After another heat wave in the end of August (up to +33 °C) the temperature rapidly dropped down to freakin' +7 °C. Night train, heavy rain in the morning. Venice of da North, damn it.

I fell asleep on two lectures - of the Deciphera guy, who apparently didn't show any single structural formula, and of our 8B Group Metal Lady Irina Beletskaya ( Read more... )

  I've got a ticket Moscow-Helsinki! Hope to hear all of these.

August 31, 200708:30 Chemical Probes of Carbohydrate Biosynthetic Pathways in Mycobacterium Tuberculosis ( Read more... )

I thought I should tell about the blog run by John C. Kotz, the head mentor of US team, emeritus professor of chemistry at the State University of New York, Oneonta. I've read it all (just 11 entries) for obvious reasons, smiled at the mild irony in some places, like "today we are "translating" the exam from Russian English into U.S. English". ( Read more... )

  To finish with the IChO ( previous post).

Please take a look at results, problems and solutions here. In short: #1 and #2 - China, #3 and #4 - Russia. China, Russia and Poland won 4 gold medals each, out of 4 people in the team. 31 gold medals total. BTW, international physics olympiad was in Iran, USA attended ( Read more... )

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