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• Harvard Professor Stefanie Stantcheva on the Role of Surveys and Experiments in Economy

  …al mobility. By intergenerational mobility, the professor understands the chance for a person from a poor or low-income family to achieve success in society. During the study, scientists tried to trace the relationship between views on mobility with the people’s attitude towards the idea that material goods should be distributed among members of society using social …

  15.10.2020

• Scientists Explain Why Paradise State Is Hard to Reach

  …People think that hard science is engaged in numbers, mathematical abstractions, and non-living objects, while the humanities deal with people and society. Many believe that these two research areas don’t intersect. However, several fields of studies prove this to be wrong. One such field of studies is sociophysics. Researchers of this field analyze the processes tha…

  14.10.2020

• TECHNOHISTORY Project Showcases New Approaches to Historical Studies

  …ing Point”) coworking space. It will function both online and on-site, at the Lenpoligraphmash technopark. Researchers in the fields of biotechnology, ecology, robotics, art & science, as well as 3D and VR developers will join their forces at the laboratory under the guidance of curators from the Center of Social and Humanities Knowledge. Everyone is welcome to take …

  13.10.2020

• How ITMO Researchers Are Using Speech Analysis to Diagnose Dementia and Parkinson's

  …s technology has made it possible to analyze not only the content of speech but also emotions, inflection, accent, psychophysical state, and other accompanying parameters. The science of paralinguistics studies the nonverbal characteristics of speech and its main focus is not on the content of speech but on the voice, which helps figure out the feelings of a speaker.…

  13.10.2020

• How Coworking Spaces Help Remote Workers Stay on Track and Find New Friends and Colleagues

  …out of a PhD program in 2019. My path in analytics began with a part-time job at a startup, over time I studied this field and realized that it was more interesting to me than science. I work on a dark store team. Dark stores are warehouse stores dedicated to serving orders. I help the team make data-driven decisions: I participate in the development of product me…

  12.10.2020

• Battleships and Electrons: ITMO Student Develops a VR Game for Chemistry Students

  …rize the information." Despite the pandemic The game was almost finished earlier this year. In February, the first prototype of the game was presented at ITMO Open Science and it helped to reveal a number of inaccuracies that required some improvement.  "In February, we piloted our game and learned what difficulties people may face," Anastasia Rychko…

  09.10.2020

• ITMO University Launches New Preacceleration Program

  …he balance between pleasure and health benefits. This beer tones the body up, normalizes sleep, and is overall beneficial to the human body. This technology is brand-new in science, so no one has promoted it in business yet. We are engaged in testing this idea and trying to see if it’s worth placing on the market. My field of studies is actually metagenome probiot…

  08.10.2020

• ITMO Graduate Dmitry 'Finargot' Plyusnin On His Career in Streaming and Russian Voice-over of Dota 2

  …en. I did not like what was happening with the cinema in Russia, so I decided to follow my heart. I finished a physics and mathematics lyceum where they taught computer science at a very high level. That’s how I learned to program. Initially, the Faculty of Secure Information Technologies was my main option, and therefore I applied for ITMO’s math contest. But…

  08.10.2020

• In a Nutshell: Genome Editing and the 2020 Nobel Prize in Chemistry

  …d been published, it became apparent that the method opens up a whole new range of opportunities in biology and medicine, making genome editing a tool accessible in almost any scientific laboratory. . How do you edit the genome? If it’s the CRISPR/Cas9 method that we’re talking about, you begin with choosing a target ― a DNA sequence that you want to …

  08.10.2020

• Staff Spotlight: Daniel Nsengumuremyi, Rwanda

  …become a part of ITMO? After graduating from URFU, I wanted to go ahead with a food biotechnology program, but they could offer only chemistry and biology tracks. Thanks to scientific cooperation, I knew ITMO as a big university acknowledged for its research. I also got in touch with Nadezhda Barakova, the head of the Food Biotechnology program at ITMO, because I …

  08.10.2020