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Double Skoltech Colloquium

When: 07-04-2016 15:30
Where: Skolkovo Innovation Center, Technopark, Bld 3, room 403

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We are pleased to invite you to a special edition of Skoltech Colloquium: double colloquium.

From a Simple Chemical Concept to Three-Dimensional Topological Materials: Principles and Applications

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Guest speaker: Professor Xing-Qiu CHEN, Shenyang National Laboratory for Materials Science, Institute of Metal Research, Chinese Academy of Sciences

Xing-Qiu Chen received his Ph.D degree in Physical Chemistry from the University of Vienna in 2004. Afterwards, he took postdoctoral studies in the Vienna Center for Computational Materials Science (CMS) and at the Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL) in the Materials Science and Technology Division. In 2010, he moved to Shenyang, starting his new position as a Research Staff Member funded by a CAS “Hundred Talent Project” at Institute of Metal Research. His main scientific interests are concerned with the computer modeling of materials properties and designs using quantum mechanical methodologies. To date, he has already published over 80 pre-review papers in scientific journals (including 1 Nature Chemistry, 1 Nature Communications, 7 Phys. Rev. Lett, 1 Advanced Materials). Among them, four have been selected in the ISI highly cited articles (top 1%). He has actively participated in international conferences and served scientific community. Currently, he still is the editorial board members of four journals Metals, Journal of Materials Science and Technology, Science China Materials and Scientific Reports.

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The Formation Mechanism of Macro-Segregation in Solidifying Steels

LI SquareGuest speaker: Dianzhong LI (Professor, Ph.D), Head of the Materials Process Modeling Division, Shenyang National Laboratory for Materials Science, Institute of Metal Research, Chinese Academy of Sciences

Professor Dianzhong Li the head of Materials Process Modelling Division of Shenyang National Laboratory for Materials Science (SYNL), Institute of Metal Research (IMR), Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS). He joined CAS by the “Hundred Talented Program” in 1998. Now his research interests focus on the fabrication of the heavy castings and forgings and the high-quality special steels through controlling the macroscopic defects and microstructures, the modeling of the nucleation and growth of solidification structure and solid phase transformation in steels during deformation, the in-situ observation and modeling of liquid metal flow. He has been awarded as Second Prize for National Science and Technology Progress Awards (2012), Outstanding Science and Technology Achievement Prize of Chinese Academy of Sciences (2009) and Prize for Scientific and Technological Innovation by Ho Leung Ho Lee Foundation (2007). More than 100 scientific papers have been published on the peer-in-review journals such as Nature Communications, Acta Materialia. More than 40 invention patents and 2 softwares have been authorized by China.

We are looking forward to seeing you! In the meantime we invite you to check the schedule of the next colloquia.

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Dr. Alexander Kuleshov appointed as the new President of Skoltech

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The next president of Skoltech, Dr. Alexander Kuleshov. Photo: Sk.ru

The founders of Skolkovo Institute of Science and Technology (Skoltech) approved the recommendation of the Board of Trustees on the appointment of Dr. Alexander Kuleshov as the new President of the Institute.

On December 22 the founders of Skoltech approved the recommendation of the Board of Trustees of the Institutes on the appointment of Academician Alexander Kuleshov, Director of the Kharkevich Institute for Information Transmission Problems of the RAS, to the position Skoltech second President.

Dr. Kuleshov will succeed in the position the first President of Skoltech, Dr. Edward Crawley. Edward Crawley is Skoltech’s Founding President since 2011. Crawley announced his departure in September of 2015. The search committee has conducted extensive search and entered the recommendation of Kuleshov for Institute’s Presidency during the Board of Trustees meeting in December. Prior to the Founders meeting the Prime Minister of the Russian Federation received Kuleshov and discussed the plans for Skoltech’s development.

