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• A Taste for Science: Why the State Is Eager To Finance Universities' Fundamental Research?

  …er's and research students, and the head must be a young Candidate or Doctor of Science. What is more, for the last years we’ve enjoyed the tendency of research being aimed at solving practical problems, despite its fundamental nature", notes Irina Melchakova, head of ITMO's Office of International Research. One of these projects was developing metamaterials and me…

  25.01.2017

• Master’s Student on Cryptocurrencies and How to Organize an IT Business

  … it uses another "consensus-algorithm" as a base. Bitcoin works like this: so called "miners" pack transactions as blocks. To present a block and get a benefit, miners have to solve a difficult task using brute force method. When the task is solved, one "presents" a solution together with transactions. This solution proves that the mino…

  24.01.2017

• Chitin — A Multipurpose Natural Material

  … role in cell walls of plants. Yet, according to the data from Russian Chitin Society, chitin is far more reactive. It can be processed into chitosan, a polymer that can be dissolved in dilute acid solutions, as well as react with other chemical substances. Chemists often call chitosan a constructor that can be used for creating different polymers. To obtain pure chi…

  24.01.2017

• Gain Extra Points with Vkontakte

  …l exams. There are also special apps for testing students or developing an interactive schedule. According to Anna Veklich, Head of the Strategic Communications Department, solving Olympiad tasks with the assistance of social networks will become something common, as schoolers use them for communication much more frequently than other sources. "Youth is defin…

  23.01.2017

• VIII Gaidar Forum: Russia’s Leading Experts on the Future of Education

  …ector of the Higher School of Economics. Oleg Harhordin, Head of the European University, believes that the idea of the 3.0 Universities is quite narrow and does not have to solve global issues like climate change or introduction of biotechnologies. According to him, a university of the future should not be a model startup incubator, but a treasurer of culture. …

  21.01.2017

• Smartphones Are no Longer "Smart" With Cloud Technologies

  …g technologies more than others. There are medicine, finances, and urban services. For example, IT technologies help research human genome, analyze data from speed cameras and solve other tasks. These days, experts in the field of data stream mining are in high demand. The main peculiarity of analyzing data streams is exponentially increasing information, so an al…

  20.01.2017

• ITMO University Staff Win Government Award for Translational IT

  …ing, and Professor Peter Sloot from the eScience Research Institute. The goal of the program is to train specialists who are capcable of a multi-disciplinary approach and can solve problems and lead innovative projects and companies in translational IT. Translational information technology refers to the use of standard IT techniques for non-standard solutions for…

  18.01.2017

• Baltic Research Contest: Best Students, Great Opportunities

  … will come to BRC in the beginning of February. Last year, I presented my project in the Mathematics section. I've always been interested in algebraic problems, including unsolved ones. Still, the point of the contest is not to promote science to school students, but to teach them to present their ideas to both experts and amateurs. What is more, the contest is li…

  18.01.2017

• ITMO’s Researchers for Nature: How Does New Ultra-Compact Laser Work?

  …ditions for particle’s staying in a bound state even when its energy rate is enough to escape from the hole. This has long been considered as a math peculiarity appearing when solving specific equations. However later it was proved that this phenomenon is much closer to real life — thanks to resonance theory, scientists discovered that one can meet such states in var…

  17.01.2017

• A "Smart" Band Will Save People from Drowning

  …reason of death is often not drowning, but hypothermia — the person can be in a life vest, stay afloat, but die just because he or she couldn't be found in time. Our invention solves several problems simultaneously: it is both a PFD and a distress system; it also looks good — sometimes people neglect life-saving equipment for aesthetic reasons or due to being ashamed…

  16.01.2017