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• Volunteering Unlimited: Students from Russia's 35 Regions Presented Their Projects in Yagodnoe

  …The teams went all the way from generating an idea to showcasing it, finding partners and getting first results. Thus, its participants got both theoretical and practical knowledge that will help them with developing social projects in their home regions. This year, the contest took place in the Yagodnoe sports camp. For three days - from May 19 to 21, the student…

  26.05.2017

• New Metamaterial-Enhanced MRI Technology Successfully Tested on Human Subjects

  …lanning to continue their research in both Leiden and St. Petersburg; they hope to transform ITMO University’s Laboratory of Applied Radioengineering into a center for cutting-edge projects in this field, to acquire modern equipment and to draw in more young specialists to create device prototypes and introduce them into clinical practice. For that reason the staff a…

  25.05.2017

• We're the Champions! ITMO Programmers Set Record with 7th Win at ACM ICPC

  …people, can only use one computer, which means that they have to divide the roles. Some tasks test attentiveness and concentration while others require in-depth algorithm knowledge. Speed, accuracy, number of tries and the quality of the final product all go into the evaluation as in real life, they would also be important factors.  Over 300,000 programmers partic…

  25.05.2017

• ITMO University Opens Educational Courses on BIM Technologies in Building and Infrastructure Design

  … on practical applications of BIM. Graduates will receive internationally recognized Autodesk certificates. This course is intended for construction industry workers with knowledge and experience in this field, but it also serves as a kind of a demo-version of the Master’s Degree program “Information Modeling of Products and Buildings Life Cycles” that ITMO Universit…

  24.05.2017

• The Recent Nanophotonics and Metamaterials International Doctoral Summer School - Participants' Impressions

  … silicon. Silicon is a really popular material amongst scientists, as there's lots of silicon on our planet, and it’s cheap. I came to the Summer School so as to gain new knowledge and conduct an experiment at one of ITMO's Laboratories as part of my own research. We've measured the luminescence of nanodiscs that have quantum dots inside. They emit light in near IR l…

  23.05.2017

• The Power of Light: How Lighting Design Affects Our Lives

  … they will do for his or her idea. Lighting designers even turn to such methods as verbalization, which is usually used by psychologists - an open mind and thirst for new knowledge and solutions are essential qualities that any such specialist has to possess. "It's most important for lighting designers, as well as any creative professionals, to have integrity an…

  22.05.2017

• Science Without Borders: The IV International i-Customs Conference

  …s collaboration and bring several teams next year. What is more, we can organize a common school where lecturers and students from both our universities would share their knowledge and experience. Lapland University of Applied Sciences is open to international cooperation: we aim to develop more collaboration projects with Russia's North-West, and are always interest…

  22.05.2017

• Trolling Evolutionists with Flatfish or: Five Facts that Prove Natural Selection

  …if the control studies and computations were conducted properly, considered if anything could be missing, noted the flaws and how it would fit into the rest of scientific knowledge. Secondly, many take the word “theory” to mean something unproven or unfinished. In this case, though, the word “theory” represents a whole section of biology – called evolutionary biology…

  22.05.2017

• Neural Networks Never Get Tired: Data Science Specialist Andrei Sozykin On Opportunities Offered By Neural Networks

  …en applying for a job. Surely, there are also educational programs at different universities. One of them is the Yandex School of Data Analysis, which gives good basic knowledge of the topic. The School has its branches in Moscow, St. Petersburg, Yekaterinburg and Novosibirsk. What are the basic competencies a Data Science specialist has to have? Andrei Sozy…

  19.05.2017

• Everybody Wants a Piece of the Pie: Why Universities Need to Create and Support Innovation

  …e were not only white swans, but black ones, too – until a team of explorers discovered a population of these birds in Western Australia. Humans are very limited in their knowledge of the world. But if you assume that something is possible, you expand your limits. We’ve all become used to thinking that an elongated capsule is the most optimal shape for a pill. But wh…

  19.05.2017