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• ITMO Bioinformatics Team Wins MEDIC International Competition

  …vided by the organizers but fitted our tasks. This might well be the reason why we won.” Just predicting is not enough Apart from being a competition, MEDIC also had a scientific aspect, which is of great importance for both organizers and participants. Following the competition’s results, the winning teams are invited to work on joint publications in cited j…

  24.08.2020

• ITMO Scientists Use Computer Vision Technologies and Neural Networks to Assess Meditation Efficiency

  …OVID-19 situation, interest in meditation has grown considerably,” says Alexey Kashevnik, senior researcher at St. Petersburg Federal Research Center of the Russian Academy of Sciences and an associate professor at Information Technologies and Programming Faculty of ITMO University. “We’ve taken a look at the statistical data: the number of queries in Yandex for vari…

  24.08.2020

• Picture of the Week: ITMO Researchers' "Lightsaber"

  …As it often happens in science, the researchers at the Laboratory of Hybrid Nanophotonics and Optoelectronics (PeroLab) didn’t develop this “lighsaber” on purpose. What happened is a little bit of material remained in the centrifuge tube after the synthesis of perovskite quantum dots. Due to the small size (about 5-10 nm) of quantum dots, they are invisible to the na…

  21.08.2020

• Specialists of ITMO University's Institute of Design & Urban Studies Create a Mapping App

  …all. On behalf of the Quality of Urban Life Laboratory (QULLAB) and her research supervisor, Alexandra Nenko, she offered cooperation in testing the technology and the app the scientists are working on, as well as in helping the Committee on Urban Planning and Architecture of St. Petersburg to collect alternative information about the problems in this area. Jo…

  20.08.2020

• ITMO Students’ Startup Ranks Third at Eureka IIEC 2020’s Business Competition

  …r partners.” Anton Gopka arranged for ITMO’s participation in the international competition in January, when he participated in the opening of the Year of Russian-Chinese Scientific, Technical and Innovation Cooperation together with the administration of the Hebei province. As a result of the intensive course, seven projects were picked for the competiti…

  20.08.2020

• Sberbank and ITMO University Open Second Round of Applications for Research Projects in Robotics

  … dexterous and reliable robotic palms for anthropomorphic robots. The third team specializes in speech user interfaces.  “The work of the teams is based on overcoming the scientific and technological barriers faced by researchers all over the world,” continues Sergey Kolyubin. The first problem to combat is what is known as catastrophic forgetting in ne…

  20.08.2020

• Bio & Art Summer School: Biomaterials in Art

  …me can tell, but we can assure you that whatever happens it will still remain one of the most interesting topics of discussion in the contemporary art scene and within the Art&Science sphere. The idea of biological elements working together with artistic concepts and with a scope more focused on the artistic makes this subject a must to teach for some contemporary ar…

  20.08.2020

• SumIT+InnoCamp Joint Summer School Launches at ITMO

  …r Small and Medium-Sized Enterprise Development; on the Finnish, by the Kotka-Hamina Regional Development Company Cursor Oy and the South-Eastern Finland University of Applied Sciences (XAMK). “Russia and the EU have been running a cross-border partnership program for many years now. One of the most active areas of collaboration is between the South-East Finland…

  19.08.2020

• Gold Changes Light: Scientists Find Optimal Nanoparticle Shape for Controlling Color

  …The work of scientists who focus on a specific topic does not end with discovering some new material, molecule, or a way to produce them. After the sensational presentation of a novelty, there comes a time for tedious and labor-intensive work on its optimization, improvement, and adaptation to the demands of our daily lives. Several years ago, scientists from Russia, Australia, Germany, and France, including professor Boris Chichkov, the head of the Laboratory of Laser Nanoengineering at the Leibniz University Hannover, and Elena Ivanova, DSc in Biology and a distinguished professor at Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology (RMIT). The project’s coordinator from the Russian s…

  17.08.2020