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Exploring North Rhine-Westphalia: St. Pete Startuppers Pitch to German Companies
…hat St. Petersburg plans to make changes to its transport system and replace all regular buses with electric buses. Another recent initiative has to do with using Big Data for solving the issue of municipal solid waste treatment.” The issue of waste treatment was among the problems that were brought up by the young entrepreneurs. Apart from that, they also o…
10.04.2019
ITMO-VK Competition Winners Receive Prizes and Bonus Exam Points
…e third time. Just as last year, school students of grades 7 to 11 who wished to participate needed only to join the competition’s official VK page, fill out a form, and begin solving the tasks. Almost the entire competition takes place within the social network, which, as practice shows, users find comfortable and easy. The participants tried their hand at six su…
09.04.2019
Water-Spraying Parasols and Smart Traveling Apparel: Projects by Teens in Tech
…the content on offer, as an example exclusively opting for music and audiobooks or music and movies, with the fee changing accordingly. By this the team aims to simultaneously solve several problems: the time limit that often comes with free access to music, as well as excessive advertising and high prices reigning supreme on most entertainment platforms out there. …
09.04.2019
University of Mexico’s Carlos Gershenson: Computers Are Telescopes With Which We Study Complex Systems
…e of other galaxies. It’s the same with computers. Before, we simply did not have the means to study processes with hundreds of thousands of variables. We could use math to solve differential equations, but the more variables they contain, the more difficult it is. Computers give us the ability to understand how various interactions lead to various behaviors. T…
08.04.2019
Professor Alessandra Bonoli on Ecodesign, Circular Economy and Life Cycle Thinking
…nted to adopt their experience and learn from the professors of one of Europe's oldest universities. I was particularly interested in the Transition Engineering approach to solving the issues of waste recycling in the food industry. For several months, Prof. Boloni and I worked on a project, wrote articles, and participated in conferences. Professor Boloni motivat…
05.04.2019
Startup Veteran on Beginners’ Common Mistakes: A Founder’s Main KPI is Staying Alive
…wo times, three times, and you’ll not even notice when it becomes a regular occurrence. Laziness. Unlike depression, laziness is a choice. As a manager and leader, I’d solve the issue of a lazy employee by talking to them and providing them with motivation. It is a founder’s task to explain why you do what you do: to investors, to friends, to coworkers. Remin…
05.04.2019
Moscow Claims ICPC Champion Title for Second Year in a Row
…resentatives of the University of Warsaw, Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology (MIPT), and Nanjing University. The team from University of Warsaw was the first to solve one of their problems and proceeded to stay at the top of the scoreboard for nearly the entirety of the event. The acting champions from Lomonosov Moscow State University broke into the t…
04.04.2019
ITMO’s Faculty of Physics and Engineering Launches a Projects Contest
…ry effective in terms of motivation and education of students. Unlike the routine and often templated lab work, projects imply a specific problem and various ways for it to be solved. In essence, what we give to the students is an opportunity to learn in an exciting and informative way,” explains the vice dean of the Faculty of Physics and Engineering Mikhail Mukhin.…
04.04.2019
ITMO University’s Master’s Degree Programs in 2019: Don’t Miss Your Opportunity
… institutes or stay in academia. Parallel to developing the students’ professional skills, we also hone their soft skills, which is a wide range of competencies that help them solve non-trivial tasks, navigate the goings-on of cutting-edge science and generate new scientific knowledge. These skills are in high demand everywhere, including at R&D centers of major comp…
03.04.2019
I am a Professional: Gold Medal Winners Share Their Experience
…ogy, cellular biology, and nanomedicine. The knowledge I got in my Bachelor’s years helped me with many tasks, but it was the experience I obtained at SCAMT that allowed me to solve the last task, a case for which they gave the most points. SCAMT focuses on nanomedicine and nanoparticles, and the task had a lot to do with the former. In the half of a year that I spen…
03.04.2019