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• Light Games: the First Russian Lights Festival “LumiFest” Coming to St. Petersburg

  …festival “Fête des lumières.”   What is light installation? It is an original technical solution, which reveals some unusual aspects of common things assigning them a specific meaning. However the question is how this installation affects us. Personally I visited more than 15 festivals but I remember only 3 or 4 the most interesting installations. How mu…

  15.09.2015

• ITMO University Researchers Train Transdisciplinary Experts

  …ave to provide interdisciplinary education environment in order to train a specialist, which is ready for working on problems of widely different areas. “To solve a specific problem a computational science expert has to consult with a domain expert. Sometimes this specialist cannot clarify this problem. Thus the main target of a young researcher is to establi…

  17.08.2015

• Summer School in Computational Science Wraps up in Athens

  …of subjects, said Anna Bilyatdinova, a professor at the Department of High Performance Computing. Group projects help the participants better understand the essence and the specifics of computational science. “Computational Science is a science about computer and super computer modeling in various areas. If our specialists are working on the issues of floods,…

  09.07.2015

• Prospects for cooperation between Russia and the Netherlands were discussed in ITMO University Technopark

  …try of Economic Development of the Russian Federation. The working group has no fixed structure so depending on the tasks whose solution must be found at the meeting, specific experts are invited. Thus, this time within the commission other than the chairman Artem Shadrin and Jasper Wesseling, the director of knowledge and innovations in the Ministry of Economi…

  19.06.2015

• INSME Annual Meeting: new horizons for international cooperation

  …n noted that Russia's participation in INSME projects will allow implementation of innovative potential, since currently the association requires relevant experience in the specific case. At the same time, the organization is a reliable platform for international cooperation. "As a result of the Annual Meeting work a number of proposals was received, that mea…

  02.06.2015

• Qualifying round of international championship on programming TopCoder Open took place in university

  …ere are many organizations that hold their events: Google Code Jam, Facebook Hacker Cup, Yandex.Algorithm. These are commercial championships, they are tied to the needs of specific companies, and the TopCoder is a freestanding competitive platform which sets a credible champion. TopCoder stood at the origins of the sports programming competitions and in many ways it…

  01.06.2015

• Out of reach: will the subscription to scientific journals be closed for the Russian scientists?

  …lications. The first option is a program of the Ministry of Education and Science of the Russian Federation which pays for the subscription of scientific organizations to a specific list of resources; it is possible to get the funding only on a competitive basis. For this competition the institutions submit applications, which reflect the results of their research ac…

  14.05.2015

• Russian startups in Europe: where is the path to success?

  … Do Russian IT companies have any advantages or specific opportunities on global startup market? Soviet Union had great math and physics, and today we can see that this foundation leads to great technology. If nobody is aware of it, if nobody knows what you are doing, it has no value. In other words, it is great to create value but capturing value is just as im…

  13.05.2015

• University students visited leading China’s universities

  … the volunteerism features in China and Russia with foreign counterparts. "Volunteering at the universities of Russia and China differ only by a university’s region specifics. For example,, students in Beijing landscape campus site and involve their classmates in socially useful work. Similar as the ITMO University students, they are engaged in volunteers tra…

  08.05.2015

• Young leaders found solutions to unemployment and "brain drain" issues

  …Experts and young professionals managed to find a solution: mass creation of the vocational training centers where students could obtain a set of skills needed to perform a specific job.   The representatives of Australia, South Africa, Denmark and other countries have noted that graduates have a shortage of practical experience after graduation from high sch…

  07.05.2015