Since 2011 , there has been active cooperation with the group of Professor Vladimir Grigoryevich Calm from the Institute of K. Weierstrass in Berlin. In particular, JCM and MF 2015, IFAC 2020.
Active cooperation for more than 10 years has been conducted with the winner of the Danzig and von Neumann Prizes, Professor Yuri Evgenievich Nesterov from the Catholic University of Louvain-la-Neva. So, together with Yu.E. Nesterov, a new concept for multi-stage modeling of traffic flows was developed. Its fundamental difference from all existing analogues is the presence of theoretical guarantees of convergence of the proposed numerical procedure for finding equilibrium. In addition, estimates of the convergence rate are obtained, which are apparently not generally improvable.
A regular internship channel has been established with Martin Takac, the most active youth. The channel is still active at the moment. More than 5 internships of laboratory staff are planned for the 2022-2023 academic year alone. Based on the results of such internships over the past academic year, more than 10 scientific articles were prepared, some of which were held on ICML2022 and NeurIPS2022.
Good relations and cooperation with colleagues from America remain: Gesualdo Scutari, Angelia Nedich, Cesar Uribe; France — Adrien Taylor, Canada — Gathier GIdel and a number of other countries.
A certain part of the staff eventually goes abroad and settles in good research centers. For example, one of our main co-authors Pavel Evgenievich Dvurechensky has just chosen such a trajectory and is successfully building a career in Berlin. Our team's reputation among colleagues is quite high, we have the recommendation received based on the results of work in the team. However, in our opinion, there are not so many research centers in the world today that would have the same high concentration of talented young people and the same opportunities for growth as we currently have.
Young employees (undergraduates, graduate students), in case of proper activity, earn no less than they would have in the industry. At the same time, they may freely choose their path and what exactly to do. The trajectory is based on the fact that they can do pure science, write articles, monographs, take up industrial projects, teach a lot if you like it. The proportions with which each employee of the team determines his involvement in a particular activity is determined by himself. Based on these proportions and the quality of work, the salary is calculated.
A number of young employees already manage small teams themselves and distribute their existing budgets in connection with this or that activity. Competition (with Western teams and internal) and, of course, a friendly atmosphere create a unique environment for development and growth. There is a constant exchange of experience. To get up to speed, as a rule, it turns out in a semester, a little less often — in a year. After a year of work, we can expect the first scientific results, the number of which, as a rule, grows exponentially in the first years of work. For example, there are employees in the laboratory who have just completed the 6th course, but already have 20-30 publications, including at the world's leading conferences such as ICML and NeurIPS.
The research team is also open to cooperation with colleagues from Russia and believes that such ties should be strengthened.