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This Weekend in St. Petersburg: November 30 – December 1, 2019
…upon us, bringing with them an array of festive ads, fads, and winter fairs. DLT department store’s offering is one of this eyesore-inducing bunch, luring visitors in with its promises of glistening Xmas tree baubles, bountiful wreaths, elaborate cards, balmy candles, merry nutcrackers and ornate snow globes that are joined by mulled wine, gingerbread and chocolate i…
27.11.2019
What Cells Do When They Can’t Breathe
…ize Winners. Gregg Semenza identified a regulatory element, an enhancer (a short DNA region which, when bound by transcription factors, initiates transcription from a specific promoter in a gene or a number of genes — Ed.), which stimulates the synthesis of erythropoietin. At the very same time, Sir Peter J. Ratcliffe also got interested in the issue. It was late…
27.11.2019
ITMO’s Chess Team Places Second at World InterUniversities Championships in Croatia
…eam got a new manager, Ivan Zakharikov (third-year student at the Faculty of Food Biotechnologies and Engineering), who carries out the organization of tournaments at ITMO and promotes the club, runs its VK group, helps the members with competition applications and other paperwork. ITMO.NEWS met Ivan to find out what motivates him, a tennis player, to prompted it. First, the establishment of a laboratory specializing in machine learning at ITMO University, and second, my idea to develop software with the option of automated machine learning, which would allow any company to create neural networks and other smart models …
22.11.2019
ITMO University Physicists Discover Proof of Nobel Laureate Frank Wilczek’s Time Crystal Hypothesis
… distances. Two atoms placed next to each other will interact, but two atoms spaced far apart won’t even “sense” one another.” In 2014, a research team put forth a compromise: discrete time crystals, which only break the symmetry within a time scale set by a scientist. How does that work? A system of atoms is frozen to a near-absolute zero temperature. Then,…
22.11.2019
ITMO University and Gazprom Neft Launch New Scholarship Competition
…ty of Technological Management and Innovations, this is what initiated the establishment of a new scholarship competition organized by ITMO University in collaboration with Gazprom Neft. “Gazprom Neft and ITMO University have long been partners. Our organizations share a lot in common and we’re convinced that one can only master te…
21.11.2019
ScienceMedia Hackathon for Aspiring Journalists at ITMO University
…ents with a chance to work in a team under stress conditions. One of the goals of this project is to help students understand that science journalism is a very interesting and promising field to work in,” shares Alexey Itin, one of the project’s organizers. Results In the course of 24 hours, 15 teams created full-fledged multimedia longreads. First place …
19.11.2019
EmPaci: Russia Joins International Project on Implementing Participatory Budgeting
…do with citizens discussing and making decisions associated with allocating a part of a municipal or public budget. To put it simply, this is a process that allows citizens to promote initiatives and projects of their own (for example, projects on improving the social infrastructure, ecology or the quality of urban environment) that can then be financed and supported…
19.11.2019
ITMO University Representative to Be Part of Yandex Public Interests Foundation
…kady Volozh, CEO of Yandex, Tigran Khudaverdyan, Deputy Chief Executive Officer of Yandex, and Elena Bunina, CEO of Yandex in Russia. The Foundation will have the right to promote two of its representatives to the Yandex’s executive board. Members of the Foundation will also participate in negotiations on consolidation of 10% or more of voting or economic shares …
18.11.2019
Nanoblogging, Twitter Reincarnation and Instagram-Archives Monetization: Founder of Hello blogger On Current Digital Trends
…brand can afford it, and not every company has an opportunity to stand in line for 6-7 months waiting for a free spot. The second reason is celebrities themselves that kept on promoting random products. It was fairly recently that The New York Times published a great study on audience not trusting celebrities, and brands subsequently choosing not to work with them. …
18.11.2019