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• SNAC-2019: Summer School on Nonlinear and Adaptive Control Brings Together Young Scientists From Around the World

  … a way that we get the best quality of sound from a device, the most comfortable movement in unmanned vehicles, and so on. All this stands on the fundamental mathematical knowledge about which the experts spoke during the School. On the third day, for example, we had lectures about physical systems that explained how we can make robots better, faster, and more effici…

  07.06.2019

• ITMO University’s UniFEL Center Staff to Conduct New Research at European XFEL

  … at the creation of the world’s largest free-electron laser intended for solving a wide range of tasks in both fundamental and applied research, including medicine and cutting-edge technology. Costing over a billion euros, the project was developed at the DESY research center in Germany between 2009 and 2017. Co-sponsored by several countries including Russia, which …

  06.06.2019

• Education For Everyone: Global Experts Discuss Future of Open Education

• Participants and Organizers on New Russian-German Exchange Program

  … am Tower Heiner Janik Haus (“Meeting Point by the Tower”). According to its organizers, the program’s key goal is to expand the participants’ horizons, to acquire new knowledge and meet new people. “The other side of culture” offers its students an opportunity to look at the world from a different standpoint, attain a better level of understanding and open-minded…

  04.06.2019

• Konstantin Zaytsev, One of Top-5 Young Russian Scientists in Systems Biology, on Systems Biology in Russia

  … you choose to not focus on industrial programming but got interested in science, namely systems biology? I think my main motivation is the opportunity to generate new knowledge. Actually, I have quite a story with biology. I graduated from a lyceum with a focus on physics and mathematics, and I didn’t have a teacher who would’ve shown me that biology is indeed an…

  31.05.2019

• InnoCamp: How Russian and Finnish Students Reinvent Old Spaces

  …tayed from May 12 until May 17. According to Elena Gavrilova, the head of ITMO’s Entrepreneurship Center, participation in the project allowed the students to acquire new knowledge, skills, and international experience as well as expand their portfolio and international connections. InnoCamp’s mentor team included Erik Kristiansen, a Danish entrepreneur, Dr. Neal …

  31.05.2019

• Summer Festivals in St. Petersburg

  …shed on the site of today’s St. Petersburg in a historic battle. Eight centuries later, historical reenactors take over the Peter and Paul Fortress in a recreation of a full-fledged knights’ tournament complete with melee, jousting, battling, and a medieval crafts fair. VK Fest July 20-21, 300th Anniversary of St. Petersburg Park The 2019 VK Fest will be the…

  28.05.2019

• Mile of Technology Contest in Ilmenau: ITMO Team Emerges Third in Drone Race

  …itions like this one is a great opportunity to practice a wide range of skills. “Unlike standard academic competitions which are more focused towards theoretical knowledge, here you can do something practical and master a lot of nuances as a result. I can compare it to learning a foreign language: it’s really hard at first, but eventually you progress and ri…

  27.05.2019

• ITMO Scientists Make First-Ever Measurement of Nonlinearity in Terahertz Frequency Range

  …the nonlinearities it causes using rare equipment available at ITMO University. We adapted the method for measuring nonlinearity in order to use the existing experimental knowledge as efficiently as possible,” adds researcher Maksim Melnik from the Laboratory of Femtosecond Optics and Femtotechnologies at ITMO University. Reference: High Kerr nonlinearity of wa…

  27.05.2019

• Magic of Light Exhibition in Shanghai: The Dazzling Results

  …ation of what holography is. I did a survey before and after the class, and then sent in another one a week later. The resulting data showed the dynamics of the students’ knowledge levels. I plan to conduct a similar study in Russia with local school kids, too,” shares Daniil Sharov. Statistics On average, the exhibition attracted some 4,000 people on a daily…

  24.05.2019