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• ITMO Alumni and ITMO Ambassadors: Staying in Touch After Graduation

  …ry received the experience I got here at ITMO University. It is among the world's top universities, and young Nigerians studying here would’ve helped bridge the knowledge gap between Nigeria and the developed countries. A developing country like Nigeria has to invest in knowledge in order to progress, and I can contribute to that by representing ITMO University. I…

  12.03.2019

• Young Scientists Awarded ITMO University’s First Own Academic Degree Diplomas

  … one. Andrey: I participated in several international conferences on image processing, namely such conferences in Poland and Portugal. There is, of course, some difference between presenting your findings at a scientific event and at the actual thesis defense, but it’s a great, and undoubtedly very helpful, experience nevertheless; it boosts your confidence in giv…

  12.03.2019

• Software Engineering Program by ITMO and JetBrains: Students Share

  …ills. For now, the ones I like most are the field of data analysis and everything that has to do with natural language processing. Alexey Zubakov I was making my choice between one program in Moscow and this one; to my mind, these two were the only really good programs in the field of programming and data analysis you could get in St. Petersburg and Moscow. In …

  11.03.2019

• Datathon on Texts Annotation: How Programmers and Humanities Specialists Analyze Texts

  …reference resolution, while Daria Rodionova, also from Huawei Technologies, used her own projects to talk about sentiment analysis and how to teach a machine to differentiate between good and bad in events and people. “Also known as tonal analysis, sentiment analysis is one of the most oft-encountered tasks of natural language processing. It is known, for exampl…

  11.03.2019

• Women in Science 2018

  … Request a Woman Scientist At the very beginning of 2018, a group of women scientists launched a project called Request a Woman Scientist, aimed at reducing the imbalance between the number of men and women in science. Request a Woman Scientist is a global database of women scientists who are keen to speak publicly about their work and communicate with other s…

  08.03.2019

• Amazing Russian Women Who Shape Our Lives

  …itish Council student in the U.K., back in the 1950’s. During her year there she wrote a book about Lenin in London. For decades afterwards, she headed the Friendship Society between the Soviet Union and the U.K, engaging in the kind of citizen diplomacy that brought our worlds closer. She’s the sole reason I can speak English and my daily inspiration as an internati…

  08.03.2019

• Materials Scientist Alexandre Nominé on Challenges of his Field, Learning Russian, and Creativity at ITMO University

  …traight into icy water to cool them at hundreds, maybe a thousand degrees per second. Imagine what we could do with the instruments that we have. Materials science is a fight between thermodynamics and kinetics, and our tools allow us to create wonderful things. We are often working in the framework of optics to create new materials. Sometimes it involves crea…

  07.03.2019

• 10 Summer Schools to Attend This Summer

  …rom molecules and genes to cells and diseases. 5. Utrecht Summer School, Utrecht University (the Netherlands) Dates: July-August 2019 The result of collaboration between Utrecht University, the HU University of Applied Sciences Utrecht, and the HKU University of the Arts Utrecht, this summer school offers over 200 summer courses in a variety of disciplin…

  07.03.2019

• Awardees of 2018-2019 Potanin Scholarship Reveal Their Winning Hacks

  …t didn’t pay that much attention. I realize now that this wasn’t my best idea. The contest was carried out in two rounds. This year, the competition in the first stage was between the applications we submitted, including four or five essays on our plans for the future, the topic of our thesis, plus motivation and leadership. I wrote them meticulously, over the cou…

  07.03.2019

• From Leucippus to Dmitri Mendeleev: History of Periodic Table

  …nges in the matter was Robert Boyle (1627-1691), an Irish natural philosopher and chemist, best known for Boyle’s law, which describes the inversely proportional relationship between the absolute pressure and volume of a gas within a closed system. Boyle’s experiments drew the attention of many European atomists. Among them was John Dalton (1766-1844), an Engl…

  06.03.2019