SigmaCamp 2021 - Semilabs
The main part of SigmaCamp academic program are the semilabs that combine theoretical (Seminar) and practical (Lab) parts in 90-minute session. Each such semilab is a course, running for four days. In SigmaCamp 2021, there will be two "sessions":
- Session 1: August 12-15 (4 days)
- Session 2: August 16-19 (4 days)
Each camper will attend one semilab in Session 1 and one semilab in Session 2 (This is different from how it was in previous years!). Admitted campers will receive instruction on selecting the semilabs by email.
On this page, you can find the list of semilabs which will be offered in SigmaCamp 2021. Semilabs come in three difficulty lеvels. Please consider the following guidelines when selecting semilabs you would like to attend at SC2021:
An introductory level semilab does 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.
Session 1: August 12-15
Introductory semilabs
- Daytime Astronomy, or What Astronomers Do During the Day, by Inna Sus
- Making Sense of Data: Hands-On Hypothesis Testing with Statistics, by Lilianne Mujica-Parodi
- Highlights of the Cryptographic Toolbox, by Adam Smith and Sofya Raskhodnikova (newly added!)
Intermediate semilabs
- The Curse of Recursion, by Oksana Ivashkevych
- Thermal Physics in the Kitchen, by Alexei Tkachenko
- Light: Classical and Quantum , by Daniil Lukin
- Robotics, by Sasha Kirillov
- Probability Тheory, by Alexei Borodin
- Bayesian Statistics, by Helmut Strey
Advanced semilabs
- Electromagnetism, by Boris Podobedov
- From Gene to Protein in 4 Days, by Evgenii Boriushkin
- Introduction to Quantum Invariants of Knots, by Yakov Kononov (newly added!)
- Design of Anti-COVID19 Drugs, by Mark Lukin
- Catalysis, by Eugene Pinkhassik
Session 2: August 16-19
Introductory semilabs
- Bacteria in Our Life: Friends, Enemies, Neighbors, by Elena Yakubovskaya
- From A to B: How to Find the Shortest Path and Lasso a Mountain, by Andrey Boris Khesin
- Highlights of the Cryptographic Toolbox, by Artem Krantsevich (newly added!)
Intermediate semilabs
- Microcontrollers: interfacing the world with sensors, buttons, LEDs, and motors, by Oksana Ivashkevych
- Thermal Physics in the Kitchen, by Alexei Tkachenko
- Forensic Science, by Eugene Pinkhassik
- Fun with Electronics, by Boris Podobedov
- Complex Systems, by Lilianne Mujica-Parodi
Advanced semilabs
- Modeling with Julia, by Helmut Strey
- Quantum Computing, by Alex Frenkel and Alec Douglas
- Theater Physics, by Nikita Nekrasov
- Sorting Through Magical Forest of Trees, Tries and Other Data Structures and Algorithms, by Yuri Salkinder
- Modern Computing for Games: the Optimal, the Parallel, and the Random, by Anar Amgalan
- Synthesis of Anti-COVID19 Drugs, by Mark Lukin