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• Three Monsters of Thinking: ITMO Holds a Lecture on Evidence-Based Policy As Part of Hard Core Philosophy Project

  …resources. And, thirdly, it must, of course, be approved by society. How is the issue of efficiency viewed in science? The traditional decision-making theory distinguishes between two approaches: thinking-based or speculative and evidence-based. It should be noted that the first method is now considered obsolete, and all modern science is based on data and facts. …

  18.01.2021

• ITMO Students Can Receive Funding to Participate in Online Educational Events

  …t your results. Tips for future applicants I’d like to give several tips. Firstly, you should apply in advance and check the deadlines, as there are often several weeks between the last day for submission and the first day of classes. Secondly, before the school begins, determine your aim and write down the questions you would like to receive answers to during …

  15.01.2021

• CES 2021 Presents: High-Tech Face Masks, Transparent Screens and Flying Cars

  …le for the wow-factor this year: the company presented several of its mind-blowing plans, the main one being flying electric vehicles, which will give their users quick rides between skyscrapers.   In fact, the Cadillac eVTOL car is a single-seat electric vertical takeoff and landing drone with four rotors powered by a 90-kilowatt-hour electric motor, which is muc…

  15.01.2021

• Winter Activities to Try in St. Petersburg: Newbie's Guide

  … clothes or an athletic body are required to feel the magic of ice (maybe a bit of luck and your friend’s assistance if you learn it from scratch).The prices of a ticket fall between 150 and 500 rubles, excluding skates renting. If you’re a lucky owner of a pair of skates, search for hockey areas near your house called ‘korobka’ to skate for free and without time lim…

  15.01.2021

• ITMO students Took Home Prizes at the Regionals of the Professional Skills Championship

  …ills movement.   Arseniy Shpilevoy Student of the Faculty of Secondary Vocational Education Gold medal in the "Development of mobile applications" category, the gap between the 1st and the 2nd place — 36 points. I became interested in mobile development in 2020 and followed hackathons and other events from this field. When we were offered to participate …

  14.01.2021

• New Project Defense Format: Study Physics and Improve Soft Skills

  …g Bottles. We investigated vibrations in gurgling bottles. There is nothing complicated here, just bottles. We aimed to study coupled oscillators, that is, the interaction between oscillatory systems, using the example of bottles. This is an important topic as vibrations are everywhere: the flickering of fireflies, applause in theaters, or the heartbeat of ducks f…

  14.01.2021

• Student Spotlight: Julianne Gomez, Cuba

  …, but ITMO was the one that caught my attention for its prestige, its education system, and its location. As a child, I had visited St. Petersburg through an exchange program between the Cuban Embassy in Moscow and a solidarity organization in St. Petersburg. We stayed with Russian families, shared dinner and walks, and I was impressed with their hospitality. Despite…

  14.01.2021

• What Are Medical Humanities and Why Do We Need Them

  …he USA and the UK, when courses in history, literature and philosophy were introduced into the educational program for medical students. Before that, there was a clear divide between the humanities and natural sciences – it was believed that they belong to different camps, do not overlap in any way and therefore do not pose any interest for each other. How are…

  13.01.2021

• Eight ITMO Scientists Receive Presidential Grants

  …ions for the treatment of a patient. We plan to systemize heterogeneous data on patients with SARS-CoV-2. It includes сomputed tomography and x-ray images processed by neural networks and the processing of multimodal clinical information via machine learning. If the project will be implemented successfully, we hope to determine correlations between a dwarf planet and an asteroid is in the spherical shape while the two types of planets can be differentiated by the presence of other space bodies in their orbits.    At the same tim…

  11.01.2021