International Scientific Students Conference

“Student and Progress in Science and Technology”

For the last 37 years the Novosibirsk State University has organized an annual scientific students conference entitled "The Student and Progress in Science & Technology". The goal of the conference is to encourage students, graduates and postgraduates to solve problems of modern science and to stimulate international ties. The conference is very essential for bringing up the younger generation of scientists in the spirit of freedom and democracy. It helps students identify themselves with the world scientific community and adapt to the period of transition to the rule-of-law state and free market economy here in Russia.

The conference of the 1999 year is scheduled for 12-16 April. There are plenary and section meetings on the program. The results of both experimental and theoretical studies in the following fields of science may be presented.

1. Section on Mathematics. Subsections: algebra and logic; differential equations; theory of functions; mathematical and functional analysis; hydrodynamics; continuum mechanics; theoretical cybernetics; calculus of probability; numerical analysis; programming.

2. Section on Physics. Subsections: radiophysics; automation of scientific research and computer graphics; physical and technical informatics; low temperature and phase transition physics; plasma physics; physics of accelerators and elementary particles; aerophysics and non-equilibrium processes; quantum optics; semiconductor and dielectric physics; chemical physics.

3. Section on Chemistry. Subsections: catalysis and adsorption; chemistry of aromatic and heterocyclic compounds; chemical kinetics; inorganic chemistry; solid state chemistry, environmental chemistry.

4. Section on Biology. Subsections: physiology of a man and animals; molecular biology and biochemistry; cytology and genetics, ecology (ecosystem protection; problems of gene pool of animals and plants, and so on).

5. Section on Geology. Subsections: paleontology and stratigraphy; petrography and geochemistry; mineralogy; geophysics; general and regional geology; geology of combustible mineral resources.

6. Section on Economics. Subsections: economic sociology; general theory of economics; analysis and modelling of territories development; imitation modeling and informatics; management systems for industry; finance and banking; civil and economic law in Russia.

7. Section on history. Subsections: archaeology of the Stone and Bronze Ages; and ethnography; archaeology of the early iron - early Middle Ages; archaeology of the late Middle Ages and ethnography; spiritual culture of ancient times and the Middle Ages; new and newest history; home history up to the middle of XIX century; history of Russia of the second half of XIX century; political and socio-economic history of Russia of XX century; culture and ideology of Russia in XX century; orientalism.

8. Section on Philosophy and Social Development. Subsections: history of philosophy and modern times; philosophy and modern science; man in modern philosophy; traditions and innovations in spiritual culture; norms and values of social interaction; philosophy and politics; ethical problems and modern times.

9. Section on Linguistics. Subsections: history of the Russian language and linguistic textology; linguistic semantics; linguistic typology; Russian literature of XIX century; XX century and modern Russian literature; Romance and Germanic languages.

10. Section on Computer sciences. Subsections: computer graphics, animations, multimedia, hypermedia, virtual environment; GIS-technologies; net technologies, Internet technologies and their applications; methods and systems for defence and security of information; distributed information treatment, corporative information systems; information technologies for education; managing communicatory systems; instrumental and applied software systems.

11. Section on Global problems and sustainable development. Subsections: valuables and criteria for sustainable development, social and cultural approaches to sustainable development, global problems and geopolitics, social and philosophical problems of ecology, social technologies for sustainable development, future of Russia as a specific society, possibilities of natural and technical sciences in solving global problems, educational system and sustainable development, regional aspects of sustainable development.

12. Section on Government/Management. Subsections: theory of management; Russian and foreign experience in the federal and municipal government; decision making theory; staff management (culture of management, psychology of management, work with personnel).

13. Section on State and Law. Subsections: theory of state and law; constitutional law; administrative law; civil and economic law; labor law; land law; financial law; tax law; court and legal procedures.

Section 1-11 will be held at the Novosibirsk state university and sections 12-13 at the Novosibirsk Academy of State Employment.

Accommodation: you can live on the student campus, at the university hotel, and at the hotel ``Golden valley'' situated near the university.

Our addresses:

Organizing committee: the secretaries - Pyatkov Sergey Grigor'evich, Mishchenko Aleksey Mikhailivich (tel. - 3832-397288), Abramova Tat'yana Gennad'evna (tel. - 3832-103012).

All information including the programs and your communications can be found at the internet address: http//www.nsu.ru/conf/issc.