Chairman of the Board of Skoltech Arkady Dvorkovich praized Crawley’s work as President as noted in the address to the Skoltech community. Dvorkovich emphasized that “over the past several years, under Dr. Crawley’s leadership, Skoltech has grown to become a fully-fledged capable young university, which has already achieved measures of performance comparable to leading world universities… Edward has brought to Skoltech the wealth of experience in creating new educational and innovation projects”.
After his departure Dr. Crawley will remain connected to Skoltech in the honorary position of Founding President.

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The current president of Skoltech, Dr. Edward Crawley

President Crawley supported the appointment of Kuleshov and noted that “Alexander is one of worlds leading scholars, he enjoys the highest level of academic reputation and respect of his peers. For over 4 years he has been serving on the Board of Skoltech and carries the deepest knowledge of all aspects of Institute’s development, shares our goals and priorities”

Alexander Kuleshov is an expert in information technologies and mathematical modeling. In 2006 he has been appointed Director of Kharkevich Institute for Information Transmition Problems (RAS). He chairs the Insitute’s Scientific Council and Dissertation Committee. Kuleshov also has a chair at the Moscow’s Institute of Physics and Technology (Phystech). He is the author of numerous articles and 4 monographs, a member of the editorial board at the journal “Problems in theory and practice of management”. Dr. Kuleshov is the member of coordinating council for innovation and intellectual property of the Russian Academty of Science.

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We are hiring Faculty!

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New faculty vacancies are available from Winter of 2015 in nine of our Centers for Research, Education and Innovation

Skoltech announces a new round of faculty recruitment starting today, December 18, 2015.  New vacancies are available in 2016 in nine of our Centers for Research, Education and Innovation. Details can be found on our new faculty search website join.skoltech.ru.

Candidates with corresponding backgrounds are welcome to apply for tenured and tenure-track positions at http://join.skoltech.ru . Applications must be received by March 31, 2016 to be considered in this round.

Competitive salary and benefits, research start-up packages, and opportunities for substantial research funding will be provided.

* The Skolkovo Institute of Science and Technology (Skoltech) is a private graduate research university in Skolkovo, a suburb of Moscow. Established in 2011 in collaboration with MIT, Skoltech educates global leaders in innovation, advances scientific knowledge, and fosters new technologies to address critical issues facing Russia and the world. Applying international research and educational models, the university integrates the best Russian scientific traditions with twenty-first century entrepreneurship and innovation.

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More Competitive, More Diverse, More Innovative: Skoltech rings in fourth Academic Year

Prof Ed Crawley ringing the bell as Skoltech marks the opening of acaemic year - the fourth in the innovation focused university's history.

Prof Ed Crawley ringing the bell as Skoltech marks the opening of acaemic year – the fourth in the innovation focused university’s history (click on image to enlarge)

“We are dreaming big”, said Skoltech provost Keith Stevenson to a crowd of visibly excited students. “Which is why you will be tested tremendously and continuously.” Gathered for the opening of the academic year ceremony, and the launch of their innovation-focused program at Skoltech, the students listened, and smiled, and applauded.

‘Knowledge Day’ – or День Знаний in Russian – is a special day in Russia. All across the vast country, students and professors celebrate the new school year. Following local tradition, Skoltech president Ed Crawley rang a bell. It was the fourth time that the MIT professor led the ceremony, and the first time he was presiding over the festivities at Skoltech’s new building. 123 postgrads from 25 countries have begun their journey at Skoltech, the biggest and most diverse cohort of students in the university’s short history .

Crawley mentioned in his address the increasing competition between prospective students for spots with the Moscow based innovation-focused university. “This was the most competitive selection process we ever had”, he said.

“We received over ten applications for each position. Now we can focus again on our main responsibility: to learn and teach and discover.”

He reflected on the “enormous growth” of the institution in a relatively short space of time: The first bell-ringing ceremony was held at MIT in front of the inaugural intake of 20 or so students and a handful of professors. Two or three years from now, he said, the university will boast more than 100 professors, and about 600 students working and studying in state of the art labs and facilities in Skoltech’s new building.

