Results of six megaprojects of Tomsk Polytechnic University, launched in 2014, will be useful not only in Russia, but also around the world, the head of the International Scientific Council of the university, the Nobel Prize winner Dan Shechtman says.
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The International Scientific Council, which includes Shechtman and other world-known scientists, worked in late August at the university. The scientists for a few days learnt the content of the megaprojects, to give them an expert evaluation. Summaries of the projects will be finalized by the end of September. Among the TPU’s projects - medical engineering, development of new materials for space exploration, and others.
“All projects are of good quality, they have good science, and there are people who can fulfill them. Within the projects ground-breaking discoveries will be made that will benefit not only in Siberia, as a region, but also across the country, around the world,” - Shechtman said at a meeting with journalists.
According to the university, the content of the megaprojects corresponds to clusters of the created at TPU network centre of excellence in the field of resource efficiency. These projects are “Monitoring and Control Telecommunication Systems for Autonomous Underwater Robots”, “Medical Engineering”, “Technologies and Systems of Tomographic Nondestructive Testing of a New Generation”.
As well as “Complex Study of Unconventional Oil and Gas Reservoirs”, “Hybrid modeling and Control of Smart Power Grids” and a project to create new materials for use in extreme conditions.
“All these projects are collaborative, conducting in a team. They involve other universities of Russia and the world, research institutes of the Russian Academy of Sciences, as well as many research and educational organizations from abroad. A wide field of competences provides a great future to these projects”, - Prof. Eberhard Umbach, the former president of the Technological Institute of Karlsruhe, said.
“We will come here several times a year. The university is committed to leadership in the world, there is a special spirit that leads the university forward. And even in Siberia it is difficult to attract good scientists, we believe that the originality of scientific ideas of Tomsk Polytechnic University to attract people here. We want to contribute to it,”- Prof. Konrad Osterwalder, Rector Emeritus of the Technical University of Zurich said.
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