The working languages of the conference are Russian and English.

For participation in the conference you should send to the organizing committee:

a) The application form with the following information: your section and subsection, your institution, faculty and semester, your address, your full name and the name of your superviser, necessary technical equipment (computers, etc.) for your presentation. The application form must be filled for each author separately.

b) Your communication of 1-2 A4 pages in volume. The communication must be signed by you and your supervisor. The scheme of your communication is as follows:

the title of the lecture

initials, surnames

the name of your institution

the text of your communication

the bibliography

your supervisor (name and degree)

c) The letter from your institution confirming that you are a student, postgraduates, etc.

For publishing, we need also a file with the text of your communication and application form (you can use our e-mail address or send a floppy disk by the usual mail). Our e-mail addresses:

Section 1 - math@issc.nsu.ru, section 2 - phys@issc.nsu.ru, section 3 - chem@issc.nsu.ru, section 4 - biol@issc.nsu.ru, section 5 - geol@issc.nsu.ru, section 6 - econ@issc.nsu.ru, section 7 - hist@issc.nsu.ru, section 8 - philos@issc.nsu.ru, section 9 - phylol@issc.nsu.ru, section 10 - info@issc.nsu.ru, section 11 - glob@issc.nsu.ru, sections 12-13 - itu@sapa.nsk.su.

The requirements for the texts:

a) for sections 1, 10 the text is prepared with the use of LATEX (it is desirable to have pictures in the pcx format); you should use the following parameters: size 10pt, textwidth 11.5cm, textheight 16cm;

b) for sections 2-9, 11-13 the text is prepared with the use of Word; for sections 2-9, 11 you should use the following parameters: page size 148?200 mm, Times new roman, 10pt, ordinary interval, left, right, upper, and lower margins 1.7cm, the distance between the text and the page number 10mm; for sections 12-13 you should use the following: page size A5, Times new roman, 11pt, right, upper, and lower margins 2cm and left margin 2.5cm;

c) in the case you can not use any of the above editors, you should prepare the text using Norton editor, Multi-editor, and so on following the rules: carryovers of the words are not admissible, the number of symbols per line is at most 65, sections and subsection are divided from each other by an empty line, a free space is reserved for formulas and pictures.

It is desirable to have your text unencoded in the case you will use e-mail.

Next, it is desirable to send a short abstract of your communication (5-7 strings in English).

The deadline for submission is 20th of February.

Warning: it is possible that your report will not be included in the program of the conference (if it does not correspond to the program or does not contain new scientific information).

All invitations will be sent until the 1st of April 1999.

The Organizing Committee invites students, postgraduates, or simply young scientists to take part in the conference.

Some information about the Novosibirsk University and the conference

Our University is known as one of the leading Russian Universities which prepares students for their professional career in the field of fundamental research. During studies students have a possibility to use the unique research and technological equipment of the Research Institutes of the Siberian Branch of the Russian Academy of Sciences.

The University has stable connections with other universities all over the world. The University has the Internet center. The UNESCO chair in sustainable development, environmental sciences and social problems was opened at the University recently. As the host of the conference the Novosibirsk State niversity has a number of advantages.

First, it has a unique geographical location in the middle of the Russian Federation.

Second, in preparation of the conference and during the meeting it enlists the cooperation of the huge scientific potential of the University and the Siberian Branch of the Russian Academy of Sciences, thus encompassing nearly all branches of the fundamental science.

Third, attendees from different parts of the country are introduced to the prominent scientific schools both at the sessions and during special outings to the basic scientific research centers of the Siberian Branch of the Russian Academy of Sciences, thus encompassing nearly all branches of the fundamental science.

Annually the conference welcomes students and graduate students from more than 112 higher educational establishments of all republics of the former Soviet Union, young people from foreign countries studying in Russia and guests from Western Universities. More than 1000 reports are usually included in the conference program. It is noteworthy that the 1997 year meeting kept up with the previous ones: in spite of enormous financial difficulties the number of reports (1312) and the number of participants (900) did not drop. Our conference is unique in Russia with this respect.

Proceedings of the conference are published under the same name according to the sections of the conference. In 1997 we published 14 such collections of abstracts, and each of them was a book of about 100-130 A4 pages in volume. The participants who present the best talks are awarded diplomas and special prizes. It is planned to continue publications of the Proceeding in 1998.