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• Best Projects by Participants of Online School by ITMO Avatar Developers

  …s? But our mentor sorted us out, gave us advice on which algorithm to check out, and we were really surprised when we didn’t just produce great results but surpassed the professional algorithm Facebook Prophet. These methods can be applied anywhere where you might need to analyze time series for predicting the near future. And this is promising for the purposes of fi…

  02.12.2020

• Soft Skills: What Are They and Why Do We Need Them?

  …than through trial-and-error. Why do I need soft skills? If I become a proper scientist or engineer, I’ll be able to get a job without them. Knowing your profession is very important, but it’s far from all. If you can’t manage relationships within your team, every issue will turn into a lengthy argument and neither you nor your colleagues will enjoy a…

  02.12.2020

• To Fear or Not to Fear: Psychologist Alexander Palin on the Nature of Phobias

  …nxious people may begin to avoid things that bother them. After being on high alert for too long, their psyche is not capable of coping with stress anymore and goes into depression. This reaction is triggered precisely by anxiety, worry, and fear. Also, avoidance behaviors affect our quality of life as people constantly experience anxiety and tensions of a hundred years ago – this is definitely a must-see. Don’t forget you have to buy tickets online and in advance.     Russia-Italia Film Festival  December 3-13  Rodina cinem…

  02.12.2020

• New Citizen Science Project Helps Researchers Find Volunteers

• ITMO Graduate ‪Andrei Gorodetsky on His Career, European Science, and Work in Different Countries

  …mation about the composition of paints, layer thicknesses, the presence of hidden paint layers and drafts on canvases. My thesis required the construction of three-dimensional images and terahertz radiation helped me to get images of a much higher resolution than with MRI and, most importantly, in real time. I think it is a promising field in biomedicine. Some…

  01.12.2020

• Where Bananas Become Hammers: Coldest Places in Russia

  …rds the warmer places among the coldest points, we hit Dudinka, a closed town that sits on the Yenisei River. With only three hotels for the few tourists who are granted permission to enter the town, Dudinka is ready to please with long winters, during which temperatures generally hover around -30 C, although able to dip to below -50 C, and the summers barely hitting…

  30.11.2020

• ITMO Researchers Find Quick and Easy Way to Detect Tick-Borne Encephalitis

  …odes will be almost identical to glucose meters,” concludes Artemii Ivanov.  Reference: Artemii S. Ivanov, Konstantin G. Nikolaev, Anna A. Stekolshchikova, Weini T. Tesfatsion, Stanislav O. Yurchenko, Kostya S. Novoselov, Daria V. Andreeva, Maya Yu. Rubtsova, Mikhail F. Vorovitch, Aydar A. Ishmukhametov, Alex M. Egorov and Ekaterina V. Skorb. «Tick-Borne Encepha…

  30.11.2020

• Rukami Fest 2020: ITMO’s TECHNOHISTORY Project Highlights Digital Loneliness and Bacteria Representation in Media

  …but also about making their first steps towards interdisciplinary collaboration.” She adds that, in choosing tracks for the project, its creators considered the professional interests of students from various departments. “We tried to pick topics that would be interesting to the students: for programmers – the relationship between individuals and the in…

  27.11.2020

• Scientists Propose Method of Assessing the Gene-Disease Connection

  …cise graph that would unite the correct set of genes and their interconnections, manually. For this purpose, there exist special complex algorithms. The issue of firm conclusions You can create a great many graphs with supposedly important genes and their interconnections. But how to identify the one that’s the active module? The most popular approach is to com…

  27.11.2020