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Student Life on the French Riviera: ITMO Exchange Experience
… started to look into the activities of ITMO University’s International Office and helped out with organizing different events. In the course of ITMO International Days in the summer of 2016, I spoke to representatives of various universities; this experience was the main influence on my decision about which foreign university I would go to for my long-term visit. In…
24.08.2017
Telegram For Geeks: Channels for Those Fond of Science
…, shares educational images and videos and shows experiments. Yet, its most useful feature is that it can provide you with information on request - be it the periodic table or summaries of lectures on particular topics. Chess Bot Russian language Last but not least, the bot that can help you train your brains by playing chess. Surely, it won't give you any s…
23.08.2017
"In English, Please": De-Jargonizer Helps Make Science Accessible
…rgonizer. Credit: scienceandpublic.com Authors have tested De-Jargonizer on 500 articles from PLOS’s various journals. For their research, the scientists used abstracts and summaries that are usually intended for a wider audience. Results show that abstracts of biology articles contain up to 10 percent of rare words, while the summar…
21.08.2017
ITMO Students Take Part In Experimental Interaction Design Summer School
…d together with students from Brazil, Estonia and South Korea. "We spent the second week in the laboratory, where we turned our ideas into real devices. This stage of the summer school was new to us, and I have to say it was most interesting. During the whole course of the summer school, the university's professors gave lectures an…
18.08.2017
Dave Vasquez: We Need To Start Teaching Entrepreneurship Back In School
…ear I became a mentor for the program they collaborate with MIT on - MIT Global Startup Labs, as well as work with students from South Korea as part of the SumIT international summer school. The startup movement in Russia is quite young; ITMO University was one of the first in Russia to launch programs for supporting novice entrepreneurs. Yet, in many universities…
17.08.2017
ITMO & Australian Scientists Contribute to Latest Nanophotonics Review
…ps, nanoscale optical modulators first need to be created, and this is one of the topics of the new review that will be published in Laser&Photonics Reviews. Apart from summarizing the literature on this subject, the review's authors also mentioned their own contribution to this field. For instance, in 2015 ITMO University scientists showed that it is possible…
16.08.2017
Ecological Raids: International Ecocamp at Yagodnoe
…s here I learned how to row a boat. Marta Lucia Dominguez Pata, Spain I wanted to learn more about working with ecological initiatives here. I participated in other summer ecological camps before. This camp at Yagodnoe is different because there are people from different countries so it’s quite a “mix” of cultures. We spent two weeks here and really became…
15.08.2017
SHA2017: Summer Camp for Hackers
DemoDay: Projects from MIT Global Startup Labs and SumIT Startup School
…n Russia and South Korea. He emphasizes that the Korean side is interested in continuing their partnership with ITMO University and plans to bring other startups to SumIT Summer School next year. There are also plans to organize trips for Russian startup teams to South Korea to provide them with a similar experience. The winner of the SumIT program is the sta…
11.08.2017
Project Session at Sirius: Implants, Security and Nano-Shampoo