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Fighting Talk: Management Sparrings Participants Discuss their Experience
…rring is an intellectual duel of two contestants who play opposite roles in a pre-set conflict situation. The winner has to not only show their mastery of management skills by solving the dispute to their own benefit, but also remain on friendly terms with the opponent and maintain their good reputation. “It’s always interesting to observe how participants choos…
01.10.2018
Smart City VS Smart Citizens: Сoen Bergman on Conducting Efficient Public Research
… fight skepticism We often face criticism from the professional community: typically, specialists tell us that our sensors are ineffective and can’t give a true picture. We solve this problem by involving a greater amount of participants: the more people do measurements in different locations, the more objective the information is. Thanks to our collaboration with…
01.10.2018
Want to Be Successful in Business? Learn to Communicate
…was that they were aware of a communication issue within the team. It was important to me that these teams have already encountered problems and understood that they must be resolved; no technique will help those who don’t realize they’re in trouble. This was a pilot run. Was there anything surprising about working with startups? I worked with heads of star…
28.09.2018
Limitless Fashion: Developing Adaptive Clothing For The Disabled
…ower the cost of the final product. Nevertheless, our prices are still higher than those of the mass market, as it is custom tailoring clothing that we make. How do you solve financing problems? We created our first clothing for the Pavlovsk orphanage using our own funds. Then we found a sponsor: a friend of our project made a private donation. This money w…
27.09.2018
METANANO 2018: Professor Stefan Maier on Nanophotonics’ Key Tasks
…wo main objectives. Firstly, we are teaching a new generation of researchers. Personally, I believe that this is a most important task that many forget about. Secondly, we are solving a wide range of applied tasks. We believe that focusing light on an ever lesser scale will allow to use fewer materials. For instance, when speaking of photovoltaics, this means that we…
25.09.2018
Let Your Imagination Run Wild at this Tech Search-and-Rescue Solutions Contest
… distance of no less than 500 meters, taking high-resolution photos and videos of its surroundings and sending the footage back to Earth. There’s no right or wrong approach to solving both of the projects’ problems, participants are free to submit any solution they like to the jury's consideration, with the impressive prize fund serving as their motivation. While Goo…
21.09.2018
Young Scientists Share Experience from Sirius School in Sochi
…hers. In addition to lectures and workshops, the students took part in a hackathon, working on a commercialization plan for a technological product. Participants had to solve four tasks, two focused on perovskites: they had to decide which areas of industry are best suited for the material, and also develop a new method for application of perovskites over larg…
21.09.2018
Codeforces Founder Will Teach Web Development at ITMO
…redesigning the Codeforces platform to make it useful for those who are not interested in competitive programming? Codeforces was originally created for those interested in solving tasks and taking part in competitions. I don’t think that it needs redesigning. Codeforces is a social network for training and communication. Of course, in big cities, students hardly …
20.09.2018
Scientists Develop New Analysis Method of Non-Linear Optical Properties
…aller volume of optical energy,” explains Nikolay Petrov, one of the article’s authors and head of ITMO’s Laboratory of Digital and Display Holography. Reference: Time-resolved inline digital holography for the study of noncollinear degenerate phase modulation, N. V. Petrov, S. S. Nalegaev, A. V. Belashov, I. A. Shevkunov, S. E. Putilin, Y. C. Lin, and C. J. Ch…
19.09.2018
Master of Sports Anastasia Murzina: “Orienteering Helps Better Understand Multidimensional Space”