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• Research is an Ongoing Process: ITMO Fellow Dmitry Glazov on Studying Dark Matter

  …l tools that we use every day. There was a time when electricity, magnetism, radio waves, and radiation were of interest only to physicists.  Why did you decide to become a scientist? I’ve been interested in physics since I was a kid; it was my favorite subject at school. Therefore, I enrolled in the Faculty of Physics of St. Petersburg State University, where …

  23.01.2024

• ITMO Scientists Devise High-Speed Area Scanners for Security and Missing Person Searches

• ITMO, HTML Academy and Yandex To Host Contest for Frontend Developers

  …ndex will evaluate the provided solutions using a set of criteria of their own. Finally, ITMO University will check the accuracy of submitted projects and evaluate them from a scientific point of view.  “This frontend development contest is a one-day tournament where participants will be solving actual industry tasks, rather than completing singular puzzle-like …

  18.01.2024

• Student Spotlight: Zoalfkar-Ali Deeb, Syria

  …capital city, now for many years. Please tell us more about yourself. I am a student at ITMO now, but I graduated about 11 years ago from the Higher Institute of Applied Science and Technology in Syria, majoring in the field of IT and programming. Then, I started working and after almost 10 years of being employed, I decided to do my Master’s and I chose Russia…

  18.01.2024

• This Week in St. Petersburg: January 18-24, 2024

  …shwin, Fly Me to the Moon by Bart Howard, Sing, Sing, Sing by Louis Prima, and, of course, Moonlight Serenade by Glenn Miller.  Monday, January 22 Exhibition: Social Science by Andrey Shatilov Until March 3, 11 am - 11 pm, except for Tue Erarta Museum 1,000-3,000 (includes an annual pass) No, it’s not another class, but rather Andrey Shatilov…

  17.01.2024

• ITMO’s Monday Science Roundup: 2023 Recap

  …r, which detailed the use of ML and AI tech in next-gen devices, is part of an academic foray into the novel field of metaphotonics. Read more: Metaphotonics Review by ITMO Scientists Among Top 1% Most Cited Papers And just this past fall, one of the university’s research teams thrilled our imaginations with their new metamaterial, which they believe can help s…

  15.01.2024

• Russian Words Even Native Speakers Find Tricky

  …y things that blow my mind about the Russian language, the one I find most mesmerizing are words that have two contradictory meanings – or contronyms as they are called in the scientific world. Though the phenomenon isn’t distinctive and has its tricky parts (aka context dependence and connotation), I love how the word перл can mean both “something noticeably better …

  09.01.2024

• ITMO to Host Second Mega School – Winners Get into Master’s Programs Without Exams

  …eir results to a jury. The event takes place online.  This year, the school will be held on February 14-16. On the first day, students will attend talks by the university’s scientists on such topics as AI development, building a career in science, attracting funding for a startup, and using neural networks in their work. Then, on …

  09.01.2024

• Best Activities to Kickstart Your Brain After Holidays

  …on go wild. For proof, look no further than this account from one of our writers, who spent a week writing every day – and found it highly enlightening. Read also: The Science of Hobbies: Six Relaxing Activities You Should Try … and simply having fun Last but not least, sometimes it’s important to go even further and let yourself simply have fun. …

  08.01.2024

• Everything You Need To Know About Mathematics Behind Internet

  …Though the internet may seem like a chaotic, ever-expanding network, scientists managed to find patterns in the way its websites and pages interact with one another back in the 1990s. To decode it in a single system, the researchers used a webgraph, which describes direct links between websites – hyperlinks, to be exact – regardless of their content, design, and t…

  05.01.2024