IW Program

LETI INTER WEEK invites you to

get important competencies for personal professional development
learn new skills and algorithms important for work in the interdisciplinary teams
get an insight into frontier knowledge fields and creative solutions for research problems

LETI INTER WEEK Program is arranged in three topical tracks

INTER WEEK Opening Ceremony
24.10
About
Three-day program addresses the following issues:
  • What researchers and investigators can get from interdisciplinary practices. Methodologies and tools.
  • Science seen by the contemporary art. Projects at the interface.
  • Researcher: specialization VS universality. Perspectives for the modern da Vinci.
  • LETI's groundwork. What participants of the Nautilus summer school came up with and what continuation can this brilliant start get?
Program
13:00 – 14:00
Registration and Welcome tea
14:00 – 14:10
Opening Session. Greeting speech – Anastasia Minina
14:10 – 15:30
Expert Discussion:: LETI – Science - Art + Interdisciplinarity
Moderator: Galina Alferova
Introduction: Larisa Sharakhina
Interactive:
– Lisa Savina: Science as a way of communication
– Dmitry Shevchenko: The experience of implementing the CDIO initiative in LETI
– Danila Logvinenko: Creative and technical approaches in creative industries
– Anastasia Skvortsova: How technological art responds to environmental challengese

LETI International Startupper School
25.10 – 27.10
Venue
ETU LETI Room: 5307
R&D labs
About
LETI Inter Week introduces the International Startupper School, a 3-day course on the skills and essential knowledge for successful R&D business in any part of the world. It includes:
– master classes, expert advice
– visits to advanced R&D laboratories
– presentations of business ideas for market-oriented startups
– business games based on process Factory technologies
Program
Day 1
15:00 — 15:40 r. 5307
Introductory class. Trends and principles of innovation management that work everywhere.
– By Prof. Nadezhda Pokrovskaia
16:00 — 17:00
Visits to advanced R&D laboratories
CDIO Laboratory
Anecoic Chamber Facility
Day 2
15:00 — 15:30
– Ksenia Tikhankina: Elevator Pitch: Top-10 key components for successful startup presentation
– Presentations of business ideas and projects by participants
– Expert Feedback
– Individual Assignments
16:30 — 17:00
LETI R&D Center
Introduction into LETI RDC
Study visits to
  • Laboratory of photonic integrated circuits
  • Laboratory of Hyperspectral systems
  • Laboratory of motion capture and simulation systems
Day 3
15:00 — 16:30
Business games based on process Factory technologies.
16:30 — 17:00
Summarizing. Ideas and business plans for implementation.

“Digital Botanical Garden” application
Master class and application testing in the Botanical Garden
28.10
Venue
ETU LETI Room: 1238
Botanical Garden
About
Digital Botanical Garden application has been developed for navigation and quest games in the Botanical garden. Its developers are the First young IT lab for mobile apps. The app developer delivers a master class on the principles of its development and operation. Participants will download the application and test it during the navigation and quest in the Botanical Garden.
Program
14:00
Group meets in the VibeLab, LETI Bld 1, room 1238
14:10 – 14:50
Master class on developing the smart quest app
15:00 – 16:00
Study visit to the Botanical garden and application testing
INTER WEEK Opening Ceremony
24.10
About
Three-day program addresses the following issues:
  • What researchers and investigators can get from interdisciplinary practices. Methodologies and tools.
  • Science seen by the contemporary art. Projects at the interface.
  • Researcher: specialization VS universality. Perspectives for the modern da Vinci.
  • LETI's groundwork. What participants of the Nautilus summer school came up with and what continuation can this brilliant start get?
Program
13:00 – 14:00
Registration and Welcome tea
14:00 – 14:10
Opening Session. Greeting speech – Anastasia Minina
14:10 – 15:30
Expert Discussion:: LETI – Science - Art + Interdisciplinarity
Moderator: Galina Alferova
Introduction: Larisa Sharakhina
Interactive:
– Lisa Savina: Science as a way of communication
– Dmitry Shevchenko: The experience of implementing the CDIO initiative in LETI
– Danila Logvinenko: Creative and technical approaches in creative industries
– Anastasia Skvortsova: How technological art responds to environmental challenges

