The 40th interdisciplinary school-conference “Information Technologies and Systems” (ITiS 2016) will be held this year from September 25 to 30 on the shores of the Gulf of Finland, in the village of Repino, Leningrad Region. The organizer of the annual school-conference is the Institute for Problems of Information Transmission named after. A. A. Kharkevich Russian Academy of Sciences (IPPI RAS).

Is three hairs a lot or a little? If it’s on your head, it’s not enough, but if it’s in the soup, it’s a lot! A simple example: institutions in the same reference group “Biological Sciences” have the same h-index =5. Let’s say IOGEN RAS, ICG SB RAS, IB UC RAS, Ilmensky Nature Reserve Ural Branch of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Sverdlovsk Horticulture Breeding Station.

The debate about what science is and when, how, where and why it arose has been going on for a long time and is unlikely to end in the foreseeable future. No matter how you look at these discussions, one cannot help but admit that the institutionalization of science, which ensured its continuous and progressive development up to the present day, actually took place in the middle of the named era, that is, in the 17th century.

Mikhail Rodkin, doct. physical. sciences, ch. scientific. sore. ITPZ RAS Naturally, I, as I believe, are most of the readers of the TRV-hunger, are most interested in reforms in the field of science. But in order to better understand the logic of this reform, it is useful to consider the reform of the Academy in the context of the remaining reform acts of the country's leadership. In recent years, there were several such reforms.

Anna Muradova Among the Semitic languages, along with well -known (say, Arabic and Hebrew) there are very rare ones - both dead and still alive, but sometimes not interesting to the bearers themselves. About how, to whom and why these languages ​​are taught, Linguist Sergey Vladimirovich Lyozov , associate professor of the Institute of Eastern Cultures and Antiquities of the Russian State University according to the Department of History and Philology of the Ancient East.

Rice. M. Smagina In the previous issue of the TRV-hobby, my article was published “Two Physics Milner with Hawking” , where the Star Sail project was criticized, the research part of which was funded by Yuri Milner. There were many responses to the article, and one of the first to respond to Yuri Milner himself. On his initiative, we talked on the phone for about half an hour. The key points of this conversation will be formulated in the form of an interview and published.

Alexey Levin Disputes about what science is and when, how, where and why it arose, it has been conducted for a long time and is unlikely to end in the foreseeable future. Some authors interpret this concept as widely as possible, considering science as almost a universal creation of human civilization (with this approach, we can say, for example, about the science of ancient China or even the science of the Aztecs).

“In addition, a person who has received a higher education cannot write about the need to establish any kind of historical canon (namely, this directly follows from the principle of criminal prosecution for “falsification of information about historical facts and distortion of the interpretation of modern events”), if, Of course, he doesn’t want to look funny.” Politicians in most European countries that have criminalized public denial of the Holocaust do not have higher education?

Sergey Nechaev Single rare events are poorly amenable to statistical analysis, since each random implementation of the event is unique. If we observe unusual statistically reproducible patterns, then there is a desire to explain them to some specially organized structure of the object under study.

Dust is an inexhaustible disaster source. Not only is it a lot of microorganisms and arthropods find a shelter in it, it also accumulates substances harmful to people. The list of these compounds is growing steadily. Recently, specialists of the University of Duke and the Boston University of Health School led by Dr. Heather M. Stapleton found organic compounds in household dust.

Mateo Feurra. Photo from the HSE website Complaints of the situation in the scientific and educational field of Russia are very often sounded. And what difficulties do researchers have to deal with in other countries of the world? The fact that the Italian scientist complicates the life of the Triv- Feurra (Dr.

Rice. V. Bogorada On April 28, 2016, the Moscow House of Cinema was awarded the winners of the All -Russian contest of historical research work of high school students “Man in history. Russia is the XX century. " Schoolchildren from different regions of Russia gathered together - from cities, small villages, remote villages.

Dear editors! There was a wonderful time when the grass is green, the leaves bloom and agricultural concerns capture the multimillion -dollar masses of Russians. And it is just wonderful: it does not matter what the price of oil will be in the fall, what other sanctions will be introduced against us by American puppeteers and their European puppets that Ukrainians and Baltic states will execute - tens of millions of Russian families will stock up on the winter of potatoes, pickles and jams.

Recently, the Alpina Non-Fikshn publishing house pleased two books at once, each of which was written by the Nobel Laureate in Physics. Each author is a famous theoretical physicist. Everyone is known not only thanks to purely scientific work, but also by popular science. These books are Frank Vilchek's “Physics Beauty” and “Explaining the World” by Stephen Weinberg. Each of the books claims to be global.

The fight against pseudoscience is a noble business, but not all means are good for this Alexander Sergeev Imagine that you launched a top on the table and want to tilt its axis from you. The obvious idea is to push the upper end of the axis a little. But in response, the top will bend ... to the right (or to the left, if you are left -handed and twisted him counterclockwise).