Soviet scientist says America just as expected
By PATRICIA PRUITT
"You know, nothing here strikes me as very new."
This is the reaction of a Soviet scientist on his first visit to the United States.
A slight blond man with gold- rim glasses and deliberate clipped English, Oleg F. Vasiliev told of his first impressions of the United States.
"RUSSIAN PEOPLE know American life better than Americans know Russian life. I know American life rather well. I have read, seen many American films."
KU is second on Vasiliev's agenda; Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) was the first stop on his two-month tour of 10 American universities.
He is an exchange scientist in the National Academy of Science program.
PRIMARILY a researcher, Vasiliev is head of the laboratory of Applied Fluid Mechanics, Institute of Hydrodynamics, at the Siberian Branch of the USSR Academy of Sciences.
He also teaches at the Novosibirsk State University.
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TODAY WITH 15 research institutes there, "for the short period of the center's operation, it has proved the purpose of its construction and has justified and surpassed the expenses of the construction."
IN CURRICULA and laboratory equipment, American and Soviet natural science departments "in general are the same." This statement was made after observing two American schools. He will see Iowa, Stanford, Berkeley, Johns Hopkins, Princeton, and New York campuses among others.
After a lecture on "The New Siberian Academy or Sciences," describing staff, fields of study, and construction of the Academy, he commented on comparison of American and Soviet schools.
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Although the academy had only nine students in 1959,600 people now staff the mathematics department alone.
The research centers are used as laboratories also, and are "favorable conditions for training."
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Vasiliev is director of hydrodynamics institute at the new Siberian Academy of Sciences near Novosibirsk. In 1959, the site of the academy was only forests and
Asked about Soviet concentration on science, Vasiliev replied, "Russian universities long ago had good tradition in humanities.
Vasiliev was appointed to a committee concerning an international science program with John S. McNown, distinguished professor of engineering, several years ago. The committee never met, but the two did correspond. McNown is Vasiliev's host during his KU stay and has found that their field of special interest, in hydraulics, are more similar than he thought.
five, six and seven years. Afterwards, only a small part continue in post-graduate," he added.
Certainly now, in our time and especially after the war, our government developed the study of sciences, which takes care of new fields of technique."
VASILIEV agreed with Roy Laird, associate professor of political science and a Soviet specialist, that there is a new push in social science study in the Soviet.
"Mathematics methods in economies are of large importance in my country," Vasiliev said. Thus, he said, new departments connect new fields of technique and sciences.
"Generally, your higher schools differ from ours. We have longer periods of undergraduate study—
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Tuesday, October 18, 1966
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