March 28-29, 2019, the All-Ukrainian competition of student research papers was held in the fields of knowledge and specialties. One of the winners in the specialty "Physics and Astronomy" was a student of Sumy State University, PMm-81 group, – Sukhomlin Maxim Igorevich. His work on the topic “Stochastic model of a self-similar regime of ice surface softening during friction” was awarded a diploma of III degree (supervisor - Professor of the Applied Mathematics and Complex Systems Modeling Department at SSU, Oleksii V. Khomenko ).