Sergey Muratov, a master’s student with Skoltech’s interdisciplinary IT program, told the audience “that my main advice is to engage in as little self-questioning as possible – and start acting. You, the new students, are intelligent. You can make a change. Don’t waste your most productive years on doubts.”

Text: David Nowak and Ilan Goren

Photos: Vitaly Shustikov and Vlada Kuligina

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Seminar: Predictive Modeling: Methods and Applications

When: 27-08-2015 13:30
Where: Room 423, TROC-3
Predictive modeling in social networks. Image courtesy of Wikipedia under creative commons license

Predictive modeling in social networks. Image courtesy of Wikipedia under creative commons license (click on image to enlarge)

We invite you to a seminar on Predictive Modeling: Methods and Applications, with guest speaker Prof. Vladimir Spokoiny.

When: August 27, 2015, 13.30 – 15.00

Where: Room 423, TROC-3

Seminar Abstract

The talk explains some methods of modeling and production for complex systems based on the idea of structural adaptation.

The unknown structure of the underlying model is recovered from the data and used for its estimation, modeling, and prediction.

The methods are illustrated by several applications: medical fMRI imaging, pharmacokinetics, DNA analysis, clustering and classification, cognitive studies, pricing of American options, among others.

 

Prof. Vladimir Spokoiny

Prof. Vladimir Spokoiny (click to enlarge photo)

Speaker Introduction

Brief bio:

– PhD from Lomonosov U. Moscow in mathematics 1988

– habilitation in mathematics at Humboldt U. Berlin 1996

– since 1999 researcher in IITP RAS Moscow

– since 1993 researcher in Weierstrass Institute Berlin

– since 2000 head of research group in Weierstrass Institute Berlin

– since 2002 professor at Humboldt U. Berlin in mathematics and economy

– since 2011 professor at MITP Moscow, head of research group Premolab created by megagrant of the Russian government

– since 2012 professor of mathematics at Lomonosov U Moscow

– since 2014 Head of Sector N7 at IITP RAN

– since 2014 professor at HSE Moscow with the faculty of computer sciences, academic head of the master program MMOS.

 

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The Shared Rides Revolution: Skoltech Graduates Attempt to Shake Up Taxi Market with Start-Up

Andrii Omelianovych, co-founder and developer of Sharxi, an app which aims to reduce the costs of taxi rides in Moscow. Image courtesy of Sharxi

Andrii Omelianovych, co-founder and developer of Sharxi, an app which aims to reduce the costs of taxi rides in Moscow. Image courtesy of Sharxi (click to enlarge)

With Uber, Gett and Yandex.Taxi already well-known in Moscow, it may seem that there is little room for yet another taxi app, but two Skoltech graduates hope their taxi-sharing start-up, Sharxi, can find a niche.

The goal of Sharxi, developed by Boris Urman and Andrii Omelianovych (15’), is to significantly reduce the cost of a taxi ride by pairing up strangers headed in the same direction. A potential user opens the app, puts in their current location and where they are headed, submits the order, and waits for the system to find other passengers whose planned routes are similar.

Sharxi, which was launched on May 10 and has been downloaded 200 times so far, makes money by contracting with official taxi companies and taking a commission on every ride booked through the app.

The $1 Billion Market

The goal of Sharxi’s founders is to cut the price of an average cab ride in Moscow from 1,050 rubles ($16) to 500 rubles ($7.50), as well as to reduce the number of cars on Moscow’s crowded roads. Particularly, they focus on travelers looking for rides from the city’s three main airports to the town center.

“The taxi market in Moscow is around $1 billion a year, and economy class makes up 55 percent of it. Our goal is to get at least 1 percent of the economy class — about $5 million a year,” Omelianovych told The Moscow Times newspaper.

