||
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Computational Biology of Aging
This course will be devoted to the study of key methods of computational biology of aging, which have had a significant impact on the field in recent years. We will take a detailed look at aging clock models, survival curves, Gompertz models, dynamical models as well as key aspects of the biology of aging (including its molecular part). Students will get experience in differential gene expression or methylation analysis in the context of aging, hazard ratio models fitting and interpretation, aging clocks construction and their exploration and develop an intuition in dynamical systems modeling. The course aims to form a systematic view of the biology of aging, and offer a holistic computational methodology for the study of this problem.
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Ekaterina Khrameeva | 3 | MA030511 | CANCELLED | |
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Computational Chemistry and Materials Modeling
The course provides a graduate level overview of modern atomistic computer simulations used to model, understand and predict properties of technologically important materials. The emphasis is on practical use of techniques, algorithms and programs to bridge theory and applications, from the discovery of materials to their use in real-world technologies. Several laboratories give students direct experience with simulation methods as well as practical knowledge on how to use computational modeling and how to present and interpret results of simulations. Bridges from atomic to complex systems demonstrate potential of different theories to applications relevant to multiple major industries in the future, including nanotechnology and energy.
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Dmitry Aksenov | 6 | MA060008 | ||
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Computational Materials Science Seminar (Term 2-4)
This is the main research seminar at Skoltech for Computational Materials scientists. All students of Computational Materials Science subtrack of Materials Science MSc program and Materials Science and Engineering PhD program should attend this seminar. Topics include materials modeling (at atomistic scale), theoretical and computational chemistry, theoretical and computational physics of materials, underlying mathematical methods and algorithms etc. Invited lectures are top scientists in their research field. Students are welcome to present their own research results at this seminar and expected to do this at least once a year.
Please see the seminar webpage at https://www.skoltech.ru/en/cms/ |
Dmitry Aksenov |
1.50.5 per term
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MA030430i | ||
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Continuum Mechanics (Term 2-3)
Continuum mechanics is a section of mechanics and theoretical physics, or rather the continuation of theoretical mechanics that deals with analysis of deformable bodies. However, mathematics in continuum mechanics represents the main constructive tool. Continuum mechanics allows to demonstrate the power of logic and mathematical thinking. Based on a few fundamental postulates and principles, using the mathematical apparatus can reveal non-trivial, and even striking results.
Foundation of continuum mechanics consists of: This course uses tensor representations in the Cartesian coordinate system of the observer. But it will one shown in detail how to to write the continuum mechanics equations in the arbitrary curvilinear coordinate system. This way the common link is not lost and the exposition becomes easier and clearer. |
Robert Nigmatulin |
63 per term
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DA060181 | ||
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Convex Optimization and Applications
This course introduces the basic theory in convex optimization and illustrates its use in recent successful applications such as sparse learning, blind source separation, low-rank optimization, image processing, regression and classification, phase retrieval.
Through the course, students will study convex sets and functions and their properties, duality and dual maximization problem with the same optimal value, a certificate of optimality for an optimization problem. Students will also learn some commonly known convex optimization forms such as Linear Program, Quadratic Program, Second Order Cone Programs, Semi-Definite Programs etc. Students will know practical tools, and able to recognize and formulate convex optimization problems and solve them using efficient solvers. |
Anh Huy Phan | 3 | MA030136 | ||
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Critical Points of Functions (Term 1B-2)
The theory of critical points of functions is of the main subjects of Singularity theory studying local geometry of singularities of differentiable maps as well as its relationship with global topological invariants of manifolds.
In the course we will discuss classification of critical points, its relationship with the ADE-series of simple Lie algebras and the corresponding reflection groups, their deformations and adjacencies. The study of a local topological structure of singularities will include description of Milnor fiber and vanishing cycles. We will discuss also application of the theory critical points to the study of caustics and wave fronts in geometric optics and classical mechanics, as well as enumeration of contact singularities in complex projective geometry. |
Maxim Kazarian |
63 per term
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Options | MA060424 | |
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Crystal Chemistry
This course will be useful to a diverse group of students involved in designing new functional materials including but not limiting to electrode materials and solid electrolytes for rechargeable batteries. This course has two objectives: (i) to familiarize with the key parameters and laws that govern the organization of crystalline matter and related crystal structures, (ii) to give a comrehensive guide of to how to "read", understand and "tune" crystal structures to design, create and modify functional properties of materials.
Students will learn what is required to understand the potential of a new structure to become a base for a prospective material. The first part of the course will cover general structure types, their organization and pecularities, reveal essential crystal chemistry concepts, rules and laws. With these knowledge at hand, the students are invited to the second part of the course to be acquainted with the crystal structure organization of modern electrode materials for rechargeable batteries. The acquired knowledge and skills are expected to facilitate the creation of completely new materials with outstanding characteristics that find applications in technological problems related to energy storage and conversion. The content of the course is not exclusively fundamental but relates to practical aspects of the creation of innovative materials via a crystal chemistry design approach. |
Stanislav Fedotov | 3 | MA030477 | ||
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Digital Signal Processing
Digital signal processing (DSP) refers to various techniques for improving the accuracy and reliability of digital communications. The goal, for students of this course, will be to learn the fundamentals of Digital Signal Processing from the ground up. Starting from the basic definition of a discrete-time signal, we will work our way through Fourier analysis, filter design, statistical signal processing, estimation theory, signal sampling, re-sampling, and reconstruction free of errors. We will analyze signal distortions due to sampling, interpolation, and quantization to build a DSP toolset complete enough to analyze a practical communication system in detail. We will also deal with modulation and multipath propagation channel models. Hands-on examples and demonstrations will be routinely used to close the gap between theory and practice.
The extra topics covered in this course are: – Spectrum analysis; – Machine learning for signal processing; – Fundamentals of random signal theory and analysis; – Modeling communication signals as random processes; – Baseband signal processing, signal synthesis, and filter design for communication; – Statistical signal processing in communication; It is hoped that through learning this course students will be equipped with a clear picture of DSP as well as a necessary foundation for further study of advanced DSP topics in the future. |
Andrey Ivanov | 6 | MA060255 | ||
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English Toolkit
The goal of the English Toolkit course is to activate Academic English skills required for successful education at Skoltech.
The students will practice Academic vocabulary and grammar, as well as boost their reading, writing, listening and speaking skills within a range of research-related topics. The chosen format provides the students with a flexible and individualized learning trajectory. Real-time feedback for online exercises is complimented by tutor feedback for the writing and speaking assignments for a better understanding of the main language difficulties, providing an opportunity to improve and see progress. By the end of the course, the students will |
Elizaveta Tikhomirova | 3 | Extra | MF030001 | |
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English. Candidate Examination
This is a blended meta-course for the English Qualification Exam needed for the Russian PhD Degree. The Exam is designed as a multidisciplinary conference where the participants present results of their PhD research structured according to the general principles of conference materials submission, peer review, resubmission, presentation, and discussion.
The goal of the Exam is Academic Communication, so the participants should demonstrate the ability to present their research results in front of a multidisciplinary audience and deliver the key ideas in good Academic English in terms of vocabulary, grammar and style. Pre-exam/ pre-conference activities, such as material submissions and peer reviews, take place fully online. They include: Project proposal V1+ 2 Peer Reviews; a 2-minute video annotation V1 + peer review; and a stack of presentation slides V1+ peer review. Version 2 of the Proposal, video annotation and the slides should be improved using the comments of the Instructor and the peers. Depending on the applicable regulations related to COVID-19, on the Examination day students make their presentations and participate in the discussion in person or via an online platform in front of the Examination Committee and a group of peers. Failure to submit an assignment by the due date may result in the loss of the grade. The participants will practice a variety of academic skills: – Planning and designing a well-structured and balanced presentation The grade is counted towards the PhD Qualification. |
Elizaveta Tikhomirova | 3 | DG030003 | ||
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Entrepreneurial Strategy
This course focuses on how scientists and technology entrepreneurs identify, design and implement strategies to sustain and enhance the success of the commercialization of their discoveries, examining issues central to the long- and short-term competitive position of the scientific and technological discoveries and developments they are willing to commercialize and transfer to society.
As a field, Strategy attempts to explain why and how some organizations outperform others in the marketplace, developing competitive advantages around technology, science or, overall know-how, and sustaining these advantages over time while remaining competitive. The course provides a set of frameworks and analytical tools that enable scientists and technology entrepreneurs to understand and plan effective strategies for competing with their technologies in a range of industries. |
Alexander Chekanov | 3 | E&I | MC030023 | CANCELLED |
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Evolutionary, Population and Medical Genomics
Nothing in biology makes sense except in the light of evolution. This course introduces the fundamentals of evolutionary science as applied to genomics. It will allow to see how the basic population genetics processes create, maintain and affect variability in populations and lead to their changes with time. The focus will be on molecular evolution, i.e., the manifestation of these processes in genomes. As humans, we will be particularly interested in evolutionary aspects of medicine. The course assumes no prior familiarity with evolutionary biology, although knowledge of the basics of molecular biology and genetics is expected. The themes covered will include basic concepts in evolutionary biology and generalizations in evolutionary genomics; population genetics and factors of microevolution; and basics of quantitative genetics.
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Georgii Bazykin | 6 | MA060222 |
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Experimental Design in Biology
Reliable phenotypic data at
* the ‘macro’ level such as plant’s fitness, flowering time, bacterial colony growth or * the ‘micro’ level such as cellular response or pathogen colonization within tissues or * the ‘molecular’ level such as gene expression levels or metabolite profiling; are required for in-depth genetic studies. Due to the unique particularity to possibly replicate the same genotype in time and space, the phenotypic data of plants and microbes can be analyzed with strong power and accounting for variability. The design of experiments is all about learning as much as possible from the smallest amount of data. During this course, the fundamentals of determining the effects of given factors or covariates on a phenotypic trait will be given. This includes how to evaluate controlled and uncontrolled variability using the appropriate experimental design. The course is mostly practical-driven and aims to provide the skills to use these methodologies in future professional activities. |
Laurent Gentzbittel | 3 | MA030480 | ||
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Experimental Optics I
This introductory experimental optics course focuses on providing students with practical experience around some basic concepts and practices in the area of optics. It is designed to accompany theoretical courses that are offered to MSc students in the first terms of their study.
The course is centered around four experimental projects: polarization; a very important property of light and introduction to fundamental measurement techniques, Fourier Optics; a basic concept relevant to optical instrumentation, coupling to fibers and waveguides; providing an introduction to integrated optics and optical communications, and Optical interferometry; demonstrating the wave nature of light and providing an introduction to modern measurement procedures. The course includes a general introduction to lasers and optoelectronics and regular lectures which are relevant to the specific topics of the experiment. The students will work semi-independently in small group of 2-3 students with supervision from teaching assistants. |
Sakellaris Mailis | 3 | MA030521 | ||
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Facilitating and Assessing Learning
The course offers an introduction to facilitating learning in higher education for junior faculty together with PhD student TAs. The course content focuses on aligning learning outcomes with learning activities and assessment strategies. Constructive alignment in the course is defined at high resolution such that learning outcomes for a course are elaborated into separate activities and assignments for students. In other words, learning outcomes need to be articulated at every level of learning activities from course to assignment.
The course also rests on the approach that learning is promoted by feedback. The assessment design that participants in the course design will therefore be required to reflect significant and effective use of continuous formative assessment. Such formative assessment requires strategic learning activities and assignments, and the course therefore comes with an emphasis on communication-to-learn activities including peer learning. Skoltech is an English medium instruction environment, and the course contains discussion topics to highlight ways of addressing the potential effects of language and culture barriers for high quality student learning. All topics in the course are applied by participants on their own teaching and learning experiences and are meant to be used as they prepare and plan for their teaching and course development or their supervisory activities. All participants will have a task to produce a reflection on their future actions to evolve as facilitators and meet the requirements of the scholarship of teaching and learning. |
Magnus Gustafsson | 3 | DG030030 | ||
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Fundamentals of Energy Conversion Physics and Technology
Classical equilibrium thermodynamics is a theory of principles, which provides a framework to study means to produce motive power and useful heat, crucial for our everyday life. It is a pillar of any serious physics and engineering curriculum. This graduate course provides the students from possibly diverse backgrounds with the theoretical concepts that underlie the physics of energy conversion at the heart of heat engines operation, including chemical processes, and the specific knowledge of energy technologies in use nowadays.
Covering some of the main real-world technologies for the generation of electric/mechanic, heating and cooling power, students will learn to critically analyze and assess these technologies to improve their performance and imagine innovative and commercially viable solutions to energy problems, accounting for costs and environmental aspects like pollutants formation and their abatement. Essential notions which are taught include: energy conversion; heat transfer; work; first and second principles; working fluids and thermoelastic coefficients; thermodynamic cycles; motors and refrigerators. The course is organized around the learning of essential concepts and an awareness development of current energy technologies. It is based both on "teaching with lecture" and "teaching with discussions" methods. In addition to home assignments and project, students will solve problems during tutorials and discuss their solutions. |
Henni Ouerdane | 6 | MA060537 | ||
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Fundamentals of Photonics
This course is aimed for the first year master students, and provides an overview of the main physical principles of photonics and photonic devices. The emphasis is made on the demonstration that the light matter interaction in photonic devices can be modified by means of the modern technology. The course give the illustration how the basic physical laws help to get qualitative understanding of different branches of photonics such as light emission, transmission and detection. This introductory course is designed for both theoreticians and experimentalists.
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Nikolay Gippius | 6 | MA060160 | ||
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Fundamentals of Power Systems
This course covers power systems analysis & operations, including fundamentals (balanced three-phase power), steady-state analysis (power flow), state estimation, operation (optimal power flow), security (contingency analysis and security-constrained optimal power flow), distribution grid operation, power systems dynamics and control, basics of control theory and protection systems and challenges and trend of future power systems.
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Elena Gryazina | 6 | MA060007 | ||
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Fundamentals of Remote Sensing
This course introduces students to the first principles and methods of the observation of Earth surface, monitoring of Earth atmosphere and detection of different kind of radiation coming from Space. The course will cover wide range of the satellites-, aircraft-, rockets- and balloon- based techniques designed for environmental monitoring, meteorology, map making etc. Goals of the course include: a comprehensive knowledge of the principles and approaches to the creation and operation of remote sensing systems; acquisition of analysis skills of modern ERS programs; practical application of acquired knowledge and
skills for SWOT-analysis of complex information systems. Course will also include a module on geomatics, i.e. platforms, sensors and methodologies related to the collection, processing, analysis and interpretation of (2D/3D) data related to Earth's surface. This includes platforms like satellite or drones, sensors like LiDAR or airborne cameras and techniques like photogrammetry, laser scanning, geodesy, topography, etc. Major learning outcomes include operational principles and design of different sensors used in remote sensing of the Earth, practical skills to design an experiment in remote sensing with applications to a practical business need. |
Alexander Shumilin | 6 | MA060186 | CANCELLED | |
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Geometric Representation Theory (Term 1B-2)
Geometric representation theory applies algebraic geometry to the problems of
representation theory. Some of the most famous problems of representation theory were solved on this way during the last 40 years. The list includes the Langlands reciprocity for the general linear groups over the functional fields, the Langlands-Shelstad fundamental Lemma, the proof of the Kazhdan-Lusztig conjectures; the computation of the characters of the finite groups of Lie type. We will study representations of the affine Hecke algebras using the geometry of affine Grassmannians (Satake isomorphism) and Steinberg varieties of triples (Deligne-Langlands conjecture). This is a course for master students knowing the basics of algebraic geometry, sheaf theory, homology and K-theory. |
Mikhail Finkelberg |
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High Performance Python Lab
This course is devoted to learning how to use Python for High Performance Computing on different architectures – multi-core CPUs and general purpose GPUs.
The course is oriented on practical knowledge, where the students will get a hands-on experience with Python code profiling, modern Python frameworks, such as Python MultiProcessing, Numba, Cython, mpi4py, PyCuda and others. Wide range of problem sets from linear algebra, image processing, deep learning, physics and engineering makes this course interesting and suitable for all levels of students from all CREIs. Students will also get the possibility to work on modern supercomputers. |
Sergey Rykovanov | 3 | MA030367 | ||
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History and Philosophy of Science
The aim of this course is to give to Skoltech students and postgraduates basic information about the main stages of the development of science from its birth in Ancient Greece through the Middle Ages and the Renaissance to Modern Times and to the great scientific revolutions of the XX century. Every man of culture especially a future scientist should know the impact of such great thinkers as Plato, Aristotle, Thomas Aquinas, John Buridan, Nicholas of Cusa, Copernicus, Galileo, Descartes, Newton, Boscovich, Darwin, Mendel, Bohr and Einstein (omitting many other brilliant names, that would be spoken about in the frames of the course) to the development of a scientific picture of the universe. Also there will be discussed the main topics and notions of the philosophy of science: demarcation between science and humanities, Popper’s theory of falsification, Kuhn’s theory of scientific revolutions, philosophical ideas of Lakatos and Feyerabend.
The course will consist of 18 3-hour lectures and 6 examination sessions (3 hour each). The students are to submit 6 written essays in English on the following themes: 1. Ancient Greek and Roman Science; 2. Medieval and Renaissance Science; 3. Scientific Revolution of the XVII century; 4. Science in the XVIII and XIX century; 5. Science in the XX-XXI centuries; 6. Philosophy of Science. For the final exam the students should prepare 10-15 minutes oral presentation on the scientific problem they are currently working upon, or on some topic connected with history of science and/or philosophy. Lectures 1-3 are devoted to the Ancient Greek and Roman Science Lectures 4-6 are devoted to Medieval and Renaissance Science Lectures 7-9 are devoted to the Scientific Revolution of the XVII century Lectures 10-12 are devoted to Science in the XVIII and XIX century Lectures 13-15 are devoted to Science in the XX-XXI centuries Lectures 16-18 are devoted to the Philosophy of Science |
Ivan Lupandin | 6 | DG060026 | ||
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Industrial Robotics
Industrial robots offer substantial gains in manufacturing productivity, particularly when integrated into an automated system. A great range of capabilities commonly includes a wide variety of basic industrial tasks: material handling and palletizing, machine loading, parts assembly, welding, spray painting, and tool operation.
This practical-oriented course aims to familiarize graduate students with intelligent industrial robots and gain valuable hands-on skills through extensive training sessions and utilizing modern concepts and techniques of controlling robot manipulators and types of end effectors. Also, students will be trained to handle different automation tasks required by the needs of a particular industrial sector. |
Dmitriy Dzhurinskiy | 6 | MA060249 | ||
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Information and Coding Theory
The aim of the course is to explain basic ideas and results of information and coding theory, some of which has been used for rather long time in data science, in particular various entropy inequalities, and some emerged just very recently, for instance, usage of error-correcting codes for improvements of k-means method for clustering. The course is divided into two parts: introduction to information theory and elements of modern coding theory. In the first part, we consider the measure of information, mutual information, entropy, evaluation of channel capacity for single user and multi-user channels. In the second part, we consider foundations of coding theory such as block codes, linear codes, bounds on the code’s parameters and the most popular algebraic coding methods (Hamming, Reed-Muller, BCH and Reed-Solomon codes). Then we consider modern coding techniques, i.e. iterative decoding systems and graphical models to represent them. Iterative techniques have revolutionized the theory and practice of coding and have been applied in numerous communications standards. We discuss low-density parity-check (LDPC) codes, factor graphs and Sum-Product decoding algorithm.
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Alexey Frolov | 6 | MA060122 | ||
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Introduction to Cluster Algebras and Varieties (Term 1B-2)
Cluster algebras and cluster varieties appeared almost simultaneously in the early 2000s; the algebras were introduced in the works of Fomin and Zelevinsky, and varieties in the works of Fock and Goncharov. These notions rather quickly found numerous applications and became popular, for the last 15 years this popularity has not decreased in any way.
The course will be devoted to an introduction to these concepts. We will mainly concentrate on connections with Lie groups, Poisson structures, and integrable systems. |
Mikhail Bershtein |
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Introduction to Computer Vision
Computer Vision is one of the most rapidly evolving subfields of Data Science with many applications, e. g. in autonomous driving and healthcare, among others. This course is designed to provide a comprehensive systematic introduction to the field. We'll start with the recognition of some simple object elements such as corners and edges and then proceed to the detection of more complex local features. All major problem statements such as image classification, object detection and segmentation as well as the corresponding classical algorithms will be covered within the course. Finally, we'll briefly introduce convolutional networks and discuss key deep learning architectures for the same set of problems.
We'll extensively use Python and CV & image analysis libraries scikit-image and OpenCV during hands-ons and homeworks. The final grade will be calculated using the results of three homeworks (20% each) and the final project (40%). |
Mikhail Belyaev | 3 | MA030348 | ||
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Introduction to Linux and Supercomputers
The course teaches you set of skills necessary for programming in the Linux environment. It prepares you for using the Supercomputer, such as the primary Skoltech computational resource called "Zhores" in your future or current research.
Almost all Supercomputers in the world are based on the Linux operating system and consist of a cluster of computers connected by high-speed network. Understanding of computer Architecture is part of the course and you will learn how computational needs of your research determine what you can expect from a Supercomputer. Linux is the primary part of the course. You will learn Linux concepts and acquire the skills to use the terminology. For this we discuss concepts in the class, you read the suggested book and write essays to practice reasoning around the Linux concepts. These skills are basis for your ability to isolate and correct problems when working with a Supercomputer. The course teaches you theory and practice of Linux to acquire skills for writing automation scripts to handle workload on a Supercomputer. This includes the usage of Virtualization containers that allow you to transfer the programming environment from one computer to another. Then, you learn how to automate the compilation, the maintenance of C-based programs and the usage of software modules to handle a variety of programming environments. One of most important topics of the course is understanding of parallel programming with OpenMP and MPI programming paradigms and usage of accelerators, such as the GPUs. On the parallel programming – concepts of the performance scaling, data hazards and understanding of the race conditions will guide the design of processing algorithms for your (future) research. The course is build on exercises which you do on your own and we discuss in the class. Attendance of the course counts towards the graduation, as well as doing the exercises and writing the essays to make sure you master the terminology of all concepts. |
Igor Zacharov | 3 | MA030366 | ||
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Introduction to Natural Language Processing
This course gives introduction to the field of Natural Language Processing (NLP). The course provides a panorama of various NLP tasks and applications such as part-of-speech tagging, named entity recognition, and word sense disambiguation.
The course is largely based on the classic textbook by Jurafsky&Martin, but also features material on graph-based models for NLP and data annotation / crowdsourcing for NLP. The course on "Deep Learning for Natural Language Processing" at Skoltech provides complementary material to this introductory course focusing more on modern neural models and approaches, e.g. Transformers, and less on the various applications and related topics, such as crowdsourcing, graph-based NLP, and dependency parsing. |
Alexander Panchenko | 3 | MA030555 | ||
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Introduction to Programming for Biologists
Science is constantly changing. The more and more complicated analyses are needed for publication, not only for a theoretical study but also for experimental research. In the light of ongoing development of new high-throughput experimental techniques, the skill of data processing and analysis becomes inevitable for any researcher.
One of the most used tools to process data and make publication-quality plots is Python programming language. Python is simple, powerful, and extremely popular. Among programming languages, Python is the closest to natural languages making it easy to begin with. In the course “Introduction to Programming for Biologists” I will provide basic knowledge of Python in a simple form suitable for understanding by all students, especially by completely unfamiliar with programming. With many exercises, students will inevitably master their programming skills to the level appropriate for processing their own data and making basic-to-medium analyses. |
Dmitry Ivankov | 6 | MA060372 | ||
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Introduction to Solid State Physics
This course gives an introduction to solid state physics, one of the cornerstones on which a modern technologies are based. We will begin with the conventional classification of solids on the basis of binding forces, to be followed by crystal structure description and experimental techniques for crystal studies. From there we will discuss classical and quantum aspects of lattice dynamics and begin the study of the electronic structure of solids, including energy band formalism and carrier statistics in metals, semiconductors and insulators. Next we will consider basics of the atomic and electronic processes at crystal surfaces and interfaces, kinetic effects and scattering of the electrons. We will continue with the study of the optical processes in solids, including nonequilibrium carrier dynamics and photovoltaic effects and their applications in technology.
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Sergey Kosolobov | 6 | MA060027 | ||
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Master Your Thesis in English 1 (Life Sciences)
Writing is the key priority and the need of utmost importance for all would-be scientists. Science demands good writing, that presupposes the skills to communicate ideas, theories, and findings as efficiently and clearly as possible. Science lives and dies by how it is represented in print and printed material is the final product of scientific endeavour. The primary goal of this course is to prepare master students for wiring, editing, and defending a Master Thesis.
This course is designed to explain how to write chapters of their Thesis through practical examples of good writing taken from the authentic linguistic environment in life sciences. The course teaches how to overcome certain typical problems in writing a text of a thesis and abounds in useful linguistics assistance on its various parts. Feedback on students’ texts will constitute the major part of the course. The Course is offered in two modules which gradually build on the necessary writing and presentation skills. |
Anastasiia Sharapkova | 3 | Extra | MF030003l | |
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Master Your Thesis in English 1 (Multidisciplinary) (Term 5B-6)
The Course offers concise and practical guidelines for writing and defending a Master Thesis at Skoltech. The course focuses on the main parts of the Thesis in terms of structure, vocabulary and grammar, and their transformations for a presentation with slides. Students will develop a conscious approach to own writing and presentations through thorough analyses of the best authentic examples combined with intensive writing and editing practice. The ‘process-for-product’ approach teaches the students to write – use (peer) reviewer’s advice – revise/edit – repeat and develop linguistic awareness needed to avoid the typical pitfalls in writing and live presentation.
The Course is offered in two modules which gradually build on the necessary writing and presentation skills. |
Elizaveta Tikhomirova |
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Master Your Thesis in English_Marathon
This is FALL Module of the course which is aligned with the Thesis submission deadlines at Skoltech.
The course was designed and tailored specifically for the 2nd-year Master’s students to provide help with the Thesis writing and presentation in English. Course participants will get professional feedback on their Thesis in terms of structure, vocabulary and grammar of each chapter, and learn how to make important transformations for a presentation with slides. The Course gradually builds on the necessary writing and presentation skills. Classes and tasks are focused on facilitating your progress with reporting research results. The key is to start writing as soon as you start your research as there are a lot of things that you can – and should – write before the main results are obtained. A successful student will have these elements of the paper ready by the end of the term: – Research gap and Research Question(s) – Goal and objectives of research – Potential benefits, novelty and significance – Literature Review – Materials and methods /Experiment design – Status Review presentation and speech Start NOW, save lots of effort and nerves later! |
Elizaveta Tikhomirova | 3 | Extra | MF030004 | CANCELLED |
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Materials Characterization Techniques
The purpose of this course is to familiarize students with the modern practically useful methods of materials characterization spanning various diffraction, microscopy, spectroscopy and electrochemistry techniques.
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Stanislav Fedotov | 6 | MA060529 | ||
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Microscopy in Neuroscience
Overview of current fluorescence microscopy techniques in neuroscience. The course will outline and compare different optical microscopy techniques and super-resolution imaging in neurobiology. Topics also include clearing agents and techniques, optical imaging of brain activity in vivo using genetically encoded probes, immediate early gene mapping, intravital imaging, applications for functional analyses of neuronal circuits. The course also aims to teach students to understand basic principles of the current imaging techniques, microscope design, and image formation.
The course places a strong emphasis on laboratory practice in sample preparation, brain tissue sectioning and staining, confocal imaging, light-sheet microscopy, and image analysis. Students will learn how to choose the most appropriate imaging method for their own research project. The course is limited to 9 participants to ensure interactive, hands-on experience at the Bioimaging and Spectroscopy core facility. |
Dmitry Artamonov | 3 | MA030539 | CANCELLED | |
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Modeling of Multiphase Flows
The course is focused on modeling and analyzing a number of transport phenomena related to motion of multiphase flows including their transport in porous media.
The course starts with introduction in transport phenomena covering basic laws of fluid transport for laminar, turbulent, non-Newtonian, compressible and incompressible flows. The major topics to be considered: – Liquid-particle flows |
Dmitry Eskin | 6 | MA060344 | ||
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Models of Sequential Data
In this course, we discuss the forefront of modern research in learning from sequence data. The course takes a walk from the basics of sequence processing to modern deep learning approaches. We aim at covering both fundamental and modern advances in this area not commonly discussed in undergraduate or graduate Machine Learning and Deep Learning classes.
Over multiple weeks, we will investigate how researchers and practitioners use these methods and algorithms for analyzing time-series data, text data, or medical sequences. The course aims to bring all students on the same page. They do not require severe background knowledge. The objective is to provide them with both depth and breadth knowledge of the state-of-the-art in sequence modeling. |
Alexey Zaytsev | 3 | MA030433 | ||
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Modern Wireless Systems - 5G and Beyond
The course covers modern wireless systems, including advanced telecommunication technologies (5G/6G) which form the essential basis for next-generation communication deployment. At the same time the course gives an overview of the opportunities for the mobile communication industry created by cross-industry transformation and traditional business models changes.
During the course the students will consider the following questions: During the course the number of lab sessions will be held with the use of 2G/3G/4G/5G testbenches. As a result of the course, the students will be able to provide a solid understanding of modern wireless communication concepts that satisfy the current telecommunication market needs in enabling next-generation communication models and new services. |
Dmitry Lakontsev | 3 | MA030410 | ||
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Molecular Biology (Term 1B-2)
Molecular biology course is based on learning the principles of replication, recombination, DNA repair. Additionally, replication strategies of phages and viruses will be discussed. Mitosis and meiosis will be described in a context of DNA biosynthesis. Also, the principles of RNA biosynthesis, i.e. transcription and processing, as well as protein biosynthesis, i.e. translation, maturation and transport will be described.
The goal of the course is obtaining a comprehensive knowledge on the structure of DNA and processes of DNA replication, recombination and repair in bacteria and eukaryotes, as well as on replication of phages and viruses. To obtain a detailed knowledge on the processes of transcription, in bacteria and eukaryotes, on the regulation of transcription in bacteria and eukaryotes, on examples of complex networks of transcriptional regulation in bacteria and eukaryotes, on maturation of RNA in eukaryotes, on protein biosynthesis in bacteria and eukaryotes, on the transport of protein in bacteria and eukaryotes. Students activities include: |
Petr Sergiev |
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Molecular Neurobiology
The Molecular Neurobiology course gives students the basics of molecular organization and functional principles of the central nervous system. This is a theoretical course, describing the current vision of how the central nervous system works at the cellular, subcellular, and molecular levels. The course will also introduce current methods used to assess the functional organization of the nervous system at the molecular level, with a particular focus on studies of the human brain. The course will include both the textbook information, as well as recent findings not yet included in textbooks.
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Philipp Khaitovich | 6 | MA060397 | ||
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Nanooptics
The Nano-optics course is designed to help students develop an understanding of optical phenomena at the nanometer scale, i.e. near or beyond the diffraction limit of light. Typically, numerous subtopics and applications of nano-optics are scattered across various disciplines, such as field theory, solid state physics, spectroscopy, photonics, quantum optics etc. At the beginning of the course we formulate general principles and discuss a theoretical framework to study the light-matter interaction at nanoscale. Afterwards, we focus on the theory and applications of plasmon-polaritons, hybrid light-matter quasiparticles that can be used to reach subwavelength confinement of light. In the third part of the course we discuss integrated photonic circuits, where a confined light can be used for both computation and communication between electronic devices. Along with achievements of this modern field we discuss challenges, such as the size mismatch between electronic and optical components. Particular attention is given to various plasmonic upgrades of photonic circuits elements, that promise both miniaturization and improved information processing speed. After completing the course, students will gain a general understanding of the field with a particular focus on modern trends in plasmonics and integrated opto-electronics. In addition to that, students will be able to improve their analytical skills by solving various mathematical problems of nano-optics in a framework of the field theory.
