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• At the Intersection of Sciences: Bioinformatics Specialist Nikita Alexeev on Challenges of DNA Research

  … I work in computational biology and mathematics in biology. A very important area of research is bioinformatics, which has existed for about 40 years but has been especially prominent the last couple of decades. The Human Genome Project, which has recently been concluded, was a major initiative in this field and prompted its rapid dev…

  02.05.2019

• Vantage Point: Different Ways to Explore St. Petersburg

  …ots, as well as online. My new favorite is taking a Meteor hydrofoil boat to Peterhof. It departs from the Palace Embankment and takes you through the city, past the new Gazprom Arena stadium built for the 2018 World Cup, past Lakhta Center, the tallest skyscraper in Europe, into the Gulf of Finland and brings you right to the piers of Peterhof. It’s all imperial …

  01.05.2019

• Targeted Drug Delivery, Multidimensional Blockchain, and Vision Enhancement: ITMO University’s Young Scientists Win SIE Support Grants

  …. What makes this project unique is that it uses low-cost software, in the form of a smartphone and a smart watch/bracelet/etc., to ensure road safety. This project was prompted by the limits imposed by the existing active safety systems, such as the lack of individualized settings or context-based suggestions. A prototype version of the Android app has bee…

  30.04.2019

• Polytechnic Museum’s Curator Alexey Semikhatov: Logic and Math Help Us Predict the Unknown

  … This is the very idea that lies at the foundation of the famous story about Isaac Newton and the apple that, reportedly, fell on his head while the scientist moongazed and prompted Newton’s discovery of the law of gravity. It was then that two key things were made clear to the scientist: that the earthly and the celestial are one and the same and subject to the s…

  30.04.2019

• Talented School Students Awarded at ITMO University

  … Secure Information Technologies, shared with the winners of the competition about the Faculty and its mission. “The era of computers has brought along a myriad of compromises in the constant search for the best combinations of inconsistent factors: integrity, availability, and confidentiality of information. The increase in one of them leads to a decrease i…

  29.04.2019

• Master’s Degree ++ Conference: The Plenary Session in Review

  …or the creation of new and effective tools for the advancement of Master’s studies,” commented the Rector. Among the key focuses of the 2019 conference were the effective promotion and packaging of educational programs; interdisciplinarity as the creation and implementation of programs at the intersection of different scientific fields; the Soft-Hard-Digital ski…

  29.04.2019

• Green Campuses and Recycling: Sustainable Development by Youth International Forum at ITMO

  …Sustainable Development Goals and ITMO University The term “sustainable development” refers to the development that meets the needs of the present without compromising the ability of future generations to meet their needs. This definition emerged in the report by the World Commission on Environment and Development “Our Common Future” in 1987. In 2015, the UN pu…

  25.04.2019

• This Weekend in St. Petersburg: April 27-28

  …ive concert at The Right Place bar. Don’t dilly-dally with snatching yourself a ticket (from 2,500 rubles) if you want to attend, and get your vocal cords ready, for the event promises to be a good ‘un. The take-off is at 9pm. St. Petersburg. The Landscape Antiquity gods, mythical creatures, cats and grieving angels straight out of a Doctor Who nightmare: the a…

  24.04.2019

• The Magic of Russian May Holidays

• Exosuits, Career Guidance Bots, and Water Quality Analysis: Projects by Participants of Congress of Young Scientists