JINR staff members delivered lectures online for Russian school students as part of the Bolshaya Peremena (lit. “Big Change/Big School Break”) project, thus having opened a thematic week dedicated to nuclear technologies.
“Bolshaya Peremena” is the largest competition for school students under the auspices of the national project “Education”, which in 2020 brought together over a million high school students. All-Russian competition "Bolshaya Peremena" is a project of the presidential platform "Russia – the Country of Opportunities". The main goal of the competition is to give each participant an opportunity to find their strengths and reveal their talents.
The lecture program of JINR speakers covered various areas of science, touching upon issues of ecology, IT technologies, and the limits of the Periodic Table. In the first days after streaming, each lecture got more than 8 thousand views, and this number continues to grow.
The video streams of the lectures are available in the Bolshaya Peremena community: https://vk.com/bpcontest.
A lecture dedicated to setting up experiments on the synthesis of superheavy elements "In Search of the Limits of the Periodic Table" was delivered by Prof A. Karpov, Scientific Secretary of the Flerov Laboratory of Nuclear Reactions.
The lecture "Neutrons in ecology" by the Head of the Sector of Neutron Activation Analysis and Applied Research of the Frank Laboratory of Neutron Physics Dr I. Zinicovscaia introduced the school students to the method of neutron activation analysis and its application in studying the effect of metal nanoparticles on human health and in assessing the state of water bodies and atmospheric fallout of heavy metals.
I. Pelevanyuk, a programmer at the Meshcheryakov Laboratory of Information Technologies, gave a lecture "Why does a physicist need a computer?" and told the project participants about computing resources in modern scientific research.