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Ivan Pshenichnyuk | 3 | MA030153 | ||
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Network Science
The course is a broad interdisciplinary introduction to the theory of complex networks and their applications to industrial and scientific problems from various fields of science: biology, physics, economics, sociology, etc. Topics that will be covered in the course include basic concepts from graph theory, spectral theory of random networks, structuring and pattern formation in random networks (communities, core-shell, etc.), statistical data analysis on real networks, as well as various applications of Network Science for problems in bioinformatics and industry. Students will learn about ongoing research in this emerging field and ultimately apply the knowledge gained to conduct their own analysis of real-world network data of their choice in the final project.
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Kirill Polovnikov | 3 | MA030504 | ||
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Numerical Linear Algebra
Numerical linear algebra forms the basis for all modern computational mathematics. It is not possible to develop new large scale algorithms and even use existing ones without knowing it.
In this course I will show, how numerical linear algebra methods and algorithms are used to solve practical problems. Matrix decompositions play the key role in numerical linear algebra. We will study different matrix decompositions in details: what are they, how to compute them efficiently and robustly, and most importantly, how they are applied to the solution of linear systems, eigenvalue problems and data analysis applications. For large-scale problems iterative methods will be described. I will try to highlight recent developments when it is relevant to the current lecture. This course should serve as a basis for other IT Skoltech courses. It will also serve as a first-time place where programming environment and infrastructure is introduced in a consistent manner. |
Ivan Oseledets | 6 | MA060024 | ||
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Numerical Methods in Engineering and Applied Science
The course provides students with the understanding and working knowledge of fundamentals of numerical methods used for modeling and simulation of complex phenomena described by ordinary and partial differential equations. The following topics are covered: finite-difference approximation of derivatives; interpolation; integration; steady-state boundary value problems; local and global errors; stability, consistency, and convergence; matrix equations and iterative methods; initial value problems for ordinary differential equations; Runge-Kutta methods; multi-step methods; absolute stability; stiff ODE; numerical solution of PDEs; parabolic problems; hyperbolic problems; method of lines; von Neumann analysis; operator splitting; introduction to spectral approximation.
The course involves hands-on experience with programming (in Matlab or Python) and solving problems on computers. Solid knowledge of undergraduate mathematics including basic understanding of the theory of ordinary and partial differential equations of physics and engineering as well as basic programming skills are required. |
Dmitry Kolomenskiy | 6 | DA060239 | ||
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Omics Technologies and Biomedical Mass Spectrometry
Omics technologies include different data-intensive disciplines dedicated to the molecular profiling of various biological systems: genomics, transcriptomics, proteomics, metabolomics, and lipidomics. This course will be mainly focused on the mass spectrometry-based techniques refereeing other omics to the special live science courses, e.g. – Analysis of ‘omics data (E. Khrameeva).
First, this course introduces students to the principles and methods of mass spectrometry (MS) with special emphasize on biological and medical applications. The course will cover wide range of MS techniques used for ion generation, separation and detection as well as data processing and interpretation. The course will teach the theoretical fundamentals required for the design of instruments and methods for measuring mass spectra of biological samples. The course will also address to other methods of molecular separation: capillary electrophoresis, gel-electrophoresis, High-performance liquid chromatography (HPLC), etc. Then the course will cover mass spectrometry applications in OMICs technologies, biomarker discovery and tissue imaging. The course will teach students the quantitative proteomics and metabolomics MS-based assays and its application in biomedical and clinical science. The course will cover big data processing and machine learning approaches used for the biomarker discovery and tissue imaging. After successful completion of this class, students will acquire the initial knowledge of the operational principles and design of different mass spectrometers, different method of protein, peptides, lipids and metabolite molecule identification, different fragmentation methods for primary and secondary structure determination, methods of quantification of proteins, lipids, metabolites and small molecules in physiological liquids and applications of this methods in clinical science and practice. |
Evgeny Nikolaev | 3 | MA030512 | ||
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Organic Geochemistry of Petroleum Systems
The course offers an introduction to the principles and methods of organic geochemistry as applied to conventional and unconventional hydrocarbon systems.
The course covers: the basic chemistry and biogeochemical processes involved in the generation and transformation of organic matter to different types of fossil fuels; the depositional environments that lead to the formation of effective source rocks; the use of individual organic compounds (biomarkers) and their isotopes for exploration and development of hydrocarbon deposits. Specific examples, from published literature, of applying biomarker and their stable isotope compositions in petroleum basin studies will be discussed and evaluated. Lectures are supplemented by two seminars, which will allow students to explore the role of organic matter chemical composition and the thermal history of a sedimentary basin on source rock hydrocarbon potential. Two laboratory sessions will give students hands on experience with analytical chemical procedures for organic matter analysis. A distinctive new feature of the course is the discussion of the latest analytical and instrumental techniques for molecular and stable isotope compound-specific characterization of biomarkers from source rocks and petroleum. |
Nikolai Pedentchouk | 3 | MA030466 | ||
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Parallel Computing in Mathematical Modeling and Data-Intensive Applications (Term 5B-6)
This interdisciplinary course:
— makes the students familiar with main scientific and engineering applications of modern supercomputers, — explains numerical methods behind the applications and their implementation — discusses efficiency of the common algorithms on modern supercomputer architectures — extends students background in modern processors and supercomputer architectures The applications includes computations fluid dynamics with finite difference and finite volume methods, Lattice Boltzmann and cellular automata, finite elements modeling, molecular simulations, plasma, quantum chemistry, distributed deep learning on multiple computing devices, processing big volumes of data (e.g. large graphs) on distributed systems. Each topic includes a lecture by a lead instructors, invited high-profile guest lecturers and students. Each lecture is devoted to a particular application. Students will form teams to work on projects in one of the application areas and then share their experience with the fellow students at seminar sessions and a final project presentation at the conclusion of the course. |
Sergey Rykovanov |
63 per term
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MA060411 | CANCELLED | |
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Path Integral: Stochastic Processes and Basics of Quantum Mechanics (Term 1-2)
One of the most powerful methods of modern theoretical physics is the method of functional integration or path integration. The foundations of this approach were developed by N. Wiener at the beginning of the 20th century, but it spread widely after R. Feynman, who applied this approach in quantum mechanics. At present, the functional integral has found its application in the theory of random processes, polymer physics, quantum and statistical mechanics, and even in financial mathematics. Despite the fact that in some cases its applicability has not yet been mathematically rigorous proven, this method makes it possible to obtain exact and approximate solutions of various interesting problems with surprising elegance. The course is devoted to the basics of this approach and its applications to the theory of random processes and quantum mechanics. In the first part of the course, using the example of stochastic differential equations, the main ideas of this approach will be described, as well as various methods for exact and approximate calculation of functional integrals. Further, within the framework of the course, the main ideas of quantum mechanics will be considered, and both the operator approach and the approach using functional integration will be considered. It will be demonstrated that, from the point of view of formalism, the description of random processes and the description of quantum mechanical systems are very similar. This will make it possible to make a number of interesting observations, such as, for example, the analogy between supersymmetric quantum mechanics and the diffusion of a particle in an external potential. In the final part of the course, depending on the interests of the audience, various applications of the functional integration method will be discussed, such as polymer physics, financial mathematics, etc.
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Andrew Semenov |
63 per term
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Pedagogical Experience
The main function of this course is to articulate Skoltech's expectations on PhD students who do their pedagogical TA assignment at Skoltech. The course describes the intended learning outcomes and how they are assessed.
The main bulk of the 81 hours of the course is spent in the actual courses in which the PhD-students do their TA-assignments. |
Dmitry Artamonov | 3 | DG030005 | ||
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Permafrost and Natural Hydrates
This course is about permafrost and natural hydrates. The course is devoted to the consideration of cryogenic-geological conditions of the northern oil and gas provinces of Russia and their influence on the construction and operation of production wells. The course includes permafrost characterization within the main oil and gas fields in the European North and Siberia, including the Arctic zone. The main cryogenic-geological processes occurring in the areas of permafrost propagation are considered. The description of gas and gas hydrate accumulations in permafrost is given. The conditions for the formation and existence of gas and gas hydrate accumulations in permafrost are analyzed. Zoning of the territories of oil and gas provinces on the complexity of geocryological conditions for the development of deposits is carried out. The characteristic of engineering and permafrost studies for the selection of construction sites for producing wells is given. Analyzed the complications arising from the construction and operation of wells in permafrost. Thermal and mechanical interaction of producing wells with permafrost is considered. The behavior of gas hydrate accumulations in permafrost zone during the development of gas and oil fields in the Arctic is analyzed. The impact of global climate change on the stability of wells and ground engineering structures of the oil and gas complex is assessed.
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Evgeny Chuvilin | 3 | MA030343 | ||
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Phase Transitions: Introduction to Statistical Physics and Percolation (Term 1B-2)
This is a course on rigorous results in statistical mechanics, random fields, and percolation theory. We start with percolation, which is the simplest system, exhibiting singular behavior, and undergoing phase transitions. We then go to more realistic models of interacting particles, like the Ising model and XY-model, and study phase transitions, occurring there.
The topics will include: Percolation models, infinite clusters. Crossing probabilities for rectangles Critical percolation The Russo-Seymour-Welsh theory Cardy’s formula in Carleson form and the Smirnov theorem. Gibbs distribution Dobrushin-Lanford-Ruelle equation Ising model Spontaneous symmetry breaking at low temperatures O(N)-symmetric models The Mermin–Wagner Theorem The Berezinskii–Kosterlitz–Thouless transition Reflection Positivity and the chessboard estimates Infrared bounds |
Semen Shlosman |
63 per term
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MA060427 | ||
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Photonics Research Seminar Series (Term 1B-4)
The course "Photonics Research Seminar Series" aims to provide MSc and PhDs with a broader perspective into state-of-the-art research in photonics, from fundamental insights (both theoretical and experimental) to engineering and applications. The course also aims to train students in how to structure scientific results, how to provide a coherent narrative and how to appropriately present it in the form of a strictly-timed oral presentation. The bulk of the course consists of a weekly one hour seminar on seminal topics of photonics, from guest speakers or Skoltech faculty, researchers and students.
The course is a prerequisite for the research thesis defense of projects of the following laboratories (and is as such compulsory only for the 2nd year MSc students of these laboratories): |
Pavlos Lagoudakis |
30.75 per term
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MA030553 | ||
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Planning Algorithms in Artificial Intelligence
Planning is the process of deciding which action to take in order to achieve some goals. This course will study planning and decision making under the scope of Artificial Intelligence, that is, we will mostly focus on algorithms that calculate the actions to take by an agent.
The course will cover a wide variety of planning problems, such as discrete planning, path planning, continuous planning, decision-making, planning under uncertainty, learning-based, etc. This diversity corresponds to the main objective of the course: provide a solid understanding to the student to successfully apply different planning techniques into a large variety of problems, including robotics, controls, manufacturing, drug design, computer graphics, and aerospace applications to name a few. The evaluation will consist of problem sets, related to seminar material prepared in class plus a final group project. |
Gonzalo Ferrer | 3 | MA030420 | ||
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Plant Biology
In the past 10-20 years plant biology is at the peak of new discoveries. Advances in DNA sequencing, especially NGS, and the methods of genome transformation, boosted the development of this field. This course will highlight several topics in plant biology, with a focus on the plant genome and the mechanisms leading from the gene(s) to the phenotype. The course will combine lectures and seminars. The seminars will be held in the journal club format, where students will read and then discuss papers reporting important advancements in plant biology.
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Maria Logacheva | 3 | MA030481 | CANCELLED | |
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Qualifying Exam: Computational and Data Science and Engineering
The Qualifying Exam is a compulsory 3 credits component of the doctoral program.
Its goal is to assess the PhD student knowledge and skills in the area of the thesis research. A Qualifying Exam includes the following components: The Doctoral Program Committee tailors the format and delivery mode of the Qualifying Exam to best suit the requirements of the doctoral program. |
Nikolay Brilliantov | 3 | DD030020cd | ||
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Qualifying Exam: Petroleum Engineering
The Qualifying Exam is a compulsory 3 credits component of the doctoral program.
Its goal is to assess the PhD student knowledge and skills in the area of the thesis research. A Qualifying Exam includes the following components: The Doctoral Program Committee tailors the format and delivery mode of the Qualifying Exam to best suit the requirements of the doctoral program. |
Mikhail Spasennykh | 3 | DD030020pe | ||
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Quiver Representations and Quiver Varieties (Term 1-2)
The theory of quivers is one of the central topics in various fields of modern mathematics and mathematical physics, such as algebraic geometry, representation theory, combinatorics, quantum field theory, integrable systems. The theory has lots of beautiful and deep theorems and is very popular due to a huge number of applications, including McKay correspondence, instantons and ADHM construction, geometric realization of the Kac-Moody Lie algebras. Many of the recent results and applications of the theory of quivers are based on the quiver verieties, introduced by Hiraku Nakajima 20 years ago. The course will cover the basic material on the structure theory of quivers and their representations, such as path algebras, Gabriel's theorem, Hall algebras, preprojective algebras and Auslander-Reiten quivers. Based on the general theory of quiver representations we will discuss the definition of the Nakajima quiver varieties and several explicit examples and applications. The course is aimed at the graduate students or advanced bachelor students. The basic knowledge of algebraic geometry, differential geometry, and the theory of Lie groups and Lie algebras is expected.
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Evgeny Feygin |
63 per term
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MA060425 | ||
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Research Methodology: CMT Research Seminar (Term 2-4)
This is the main scientific seminar for the Skoltech Center for Materials Technologies (CMT). All MSc students either enrolled into the Master Program in Advanced Manufacturing Technologies or PhD students affiliated with CMT should attend this seminar. The format of the seminar is weekly invited lectures from top scientists in the research fields related to Advanced Manufacturing, Digital Engineering Technologies, and Mechanics and Physics of Advanced Manufacturing. The seminar is held in hybrid online/offline format.
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Ivan Sergeichev |
31 per term
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Research Seminar "Advanced Materials Science" (Term 2-4)
This is the main research seminar of the Skoltech Center for Energy Science and Technology and Materials Science Education program featuring presentations of young Skoltech researchers (MSc students, PhD students, postdocs) as well as external invited speakers. Every MSc and PhD student should deliver at least one presentation per two years. The range of topics is broad and includes any aspects of materials science and engineering. As a rule, each speaker presents results of his/her own research. Every presentation is followed by a discussion and a Q&A session.
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Sergey Luchkin |
1.50.5 per term
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Research Seminar "Energy Systems and Technologies" (Term 2-4)
This research seminar is the general meeting for faculty, researchers and master and PhD students of Energy Systems programs. The seminar takes place every week during Terms 2(6)-3(7)-4(8).
Master students must attend the seminar at least for one academic year but welcome to attend during two years. PhD students are welcome to attend the seminar during all years of studies but can gain no more than 6 credits in total. The seminar consists of faculty lectures, invited lectures of top scientists in their research field as well as students’ reports on their own or examined papers. To PASS the course and gain 3 credits per academic year the student must fulfill all three requirements: 1. Attendance: > 2/3 of seminars. 2. Presentation. Depending on the status: 3. Active participation in the discussion. Being able to pose a question for every presentaion. The core of the self-study activity will be preparation to the talk that is comparable to project implementation (a significant part of many regular courses). The students are expected to assign at the beginning of Term 2/6 and may drop the seminar till the beginning of Term 3/7 while credits are provided in Term 4/8. |
Elena Gryazina |
31 per term
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MA030489 | ||
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Research Seminars in Digital Engineering Center (Term 2-4)
This is the main research seminar of the Skoltech Digital Engineering Center featuring presentations of young Skoltech researchers (MSc students, PhD students, postdocs) as well as external invited speakers. Every MSc and PhD student should deliver at least one presentation per two years. The range of topics is broad and includes many aspects of Digital Engineering, Systems Engineering, Product Development, Robotics and automation and space research and systems. As a rule, each speaker presents results of his/her own research. Every presentation is followed by a discussion and a Q&A session.
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Clement Fortin |
31 per term
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Extra | MF030545 | |
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Reservoir Rock Characterization
The course provides conclusive theoretical knowledge in reservoir characterization and laboratory measurements of the rock properties. During the course the students will learn the key rock parameters, defining the reservoir geological and recoverable reserves, well design and completion, field development strategy. Particular emphasis is made on the genesis and relationships of the rock properties as well as their relevance for well logging data interpretation and geological modeling.
The course consists of lectures and seminars, including video demonstration of laboratory equipment, used for measuring rock properties. The participants will be acquainted with every stage of reservoir rock study, starting from coring while drilling, core handling at the well site, its further processing, sampling, transportation and preparation for laboratory tests. Further the students will learn in details routine and special laboratory tests (SCAL). Finally, the students will study how to design a laboratory program, acknowledging geology and rock properties of a reservoir. |
Alexei Tchistiakov | 3 | MA030346 | ||
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Robotics
Robotics became the key driving force for the new industry and hundreds of thousands of industrial robots are installed annually. Students of the course will learn how to design innovative multi-DOFs, mobile, and flying robots. They will learn how to program Arduino, STM32, ESP microcontrollers, digital filters, and to write the software for controlling the servo and DC motors. Topics will include Forward and Inverse kinematics of 6-DoF robots, Jacobians, Robot dynamics, Trajectory planning, PID control. Python for robots and Robot Operating System (ROS) Lectures will help to develop strong skills in robot programming. Students will be taught the unique robotic technologies, such as, inverse Delta robot DeltaTouch and touch-sensitive soft robotic gripper, both are designed in ISR Laboratory. Students will also have a chance to develop autonomous mobile robots for Eurobot International Robotics Competition. Students will have the access to world’s top-level robotic solutions, e.g. KUKA IIWA, Universal Robots, Fanuc Delta Robot, DJI drones. The invited speakers will be the leaders of startups founded by ISR Lab. students, such as, Native Robotics, Tsuru Robotics, Sizolution and PhD students from Italian Institute of Technology, University of Southern Denmark, Tohoku University, etc.
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Dzmitry Tsetserukou | 6 | MA060050 | ||
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Selected Topics in Energy: Physical, Chemical and Geophysical Challenges (Term 2-4)
The course provides an introduction to the modern topics related to fundamentals of exploration of energy resources, energy generation, storage, conversion and use. It identifies the corresponding practical challenges to be addressed at the fundamental research level and familiarizes the students with the state-of-the-art approaches, methods and techniques in use in related scientific areas. The course seeks to emphasize and maintain interdisciplinary nature of the energy-related topics, in particular, combination of micro- and macroscopic approaches of geophysics, mechanics and chemistry in hydrocarbon exploration and development, relation between the physical and chemical processes of energy generation and conversion, integration of physical, chemical and mechanical approaches to perspective materials (physical and chemical synthesis, micro- and macroscopic characterization, structure-property relations, etc.) and related theoretical methodologies. These interdisciplinary links are mostly demonstrated by horizontal knowledge exchange among the students reporting and discussing practical examples from their own research field or from modern review or research publications. Topical lectures are included for further exploration of these links. The secondary aim of the course is the development of presentation skills (oral and writing), as well as scientific peer-review experience. The seminar format chosen for most activities allows students free exchange of knowledge and ideas, broader vision of their research projects and methodologies, better assessments of their own research skills and demands for further education.
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Alexei Buchachenko |
62 per term
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DG060106 | CANCELLED | |
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Startup Workshop
Startup Workshop (SUW) is the 6-credit E&I course designed to accelerate the Skoltech student/faculty/researcher teams developed and inspired by the Innovation Workshop and similar project-based E&I courses and programs (SFW, TEF, STRIP etc). Still, any Skoltech team is welcome to join the SUW through the mechanism of competitive selection. SUW course is extremely practical and pragmatic: its whole and only point is the preparation of the project application for the startup grant financing coming from two core Russian entrepreneurial infrastructural organizations: Skolkovo Foundation (SkF) and FASIE (aka Bortnik).
Despite such formal learning objective may look too narrow and mundane, it is proven to be beneficial to the project teams in two unique ways: — 1) building well-developed and structured SkF/FASIE application is an intensive exercise, that requires major effort in CustDev and prototyping, thus providing both learning and development to the initial project. Team that passed the SUW will be ready to face each and every venture investor of the world; — 2) as SUW teams enter the formal path of Skoltech Startup Funnel, they will obtain an intensive help from the Skoltech Dept of Business Devt, that will provide not only mentoring, but also some minor competitive financing, as well as E&I scholarship. SUW pushes teams through the preparation of the SkF/FASIE application that consists of 6 building blocks: 1) problem statement & validation, 2) solution & prototype description & validation, 3) competitive analysis and market assessment, 4) commercialization plan, 5) team and roles, 6) integrative 3-yr plan. Please note that SUW class is quite intensive: it starts well before the Term 2 with the competitive selection and requires serious work each week to produce the graded submission. |
Dmitry Kulish | 6 | E&I | MC060025 | |
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Stochastic Methods in Mathematical Modelling
Stochastic processes play an important role in natural sciences, computational theory as well as in sampling and synthetic data generation for machine learning. The course aims to cover basic methods of stochastic modelling, such as: Monte-Carlo methods, the modelling of scale-free phenomena as well as stochastic optimisation approaches.
The first part of the course provides an introduction to the methods of description and generation of randomness. The main idea is to establish a firm ground for more advanced topics and to help students feel comfortable with advanced machine learning courses. A special emphasis is put on the ubiquitous scale-free and non-gaussian stochastic processes also known as anomalous diffusion. Different causes of these processes will be discussed with examples such as practically important class of first-passage problems. The second half of the course will deal with Monte-Carlo algorithms, inference and learning, classical random network theory, Markov decision processes and stochastic optimal control. |
Vladimir Palyulin | 6 | MA060363 | ||
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Structural Analysis and Design
The Structural analysis and Design course gives students basics of strength analysis and design of structural members. Theoretical sections include introductions into stress and strain theories, failure criteria, elasticity theory, nonlinear material behavior and analysis of tension, compression, bending and shear structural members. The students work with Abaqus software to develop simple finite element models validated by analytical solutions. Typical structural design problems are considered in the framework of course projects. Students welcome to propose the problem statements for the course projects in order to support their MS or PhD projects.
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Ivan Sergeichev | 6 | MA060067 | ||
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Systems Engineering
The course introduces students to the fundamentals of systems engineering as an interdisciplinary approach and means to enable the realization of successful systems, as defined by the International Council of Systems Engineering.
The course covers the entire spectrum of the lifecycle management of a system, encompassing conceptual design, design, implementation, assembly-Integration and test (AIT), operations and disposal of systems. Being a foundational course for the Space and Engineering Systems students of Skoltech, the course discusses many applications of systems engineering including some parts of space systems engineering . The course also discusses systems architecture principles. The Systems Engineering course follows the systems engineering V-model as an educational guideline. The course includes a design project that is conducted throughout the term. |
Clement Fortin | 6 | MA060023 | ||
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Technology Entrepreneurship Seminar: Foundation (Term 1B-2)
The course is designed to help you to learn and master practical skills of technology entrepreneurship and to accelerate your startup projects up to “external support/funding ready” level. It is intended for students: (1) interested in new tech venture creation and technology entrepreneurship; (2) having their own projects/ideas in development; (3) planning startup contest participation, pitch to investors, applying to Triple Point Contest, FASIE (“Bortnik Fund”), STRIP, accelerator/incubator program, etc. The startup project concept may be in the early experimental mode, or further along in its evolution such as seeking customers or pilot tests.
The course is conducted as practical and hands-on lab. We will not study entrepreneurship as a theoretical subject through external cases or papers. The material for learning comes directly from the class projects and the issues faced by students in converting their ideas into successful ventures. This assures projects real development and creates a highly dynamic environment for teaching where the faculty is a facilitator, mentor, tracker, and lecturer at the same time. The course subject areas represent “golden standard” for tech startups: (1) Problem and Market Need; (2) Product and Technology; (3) Market opportunity evaluation; (4) Business Model; (5) Startup Team; (6) R&D/Marketing/Sales/Funding plan; (7) Storytelling and Pitching. Upon the course completion, you and your team will The teams interested in the further development of their projects can continue seamlessly by entering the course "Technology Entrepreneurship Seminar: Advanced" (E&I track, 3 credits, Terms 3 & 4). |
Alexey Nikolaev |
31.5 per term
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E&I | MC030029a | |
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Theoretical Methods of Deep Learning
Deep Learning (DL) is an extremely important applied science that, at present, is poorly understood theoretically. We know that neural networks work well, but cannot fully explain why. Nevertheless, in recent years, there has been a rapid growth of publications that shed light on the new mathematics underlying DL, and we see now many interesting connections between DL and various other fields, e.g. approximation theory, differential equations, information theory, random matrix theory, statistical physics. This course aims to introduce students to these cutting-edge developments.
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Dmitry Yarotsky | 3 | MA030327 | ||
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Thesis Proposal Defense
The Thesis Proposal Defense is a compulsory component of the program, whereby the PhD student defends a thesis proposal before the Individual Doctoral Committee.
The PhD student must develop in consultation with the supervisor, a thesis proposal in the form of presentation or written document. The proposal should contain the thesis research question, a proposal of an approach answering the question, a brief review of the literature, an overview of the proposed structure, the expected results, and a timeline to the thesis defense. The PhD student should provide the Committee members with a thesis proposal approved by the supervisor one week in advance of the defense, which resulted in the completion of the individual student digital assessment form by the Individual Doctoral Committee. |
Viktoria Mikhaylova |
6 per term
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DD060021 | ||
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Transport in Mesoscopic Systems
The course aims to provide introduction to a modern direction of the solid-state physics, devoted to studying charge transport (charge currents) in mesoscopic structures. Mesoscopic structures are intermediate between micro- and macroscopic systems; in our context, this name refers to systems with many electron in which mechanics (in particular, quantum mechanics) of single electrons is still important. The course consists of two parts, devoted to normal (i.e., non-superconducting) and superconducting systems. A number of these systems form a basis for nanoelectronics devices. The course assumes participation of students interested in both experimental and theoretical aspects of mesoscopic research.
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Yakov Fominov | 6 | MA060217 | CANCELLED | |
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Universal Enveloping Algebras and Yangians (Term 1B-2)
Tentative program of the course:
1. Reminder: the classification of irreducible finite-dimensional representations of a reductive Lie algebra $\mathfrak g$; the universal enveloping algebra $U(\matfrak g)$; the PBW theorem. 2. The structure of the center $Z(U(\mathfrak g))$; the Harish-Chandra map. 3. The symmetrization map $S(\mathfrak g)\to U(\mathfrak g)$ and related combinatorics 4. The Perelomov–Popov formula (mainly for $\mathfrak g=\mathfrak{gl}(N,\mathbb C)$; for other classical Lie algebras — without proof) 5. The Capelli identity 6. Quantum immanants (after Okounkov) 7. The Yangian for $\mathfrak g=\mathfrak{gl}(N,\mathbb C)$ and the $R$-matrix formalism 8. The twisted Yangians 9. Works of Gelfand–Kirillov |
Grigori Olshanski |
63 per term
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MA060513 |
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Pedagogical Experience
The main function of this course is to articulate Skoltech's expectations on PhD students who do their pedagogical TA assignment at Skoltech. The course describes the intended learning outcomes and how they are assessed.
The main bulk of the 81 hours of the course is spent in the actual courses in which the PhD-students do their TA-assignments. |
Dmitry Artamonov | 3 | DG030005 | ||
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Pedagogy of Higher Education
The course offers an introduction to facilitating learning in higher education for PhD students asked to act as teaching assistants. The course content focuses on high resolution constructive alignment of learning outcomes with learning activities and assessment strategies. Learning outcomes for a course are elaborated into separate activities and assignments for students. Learning outcomes need to be articulated at every level of learning activities from course to assignment.
The course also rests on the approach that learning is promoted by feedback. Participants in the course will therefore be required to plan and design effective use of continuous formative assessment. Such formative assessment requires strategic learning activities and assignments. The course therefore emphasizes communication-to-learn activities including peer learning. Skoltech is an English medium instruction environment, and the course explores ways of addressing the potential effects of language and culture barriers for high quality student learning. All topics in the course are applied by participants on their own teaching and learning experiences and are meant to be used as they prepare and plan for their teaching assistantships or their supervisory activities to come. All participants will have a task to produce a reflection on their future actions to evolve as facilitators and meet the requirements of the scholarship of teaching and learning. |
Magnus Gustafsson | 3 | DG030025 | CANCELLED |
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Art of Making Presentation
Every student needs to present the result of his activities. You need to make a presentation for final projects from different courses, for defence and predefence of master/phd thesis. However, not everyone can accurately present results of their activities and sometimespresented results look not as great as they really are. Skill to make structural presentations can be useful in scientific conferences, in everyday work for industrial companies or for start-up team for finding investors. We will try to teach you how to make structural presentation which can help you to get career promotion faster. The main purpose of the course is to provide complex knowledge how to make presentation from idea to final live performance.
We will teach our students: 1. How to structure information to make presentation more clear 2. How to design your slide in PowerPoint effectively and fast 3. How to visualize data in Python and Excel and build readable and beautiful plots 4. How to make your public speech interesting and lively We will have some practise with Python and Excel. If you absolutely can’t program on python or work with excel, it’s not a problem. We teach you as absolutely beginners and show all necessary instruments for data visualization. |
Petr Sokerin, Andrey Puchkov, Maria Ulyanova |
20 | I-2022-28 |
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CAD Modeling and Optical Design
Students will learn basic and advanced principles of CAD modeling during this course. They will become able to create 3D-models of parts, choose and apply materials, develop assemblies, use mates to interact elements, get realistic animated images of products. Learners will also achieve basic skills of numerical simulation in a CAD program. They will study to apply loads, forces, boundary conditions, and other simulation items. The second stage of the course is simulation of optic systems using related software. It will be studied how to calculate parameters of optical system, investigate different optical components, evaluate system performance, optimize fabrication requirements, and analyze manufacturability. The course "CAD Modeling and Optical Design" was designed especially for students who are going to work at laser industrial company IPG Photonics after graduating Skoltech. Still, it is suitable for all attendee interested in CAD modeling, design, and specificities of optical manufacturing.
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Artem Aleksanyan, Konstantin Makarenko, Sergey Shevchenko |
34 | I-2022-13 |
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Career Development and Personal Branding
The course consists of two connected parts and introduces students to several skills, tools and techniques required for effective career planning and advancement, leadership and personality styles, and personal brand development. The course provides students with the opportunity to practice and improve themselves in the following areas: identifying career goals and paths, dealing with gaps in their critical career and professional skills, professional networking and liaising,marketing and branding for skilled self, impression management and use of marketing communications. Students also examine the challenges and opportunities associated with the application of knowledge and skills learned in the program to their current/future work environments.
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Arpi Karapetyan, Maxim Kiselev |
40 | I-2022-15 |
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Chess Strategies
Chess is an art of a thousand masterpieces. In the class we’ll discuss some of them. We will break down what ideas grandmasterminds put into their masterpieces in a beginner-friendly manner, discuss the strategies and principles behind these ideas, measure how tactically spicy were the queens Mikhail Tal served to his opponents on a plate, and try the odd taste of modern computer chess. Through the lens of chess strategies, you will start noticing typical patterns in real-life situations that require surprisingly “chess” solutions. During seminars-tournaments you will practice making difficult decisions under time pressure, while the discussion and analysis of famous chess games, as well as your own games, will improve your general chess skills and provide you with a couple of cool puzzles to share at the bar or the library, depending on your preferences. On the “scientifically proven benefits” side, you will improve your pattern memorization and rational reasoning skills. The main purpose of the course is to highlight the connection between strategies, applied in chess and their real-life counterparts. We will discuss, how these strategies and ideas should be formulated to be universally applicable outside of the chess context. Like Sun Tzu's quotes, which appear to be just military commander advice but are worded in such a way that they can represent a business negotiating process, market behavior, or a personal relationship. “The supreme art of war is to subdue the enemy without fighting” (Sun Tzu, The Art of War). So, the main intended learning outcome of the course is the ability to apply chess-related strategies to real-life situations. But first we’ll train applying these universal strategies on a chess playground! The first step for you is to start noticing these strategies in the famous games of the past. The second step is to notice these strategies in your own games during analysis. As your chess skill level improves, you’ll start spotting these ideas on the fly during your games. Having a keen eye for typical patterns requiring typical solutions in chess along with discussion of strategies applicable both in chess and real life will raise your awareness of available behavioral strategies for typical situations in general.
