On May 15, Saratov State University hosted the opening of the 30th All-Russian conference entitled Nonlinear Days in Saratov for Youth. The forum is dedicated to the memory of an outstanding scientist, Honoured Scientist of Russia, a winner of the Prize of the President of Russia in education, Honourary Citizen of Saratov, Professor Dmitrii Trubetskov. He was the founder of research on nonlinear dynamics in Saratov, the organizer, inspirer and permanent chairman of previous conferences.

More than 100 participants – students, postgraduates, young scientists and experienced researchers from leading research centres and universities in Saratov and other Russian cities – will present their developments at the forum.

The chairman of the conference, Vice-Rector for Research and Digital Development Aleksei Koronovskii addressed the participants with words of greeting at the opening. He recalled the history of the conference. ‘Our forum began its work in the late 1980s as a school for high school students and was held by the Department of Electronics. Over time, it changed its name and focus, eventually the emphasis was placed on young scientists. This year our school celebrates its anniversary, during its existence it has successfully coped and continues to cope with its main task – to support and develop the cohort of young scientists who have linked their lives with research.’

From the very beginning, Saratov State University scientists Dmitrii Trubetskov and Yurii Levin initiated to establish the school. The Nonlinear Days in Saratov for Youth school is their brainchild. ‘We are trying to preserve this heritage and maintain the tradition of holding an annual scientific forum in our city,’ the vice-rector concluded.

Deputy Chair of the forum, Professor of the Department of System Analysis and Automatic Control, SSU, Ilya Sysoyev wished his colleagues fruitful work, lively dialogue, innovative ideas, and unique developments.

On the part of the invited scientists, Nikolai Makarenko, a researcher at the Main (Pulkovo) Astronomical Observatory of the Russian Academy of Sciences, addressed the young colleagues. ‘This school is a great opportunity for you to connect to the scientific process, listen to lectures by already established scientists, participate in scientific discussions.’ On May 18, the speaker will present a report on topological data analysis at the forum.

On the first day of the school, Alexander Dmitriyev spoke about nonlinear radiophysics of interstellar flights: acceleration of macroobjects using electromagnetic radiation (V.A. Kotelnikov IRE RAS, Moscow), and Sergei Kashchenko delivered a report on infinite-dimensional critical cases in chains of coupled oscillators (P.G. Demidov Yaroslavl State University, Yaroslavl).

A researcher of Southern Federal University Vasilii Govorukhin introduced colleagues to vortex configurations in liquids and nonlinear phenomena, Leading Researcher of the Baltic Centre for Neurotechnology and Artificial Intelligence, Immanuel Kant Baltic Federal University, Alexander Khramov presented an overview of artificial intelligence systems in medicine.

At the Nonlinear Dynamics and Neuroscience section, SSU scientists shared their research with the school audience: Alesya Akimova – features of the electrical activity of the brain in newborns of different gestational age, German Guyo – multiscale wavelet analysis and its additions in the study of complex dynamics of EEG-signals, Elizaveta Yemelyanova – marking stages of rapid and slow sleep with the help of recurrent analysis. Colleagues from Immanuel Kant Baltic Federal University, V.A. Kotelnikov IRE RAS, P.G. Demidov Yaroslavl State University, and Lobachevsky State University of Nizhny Novgorod also shared their research results.

The School will last until May 19 and will consist of the following sessions: Bifurcations in Dynamic Systems. Deterministic Chaos. Quantum Chaos. Self-Organisation, Applied Problems of Nonlinear Theory of Oscillations and Waves, Nonlinear Dynamics and Neuroscience, Modelling of Global Processes. Nonlinear Dynamics and Humanities, Present-Day Applied Physics, and Nonlinear Waves. Solitons. Autowaves. Self-Organisation.

It is planned that leading scientists will deliver plenary reports (lectures) on topical issues of nonlinear dynamics, as well as young scientists will do participating in the conference. You can find the programme on the official website of the project.

The forum is organised by Saratov State University, the Mathematics of Future Technologies Regional Research-to-Education Mathematical Centre, and the Izvestiya VUZ. Applied Nonlinear Dynamics journal.