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• ITMO Fellowship Stories: 'Science is Our Common Language'

  …l women in science, so, as they say, patriarchy is largely in women’s minds.  What’s next in science? Several years ago, I heard from Prof. Charles Townes (a Nobel Prize winner for lasers who gave a talk at Photonics West Conference in USA) that the next breakthroughs will be in biology and medicine. I agree. I would very much like an efficient cancer treatment…

  04.01.2018

• Seven Words that Describe ITMO in 2017

  … Forester, the robot that is saving the forest. Wirey-haired Seldon took 2nd place at RoboCup Asia-Pacific 2017 for his rendition of Adele’s “Rolling in the Deep” but the real winner was Forester who first won the national competition and then headed to Costa Rica for the World Robot Olympiad (WRO-2017) in November, where it took a gold medal in the Open Category’s S…

  29.12.2017

• ITMO’s Academic Council Wraps Up 2017

  … November, first-year students from ITMO took the first place in the Robotex-2017 competition, which has recently become Europe’s largest robotics competition. Robotex-2017 winners Residents of ITMO University technopark also brought home a number of awards from international competitions. Notably, ITMO’s resident company ATG Service Gene took first place in th…

  28.12.2017

• ITMO Programmers’ Death Star Project Wins Hackathon Prize

  …the St. Petersburg Mining University, while the first place was taken by the “Eastern District” team from the Mozhaysky Military Space Academy. Jury members expressed that the winners have provided correct results throughout the event and made no mistakes in none of the tasks, even providing the optimal solutions to two of them.…

  26.12.2017

• Seldon the Robot Takes Second Place at RoboCup Asia-Pacific 2017

• Things to Do in St. Petersburg this Weekend: December 22-23

  …s, is Ice Fantasy 2018, a grand exhibition of ice carvings depicting St. Petersburg’s major landmarks, legendary creatures and fairytale characters, created by a team of award-winning sculptors. The overall amount of ice spent on this grand show exceeds 180 tons; this year, the organizers offer to introduce various novelties that are still being kept secret.  For …

  22.12.2017

• More than Beauty: Winners of Mister ITMO 2018 on What It Takes to Win

• All-Russian NTI Engineering Competition: Young Engineers’ Budding Talent

  …ls at Sirius Finalists of the NTI competition will compete in nine tracks in Sochi, including ITMO co-curated "Nanosystems and nanoengineering" track. The remaining pool of winners of the qualifying stages will compete at the universities supporting the project in Moscow, as well as at different venues in Kazan, Tomsk, Vladivostok, Yekaterinburg and St. Petersburg…

  21.12.2017

• ITMO Student on Building Robots, Dancing with Nobel Winners and Being on Chinese TV

  …What was the seminar like? This was far from your usual conference. It went on for seven days; the emphasis, of course, was on the Nobel Prize winners’ speeches on the second-to-last day, but we’d had a lot of other scientific events. The format was unusual: they combined a poster session with on-stage presentations. The participants would answer questions about t…

  20.12.2017

• ITMO Students Develop AI to Combat Car Insurance Fraud

  … by helping identify swindlers, we’ve been doing something socially important,” comments Sergei Menshov. ITMO University students made it to the list of the competition’s winners, which granted them the opportunity to participate in the Russian Artificial Intelligence Forum.  At the forum, the young specialists got to listen to lectures by experts in the field o…

  19.12.2017