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

  …ions 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

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

  … motif of a serpent monster. The three-headed dragon from Russian folklore is an example of just that, a fire-breathing creature that combines opposites and guards the border between the worlds of the living and the dead. Martin uses his own metaphor: an ordinary world, the mundanity of which is broken when the society and way of life are disrupted. That is the chara…

  26.04.2019

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

  …ege. Launched in 1995, the project of the Center was supported by the US Green Building Council and American Institute, which makes it a vivid example of collaboration between a city and a university. The main goal of the project was to promote the development of the SDGs, transform the area, achieve climate neutrality, and build a “greenbelt” around the ci…

  25.04.2019

• ITMO Graduate Mikhail Galkin on PhD Studies in Germany and the Importance of Believing in Oneself

  …ere that students are taken on to work on large-scale projects that last for three-four years and are closely tied in with the topic of your thesis. This allows you to juggle between working on huge projects, attending conferences with grant funding and writing articles to pass your PhD exams. For example, for our most recent project, which was commissioned by a majo…

  25.04.2019

• This Weekend in St. Petersburg: April 27-28

  …, err, look a statue in the eye. Held at the New Exhibition Hall of the State Museum of Urban Sculpture, it features the local photographers’ takes on the quirky interactions between the urban sculpture and landscape of the Northern Venice. Tickets cost 50 rubles for students and 200 rubles for everyone else. The museum is open from midday to 7pm every day except …

  24.04.2019

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

  …about the “space internet” and similar ideas. But first of all, they are all very costly, and secondly, setting them up will take not a day and not even a year. Building a network of this kind is a long, arduous process. That’s why I decided to take the opposite approach and create a local network for people in areas where there is n…

  24.04.2019

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

  …n is divided into source retrieval and text alignment. When testing the algorithms in this database, the evaluation system assesses the quality of identifying reused passages between documents. How did you realize that evaluation systems needed improving? Anton: Before we started developing evaluation systems, we worked a lot with plagiarism detection algorithm…

  23.04.2019

• University of Oulu Experts on Teaching, Finland-Russia Cooperation and Joint Projects with ITMO

  …t to us, and that’s why we’re motivated to constantly keep in touch with Russian students. FIRST+ is a Russian-Finnish student and teacher exchange program that encourages network partnerships between higher education institutions of Russia and Finland. In line with this commitment, the program supports student and teacher mobility b…

  23.04.2019

• ITMO Graduates Featured in Forbes' 30 Under 30 Ranking

  …arch in the field of quantum information science, the company’s offerings include quantum encryption systems, quantum random number generators and secure multichannel optical networks. The staff are regular participants at numerous Russian and international exhibitions such as “Photonics. World of Lasers and Optics”, “Optics-Expo”, “Russian Industrialist” and others,…

  22.04.2019

• HackUniversity: Create, Think, and Simply Have a Good Time

  …ners are students of ITMO University. Team Varchar, which is fully made up of ITMO students, won in the Logistics category with their solution for a case titled “Smart Neural Network-Based Waste Sorting Conveyor”. “Our task was to teach a robot to use a camera in order to determine the coordinates of objects on a conveyor belt,” explains Alexey Ustinov, the …

  22.04.2019