The first admission to educational programs in physics at bachelor's and master's levels will take place in 2017. Undergraduate and graduate students will conduct research not only in the laboratories of the Higher School of Economics, but also in the institutes of the Russian Academy of Sciences, which are opening basic departments at the new faculty. On February 4–8, 2017, a Winter School for future graduate students will be held in the Moscow region.

Vladimir Moskovkin The last summer counting of the University rating of Webometrics puzzled many Russian university managers who track the dynamics of this rating at their universities. They saw that their universities in the global rating fell by hundreds of positions. What is the reason for this? Since the launch of the Webometrics rating (2004), the methodology of its calculation has constantly changed, but this time the greatest transformation has occurred.

Dear editors ! Once, in the middle of the last century, academics were probably perceived by a simple public as a kind of celestial, sages in slightly strange clothes. Prestige and respect, a serious level of material support by Soviet standards - what else could you dream of? Not to mention the fact that the word "academician" opened many bureaucratic doors.

On the morning of October 10, on the eve of a lecture by Academician of the Russian Academy of Sciences Andrei Anatolyevich Zaliznyak on newly found birch bark letters, at the request of scientific journalist Natalia Demina, we were puzzled by the question of when this tradition began, and caught ourselves with the feeling that it had always been there. The question was forwarded to the lecturer himself, and it turned out that our feeling was partly correct.

According to the statements of high -ranking officials, we have an extra chromosome , and, apparently, therefore, against the backdrop of general backwardness, we build a teleport - with the help of a Nooscope . Tygony was now added to this list of amazing discoveries, or, as bloggers call it, “the science of a memorable uterus”.

The entire issue of the newspaper Trinity Option - Science No. 216 dated November 1, 2016 in PDF Number Materials in HTML The announcement of the room When will the molecular nanocomputer appear? Tells the chemist Mikhail Budyka - p. 2-3 Legal dictatorship in the United States: the recipe for the Great Mathematics Vitaly Matsarsky retells the episode from the biography of Kurt Gödel on the eve of the American elections - p.

V. Medinsky. Photo by I. Nightingale A letter from academicians “On the methods of scientific research and dissertation by V. R. Medinsky” was recently published [1]. The letter states that the criteria of truth cannot be replaced by the “interests of Russia”, as Medinsky proposes, that patriotic rhetoric cannot justify incompetence that no administrative pressure in connection with the examination of the dissertation of the official is acceptable.

Anastasia Serazetdinova How often do you have to insert letters into ready -made words throughout adulthood? Do you highlight the basis of the word? And the postfix? Green ink? No, of course, if you graduated from the Faculty of Philology or the Linguistic Institute, then you are supposed to be a language pathologist. But if you are an engineer, economist, doctor (how are you with handwriting, by the way?)?

Mikhail Gelfand Among the conversations about who and why were not chosen to the Academy, some fresh -chosen members of the Russian Academy of Sciences slipped unnoticed. And among them there are wonderful characters. For example, the CEO of the Material of the Medic, which produces various homeopathic remedies, Oleg Ilyich Epstein, the author of many homeopathic patents and monographs, was the corresponding member of the separation of physiology.

Olga Orlova At the beginning of the 20th century, the Russian Empire embarked on the path of modernization and an increase in the standard of living. Such concepts as “impoverishment of the masses”, “low -earth”, “hungry export”, “exorbitant payments”, “the failure of agrarian reform”, upon closer examination, turn out to be either with fictions or incorrect simplifications. The historian Mikhail Davydov made this conclusion on the basis of an analysis of huge statistical material.

The head of Fano Mikhail Kotyukov, President of the Russian Academy of Sciences Vladimir Fortov, Deputy Minister of Education and Science Alexei Lopatin. Photo by N.

Vitaly Matsarsky The reader can relax. It will not be about the theories of the conspiracy that arose in the author’s inflamed brain, but about the curious conclusion, made by one of the largest, if not the largest specialist in the field of mathematical logic, Kurt Gödel himself (1906–1978). He proved his famous theorems of incompleteness, which proved his name in 1931, thereby destroying the hopes of the great David Gilbert to axiomatically build all the mathematics.

Natalia Reznik What makes a person a person? Different people answer this question differently. According to many comparative psychologists, one of the main features that distinguish us from animals, we can consider the theory of reason - the ability to represent what information other people have, what they think and how they will behave.

Egor Antoshchenko On the shores of the Gulf of Finland, from September 26 to 30, the 40th interdisciplinary school-conference “Information Technologies and Systems” (Itis-2016) was held. These were four days of lectures, reports, presentations and sessions on the most advanced topics, four days of close communication between students and scientists, four days of continuous discussions and disputes, four days of real scientific life ...

Maria Popova Recently, within the framework of the interfacial seminar of the Bibleistic and Judaic Center for the Russian State Humanitarian University “Jews and Culture of postmodern”, I gave a lecture on the projects and projections of the Russian avant -garde , Natalya Smolyanskaya , associate professor of the Department of Cinema and Contemporary Art of the Faculty of History of the RSUSU, associated researcher of the University of Paris VIII.