Consider the "reactive vs. proactive strategy" dilemma as an example of strategic decision-making in chess that is transferable to real life. In a real-life competition, how would you decide whether to be reactive or proactive? The same decision is much easier to make in chess because there is a framework of questions to help you: "What is the position assessment?", "Will it change if I do nothing?", "Does the opponent have more than one threat?" If your opponent has multiple threats and the position is bad or unclear, your only option may be to go all in for your own mating attack. Also, the course is intended to give you an overview of chess history and teach some basic chess skills: how to set up a board, how to get a decent position out of the opening, and how to come up with a middlegame strategic plan. |
Konstantin Zamansky | 30 | I-2022-29 |
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Competition in Loan Origination
There are two important goals of this course: 1. to learn how to build credit risk and customer response models in banking 2. to get some hand-on experience in applying models in tight competitive environment and to get the feeling of taking and adequately pricing risk while making credit decisions The students of this course are split into separate independent teams to simulate a real-world banking sector. Each team will have access to a historical dataset on companies pay-off behavior and some market research covering interest rates for corporate loans. After that, each week the teams are going receive a batch of clients and they will have to come up with their decision whether to grant loans and, if yes, at what interest rates. Then, each team will receive its profit gains as a result of their credit decisions and clients reaction. The game repeats 2-3 periods and, finally, a grade is assigned to each team based on its total profit ranking among other teams. Good luck!
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Igor Shcherbakov | 16 | I-2022-09 |
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Critical Thinking
Critical thinking is a questioning approach to form a judgment or conclusion and it is vital to any kind of success. It encourages reflective and independent thinking to guide us through the hundreds of decisions that we make throughout a day.
This Critical Thinking course will provide students the skills to approach problems critically, as well as recognize the power of open-mindedness and altering your perspective, in order to make the best choices. Student will practice a disciplined, systematic approach to problem solving They will learn how to deeply analyze a problem, assess possible solutions and associated risks, and hone strategic decision-making skills by following a methodology based on tested actions and sound approaches. Students learn how to: • Define critical and non-critical thinking • Identify their thinking style(s), including areas of strength and improvement • Work through the process to build or analyze arguments • Improve key skills, including active listening and questioning • Use analytical thought systems and creative thinking techniques • Prepare and present powerful arguments Whether students are interested in preparing for a technical, research or management role they come away better equipped to confidently tackle any decision large or small, make a compelling business case, and apply influence in a way that creates the optimal conditions for success. |
Irina Muhina | 20 | I-2022-11 |
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Deep Work and Productivity
the skills and knowledge imparted during course will help students develop a unique and eective modus operandi designed to help participants meet their individual goals by leveraging the power routine, focus and eliminating attention traps that are designed to derail productivity. The main purpose of this course is to help students cultivate a culture of deep work. Deep work is an essential transferable skill that allows us to thrive and stay relevant because at its core it paves way for the ability to quickly learn complicated things and also creates platform for us to quickly produce results without comprising the quality of the output. our labour markets are being transformed in unexpected ways due to the rise of digital technology therefore many low skilled positions are being automated thus certain jobs are becoming obsolete. to stay relevant in this information economy we must become highly skilled individuals who are indispensable in our respective elds.
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Noreen Halimani | 30 | I-2022-30 |
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Design of Experiment
This course covers the fundamentals of the design and analysis of experiments (DoE).
Experimentation plays an important role in science, technology, innovational product design and formulation, commercialization, and process improvement. A well-designed experiment is essential once the results and conclusions that can be drawn from the experiment depend on the way the data is collected. This course is about planning and conducting experiments and about analysing the resulting data in a way that valid and objective conclusions are obtained. The course begins with some basic statistics concepts to understand the fundamentals of hypothesis testing and analysis of variance. Then we introduce the idea of factorial designs, with the definition of effects and interactions between factors. The following sections will focus on the widely used 2-level factorial designs. We will cover full homogeneous designs, blocked designs, and fractional designs. The whole course is illustrated with practical examples to help with understanding. The course focuses on the understanding of the principles used in the design of experiments and on the critical analysis and discussion of the results. The analysis of the data will use MS Excel Any person who performs experiments will benefit from this course. By the end of this course, the student will be able to: – Choose the most suitable experimental design; – Analyse the experimental data with confidence; – Present and discuss the results based on charts, contour plots, and tables. |
Irina Muhina | 20 | I-2022-12 |
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English Phonetics Course: Sounds, Structure, Speech
It would not be an overestimation to claim that poor articulation and enunciation skills are usually regarded as the major obstacle for understanding the scientific content at international conferences. Scientists must be audible, intelligible, able to modulate their voices, switch from one range to another, and learn where and how to pause, how to meaningfully transit from higher to lower or lower to higher pitch-level, how to pronounce the specific terms and where to find the right pronunciation examples serving as targets. The audible form is the "indispensable foundation" for presentation success; it is no less important to communication offline, and it is to an online one. The course will introduce the basics of English Phonetics being different from the Russian one, the notion of Received Pronunciation, the English Articulation basis, the pronunciation of the syllabification (accent and stress in the English language) forming the pivots of the English rhythm, the pitchmovement in neutral settings i.e. a conference presentation or a thesis defense, where to find the pronunciation of specific terms and the rhetorical tools to make the presentation more effective. The course is meant both to outline the theoretical background of English pronunciation and to present the subject in action with phonetic drills. The examples and exercises are taken from the international course books on Phonetics as well as the speeches delivered by scientists and politicians. Richard Dawkins, Brian Cox, Sir Paul Nurse, Prince Charles, Andrew Hamilton, Lord Sumption, and Benedict Cumberbatch – to name just a few.
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Anastasiia Sharapkova | 24 | I-2022-05 |
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EQ & Negotiation Games
Students will learn the broad range of Emotional Intelligence (EQ) and Negotiations skills taught in the form of interactive class games. We will start from motivation & stress management, drill on time management and culminate in influence and motivation (aka awareness and negotiations).
We will play and do canonical group games and exercises, including, but not limited by: 1) Keynesian beauty contest, 2) Passive browsing, 3) Goals and values prioritization, 4) Glasswalking, 5) Influence row, 6) Johari window, 7) Positional bargaining, 8) Ultimatum game, 9) Dictator game, 10) Oil game, 11) Orange game, 12) group win-win (both inquisitive and casted), 13) personal inquisitive win-win, 14) assymetric group bargaining and more. This course replicates and expands the world-famous courses: Stanford GSB “Interpersonal Dynamics” class and Wharton Negotiation Boothcamp. Excitement is guaranteed, learning is hard to avoid. The most vicious and hardcore games are carefully handpicked to provide students with the most dramatic and hence efficient learning experience. ACHTUNG! WARNING! Most of you are guaranteed to be acutely uncomfortable at some point of this class so enroll responsibly. Please note that this course is light on homework, but hard on attendance. Your participation in the class activities is your core learning and it is also the core tool of your classmates learning. Even 1 hour of class absence is betrayal of both yourself and your classmates and will lead to fail grade. Please expect be in class 10 to 19 for all four days with reasonable breaks. Enroll responsibly! |
Dmitry Kulish | 40 | I-2022-16 |
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Existentialism and Literature of the 20th century: Sartre, Camus, Golding, Fowles, Salinger
Existentialism is the most important phenomenon of philosophy and literature of the 20th century. The ISP Activity "Existentialism and Literature of the 20th century: Sartre, Camus, Golding, Fowles, Salinger" is a course of lectures and seminars focused on works of main existentialist philosophers and writers: Jean-Paul Sartre, Albert Camus, William Golding, John Fowles, and Jerome David Salinger.
The purpose of the ISP activity is to encourage students to move beyond their main professional fields, develop their analytic skills and give them an opportunity for cultural and professional growth. Existentialism is related to the history, culture, and literature of the 20th century. Participation in ISP Activity "Existentialism and Literature of the 20th century” gives students the opportunity for cultural and professional growth. They can see the complexity and interrelation of all elements of history, culture philosophy, and literature and understand the subject of their research from a new point of view. For participants of ISP Activity “Existentialism and Literature of the 20th century: Sartre, Camus, Golding, Fowles, Salinger” will provide an opportunity to get to know the methodology of academic literary studies. The lecture course can help to develop the ability to navigate in scientific literature devoted to contemporary culture. |
Maxim Zhuk | 25 | I-2022-08 |
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Experiencing a Scientific YouTube Channel
This time-demanding course will be useful for students who want to better communicate their scientific ideas to broad masses and for those who want to start their brand new scientific video channel. We are going to cover all the typical stages of video production: searching for information, writing a scenario, shooting, montaging, publication and dealing with review. Main Purpose: to get students a 'push', a starter kit, and a hand-on experience to start a Youtube channel and make enlightening videos for a broad audience. Our key objective is to produce the best-that-we-can scientific video that delivers a clear scientific idea or a theme. Students will get inspired to tell a scientific topic, collect information thoroughly, write a script, shoot a video, and edit a video themselves – even if they do not get any prior experience whatsoever. All these steps will be condensed in hard-skilled team work experience with a specific focus on hive-mind discussions and collaborating in small groups with less emphasis on lectures to make getting knowledge fun and accessible for everyone.
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Aleksei Samolygo | 30 | I-2022-31 |
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Fascinating Quantum Information and Computing
In general, students who have no understanding of quantum mechanics, will make first moves into quantum world and apply them on quantum computers. They will get understanding of how quantum computers work and how they are beneficial for us. In addition, they will also study what kind of challenges scientists are experiencing while building a quantum computers. 1. Students will learn some basics of Quantum Mechanics.
2. Students will learn some some basic principle how Quantum Computers work 3. Students will study some fundamental and interesting topics of quantum information and quantum computation 3. Students will study some Quantum Computing algorithms 4. Students will construct some circuits for some quantum algorithms on qiskit 5. Students build solid understanding of why quantum computers are beneficial for us and how they work |
Yerassyl Balkybek | 30 | I-2022-32 |
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From Idea to Startup
The "From Idea to Start-Up" course goal is to promote an entrepreneurial mindset for engineering students and give them tools to identify opportunities, understand market forces, and successfully commercialize new technologies. These important skills can better prepare them to enter the workforce and thrive in this ever-changing global economy. These skills are just as relevant for success in established enterprises as they are in startups. This course goes beyond the theory of developing a business by providing a real-world application.
In addition, understanding the innovation ecosystem is essential at present, where the discourse of innovation is widespread and innovation is high on the agenda within any organization, private or public, local or global. Among other things, the course aims to provide practical tools to enhance innovation and allow the students participating in the course, to implement these tools in their future work environment. The goal of the course is to develop, through close academic guidance, the skills and tools needed to establish a new hi-tech venture. No matter the participants' background, all students will gain valuable insights into what it takes to turn an idea into a real, scalable business through marketing, public speaking, flexibility, teamwork, current business trends, and more. The students will strengthen essential skills such as identifying, defining and characterizing problems, conducting market research, formulating strategies, etc. |
Yosef Shavit, Alexey Nikolaev |
45 | I-2022-06 |
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How to Write a Paper. Express Course
The ability to communicate ideas and report research findings in writing is one of the key factors of academic success. Academic writing in English is challenging for the non-native speakers who are expected to produce papers, reports, and dissertations acceptable for the international professional community.
Contrary to the popular belief, it is impossible to become a professional writer overnight. Moreover, there is no such thing as a “perfect first draft”. Writing is a skill, and its mastery requires a considerable investment of time and effort. The Course is designed to develop a conscious approach to academic writing through the analysis of authentic texts, intensive writing and editing practice. The ‘process-for-product’ approach takes the students through the whole writing cycle as they are learning to write a draft and use the reviewer's advice to edit, refine and polish it. The Course focuses on the specifics of the main parts of the research paper in terms of structure, vocabulary, grammar, and style. I can’t promise you a miracle; I can promise hard work and a rewarding experience. And in the end, you will be much better equipped to write a research paper! |
Elizaveta Tikhomirova | 36 | I-2022-18 |
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Industrial Property. Patent Search as R&D Tool in Laser Manufacturing
This course focuses on the basics of patent search. This process is an integral part of a significant number of R&D projects. Patent search is also the most important type of engineering activity that accompanies any process of new inventions development and application. In this course, students will be generally acquainted with the concepts and basics of industrial protecting. Also as part of this course, students will master necessary knowledge and skills in the field of patent search. The course "Industrial Property. Patent Search as R&D Tool in Laser Manufacturing" was designed especially for students who are going to work at laser industrial company IPG Photonics after graduating Skoltech. Nevertheless, it will be also useful to a wide range of specialists who develop new technical solutions and introduce them into production.
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Vadim Sulimov, Konstantin Makarenko |
40 | I-2022-22 |
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Introduction to Information Theory
This course answers the frequent question: How much can we say and do about something we do not know? The simplest approach is phenomenological and called thermodynamics, which treats visible manifestations of a hidden. More sophisticated is statistical physics, which derives statistical laws, justifying thermodynamics and giving the probability of fluctuations. We start by briefly reminding basics of thermodynamics and stat-physics and the central role of entropy. We then understand that entropy is not the property of a system, but of our knowledge of the system and re-tell the story of statistical physics using the language of information theory, which shows its universality. We discuss numerous applications, from nano-particles to bacteria and from neurons to quantum computers. One magic instrument appears over and over: mutual information and it's quantum sibling, entanglement entropy. I then describe the most sophisticated way to forget information – renormalization group, and modern generalizations of the second law of thermodynamics. The overall goal is to give you the most powerful and universal tool developed in physics and applied everywhere, from computer science and machine learning to biophysics, economics and sociology. Students from different specializations are welcome.
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Gregory Falkovich | 19 | I-2022-02 |
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Introduction to Model United Nations: Diplomacy and International Relations
Model United Nations is an academic simulation of the United Nations in frames of which students play roles of delegates from different countries, discuss real global issues and attempt to solve them from the perspective of the assigned country. Model UN is a global movement. Model UN conferences are organized all over the world by universities, high schools, non-profit organizations, and other educational entities. The course contains both educational and practical components. In frames of the course, students will be learning and simultaneously preparing for the final simulation, which will take place on the last day of the course.
The main purpose of the course is developing the sense of global citizenship among the students. The objectives include: – Learning the history, structure and principles of the United Nations; – Learning the rules of procedure and decision-making processes at the UN; – Acquiring general knowledge about sustainable development goals and 2030 Agenda; – Developing public speaking, negotiation skills, debate techniques and research capacities. |
Elena Kiseleva, Aayush Jha |
10 | I-2022-25 |
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Introduction to Molecular and Mesoscale Simulations
The objective is giving students a practical introduction to classical molecular simulation techniques
or mastering a more specific skill of the student. The exact subject depends on the interest of the students. The topics may include (a) classical molecular dynamics (either writing students own primitive code or getting acquired with open-source general purpose codes) (b) Monte Carlo in different ensembles (c) coarse grained simulations (Brownian dynamics, Dissipative particle dynamics) (d) free energy methods either in MD|DPD or Monte Carlo simulations the ISP will be helpful to CDISE, CDMM, CEST or CHR students whose mater thesis is related to molecular | mesoscale simulations |
new instructor | 28 | I-2022-10 |
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Introduction to Stochastic Optimization for Large-Scale Problems
In a nutshell:
– we review the state-of-the-art first-order stochastic gradient methods for solving large-scale optimization problems. – We will focus on understanding selected key principles related to stochastic gradient descent such as: the convergence (rates of convergence), the importance of sampling, mini-batching, variance reduction, etc. – We will present some applications to observe these powerful methods at work. The global purpose is to get the basics and understand the theoretical background of recent stochastic optimization methods to be able to adequately use such methods for tackling high-dimensional optimization problems, with an emphasis on the training of machine learning models. A 1-minute presentation video can be found here:http://bitly.ws/x4qJ |
Valentin Leplat | 16 | I-2022-26 |
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Literature of the 20th century: Modernism and Realism
Literature of the 20th century is related to the culture and science of this historical period. The catastrophe of the First World War, ideas and theories by Sigmund Freud, Albert Einstein, Werner Heisenberg, Niels Bohr changed the worldview of writers and transformed the aesthetic of their works. Participation in ISP Activity «Literature of the 20th century: modernism and realism» gives students the opportunity for cultural and professional growth. They can see the complexity and interrelation of all elements of European and American culture, history, and science and understand the subject of their research from a new point of view.
For participants of ISP Activity «Literature of the 20th century: modernism and realism» will provide an opportunity to get to know the methodology of academic literary studies. The lecture course can help to develop the ability to navigate in scientific literature devoted to contemporary culture. Complexity and polysemy of modernist and realist literature of Europe and the USA can help to shape the skills of critical thinking. Students can see and understand intercultural relations in the field of literature, art, and science |
Maxim Zhuk | 25 | I-2022-07 |
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Machine Learning for High Energy Physics
The course covers the relatively young area of data analysis and computational research that has started to emerge in High Energy Physics (HEP). It is known by several names including “Multivariate Analysis”, “Neural Networks”, “Classification/Clusterization techniques”. In more generic terms, these techniques belong to the field of “Machine Learning”, which is an essential area of a data-driven research paradigm. There are plenty of important challenges in HEP that can be solved using Machine Learning (ML) methods. These vary from online data filtering and reconstruction to offline data analysis. However solving those challenges requires deep understanding of Machine Learning methods and tools that has been developed so far. So the goal of the course is to provide such understanding.
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Tigran Ramazyan | 30 | I-2022-33 |
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Mental Health Support: Psychological Literacy
Purpose: development of skills and knowledge of students on the main topics of psychological literacy.
Course objectives: to increase the ways of psychological self-support of students and to convey basic knowledge of psychological literacy. Competencies of students after the course (expected outcomes): 1. Understanding what affects the mental health of an individual; 2. Basic skills of helping others (active listening); 3. Understanding the difficulties of adaptation in a new cultural environment and the possibilities of coping with them; 4. Understanding conflicts and their main challenges 5. Understanding anxiety and fear and how to deal with them; 6. Basic skills to understand one own experiences and important aspects for a good relationship; 7. Understanding ways to support self-value; 8. Understanding the impact of the presence/absence of meaning in human life. |
Sergei Ishanov | 19 | I-2022-14 |
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Mysterious Russian Soul: Russian Language, History, Culture
The main goal is to make a cultural exchange between Russian and international students during joined activity indoor and outdoor. In addition this course should help students to keep work-life balance during their study. At the end of this course students will know the magnificent shapes of the Russian culture through Russian history, art, architecture and food. The key feature of this course is outdoor classes for the team-building and to see the real Russia by your own eyes through architecture, the content of museums, ballet, and traditional dances. As a result, it is expected, that these students in the future will recommend to other potential students how interesting it is to study at Skoltech in our multicultural community.
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Valentina Ekimova, Ekaterina Krivokhat |
30 | I-2022-23 |
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Negotiation Games & EQ
Students will learn the broad range of Emotional Intelligence (EQ) and Negotiations skills taught in the form of interactive class games. We will start from motivation & stress management, drill on time management and culminate in influence and motivation (aka awareness and negotiations).
We will play and do canonical group games and exercises, including, but not limited by: 1) Keynesian beauty contest, 2) Passive browsing, 3) Goals and values prioritization, 4) Glasswalking, 5) Influence row, 6) Johari window, 7) Positional bargaining, 8) Ultimatum game, 9) Dictator game, 10) Oil game, 11) Orange game, 12) group win-win (both inquisitive and casted), 13) personal inquisitive win-win, 14) assymetric group bargaining and more. This course replicates and expands the world-famous courses: Stanford GSB “Interpersonal Dynamics” class and Wharton Negotiation Boothcamp. Excitement is guaranteed, learning is hard to avoid. The most vicious and hardcore games are carefully handpicked to provide students with the most dramatic and hence efficient learning experience. ACHTUNG! WARNING! Most of you are guaranteed to be acutely uncomfortable at some point of this class so enroll responsibly. Please note that this course is light on homework, but hard on attendance. Your participation in the class activities is your core learning and it is also the core tool of your classmates learning. Even 1 hour of class absence is betrayal of both yourself and your classmates and will lead to fail grade. Please expect be in class 10 to 19 for all four days with reasonable breaks. Enroll responsibly! |
Dmitry Kulish | 40 | I-2022-17 |
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Presentation Skills and Academic Communication
Would you like to tell the Academic Community about your Research clearly, elegantly and professionally?
Speaking in front of the international multi-disciplinary professional audience can be a challenge even for the experienced speakers. In this Course, the students will build and improve their skills, broaden their knowledge and get confidence to make effective presentations in English. The participants will practice a whole range of presentation techniques and formats, get feedback and set targets for their future presentations. Join this Course and practice making presentations with visual aids (slides, poster, and whiteboard). You will learn about the specifics of academic presentations in terms of form and content, and polish your language skills with the focus on intelligibility, pronunciation, and rhetoric. |
Elizaveta Tikhomirova | 24 | I-2022-19 |
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Python Goes DeFi
First of all, this course is practically-oriented. In a couple of weeks students will obtain concrete experience with Python, which is the most popular and in-demand programming language. During the interaction with the decentralized applications such as decentralized exchanges (Uniswap, Pancakeswap), yield protocols and DAOs (Decentralized Autonomous Organizations) students will step-by-step come out with solid understanding of "how-to-DeFi" nowadays. The main purpose of the course is to teach students basic programming skills and give them the basic understanding of what the blockchain and decentralized finances are. As additional challenges, we also want to hand students a variety of tools for interaction with the decentralized applications and create a general picture of current State-of-The-Art in decentralized technologies and what "decentralized" really means.
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Georgiy Malaniya | 30 | I-2022-35 |
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R: Toolkit for Data Analysis
Many students produce a lot of data doing research and they need to analyze it. R is much more suitable for it in comparison with Excel and more user-friendly than Python. Main Purpose:
Students will receive basic knowledge of R essentials and they will develop R programming skills up to level that enough to read code, manipulate data, draw plots, use packages (not to develop own tools) and produce reports. All these activities will be accompanied by practice on real datasets and projects. |
Alexey Zamalutdinov | 30 | I-2022-36 |
| Research/E&I project | 40 | I-2022-39 | |
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Roadmap to Career Success 3.0
purpose:
To introduce participants to the basics of career planning, to give an understanding of career development options in the industry or academy, to teach them how to make a CV learning objectives: labor market overview, statistics on the employment of graduates, trends in hiring Fundamentals of business communication: how to communicate with an employer or with a supervisor How is industrial immersion going? How to make a CV for industry or academy How to look for a job and what tools to use How to pass the interview Legal aspects of employment in Russia expected outcomes: Students prepared CV for industrial immersion Students know about the basics of career planning, job search, and how to prepare for an interview. |
Sofya Pimenova, Zhanna Turubarova, Anna Krasheninnikova |
15 | I-2022-20 |
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Storytelling to Master Speech & Presentation Skills
In this workshop, students will learn and develop the necessary skills to create and present a great story with winning flow and high level of confidence. Students will also build effective presentation, public and storytelling skills to use while they are in university, careers and be the next leading entrepreneurs and intrapreneurs.
Purpose, subject, expected outcomes: – What is a story? – How to think like an audience – Be able to build stories around their projects that audience, team members can relate to easily and understand. – Increase their confidence when speaking to audience/ team. – Be able to draft engaging speeches and presentations for various needs (Events, competitions, workplace, …) – Learn the right techniques for voice tone, body movement and facial expressions. – How to create slides that motivate the audience/ team favorably to understand their ideas (Product, Project …) – The right communication language & techniques to use when responding to audience questions. – What content to include on a Pitch Deck (PowerPoint Slides) – Deal with stress and anxiety prior and during various presentations types. |
Ziad Barouni | 20 | I-2022-01 |
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Sustainability and Resilience of Energy System
Russian energy system faces three strategic challenges simultaneously- need to search for new markets in Asia and Latin America, import substitution and energy transition. How are traditional and new players reacting to this? What are possible strategic solutions? What are technological challenges and possible ways to overcome them? This course will help students understand key strategic drivers of SKOLTECH industrial partners from energy and energy intensive industries, familiarize themselves with risk management tools and approaches, develop their own initiatives/ projects to address strategic challenges of the industry
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Irina Gayda, Ekaterina Grushevenko, Sergey Kapitonov |
20 | I-2022-21 |
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The Influence of Based Movies and Anime on the Formation of Human Personality
During the course, students will become familiar with classic contemporary (1970 – 2018) films and anime, gain a basic knowledge of such strands of philosophy as "Russian nihilism," "existentialism," etc., apply that knowledge to the films they watch, and discuss their observations with other students. Main Purpose:
To familiarize students with manifestations of basic culture ("Drive," "Evangelion," "American Psycho," "Ghost in the Armor," "Taxi Driver," etc.) and philosophy (Russian nihilism, existentialism, decadence, fatalism, etc.). Apply this knowledge to identify character types and discuss them with other students. Develop their communication skills. |
Egor Cherepanov, Daniil Sherki, Egor Malkershin |
24 | I-2022-37 |
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Virtuous Leadership
Leadership is neither a skill nor a technique but a state of being. It is a question of character, of virtue in action. Adapting basic concepts of classical anthropology to modern organizations, Virtuous Leadership transcends the common perception of leadership as a matter of charisma and personal style and the employment of techniques of persuasion that all too often lapse into manipulation. The program challenges participants to review their assumptions about leadership and their criteria for professional success in light of the classical virtues, imparting a new awareness of virtue as the key to Effective decision-making The formulation of compelling and realistic strategic plans Effective communication Winning trust and loyalty Motivating others Creating a rich and genuine corporate culture By providing a framework for understanding the classical virtues and a methodology for practicing them, Virtuous Leadership helps participants to acknowledge their strengths and flaws from a leadership perspective and gives them the necessary means to improve – professionally and personally.
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Alexandre Havard | 20 | I-2022-03 |
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Welcome to the Sustainable World
The main contributor into the development of the Sustainable World is technology and technology development. And all technical institution like Skoltech are at the forefront of research and development. That is why it is crucially important for students to gain an understanding how their research project can inuence future of the society.
But we also should know that Sustainable World is not only about Green Energy and Smart Consumption. Social, natural, economical and psychological aspects should also be considered, like fair salaries, safety, governmental regulations etc. I hope this course will help students to understand whether or not they are ready to live in a sustainable world and how their personal research area can influence the development of this world. Main Purpose: Goal of this course is to broad students’ horizons and help them to gain the understanding how their research area of interest and its development can help the society and whole world to achieve sustainability. Hope this course will help students to gain additional motivation for their work and clarify future technology perspectives. Learning Outcomes (knowledge-skills-experience): Knowledge: key aspects and goals of Sustainable World, nature protection issues, importance of social responsibility, future of the business doing, importance of human minds changing, how technology inuence society development. Skills: critical thinking, communication, public speaking, point of view upholding, problem solving. Experience:gain an opinion over nature protection aspects, answer how to create a sustainable business, reect to themselves and their own readiness to live in sustainable society, uprise ethical questions of the future technology development, analyze their area of interest and their research work in particular and evaluate its importance to the future of the society, gain the criticism from others and protecting your point of view. |
Olga Yamilova | 30 | I-2022-24 |
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Workspace and Workflow Management in Biology
This course will allow you to organize your work with a tidy workspace and a clear solid workflow. It will allow you to involve friends, colleagues, supervisors or sponsors in your work (or just share the methods and results with them). Thus, this course has two features.
Firstly, it combines soft skills and hard skills. It gives you tools needed for efficient work in collaboration with other people. Secondly, it provides the necessary practical and ideological basis for working on projects in genera. This will allow you to be more successful in your work both in science and in entrepreneurship. Perhaps someone will also be interested in working with biological data in a bioinformatic way. However, knowledge of biology is not necessary and the particular data will only be as an example. To gain together an experience of your own work organization from the workspace setup to the solid workflow formation. The course aims to make the projects, on which students work in their lives, be more efficient, reproducible and publishable. Students will be prepared to work in real teams on innovative or scientific projects. |
Nikita Vaulin, Oksana Kotovskaya |
16 | I-2022-38 |
Term 3
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3D CAD Modeling and Design
3D modeling is an integral part of a modern design. This course will help students to learn basics of CAD modeling, approaches of design and engineering of parts and assemblies needed to work in various fields of engineering and Computer-Generated Imagery (CGI). This is applied course relies in design development through CAD software, which allows engineers and designers to quickly implement technical ideas, conduct experiments, perform calculations, create electronic product models and detailed drawings.
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Artem Aleksanyan | 3 | MA030526 | ||
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Academic Communication: Preparatory English for PhD Exam (Term 3-4)
As a PhD student, you should already know that effective professional communication is the key to academic success. Are you an ambitious person who wants to maximize their academic potential? Are you eager to boost your ability to write research papers, present in front of multidisciplinary audiences, participate in scholarly discussions and engage in other forms of academic communication — and do it all in good academic English?
Join this course and learn how to produce clear, correct, concise, and coherent texts related to your research, and how to present your data in front of a multidisciplinary professional community. You will be guided through all stages of paper writing, editing, peer-reviewing, and presenting. Academic communication is not limited to formal writing and professional presentation. As in a real conference environment, you will take part in networking activities, interacting with your peers from different fields, exchanging ideas and pitching your research achievements. The course is interactive, communicative and intensive, with various speaking, listening, reading and writing activities to be performed in class and at home, individually and in teams. By the end of the course, successful participants will |
Elizaveta Tikhomirova |
31.5 per term
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Academic Writing Essentials (Multidisciplinary)
Academic writing skills are necessary for effective research, innovation, and educational activities in a multinational setting. The aim of the course is to provide guidelines and strategies for writing academic texts, focusing on relevant aspects of grammar, vocabulary, and style. The course includes analysis and practice of various forms of scientific and technical writing, and builds writing skills from sentences to paragraph structure, from summary to abstract, and lays the foundations for writing scientific papers and Master Thesis.
Modern science is, for most purposes, a collective collaborative effort, so the course is designed to promote individual and group responsibility by providing mutually related and time-dependent tasks, such as peer review. The course is writing-intensive with ample opportunity to practice editing and peer-reviewing. |
Elizaveta Tikhomirova | 3 | Extra | MF030002 | CANCELLED |
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Advanced Drilling and Completion Technologies
The course will cover planning and execution phases of basic and advanced drilling and completion technologies. The course will also cover basics of the offshore drilling and completion.
