The accelerator was designed and fabricated in collaboration with the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (LBNL) and the Tomsk Polytechnic University (TPU). The project is led guided by associated professor of Physics Alexander Tikhonov and postdoc Dr. Marat Kaikanov. Professor Tikhonov: Accelerator provides a 10 000 Amperes ion current in 80 nanoseconds, with ion energy of […]
On June 14, 2020, Nazarbayev University hosted a virtual Graduation ceremony. The 2020 Ceremony is special as this year Nazarbayev University celebrates its tenth anniversary and for the first time due to the COVID-19 pandemic the Ceremony was digital. In the congratulatory speech the Founder of the University Nursultan Nazarbayev, the First President of the […]
Professor Anastasios Bountis: This was the first international online conference organized at Nazarbayev University during this quarantine period, and we all approached it with some hesitation, as we were unaware of what difficulties might arise. However, due to our careful planning, the attendees were given well in advance explicit instructions how to use the Zoom platform, […]
May 31 – Memorial Day for victims of political repression in Kazakhstan. Professor of the Department of History, Philosophy and Religious Studies, historian Mikhail Akulov gave a lecture on the memory of a difficult past for the project called “omindkz”. […]
Kazakh TV made a documentary with a 4th year student Moldir Mekenbaeva. The film is part of the full project called New Generation, and will be broadcast in 8 countries with translation into 8 languages. Moldir Mekenbaeva is a future NU graduate in mathematics, a two-time world champion in Jiu-Jitsu in the middle weight category, […]
Research group: Uli Schamiloglu (Professor and Chair Department of Kazakh Language and Turkic Studies, SSH), Aidyn Zhuniskhanov, Ayken Askapuli This project supports the interdisciplinary research of Professor Uli Schamiloglu into the social, economic, cultural, and environmental history of Central Eurasia in the late medieval period. Schamiloglu’s original work focused on tribal politics and social […]
The word ‘Persia’ to the Victorians was not just the name of a territorial entity but a matrix of different notions, created and crafted by a range of oral and written stories, themes and tropes. ‘Persia’ was a product of a mental vision with a long historical heritage, formed by a variety of sources, and […]
The research performed by Associate Professor of Nazarbayev University Physics Department Constantinos Valagiannopoulos in collaboration with scientists from USA, Poland and Italy. It has been picked as front cover to the Advanced Optical Material, one of the most highly-selective research journals in Material Science, current issue. It has been discovered that zinc oxide when found […]
The Tselinniy Center for Contemporary Culture conducts a series of online lectures from leading experts in Kazakhstan and other countries created under quarantine. The first invited guest was Alima Bisenova, an assistant professor of sociology and anthropology at the School of Sciences and Humanities. In a short lecture course “Ethnography of the Kazakh steppe of […]
Recent DDCA: Khiva, Uzbekistan, 2015, http://ddays2.sci.uz/, Nazarbayev University 2016, Bukhara, 2017, Uzbekistan, http://www.ddaysca4.las.uz/, The focus of these conferences is to present and discuss newly emerged issues in the science of complex nonlinear systems and their future prospects. In the past decades the science of Complexity has dealt with various fields of natural and social sciences […]