"Nautilus 4.0" School
24.10 – 26.10
Venue
Canteen, Floor 5, Building 5
About
The goal of the three-day Nautilus 4.0 school is to create interdisciplinary project groups for productive work with project presentations in May 2023.
Participants in Nautilus 4.0 get certificates.
Program
Day 1
15:30 – 19:00
Workshop
– Coffee break, introduction to the three-day program
– Interinterdisciplinary team-building
– Presentation of summer school projects for continuation
– Exercises to awaken creativity
Anna Martynenko: From idea to technology.
a mini-lecture, discussion,
Discussion of technological aspects of realistic ideas
– Summary of the day
Coach: Galina Alferova
Day 2
14:00 – 20:00
– Game using the methods of creative technologies and TRIZ.
– Brainstorming, generation of ideas.
– Work of project groups using TRIZ technology.
– Matchmaking of ideas and projects in groups with coaches.
– Coffee break.
– Work in groups.Discussion of project concepts in the “rotation of experts” work mode.
– Master class and practice: Technologies with creative potential.
Coaches:
  • Alexandra Krivosheeva
  • Ivan Eremin
  • Danila Logvinenko
  • Galina Alferova
Day 3
14:00 – 20:00
– Final discussion of project concepts and ideas with mentors.
– Work at project concept presentations, final vision of their implementation with Art&Science and media artists.
– Creative approaches to project prototyping.
– Preparation of project presentations.
Coaches:
  • Danila Logvinenko
  • Ksenia Gorlanova
  • Evgenia Tarasova
  • Iliya Shalashov
  • Anton Shulgin
18:00 — 20:00
Summing up the Nautilus results in the MVP business game mode.
INTER WEEK Opening Ceremony
24.10
About
Three-day program addresses the following issues:
  • What researchers and investigators can get from interdisciplinary practices. Methodologies and tools.
  • Science seen by the contemporary art. Projects at the interface.
  • Researcher: specialization VS universality. Perspectives for the modern da Vinci.
  • LETI's groundwork. What participants of the Nautilus summer school came up with and what continuation can this brilliant start get?
Program
13:00 – 14:00
Registration and Welcome tea
14:00 – 14:10
Opening Session. Greeting speech – Anastasia Minina
14:10 – 15:30
Expert Discussion:: LETI – Science - Art + Interdisciplinarity
Moderator: Galina Alferova
Introduction: Larisa Sharakhina
Interactive:
– Lisa Savina: Science as a way of communication
– Dmitry Shevchenko: The experience of implementing the CDIO initiative in LETI
– Danila Logvinenko: Creative and technical approaches in creative industries
– Anastasia Skvortsova: How technological art responds to environmental challenges

Welcome Week
26.10
Venue
ETU “LETI” r. 3425
About
The meeting with the team of the International Students Office on all issues of studying foreign citizens.
  1. How to enter ETU "LETI" (what documents are needed, what you need to know)
  2. Migration rules (everything about visas, migration registration, etc.)
  3. How the educational process works, systems for assessing and controlling the quality of knowledge
Program
16:00
The information meeting

Welcome week. Open Faculty Lessons
31.10 – 01.11
Venue
St. Petersburg, ETU “LETI”
About
Days of open lessons at the faculties will allow participants to attend real training classes, work in laboratories and get to know the leading specialists of the faculties! After the classes, the participants will able to get acquainted with the main sights of St. Petersburg!
Program
Day 1
10:00 – 11:30
Open lesson of the Faculty of Electronics (FEL)
11:40 – 13:00
Open lesson of the Faculty of information-measuring and biotechnical systems (FIBS)
13:40 – 15:10
Open lesson of the Faculty of Radio Engineering (FRT)
15:30
Excursion to the Peter and Paul Fortress
Day 2
10:00 – 11:30
Open lesson of the Faculty of Computer Science and Technology (FKTI)
11:40 – 13:00
Open lesson of the Faculty of Industrial Automation and Electrical Engineering (FEA)
13:40 – 15:10
Excursion around city center

Russia-India: dialogue of cultures
01.11
Venue
Online, Zoom platform
About
The conference is designed for students of Humanities. Russian and Indian students will make presentations on the linguistic and cultural ties between Russia and India. At the conference, the Honorary Consul of Russia in India will announce the establishment at ETU “LETI” of the Russian-Indian Student Union.

Welcome week. Quest
02.11
Venue
ETU “LETI”, Offline
About
We invite the participants of the Welcome week to take part in the fascinating career-oriented quest around ETU “LETI”! We will introduce you the departments, laboratories and show the most interesting places of the University! Join us and we’ll have fun together!
Program
16:00 – 19:00
Welcome week. Quest

Palette of Languages and Cultures
02.11 – 03.11
Venue
Building 3
2nd and 3rd floors
About
The Inter-University Forum “Palette of Languages and Cultures” is held annually as part of the International Day of Tolerance, declared by UNESCO. Its diverse program includes the inter-academia conference, where Russian and international students, PhDs and lecturers from LETI and other universities discuss relevant issues of intercultural communication. “Palette” First day is a traditional show of national costumes, household items accompanied by the sample tasting of national cuisines – dishes cooked by the international teams. The program will be opened by the gala concert rehearsed by Russian and international student performers.
Forum organizers
Department of Foreign Languages
International Students Office
Saint Petersburg Electrotechnical University “LETI” (ETU “LETI”)
Program
Day 1
11:00 – 12:00
2nd floor, Building 3
Traditional Show of National Costumes and Sample Tasting of National Cuisines
12:00 – 13:00
Assembly Hall, Building 3
Gala Concert
Performers are Russian and international students of linguistics and other faculties. The show will present finalists of the Contest of creative works of students on the history and culture of the peoples living in the Russian Federation and in the near abroad.
Program
Day 2
11:30
Registration