The planning phase includes basics of well design: selection of trajectory, casing design, drilling fluid selection, drilling string design, bottom hole assembly (drilling bits, rotary steerable systems, mud motors, measured while drilling and logging while drilling tools) selection, cementing design, lower completion and upper completion design, wellheads and x-mass tree selection, drilling rig selection, etc. Execution phase covers techniques of directional drilling, hole cleaning, casing running, cementing operation, completion running and emergency situations prevention and recovery while drilling (well control, stuck pipe, etc.). Special attention will be paid to discussion of hydraulic fracturing and multistage hydraulic fracturing with the review of the corresponding theoretical and practical aspects of these methods. The list of other well completion techniques includes perforating and abrasive perforating, using slotted liners, using sand filters, and matrix treatment completions. Also, the course will cover some relatively new completion practices such as sidetracking, fish-bone completions, and radial drilling. The course will be useful for MSc and PhD students of Skolkovo Institute of Science and Technology which consider career in the field of oil and gas recovery, or wish to get understanding of oil&gas well construction processes. |
Kirill Bogachev | 6 | MA060541 | ||
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Advanced Topics in Bioinformatics and Genomics 1
The first part of the “Advanced topics in bioinformatics and genomics” is dedicated to structure, function, and evolution of proteins and RNAs. More specifically, the course consists of distinct four parts: (1) Structural Bioinformatics, (2) Molecular Evolution, (3) Evolutionary Genomics, and (4) Quantitative Genetics. The aim of the course is to shortly remind Ph.D. students the fundamentals of the corresponding fields of science followed by in-depth discussions/seminars on some advanced topics. The sessions will be accomplished mostly through the discussion of the classic or recently published papers; however, practical tasks could also take place.
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Dmitry Ivankov | 3 | DA030438 | CANCELLED | |
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Advanced Topics in Cell and Molecular Biology 1
The course showcases Skoltech Life Sciences faculty whose research falls under wet biology. Each faculty will give four lectures presenting their own work and, more broadly, the state-of-the-art in his/her area of expertise. The lectures will be followed by Q&A sessions and are expected to foster collaborations between different faculty and grad students and provide the students with a broad view of research conducted by the faculty. This course (or the sister course on advanced topics in bioinformatics) is required for PhD students but may be taken by Masters students looking for a laboratory to perform a thesis project. To fulfil curricular requirements this three-credit module may be combined with another advanced topics in cell and molecular biology module or with a bioinformatics module.
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Applied Geomechanics
This course covers various aspects of experimental geomechanics and consists of three parts: lectures, seminars and laboratory work in Skoltech Center for Petroleum Science and Engineering (SCPSE). The lectures provide an introduction to the basic principles of measuring the physical characteristics of rocks during geomechanical testing in the laboratory. Seminars demonstrate examples of geomechanical parameter calculations based on the results of laboratory testing using MS Excel. Usually, oil and gas companies collect rock cores while drilling wells and then send them to various laboratories to determine the physical characteristics of the rocks under in situ reservoir conditions through comprehensive geomechanical testing. These rock parameters should be used as the basis for creating realistic modeling of reservoirs, so the results of laboratory testing is extremely important for the proper design and development of the most efficient strategy of hydrocarbon recovery in the field conditions.
The final part of the course will take place in the SCPSE laboratory. We will demonstrate to students the conventional geomechanical testing by loading rock samples up to their failure under confining pressure, simulating underground conditions, as well as hydraulic fracturing of the rock samples by injecting a high-pressure fluid into the rock. Students will get the results of the rock tests for their homework, they will have to calculate the rock parameters, and then present their results during the project defense. Students are considered to have passed the final exams of Applied Geomechanics course, if they demonstrate their ability to (i) understand the basics of various measurements in the laboratory; (ii) make calculations of rock parameters based on laboratory data; (iii) evaluate the accuracy of rock parameters measurements in the laboratory. |
Sergey Stanchits | 6 | DA060190 | ||
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Basic Molecular Biology Techniques
The classes take place in the operating molecular biology laboratory and include practical experimental work along with lectures covering the theory of molecular biology methods used through the course. The purpose of this course is to provide students with the opportunity to obtain and develop the basic set of skills required for the work in a molbiol lab. We see it as important to give a comprehension about how molbiol methods work, what are their mechanism, scope and features of application. During the course, students will perform molecular cloning, point mutagenesis and gene knockout in E. coli cells. The course is adapted for students with varying levels of lab experience. A mandatory requirement for joining the classes is a successful passing the lecture course in molecular biology.
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Alexey Kulikovsky | 6 | MA060022a | ||
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Biostatistics
This introductory course to statistics and probability theory is modeled as an extension of a traditional university Statistics course and Advanced Placement Course in Statistics to a broader spectrum of topics, while keeping the spirit of quantitative discourse applied to real-life problems. The material is offered in 5 consecutive modules (see Course Outline below), each containing a lecture, a discussion section, and a practicum. For practical exercises we use R programming language and R-Studio software. However, this course is focused on statistics rather than R; therefore, each practicum is designed with the purpose to demonstrate and reinforce understanding of concepts introduced in the lecture rather than to provide a training in R.
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Dmitri Pervouchine | 6 | MA060036 |
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Business Communication
Business Communication is an intensive hands on, practical course, designed to provide Skoltech students with the set of skills needed to effectively communicate with others – their classmates, working teams, professors and any audiences inside and outside of Skoltech. The course learning outcomes correspond directly with the Group 3 of Skoltech learning outcomes – “Relating to Others – Communication and Collaboration”. The course will show students the secrets and technologies to becoming confident when speaking in public – developing the skills they will be able to use throughout their career and their life. In a highly interactive, informative and supportive manner through in-class activities, games and simulations the course will enable students to: Speak with confidence and overcome their nervousness; Establish rapport with any audience; Present their message in a clear, concise, and engaging manner; Successfully manage impression they make onto audience; Create—and repurpose—presentations quickly and efficiently; Make successful and memorable pitch; Sharpen the story they want to tell; Use confidently body language and movement, strengthening their speech; Respond to questions and comments without getting flustered; Gain people’s attention, respect, and cooperation.
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Maxim Kiselev | 3 | E&I | MC030014 | |
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Carbon Nanomaterials
The course covers the subject of carbon nanomaterials (fullerenes, nanodiamond, nanotubes, and graphene). The history of carbon compounds since antiquity till our days starting from charcoal to carbon nanotubes and graphene will be reviewed. The students will have opportunity to synthesize carbon nanotubes, graphene and nanodiamond (by CVD methods), to observe the produced carbon nanomaterials in transmission (TEM) and scanning (SEM) electron microscopes as well as by atomic force (AFM) microscope and to their study optical and electrical properties.
Totally 32 hours of lectures, 12 hours of exercises and 4 hours of discussion work. During the courses each student is supposed to give a short presentation (15 min) on a selected topic, to write an essay on other selected topic and to prepare an exercise report. |
Albert Nasibulin | 6 | MA060044 | ||
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Chemical Physics of Materials Technologies
Chemical physics (CP) is an interdisciplinary science which spans the areas of thermodynamics, statistical physics and condensed matter physics. The CP covers various phenomena describing a wide range of length-scales—from the attraction of uncharged molecules to a gecko climbing a wall. The central object of study is interfaces between phases of matter, which can be characterized on the basis of molecular interactions. For example, the water spreading over a table is defined by the interplay between energies of solid-liquid and liquid-air interfaces. Using this approach the CP provides analytical and numerical models for the surface phenomena and phase transitions. The course will introduce the students to important concepts and instruments of the CP. Particular attention will be given to discussing and illustrating examples of CP encountered in the Center for Materials Technologies.
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Timur Aslyamov | 3 | MA030517 | CANCELLED | |
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Composite Materials and Structures
This course aims to provide knowledge about manufacturing, properties, and contemporary problems in composite materials. The emphasis is on the practical applications, theoretical background, and the use of composite materials in industry. The course cuts across several domains, covering mechanics of materials, design, manufacturing, and in service issues:
• Introduction: What is a composite? Classification. Metals vs composites, advantages and disadvantages. Applications in industry. Participants will learn fundamentals of key areas through active participation in teamwork. The course will provide practical knowledge on applications of composite materials in aerospace and mechanical engineering. |
Sergey Abaimov | 3 | MA030241 | ||
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Computational Biology of Aging
This course will be devoted to the study of key methods of computational biology of aging, which have had a significant impact on the field in recent years. We will take a detailed look at aging clock models, survival curves, Gompertz models, dynamical models as well as key aspects of the biology of aging (including its molecular part). Students will get experience in differential gene expression or methylation analysis in the context of aging, hazard ratio models fitting and interpretation, aging clocks construction and their exploration and develop an intuition in dynamical systems modeling. The course aims to form a systematic view of the biology of aging, and offer a holistic computational methodology for the study of this problem.
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Ekaterina Khrameeva | 3 | MA030511 | ||
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Computational Materials Science Seminar (Term 2-4)
This is the main research seminar at Skoltech for Computational Materials scientists. All students of Computational Materials Science subtrack of Materials Science MSc program and Materials Science and Engineering PhD program should attend this seminar. Topics include materials modeling (at atomistic scale), theoretical and computational chemistry, theoretical and computational physics of materials, underlying mathematical methods and algorithms etc. Invited lectures are top scientists in their research field. Students are welcome to present their own research results at this seminar and expected to do this at least once a year.
Please see the seminar webpage at https://www.skoltech.ru/en/cms/ |
Dmitry Aksenov |
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Computational Methods in Plant and Animal Genetics
Quantitative genetic variation is the substrate for phenotypic evolution in natural populations and for selective breeding of crop and animal species. It also underlies susceptibility to diseases and behavioural disorders in humans, as well as responses to pharmacological therapies. As such, a thorough understanding of the underlying genetic control of these traits can help alleviate complex diseases and develop new and more personalized therapeutic interventions to improve human health. The genetics framework is that such characters are controlled by many genes and non-genetic environmental factors may also influence the trait.
Given the wealth of genomics data, the challenge is to get the most of observations. Large amounts of genomic data allow unprecedented opportunities to map the genotypes and the traits. This raises the question of the suitable computational methods to implement. A corner-stone is the Linear Model. The matrix form of the Mixed Linear Model is an unprecedented and successful tool to decipher the phenotypes – genotypes relationships. This is due to its extraordinary flexibility and the inclusion of genetic relationships among individuals into the models. The course is proposed as a skill-based learning approach based on analysis of real data sets and case studies in a variety of biological questions. Practices within team projects are presented to the class. Individual reports using reproducible research framework are also realized. |
Laurent Gentzbittel | 6 | MA060022c | ||
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Continuum Mechanics (Term 2-3)
Continuum mechanics is a section of mechanics and theoretical physics, or rather the continuation of theoretical mechanics that deals with analysis of deformable bodies. However, mathematics in continuum mechanics represents the main constructive tool. Continuum mechanics allows to demonstrate the power of logic and mathematical thinking. Based on a few fundamental postulates and principles, using the mathematical apparatus can reveal non-trivial, and even striking results.
Foundation of continuum mechanics consists of: This course uses tensor representations in the Cartesian coordinate system of the observer. But it will one shown in detail how to to write the continuum mechanics equations in the arbitrary curvilinear coordinate system. This way the common link is not lost and the exposition becomes easier and clearer. |
Robert Nigmatulin |
63 per term
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Control Systems Engineering
The control systems is the key part of such advanced technologies as self-driving cars, smart robots, UAV. Students of the course will learn how to make to control system to ensure desirable dynamic properties (overshoot, settling time, stability), analyze time and frequency response of LTI and non-linear systems, and build a mathematical representation of the physical systems with state space representation. They will develop the traditional (PID, force control), optimal control with LQR, and advance control systems, including Impedance control proposed by MIT Professor N. Hogan and MPC (Model Predictive Control). Lectures will also cover the important methods of navigation, localization and path planning of the autonomous robots, such as Simultaneous Localization and Mapping (SLAM), Artificial Potential Field (APF), Occupancy grid, Iterative Closest Point (ICP). Introduction to Deep Learning for Robotics and scientific programming with Python will provide valuable skills for high-level development.
The practice will include work with advanced mobile robots (HermesBot, UltraBot), quadruped robot (HyperDog), collaborative robots (UR3, UR10), and swarm of drones (SwarmTouch), motion capturing system VICON with submillimeter accuracy. Students will be acquainted with data processing of such sensors as RGB-D cameras of Intel RealSense, ImagineSource Global Shutter cameras, Velodyne LIDARs (16, 32, 64 laser beams), 6 DoF Force/Toque sensor, high-density tactile sensor arrays of UEC. At the end of the Lecture, the students will have the chance to write the scientific papers prestigious conference in the field, i.e. IEEE ICRA, IEEE IROS, IEEE SMC, IEEE CASE. |
Dzmitry Tsetserukou | 6 | MA060083 | ||
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Crystal Structure Investigation Methods
The course teaches theoretical and practical fundamentals of diffraction and electron microscopy methods applied to the analysis of the crystal structure, nano- and microstructure of materials. The course delivers basic knowledge on the theory of crystal structure analysis with various kinds of radiation, modern techniques of crystal structure determination, the analysis of the local structure of matter, defects and microstructure, theory of image formation in the electron microscope and a review on modern spectroscopic techniques with atomic resolution. The competences acquired in this course can be further used in all branches of material science dealing with crystalline matter. The course consists of lectures, seminars/practical lessons, laboratory works and exam.
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Artem Abakumov | 6 | MA060531 | ||
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Digital Certification of Composite Structures
The course introduces methods of conformity assessment of composite structures based on virtual testing. Basics of continuum damage mechanics and progressive failure models are discussed to be applied for finite element simulation of certification tests of the composite structures. Approaches to calculation and justification of safety factors and design material properties are considered for composite structures mostly related to civil engineering and infrastructure. The material model identification and finite element modeling are performed for virtual testing of composite sub-components. The models are validated by results of full-scale laboratory tests of the sub-components. As the introduction to the certification framework, the general conformity assessment procedures are discussed focusing to examples of typical aircraft composite structures. Abaqus FEA software is used for simulation.
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Ivan Sergeichev | 3 | MA030357 | CANCELLED | |
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Digital Technologies in Conceptual Design of Cyber-physical Systems
Basic course for 1st year MSc students devoted to PLM as applied to product development. Lectures are devoted to an overview of current trends in industry digitalization, “digital twins” technology and modern implementation of computer-aided design, computer-aided engineering, computer-aided manufacturing, model-based systems engineering, product lifecycle management, multidisciplinary optimization, predictive and prescriptive maintenance. Practical classes are dedicated to the simulation-driven product development process in a particular case study. Students learn how to develop a high-level model of a complex system, split it into subsystems and connect it with the functional models of each subsystem and with preliminary 3D models (e.g. aerodynamics and structural analysis). Also, the optimization of the whole system plays an important role in the course. The case study is a challenging task like High-Altitude Pseudo Satellite, Truss-Braced wing aircraft or Fuel cell powered multicopter. Thus, during the course students go through all the main stages of complex system development process.
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Clement Fortin | 6 | MA060535 | ||
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Electrochemistry: Fundamentals to Applications
This course covers fundamental concepts of electrochemistry: oxidation and reduction processes, types of conductors, electrolytes, classification of electrodes and electrode reactions, Faraday’s Laws, and electroanalytical methods. In addition, some applied aspects of electrochemistry will be covered including industrial electrolytic processes, electrodeposition, and electrochemical power sources (batteries and fuel cells).
The prerequisites are: undergraduate math, chemistry, and physics. |
Victoria Nikitina | 6 | MA060127 | MOVED FROM T4/8 | |
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English Toolkit
The goal of the English Toolkit course is to activate Academic English skills required for successful education at Skoltech.
The students will practice Academic vocabulary and grammar, as well as boost their reading, writing, listening and speaking skills within a range of research-related topics. The chosen format provides the students with a flexible and individualized learning trajectory. Real-time feedback for online exercises is complimented by tutor feedback for the writing and speaking assignments for a better understanding of the main language difficulties, providing an opportunity to improve and see progress. By the end of the course, the students will |
Elizaveta Tikhomirova | 3 | Extra | MF030001 | |
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English. Candidate Examination
This is a blended meta-course for the English Qualification Exam needed for the Russian PhD Degree. The Exam is designed as a multidisciplinary conference where the participants present results of their PhD research structured according to the general principles of conference materials submission, peer review, resubmission, presentation, and discussion.
The goal of the Exam is Academic Communication, so the participants should demonstrate the ability to present their research results in front of a multidisciplinary audience and deliver the key ideas in good Academic English in terms of vocabulary, grammar and style. Pre-exam/ pre-conference activities, such as material submissions and peer reviews, take place fully online. They include: Project proposal V1+ 2 Peer Reviews; a 2-minute video annotation V1 + peer review; and a stack of presentation slides V1+ peer review. Version 2 of the Proposal, video annotation and the slides should be improved using the comments of the Instructor and the peers. Depending on the applicable regulations related to COVID-19, on the Examination day students make their presentations and participate in the discussion in person or via an online platform in front of the Examination Committee and a group of peers. Failure to submit an assignment by the due date may result in the loss of the grade. The participants will practice a variety of academic skills: – Planning and designing a well-structured and balanced presentation The grade is counted towards the PhD Qualification. |
Elizaveta Tikhomirova | 3 | DG030003 | ||
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Entrepreneurial Marketing and Commercialization
Students will learn to find customers, create brands and build a good reputation for their startup, commercialize their projects and inventions through different sales channels, and build and develop enduring relationships with their customers.
Course participants are also prepared to build criteria for evaluating commercialization alternatives, gathering data and analyzing market information, defining brand identity, strategy, and the necessary entrepreneurial skills needed to develop brand's value and manage a viable business. |
Alexander Chekanov | 3 | E&I | MC030445 | |
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Evolutionary, Population and Medical Genomics
Nothing in biology makes sense except in the light of evolution. This course introduces the fundamentals of evolutionary science as applied to genomics. It will allow to see how the basic population genetics processes create, maintain and affect variability in populations and lead to their changes with time. The focus will be on molecular evolution, i.e., the manifestation of these processes in genomes. As humans, we will be particularly interested in evolutionary aspects of medicine. The course assumes no prior familiarity with evolutionary biology, although knowledge of the basics of molecular biology and genetics is expected. The themes covered will include basic concepts in evolutionary biology and generalizations in evolutionary genomics; population genetics and factors of microevolution; and basics of quantitative genetics.
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Georgii Bazykin | 6 | MA060222 | ||
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Finite Element Analysis
The course is intended to give basic knowledge and skills for finite element analysis method and modelling. The course introduces basics of FE theory and fundamentals. Static stress analysis, structural stability, crack propagation analysis, extended finite element method (X-FEM), explicit dynamic analysis, heat transfer and thermal-stress analysis and sub-modeling are discussed and experienced within modelling and solution of engineering problems. Application of constitutive material models and equations of state are сonsidered. Abaqus FEA software is used for development of models, analysis and post-processing. MS and PhD projects are supported in the framework of the course via individual course projects. Therefore, students are wellcome to participate for the problem statement for the course projects.
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Ivan Sergeichev | 6 | MA060355 | ||
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Foundations of Multiscale Modeling: Kinetics
The course is devoted to fundamental principles of modelling of kinetic processes at different time and space scales. The basic concepts are introduced, along with the theoretical and numerical techniques, which application to practical problems is illustrated. The course starts with the description of molecular kinetics in fluids, colloidal and polymer solutions; applications for molecular machines and nano-robotics is considered. Langevin and Fokker-Planck equations are introduced, supplemented with the theoretical and numerical tools of their solution.
Next, the Boltzmann kinetic equation is analyzed. An application of the fundamental theoretical and numerical techniques, such as Grad and Chapman-Enskog methods, Lattice Boltzmann and Direct Simulation Monte Carlo is illustrated. Derivation of transport coefficients and hydrodynamics equations, including these for dissipative fluids, is given. Green-Kubo relations as an alternative method for practical computation of transport coefficients is presented and compared with other methods. Based on the Boltzmann equation, the theory of aggregation-fragmentation kinetics is developed, leading to the generalized Smoluchowski equations. The basic concepts like Scaling, Generation functions, etc. are introduced for theoretical analysis and Gillespe algorithm and fast solvers for practical computations. In the rest of the course the above theoretical and numerical techniques are illustrated for the following applications: Surface growth, Phase transition kinetics, Random sequential adsorption, Nucleation & Growth and Nano-tribology. Theory of Active Matter, Traffic Models, Socio-dynamics and Complex Networks dynamics are also considered. The knowledge of undergraduate mathematics – the basics of calculus, linear algebra and probability theory, as well as reasonable skills in Matlab and Python are needed. A familiarity with the basic open source software is desirable. |
Nikolay Brilliantov | 6 | MA060326 | ||
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Fundamentals of Additive Technologies
Additive manufacturing (AM), also called 3D printing, has become an extremely promising technology of next Industry 4.0 nowadays. Unlike traditional manufacturing processes such as welding, milling and melting that involve multi-stage processing and treatments, AM allows to create products with new level of performance and shapes.
Moreover, this approach allows to produce prototypes and functional parts rapidly and leads to reducing costs and risks. Another crucial advantage of the additive technologies (AT) is the unprecedented design flexibility that let us create the samples of high quality based on different materials such as metals, alloys, ceramics, polymers, composite materials etc. The main goal of this course is to represent the fundamental basis of different AT to the students. In this course, a wide range of questions will be addressed, beginning from the process of chain and designing the structures up to various 3D printing technologies, materials and process parameters, benefits and drawbacks of AM approaches will be considered. During laboratory class we will get acquainted with the AT on various printing machines. Students will be able to create their own models, print them in metals, ceramics and polymers, and also analyze the properties of the final samples. During this course a complete cycle of production of samples using various 3D printing techniques will be explored both theoretically and practically. |
Igor Shishkovsky | 6 | MA060243 | ||
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Fundamentals of Metallurgy
The course “Fundamentals of metallurgy” is a part of material science filed considering the metals and alloys. This course gives a fundamental understanding of the properties of metal and alloys. During the course, brief introductions of the crystallography, phase changes, dislocation, material mechanical behavior, and principal of the metal heat treatment will be described. Particular attention will be paid to the different methods of obtaining materials and the microstructure of materials. Lecture materials will be confirmed through practical exercises. The goal of the course is providing a vision of the properties of metals and alloys in terms of phase compositions and transformations, structure, mechanical properties, and how these properties can be evaluated. The course is recommended for the students who do not have experience in material science but would like to make research correlated with metals or alloys. The course will be helpful for those who consider taking the Additive manufacturing and Structural Analysis and Design.
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Stanislav Evlashin | 3 | MA030519 | ||
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Fundamentals of Wireless Communications
The course "Fundamentals of wireless communications" gives an overview of theoretical methods that govern modern cellular communication systems design principles.
The course covers basic signal transmission techniques: modulation, signal propagation over the wireless medium, synchronization, signal detection, and demodulation. The students will get familiar with modulation techniques used in 4th and 5th-generation cellular systems. Advanced topics include multiple antenna techniques (MIMO – Multiple-Input, Multiple-Output) and multiuser communication. The practical part of the course includes a series of labs (MATLAB/Python). Each lab suggests conducting a numerical experiment to evaluate the performance of different communication techniques. This course relies on the "Digital signal processing" and "Information and coding theory" courses. |
Kirill Andreev | 6 | MA060527 | ||
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Gas Recovery and Gas Hydrates
Natural gases characterization of the gas and gas-condensate fields and overview of technological complications (flow assurance) at different stages of field development.
Gas hydrates: physical and chemical properties, two- and three-phase equilibria, quadrupole points, phase diagrams of gas and the gas-condensate systems including water, ice and hydrates; gas hydrate control, thermodynamic (methanol, MEG, electrolytes) and low-dosage (kinetic and anti-agglomerates) inhibitors. Hydrate control at gas wells, gas gathering systems and the main technological processes of natural gas treatment in field conditions: dehydration of lean gases (absorption and adsorption); low-temperature processes of gas treatment at gas-condensate fields. |
Vladimir Istomin | 6 | MA060291 | ||
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History and Philosophy of Science
The aim of this course is to give to Skoltech students and postgraduates basic information about the main stages of the development of science from its birth in Ancient Greece through the Middle Ages and the Renaissance to Modern Times and to the great scientific revolutions of the XX century. Every man of culture especially a future scientist should know the impact of such great thinkers as Plato, Aristotle, Thomas Aquinas, John Buridan, Nicholas of Cusa, Copernicus, Galileo, Descartes, Newton, Boscovich, Darwin, Mendel, Bohr and Einstein (omitting many other brilliant names, that would be spoken about in the frames of the course) to the development of a scientific picture of the universe. Also there will be discussed the main topics and notions of the philosophy of science: demarcation between science and humanities, Popper’s theory of falsification, Kuhn’s theory of scientific revolutions, philosophical ideas of Lakatos and Feyerabend.
The course will consist of 18 3-hour lectures and 6 examination sessions (3 hour each). The students are to submit 6 written essays in English on the following themes: 1. Ancient Greek and Roman Science; 2. Medieval and Renaissance Science; 3. Scientific Revolution of the XVII century; 4. Science in the XVIII and XIX century; 5. Science in the XX-XXI centuries; 6. Philosophy of Science. For the final exam the students should prepare 10-15 minutes oral presentation on the scientific problem they are currently working upon, or on some topic connected with history of science and/or philosophy. Lectures 1-3 are devoted to the Ancient Greek and Roman Science Lectures 4-6 are devoted to Medieval and Renaissance Science Lectures 7-9 are devoted to the Scientific Revolution of the XVII century Lectures 10-12 are devoted to Science in the XVIII and XIX century Lectures 13-15 are devoted to Science in the XX-XXI centuries Lectures 16-18 are devoted to the Philosophy of Science |
Ivan Lupandin | 6 | DG060026 | ||
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Hitchin Systems and Complex Geometry (Term 3-4)
The subject of this course will be mainly twistors and the complex geometry. The word 'twistor' should be properly understood as 'twistor transform'. The latter in short means the following.
To certain 4-dimansional Riemannian (or pseudo-Riemannian, but Riemannian case is still more convenient) manifolds one can associate a 3-dimensional complex manifold. In this setting, the points of a 4-fold M are in 1:1 correspondence with "real" lines in the complex 3-fold P. For example, to the Riemannian 4-fold M=S⁴ one gets associated complex 3-fold P=CP³, while for M=R⁴=S⁴\{-} one gets M=CP³\{a line}. In this context M plays the role of a (Euclidian version of) the space-time, whereas P is called the twistor space. As a matter of fact, this construction can be carried out for certain 4n-dimensional Riemannian metrics, yielding a complex manifold the twistor space) of dimension 2n+1. This correspondence allows one to rewrite some interesting equation of Mathematical Physics for fields on M in terms of complex geometry of P. This transition can be called the twistor transform. In this course we shall consider a number of examples of such a character. You can find a more detailed plan in an attached file in § 10. |
Alexey Rosly |
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Immunology
The purpose of the course “Immunology” is to lay the foundation for understanding the principles of organization, basic algorithms and rationale of the immune system. Such basis is necessary for the further professional growth either in the field of fundamental immunology or applied research and development in medical immunology. This course will also be important for those who wish to professionalize in medical practice, pharmaceutical industry, epidemiology and health services management, engineering and business in the field of modern biomedicine.
The course is focussed on the human immune system, towards clinical applications. The first part should help to form a systematic view of the architecture of the immune system. Next, the main medical aspects related to the functioning of the immune system will be considered, including autoimmune diseases, hypersensitivity reactions, cancer immunology, immunotherapy, vaccinations, autologous and allogeneic blood cells transplantation. Special attention paid to adaptive immunity and state-of-art bioinformatic approaches to the analysis of the T-cell receptor and antibody repertoire, the search for diagnostically and therapeutically relevant markers of adaptive immunity. In addition to the main program, PhD students and the boldest MS students will be offered to run a short, team-up, publication-oriented biomedical project. |
Dmitriy Chudakov | 6 | MA060172 | ||
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Intellectual Property in Industry. Patents, Patent Search and Drafting
This course focuses on the basics of patent search. This process is an integral part of a significant number of R&D projects. Patent search is also the most important type of engineering activity that accompanies any process of new inventions development and application.
In this course, students will be generally acquainted with the concepts and basics of intellectual property protecting, including industrial property. Also as part of this course, students will master necessary knowledge and skills in the field of patent search. The course will be useful to a wide range of specialists who develop new technical solutions and introduce them into production. |
Vadim Sulimov | 3 | MA030528 |
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Introduction to Blockchain
This course provide an overview of modern blockchain technology and its' practical applications (Cryptocurrency, Certification, Anchoring. Industrial examples.) We will start from basic cryptography and distributed data base systems and show how these tools are used in blockchain. The covered topics are the following:
-) Introduction to cryptography, type of ciphers. Private and Public crypto systems |
Alexey Frolov | 3 | MA030272 | ||
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Introduction to Digital Pharma
Modern pharma undergoes digital transformation. AI and other ‘digital’ technologies are actively applied in drug discovery and development to make the whole process less time consuming and more cost-effective.
The course will cover all aspects of drug design and development where digital technologies are being implemented: – Identification of drug target and its druggability assessment (genome mining), virtual high throughput screening. – Computer-aided drug design, combinatorial chemistry, exploration of chemical space. AI as a tool for chemical synthesis of new drug-like molecules. – Informatics approaches in prediction of the absorption, distribution, metabolism, elimination and toxicity (ADMET) of drug molecules. – Informatics approaches in pre-art and freedom to operate analysis. – Machine learning in clinical trials and drug repurposing. – Formulation Development – AI and Personalized Medicine. An invited lecture of company developing informatics solutions for research and development of new medicines is planned. On site visit to ChemRar High-Tech Center. At the end of the course students will know the whole pipeline of drug design and development in the pharmaceutical industry. As in general this field is dynamic with changes across R&D, clinical trials, manufacturing and regulatory processes, the AI is either already applied or will be introduced in the future. The students will get hands on experience in several particular areas of drug design with specific drug target/s. The visit to the high-tech center will demonstrate how this business works in real life. |
Natalia Strushkevich | 6 | MA060418 | ||
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Introduction to IoT
In the last decade the Internet of Things (IoT) paradigm has slowly but steadily and increasingly permeated what researchers and engineers study and build. The term “Internet of Things” doesn’t have a single definition and people today often use it to interchangeably refer to Wireless Sensor Network (WSN), Machine-to-Machine (M2M), Web of Things (WoT) and other concepts. The focus of this course is to learn about these technologies that will be extending the Internet as we know it and use it today, to interconnect not only people and computers but also sensors and associated objects. The course will be divided into two strongly coupled parts. The first part of the course covers the IoT ‘pillar’ technologies, i.e. embedded systems, wireless sensor networks, semantic technologies, and theory behind them while the second part will have a special focus on IoT development, i.e. IoT apps, open platforms, sensors and actuators, software/middleware. Apart from covering the theory behind the IoT and “how to connect things to the Internet”, the course will therefore also engage the students to demonstrate the feasibility of simple IoT real applications and will challenge them to improve their applications through the use of cognitive technologies and cloud computing.
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Andrey Somov | 3 | MA030233 | ||
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Introduction to Quantum Field Theory (Term 3-4)
As you know, the modern theory of fundamental physics (the "standard model of elementary particle physics") is a quantum field theory (QFT). In addition to this central role in modern physics, quantum field theory also has many applications in pure mathematics (for example, from it came the so-called quantum knot invariants and Gromov-Witten invariants of symplectic manifolds).
"Ordinary" quantum mechanics deals with systems with a fixed number of particles. In QFP, the objects of study are fields (not in the sense of a "field of complex numbers", but in the sense of an "electromagnetic field"), whose elementary perturbations are analogs of quantum mechanical particles, but can appear and disappear ("born" and "die"); at the same time, the number of degrees of freedom turns out to be infinite. Within the framework of this course, the basic concepts of QFT will be introduced "from scratch". The Fock space and the formalism of operators on it, as well as the formalism of the "continuum integral" will be defined. The main example under consideration will be the quantum scalar field theory. A scalar field in physical terminology is a field that, at the classical level, is defined by one number at each point (i.e., in fact, its state at a given time is just a numerical function on space), unlike a vector field (an example of which, in particular, is an electromagnetic field). However, considering the quantum theory of a scalar field (even separately, and simpler than for the Higgs field) is in any case very useful, since it allows you to get acquainted with the apparatus and phenomena of QFT on a simpler example than vector and spinor fields. The course will consider the "perturbation theory" (that is, in fact, a method for calculating the first orders of smallness in a small parameter expansion) for a scalar field and describe ways to calculate various probabilities of events with particles. |
Vladimir Losyakov |
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MA060505 | ||
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Introduction to Recommender Systems
This course provides a high-level overview of the recommender systems field. It covers the key topics of recommender systems development from theoretical and practical viewpoints. The course aims to guide students through the landscape of different recommender systems types, methods, and applications and equip them with the necessary knowledge for creating practical solutions. Students will learn how to translate recommendation tasks from real-world personalization services into suitable mathematical formulations and solve the corresponding problems with the help of proper techniques, algorithms, and software tools.
