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• Ig Nobel Prize And How It Contributes To Science

  …riosity and creative thinking. For instance, the most popular Ig Nobel award this year was in Physics, for proving that cats can be considered both liquid and solid: the prize winner, Marc-Antoine Fardin studied photographs of cats in different curious vessels using mathematical calculations and formulas. According to the researcher, there can be no doubt that cats c…

  19.09.2017

• Developers Present Projects at Girls4Tech Hackathon

  …e, as it was all-female: it’s not often that the ladies are given the lead, especially in tech. We all tried to help each other, even to those who were our direct competitors. Winning and awards are all nice, but what’s most important to us is to solve the task,” – shares participant Yulia Antonova. All of the developed solutions, say the organizers, are viable …

  07.09.2017

• ITMO University Will Host 20th International Sol-Gel Conference

• ITMO Student Wins Sberbank Scholarship to Develop Neural Network for Investment Planning

  … customized solutions. Such a system might even reveal the clients’ hidden preferences that a consultant at the bank might not be able to discover,” – explains the scholarship winner. Development In the end, 12 winners were chosen to receive monthly scholarships for the next two years. Every six months the recipients’ mentors fr…

  04.09.2017

• Life in World of Resonances

  …he lecturers of the new Master's program are such renowned scientists as Nikita Averkiev and Evgeniy Terukov from the Ioffe Institute, as well as the recent Presidential Award winners Pavel Belov and Alexandra Kalashnikova from ITMO University. Students of the Faculty of Physics and Engineering In the course of two years of the new Master's program, its student…

  01.09.2017

• ITMO.GO: New Students Join the ITMO Family

  …jects, clubs, careers and opportunities that are open to ITMO’s first-year students. Everyone was also free to test their luck by filling out a form to take part in a raffle – winners took home ITMO-brand USB drives, portable chargers and hoodies. However, no student left the event empty-handed. In the “mega-student starter pack” that was given to all first-ye…

  31.08.2017

• ITMO’s Higher School of Lighting Design Enters PLDC's Top-5 Best Universities

  …athered representatives from 25 associations, 38 universities and institutes, and 66 partners from the lighting design industry. At each conference, the organizers announce winners of the PLDR (Professional Lighting Design Recognition) award, which aims to encourage the best experts and name the best practices and educational programs that contributed to the field…

  28.08.2017

• 'Almost in St. Petersburg': The Annual All-Russian Student Sports Camp in Yagodnoe

  …hich end people tend to peel a banana, and another conducted a survey about which sports activities they prefer. By the end of the camp, it was team Cascade that became winner by getting most points in all of the modules. According to the organizers, teams Vympel and Alpha also showed great results.  …

  24.08.2017

• Aleksandra Kalashnikova: We Need to Reconsider PhD Students’ Status

  …eal efficiency of measures we take for finding talents and supporting them. Lately, we've been working on the following idea: involving young scientists and Presidential Award winners in giving lectures about science in schools and universities. Yet, there are problems with it as well. First of all, it requires a lot of time. Also, giving lectures is an art of its ow…

  23.08.2017

• ICO-Hypethon: Will Bitcoin Take Over The World?

  …rector of CryptoPay, and many others. The prize pool for the event was contributed by ICO-angels who received special bonuses for it, including a 50%-discount on the hackathon winners' tokens. Why people like bitcoin During the two days of the event, the world's leading experts in cryptocurrencies made their presentations. Tom Weis, a renowned specialist in bit…

  21.08.2017