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• ITMO’s Intelligentsia Culture Club: Be Kinder to Others and Never Fear Change

  …versations these days, but when it does come up, it’s usually meant to allude to intellectuals who work in education and are connected to the creation and distribution of knowledge. For this interview, I caught up with Karina Mavletbaeva, the head of Intelligentsia and a soon-to-be Bachelor of Food Biotechnologies.  Let’s start from the very beginning. How did …

  10.03.2020

• Business Model Canvas Week: Students from Russia, Finland, and Germany Join Forces on Sustainable Business and Recycling

  …e the beginning of the work, we have conducted a field research: we’ve been looking for the information on the reform and the real situation in Russia. We want to use the knowledge that international participants will share with us. Kristina Goliakov, second year Master’s student at University of Helsinki, The Aleksanteri Institute, Russian Studies program …

  10.03.2020

• ITMO University Students Participate in Training on Oil Production Simulators Used by Gazprom Neft

  …azprom Neft Corporate Center. “To that end, we don’t only showcase new training methods – this is only part of our events program; we have connected the university to our knowledge portal which contains 32 targeted training courses for extracurricular activities.” Demonstrating the simulators allows the staff of Gazprom Neft to simultaneously showcase the ab…

  10.03.2020

• IEEE Scholarship recipient Anna Kuzikova: Science is What Drives Self-improvement

  …. In any case, once a professor told us that all conferences look like this: there is a number of people who are the founders of this or that topic, they are at the cutting edge of science. They are followed by a large number of people who work in a laid-out direction. In ten years, I would like to be at that edge, I would like to de…

  06.03.2020

• ITMO University Launches an Art Residency for Innovative Projects in the Field of Art & Science

  …ters and milling machines that is available at ITMO University’s FabLab. Artists working in the field of bioart will get the opportunity to work at the university’s cutting-edge research laboratories, including in collaboration with ITMO scientists working in the field of robotics, optics, photonics, and IT.  “Such collaborative work will contribute to increa…

  06.03.2020

• ITMO University Launches Laboratory of Genomic Diversity

  …f different animals. “There are many animals whose genomes are yet to be collected,” explains Aleksey Sergushichev, the head of the Laboratory of Genomic Diversity. “Knowledge about their genome and understanding of their population history can also give us something for comprehension of human genetics. In recent years, several international projects have been c…

  05.03.2020

• ITMO Scientists Develop an Algorithm That Makes the Inference of Population History Models for People and Animals Easier and More Accurate

  … also restrictions imposed by the researcher’s choice of the model itself.” Therefore, the process of demographic history inference was long and required specialized knowledge and skills both in programming and genetics. But most importantly, the final result very strongly relied very heavily on the researcher’s initial hypothesis. “The scientist’s work con…

  04.03.2020

• ITMO University’s Personal Development Center Launches a Course on Team Creativity

  …ptimise them, what is a customer-oriented approach and how to develop it. The participants experience these notions first-hand as part of a game and can then channel this knowledge into their processes and implement it into their lives.” As per the organizers’ idea, the participants will go all the way from setting an objective and forming an initial idea to pre…

  03.03.2020

• Over Twenty ITMO University Students Win Potanin Scholarship Contest

  …ed to move into this field. I’m enjoying everything, but this approach takes up a lot of time and energy, because parallel to the new program I have to fill in gaps in my knowledge. I needed the scholarship to be able to learn for as much time as necessary without other things distracting my attention.  As my piece of advice I’d say that the onsite round is a team…

  02.03.2020

• Song of the Month: February 2020

  …erson.  Not only does this song include the answer to life, the universe and everything in the title, but it has a beautiful crossover between a classic melody and the knowledge of a contemporary thinker. …

  28.02.2020