Statistics from a report about the taxi market in Moscow shown on Russian TV’s Channel One in 2012 also put its value at about $1 billion, but an April report by the Civic Chamber estimated it far higher, at $16.5 billion.

The start-up faces some serious challenges. The idea of splitting a taxi ride via an app is not particularly new. For example, Uber already has a fare-splitting function called UberPool. Additionally, taxi users surveyed by The Moscow Times said that the price of individual rides was not so great as to encourage them to book a shared ride, citing other taxi apps that have reduced the cost of journeys and the desire to go directly to their destination without any detours as factors that would put them off.

But others said they would welcome the chance to save money by splitting the fare, and many of the users who have tried the app, which is currently in Beta testing, were positive about the cost of the service.

Sharxi - a shared rides app (click to enlarge)

Sharxi – a shared rides app (click to enlarge)

The 500 Ruble Question

“I went from Vnukovo [Airport] to Aminyevskoye Shosse [in western Moscow] for 500 rubles ($7.50) — it was fun and fast!” a user who identified themselves as Vakhe wrote on the app’s website.

“Paid 500 rubles for a trip from Domodedovo [Airport] to Vyazemskaya Ulitsa [in western Moscow]. Great! Will definitely recommend to friends and family,” another test user, Lyuba, wrote.

Reviews of other aspects of the service were not so positive, however.

Among the main issues listed by users was the long wait to find another passenger.

“I was waiting for a co-passenger from Sheremetyevo [Airport] to Filyovsky Park [a district in western Moscow] and there was no one, so I had to take a single ride. Luckily I wasn’t in a hurry,” wrote user Ivan.

Another frequent issue mentioned in the reviews was passenger compatibility.

“We are thinking about adding a psychological survey for users, so passengers can be selected by temperament,” Omelianovych told The Moscow Times.

120 Startups

Sharxi is one of about 120 start-ups being developed at Skoltech and Skolkovo, a graduate research university that focuses on entrepreneurship and innovation and is located in west of Moscow.

One of the perks of being residents of Skolkovo, which was founded by former president and current Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev as Russia’s ‘Silicon Valley’, is easy access to investors and officials.

Although Urman and Omelianovych’s app has been downloaded only 200 times, they have already presented the app to City Hall’s transport department.

“The state officials said our idea is good but haven’t offered us any deal yet,” Urman told The Moscow Times. “We will keep in touch with them.”

The stiff competition on the Moscow market has Sharxi’s creators looking to Asia to develop the app further.

Last month, Skolkovo provided Urman and Omelianovych with tickets to Hong Kong to participate in the Smart Green Cities entrepreneurship forum at Hong Kong University of Science and Technology.

“The Asian market is huge and dynamic in comparison with the European one, which is overloaded with services,” Omelianovych told The Moscow Times, adding that he had lived in Seoul, South Korea for six years and is comfortable with the Asian environment.

“Potentially we can boom in Asia, but for that we need internal partners.”

This story is a slightly modified version of an original story about Sharxi which appeared in The Moscow Times. We thank the author and the publication.

 

 

 

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Life Changing and Life Saving: Innovation Program Selects 7 Research Projects

Skoltech’s Translational Research and Innovation Program

Skoltech’s Translational Research and Innovation Program (click on image to enlarge)

Developing groundbreaking Hepatitis-C treatments. MRI scanners in which electromagnetic waves interact with biological tissues. Saving babies’ lives with contactless heart rate sensors. When it comes to scientific challenges, they usually do not come much bigger than that. Yet this list of ambitious research projects details only a few of the seven proof-of-concept proposals that won Skoltech’s Translational Research and Innovation Program for 2015/16 (see full winners’ list below).

This year, for the first time, the program was open exclusively to Skoltech faculty and researchers. A total of thirteen applications was submitted including projects in energy systems, new materials, social network tools, video conferencing, smart systems, healthcare and biomed.

