
What is fire? What components are necessary for something to burn? Can things burn without oxygen? In water? Since ancient times, people have...
The main part of SigmaCamp academic program are the Semilabs that combine theoretical (Seminar) and practical (Lab) parts in 90-minute session. Each semilab is a course, running for the five “regular” days of camp. Each student can attend 2 semilabs, one in the morning and one in the afternoon
Semilabs come in three difficulty lеvels.
Please consider the following guidelines when selecting semilabs you would like to attend at SigmaCamp:
Introductory level semilabs do not assume any prior knowledge on the topic
Intermediate level semilabs do not require any prior knowledge on the topic, but will generally be more challenging
Advanced level semilabs are the most challenging ones. They have prerequisites - a set of concepts you are expected to be familiar with prior to attending the semilab
What is fire? What components are necessary for something to burn? Can things burn without oxygen? In water? Since ancient times, people have...
Sometimes people want to keep their communications secret. Others, on the other hand, always want to break into other people's secrecy. This...
Combinatorics is at the foundation of current research in computer science, cryptography, and bioinformatics. Even though in school introductory...
In this introductory semilab we'll learn about the simplest nature-optimized machines for self-reproduction in other organisms: viruses. We'll try...
In this lab we will integrate psychology (deception), physiology (arousal and working memory), engineering (electrodes, transducers, and signal...
You will learn the chemical concepts and reactions through a rich web of science, history and the arts (painting and photography). You will...
In this semilab, we introduce students to robotics. Students will be divided into teams of 2-3; each team will be given a small Arduino-based...
Think for a moment how much electric lights, computers, the internet, and cell phones matter to us today. These and the many other inventions...
Archimedes was arguably the greatest mathematician that ever lived on Earth. After he was killed by Romans, who conquered his native Syracuse,...
How do we identify all the living species around us? These days scientists can use short fragments of DNA (so called barcodes) as unique and...
Particles and fields are the elementary carriers of energy and matter as we know and experience in our everyday life. Particles constitute our...
Electrical engineering has been used to make musical instruments for over half a century. Instruments by such makers as Moog, Korg, and Roland...
In February 2016 for the first time a gravitational wave signal from a merger of two black holes has been observed by the Advanced LIGO...
"How to grill a perfect steak? What is the secret of soufflé that no cookbook will tell? What makes a gel jelly? Science may help you to become an...
This semilab will walk you in to the world of programmable electronics using Arduino microcontroller. In a set of individual labs you will learn...
What is the subject of mathematics? One of classical answers was used as the title of a book: ``Numbers and figures''. But there is another answer...
You will find out how different chemical compounds will confer scents and colors that human eye and nose can detect. You will learn about natural...
In many areas of science, engineering and economy, we are dealing with processes that are partially stochastic (or probabilistic). Probabilistic...
An enormously large series of complex and chaotic events (including chromosome and whole genome duplications) have shaped the genomes (master...
Record and manipulate live neurons, control machines with your nervous system, and vice-versa. In this semilab we will explore how computers and...
Although the word "chemistry" is frequently associated with the word "poison", one can do a real chemistry without dealing with poisonous...
Lord Kelvin proposed in 1867 that the atoms are the knotted tubes of ether. This theory proved to be wrong but the study of knots and their...
In this Semilab, we will develop advanced microcontroller projects. We will first introduce advanced programming and interfacing strategies for...
We will use a tank chassis, ESP8266 microcontroller, and Blynk app to construct a rover that can be controlled via cellphone or navigate...
The notion of entropy is very important in statistical physics and thermodynamics. We discuss some basic properties of entropy and why some...
In February 2016 for the first time a gravitational wave signal from a merger of two black holes has been observed by the Advanced LIGO...
What is genetic engineering? Simply put, you take a gene of some protein, introduce it into a new organism, and this organism starts to produce...