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Evgeny Frolov | 3 | MA030499 | ||
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Laser Physics
The purpose of the course is to provide a solid background in the laser physics with strong emphasis on lasers for applications. Lectures cover various aspects of modern laser physics including laser dynamics; ultra-fast lasers; Ti:Sapphire, fiber and semiconductor lasers; high-power lasers; wavelength conversion and supercontinuum generation. The course will be focusing on a practical skills. During the lectures there will be a lot of teamworking, problem solving and estimations. On practical seminars we will assemble our own femtosecond fiber laser and measure its emission properties.
After the course students will be acquainted with the main principles of the laser operation, will obtain the a hand-on experience in assembling fiber lasers and measure the ultrashort pulse parameters and we be able the find a suitable laser system for their particular application. |
Yuriy Gladush | 6 | MA060143 | ||
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Light Matter Interaction
The course describes the fundamentals of the interaction of radiation with matter within the framework of classical and quantum physics. Particular attention is paid to a unified approach allowing a uniform description of the averaging of Maxwell's equations and the maintenance of material parameters. The homogenisation (averaging) procedure is described for both conventional and metamaterials. Phenomenological description of homogenisation is compared with an approach based on a multipole expansion. The nonlinear material response and the effects based on it are discussed. Based on quantum theory (density matrix equation), the dynamics of open quantum systems as well as their interaction with nano-objects are considered.
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Arkady Shipulin | 3 | MA030522 | CANCELLED | |
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Machine Learning
The course is a general introduction to machine learning (ML) and its applications. It covers fundamental topics in ML and describes the most important algorithmic basis and tools. It also provides important aspects of the algorithms’ applications. The course starts with an overview of canonical ML applications and problems, learning scenarios, etc. Next, we discuss in-depth fundamental ML algorithms for classification, regression, clustering, etc., their properties, and practical applications. The last part of the course is devoted to advanced ML topics such as Gaussian processes, neural networks. Within practical sections, we show how to use the ML methods and tune their hyper-parameters. Home assignments include the application of existing algorithms to solve data analysis problems. The students are assumed to be familiar with basic concepts in linear algebra, probability, real analysis, optimization, and python programming.
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Evgeny Burnaev | 6 | MA060018 | ||
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Machine Learning for Wireless Communications
This is a machine learning application course, intended to familiarize students with modern algorithms of the 5G wireless communication system and their implementation over Machine learning (ML). Within a few years, ML has become a prominent and rapidly growing research field among wireless communications both in academia and industry. The application of ML to wireless communications is expected to deeply transform wireless communication engineering in a few years. ML brings along a methodology that is data-driven and research in the field of ML for 5G is still largely in an exploration phase. In this course, we analyze the most promising applications of ML in the 5G system and propose students to realize some of them in Matlab or Python using the real-life data and state-of-art algorithms we provide.
This course covers the following topics: Machine learning-based feature extraction for channel estimation, and MIMO detection |
Andrey Ivanov | 3 | MA030413 | CANCELLED | |
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Master Your Thesis in English 1 (Life Sciences)
Writing is the key priority and the need of utmost importance for all would-be scientists. Science demands good writing, that presupposes the skills to communicate ideas, theories, and findings as efficiently and clearly as possible. Science lives and dies by how it is represented in print and printed material is the final product of scientific endeavour. The primary goal of this course is to prepare master students for wiring, editing, and defending a Master Thesis.
This course is designed to explain how to write chapters of their Thesis through practical examples of good writing taken from the authentic linguistic environment in life sciences. The course teaches how to overcome certain typical problems in writing a text of a thesis and abounds in useful linguistics assistance on its various parts. Feedback on students’ texts will constitute the major part of the course. The Course is offered in two modules which gradually build on the necessary writing and presentation skills. |
Anastasiia Sharapkova | 3 | Extra | MF030003l | |
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Master Your Thesis in English 2 (Life Sciences) (Term 7-8)
Writing is the key priority and the need of utmost importance for all would-be scientists. Science demands not just writing, but good writing. It presupposes the skills to communicate ideas, theories and findings as efficiently and clearly as possible. Science lives and dies by how it is represented in print and a printed material is the final product of scientific endeavour. The primary goal of this course is to prepare master students for wiring, editing, and defending a Master Thesis.
This course is designed to explain how to write chapters of their Thesis through practical examples of good writing taken from the authentic linguistic environment. The course teaches how to overcome certain typical problems in writing a text of a thesis and abounds in useful linguistic assistance. Feedback on students’ texts will constitute the major part of the course. |
Anastasiia Sharapkova |
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Master Your Thesis in English_Marathon
This is FALL Module of the course which is aligned with the Thesis submission deadlines at Skoltech.
The course was designed and tailored specifically for the 2nd-year Master’s students to provide help with the Thesis writing and presentation in English. Course participants will get professional feedback on their Thesis in terms of structure, vocabulary and grammar of each chapter, and learn how to make important transformations for a presentation with slides. The Course gradually builds on the necessary writing and presentation skills. Classes and tasks are focused on facilitating your progress with reporting research results. The key is to start writing as soon as you start your research as there are a lot of things that you can – and should – write before the main results are obtained. A successful student will have these elements of the paper ready by the end of the term: – Research gap and Research Question(s) – Goal and objectives of research – Potential benefits, novelty and significance – Literature Review – Materials and methods /Experiment design – Status Review presentation and speech Start NOW, save lots of effort and nerves later! |
Elizaveta Tikhomirova | 3 | Extra | MF030004 | |
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Materials Selection in Design
This course illustrates the need for a scientific and practical method of selection of appropriate materials in the design for industrial application. It includes the review of the principles of materials science including materials classification, hierarchical structuring, related properties, and performance of different class of materials such as natural materials, metals, ceramics, plastics, cellular solids. Ashby’s material selection algorithm for rational selection of materials for specific applications will be taught here in comprehensive way – analysis of function, objectives and constraints, deducing of performance indices. All the concepts covered in lectures will be practiced by using a commercially available software known as CES EduPack to implement data intensive learning. Individual course projects are aimed to taste the CDIO approach in Materials Selection for a product that must meet the sustainability requirements.
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Alexey Salimon | 3 | MA030099 | MOVED FROM T2-6 | |
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Mathematical Methods in Engineering and Applied Science (Term 3-4)
The course introduces students to mathematical methods widely used in modern engineering and applied sciences. It consists of three main parts: 1) Methods of Applied Linear Algebra (solving linear systems, LU, QR, SVD, and other factorizations, Principal Component Analysis, iterative methods, FFT, least squares, pseudo-inverse, etc.); 2) Statistical Methods and Data Analysis (mean, variance, probability; moments, covariance, Gaussian processes; regression, gradient descent; neural networks, machine learning); and 3) Applied Differential Equations (linear and nonlinear ordinary differential equations, stability and bifurcations of solutions, linear and nonlinear partial differential equations, hyperbolicity, characteristics, dispersion, reaction-diffusion phenomena, pattern formation).
The course is introductory by nature, covering a wide range of topics and methods of modern interest in applications. Its theoretical content is informal in style and most of the concepts will be illustrated with problems from engineering, physics, chemistry, and biology using numerical computations in Matlab and Python. The three parts of the course are aimed at: part 1 – using the right language that is crucial for understanding many computational techniques used in engineering; part 2 – learning important tools of analysis of results obtained either by computation or in experiments; and part 3 – learning the nature of key mathematical models that form the foundation of engineering and applied sciences. |
Aslan Kasimov |
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MIMO Systems in Wireless Communications
This course provides an overview of modern spatial processing techniques in wireless communication systems, and shows technological aspects of massive-MIMO systems. In addition, it will be studied 3GPP standard evolution to feel requirements of high precision massive-MIMO systems from channel acquisition accuracy to algorithm robustness in case of different error influence.
We will start from basic principles of wireless communication systems; will study Shannon’s capacity, and its redefinition in terms of independent and correlated spatial channels, then move to space-time coding, spatial filters, channel acquisition techniques in 4G and 5G NR systems. Final part of the course will be denoted to specifics of radio resource management in massive-MIMO systems. After this course, the students have to be familiar with the main principles of MIMO systems in wireless communication, understand advantages of spatial domain usage, and feel the main challenges in system level and computational aspects. |
Vladimir Lyashev | 3 | MA030412 | ||
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Modern Dynamical Systems (Term 3-4)
Dynamical systems in our course will be presented mainly not as an independent branch of mathematics but as a very powerful tool that can be applied in geometry, topology, probability, analysis, number theory and physics. We consciously decided to sacrifice some classical chapters of ergodic theory and to introduce the most important dynamical notions and ideas in the geometric and topological context already intuitively familiar to our audience. As a compensation, we will show applications of dynamics to important problems in other mathematical disciplines. We hope to arrive at the end of the course to the most recent advances in dynamics and geometry and to present (at least informally) some of results of A. Avila, A. Eskin, M. Kontsevich, M. Mirzakhani, G. Margulis.
In accordance with this strategy, the course comprises several blocks closely related to each other. The first three of them (including very short introduction) are mainly mandatory. The decision, which of the topics listed below these three blocks would depend on the background and interests of the audience. |
Alexandra Skripchenko |
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MA060257 | ||
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Modern Engineering Graphics and Principles of Design
This course discusses important principles of modern design and making engineering drawings. It studies integrated rules and guidelines for development, processing, and handling a design documentation, which is developed and applied at all stages of a product lifecycle (designing, running, maintenance, etc.). After the course, students will be able to apply the unified rules for development, processing, and handling drawings, providing its completeness, quality, and proper exploitation of products, implementation of the modern means and methods in designing, harmonization with corresponding international standards, minimization of the manufacturing costs and complexity, protection of a natural environment, customer’s life and health. This course will allow learning the basic requirements of high TRL designing and using them at practice via the modern CAD modeling software.
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Artem Aleksanyan | 3 | MA030507 |
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Neuroendocrinology
Neuroendocrinology is thе part of physiology dealing with interactions between the nervous and the endocrine system. These include interactions on molecular cellular and organism levels controlling physiological processes of the human body. This course will give advanced understanding of normal physiology and pathophysiology of the brain as an endocrine organ. The special attention will be given to hypothalamus/pituitary/adrenal axis and gonads, which maintain homeostasis, regulating reproduction, metabolism, energy utilization, control of cardiovascular system and other functions.
Modern methods in cardiac physiology, renal physiology, vascular biology. Students will learn most important techniques to study heart function, excretion and regulation of vascular resistance: ultrasound and MRI imaging, telemetry, single nephrone studies, wire myography and others. |
Yuri Kotelevtsev | 3 | MA030402 | ||
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Neurotechnology Lab Course
A laboratory-based course. Neurotechnology Lab Course is directed to overview the common and advanced Neurotechnological techniques, different types of EEG-based brain-computer interfaces (BCIs). The course consists of a short theoretical part, workshops, and a number of laboratory experiments. It includes a group project and is highly focused on getting practical skills in experimental design, neurophysiological data recording, modern neuromodulation techniques and analysis of experimental data with the aim to build brain-computer interfacing systems.
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Nikolay Koshev | 6 | MA060022b | ||
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Next Generation Sequencing – Experimental Protocols and Data Analysis
Next generation sequencing is a group of methods that allow simultaneous sequencing of many thousands of DNA fragments without their physical separation by cloning. In the last 15 years it revolutionized many fields of biology: genetics, evolutionary biology, microbiology, anthropology. It have also many practical applications, especially in biomedicine. However NGS and corresponding bioinformatics methods are sometimes used in a black box regime, without understanding its logic, the area of applicability and limitations. This course will provide a comprehensive survey of both experimental aspects of NGS and of bioinformatics analysis of the data. We will also discuss the current trends in the development of sequencing technologies and their applications. The practical part of the course will offer a hands-on experience of a genomic project, starting from the experiment design, followed by preparation of DNA and RNA samples, sequencing, de novo genome assembly, annotation and analysis of differential expression.
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Maria Logacheva | 3 | MA030396 | ||
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Nobel English for Academic Purposes
The Nobel Prize is the most prestigious award given for intellectual achievement in the world making the milestones in science development all over the world. The scientists awarded this prize should have contributed greatly to science advancement to be honoured with this prize. Yet, the fabric usually neglected in discussing the scientific ideas, still worthy of notice, is the language used at each stage: the papers, written by the future Nobel prize laureates, their books, the analysis and interpretation of their work in synopses and press releases, their lectures, and Nobel speeches.
The works of these scientists provide rich material on the development of English for Academic Purposes and allow to master the most important skill for budding scientists: how to communicate in the international community. The course is organised as a series of lessons, each based on one outstanding figure and his works. Every lesson will address and practice the skills needed to finally be able to write a paper, explain its content to ordinary people (laymen), and present at a conference. The group will mimic the work of the Nobel Prize committee. With the growing demands for every scientist to publish and not to perish, the quality of academic writing is of utmost importance. The course teaches how to write, revise and edit your own work in a lingua franca of modern science. The course will familiarize the students with major problems the Russian authors face in English formal writing as well as the ways to overcome them. Each class will provide exercises on academic vocabulary and typical grammar constructions used in written works to be performed as the home assignments. The topics will target the most essential skills to be mastered for successful writing: the structure of a paragraph, thesis statement, summary, paraphrasing, writing an abstract |
Anastasiia Sharapkova | 3 | Extra | MF030532 | CANCELLED |
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Non-Equilibrium Processes in Energy Conversion
Classical thermodynamics is useful to describe equilibrium states, while non-equilibrium states and irreversibility characterize real physical processes. If one is interested in actual processes at work during energy conversion, a classical thermodynamic description of equilibrium states is insufficient as it yields very incomplete information on the processes. Irreversible thermodynamics accounts for the rates of physical processes, and provides relationships between "measurable quantities" such as transport coefficients. This graduate course, which constitutes the natural continuation of the course Energy Systems Physics & Engineering, provides the students with basic knowledge of out-of-equilibrium and finite-time thermodynamics, which describe irreversible processes that routinely take place in physical systems and permits a fine understanding of the processes ensuring energy conversion. Thermoelectric generators serve as the main example to illustrate in a simple fashion the out-of-equilibrium formalism, and other systems such as, e.g., solar cells are studied.
Essential notions which are taught include: Onsager’s approach to linear nonequilibrium thermodynamics; coupled transport theory; Boltzmann equation; thermal conductivity; electrical conductivity; electrochemical potential in solid-state systems; force-flux formalism and its application to thermoelectric systems; device optimization modelling accounting for dissipative coupling to heat reservoirs. The course is based both on "teaching with lecture" and "teaching with discussions" methods. In addition to home assignments, students will solve problems during tutorials and discuss their solutions. If, as for the academic year 2020-2021, the course is given in online mode, much emphasis will be put on the "teaching with discussion" to mitigate risks of superficial learning. |
Henni Ouerdane | 6 | DA060200 | CANCELLED | |
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Numerical Modeling
Many scientific models are formulated in terms of differential or integral equations and describe continuous quantities, such as the distribution of velocity of a fluid in a space outside an aircraft wing, distribution of stress in a solid body, price of a stock as a function of time, etc. In order to use these models in a computer simulation, the models must be discretized. The course covers a representative selection of methods of discretization of differential and integral equations. The emphasis of the course is on practical aspects of using discretization methods: intuitive understanding and formal derivation of accuracy of different methods, modelling, testing and optimizing real mechanical systems, and solving applications-informed practical problems.
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Alexander Shapeev | 6 | MA060005 | ||
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Omics Data Analysis (Term 3-4)
An avalanche of ‘omics data is coming from different sources: transcriptomics, epigenomics, lipidomics, metabolomics. A thorough analysis of such large-scale biological data sets can lead to the discovery of important biological insights on mechanisms of cell and organ functioning, and to the identification of small subsets of molecules (a ‘molecular signature’) to explain or predict biological conditions. The course will discuss general concepts of bioinformatics analysis of various types of ‘omics data and will provide examples of their successful application for solving a wide range of biological problems. The students will not only learn the best analysis practices suitable for each data type but, importantly, understand why each analysis step is necessary, what is the logic of the whole data analysis concept, which controls are essential, etc. The course will end with the task (Final Project) on the integration of different data types produced to answer the same biological question.
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Ekaterina Khrameeva |
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Optical Communications. Basics
This course is the first part of a series devoted to modern optical communication systems. The aim of the course is to study the fundamental physical principles underlying modern optical communication systems. Further courses in this series will be devoted to more applied (engineering) issues in the field of optical information transmission systems. The proposed course will give the necessary knowledge from the theory of information, universal for any (not only optical) data transmission systems, in particular the Shannon theorem. Based on a unified description of stochastic processes, sources of errors in digital signal transmission will be systematically considered. Fundamentals of quantum mechanics of open systems based on density matrix will be systematically described. Using this approach, the dynamics of lasers and optical amplifiers as applied to optical information transmission systems will be analyzed. The main factors limiting the capacity and distance of the transmitted signal will be considered. In particular, the linear and nonlinear properties of the medium (mainly on the example of optical fibers) that affect the parameters of the propagating signal will be analyzed. The course will also consider modern issues of physics and technology of information transmission systems, including quantum methods to ensure the confidentiality of the transmitted signal, applications of nanophotonics and photonic integrated circuits, neural optical networks, radio photonics, as well as the role of photonics in the development of mobile networks of the fifth and sixth generations.
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Arkady Shipulin | 3 | MA030500 | CANCELLED | |
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Optimization Methods
The course is devoted to optimization methods and optimization problems design with a special attention to those motivated by control sciences, energy systems and other engineering applications.
The course starts with a brief annotation of magor concepts: convexity, convergence, optimization models. Then we discuss zero, first and second order methods with a special focus on their efficient implementation. We distinguish between various problem classes, discuss suitable methods for every class. The problem formulation and its proper reformulation is the critical issue for an optimizer. We’ll learn about optimization models and convex relaxations. Special attention will be addressed to Linear Matrix Inequalities (LMI) that arise in optimization problem formulations. One of the home assignments is devoted to understanding the constraints of performance for different software packages. |
Elena Gryazina | 6 | MA060002 | ||
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Pedagogical Experience
The main function of this course is to articulate Skoltech's expectations on PhD students who do their pedagogical TA assignment at Skoltech. The course describes the intended learning outcomes and how they are assessed.
The main bulk of the 81 hours of the course is spent in the actual courses in which the PhD-students do their TA-assignments. |
Dmitry Artamonov | 3 | DG030005 | ||
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Pedagogy of Higher Education (Term 3-4)
The course offers an introduction to facilitating learning in higher education for PhD students asked to act as teaching assistants. The course content focuses on high resolution constructive alignment of learning outcomes with learning activities and assessment strategies. Learning outcomes for a course are elaborated into separate activities and assignments for students. Learning outcomes need to be articulated at every level of learning activities from course to assignment.
The course also rests on the approach that learning is promoted by feedback. Participants in the course will therefore be required to plan and design effective use of continuous formative assessment. Such formative assessment requires strategic learning activities and assignments. The course therefore emphasizes communication-to-learn activities including peer learning. Skoltech is an English medium instruction environment, and the course explores ways of addressing the potential effects of language and culture barriers for high quality student learning. All topics in the course are applied by participants on their own teaching and learning experiences and are meant to be used as they prepare and plan for their teaching assistantships or their supervisory activities to come. All participants will have a task to produce a reflection on their future actions to evolve as facilitators and meet the requirements of the scholarship of teaching and learning. |
Magnus Gustafsson |
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Perception in Robotics
This course will present the fundamental theory and application of perception techniques. The word perception on the context of this course will refer to the problems of Localization, Mapping and in general State Estimation. Today we are witnessing an explosion on the applications for this technology, originally developed on the robotics field, being outsourced to other domains such as self-driving cars, augmented reality, flying drones, etc. Yet there are many challenges to be solved on a wide variety of research topics. The content of the course will be mainly based on a probabilistic approach to perception problems and will examine a selected set of contemporary algorithms in depth. Topics include Bayesian filtering; Batch Estimation, Mapping, localization and simultaneous localization and Mapping (SLAM); Observation and transition functions; Read below about the course policy, final project and other details.
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Gonzalo Ferrer | 6 | MA060283 | ||
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Petrophysics and Well Log Interpretation
The course provides both theoretical knowledge in well logging application for reservoir characterization and practical skills in well logging processing and interpretation software.
During the course students will get familiar with the main well logging tools and methods, such as gamma, spontaneous potential, caliper, formation density, neutron, electrical, formation micro-imaging, sonic, magnetic resonance logging and so on. The students will study the well logs application for defining the key reservoir properties, correlation, integration with laboratory core test data. Besides lectures the course includes computer classes where students will gain applied skills in well logging interpretation software (Techlog). During the software practicums the participants will learn the main well logging data handling operations, such as creating a project for a field, import / export, displaying logs, data and variable management, depth referencing, constructing cross-plots, calculating parameters, well correlation. The proportion of lectures and software classes is approximately 50% / 50%. |
Alexei Tchistiakov | 3 | MA030289 | ||
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Photonics Research Seminar Series (Term 1B-4)
The course "Photonics Research Seminar Series" aims to provide MSc and PhDs with a broader perspective into state-of-the-art research in photonics, from fundamental insights (both theoretical and experimental) to engineering and applications. The course also aims to train students in how to structure scientific results, how to provide a coherent narrative and how to appropriately present it in the form of a strictly-timed oral presentation. The bulk of the course consists of a weekly one hour seminar on seminal topics of photonics, from guest speakers or Skoltech faculty, researchers and students.
The course is a prerequisite for the research thesis defense of projects of the following laboratories (and is as such compulsory only for the 2nd year MSc students of these laboratories): |
Pavlos Lagoudakis |
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Physics of Colloids and Interfaces
Interface science is the basis for modern nanotechnology. Objects of the microworld are dominated by surface effects rather than gravitation and inertia. The applications of interface science are important for lab-on-chip technologies, microfluidics, biochips, tissue engineering, biophotonics, theranostics. Modern interface science is a good example of interdisciplinarity: it includes physics, chemical engineering, biology, medicine. During this course, the students gain not only theoretical knowledge but also receive practical skills related to:
– surface tension measurements; – contact angle measurements; – surface potential measurement by Kelvin probe method; – nanoparticle characterization by dynamic light scattering method for determination of size and Z-potential of nanoparticles; – synthesis of calcium carbonate cores at the micron- and submicron size and loading of calcium carbonate particles by inorganic nanoparticles and proteins; – fabrication of polymer and nanocomposite microcapsule shells by the Layer-by-Layer assembly approach. They will receive knowledge that can be used for the analysis of phenomena in the microworld from point of view of interface science. |
Dmitry Gorin | 6 | MA060524 | ||
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Power Electronics
The course provides an overview of the latest achievements in power electronics. The main purpose of the course is to analyze different circuit topologies, to understand how they work and which are their benefits and limitations. The course starts with reviewing the basics in electric circuit theory, and then, it introduces different kind of semiconductor devices such as diodes, thyristors and transistors. After this, power electronics circuits are presented: rectifiers, DC-DC converters and inverters. The course gives the tools to analyze any kind of power converters, and provides different examples related with microgrids and energy storage applications. It has three parts: lectures, home tasks and experimental activities in the lab. By the end of the course, the students should be able to analyze a power converter, to simulate it and to understand the possible applications.
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Federico Martin Ibanez | 6 | MA060198 | ||
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Protein Chemistry and Engineering
Proteins play a central role in the functioning of all living things. Unlike nucleic acids, proteins are extremely diverse in their physicochemical properties and biological functions. This diversity is based on the properties of amino acids, which vary greatly in size, hydrophobicity and charge. Additional sources of structural and functional diversity are various cofactors and post-translational modifications of proteins. During this course, we consider hierarchical levels of protein organization (from amino acid residues to quaternary complexes), as well as the basic principles of protein functioning (enzymes, structural proteins, signaling cascades). This knowledge provides the rationale for protein engineering. In addition, we discuss modern concepts of the origin of life with an emphasis on protein-related issues. Main topics:
Protein structure: Protein functioning: Cofactors and posttranslational modifications: Intracellular protein trafficking: Protein degradation: Protein engineering: Origin of Life: |
Konstantin Lukyanov | 3 | MA030373 | CANCELLED | |
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Qualifying Exam: Computational and Data Science and Engineering
The Qualifying Exam is a compulsory 3 credits component of the doctoral program.
Its goal is to assess the PhD student knowledge and skills in the area of the thesis research. A Qualifying Exam includes the following components: The Doctoral Program Committee tailors the format and delivery mode of the Qualifying Exam to best suit the requirements of the doctoral program. |
Nikolay Brilliantov | 3 | DD030020cd | ||
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Qualifying Exam: Engineering Systems
The Qualifying Exam is a compulsory 3 credits component of the doctoral program.
Its goal is to assess the PhD student knowledge and skills in the area of the thesis research. A Qualifying Exam includes the following components: The Doctoral Program Committee tailors the format and delivery mode of the Qualifying Exam to best suit the requirements of the doctoral program. |
Henni Ouerdane | 3 | DD030020es | ||
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Qualifying Exam: Life Sciences
The Qualifying Exam is a compulsory 3 credits component of the doctoral program.
Its goal is to assess the PhD student knowledge and skills in the area of the thesis research. A Qualifying Exam includes the following components: The Doctoral Program Committee tailors the format and delivery mode of the Qualifying Exam to best suit the requirements of the doctoral program. |
Mikhail Gelfand | 3 | DD030020ls | ||
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Qualifying Exam: Materials Science and Engineering
The Qualifying Exam is a compulsory 3 credits component of the doctoral program.
Its goal is to assess the PhD student knowledge and skills in the area of the thesis research. A Qualifying Exam includes the following components: The Doctoral Program Committee tailors the format and delivery mode of the Qualifying Exam to best suit the requirements of the doctoral program. |
Alexei Buchachenko | 3 | DD030020ms | ||
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Qualifying Exam: Petroleum Engineering
The Qualifying Exam is a compulsory 3 credits component of the doctoral program.
Its goal is to assess the PhD student knowledge and skills in the area of the thesis research. A Qualifying Exam includes the following components: The Doctoral Program Committee tailors the format and delivery mode of the Qualifying Exam to best suit the requirements of the doctoral program. |
Mikhail Spasennykh | 3 | DD030020pe | ||
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Qualifying Exam: Physics
The Qualifying Exam is a compulsory 3 credits component of the doctoral program.
Its goal is to assess the PhD student knowledge and skills in the area of the thesis research. A Qualifying Exam includes the following components: The Doctoral Program Committee tailors the format and delivery mode of the Qualifying Exam to best suit the requirements of the doctoral program. |
Nikolay Gippius | 3 | DD030020p | ||
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Quantum Integrable Systems (Term 3-4)
The course is devoted to quantum integrable systems. The history of quantum integrable systems starts from 1931 when
H.Bethe managed to construct exact eigenfunctions of the Hamiltonian of the Heisenberg spin chain with the help of a special substitution which became famous since that time (ansatz Bethe). In one or another form this method turns out to be applicable to many spin and field-theoretical integrable models. From the mathematical point of view, Bethe's method is connected to representation theory of quantum algebras (q-deformations of universal enveloping algebras and Yangians). Here is the list of topics which will be discussed in the course. – Coordinate Bethe ansatz on the example of the Heisenberg model and – Bethe ansatz in exactly solvable models of statistical mechanics – Calculation of physical quantities in integrable models in thermodynamic – Bethe equations and the Yang-Yang function, caclulation of norms of Bethe – Quantum inverse scattering method and algebraic Bethe ansatz, quantum R-matrices, – Functional Bethe ansatz and the method of Baxter's Q-operators, functional The knowledge of quantum mechanics and statistical physics for understanding of |
Anton Zabrodin |
63 per term
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Research Methodology for Engineering Systems
Engineering systems are necessarily of an interdisciplinary nature and specific knowledge and skills are required to successfully complete a PhD degree in the field. The objective of this course is to provide a general introduction to PhD level research and to present some common research methodologies applicable to major types of research topics in Engineering Systems. The course starts with a series of lectures of an introductory nature on the Design Research Methodology (DRM) and other experimental and simulation based approaches.
Participants will then present their preliminary research ideas, propose research objectives and proper methodology that they will present to their peers first in a pitch session; it will be followed by a more detailed research proposal and presentation. The course can be followed by a subsequent series of research seminars in various topics related to Engineering Systems as indicated by the PhD student supervisor. |
Clement Fortin | 3 | DG030102cf | ||
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Research Methodology: CMT Research Seminar (Term 2-4)
This is the main scientific seminar for the Skoltech Center for Materials Technologies (CMT). All MSc students either enrolled into the Master Program in Advanced Manufacturing Technologies or PhD students affiliated with CMT should attend this seminar. The format of the seminar is weekly invited lectures from top scientists in the research fields related to Advanced Manufacturing, Digital Engineering Technologies, and Mechanics and Physics of Advanced Manufacturing. The seminar is held in hybrid online/offline format.
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Ivan Sergeichev |
31 per term
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Research Methodology: CPSE Seminar
This course, conducted in a form of seminar, is aimed at hands-on learning of best practices of modern research work in the academic and industrial environments. Students will learn how to formulate research objective(s), search for prior art and monitor publications, frame a research project with proper objectives, resources, timeline, and deliverables, conduct research in communication with peers and with a broader community, and, finally, present the outcomes of the research.
Students will have an extensive practice in writing reports and publications, as well as in oral presentations. By attending this course, students will get a broader view of the research projects conducted in CPSE, as well as a closer scientific communication with their peers and with a larger research community. The seminar work constitutes the core of the course, and it will be given principally on the basis of all the topics related to petroleum engineering. The cases will be presented based on Enhanced oil recovery (EOR)/Improved oil recovery (IOR), interfacial properties in oil/water/rock system, CCUS (carbon capture, utilization and storage), and hydrogen production. |
Chengdong Yuan | 3 | DG030102pe | ||
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Research Methodology: Molecular Biology
We will run an NIH-type grant panel. The students will select several (no less than 3) grant applications on different areas of molecular biology/biochemistry, provide written reviews for each one following the NIH report template and will then discuss each grant in turn (a single grant will be reviewed by three reviewers). The rest of the panel members will ask questions and the panel discussion will be recorded as a summary by a scribe (different for each). In the end all grants will be scored and funding decisions will be taken by the panel (and compared to how the grants fared in real life).
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Research Seminar "Advanced Materials Science" (Term 2-4)
This is the main research seminar of the Skoltech Center for Energy Science and Technology and Materials Science Education program featuring presentations of young Skoltech researchers (MSc students, PhD students, postdocs) as well as external invited speakers. Every MSc and PhD student should deliver at least one presentation per two years. The range of topics is broad and includes any aspects of materials science and engineering. As a rule, each speaker presents results of his/her own research. Every presentation is followed by a discussion and a Q&A session.
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Sergey Luchkin |
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Research Seminar "Energy Systems and Technologies" (Term 2-4)
This research seminar is the general meeting for faculty, researchers and master and PhD students of Energy Systems programs. The seminar takes place every week during Terms 2(6)-3(7)-4(8).
