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
Cryptography, as most people know, has the answers to life's most important questions. How can we share a secret with 100 people so that any 50 of...
In this semilab, we will teach a small robot to find its way from a maze!
Along the way, we will learn a variety of valuable techniques,...
Bacteria. We meet this word every day in our life. Most information tells us mainly that there are a lot of very nasty little creatures around us...
Data are used to answer some of the questions we care about most, driving national policy in health, economics, education, and law. But, in...
Everyone knows the shortest path between point A and point B is a straight line, but what if you live on a cube, on a sphere, or in a strangely...
So, what do astronomers actually do during the day? Different projects will help us to answer this question. We will talk about what to look at (...
Cryptography, as most people know, has the answers to life's most important questions. How can we share a secret with 100 people so that any 50 of...
Think for a moment how much electric lights, computers, the internet, and cell phones matter to us today. These and the many other inventions...
“Every contact leaves a trace” is a famous exchange principle formulated by Dr. Edmond Locard, the founder of world’s first police crime...
This Semilab will walk you into the world of programmable electronics using an Arduino microcontroller, how to assemble your own simple electric...
What comes to your mind when you think about Physics? Perhaps Newton’s Laws, or Relativity Theory, or maybe Electromagnetism and Quantum Mechanics...
The semilab is designed to provide a brief introduction to computational modeling of "complex systems," both biological and non-biological, that...
Computer science is all about algorithms. And hardly any of them is as mind-blowing as recursion. In this Semilab, I intend to make the recursive...
If you toss three fair coins, what is the probability they all show the same, either all Heads or all Tails? Here is an argument from a Victorian...
Although light is all around us and we rely on it constantly to interact with the world, this experience gives us little intuition about what...
In this semilab, I will introduce Bayesian Data Analysis. In Bayesian Analysis, we attempt to ask practically relevant questions of data that...
This semilab will introduce some basic principles behind electric circuits and will guide students in building a few fun ones. We will start from...
What comes to your mind when you think about Physics? Perhaps Newton’s Laws, or Relativity Theory, or maybe Electromagnetism and Quantum Mechanics...
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...
In 1981, Feynman proposed that computers taking advantage of complex quantum phenomena could simulate processes beyond the reach of their...
In this semilab, I will introduce Julia as a programming language for scientific computing. We will explore why Julia walks like python and runs...
Knot theory has a rich and interesting history. The original purpose was to distinguish knots which cannot be transformed to each other by...
During this semilab, we will be studying the structure of one of the most important proteins of the virus SARS-CoV2, the pathogen that causes...
Catalysts are magic molecules that speed up chemical reactions. How do they work? And most importantly, how does it feel speeding up or enabling...
Theater physics -- a novel cross-disciplinary semi-lab, connecting natural sciences, sociology, and arts. One important question occupying the...
Do you know which of the sorting algorithms is behind the sort() method in your favorite programming language? Do you know what is under the hood...
We will study the most fun things mankind has invented: games, using some of its most powerful achievements: mathematics and computing. We will...
We will be synthesizing some precursors that may be used for the subsequent development of anti-COVID-19 drugs. To this end, we will be using some...