Corresponding members of the Russian Academy of Sciences will give lectures to students of Vitebsk State University

May 19, Vitebsk / Sergei Kochetov - BELTA /. Vitebsk State University named after P. Masherov (VSU) has signed agreements on scientific and practical cooperation with the Institute of Mathematics and Mechanics of the Ural Branch of the Russian Academy of Sciences (IMM UrB RAS) and the S. Sobolev Institute of Mathematics of the Siberian Branch of the Russian Academy of Sciences (IM SB RAS), Professor Nikolai Vorobyov, Head of the Department of Algebra and Mathematics Teaching Methods at VSU, told a BELTA correspondent. The documents provide for cooperation in research activities through joint research, including mutual scientific consultations and discussion of research results, and exchange of experience and scientific literature. The Belarusian and Russian universities have agreed to organize joint expert activities (reviewing scientific papers and publications, opposing dissertations), as well as delivering lectures at universities and holding regional scientific and practical conferences. The first joint event will be overview lectures, which will be delivered this week at the Vitebsk university by representatives of Russian universities. Corresponding Member of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Head of the Department of Algebra and Topology at IMM UrB RAS, Professor Alexander Makhnev, will introduce students to the theories of graphs, groups, and finite geometries. Corresponding Member of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Head of the Department of Algebra at IM SB RAS, Professor Viktor Mazurov, will deliver a lecture on the classification of finite simple groups. "Such lecture series may subsequently lead to the participation of Russian scientists in the postgraduate programs of the Belarusian university and vice versa. I hope we will reach this level of cooperation," Alexander Makhnev noted. -0-