Master students must attend the seminar at least for one academic year but welcome to attend during two years. PhD students are welcome to attend the seminar during all years of studies but can gain no more than 6 credits in total. The seminar consists of faculty lectures, invited lectures of top scientists in their research field as well as students’ reports on their own or examined papers. To PASS the course and gain 3 credits per academic year the student must fulfill all three requirements: 1. Attendance: > 2/3 of seminars. 2. Presentation. Depending on the status: 3. Active participation in the discussion. Being able to pose a question for every presentaion. The core of the self-study activity will be preparation to the talk that is comparable to project implementation (a significant part of many regular courses). The students are expected to assign at the beginning of Term 2/6 and may drop the seminar till the beginning of Term 3/7 while credits are provided in Term 4/8. |
Elena Gryazina |
31 per term
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Research Seminars in Digital Engineering Center (Term 2-4)
This is the main research seminar of the Skoltech Digital Engineering Center featuring presentations of young Skoltech researchers (MSc students, PhD students, postdocs) as well as external invited speakers. Every MSc and PhD student should deliver at least one presentation per two years. The range of topics is broad and includes many aspects of Digital Engineering, Systems Engineering, Product Development, Robotics and automation and space research and systems. As a rule, each speaker presents results of his/her own research. Every presentation is followed by a discussion and a Q&A session.
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Clement Fortin |
31 per term
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Review of Materials and Devices for Nano- and Optoelectronics
The lectures are presented by the scientists working actively in various directions of nanoelectronics and optoelectronics in Russia and abroad. Seminars assume the discussion of recent original papers in the area (including superconducting electronics and spintronics, terahertz waves technology and applications, quantum coherent systems (qubits), single electron devices). The classical papers presenting a physical basis for devices operation will be also considered. The papers are distributed in February. Each student is expected to report two papers during the period February-May if participating in both parts of the course (Terms 3 and 4), and only one paper if participation is limited to one term.
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Valery Ryazanov | 3 | MA030206 | ||
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Satellite Navigation
The GNSS data processing course is aimed to cover the modern state of technology in global navigation satellite systems applications for precise surveying, agriculture robotics, road construction and other applications. Course participants will become familiar with subjects such as:
– Navigation observables and navigation solution, – Single-, double-, triple difference techniques, – Precise point positioning, – Real-time relative positioning, – Carrier phase ambiguity resolution and integer lattice reduction, – Anomalies detection and isolation, – Basics of satellite receivers firmware design, – Geodetic surveying and practical using of GNSS receivers for accurate surveying, – Using GNSS navigation for attitude determination and motion control for wheeled robots, UAV's and other applications. |
Lev Rapoport | 6 | DA060380 | ||
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Spacecraft and Mission Design
The main objective of the course is to introduce the concept of space system design and engineering. The course will describe the various subsystems involved in the design of a satellite. It will also describe the techniques of systems engineering that are used to obtain a coherent satellite design.
This class will focus on concept preparation in the V-diagram logic. Further results can be explored either in the Space Sector course, where commercial aspects of the mission can be considered, as well as in the PLM course, where technical details can be worked out in a systematic fashion. |
Anton Ivanov | 6 | MA060074 | ||
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Spectroscopy of Quantum Materials
The term “quantum materials” unites a broad class of very different materials demonstrating genuinely quantum behavior. Quantum materials include superconductors, strongly correlated systems, systems hosting Dirac electrons, topological materials, novel two-dimensional crystals etc. Research of quantum materials stands in the vanguard of modern photonics and condensed matter physics.
The goal of this course is to give a broad review of basic models and modern spectroscopic studies of quantum materials. The course requires basic knowledge of quantum mechanics, optics and solid state physics. In the introductory part of the course, the basic classical and quantum models of electromagnetic response are considered, and the most widely used modern methods of spectroscopy are outlined. The rest of the course describes such quantum materials as graphene and graphene-based structures, topological insulators, topological Dirac and Weyl semimetals, strongly correlated materials, two-dimensional transition metal dichalcogenides, oxide interfaces, and novel engineered quantum materials. The students will be introduced to basic models and to both conventional and ultrafast pump-probe spectroscopy studies of these materials. |
Alexey Sokolik | 3 | MA030162 | ||
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Startups LaunchPad: DeepTech and Digital
“Startups LaunchPad: DeepTech & Digital” is an intensive 6 credits E&I course. It is designed to provide you with practical skills and experiences of translating your favorite technologies and discoveries into new products and then technology-based startups. The course uses “learning-by-doing” approach. This means you will learn how to build new products and startups by actually building ones. In small teams you will run real-life projects performing all the key activities of early stage startups – from “getting out of the building” (literally!!! your team is to talk to customers, partners, users, etc.) and validating the market need, to defining the technological solution and product, producing prototypes, designing profitable business model.
Admission to the course is by team and by project. The project themes may vastly range within the AI/IoT/Photonics/Materials/etc. (e.g. deal with energy, healthcare & wellness, education technology, industry or smart agriculture, etc.). We suggest forming the projects around ideas inspired by your academic research, technologies you studied at previous courses, prototypes you developed, etc. In all cases, you should choose something for which you have passion, enthusiasm, as well as technical expertise. By taking this course you will get the benefits: |
Alexey Nikolaev | 6 | E&I | MC060545 | |
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Structural Bioinformatics
The main goal of the "Structural Bioinformatics" course is to introduce students to the main features of protein structures and to the explanations of the observed features.
The "Structural Bioinformatics" course covers the following topics: In a more theoretical part of the course, we will overview (i) protein primary, secondary and tertiary structures, (ii) interactions stabilizing protein native structure (discussing the role of energy and entropy), (iii) statistical patterns observed in protein structures, (iv) protein thermodynamics, (v) protein kinetics, (vi) protein folding problem, and others. We will also discuss the design and the results of selected experiments in the field. In a more practical part of the course, we will (i) visualize protein three-dimensional structures, (ii) align protein sequences and structures, (iii) predict three-dimensional protein structure from sequence, (iv) predict protein cellular localization and transmembrane topology, (v) predict the impact of a mutation on protein stability, and others. |
Dmitry Ivankov | 6 | MA060375 | CANCELLED | |
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Structure and Properties of Materials
This course is an introductory subject in the field of materials science and crystallography. The goal is to introduce students to basic concepts of structure-property relations for materials at the microscopic level.
Independent student work on discipline includes preparation for lectures, seminars, labs and other learning activities, as well as the implementation of individual tasks / independent works / projects and others. Educational and methodical support of Independent student work presented by topics of all kinds of tasks and guidelines for their implementation. |
Artem Oganov | 6 | MA060075 | ||
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Technology Entrepreneurship Seminar: Advanced (Term 3-4)
Students having their own projects/ideas in development take this course to understand and practice advanced topics of technology entrepreneurship as well as to get the projects up to “external support/funding ready” level. This class typically follows the main E&I classes (e.g. as “Innovation Workshop” and “Technology Entrepreneurship Seminar: Foundation”, where students passed a basic opportunity recognition screening and customer discovery) and allows dedicated teams to continue development of their projects. Structured as practical and hands-on lab, the course typically has up to 6-7 projects under development. Students have the opportunity to present key “building blocks” of their ventures, receive advice from instructors and other members of the class, consult to other venture teams.
Admission to the course is by team and by project. We will select the participants from the teams took part in the course “Technology Entrepreneurship Seminar: Foundation” as well as newly applying teams. Upon the course completion, you and your team will |
Alexey Nikolaev |
31.5 per term
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Tensor Decompositions and Tensor Networks in Artificial Intelligence
This course covers major topics in tensor decompositions and tensor networks for modern applications in Machine learning (ML), Signal Processing (SP), Deep Neural Networks (DNN), Multiviews, and Data Fusion.
The goal of the course is to provide students with a background in mathematics, especially in linear and multilinear algebra, statistics, useful computational tools. The emphasis of this course is on "learning by experimenting and programming". Students will learn various tensor decomposition models and state-of-the-art algorithms for each model. Students will study also challenging problems, e.g., degeneracy, stability, model selection, and know how to deal with them in practice, make the models scalable for big data, solve the complex tensor networks. Lectures will be strongly coupled with a number of hands-on sessions. Students will have the opportunity to understand how tensor networks are applied to Machine Learning problems, e.g., for Deep Learning and NLP, Signal Processing applications. Topics: Background: Basic tensor decomposition methods: Practical applications: |
Anh Huy Phan, Andrzej Cichocki |
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Theory of Quantum Information Processing
Level: MSc/PhD; Credits: 6; Delivery: 16 lectures and 8 recitations
All lecture content will be filmed and placed on a private YouTube channel. Recitations are not filmed. Lecture content is based primarily on pre-existing notes; new content will be scribed and notes will be adjusted and adapted throughout the course. I created ‘Hamiltonian models of quantum and classical computation,’ to be a modern advanced undergraduate level introduction to quantum and classical computation through the contemporary language of spins, Hamiltonians and trainable quantum circuits. I have taken additional effort to make the course self-contained so that both MSc students from Mathematics and Computer Science and Physics could participate. Those attending the course will develop an understanding of the tools and techniques that have built the modern theory of quantum computation. Students would develop an understanding of some of the most widely employed quantum algorithms and also an appreciation for the interplay between a quantum algorithm and its physical embodiment. Topics covered include stochastic and quantum walks, quantum circuits and several quantum algorithms invented in the early days of the field. This forms a foundation to explore modern topics such as quantum approximate optimisation, variational quantum algorithms and tensor networks. Additional modules and optional lessons are available in the first two-weeks to bridge language barriers and engage a wide spectrum of those interested in the modern theory of quantum computation. I would like to think that the uniqueness of the approach taken and the specific details considered would be appealing to even those who are already familiar with quantum information and quantum computation. Special topics and open questions are added to the lecture notes which might be of special interest to graduate students. |
Jacob Biamonte | 6 | DA060495 | CANCELLED | |
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Thermal-Fluid Science
Thermal-Fluid Science course designed for Skoltech students who need exposure to key concepts in the thermal-fluid science to apply them in research programs of various Skoltech CREIs. The course includes some chapters of Thermodynamics, Fluid Mechanics, and Heat and Mass Transfer.
Course Goals: 1. This course will provide the students with an understanding of the first and second laws of thermodynamics and their application to engineering systems. At the end of this course, students will be able to solve typical problems involving application of the first and second laws of thermodynamics to pure substances. This will include understanding and using the property tables. 2. This course will provide the students with an understanding of the basic principles of fluid dynamics and their application to engineering systems. At the end of this course, students will be able to solve problems involving fluid dynamics typical for a mechanical engineer. 3. This course will provide the students with an understanding of the basic principles of heat and mass transfer and their application to engineering systems. At the end of this course, students will be able to solve problems involving conduction, convection, radiation heat transfer as well as heat exchanger design. This will include understanding and using the property tables. 4. The students will also be required to work as part of a team on an open-ended research/design project. This project will involve the application of concepts learned in the course. |
Iskander Akhatov | 6 | MA060491 | CANCELLED | |
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Thesis Proposal Defense
The Thesis Proposal Defense is a compulsory component of the program, whereby the PhD student defends a thesis proposal before the Individual Doctoral Committee.
The PhD student must develop in consultation with the supervisor, a thesis proposal in the form of presentation or written document. The proposal should contain the thesis research question, a proposal of an approach answering the question, a brief review of the literature, an overview of the proposed structure, the expected results, and a timeline to the thesis defense. The PhD student should provide the Committee members with a thesis proposal approved by the supervisor one week in advance of the defense, which resulted in the completion of the individual student digital assessment form by the Individual Doctoral Committee. |
Viktoria Mikhaylova |
6 per term
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DD060021 |
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3D Bioprinting: Processes, Materials, and Applications
The course aim is to show the relationship of knowledge from material science, additive manufacturing, biology and medicine for description the processes, methods and results of bioprinting. Main course part will be devoted to the bioprinting processes and biomaterials.
We will describe the three key stages in 3D bioprinting, which are pre-processing (biomaterials and stem cell sources), processing (the 3D bioprinting systems and techniques) and post-processing (cell culture in bioreactors). During laboratory class, students will get acquainted with the additive technologies on various bioprinting installations, biomimetics topological design and biomaterial part mechanical testing. |
Igor Shishkovsky | 3 | MA030354 | CANCELLED | |
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Academic Communication: Preparatory English for PhD Exam (Term 3-4)
As a PhD student, you should already know that effective professional communication is the key to academic success. Are you an ambitious person who wants to maximize their academic potential? Are you eager to boost your ability to write research papers, present in front of multidisciplinary audiences, participate in scholarly discussions and engage in other forms of academic communication — and do it all in good academic English?
Join this course and learn how to produce clear, correct, concise, and coherent texts related to your research, and how to present your data in front of a multidisciplinary professional community. You will be guided through all stages of paper writing, editing, peer-reviewing, and presenting. Academic communication is not limited to formal writing and professional presentation. As in a real conference environment, you will take part in networking activities, interacting with your peers from different fields, exchanging ideas and pitching your research achievements. The course is interactive, communicative and intensive, with various speaking, listening, reading and writing activities to be performed in class and at home, individually and in teams. By the end of the course, successful participants will |
Elizaveta Tikhomirova |
31.5 per term
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Academic Writing Essentials (Multidisciplinary)
Academic writing skills are necessary for effective research, innovation, and educational activities in a multinational setting. The aim of the course is to provide guidelines and strategies for writing academic texts, focusing on relevant aspects of grammar, vocabulary, and style. The course includes analysis and practice of various forms of scientific and technical writing, and builds writing skills from sentences to paragraph structure, from summary to abstract, and lays the foundations for writing scientific papers and Master Thesis.
Modern science is, for most purposes, a collective collaborative effort, so the course is designed to promote individual and group responsibility by providing mutually related and time-dependent tasks, such as peer review. The course is writing-intensive with ample opportunity to practice editing and peer-reviewing. |
Elizaveta Tikhomirova | 3 | Extra | MF030002 | |
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Advanced Additive Manufacturing – Ceramics
The course is focused on understanding of photopolymerization-based (SLA) additive manufacturing (AM) technology as the perspective method of production of complex ceramic items. Different AM methods are considered in the course. Their Pros and Cons are evaluated. The physical principles governing the 3D-printing of ceramics with SLA method are presented. Basic tests of ceramic feedstock behavior with respect to different laser impact are explored in the course’s practical section. The details on ceramic items processing are unveiled. Ceramics sintering is discussed with examples of different process parameters and corresponding material outcomes. Finally, laboratory methods of ceramic material evaluation are studied.
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Svyatoslav Chugunov | 3 | MA030516 | ||
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Advanced Control Methods
This course is dedicated to modern methods of automatic control of dynamical systems.
The course offers a wide coverage of the Lyapunov stability theory of dynamical systems, including control Lyapunov functions and their nonsmooth variants. Sliding-mode control, model-predictive control, feedback linearization, backstepping (including its nonsmooth variant) are all considered. Elements of adaptive, robust and fault-tolerant control are addressed. You are offered a package of 9 lectures, 9 seminars, 4 homework and 1 final project assignment. The course is rich on Python coding of advanced controllers. |
Pavel Osinenko | 6 | MA060501 | ||
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Advanced Materials Modeling
The course builds on introductory Computational Chemistry and Materials Modeling course to provide in-depth understanding and advanced-level use of commonly employed modeling methods, as well as teach state of the art methods tailored for modeling of specific classes of materials and physical processes relevant to multiple major industries in the future, including nanotechnology and energy. The emphasis is on deep understanding and practical use of techniques, algorithms and programs to bridge theory and applications, from the discovery of materials to their use in real-world technologies. Personalized advisory of several experts in different areas of computational materials science will allow students to accomplish challenging projects related to their PhD/MSc theses or other research in materials science.
At the end of the course, students will learn advantages and limitations of various approximations in electronic-structure modelling, both within the framework of density-functional theory and beyond (including many-body perturbation theory). Methods for describing effects of external factors such as temperature, pressure, and doping on properties of materials will be also discussed. Students will also learn modern methods of artificial intelligence for materials design. During practical lessons students will learn to perform calculations of atomic and electronic structure of materials and evaluate reliability of obtained results. Students will also have an opportunity to apply in practice molecular dynamics based methods, as well as machine learning methods. Students will master electronic-structure packages Abinit and FHI-aims, as well as other programs, including advanced molecular dynamics and machine learning algorithms. |
Sergey Levchenko | 6 | DA060341 | ||
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Advanced Topics in Bioinformatics and Genomics 2
This part of Advanced topics in bioinformatics and genomics is dedicated to next generation sequencing (NGS) methods, their principles, limitations, and data analysis. This course will provide a comprehensive survey of experimental aspects of NGS, the current trends in the development of sequencing technologies and their applications. In particular, the following topics will be covered: de novo assembly, differential gene expression and splicing analyses, footprinting assays, chromatin architecture, and epigenetics.
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Dmitri Pervouchine | 3 | DA030439 | CANCELLED | |
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Advanced Topics in Cell and Molecular Biology 2
The course showcases Skoltech Life Sciences faculty whose research falls under wet biology. Each faculty will give four lectures presenting their own work and, more broadly, the state-of-the-art in his/her area of expertise. The lectures will be followed by Q&A sessions and are expected to foster collaborations between different faculty and grad students and provide the students with a broad view of research conducted by the faculty. This course (or the sister course on advanced topics in bioinformatics) is required for PhD students but may be taken by Masters students looking for a laboratory to perform a thesis project. To fulfil curricular requirements this three-credit module may be combined with another advanced topics in cell and molecular biology module or with a bioinformatics module.
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Applied Materials and Design
This course provides a broad base introduction into materials science and engineering of applied materials. The fundamental physical phenomena are considered that occur at different scales in the main classes of applied materials: metals, ceramics, polymers, natural materials, composites, and hybrids. The interrelation between thermodynamics, diffusion kinetics, and deformation behavior is explored. The concept of structure is introduced, and the nature of structural elements at the atomic, molecular, nano-, micrometer and macroscopic scales is discussed: short and long range order in amorphous materials and crystals, defects, crystallites, grains and subgrains, precipitates, grain boundaries, interfaces, spherulites, etc. These are used to demonstrate the principal approaches to property control and evaluation in materials engineering and related technologies: chemical composition, synthesis, fabrication, heat treatment, plastic deformation, hybridization, and surface engineering.
Principles to control the properties are translated in terms of design performance. Ashby’s material selection algorithm for rational selection of materials for specific designs and applications will be taught here in comprehensive way – analysis of function, objectives and constraints, deducing of performance indices. All the concepts covered in lectures will be practiced by using CES EduPack a software to implement data intensive learning. The lectures will be supported with a number of laboratory practical lessons devoted to the development of practical skills in traditional materials science research flow – the visualization, characterization and modification of structure followed by the testing and analysis of properties. All the concepts covered in lectures will be the subject of exercises using open source software to implement data intensive learning. Individual projects (problems) will be formulated to introduce the CDIO approach in Applied Materials and Design. |
Alexander Korsunsky | 6 | MA060431 | ||
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Biomaterials and Nanomedicine
This module will define and describe biomaterials in general term with particular attention to modern concepts of nanomedicine. It will include basics in properties of Biomaterials Surfaces considering their Physics and Chemistry, Methods of surface modification and characterization, approaches to fabricate Biocompatible surface. This will follow aspects of Protein – surface and Cell-Surface interaction. Biomaterials part concludes with fabrication and use of Scaffolds, implants, eluting stents and gels for tissue engineering
Nanomedicine part includes overview of Micro- & Nanoparticles application as biomaterials, concept of Drug Delivery systems, Controlled and Triggered release Course include considering recent original and review paper by students and lab work on formation of biomaterials of certain sort and their characterisation |
Gleb Sukhorukov | 3 | MA030405 | ||
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Biomedical Application of Photonics
The overview of the current state of photonics application in biology and medicine will be presented including optical properties of a cell, biological tissue, body (absorption, reflection, scattering, fluorescence). Now the photonic tools are used for imaging, diagnostics, manipulation, therapy, and surgery at three different levels – cellular, tissue, and body, therefore the course aims to teach students to understand basic principles of the current biomedical applications of photonics tools. Every level is required to apply a different approach, for example for cellular-level imaging, manipulation, Confocal LS Microscopy (including the technology of quotative analysis as FRAP, photoconversion, FLIP, FLAP, FRET, FLIM, FCS, FCCS), darkfield microscopy; optical tweezers approach, laser cell poration; for diagnostics – Raman microscopy, CARS, in vitro and in vivo fluorescent flow cytometry, in vivo flow photoacoustic (PA) cytometry; and for therapy – laser-induced necrosis and apoptosis; in vivo flow PA setup for theranostics are used. Tissue level requires imaging, multiphoton microscopy, SHG and THG microscopy, OCT, raster-scan optoacoustic mesoscopy (RSOM); for manipulation – laser 3D printing, laser skin perforation. Body level includes for imaging – OCT, MRI, CT, MRI, fluorescence and optoacoustic imaging, US, PET; for diagnostics – different types of in vivo sensors including implantable medical devices, smart tattoo; for therapy – photodynamic and photothermal therapy; for surgery – photonic approach guided surgery including endoscopy, high speed surgery with the highest resolution. Topics also include description of different types of contrast and optical clearing agents. The course will also offer a practice in operation of imaging systems on the cell, tissue and body level such as fluorescent microscopy, RSOM, fluorescence imaging. Students will have experience related to application the most appropriate photonic tools for their own research projects.
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Dmitry Gorin | 6 | MA060158 | ||
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Biomedical Imaging and Analytics
This course is designed for Machine Learning and Data-Science students who would like to concentrate their research on the analysis of biomedical images. This cohort of specialists – especially early on in their careers – is known for dismissing both the physical mechanisms of image formation and the very biological rationale behind a given imaging modality. In this course, we will attempt to reunite the three disciplines in order to help students develop systematic analytical expertise and biological intuition.
The course is also aligned with the curriculum of the centers of life sciences and photonics and should be used for enriching those offerings with modern machine learning and image analytics skills. Students will learn what forms the backbone of biomedical imaging, drawing from the mathematical, physical, chemical, and biological sciences, including the subjects of: • Light microscopy (live cell imaging, deconvolution and superresolution microscopy, 3D microscopy, Optical Coherence Tomography); • Medical imaging (X-ray, Computed Tomography, Magnetic Resonance Imaging, Ultrasound, Positron Emission Tomography); • Image analytics (filtering and signal processing, machine learning and artificial neural networks, computer vision, image-based biological and physiological modeling). The course is offered primarily for computer science students who are assumed to know the basics of image processing and machine learning. In addition to the lectures, there will be 6 adapted seminars for those students who encounter the technical aspects of this course for the first time (e.g., Life Sciences students). The technical sessions will be shuffled with invited seminars by doctors/biologists with whom there is an ongoing collaboration. |
Dmitry Dylov | 6 | MA060305 | ||
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Biostatistics
This introductory course to statistics and probability theory is modeled as an extension of a traditional university Statistics course and Advanced Placement Course in Statistics to a broader spectrum of topics, while keeping the spirit of quantitative discourse applied to real-life problems. The material is offered in 5 consecutive modules (see Course Outline below), each containing a lecture, a discussion section, and a practicum. For practical exercises we use R programming language and R-Studio software. However, this course is focused on statistics rather than R; therefore, each practicum is designed with the purpose to demonstrate and reinforce understanding of concepts introduced in the lecture rather than to provide a training in R.
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Dmitri Pervouchine | 6 | MA060036 | ||
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Carbonate Reservoir Geology and 3D Modeling
The course provides theoretical knowledge in carbonate reservoir geology, practical skills in 3D geomodeling software, as well as professional language competence in writing and presenting the resulting reports and research articles in reservoir engineering domain.
The course has three main components. Theory is presented during the lectures where students will get familiar with the most important essentials of carbonate reservoir geology and gain a consistent theoretical knowledge in applied subjects required for scientifically-minded geological modeling. In computer classes, students will gain applied skills in 3D geomodeling software. During the software practicums the participants will learn the main geomodeling operations, such as creating a project for a field; import / export, displaying and handling different types of geo-data; construction of a reservoir stratigraphic and structural frameworks; facies modelling; petrophysical modeling and reserves calculation. The course also includes a module aimed at preparing applied research reports, presentations and scientific papers in English language. The module will enable students acquiring professional vocabulary, syntax and grammar needed to understand, analyze and generate industrial reports, professional papers as well as present them to international conferences. This course is the final course in the Reservoir Geology and Property Evaluation triad consisting of the courses in Reservoir Rock Characterization (and laboratory core analyses), Petrophysics and Well Log Interpretation; and Reservoir Geology and 3D Modeling. Upon completion of these courses, the students will get a comprehensive knowledge and practical skills required from a modern reservoir geologist operating hydrocarbon and geothermal reservoirs as well as subsurface energy storages. A unique course design makes it scalable for student of different specialization. |
Alexei Tchistiakov | 3 | MA030467 | CANCELLED | |
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Carbonate Reservoir Geology, 3D Modeling and Preparing Research Reports
The course provides theoretical knowledge in carbonate reservoir geology, practical skills in 3D geomodeling software, as well as professional language competence in writing and presenting the resulting reports and research articles in reservoir engineering domain.
The course has three main components. Theory is presented during the lectures where students will get familiar with the most important essentials of carbonate reservoir geology and gain a consistent theoretical knowledge in applied subjects required for scientifically-minded geological modeling. In computer classes, students will gain applied skills in 3D geomodeling software. During the software practicums the participants will learn the main geomodeling operations, such as creating a project for a field; import / export, displaying and handling different types of geo-data; construction of a reservoir stratigraphic and structural frameworks; facies modelling; petrophysical modeling and reserves calculation. The course also includes a module aimed at preparing applied research reports, presentations and scientific papers in English language. The module will enable students acquiring professional vocabulary, syntax and grammar needed to understand, analyze and generate industrial reports, professional papers as well as present them to international conferences. This course is the final course in the Reservoir Geology and Property Evaluation triad consisting of the courses in Reservoir Rock Characterization (and laboratory core analyses), Petrophysics and Well Log Interpretation; and Reservoir Geology and 3D Modeling. Upon completion of these courses, the students will get a comprehensive knowledge and practical skills required from a modern reservoir geologist operating hydrocarbon and geothermal reservoirs as well as subsurface energy storages. A unique course design makes it scalable for student of different specialization. |
Alexei Tchistiakov | 6 | MA060467 | ||
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Catalysis
The present course aims to provide a concise but comprehensive introduction to a multidisciplinary field of catalysis. As it affects more than 90% of the chemical industry and generates up to 30 % of the GDP, catalysis employs models and methods from a wide variety of disciplines: from physical chemistry to solid-state physics, from quantum chemistry to hydrodynamics. Thus, two strategies are usually used for teaching: separate educational programs (>2 years) or brief discussion during one or two lectures max. Here we wish to propose a third way – a 3 credit course with problem-oriented education. During the course, the students will learn basic principles and concepts of catalysis and develop a team project on a particular and demanding scientific problem. The latter will be defended during the discussion seminar with other student teams acting as opponents and reviewers.
Totally 21 hours of lectures, 9 hours of exercises and 3 hours of discussion work. During the courses each student is supposed to take part in the team project that will be concluded with a 15 min presentation. |
Dmitry Krasnikov | 3 | MA030502 | ||
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Cell Biology Lab Course
Lab course in Cell biology provides students an opportunity to explore how the techniques of molecular and cell biology may be used to understand cell function. Laboratory practice in cell biology will provide the experience in genetic manipulations with cell lines, immunostaining and fluorescence or confocal microscopy analysis. The main aspects for FACS-analysis and cell sorting will be introduced. The approaches for gene expression analysis by RT-qPCR and Western blot will be used to understand the influence of genetic manipulation to the cell function. The introduction in powerful approach to understand the protein interaction such as SPR optical biosensor will be provided.
The introduction in high-throughput screening of biologically active compounds will be provided. The course will provide students with a hands-on understanding of modern methods of cellular manipulation and understanding the mechanism of cell functioning. |
Olga Dontsova | 6 | MA060134 | ||
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Computational Materials Science Seminar (Term 2-4)
This is the main research seminar at Skoltech for Computational Materials scientists. All students of Computational Materials Science subtrack of Materials Science MSc program and Materials Science and Engineering PhD program should attend this seminar. Topics include materials modeling (at atomistic scale), theoretical and computational chemistry, theoretical and computational physics of materials, underlying mathematical methods and algorithms etc. Invited lectures are top scientists in their research field. Students are welcome to present their own research results at this seminar and expected to do this at least once a year.
Please see the seminar webpage at https://www.skoltech.ru/en/cms/ |
Dmitry Aksenov |
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Computational Thermodynamics and Kinetics for Materials Design
The course intends to give the students basic understanding of how thermodynamic properties of different phases can be evaluated and used to create consistent thermodynamic descriptions of alloy system. The course turns to Msc2 and PhD students who want to get into basic thermodynamic modelling and calculations. The course covers, how different phases are modelled and which type of experimental information that can be used to fit the model parameters i.e. phase diagrams and thermochemical information such as activity, enthalpy of formation, heat capacity etc, but also ab initio calculated information.
On completion of the course, the student should be able to: |
Igor Shishkovsky | 3 | MA030525 |
MOVEDto the Fall 2023 (Term 2)
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Data Analysis for Space Weather
The course introduces students to Solar-Terrestrial physics, Space Weather and practically useful approaches of data analysis for study, forecasting, and mitigation of space weather effects. The course provides an overview of Sun-Earth connections, starting from the interior of the Sun and ending in the Earth's magnetosphere. To gain insight into this field, we focus on such topics as: solar interior and solar structure, solar atmosphere, solar wind, solar flares and coronal mass ejections, as well as associated geomagnetic storms and polar auroras. These phenomena drive Space Weather with the implications for space-borne and ground-based technological systems (satellites, human spaceflight, airlines, power systems and pipelines). We also examine the space weather effects on technology and human health, hazard assessment, mitigation and forecasting, space environment data, scientific and service products.
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Tatiana Podladchikova | 6 | DA060309 | ||
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Deep Learning
The course is about Deep Learning, i.e. a new generation of neural network-based methods that have dramatically improved the performance of AI systems in such domains as computer vision, speech recognition, natural language analysis, reinforcement learning, bioinformatics. The course covers the basics of supervised and unsupervised deep learning and other problem statements for training deep neural models. It also covers the details of the two most successful classes of models, namely convolutional networks and models based on the attention mechanism. In terms of application, the class emphasizes computer vision and natural language analysis tasks. The course involves a significant practical component with a large number of practical assignments.
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Ivan Oseledets | 6 | DA060057 | ||
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Deep Learning for Natural Language Processing
The course is about modern models for natural language processing. The new generation of neural network-based methods based on deep learning has dramatically improved the performance of a wide range of natural language processing tasks, ranging from text classification to question answering. The course covers the basics and the details of successful models and methods for natural language processing based on neural networks, starting from the simple word embedding models, such as word2vec, all the way to more sophisticated language models, such BERT. Special attention is given to models based on the Transformer architecture, such as GPT, T5, BART, etc.
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Alexander Panchenko | 3 | MA030556 | ||
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Design of Chemical Sensors: from Fundamentals to Applications
The course is devoted to the development of chemical sensors and the assessment of their analytical figures of merit mainly from a viewpoint of material science with an emphasis on functional nanomaterials.
The sensors are about signal transduction of a chemical interaction to a physical signal which can be measured or assessed by a human. As most processes, which are intended to be a basis for sensor development, occur on the surface, they involve physical and chemical phenomena. Thus, it is important to understand such a physico-chemical system as a whole that leads to selective, sensitive recognition of specific interaction. In our course, we will examine and go from the basics of surface physics and chemistry to the real applications of materials and nanomaterials in chemical sensors and analytical systems. We will study the operation principle of the most widely applied sensors like resistive, electrochemical, acoustic, mass, biosensors, and optical ones. The synthesis of sensitive materials and the design of chemical sensors will also be considered. We will finally touch on the multisensor system and data analysis, including the machine learning protocols. |
Fedor Fedorov | 3 | MA030446 | ||
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Developing Products and Services Through Design Thinking
The complexity and uncertainty of the world of business require a set of skills that combine analytical approaches with creative ones. The challenges are more often unstable, unpredictable, and complex. To be competitive in this environment, specialists should be able to combine analytical and creative approaches.
