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• ITMO Researchers Team Up With French Scientists on New Type of Hybrid Nanoparticles

  …archers. After several meetings, the two scientific teams decided to combine their unique competencies in a joint project dedicated to the development of materials for cutting-edge nanophotonics devices. They’re not starting from scratch, either: the researchers already have produced some impressive results. The French team, for instance, were the first in the world …

  01.02.2018

• Blockchain Community Meetup: What Is Mining About?

  …s. So, my colleagues and I got the idea to create a community where specialists would get the opportunity to communicate with each other, and novices would be able to get knowledge straight from the source, without the need to resort to the many commercial and promotional sources that often provide incorrect information,” comments Dmitriy Plakhov. This is ho…

  31.01.2018

• ITMO Graduate Nadia Polikarpova on Working at MIT and UC San Diego

  …n interested in maths and I like it when everything is clean and verified. I went with that choice even though I knew very little what it was about, and had no background knowledge of it. Over time, I moved into the field of programming languages, although it’s not limited to just that. There are many theoretical aspects to it: how to express various ideas through…

  29.01.2018

• Here's How ITMO's New Academic Degree System Will Work

  …o implement a system in which a thesis board has a core – a permanent expert group including a chairman, two deputies and a secretary, who will be joined by experts whose knowledge is relevant to the thesis at hand. As we’ve already said, one of the key tasks right now is to outline and formalize strict and straightforward criteria for the list of scientific major…

  29.01.2018

• Celebrating Student's Day in 2018

  …ed this year’s award winners for their excellent public service. “Student’s Day is a celebration of being young, of those who have a creative spirit and a thirst for knowledge and discovery. This celebration is very old and it has ancient, historical roots. We are proud that St. Petersburg is known as the student capital of Russia: there are over 365,000 student…

  29.01.2018

• Neural Networks Can Identify Any Person’s Age

• 5 Summer Schools You Need to Apply for Fast

  …er of 2018, in the fields of physics, computer science or engineering, are eligible to participate. A mandatory requirement for all participants is fluent(or adequate) knowledge of English. Knowledge of French would also improve your chances. Funding includes a scholarship of 90 CHF a day, as well as reimbursement of travel expens…

  25.01.2018

• InfoWatch President Natalya Kaspersky: New Technologies Pose Cybersecurity Threats

  … smartphones, data centres, hosting services and other infrastructure, and software. This second group includes not only operating systems, but also IoT software, distributed ledgers such as Blockchain and banks' payment systems. According to Natalya Kaspersky, the USA is the only country in the world having technological sovereignty. Basically it means that the c…

  24.01.2018

• Generation Z: Who Are They?

  …nt for them to have a flexible schedule and an opportunity for growth. Please, tell us about your internship at BIOCAD. The aim of my internship is to gain some knowledge in the field of drug development. In addition, I develop solutions for improving the educational platform of the company. Now we are developing the content strategy and other strategically…

  23.01.2018

• ITMO Scientists' Collaboration with German and Swiss Colleagues Wins ERA.Net Research Grant

  … which are widely used for cell research, biomarker detection in medical diagnostics, and for pathogen analysis,” – say the researchers. It is also said that the new knowledge acquired as part of this project will later be included in the educational programs of the three universities involved in the project.…

  22.01.2018