12:00 – 13:30
Plenary session Conference Hall, Building 5
Moderators
  • Shulzhenko Tatiana Vladimirovna
  • Stepanova Natalia Valentinovna
Nina Shcherbak
St. Petersburg State University Postcolonial literature and its concepts (the work of Zadie Smith as an example)
Emilia Bushueva
Nevsky Institute of Language and Culture. The cinema map of the world is incomplete without Russia
Olga Zhuravleva
Saint Petersburg Electrotechnical University “LETI” (ETU “LETI”)
The communicative value of folk art elements
Olga Preobrazhenskaya
Saint Petersburg Electrotechnical University “LETI” (ETU “LETI”)
Fantastic creatures in the Russian phraseology

13:30 – 14:30
Coffee break, Networking.

14:30 – 16:30
Work in sections.
Section 1. World Languages - 1
Video Conference Hall, Building 5
Moderator – Lyubov Ulyanitskaya

Boris Bogdanov
The influence of Celtic languages on English

Daria Buzi
Ethical aspects of translation of technical and scientific texts

Gorelenko Ivan
Reflection of the UK migration policy in the music of immigrants from Africa and the Caribbean

Kira Davydova
The functioning of English borrowings in the language of the French media (on the example of the newspaper Le Figaro)

Yulia Kostetskaya
The current linguistic situation in the Hindu-speaking area of India

Marina Mugu
Filippova Yulia Valeryevna

Features of the transfer of cultural-specific vocabulary into English

Darya Murlykina
Translation of occasional vocabulary in Terry Pratchett's novels. On the example of the "Flat World" cycle

Anna Radomskaya
Pluricentricity of the French language. Features of the French language in Belgium, Switzerland and Canada
Anna Fatullayeva
Asymmetry of the linguistic sign and its actualization at the lexical level in Russian and French

Section 2. World Languages -2
r. 3316
Moderator – Maria Sigaeva

Yana Ikonnikova
Neologisms in Japanese during coronavirus infection

Anton Kiselyov
Linguonyms as an example of the grotesque in fiction

Tatiana Kuznechikhina
Texts of modern Francophone rap artists in the aspect of ethnic conflicts

Elizaveta Luneva
On the question of the representation of the Spiritual code of culture in French phraseology

Amina Mirzoeva
Russian sign language: peripheral vocabulary

Anna Nikiforova
Some linguoculturological features of the English-language media ecological discourse

Dmitry Pak
Word -formation models of Ainu nouns

Darya Repina
Sound-imaginative vocabulary in English-language detective novels

Ksenia Khloponina
Criminal Humor in British and American Cinematic cultures

Section 3. Intercultural communication in the folk art context. Material heritage: National assets and specifics
r. 3317
Moderator – Alexandra Sokolova

Denis Ganiev
National Kazakh Games

Anastasia Grigorieva
Valeria Malysheva

African echoes in hip-hop as a dance brainchild of American culture

Danil Zaripov
Cuisine of the Tatar people

Alexey Kosenkov
Elena Tikhonova

Corral hunting with the use of steep cliffs among the Indians of North America

Polina Kudryavtseva
Cultural aspect of animation

Vlada Matveeva
The linguistic picture of the world in the Mordovian folk song

Alexandra Novozhilova
About the life of Sri Lankan Buddhists

Darya Podoprigora
Marianna Medvedeva

Petersburg lace: continuation of the original artistic tradition

Alexandra Sokolova
Features of the national costume of South Korea

Irina Shpakovskaya
The Seto people. Traditions and material culture. According to my own impressions


LETI ALUMNI is an Engineer of the Future World
09.11
Venue
ETU “LETI”
3202
Online
About
The university is interested in maintaining good relations with LETI graduates and creating mutually beneficial cooperation between the university and graduates. The best graduates will be awarded the LETI ALUMNI AWARDS 2022. Students will be able to meet with outstanding alumni as opinion leaders in their field. Graduates will be able to visit their home university again, to communicate with teachers and receive souvenirs at the alumni reunion!
Program
Campus Tour
Workshop
Award Ceremony LETI ALUMNI AWARDS 2022.

Teaching Fundamental Engineering Disciplines: Traditions and Innovations
10.11
Venue
Online, Zoom platform
About
The conference is timed to coincide with the World Science Day for Peace and Development. It is organized within the Russian-African University project and concludes the series of international students’ learning practices. Methodologies of teaching fundamental engineering disciplines are presented and discussed by international lecturers. In April 2023 the condensed conference proceedings will be published in the Almanac "Modern education: content, technology, quality" (RSCI).
Program
10:30-11:00
Plenary Session
Engineering Education: Traditions and Innovations
11:00-12:00
Sections
Relevant trends in engineering education. Mathematics
12:00-13:00
Relevant trends in engineering education. Physics
13:00-14:00
Relevant trends in engineering education. Computer Science
14:00-15:00
Russian for engineering and technical specialists