The 29th International Mathematical Olympiad (IMC) for university students was held in Bulgaria from 1 to 7 August, 2022. This year’s competition was organized by University College London and hosted by the American University in Blagoevgrad, Bulgaria. IMC is one of the most prestigious math competitions for undergraduate students in the world, in which SEDS […]
Assistant Professor Viktor Brus, Department of Physics and international co-workers are reported Highly transparent organic photoactive materials and published “Unraveling Device Physics of Dilute-Donor Narrow-Bandgap Organic Solar Cells with Highly Transparent Active Layers” in Advanced Materials (https://doi.org/10.1002/adma.202203796). They claim that next-generation photovoltaics will be lightweight, flexible, and (semi)transparent. The changes in the fundamental processes in […]
NU Physicists in Collaboration with International Colleagues Accomplished Better Understanding of Electronic Processes in Novel Semitransparent Organic Solar Cells. Organic photovoltaics offer sustainable, solution-processable, and cost-effective integrated energy harvesting solutions (see Fig. 1). While opaque organic solar cells underwent enormous progress in the past decade, it remains a challenge to simultaneously high performance and transparency […]
Professor Paula Dupuy gave an interview about the expedition to the popular magazine “Vox Populi”. Professor shared about her expedition in the Dzhungar Mountains, and the research conducted. For more information, please read the article in Russian by following the link: https://voxpopuli.kz/tajny-gor-bayan-zhurek/ […]
Three students of the NU School of Sciences and Humanities: Bissenkulova Kamila (2nd year, SSH, Political Science and International Relations), Aknur Kalilayeva (2nd year SSH, Mathematics) and Zhaniya Kakim (2nd year, SSH, Sociology) have participated in The Study of the U.S. Institutes for Young Women Leaders program. The Study of the U.S. Institutes for Young […]
Anthropology Professors Paula Dupuy and Reed Coil with Laboratory Assistant Madina Makulbekova and students feature in the documentary. The professors shared about the archaeology of Eastern Kazakhstan and discussed the research conducted in the Anthropology Laboratory. Please follow the link to watch the documentary in Kazakh language. […]
Dear NU community We are more than happy to share with you wonderful news. NU SSH professor Durvudkhan Suragan has attended the International Mathematical Union (IMU) General Assembly meeting, the IMU Award Ceremony and top math prize winner lectures, which was in-person in Helsinki, Finland, on July 2-6, 2022. He was invited as a delegate […]
Occurrence of a novel cleavage site for cathepsin G adjacent to the polybasic sequence within the proteolytically sensitive activation loop of the SARS-CoV-2 Omicron variant: The amino acid substitution N679K and P681H of the spike protein. Zhadyra Mustafa, Hubert Kalbacher, and Timo Burster. 2022. PlosOne. 10.1371/journal.pone.0264723. IF: 3.24. SJR: 0.99, Q1 Our manuscript provides a […]
Professor of the NU SSH Durvudkhan Suragan has been appointed to the Higher Scientific and Technical Commission under the Government of the Republic of Kazakhstan. Associate Professor of the NU School of Sciences and Humanities Durvudkhan Suragan became the youngest member of the commission. The Higher Scientific and Technical Commission under the Government of the […]
Dear friends, we are pleased to announce that on the YouTube channel of our School you can watch all the sessions and lectures of the speakers from the conference “Empire, Colonies and Knowledge: Intellectual Exchange in the Russian Empire and the Soviet Union”, which was held at Nazarbayev University on May 21-22, 2022. The conference […]