During the course, we will follow the Design Thinking approach to tackle an innovation challenge. The course is set-up like a workshop, where teams work on their challenge on a weekly basis receiving lectures that introduce practical methods that can soon be put into practice. Design Thinking is a process that iteratively seeks to understand user needs, challenge well-established assumptions, and redefine problems. |
Alexander Chekanov | 3 | E&I | MC030022 | |
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Digital Technologies in Design and Testing of Complex Technical Systems
This course is dedicated to the end-to-end design methodology, based on the PLM approach. During the course students will develop complex technical system with a modern approach to design.
The design includes: concept development, conceptual design, systems engineering, 3D physical simulation (CFD and FEM), parametric and topology optimization, final solid design. Educational process is focused on teamwork in this course. Siemens Teamcenter PLM platform is used to provide interaction within students workgroup. The course provides students with a theoretical and practical basis for implementing projects devoted to the design of complex technical systems, such as unmanned aerial vehicles. |
Clement Fortin | 6 | MA060534 | ||
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Digital Technologies in Electrical Grids
The course first gives the students an overview of the process and goals of the digital transformation, with the focus on power grids. Next, the students learn about the structure of power grid companies in Russia, their problems, development strategy, and motivation to participate in the digital transformation.
There will also be guest lectures on different experiences related to commercialization of innovation in Russian power grid companies. However, the key course outcome is practical – to give the students necessary skills so that they will be able to commercialize their technology with their industrial partner (a power grid company). The students will obtain these skills while working on their projects throughout the course. The project goal is to develop a commercialization proposal for the technology of the student’s Master thesis. This proposal in the form of the final presentation will receive feedback from the industrial jury and the rest of the students. The project involves several major components: – defining the partner/customer, – analyzing the partner development strategy, – defining the customer problem and its solution with the target technology, – articulating the product/project value proposition, – specifying the product/project requirements, – assessing economic effects and risks of the product/project implementation, – selecting the form of the innovation commercialization. The students will be progressing with their projects by doing seminar and homework tasks. An important step will be conducting three product interviews with the industry representatives – done individually by each of the students/teams. The purpose of these interviews is to validate the student’s hypotheses on the customer problem, value proposition, etc. |
Dmitry Titov | 3 | MA030476 | CANCELLED | |
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Embedded Systems and Intelligent Sensors
This module will give a wide-ranging introduction to sensors and embedded systems in the scope of Internet of Things (IoT) paradigm. The module aims at providing full support to the non-engineering students with a series of carefully constructed concepts and exercises. It starts with setting the whole picture of IoT and its requirements for sensors and embedded systems. Then it introduces basic principles and simple projects, and moves towards more advanced IoT system design. Finally, the module will make overview of targeted applications including Smart-X, Oil & Gas industry, wearables and medical applications.
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Andrey Somov | 6 | MA060474 | ||
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Emerging Technologies for Next Generation Wireless Communications
Fifth generation mobile communications, rapidly deploying all around the globe, are promised to outperform the available solutions in terms of latency, energy-efficiency, and data rates. However, with its peak speed of about 10 Gb/s and channel bandwidth of 0.1-1 GHz this technology will turn out to be inadequate to meet the explosive growth of machine connectivity in the short run. This course is designed to provide the students with basic knowledge of terahertz technology, edge AI hardware design, and reconfigurable intelligent surfaces which are customarily identified as enabling technology towards wireless mobile communications beyond 5G. We will specifically touch upon reconfigurable intelligent surfaces that can potentially lead to enhanced energy and spectrum efficiency of wireless communications. In particular, we will elaborate on space-time-coding digital metasurfaces that are constituted by a programmable array of artificial unit cells each of which is characterized by its own electromagnetic response.
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Dmitry Yudin | 3 | MA030473 |
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Engineering Physics
Engineering Physics course have been designed to help students gain an understanding of the key elements intrinsic to the subject. Engineering Physics deals with the physics of substances that are of practical utility. This course focuses on the changes in properties of materials arising from the distribution of electrons in metals, semiconductors and insulators. It covers topics on crystallography, free electron theory of metals, principles of quantum mechanics, superconductivity, properties of dielectrics and magnetic materials, lasers, fiber optics, holography, acoustics of buildings and acoustic quieting, optics, non-destructive testing using ultrasonics, nuclear physics, and electromagnetic waves. A list of important formulae, solved problems, and review questions will be considered for the recitations.
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Denis Zhigunov | 3 | MA030434 | CANCELLED | |
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English. Candidate Examination
This is a blended meta-course for the English Qualification Exam needed for the Russian PhD Degree. The Exam is designed as a multidisciplinary conference where the participants present results of their PhD research structured according to the general principles of conference materials submission, peer review, resubmission, presentation, and discussion.
The goal of the Exam is Academic Communication, so the participants should demonstrate the ability to present their research results in front of a multidisciplinary audience and deliver the key ideas in good Academic English in terms of vocabulary, grammar and style. Pre-exam/ pre-conference activities, such as material submissions and peer reviews, take place fully online. They include: Project proposal V1+ 2 Peer Reviews; a 2-minute video annotation V1 + peer review; and a stack of presentation slides V1+ peer review. Version 2 of the Proposal, video annotation and the slides should be improved using the comments of the Instructor and the peers. Depending on the applicable regulations related to COVID-19, on the Examination day students make their presentations and participate in the discussion in person or via an online platform in front of the Examination Committee and a group of peers. Failure to submit an assignment by the due date may result in the loss of the grade. The participants will practice a variety of academic skills: – Planning and designing a well-structured and balanced presentation The grade is counted towards the PhD Qualification. |
Elizaveta Tikhomirova | 3 | DG030003 | ||
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Entrepreneurial Finance & Raising Money
For the next generation of entrepreneurs and innovators now facing fierce competition on a global and local scales, the ability to build sustainable business models while raising funding in a timely manner is becoming the most valuable skills of all.
The course follows a framework of: (a) opportunity recognition; (b) revenue models and valuation; (c) funding sources and tools to raise capital offline and online; (d) structuring & negotiating deals; (e) traditional and alternative exit strategies. The course features multimedia interactive methodology that integrates discussions and debates, online videos, digital forums, guest speakers and case-based learning in a highly interactive TEAM-BASED format. It is aimed at students looking for the latest most up-to-date knowledge about value creation models and funding sources to launch their startups. Students interested in careers in venture capital and fintech or those who are looking to join startups as a CTO/or other executive level position will find this course highly relevant as well. The program is also designed to empower more students to see themselves as startup investors and/or crowdfunders. At the final class each team will present a pitch deck to raise funding for their project so start thinking of which start-up idea you want to present. Students who plan to join the course as a 3–5-person team are guaranteed the opportunity to work on their existing project; students with no formed team will have to scout other no-team students to link up with during our very first class. Overall, be ready for a very intense and highly rewarding educational experience based on my 20+ years living and working in California. We’ll work hard, but we’ll have fun too! I want you to leave the course not only with new knowledge but also to be inspired to take your entrepreneurial dreams to the next level while making the world a better place. |
Victoria Silchenko | 6 | E&I | MC060499 | CANCELLED |
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Evolutionary Neurobiology
Evolutionary neurobiology course will focus on the molecular mechanisms of human brain evolution and associated social and behavioral aspects. The course will be structured as a lecture-seminar series with a topic first presented at a lecture and then discussed on a seminar. Topics will include different aspects the human brain evolution pertaining its organization and behavior. More specifically, we will discuss genetic, functional genomics, anatomical, and behavioral studies of the humans and their closest mammalian relatives. We will also discuss some of the psychiatric disorders affecting human brain functions and whether and how studies of these disorders shed light on the evolution of human-specific cognitive abilities. As a result of this course students should be able to comprehend and critically assess the literature on the subject of human cognition and human brain evolution.
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Philipp Khaitovich | 3 | MA030551 | ||
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Experimental Optics II
Course description: The experimental optics course focuses on providing students with the basic practical skills required to kick-start a successful photonics career. The course is centred around four experimental projects that are relevant to different areas of photonics: single photon counting (demonstrating the particle nature of light), holography (demonstrating the wave nature of light), polarization, a very important property of light and introduction to fundamental measurement techniques. The course includes a general introduction to lasers and optoelectronics and regular lectures which are relevant to the specific topics of the experiment. The students will work semi-independently in small group of 2-3 students with possible supervision from a teaching assistant.
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Sakellaris Mailis | 6 | MA060336 | ||
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Fabrication Technology of Nanodevices
The course concerns the fundamental and practical aspects of fabrication technologies widely used for the fabrication of nanoscale devices. The course starts with the introduction of cleanroom environment, code of practise and safety for operation in Nanofabrication centres. There are discussed a range of technologies and methods: UV and Electron Beam lithographies, wet and dry etching, thin film deposition, thermal annealing, controllable oxidation and ion beam implantation, metrology of nanoscale devices. An introduction to chemicals used for fabrication and safety operation is given. Finally, examples of fabrication of devices are discussed. Students will have a chance to learn practical operation on some equipment.
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Vladimir Antonov | 6 | MA060311 | ||
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Functional Materials and Coatings
Functional materials play an important role in fields such as engineering, medicine, and space applications. Functional materials are a group of engineered and advanced materials designed and synthesized for some specific function and tailored properties. The structure of solids, phase transformations and relations between structure and functional properties will be discussed during the first part of the lectures. Material’s classes that will be presented are structural materials, metal matrix composites and intermetallic, ceramics, carbon nanotubes and graphene like structures. In the second part, much of attention will be given to surface engineering techniques with emphasis to thermal spray coatings technology to obtain functional materials. In the third part, the students will be involved in practical oriented activities to gain and master the hands-on experience in laboratory environment with importance to characterization and properties evaluation of materials.
The course is based on lectures, exercises and a mandatory project work in the laboratory. Students’ key learning objectives are: – Develop scientific knowledge and hands-on skills; – Identify functional properties of materials required for engineering applications; – Able to propose materials suitable for the application; – Perform properties evaluations of functional materials and assessing structural features using characterization methods and analysis tools; – Build finite element models and perform computational fluid dynamic simulation for coating deposition process. |
Dmitriy Dzhurinskiy | 6 | MA060514 | ||
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Fundamentals of Post-Quantum Cryptography
In this course, we will cover modern techniques of post-quantum cryptography that become more and more popular due to recent advances in quantum-computers and quantum algorithms for solving classical mathematical problems forming the basis of current cryptography-techniques. For example, the problem of big number factorization on what RSA is based can be solved by the Shor algorithm. The course will be divided into three main parts:
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Grigory Kabatyansky | 3 | MA030408 | CANCELLED | |
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Geometric Modeling
Classification, principles and techniques of digital modelling of point sets are presented for points, curves, surfaces and solids. Specifically these include methods of modelling of point clouds, depth fields, parametric curves and surfaces, implicit surfaces and solids. Solid modelling includes such representations as Constructive Solid Geometry (CSG), Boundary Representation (BRep) with polygonal meshes and parametric surfaces, sweeping, spatial occupancy enumeration, and Function Representation (FRep).
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Evgenii Maltsev | 6 | MA060297 | CANCELLED | |
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Geometrical Methods of Machine Learning
Many machine learning problems are fundamentally geometric in nature. The general goal of machine learning is to extract previously unknown information from data, which is reflected in the structure (underlying geometry) of the data. Thus, understanding the shape of the high-dimensional data plays an important role in modern learning theory and data analytics.
Real-world data obtained from natural sources occupy usually only a very small part of the ‘observation’ space and concentrate non-uniformly along lower dimensional structures, and geometrical methods allow discovering the shape of these structures from given data. A large part of the course addresses to most popular geometrical model of high-dimensional data called manifold model and introduces modern manifold learning methods. The course includes also Topological Data Analysis that is an emerging trend in exploratory data analysis and data mining and provide a general framework (a set of topological and geometric tools) to analyze high-dimensional, incomplete and noisy data. Necessary short information on differential geometry and topology will be given in the course. The course will provide examples of the application of geometric and topological methods of data analysis to various applied problems. The course is useful for MSc and PhD students interested in recent geometrical methods, lying at the interface between Mathematics and Machine learning. At the end of the course, students will know the basic ideas of a geometric approach to data analysis, possess modern geometric and topological methods of data analysis and be able to apply them to solve basic machine learning problems, such as classification, regression, dimensionality reduction, data presentation and visualization, clustering and others. This knowledge and skills allows them to participate in real-life projects to solve complex applied problems of data analysis. |
Alexander Bernstein | 3 | MA030169 | ||
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Geostatistics and Reservoir Simulation
The course includes lectures in reservoir simulation, history matching, and fundamentals of geostatistics.
Reservoir simulation and history matching embrace the following: 1) Fundamentals of single-phase and multiphase multicomponent fluid flow and storage in reservoirs 2) Numerical solution of governing equations using finite difference 3) Introduction to inverse theory and history matching 4) Simulating of laboratory PVT data by Equation Of States (EOS) Fundamentals of geostatistics include the following: 1) Stochastic reservoir simulation 2) Statistical measures 3) Univariate and multivariate Statistics 4) Covariance and variograms 5) Sequential Gaussian simulation 6) Uncertainty quantification Finally, reservoir simulation and geostatistical analysis are integrated for risk analysis and economy estimation. Laboratory computational exercises are also included. |
Dmitri Koroteev | 6 | MA060085 | ||
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High Performance Computing and Modern Architectures
High Performance Computing refers to accumulation and usage of computing power well beyond a typical desktop or laptop computer. This is a main course for various aspects of HPC and a further development of the Scientific Computing course. Together with the theoretical part and discussion of basic parallel algorithms, the course will have a practical component aimed at solving different research and industry-related problems on different computing architectures, such as modern CPUs and GPUs. The course will provide sufficient knowledge and experience in using standard parallel libraries (such as OpenMP, MPI and CUDA) as well as visualization software (ParaView, Visit). Students will be given a chance of using Skoltech's world-class HPC facilities to learn typical methods and rules of working on the large-scale collectively used supercomputers. The course is designed in such a way that students who successfully pass the exam will be able to use advanced methods of HPC in their everyday work.
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Sergey Rykovanov | 6 | MA060287 | ||
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Hitchin Systems and Complex Geometry (Term 3-4)
The subject of this course will be mainly twistors and the complex geometry. The word 'twistor' should be properly understood as 'twistor transform'. The latter in short means the following.
To certain 4-dimansional Riemannian (or pseudo-Riemannian, but Riemannian case is still more convenient) manifolds one can associate a 3-dimensional complex manifold. In this setting, the points of a 4-fold M are in 1:1 correspondence with "real" lines in the complex 3-fold P. For example, to the Riemannian 4-fold M=S⁴ one gets associated complex 3-fold P=CP³, while for M=R⁴=S⁴\{-} one gets M=CP³\{a line}. In this context M plays the role of a (Euclidian version of) the space-time, whereas P is called the twistor space. As a matter of fact, this construction can be carried out for certain 4n-dimensional Riemannian metrics, yielding a complex manifold the twistor space) of dimension 2n+1. This correspondence allows one to rewrite some interesting equation of Mathematical Physics for fields on M in terms of complex geometry of P. This transition can be called the twistor transform. In this course we shall consider a number of examples of such a character. You can find a more detailed plan in an attached file in § 10. |
Alexey Rosly |
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Innovation Management and Entrepreneurship
This course focuses on how scientists and technology entrepreneurs define, implement, and manage innovation processes to enhance the success rate of their innovations, examining challenges of short- and long-terms innovation planning.
The course introduces key innovation management principles to conduct innovation in complex, uncertain market environments, providing a set of frameworks and analytical tools that enable scientists and technology entrepreneurs to learn what innovation is, how to become innovators, and create the appropriate organizational environment to innovate. The course combines lectures, case analyses, experts’ insights, and presentations. |
Alexander Chekanov | 3 | E&I | MC030498 | MOVED FROM T3 |
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Intellectual Property in Industry. Patents, Patent Search and Drafting
This course focuses on the basics of patent search. This process is an integral part of a significant number of R&D projects. Patent search is also the most important type of engineering activity that accompanies any process of new inventions development and application.
In this course, students will be generally acquainted with the concepts and basics of intellectual property protecting, including industrial property. Also as part of this course, students will master necessary knowledge and skills in the field of patent search. The course will be useful to a wide range of specialists who develop new technical solutions and introduce them into production. |
Vadim Sulimov | 3 | MA030528 | ||
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Introduction to Quantum Field Theory (Term 3-4)
As you know, the modern theory of fundamental physics (the "standard model of elementary particle physics") is a quantum field theory (QFT). In addition to this central role in modern physics, quantum field theory also has many applications in pure mathematics (for example, from it came the so-called quantum knot invariants and Gromov-Witten invariants of symplectic manifolds).
"Ordinary" quantum mechanics deals with systems with a fixed number of particles. In QFP, the objects of study are fields (not in the sense of a "field of complex numbers", but in the sense of an "electromagnetic field"), whose elementary perturbations are analogs of quantum mechanical particles, but can appear and disappear ("born" and "die"); at the same time, the number of degrees of freedom turns out to be infinite. Within the framework of this course, the basic concepts of QFT will be introduced "from scratch". The Fock space and the formalism of operators on it, as well as the formalism of the "continuum integral" will be defined. The main example under consideration will be the quantum scalar field theory. A scalar field in physical terminology is a field that, at the classical level, is defined by one number at each point (i.e., in fact, its state at a given time is just a numerical function on space), unlike a vector field (an example of which, in particular, is an electromagnetic field). However, considering the quantum theory of a scalar field (even separately, and simpler than for the Higgs field) is in any case very useful, since it allows you to get acquainted with the apparatus and phenomena of QFT on a simpler example than vector and spinor fields. The course will consider the "perturbation theory" (that is, in fact, a method for calculating the first orders of smallness in a small parameter expansion) for a scalar field and describe ways to calculate various probabilities of events with particles. |
Vladimir Losyakov |
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Machine Learning for Engineering Applications
The course is aimed at studying and applying machine learning methods for solving research and engineering problems. The course consists of two parts. The first part of the course will explain the main methods of case learning: classification, clustering, regression, dimensionality reduction. Unsupervised neural networks and elements of attention models and transformers will also be considered. In the second part of the course, applied problems of machine learning will be discussed: automatic search for defects in a material, finding promising materials with desired properties, predicting material properties, adaptive design of materials, improving images of a transmission electron microscope.
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Petr Zhilyaev | 3 | MA030518 | ||
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Machine Learning in Structural Bioinformatics and Chemoinformatics
Deep learning achieves remarkable results in many fields, including life sciences. This course is made for students, that ready to apply their skills to scientific applications, such as biomolecular design, analysis, and drug discovery. Molecules play vital roles in our organism, constantly interacting with each other and serving all the functionality, that we have as human beings. Prediction of molecular properties, as well as the design of molecules with target properties, are highly important problems, that still need to be addressed. Complex and rich nature of molecules allows us to represent them as sequences, graphs, 3D objects, or high-dimensional descriptors, and to apply numerical methods in order to solve open problems in structural bioinformatics and chemoinformatics. Rapid accumulation of molecular data opened gates for machine learning to be applied for such representations and to derive powerful prediction models that outperform heuristical methods.
During this course, students will be introduced to open problems in structural bioinformatics and chemoinformatics and with state-of-the-art machine learning methods attempt to solve these problems. Particularly students will practice machine learning for drug design and biomolecular analysis problems. The course includes theoretical lectures, for which basic knowledge of structural chemistry and biology is required. Seminars are python coding sessions, where students develop and apply machine learning pipelines to derive prediction models. The end of the course comprises the capstone project aimed to solve the structural bioinformatics and chemoinformatics problem of choice using machine learning. |
Petr Popov | 6 | MA060471 | CANCELLED | |
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Master Your Thesis in English 2 (Life Sciences)
Writing is the key priority and the need of utmost importance for all would-be scientists. Science demands not just writing, but good writing. It presupposes the skills to communicate ideas, theories and findings as efficiently and clearly as possible. Science lives and dies by how it is represented in print and a printed material is the final product of scientific endeavour. The primary goal of this course is to prepare master students for wiring, editing, and defending a Master Thesis.
This course is designed to explain how to write chapters of their Thesis through practical examples of good writing taken from the authentic linguistic environment. The course teaches how to overcome certain typical problems in writing a text of a thesis and abounds in useful linguistic assistance. Feedback on students’ texts will constitute the major part of the course. |
Anastasiia Sharapkova | 3 | Extra | MF030004l | |
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Master Your Thesis in English_Marathon
This is FALL Module of the course which is aligned with the Thesis submission deadlines at Skoltech.
The course was designed and tailored specifically for the 2nd-year Master’s students to provide help with the Thesis writing and presentation in English. Course participants will get professional feedback on their Thesis in terms of structure, vocabulary and grammar of each chapter, and learn how to make important transformations for a presentation with slides. The Course gradually builds on the necessary writing and presentation skills. Classes and tasks are focused on facilitating your progress with reporting research results. The key is to start writing as soon as you start your research as there are a lot of things that you can – and should – write before the main results are obtained. A successful student will have these elements of the paper ready by the end of the term: – Research gap and Research Question(s) – Goal and objectives of research – Potential benefits, novelty and significance – Literature Review – Materials and methods /Experiment design – Status Review presentation and speech Start NOW, save lots of effort and nerves later! |
Elizaveta Tikhomirova | 3 | Extra | MF030004 | |
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Mathematical Methods in Engineering and Applied Science (Term 3-4)
The course introduces students to mathematical methods widely used in modern engineering and applied sciences. It consists of three main parts: 1) Methods of Applied Linear Algebra (solving linear systems, LU, QR, SVD, and other factorizations, Principal Component Analysis, iterative methods, FFT, least squares, pseudo-inverse, etc.); 2) Statistical Methods and Data Analysis (mean, variance, probability; moments, covariance, Gaussian processes; regression, gradient descent; neural networks, machine learning); and 3) Applied Differential Equations (linear and nonlinear ordinary differential equations, stability and bifurcations of solutions, linear and nonlinear partial differential equations, hyperbolicity, characteristics, dispersion, reaction-diffusion phenomena, pattern formation).
The course is introductory by nature, covering a wide range of topics and methods of modern interest in applications. Its theoretical content is informal in style and most of the concepts will be illustrated with problems from engineering, physics, chemistry, and biology using numerical computations in Matlab and Python. The three parts of the course are aimed at: part 1 – using the right language that is crucial for understanding many computational techniques used in engineering; part 2 – learning important tools of analysis of results obtained either by computation or in experiments; and part 3 – learning the nature of key mathematical models that form the foundation of engineering and applied sciences. |
Aslan Kasimov |
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Mathematical Modelling in Innovation
The discipline and practice of mathematics forms the very foundation of most modern engineering sciences, however, the gap between mathematical skills and entrepreneurial skills is immense. End users usually do not understand and can not value the impact of mathematics on solving their everyday problems. Mathematiciapns usually do not see and can not grasp the path from their academic exercises to the real life problems and their solutions. In this course we will build bridges between purely academic math tasks and everyday problems of the society. To that end we will will stratify the industries and solutions most relying on the complex math and then will build our own prototypes of innovative solutions with embedded complex mathematics.
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Dmitry Kulish | 6 | E&I | DC060021 | |
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Methods of Enhanced Oil Recovery
Over one-half of the original oil-in-place remains in the reservoirs as primary and secondary recovery techniques have its technological and economic limitations. Major reasons are:
• heterogeneity of the reservoirs; • unfavorable fluid properties; • inefficient nature of the displacement process; economic constraints. A better understanding of the reservoir fundamentals and the important variables that influence the recovery process can enhance oil recovery. This course presents a comprehensive summary of chemical, miscible, and thermal enhanced oil recovery processes. The course presents the subject material with a clear focus on developing and producing the reservoir efficiently, energies available within the reservoir, realizing technical benefits and application limitations of the various enhanced oil recovery methods. |
Alexey Cheremisin | 6 | MA060117 | ||
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Modern Applications of Information Theory
The aim of the course is to explain modern ideas and concepts of information theory, as well as to present the emerging use-cases.
The main focus of the course are the topics on the border of information theory, communications and machine learning, in particular (a) graphical models and iterative decoding; (b) deep neural network (DNN) based data compression; (c) DNN-based channel decoding; (d) information theory based analysis of DNNs and information bottleneck; (e) Massive random access in 5G/6G and interconnection to the compressive sensing problem. |
Alexey Frolov, Grigory Kabatyansky |
3 | MA030414 | ||
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Modern Dynamical Systems (Term 3-4)
Dynamical systems in our course will be presented mainly not as an independent branch of mathematics but as a very powerful tool that can be applied in geometry, topology, probability, analysis, number theory and physics. We consciously decided to sacrifice some classical chapters of ergodic theory and to introduce the most important dynamical notions and ideas in the geometric and topological context already intuitively familiar to our audience. As a compensation, we will show applications of dynamics to important problems in other mathematical disciplines. We hope to arrive at the end of the course to the most recent advances in dynamics and geometry and to present (at least informally) some of results of A. Avila, A. Eskin, M. Kontsevich, M. Mirzakhani, G. Margulis.
In accordance with this strategy, the course comprises several blocks closely related to each other. The first three of them (including very short introduction) are mainly mandatory. The decision, which of the topics listed below these three blocks would depend on the background and interests of the audience. |
Alexandra Skripchenko |
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Modern Engineering Graphics and Principles of Design
This course discusses important principles of modern design and making engineering drawings. It studies integrated rules and guidelines for development, processing, and handling a design documentation, which is developed and applied at all stages of a product lifecycle (designing, running, maintenance, etc.). After the course, students will be able to apply the unified rules for development, processing, and handling drawings, providing its completeness, quality, and proper exploitation of products, implementation of the modern means and methods in designing, harmonization with corresponding international standards, minimization of the manufacturing costs and complexity, protection of a natural environment, customer’s life and health. This course will allow learning the basic requirements of high TRL designing and using them at practice via the modern CAD modeling software.
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Artem Aleksanyan | 3 | MA030507 | ||
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Modern Plant Breeding Workshop
This teaching unit is built around "The Plant Breeding Project", a common thread throughout the course carried out by 'plant breeders teams' (typically 3-4 students). This project focuses on the genetic improvement of a crop for agronomic traits of interest. The goal is to propose a strategy for improving the species for the considered traits and to discuss the possible alternatives.
To do so, the students will analyse real large-scale phenotypic and genomic data sets while implementing suitable and detailed bio-statistical and quantitative genetic methods and relying on scientific articles presenting the most up-to-date and groundbreaking AgBioTechs available for the studied crop. "Resources" lectures and hands-on will provide the knowledge and skills needed for carrying out the project. These sessions will survey the most suitable methods available to plant breeders, from the evaluation of the genetic values of genotypes to classical breeding schemes, and Marker- and Genomic-Assisted Selection (MAS, genomic selection). Genotype X Environment X Management (GXEXM) interaction, landscape genomics, envirotyping, and other prospective approaches in plant breeding such as high-throughput (HT) phenomics, plant breeding digitalization, will also be studied… Creativity sessions using design thinking methods (e.g. group brainstorming) will make it possible to reflect on the challenges, needs, and avenues of innovation for the crop and agri-sector concerned, as well as on the definition of key selection targets, strategy and possible alternatives that can be implemented for a program to improve the plant species considered. This course is implemented on a skill-based learning and active pedagogy approach where each concept and method is illustrated during hands-on on practical real case studies, tutored team projects or reversed classes. It trains executives specialized in plant breeding and the creation of plant varieties. |
Cecile Ben | 6 | MA060510 | ||
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Multiphase Flows in Pipes and Flow Assurance
The course is focused on modeling and analyzing a number of transport phenomena accompanying transport of multiphase flows through pipes and also on flow assurance problems.
In application to petroleum engineering, modeling is required to properly evaluate risks and identify hydrocarbon production strategy. The major topics, which will be considered: – oil/water flows, – emulsion formation, – turbulent drag reduction, – wax and asphaltene deposition in pipelines – other relevant subjects. Besides modeling, a number of problems on practical aspects of flow assurance (practical oil chemistry) will be also considered. |
Dmitry Eskin | 6 | MA060536 | CANCELLED | |
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Nanocomposites
The focus of the course is a special class of composites which include nano-scale reinforcements. Such nano-reinforced materials can be classified in two groups:
1. Nano-composites which have reinforcing phase of nano-dimensions (carbon nanotubes (CNT), graphene and graphene-related materials (graphene oxide etc), nano-clays and some others. For both types of nano-composites the course covers their production, microstructure, micromechanics, functional properties (electrical and thermal conductivity) and applications. There has been immense interest in the use of carbon nanomaterials for reinforcement of plastics and their composites in the recent years. The course provides to Skoltech students an opportunity to catch with this accelerated trend of world-wide research. |
Sergey Abaimov | 6 | MA060329 | CANCELLED | |
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Nanomaterials E&I
The present course aims to join multidisciplinary fields of Science, Technology and Innovation to efficiently utilize novel material technologies for creating innovative products and services under the framework of E&I. The course starts with the theoretical description of the various nanomaterials and nanotechnological approaches with focus on carbon nanomaterials that are hallmarks of Prof. Nasibulin lab scientific work. In the second part of the course students will synthesize and handle some of the nanomaterials and investigate their properties. In the third part of the course students will be guided by Prof. Kulish team into the intensive E&I product development, comprised by two cycles of CusDev and prototyping based on the technologies studied in the early stages of the course. As a result, students will go through an exciting journey from deep tech science to real startups.
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Albert Nasibulin, Dmitry Kulish |
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Neuromorphic Computing
Over the past decades the concept of neuromorphic computing that relies on imitating and exploiting the mechanisms inherent to biological nervous system has evolved into an interdisciplinary research area at the boundary between advanced computing and computational neuroscience. This direction is largely considered as one of the most promising approach to resolve the critical problems that come with continual miniaturization and ever-increasing power consumption of CMOS technology. A vast number of brain-inspired algorithms and architectures, endowing low-power requirements and massive parallel computing principles, have been attempted for applications, including complex pattern recognition, image processing, and data mining. In parallel, intensive research has been conducted for practical implementation of learning-based artificial synapses and neurons that represent two fundamental building blocks of biological neural networks.
The course is designed to provide the students with basic understanding and familiarize them with recent achievements in the field of neuromorphic engineering as implemented in artificial and spiking neural networks. In the course we will address: (i) Mathematical modeling of neurons with synapses and cognitive processes; (ii) Artificial neural networks and spiking neural networks; (iii) Temporal encoding and learning in spiking neural networks; (iv) Overview of available hardware architectures for neuromorphic computing; (v) Memristor-based neuromorphic computing. |
Dmitry Yudin | 3 | MA030407 | ||
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Neurophysiology and Neurotechnologies
Neurophysiology deals with neuronal mechanisms that govern various functions of our bodies, from motor control and somatosensory sensations to cognition. With the development of new methods, such as neural recording techniques, decoding algorithms and robotics, neurotechnologies have started to emerge that have practical significance as treatment and rehabilitation approaches to severe neural conditions. Thus, brain-computer interfaces decode brain activity and link it to assistive devices, such as prosthetic limbs and communication systems. Given these developments, educating a new generation of experts in neural technologies has become important for the advancement of science, technology and medicine, with a considerable economical impact. In this course, students will start with learning key neurophysiological concepts. They will then learn how these concepts are applied to the development of modern neurotechnologies for clinical applications and the applications for augmenting brain functions in healthy people. Course prerequisites include very basic knowledge of physiology, neurophysiology and mathematics at an undergraduate level.
