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Exploring New Cultures, Studying New Materials: ITMO Students on Their International Internships
…nowledge and skills, I really feel this. But what I also found very significant was the opportunity of immersing myself into a new culture. I’ll channel all the experience I obtained into continuing my research work. Naturally, even though I returned to Russia, I plan to continue cooperating with the University of Oulu’s laboratory and studying the material we’ve ob<…
27.02.2020
Art Born of Slime Moulds and Bacteria: ITMO Hosts BioArt Workshops
…d, that is somewhat intelligent and can sense distance and direction. The participants had a chance to experiment with the myxomycete’s ability to make its path following a certain logic and direction. The second workshop focused on bacterial cultures and the way bacterial communities interact with the human mind and body, while also covering how we can safely in…
26.02.2020
Clarivate Analytics Expert on Why Russian Researchers Are Cited Less and Universities Aren’t Included in Innovation Rankings
…it. In the last decades it has become especially relevant that bibliometrics helps us manage research and check its impact. It’s possible to evaluate the impact of a certain author, organization or even a whole country. We can also compare universities: university rankings use bibliometrics a lot, by the way. Finally, bibliometrics help us to highlight the mos…
26.02.2020
EMI in Practice: ITMO Staff Participate in an English as a Medium of Instruction Internship at Boston University
…ve learning methods, it was interesting to observe in which subjects they are used more often and what this is substantiated by. We will of course analyze all the experience obtained and review the format and program of the EMI training at ITMO University – maybe we’ll shift the emphasis to particular topics, remove some aspects, and accentuate other ones instead,” n…
26.02.2020
ITMO’s International Center for Digital Humanities Research Presents Results of DH Week at NYCDH Week in New York
…ere representatives of cultural institutions can meet with various specialists. “Sure enough, the main goal was to speak about DH in St. Petersburg, and I think that we attained this goal. You can tell that by the number of people who came to our workshops. It was especially great to see how specialists who didn’t associate themselves with DH changed their opini…
25.02.2020
Education Helps You Understand Things, Science Communication – to Explain Them: An Interview with ITMO University Graduate Daniil Shirokov
…g St. Petersburg only for one day, but they were highly proficient, the curators were somehow able to arrange a lecture for us. It could mess up your personal plans, but it certainly improved the content of the program. What struck me is how open Center for Science Communication employees, teachers and partners were. Everyone was ready to offer an internship, a jo…
25.02.2020
Digitalization of Construction, Helping Dyslexic Kids and an Online Training Bot: The Graduates of ITMO’s Pre-Accelerator
…tectural projects faster, and help to keep record of materials stock. Access is provided by FaceID and digital signature. This way, users may track down who has filled in a certain document. BuildDocuments also automatically shows the production and estimated work schedules, thus eliminating the human factor. “Today, paperwork in the construction industry is don…
20.02.2020
Russian Participants of European XFEL Observe and Document Never-Before-Seen Effect
…ser with a 800 nm wavelength, followed by a series of equally short X-ray pulses. Each of them would pass the sample and provide an image of the scattering of X-rays, which contained information about the magnetic structure of our sample during the moment when the X-ray pulse passed through it. To accumulate enough statistical data, we repeated this procedure many th…
20.02.2020
A Mechanized Future: Sberbank’s Alexey Gonnochenko on the 10 Challenges of Robotics
…ould deliver documents, goods and material assets without human intervention and regardless of roads. Thirdly, such large-scale organizations as Sberbank simply need to maintain technological leadership in the current highly competitive environment, where IT giants and major social networks are moving towards financial markets. These companies are starting to crea…
19.02.2020
Living Paintings, Eco-Friendly Education and Compact Robots: The Results of “It’s Your Call!” Winter School
…l assistants. The members of GlassArt team have combined these two needs and suggested creating augmented reality headsets. Firstly, they would draw the user's attention to certain elements of the pictures and show an explanatory curatorial text. Secondly, they would also bring some pictures to life with the help of neural networks. The main mission of the project is…
18.02.2020