“We witnessed a very inspiring competition between people and ideas”, said Dmitry Peblak, a manager with the Program, “many projects feature some promising technologies that could help Skoltech have a real impact both in Russia and globally. It was a challenge, but eventually we had to choose.”

The selection process consisted of several stages and spanned four months. One of its highlights was the 6th conference of the Program held on May 20 in Moscow. Russian and foreign experts, entrepreneurs, investors, scientists, as well as Skoltech and Skolkovo Foundation staff evaluated the projects on criteria such as research data, technological and market risks, IP opportunities, the project team, and established connections with potential customers.

The seven winning teams will receive financial support for their proof of concept studies. They will also benefit from trainings and mentorship provided by the university’s Knowledge Transfer Office (KTO). Readers are welcome to follow the projects’ progress on a dedicated page at the Translational Research and Innovation Program’s web site, where you can also find information and announcements on upcoming events.

 

Full winners’ list of Skoltech’s Translational Research and Innovation Program (2015/16)

 

  1. Konstantin Severinov

Development of a personal genetic screening system

  1. Victor Kotelianski

Targeted delivery of modified RNAs to the liver – an alternative Hepatitis C therapeutics

  1. Athanasios Polymeridis

CompuLife: A simulation platform for modeling interactions of electromagnetic waves with biological tissue in next-generation MRI systems

  1. Artem Oganov

Low-k material design

  1. Dzmitry Tsetserukou

BabyFeel: Smart Baby Bed Platform with Contactless Heart Rate Sensing

  1. Alexander Ustinov

Development of a novel cooling technology for power inverters

  1. Victor Lempitsky

Learning-based Gaze Correction for Videoconferencing

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4th International Conference on Matrix Methods and Applications

When: 24-08-2015 09:00
Where: Technopark building 3
Matrices. Image courtesy of Sonja Obdeijn, Flickr, under creative commons license

Matrix. Image courtesy of Sonja Obdeijn, Flickr, under creative commons license (Click to enlarge)

The Skoltech Center for Computational and Data-Intensive Science and Engineering (CDISE) organizes and hosts the 4th International Conference on Matrix Methods and Applications.

Industrial partner: Huawei.

When: August 24 – 29

Where: Skoltech, Technopark building 3

For more info and registration: matrix.inm.ras.ru/mmma-2015/

The conference will feature leading researchers from the world and Russia, as well as Skoltech’s CDISE team members.

Plenary Sessions and Topics

  • Matrices and Algebra
  • Matrices and Algorithms
  • Matrices and Applications

Invited speakers include:

Christoph Schwab (ETH Zurich)

Pierre-Antoine Absil (UCLouivan)

Andrzej Cichocki (RIKEN Lab)

Peter Benner (Univ. Magdeburg)

Victor Pan (CUNY)

Jacob White (MIT)

Nicola Mastronardi (Istituto per le Applicazioni del Calcolo, CNR)

Paul Van Dooren (UCLouivan)

Bart Vandreycken (Uni. Geneva)

André Uschmajew (Uni. Bonn)

 

 Main topics include different areas in linear algebra and its applications:

  • Application challenges
  • Asymptotic matrix analysis
  • Domain decomposition methods
  • Combinatorial matrix theory
  • Computational methods for images, signals and data analysis
  • Fast algorithms for structured matrices
  • Fast matrix solvers and applications
  • Frobenius endomorphisms of matrices
  • Functions of matrices, rational approximation
  • Linear algebra in coding and cryptography
  • Matrices and polynomials
  • Matrices over rings
  • Metric problems for matrices
  • Multigrid and multilevel methods
  • Model reduction problems
  • Nonlinear approximations and compressed sensing
  • Nonnegative matrices and their generalizations
  • Numerical range and numerical radius
  • Preconditioning
  • Rank structured matrices
  • Separation of variables and applications
  • Special types of matrices (projections, involutions, etc.)
  • Tensor decompositions and tensor approximations
  • Tropical linear algebra

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