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• Self-Driving Cars and Smart Cities: 2019 Summer Schools in Madrid

  …at students with only a basic understanding of drones and autonomous vehicles. However, even though we already knew quite a lot on the topic, it was still interesting and entertaining. In my research work, I focus on the use of hyperspectral photography in self-driving drones, and it’s exactly the topic the summer school was dedicated to. Apart from listening to l…

  25.07.2019

• ITMO Fellow Fabio Bonsignorio and Professor Alexander Kapitonov: Research Reproducibility Will Generate a Sea Change in Our Economy

  …y has reached the understanding that there are too many scientific articles, sometimes even those cited in significant sources and having undergone a number of checks, that contain information that is false. For example, we all remember the resounding scandal relating to the quick blood testing technology by the company Theranos (Theranos was a private corporation de…

  24.07.2019

• ITMO PhD Students Share Their Impressions of Internship in Singapore

  …ertificates confirming your participation in research conferences. Apart from that, one also had to write a motivation letter explaining how the experience they are going to obtain while studying abroad will help them in their future work in Russia. The application procedure is a pretty standard one and takes several weeks. Oksana Severyukhina: In addition to the …

  24.07.2019

• 10 Secrets to Expat Life In St. Petersburg

  …ually at a different location around the city. You don't have to sign up as a member right away; show up to a meeting as a guest if you'd like to get a feel for it. 9. Entertainment and Sports Believe it or not, once a week you can watch stand-up comedy in English in one of St. Petersburg’s bars. It’s usually held every Tuesday at Medovarus bar, and it’s open-m…

  23.07.2019

• ITMO at International Agricultural Exhibition AGRORUS

  …acrylic material with protein filling and aimed at increasing yields and enhancing plants’ resistance to adverse environmental factors. Scientists used a protein hydrolyzate obtained from collagen-containing waste from meat processing factories to help prevent diseases and improve plant immunity at the moment of formation or accumulatio…

  23.07.2019

• Yandex Product Marketing Director Andrey Sebrant’s Top Book Recommendations

  … explained using the rational behavior theory. Yes, people often display irrational and suboptimal behavior in regard to the many metrics related to benefit. But there is a certain system to that irrationality, and there are patterns that you have to be familiar with if you’re making things for others. This book is the most important and helpful thing I’ve read in th…

  22.07.2019

• 10 Movies for a Summer Night-In

  …But the 2019 Aladdin does cover for some of its predecessor’s injustices, and is not at all too bad of a movie in its own right: vivacious and vibrant, though not without a certain blandness typical of most Disney flicks. We’ll cut the corporation some slack, though: with the latest Aladdin and its feeble but still existing pro-feminism stance, the inclusion of a que…

  19.07.2019

• Head of #Sektaspb Center on Using Research for Health and Fitness and Cooperation with Schools

  …ekta positions itself as a school for ideal body. Why is it called school? What are you teaching? Sekta is first and foremost a school because we don’t pursue the goal to retain people at our courses by hook or by crook: we have the task of sharing the knowledge we have. We are leading our students and encourage them to adapt the information they receive to their …

  18.07.2019

• Crash Course in Photonics: Part 2

  …andr Kyriienko, an ITMO Fellow, also has something to say about NISQ-type systems. “Today’s quantum computers have a narrow scope of application, but allow us to solve certain tasks very quickly. They let us, for example, understand the processes that occur inside molecules. Take the Haber-Bosch process, which we use to produce nitrogen at 2,000 degrees Celsius.…

  17.07.2019

• ITMO Researchers Discover New Properties of Terahertz Radiation

  …n Scientific Reports, the article served as a theoretical foundation for the experiment conducted.  The coefficient of the nonlinear refractive index is very difficult to obtain experimentally. What underpins the success are the parameters of both the sample and the radiation it is subjected to. Also critical is the ratio between the thickness of an object and the…

  17.07.2019