Five young scientists of the National Research Nuclear University MEPhI has entered into number of winners of the competition for state support of Russian scientists are going to receive grants of the President of the Russian Federation to conduct their researches.
A high level of research activity, novelty and practical significance of the submitted projects, as well as a significant number of scientific articles in top journals in Scopus and Web of Science have become the defining factors that allowed the Council for grants to make a decision on financial support of young scientists’ researches. It is important to note that the projects, that will receive funding for the next two years, refer to priority areas of scientific and technological development of the country.
So, Associate Professor of the MEPhI Department "Cryptology and cyber security" Konstantin Kogos suggest ways of solving the problem of information leakage through hidden communication channels. The topic of his project is "Development of methods for suppression of covert channels by the time during the connection of network segments trough public networks " is extremely relevant and is not only of scientific but also practical interest because it allows to solve one of the most serious current problems in the field of information security.
As the young scientist explained, scientific study involves evaluating the full-speed throughput of covert channels by time, development and study of adaptive counteraction methods, and elaboration of recommendations on the application of the proposed methods.
The purpose of a study, which will be made by a senior lecturer of INPhE at MEPhI Sergey Koldobskiy, is an experimental study of albedo and captured particles streams by processing and analyzing data from the experiment PAMELA, and their interpretation in terms of creation and modification of models of generation and propagation of charged captured particles in the earth's magnetosphere. One more researcher of INPhE at the National Research Nuclear University MEPhI – Aleksandr Karelin – will also take part in the research. It is worth to note that these young scientists won the presidential grants in 2014.
"Experiment PAMELA was launched in 2006, the dataset continued until 2016. The orbit of a satellite, which carried the experiment, varied from elliptical with height axes of 350 and 600 km to nearly circular with a height of ~ 600 km, the orbital inclination was 71 degrees. With the low threshold of events – around 100 MeV/nucleon – this gives the opportunity to study albedo and captured streams with previously unattainable accuracy, which in turn allows to find more various peculiarities of the studied streams, which is the objective of the study. At the same time it is planned to hold theoretical description of the measured flows with the help of special software," commented Sergey Koldobskiy.
Under the guidance of an Associate Professor of NESPI at MEPhI Mikhail Maslov there will be implemented a project "Computer simulation of high-energy covalent crystalline complexes based on molecular systems with unconventional geometry of the carbon-nitrogen skeleton". The work will be conducted by Associate professor Konstantin Katin, an engineer Konstantin Grishakov and a student Margarita Gimaldinova.
The research should demonstrate through a computer simulation that the high energy materials consisting of energy-intensive molecules of different types, can form not only molecular, but also covalent crystals. In particular, the project includes simulation of complex co-crystal covalent forms and offer of new types of covalent co-crystals based on systems with unconventional geometry of the carbon-nitrogen skeleton and their silicium-displaced derivatives.
As Mikhail Maslov explained, the project will result in first built and theoretically studied two-component covalent co-crystal, which differs from molecular analogues by high packing density and high energy release in the decay.
An Associate Professor of the Applied mathematics Department at ICIS Pavel Ryabov will conduct a comprehensive study of formation of bands of localized deformation in materials under high-speed shear loads.
According to the young scientist, understanding of mechanisms of metallic materials destruction and development of methods for the prediction and timely prevention of this process are critical challenges which modern science is facing. This problem is especially critical in the manufacturing, nuclear and military space industries, as all high-tech materials they use have to satisfy high requirements of reliability, safety and durability under different methods of loading and operation of these materials. One of the common types of materials loading during industrial processing is a high-speed shift or breakdown. Under such types of loading, the process of localization of plastic deformation is the main mechanism of materials’ destruction.
"At the last decade, this phenomenon has attracted an increased interest from the academic community and is intensively being studied. In particular, works has been supported since 2016 by the grant of the President of Russia for young candidates of sciences", said Pavel Ryabov.
Also the grant of the President of the Russian Federation was given to an Associate professor at the Cybernetics Department, ICIS, MEPhI Valentin Klimov for the project "Development of intelligent data search with domain-oriented natural language interface".
A presidential grant is a target grant given for the development of scientific research on the specific topic. This year on competition there were 2331 applications from candidates and 218 applications from doctors of science for the presidential grant for young Russian scientists.
