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Our next speaker is Professor Zhandos Utegulov, a scientist who was at the origin of the founding of the Department of Physics at NU. In the interview, the professor spoke about his work in the United States, recalled how the Department of Physics was founded, and explained his interest in lasers and their applications for materials science and optical sensors.

A team of ambitious and talented individuals launched an innovative startup project called @smartestprep, it received funding in the amount of $50,000 from Quest Ventures. The sponsor and partner of Quest Ventures is Singapore’s largest venture capital company Temasek.

A computer voice will now be able to read Kazakh text. This was made possible thanks to a new project of scientists from the Institute of Smart Systems and Artificial Intelligence (ISSAI) of NU.

The online lecture “Smart Sustainable Cities” took place as part of the cooperation between NU and the Embassy of the Netherlands in early April. NU students had the opportunity to listen to a talk by senior researcher on energy efficiency and lecturer on renewable energy, Dr.

Today we will be talking with Professor Uli Schamiloglu, Chair of the Department of Kazakh language and Turkic studies at NU. The professor told us why he moved to Kazakhstan, how and when he got acquainted with the Kazakh language, and what, in his opinion, prevents Kazakhstanis from mastering the state language.

‘Creation of a 3D map of underground utilities of the urban area”, – a joint project lead by the “KazAeroSpace” Technopark resident and Professor Peyman Purafshari of the School of Mining and Geosciences, won a grant from the Office of Commercialization of NU. According to the project developers, this development will solve one of the main problems of the urban infrastructure: the uncertainty of the exact location of the underground networks.

NU researchers started their psoriasis drug testing in Nur-Sultan. The medication developed by NU scientists with the support of the NU Commercialization Office, is now being administered to volunteers.

NU students won the Samruk Hackathon 2021 international competition. Young programmers and software developers competed in designing solutions for Samruk-Kazyna portfolio companies’ IT problems.

The Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society of Oxford University Press has published an article written by researchers from the Department of Physics at the School of Humanities and Social Sciences. The publication – “Impact of rotation on the evolution of convective vortices in collapsing stars” was written by NU Associate Professor Yernazar Abdikamarov, French astrophysicist, Professor Thierry Foglizzo and Olzhas Mukazhanov, 4th year NU physics student.

NU community celebrated one of the most anticipated spring holidays – Nauryz meyrami. For the first time in the history of the university, all the festive events were conducted online.