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Russian and Finnish Students Learn About Business Together with FIRST+
…program includes a series of workshops and actual project work, which is done on-site at our industrial partners’ facilities. Here, students can learn how to use the Canvas to solve business tasks.” Working process A total of 30 students are participating in the program – 15 from both Russia and Finland. In the very beginning, they are split into five groups …
22.03.2018
IT-evening for High Schoolers: Sports Programming, Evolutionary Algorithms and Genome Sequencing
… and that is a serious disadvantage of working for major companies. On teams participating in the world championship The teams’ level grows with each year; many train by solving the tasks from previous competitions, and progress greatly. Still, even if a team consists of very talented members, that doesn’t guarantee its victory. According to the champions, some…
21.03.2018
ITMO PhD Student on Doing Medical Modeling at University of Sheffield
Scientists Invent Method of Catching Bacteria with ‘Photonic Hook’
…f energy flow propagation." Such a method of control over particles movement is promising for optofluidics. This technology uses light beams to direct micro-streams of dissolved nano- and microparticles. This allows scientists to make micro-reactors on chips and to investigate, for example, bacteria, viruses or individual cells. “We are now going to make an…
16.03.2018
HR Hackathon: Making Things Easier for Employers and Employees
…sing any preferred medium – be it an online messenger, phone or syncing a meeting date to their calendars. Using machine learning to automate data collection, the project team solves the issue of having to fill out numerous forms and documents. The Courseburg team’s idea comes from the participants’ field of work – supplementary education. The team presented a…
12.03.2018
ITMO Programmers Make It to Google HashCode Finals
…rope, the Middle East and Africa participated in it. This year, some 5,000 teams of two to four members took part in the qualifying round. For each round, the teams have to solve a single task on optimization similar to those that Google specialists have to deal with on a regular basis. For instance, during the first HashCode, the participants had to come up with …
12.03.2018
Exchange Students from Brazil: 'They're Always Happy'
…gram. “It was a dream for me to come to Russia, because I am really interested in Mathematics and Informatics and I have heard of a genius who lives here, Grigori Perelman. He solved one of the seven most difficult maths problems in the world. He's still in St. Petersburg! Knowing that science in Russia is really strong, and that ITMO is excellent in photonics and ro…
09.03.2018
ITMO Scientists Study Properties of Terahertz Gauss-Bessel Beams
…ace along the beam’s propagation. The modeling was conducted by means of terahertz pulse time-domain holography. This method that is based on classical terahertz time-resolved spectroscopy allows to register two-dimensional distribution of the terahertz field’s complex amplitude, as well as conduct numerical computations of its propagation to an arbitrary plan…
05.03.2018
Science Slam: Dark Matter and Liquid Batteries for Electric Vehicles
…etic field called an anapole. Elisaveta Avdeenko, High-School Student From St. Petersburg It is common knowledge that cars pollute the air. Electric vehicles have almost solved this problem: they use less energy and emit less carbon dioxide than their conventional counterparts. But it’s not that simple. There are still some critical questions that need to be…
05.03.2018
5 Science News Now
…torage device charges in 20 seconds. A new hybrid energy storage device can be charged in less than half a minute. It employs aqueous electrolytes instead of flammable organic solvents, so it is both environmentally friendly and safe. It also facilitates a boosting charge with high energy density, which makes it suitable for portable electronic devices. AI sea slu…
05.03.2018