Home / About MPEI / NewsCeremony of Gifting Gömböc to MPEI17.12.2020 15 December, 2020, Konkoly Norbert, Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of Hungary in Russia, Anita Hegyi, Head of the Hungarian Cultural Centre and Sandor Kozlov, Attache on Culture and Sport of the Embassy visited MPEI. The delegation was met by Alexander Tarasov, Vice-rector on International Relations of MPEI, Sergey Shirinskii, Head of International Administration, and representatives of the Department of International Relations. In the framework of the visit, an individual model of gömböc was gifted to MPEI. This model has a special serial number - G1930 and is a special present for the 90th anniversary of MPEI. A gömböc is a body that is mono-monostatic, i.e. has only two points of equilibrium, one unstable as a sphere and one that is stable like a tilting doll. The gömböc was first conjectured by Russian mathematician Vladimir Arnold in 1995 and realized in 2006 by Hungarian scientists Gabor Domokes and Péter Várkonyi. The reception was attended remotely by Nikolay Rogalev, Rector of MPEI, Andrey Kondrat, Rector’s Assistant and of the gömböc creators Gabor Domokes. The sides congratulated each other and expressed the will to extend the collaboration in the future. MPEI has become the owner of the second gömböc in Russia. The first one is set in the Steklov Institute of Russian Academy of Science. Gömböc official website Photos 1 and photos 2 Создан в 18.12.2020 1:32 пользователем: Желковский Артём Андреевич Изменен в 18.12.2020 1:32 пользователем: Желковский Артём Андреевич News 27.03.2024MPEI delegation opens new horizons of cooperation with China22.03.2024MPEI branch in Dushanbe celebrated Nowruz holiday19.03.2024MPEI foreign students took part in the World Youth Festival18.03.2024Ministry of Higher Education of the Republic of Cuba at MPEI18.03.2024MPEI at the Russia-Cuba Intergovernmental Commission18.03.2024Spring Meeting of BRICS Network University International Thematic Group on Energy14.03.2024MPEI awarded the title “MPEI Honorary Professor” to the President of the Union of Chinese Entrepreneurs in Russia11.03.2024Training of the ETALON students at the North China Electric Power University04.03.2024International Conference "Integration Processes in Scientific,Technical and Educational Space"29.02.2024Meeting of MPEI graduates from China