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Daria Kleeva | 6 | MA060488 | ||
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Omics Data Analysis (Term 3-4)
An avalanche of ‘omics data is coming from different sources: transcriptomics, epigenomics, lipidomics, metabolomics. A thorough analysis of such large-scale biological data sets can lead to the discovery of important biological insights on mechanisms of cell and organ functioning, and to the identification of small subsets of molecules (a ‘molecular signature’) to explain or predict biological conditions. The course will discuss general concepts of bioinformatics analysis of various types of ‘omics data and will provide examples of their successful application for solving a wide range of biological problems. The students will not only learn the best analysis practices suitable for each data type but, importantly, understand why each analysis step is necessary, what is the logic of the whole data analysis concept, which controls are essential, etc. The course will end with the task (Final Project) on the integration of different data types produced to answer the same biological question.
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Ekaterina Khrameeva |
63 per term
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Optical communications. Applications
This course is the second part of lectures devoted to modern optical communication systems. The aim of the
course is to study the applications of modern optical communication systems.The main factors limiting the capacity and distance of the transmitted signal will be considered. In particular, the linear and nonlinear impairments affecting the parameters of the propagating signal will be analyzed. The course will also consider modern issues of physics and technology of information transmission systems, including quantum methods to ensure the confidentiality of the transmitted signal, applications of nanophotonics and photonic integrated circuits, neural optical networks, radio photonics, as well as the role of photonics in the development of mobile networks of the fifth and sixth generations. |
Arkady Shipulin | 3 | MA030503 | CANCELLED | |
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Pedagogical Experience
The main function of this course is to articulate Skoltech's expectations on PhD students who do their pedagogical TA assignment at Skoltech. The course describes the intended learning outcomes and how they are assessed.
The main bulk of the 81 hours of the course is spent in the actual courses in which the PhD-students do their TA-assignments. |
Dmitry Artamonov | 3 | DG030005 | ||
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Petroleum Geophysics
The main objective of the course is to give an overview of the main geophysical methods used for different industrial applications with the main emphasize of the cases of petroleum and geothermal exploration. The course includes a brief theoretical background of each method, general workflow of data acquisition and processing, examples of case studies from recent scientific articles and possible applications in industry. The course starts with the descriptions of the main targets of geophysical surveys consisting in mapping the shapes of underground geological structures and determination of physical properties of rocks (density, susceptibility, resistivity, and seismic wave velocities). The general principles of the forward and inverse problem solutions are presented. The course covers three general groups of geophysical methods based on 1)seismic, 2)electromagnetic and 3)natural field data.
Within the seismic part, we will consider different aspects of reflection seismic exploration, including the Common-Deep-Point standard workflow, migration problems, AVO analysis etc. This part also includes the methods based of diffracted, scattered, refracted and head wave data analysis. Passive source seismic surveys and seismic interferometry methods are also presented in this part of the course. Within the electromagnetic part, we consider a broad variety of different methods and techniques, such as vertical electrical sounding, electrical resistivity tomography, inductivity methods, georadar technology, transient and time-domain methods, and magnetotelluric sounding. This part of the course includes a variety of examples of practical applications of each method in petroleum exploration and other industrial fields. Natural field part includes multiscale studies based on the gravity and magnetic fields. We also consider existing methods for the heat flow assessment. Finally, measurements of ground deformations based on the leveling, GPS and InSAR data are presented. |
Ivan Kulakov | 3 | MA030561 | ||
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Photonics Research Seminar Series (Term 1B-4)
The course "Photonics Research Seminar Series" aims to provide MSc and PhDs with a broader perspective into state-of-the-art research in photonics, from fundamental insights (both theoretical and experimental) to engineering and applications. The course also aims to train students in how to structure scientific results, how to provide a coherent narrative and how to appropriately present it in the form of a strictly-timed oral presentation. The bulk of the course consists of a weekly one hour seminar on seminal topics of photonics, from guest speakers or Skoltech faculty, researchers and students.
The course is a prerequisite for the research thesis defense of projects of the following laboratories (and is as such compulsory only for the 2nd year MSc students of these laboratories): |
Pavlos Lagoudakis |
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Postgenomic Technologies for Precision Medicine
This course offers lectures, seminars, and practical classes on implementation of post-genomics multi-omics technologies for medicine. The course is a continuation of the “Biomedical Mass-spectrometry” and “Omics Technologies” courses. The course covers on-going Omics lab research studies in the field of infectious and somatic diseases (including COVID-19 and its health consequences), neurodegenerative diseases (Alzheimer's disease) and various cancers. After an introduction to mass spectrometry (MS), the course will demonstrate how MS-based modern multi-Omics techniques (including those that are being developed at Skoltech) are being used to solve vital medical problems.
Relevant clinical studies and cases will be discussed, including the multiplexed determination of the relative and absolute concentrations of different Omics markers in plasma, tissues, and other patient biofluids, the use of big data analysis to search for disease-specific molecular signatures for diagnostics/prognostics and for developing diagnostics kits. In addition, the visualization of Omics biomarkers on tissue sections by MALDI-MS will be demonstrated by our on-going studies (e.g., on brain tumor). MS-based proteomic and phosphoproteomic analyses of signaling pathways for the dissection tumor pathogenesis will also be demonstrated. A significant part of the course will be devoted to the implementation of bioinformatics and big data analysis tools, including machine learning and artificial intelligence (AI) for clinical multi-omics studies, with demonstrations to show how it helps to improve therapeutic outcomes. By successfully completing this course, students will have acquired a deeper knowledge of how multi-Omics assays are used in medical research, the principals of bioinformatics and big data analysis for discovering prognostic and diagnostic biomarkers, and the generation of specific assays and kits to improve precision medicine. |
Evgeny Nikolaev | 3 | MA030472 | CANCELLED | |
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Power Markets and Regulations
The course will introduce the students to power system economics. After covering the fundamentals of microeconomics, the main types of electricity markets and regulations will be discussed including the Russian market. Economic dispatch and Optimal Power Flow with Locational Marginal Pricing will be covered. Capacity planning, ancillary services, and risk analysis are also covered.
The lectures will be supplemented by homeworks utilizing PowerWorld simulation package, a laboratory exercises investigating gaming in power markets and group mini-projects. |
David Pozo | 6 | MA060441 |
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Qualifying Exam: Computational and Data Science and Engineering
The Qualifying Exam is a compulsory 3 credits component of the doctoral program.
Its goal is to assess the PhD student knowledge and skills in the area of the thesis research. A Qualifying Exam includes the following components: The Doctoral Program Committee tailors the format and delivery mode of the Qualifying Exam to best suit the requirements of the doctoral program. |
Nikolay Brilliantov | 3 | DD030020cd | ||
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Qualifying Exam: Life Sciences
The Qualifying Exam is a compulsory 3 credits component of the doctoral program.
Its goal is to assess the PhD student knowledge and skills in the area of the thesis research. A Qualifying Exam includes the following components: The Doctoral Program Committee tailors the format and delivery mode of the Qualifying Exam to best suit the requirements of the doctoral program. |
Mikhail Gelfand | 3 | DD030020ls | ||
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Qualifying Exam: Mathematics and Mechanics
The Qualifying Exam is a compulsory 3 credits component of the doctoral program.
Its goal is to assess the PhD student knowledge and skills in the area of the thesis research. A Qualifying Exam includes the following components: Doctoral Program Committee tailors the format and delivery mode of the Qualifying Exam to best suit the requirements of the doctoral program. |
Andrey Marshakov, Robert Nigmatulin |
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Qualifying Exam: Petroleum Engineering
The Qualifying Exam is a compulsory 3 credits component of the doctoral program.
Its goal is to assess the PhD student knowledge and skills in the area of the thesis research. A Qualifying Exam includes the following components: The Doctoral Program Committee tailors the format and delivery mode of the Qualifying Exam to best suit the requirements of the doctoral program. |
Mikhail Spasennykh | 3 | DD030020pe | ||
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Quantum Integrable Systems (Term 3-4)
The course is devoted to quantum integrable systems. The history of quantum integrable systems starts from 1931 when
H.Bethe managed to construct exact eigenfunctions of the Hamiltonian of the Heisenberg spin chain with the help of a special substitution which became famous since that time (ansatz Bethe). In one or another form this method turns out to be applicable to many spin and field-theoretical integrable models. From the mathematical point of view, Bethe's method is connected to representation theory of quantum algebras (q-deformations of universal enveloping algebras and Yangians). Here is the list of topics which will be discussed in the course. – Coordinate Bethe ansatz on the example of the Heisenberg model and – Bethe ansatz in exactly solvable models of statistical mechanics – Calculation of physical quantities in integrable models in thermodynamic – Bethe equations and the Yang-Yang function, caclulation of norms of Bethe – Quantum inverse scattering method and algebraic Bethe ansatz, quantum R-matrices, – Functional Bethe ansatz and the method of Baxter's Q-operators, functional The knowledge of quantum mechanics and statistical physics for understanding of |
Anton Zabrodin |
63 per term
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Quantum Optics
I invite you to the introductory course of Quantum Optics, which will help you catch a glimpse of the kingdom full of wonders where the electromagnetic field communicates with matter. It is the world where all motions and events occur on extremely small spatial scales. You will learn that things that are million times smaller than us are not just invisible to a naked eye but are absolutely amazing if made "visible". Quantum optics is the world of individual quanta of light, known as photons, and material quantum particles that are commonly atoms and molecules and sometimes bigger formations of those. We are going to study how photons are absorbed and emitted by the particles and how they manifest particle-like properties on their own. The fundamental importance of Quantum Optics relates to the foundations of quantum mechanics and the non-classical effects such as quantum interference and entanglement, photon antibunching and squeezing. It paves the way to numerous applications in precise measurements, protected information transfer, etc.
This introductory course includes the following topics: quantization of electromagnetic field, Fock (number) states of the field, Casimir effect, coherent and nonclassical states of light (squeezed, “Schroedinger’s Cat”, etc.), interaction of photons with atoms, Rabi and Jaynes – Cummings models. Dressed states. Dicke super- and subradiation. Quantum coherence and correlation measurements, quantum-mechanical detector of photons, quantum beam splitter, Hanbury-Brown-Twiss interferometer, bunching and antibunching of photons. Entanglement, entropy, density matrix of an atomic subsystem |
Maxim Gladush | 3 | MA030161 | ||
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Research Methodology: Bioinformatics
The course consists of two main components: discussion of typical approaches and problems common to different areas of bioinformatics and work with bioinformatics texts, such as writing papers, responding to reviewer comments, reviewing papers, writing grant proposals, etc. Both parts will be based on actual cases; in the first stream the students will analyze particular problems and apply generic rules (or spot inconsistencies in application of these rules), in the second stream the students will review actual papers and analyze reviews by others, write and review grant proposals, analyze published retractions and the reasons for them, and so on. In particular, we will systematically analyze bioinformatics papers on SARS-CoV-2.
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Mikhail Gelfand | 3 | DA030404 | ||
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Research Methodology: CMT Research Seminar (Term 2-4)
This is the main scientific seminar for the Skoltech Center for Materials Technologies (CMT). All MSc students either enrolled into the Master Program in Advanced Manufacturing Technologies or PhD students affiliated with CMT should attend this seminar. The format of the seminar is weekly invited lectures from top scientists in the research fields related to Advanced Manufacturing, Digital Engineering Technologies, and Mechanics and Physics of Advanced Manufacturing. The seminar is held in hybrid online/offline format.
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Ivan Sergeichev |
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Research Methodology: Computational and Data Science and Engineering
This course is designed to equip modern researchers with a variety of skills needed to conduct research effectively. In addition to advanced research skills and an understanding of the research environment in their fields, researchers must also have competencies in managing research-related business processes, maintaining personal effectiveness, communicating and presenting effectively, building productive professional relationships, and managing careers development effectively. Thanks to the active interaction between the instructors and students, this course comprehensively covers all these important topics.
At the end of each session, the student will be required to write a short essay in the form of answers to questions on the session's topic. At the end of the course, each student will be required to write a Final Project in the form of a Grant Project Proposal on the topic of their PhD thesis to demonstrate their mastery of the course concepts. |
Nikolay Brilliantov | 3 | DG030102 | ||
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Research Methodology: Molecular Biology
We will run an NIH-type grant panel. The students will select several (no less than 3) grant applications on different areas of molecular biology/biochemistry, provide written reviews for each one following the NIH report template and will then discuss each grant in turn (a single grant will be reviewed by three reviewers). The rest of the panel members will ask questions and the panel discussion will be recorded as a summary by a scribe (different for each). In the end all grants will be scored and funding decisions will be taken by the panel (and compared to how the grants fared in real life).
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Research Seminar "Advanced Materials Science" (Term 2-4)
This is the main research seminar of the Skoltech Center for Energy Science and Technology and Materials Science Education program featuring presentations of young Skoltech researchers (MSc students, PhD students, postdocs) as well as external invited speakers. Every MSc and PhD student should deliver at least one presentation per two years. The range of topics is broad and includes any aspects of materials science and engineering. As a rule, each speaker presents results of his/her own research. Every presentation is followed by a discussion and a Q&A session.
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Sergey Luchkin |
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Research Seminar "Energy Systems and Technologies" (Term 2-4)
This research seminar is the general meeting for faculty, researchers and master and PhD students of Energy Systems programs. The seminar takes place every week during Terms 2(6)-3(7)-4(8).
Master students must attend the seminar at least for one academic year but welcome to attend during two years. PhD students are welcome to attend the seminar during all years of studies but can gain no more than 6 credits in total. The seminar consists of faculty lectures, invited lectures of top scientists in their research field as well as students’ reports on their own or examined papers. To PASS the course and gain 3 credits per academic year the student must fulfill all three requirements: 1. Attendance: > 2/3 of seminars. 2. Presentation. Depending on the status: 3. Active participation in the discussion. Being able to pose a question for every presentaion. The core of the self-study activity will be preparation to the talk that is comparable to project implementation (a significant part of many regular courses). The students are expected to assign at the beginning of Term 2/6 and may drop the seminar till the beginning of Term 3/7 while credits are provided in Term 4/8. |
Elena Gryazina |
31 per term
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Research Seminars in Digital Engineering Center (Term 2-4)
This is the main research seminar of the Skoltech Digital Engineering Center featuring presentations of young Skoltech researchers (MSc students, PhD students, postdocs) as well as external invited speakers. Every MSc and PhD student should deliver at least one presentation per two years. The range of topics is broad and includes many aspects of Digital Engineering, Systems Engineering, Product Development, Robotics and automation and space research and systems. As a rule, each speaker presents results of his/her own research. Every presentation is followed by a discussion and a Q&A session.
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Clement Fortin |
31 per term
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Review of Materials and Devices for Nano- and Optoelectronics 2
This is the second part of 'Review of materials and devices' started in Term 3. The lectures are presented by the scientists working actively in various directions of nanoelectronics and optoelectronics in Russia and abroad. Seminars assume the discussion of recent original papers in the area, as well as the classical papers presenting a physical basis for devices operation. Any student can take either part 1 (Term 3) or part 2 (Term 4) separately, with one presentation of paper. Alternatively, the student can take both parts and present two papers, one in Term 3 and jne in Term 4.
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Valery Ryazanov | 3 | MA030334 | ||
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Selected Topics in Data Science
In this course, we introduce the forefront of modern research in data science and familiarize Ph.D. students with state-of-the-art works in those areas. In particular, we introduce cornerstone subjects that are not commonly discussed in undergraduate or graduate Machine Learning classes. The course explores a wide range of topics including generative learning, self-supervised learning, metric learning, topological data analysis, neural architecture search, science-informed machine learning, reinforcement learning. The course aims to bring all students on the same page regarding the nature and orientation of state-of-the-art work in these field so that they acquire both depth and breadth of knowledge.
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Evgeny Burnaev | 6 | DA060492 | ||
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Signal Transduction in Sensory Systems
Sensory systems – vision, olfactory, taste, etc. – determine abilities of animals to detect environmental information and react immediately. The capabilities of sensory systems are striking in their sensitivity, specificity and wide adaptability. The course describes molecular and cellular mechanisms of reception of various environmental factors by animals. Signal transduction cascades are considered in detail. Besides fundamental problems, related medical issues (disorders, existing and perspective therapies) and biotechnological applications (opto-, thermo-, chemo-genetics) are discussed.
Main topics are the following: Molecular mechanisms of light sensing. Adaptation to light intensity. Color vision. Phototransduction in different taxa. Molecular mechanisms of odor sensing. Metabotropic and ionotropic odorant receptors; their broad diversity. Main types of gustation receptors. Molecular and cellular mechanisms of sound sensing. Sense of gravity and motion. Main types of temperature-sensitive channels; heat and cold sensing. Molecular mechanisms of nociception. Analgesia. Cellular and molecular mechanisms of tactile perception and proprioception. Non-visual photoreceptor proteins and their roles in controlling circadian rhythms. Phenomenology and possible mechanisms of magnetoreception. Optogenetics, thermogenetics, chemogenetics. |
Konstantin Lukyanov | 3 | MA030483 | CANCELLED | |
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Smart Grids
Power systems around the world are undergoing a period of unprecedented change. A typical 20th Century power system was characterized by unidirectional flow of power from a limited number of large controllable power stations to a highly predictable demand. There was no energy storage so that at any time generation had to be equal to demand and the infrastructure utilization rates were low (about 55% for generation, 30% for transmission and even lower for distribution). Generally planning and controlling such a system was relatively straightforward as it was based around principles of deterministic hierarchical control, usually based on (N-1) reliability criterion.
On the other hand the emerging 21st Century power system is characterized by bidirectional flows between a very large number of uncontrollable and stochastic generators (usually, but not always, renewable ones such as wind or solar) and stochastic and often poorly-predictable demand. Demand ceases to be predictable as it consists of consumers equipped with smart meters and wind/solar generators hence possibly becoming net generators – so-called prosumers. Increased penetration of energy storage, both stationary and mobile due to a take-up of electric vehicles, offers buffering possibilities in dispatch (generation does not have to be equal to demand at any time). Controlling such a power system is the main research challenge in power systems and it is made possible by latest advances in ICT (Information and Control Technology), communication networks, Internet, GPS, sensors, etc. However it requires new tools and methodologies, the Smartgrid course will give the basis of this new grid scenario. |
Federico Martin Ibanez | 6 | MA060056 | CANCELLED | |
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Superconducting Quantum Technologies
This course provides an overview of the rapidly developing field of physics of superconducting quantum systems. The course gives an introduction to basic phenomena of on-chip quantum optics in the microwave range, explain the quantum mechanical approach to superconducting circuits, study the interaction of electromagnetic waves with artificial atoms and provide examples of theoretical understanding and experimental realizations of these effects. Prior knowledge of quantum theory at the level of bra-ket notation and quantum evolution is assumed. Knowledge of superconductivity is not required.
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Oleg Astafiev | 6 | MA060340 | CANCELLED | |
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Technological Innovations: from Research Results to Commercial Product
The course is about managing applied Research and Development, critical analysis of new emerging technologies, transferring research results and discoveries into successful products.
Research and development process in a company or in a technical university is usually application and product oriented. There are usually no universal rules on how to distinguish a commercially perspective research result / technology from many others; neither there are standard paths for commercializing scientific results. Intuition and skills come with practice. So, in this course, practical skills and experience will be developed. Students will go through multiple real cases of successful commercialization of research results in various technological fields – materials science, nanotechnology, photonics, space, chemistry, data science, energy etc. They will see and practice in how a research result from a laboratory can be transferred into a product, find its customer and market and, finally, become commercially successful. Opposite situations (that are, in fact, more common) will be studied equally carefully: when originally promising technologies did not make its way into a product – due to multiple reasons that will be analyzed. The lecturers will be balanced with practical work. The real-life conditions will be modelled as much as possible – aimed to develop hands-on skills and experience in critical evaluation of new technologies, comparing them to existing alternative solutions, finding a proper product realization and a market niche. Students are expected to go through the technological innovation process themselves and then to compare, when possible, their results to the real stories of successes and failures. Students will apply their learnings to their current research – considering their own results and/or results of their colleagues and collaborators from the point of view of commercialization potential, finding right target market, realizing a competitive product. |
Pavel Dorozhkin | 3 | E&I | MC030016 | |
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Technology Entrepreneurship Seminar: Advanced (Term 3-4)
Students having their own projects/ideas in development take this course to understand and practice advanced topics of technology entrepreneurship as well as to get the projects up to “external support/funding ready” level. This class typically follows the main E&I classes (e.g. as “Innovation Workshop” and “Technology Entrepreneurship Seminar: Foundation”, where students passed a basic opportunity recognition screening and customer discovery) and allows dedicated teams to continue development of their projects. Structured as practical and hands-on lab, the course typically has up to 6-7 projects under development. Students have the opportunity to present key “building blocks” of their ventures, receive advice from instructors and other members of the class, consult to other venture teams.
Admission to the course is by team and by project. We will select the participants from the teams took part in the course “Technology Entrepreneurship Seminar: Foundation” as well as newly applying teams. Upon the course completion, you and your team will |
Alexey Nikolaev |
31.5 per term
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E&I | MC030029b | |
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Thermal Petrophysics and Geothermy
The course presents theoretical and experimental background of modern thermal petrophysics and geothermics in application to solution of actual problems of fundamental and applied geophysics and geology of unconventional hydrocarbon resources. The recent essential evolution in experimental and theoretical basis of the thermal petrophysics and oil&gas geothermics is described. Qualitatively new possibilities in prospecting, exploration and development of unconventional hydrocarbon fields based on advanced theoretical and experimental basis of thermal petrophysics and geothermics are shown. Important peculiarities in applications of new methods of thermal petrophysics and geothermics to heavy oil fields and shale oil fields are illustrated. Necessity of wide implementation of new technologies of thermal petrophysics and geothermics are demonstrated on examples of their applications for investigations of many reservoirs with unconventional resources of hydrocarbons. It is shown that cardinal changes in effectiveness of thermal petrophysics and geothermics are revealed due to development of optical scanning and continuous thermal core logging technologies. Significant improvements of reliability of basin and petroleum system modeling as well as hydrodynamic modeling are demonstrated as new methods of thermal petrophysics and geothermics became obligatory components of prospecting, exploration and development of unconventional resource fields.
As a result, students will know a modern basis and highly effective methods and equipment of thermal petrophysics and geothermics to apply the new techniques for prospecting, exploration and development of unconventional hydrocarbon fields. |
Yuri Popov | 6 | DA060295 | CANCELLED | |
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Thermodynamics and Transport at Nanoscale
The course introduces students to basic principles of thermodynamics and transport in “small systems, that is, the system whose size is comparable to the size of its major elements (be those molecules, micelles, polymer coils, etc). It covers small droplets, bubbles and crystals, stability of thin films, adsorption and deformation in nanoporous materials, stability of nanocolloids and nanocomposites, as well as transport and flows in micro-and nano- porous networks. In the process of studies, the students will also learn/reiterate the basics of interfacial thermodynamics, adsorption, wettability, spreading as well as the basics of transport of ionic and nonionic compounds in confined media. The lectures, seminars, homeworks and the final project will give practical example of calculations for all major classes of nanomaterials: nanoparticles and nanocomposites, microporous crystals, ordered and disordered mesoporous solids, and, finally nanostructured polymeric materials.
The course will be useful to all students willing to improve their understanding of natural (e.g. mineral oil) and man-made colloids, such as suspensions, emulsions and foams, as well as natural and synthetic porous materials. "Lectures" in the schedule refer to approximately 3h "windows" they will are not necessary scheduled as such, but will spread out and intermitted by seminars / recitations / HW and project discussions |
Vladimir Palyulin | 3 | MA030288 | ||
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Thesis Final Review
The Thesis Final Review is an assessment procedure that aims to determine whether a PhD student’s work is eligible for the PhD thesis defense.
The procedure also performs the function of the final state attestation. As a result of the Thesis Final Review the following decision can be made: Format: Scientific report in a format of PhD thesis draft and presentation. |
Nadezhda Dontsu |
6 per term
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Thesis Proposal Defense
The Thesis Proposal Defense is a compulsory component of the program, whereby the PhD student defends a thesis proposal before the Individual Doctoral Committee.
The PhD student must develop in consultation with the supervisor, a thesis proposal in the form of presentation or written document. The proposal should contain the thesis research question, a proposal of an approach answering the question, a brief review of the literature, an overview of the proposed structure, the expected results, and a timeline to the thesis defense. The PhD student should provide the Committee members with a thesis proposal approved by the supervisor one week in advance of the defense, which resulted in the completion of the individual student digital assessment form by the Individual Doctoral Committee. |
Viktoria Mikhaylova |
6 per term
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Transgenic Models in Drug Discovery
The course consists of theoretical and practic parts.Theoreticla part is devoted to analysis of transgenesis in C.elegance, Drosophila, Zebra fish and mice with particular accent on the usage of these platforms in drug development. It also describes general principles of creation of genetically modified animals. Practical part enables students to obtain practical skills in all phases of the production of transgenic mice.
Transgenic animals are no alternative tool for studying gene function, modeling of human diseases, creating of animal-producing recombinant proteins for agricultural and pharmaceutical industries. Last years work on the creation of such organisms was intensified due to the widespread introduction of site-specific nucleases technology: "zinc fingers», TALEN, CRISPR / Cas9 types of nuclease. Increasingly, it can be heard about the creation of new models of diseases, the use of gene knockout for medical purposes. The course "Transgenic animals" allows students not only to get acquainted with the theory of molecular biological and embryological basis of modern approaches to the modification of the genome, but also to apply their knowledge during practical training. |
Yuri Kotelevtsev | 6 | MA060398 |
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Virtual Reality, Augmented Reality and Haptics
VR and Haptics technologies are booming in the world. Students of the course will learn how to make 3D environment and digital twins. They will create the VR copy of the robot, control its motion with tracking system, and literally touch the future technologies with the most recent electrotactile display provided by UEC (Japan). They will learn how to program ESP microcontrollers, digital filters, and to write the software for tracking the user fingers, arms with motion capturing systems. They will be taught the neuroscience of the human sense of touch, principles of haptics technologies and tactile displays for highly immersive VR, HRI, and HCI. The experimental design with ANOVA test will be presented. At the end of the Lecture, the students will have the chance to participate in the scientific content of the most prestigious conference in CG and novel technologies ACM Siggraph 2020 (Core A*). The invited speakers will be from such companies as Unity, NVIDIA, AntiLatency, Native Robotics (startup of ISR Lab.), Tsuru Robotics (startup of ISR Lab.), Sizolution (startup of ISR Lab.).
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Dzmitry Tsetserukou | 3 | MA030456 |
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Academic Communication: Preparatory English for PhD Exam - Summer Express
As a PhD student, you should already know that effective professional communication is the key to academic success. Are you an ambitious person who wants to maximize their academic potential? Are you eager to boost your ability to write research papers, present in front of multidisciplinary audiences, participate in scholarly discussions and engage in other forms of academic communication — and do it all in good academic English?
Join this course and learn how to produce clear, correct, concise, and coherent texts related to your research, and how to present your data in front of a multidisciplinary professional community. You will be guided through all stages of paper writing, editing, peer-reviewing, and presenting. Academic communication is not limited to formal writing and professional presentation. As in a real conference environment, you will take part in networking activities, interacting with your peers from different fields, exchanging ideas and pitching your research achievements. The course is interactive, communicative and intensive, with various speaking, listening, reading and writing activities to be performed in class and at home, individually and in teams. By the end of the course, successful participants will |
Elizaveta Tikhomirova | 3 | Extra | DF030029s | |
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Industiral Immersion
The goal of Industrial Immersion is to provide for Skoltech students real hands-on work experience in industrial sector and develop the knowledge and skills for making impact through engineering and innovation. The Industrial immersion is performed in a company and it implies that internships at academic or research institutions (like universities etc.) are excluded. Duration of Industrial Immersion is 8 weeks. Project focuses on short-term development, manufacturing or operations challenges rather than long-term research problems and is co-supervised by the company and Skoltech. The internship is cooperatively planned: project assignment is provided by the company and subject for approval of the Industrial Immersion Program Coordinator (I.I.P.C.).
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Zhanna Turubarova |
12 per term
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Sector | MB120005 | |
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Pedagogy of Higher Education
The course offers an introduction to facilitating learning in higher education for PhD students asked to act as teaching assistants. The course content focuses on high resolution constructive alignment of learning outcomes with learning activities and assessment strategies. Learning outcomes for a course are elaborated into separate activities and assignments for students. Learning outcomes need to be articulated at every level of learning activities from course to assignment.
The course also rests on the approach that learning is promoted by feedback. Participants in the course will therefore be required to plan and design effective use of continuous formative assessment. Such formative assessment requires strategic learning activities and assignments. The course therefore emphasizes communication-to-learn activities including peer learning. Skoltech is an English medium instruction environment, and the course explores ways of addressing the potential effects of language and culture barriers for high quality student learning. All topics in the course are applied by participants on their own teaching and learning experiences and are meant to be used as they prepare and plan for their teaching assistantships or their supervisory activities to come. All participants will have a task to produce a reflection on their future actions to evolve as facilitators and meet the requirements of the scholarship of teaching and learning. |
Aysylu Askarova, Daria Tokmeninova |
3 | DG030025 | ||
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Qualifying Exam: Computational and Data Science and Engineering
The Qualifying Exam is a compulsory 3 credits component of the doctoral program.
Its goal is to assess the PhD student knowledge and skills in the area of the thesis research. A Qualifying Exam includes the following components: The Doctoral Program Committee tailors the format and delivery mode of the Qualifying Exam to best suit the requirements of the doctoral program. |
Nikolay Brilliantov | 3 | DD030020cd | ||
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Research Immersion
Research Immersion will take place in Skoltech, as a part of Skoltech International Summer School on Mathematical Physics.
The program of the school includes modern topics of mathematical physics such as path integrals, topological effects, integrability, quantum groups, conformal field theory. Discussion of each topic will be dividedinto talks of participants. Preparation of these reports as well as discussion of them with experts is an essential part of the school's work. |
Mikhail Bershtein | 12 | Sector | MB120006m | |
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Startup Founders Workshop
This is a “learning-by-doing” intensive course designed to provide science and engineering PhD students with a hands-on experience of translating your favorite technology into the innovative product and then the technology-based startup. The course will include lectures and individual mentoring sessions, as well as various project-based activities covering all stages of the new venture creation: from “getting out of the building” (literally!!! your team is to talk to customers, partners, users, etc.) and customers need identification, to defining the technological solution and the product, producing the prototype, and further to the business model designing and validating.
Admission to the course is by team and by project. The project themes may vastly range from digital to new materials and biomed. We suggest forming the projects around ideas inspired by your academic research, technologies you studied, prototypes you developed, etc. In all cases, you should choose something for which you have passion, enthusiasm, as well as technical expertise. The course is designed for wide diverse PhD student audience: The course flow is structured around 3 major stages (“Sprints”) comprising kick off intensive workshop, mentors and instructors supported projects development period, resulting capstone workshop and projects Demo Day. |
Alexey Nikolaev | 6 | E&I | DC060023 | |
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Thesis Proposal Defense
The Thesis Proposal Defense is a compulsory component of the program, whereby the PhD student defends a thesis proposal before the Individual Doctoral Committee.
The PhD student must develop in consultation with the supervisor, a thesis proposal in the form of presentation or written document. The proposal should contain the thesis research question, a proposal of an approach answering the question, a brief review of the literature, an overview of the proposed structure, the expected results, and a timeline to the thesis defense. The PhD student should provide the Committee members with a thesis proposal approved by the supervisor one week in advance of the defense, which resulted in the completion of the individual student digital assessment form by the Individual Doctoral Committee. |
Viktoria Mikhaylova |
6 per term
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DD060021 |