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• Polytechnic Museum’s Curator Alexey Semikhatov: Logic and Math Help Us Predict the Unknown

  …hatov explained how, using scientific methods, our minds can predict the existence of crucial elements of the universe without being able to see them, just like we did with planets, the Higgs Boson, dark matter, and more. What is it that makes these predictions possible? According to Alexey Semikhatov, when properly developed, the same brain capacities that allow us …

  30.04.2019

• International Academic Mobility Opportunities at ITMO University

  …ic Ocean. Bordeaux Montaigne offers a wide selection of programs including  Information and Communication, Land and Town Planning and Development, Multimedia Industry and Internet Technology, and others. Thanks to a special agreement between BMU and ITMO University, students of the latter will find it much easier to apply for exchange to the French university.…

  29.04.2019

• Master’s Degree ++ Conference: The Plenary Session in Review

  …tions faced by developers and lecturers of modern Master’s programs. Solutions to these issues aim to enhance the potential of students and develop the organizational forms of network and international cooperation of universities within the framework of Master’s studies. As noted by ITMO University rector Vladimir Vasilyev during the opening of the conference, the…

  29.04.2019

• How to Catch a Particle: Physicists Found a Way to Make Ion Traps More Efficient

  …es in a closed space in order to perform subsequent manipulations, for example, move them or cool them down. Cooling down an ion trap basically means reducing the particle’s kinetic energy, which makes it almost completely still. Scientists believe that in the future, this technique will be used to observe quantum phenomena with the naked eye. There are different …

  26.04.2019

• Dragon Anatomy and Folk Tales: Physicist and Anthropologist Discuss Game of Thrones

  … topic have been made by the scientist Neil deGrasse Tyson, who is a fan of the show and has plenty of interesting notes on its universe. In the Russian section of the internet, there is plenty of good discourse to be found on the pop-science portal N+1. For instance, they have looked at the feasibility of dragons being able to fly, which appears to be one of the …

  26.04.2019

• Green Campuses and Recycling: Sustainable Development by Youth International Forum at ITMO

  …to be replaced with a high-rise apartment building (we have already written about a map featuring all trees in the city here). At the end of 1980, St. Petersburg’s tram network was included in the Guinness World Records as the biggest in the world. The length of tram lines in the city accounted to 692 km, but after a while trams were outnumbered by cars and ma…

  25.04.2019

• Congress of Young Scientists Participant Yaroslav Kapustin: Had I Not Worked on My Own Projects, I Never Would Have Learned What I Know

  …l in all, this is a very relevant topic. Many global companies such as Google or Facebook, entrepreneurs like Elon Musk, and even governments are talking about the global internet. You may have read the news about the “space internet” and similar ideas. But first of all, they are all very costly, and secondly, setting them up will take …

  24.04.2019

• The Magic of Russian May Holidays

  …maniacal zeal glistening in their eyes. And I usually can’t help but get myself involved. This time, my auntie is moving flats, and I’ve already received a thinly veiled but nonetheless very insistent invitation to paint walls with her. At least there’s a chance that this unsightly and very much NOT couch-friendly business will lead to my dreaming in cartoons, so tha…

  23.04.2019

• ITMO Developers on Creating an Evaluation System for Plagiarism Detection in 48 Hours

  …gorithms using our new system. In general, I would now like to continue my research in such fields as interpretable machine learning and natural language processing. Neural networks are still like “black boxes” for many researchers: people know that they exist but don’t understand how they work and what modifications are needed to move this technology forward. In …

  23.04.2019

• Exosuits, Career Guidance Bots, and Water Quality Analysis: Projects by Participants of Congress of Young Scientists

  …es as a community page on VK. The bot helps school students choose their future career by asking various questions in order to understand their interests. All you need is internet access and a personal account on VK. You just open its page, click “Send message” and start a chat. Today we’ve got a whole team working on this project, including founder Yana Sedun…

  23.04.2019