We Invite you to take part in the International Round Table
titled «International scientific and academic cooperation in addressing urgent problems of natural sciences and humanities to achieve the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals»
Location: Almaty, Al-Farabi KazNU,
Al-Farabi Library, 409 hall.
Date: September 12, 2024.
Time: 15:00.
Dear Colleagues!
The Faculty of Biology and Biotechnology invites you to take part in the Round Table, which will discuss the prospects of international scientific and academic cooperation to solve urgent fundamental and applied problems of natural and human sciences and stimulate the development of broad cooperation to achieve the UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs).
The objective of the round table: to discuss the prospects of scientific and academic cooperation between scientists of Michigan State University (USA) and Al-Farabi KazNU (Kazakhstan).
Foreign guests of the roundtable: leading professors of the Center for European, Russian and Eurasian Studies at Michigan State University (MSU).
MSU - is a public university in the United States, one of the nine largest universities in the country. It is located in East Lansing, Michigan. Currently there are more than 50 thousand students, including doctoral students. The number of professors and researchers - 5 thousand. The university's trust fund is 4.4 billion dollars. The university has more than 200 academic programs. Programs in nuclear physics, engineering, political science, business, journalism, and education are considered among the best in the United States. The university campus occupies 21 km² with 556 buildings, 42 km of roads and 160 km of sidewalks. In 2007, the university opened a branch in Dubai.
Volodymyr Tarabara - Professor, Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Michigan State University. Qualifications: water treatment, reverse osmosis, desalination water treatment, membrane fabrication, coagulation-flocculation, membrane processes. Director of the Center for European, Russian and Eurasian Studies, MSU; Editor-in-Chief, “Journal of Environmental Engineering”, ASCE; Editor, “Separation and Purification Technology”, Elsevier.
Steven G. Pueppke - Professor, Department of Plant, Soil and Microbial Sciences, MSU; Professor, Center for European, Russian and Eurasian Studies, MSU. Member of the Board of Directors of the MSU Center for Canadian Studies from 2009 to present, Chair of the Experiment Station Committee of the National Association of State Universities and Land Grant Colleges from 2009 to present; Member of the Editorial Board of "Water", MDPI, Switzerland.
Graham Norman - Professor of International Relations at the James Madison College of Public Affairs and the Center for European, Russian and Eurasian Studies at MSU. His current research focuses on industrial and technological development in the European Union, as well as the political economy of transition and environmental policy in Central Asia and the Caucasus. He has published eight books and over a hundred articles.
Moderator:
Kurmanbayeva Meruyert Sakenovna - Dean of the Faculty of Biology and Biotechnology of Al-Farabi Kazakh National University, Doctor of Biological Sciences, Professor.
PROGRAMME
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Time |
Speech topic |
Speaker |
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15:00 |
Welcome speech
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Tuimebayev Zhanseit Kanseituly - Chairman of the Board - Rector of al-Farabi Kazakh National University, Doctor of Philological Sciences, Professor.
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15:10 |
Signing ceremony of the Memorandum of Understanding and Cooperation between MSU and Al-Farabi KazNU |
Tuimebayev Zhanseit Kanseituly - Chairman of the Board - Rector of al-Farabi Kazakh National University, Doctor of Philological Sciences, Professor.
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15:15 |
Current MSU research in Environmental Engineering (separation processes, membrane filtration, water purification, virus removal, etc.). |
Volodymyr Tarabara - Director of the Center for European, Russian and Eurasian Studies, MSU; Professor, Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, MSU; Editor-in-Chief, “Journal of Environmental Engineering”, ASCE; Editor, “Separation and Purification Technology”, Elsevier (East Lansing, USA).
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15:25 |
Current MSU research on ecology and nature management issues |
Steven G. Pueppke - Professor Emeritus - Professor, Department of Plant, Soil and Microbial Sciences, Michigan State University; Professor, Center for European, Russian and Eurasian Studies, MSU. Member of the Board of Directors of the Center for Canadian Studies at MSU. |
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15:35 |
Energy, Environment and Geopolitics in Eurasia; Search for Security in the Water-Energy-Food Nexus |
Norman Graham - Professor of International Relations at the James Madison College of Public Affairs and the Center for European, Russian and Eurasian Studies at MSU (East Lansing, USA). |
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15:45 |
The importance of perennial wheat cultivation in addressing SDGs |
Kurmanbayeva Meruyert Sakenovna – |
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15:55 |
The Potential of the Department of Turksoy in the Development of Medieval Turkology |
Egamberdiev Mirzakhan Sharipbaevich - Head of the Department of Turksoy of Al-Farabi Kazakh National University, candidate of historical sciences, associate professor. |
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16:05 |
The importance of hydrology research in achieving the SDGs. |
Nysanbaeva Aiman Sagynbaevna - Head of the Department of Meteorology and Hydrology, Al-Farabi Kazakh National University, candidate of geographical sciences, associate professor |
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16:15 |
Capacitive deionization: Perspective technology for water treatment |
Alexander Yurievich Zakharov – Deputy Head of the Laboratory of Functional Nanomaterials, Institute of Combustion Problems (Almaty, Kazakhstan) |
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16:25 |
Implementation of the 17 SDGs in higher ed: case on Al-Farabi KazNU |
Issayeva Zhansaya Sakenovna - Director of Ban Ki-moon Institute for Sustainable Development of al-FarabiKazakh National University. |
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16:35 |
Discussion |
Participants of the round table. |
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