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Nearpod: Creating Interactive Classes for Students
…e of their orientedness at small groups. Increase in the amount of information and, what’s important, it’s availability. Classes are no longer the only source of knowledge, which makes involving students in the process more difficult. Use of online courses – online education becomes the norm, and EdTech – its forefront. Active use of online…
17.06.2020
StoryCorps: History Through Stories
…d right now and how many conflicts, arguments, and disagreements there are, the ability to pay attention to the opinions of others truly does seem crucial. This project acknowledges and embraces the diversity of the human race, thus letting us see various perspectives from people who are so unlike each other. Or are they really? If you’re interested in similar pro…
16.06.2020
ITMO University Among Top 15 Russian Universities in RAEX National Ranking
… scientometric indicators, and information from open sources. The main aim of the ranking is to evaluate universities’ ability to ensure the provision of high-quality knowledge, competencies and skills to their students, and to their graduates – a guarantee of successful employment and all the conditions favoring further career building. “The number of univ…
16.06.2020
ITMO University Hosts One of the Biggest Conferences on Control ECC 2020
…atured a broad range of plenary sessions. There were six reports from the world’s leading researchers, where they covered how control theories are integrated in different knowledge fields. Namely, there were reports about biological systems (Eduardo Sontag, USA), mathematical methods (Emilia Fridman, Israel), contemporary robotics (Stefano Stramigioli, the Netherland…
15.06.2020
ITMO Graduate Roman Yanalov on Working on a Self-Driving Car at Yandex
… job interview? For me, the job interview at Yandex was the hardest one of all I’d ever participated in. The first one was aimed at testing the breadth of my technical knowledge: there were questions both on programming and hardware. Its results defined the topics for face-to-face interviews where you had to write code on a piece of paper or on a board. Actually, …
15.06.2020
School Student from St. Petersburg Becomes First Author of Article Published in Leading Chemistry Journal
…ith various attributes that give hints on the material’s applications. The article was published on June 8, becoming a graduation gift for Veronika. “This is a full-fledged review that summarizes all existing literature on promethium,” says Mikhail Kurushkin. “Now this work has become an ideal source of information for anyone who decides to acquaint themselv…
11.06.2020
Collaboration and Openness Highlighted at ITMO University’s International Council Meeting
…ssociate director at the School of Geography & Development at the University of Arizona. “These three themes each contain initiatives that reflect the entrepreneurial, cutting-edge culture that is key to the ongoing success of ITMO.” The International Council members addressed several aspects of the new strategy, including the development of a specific action pl…
11.06.2020
This Stay-at-Home Weekend in St. Petersburg: Virtual Travel
…tory, learn about their structural features, and marvel at the breathtaking desert panoramas with this interactive tour. And if this hasn’t quite quenched your thirst for knowledge, here are five other virtual tours of Egyptian heritage sites, a vast collection of resources of Harvard University’s The Giza Project, as well as a 360-degree walk-through video of the gr…
10.06.2020
Digital Science: IT Solutions for Academic Writing
…re-publication statistical materials becomes very important. What’s more, a tendency that we now witness is that more and more research institutions aim to develop a full-fledged interconnected infrastructure inside their organizations: for example, they create repositories not only for storing all of the publications and research projects that are conducted by th…
10.06.2020
Scientific Seminars by ITMO’s Faculty of Physics and Engineering Are Now Available Online
…or some of the latter’s fragments. What’s more, unlike many open lectures and workshops which mostly cover general and well-known concepts, the seminars always discuss cutting-edge science that researchers are working on at this very moment. “This allows us to follow the latest achievements of our colleagues, and also give our staff, PhD and Master’s students t…
09.06.2020