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I am a Professional: Qualification Round Starts with Over Half a Million Participants in the Game
…83 (42%) were submitted by males, a minor change from last year with the gender ratio of 61% to 39% respectively. Half of the registrations are accounted for by students aged between 19 to 21 years old. “For the second year in a row, the majority of applications is for social, economic and natural science competition tracks. Interestingly, there’s also been a tw…
23.11.2018
VK Hackathon 2018 Winners Make Donating Blood Easier
… presented their cases in the Charity track: DonorSearch (blood donations) and the Ray Fund which helps homeless animals. DonorSearch is a website which is a kind of a social network for donors, aimed at building communication between donors and blood donation centers. Alexey Margolin: First, we were on the waiting list, because the …
23.11.2018
ITMO Master’s Students Win National Lighting Design Competition
…ky tunnel, St. Petersburg’s longest pedestrian tunnel 260 meters in length, situated near the Vyborgskaya metro station. The tunnel has eight exits and provides the only path between a residential area at one end and an industrial district at the other. The project’s main idea is to breathe a bit of fresh air into a plain, closed space, invigorate pedestrians pass…
22.11.2018
Tel Aviv University Professor Boris Malomed on Non-Linear Physics and Solitons
… used everywhere and they have a wide range of applications. For instance, look at how we transmit data. Today, copper wiring has been replaced with optical fibers. We lay it between cities and even entire continents. There are long-range lines between America and Europe, or America and Asia. They lie on the ocean floor, stretching for …
21.11.2018
Top Russian and European Firms Present Concept Designs for ITMO Highpark
…provide a visionary approach and a vision of the future”, says Kozlova. “We’re interested in creating spaces that will facilitate interdisciplinary research and collaboration between experts of different fields. When we choose projects, we want them to reflect that idea first and foremost.” At the same time, as per the project’s goals, ITMO Highpark will not…
20.11.2018
WUD@ITMO: Ending the Dispute Between Developers and Designers
…e more avant-garde solution of screens that are built into clothes. One of the main reasons underlying this sea change is the aging of the population. While in 1950 the ratio between those who were fit for work and the ones who weren’t came down to 12 to 1, by 2050 it is predicted to be a mere 2 to 1. This is due to the universal progress in medicine with the consequ…
20.11.2018
ITMO Robotics Team Wins Gold at World Robot Olympiad 2018 in Thailand
…tics Lyceum №239. ITMO team competed with a project Strawberry Fields. This is a smart fruit patch like no other, being handled by a robot which uses a camera and a neural network to locate the berries, identify how ripe they are, and uploads the map of the patch to the Internet. Connecting through a special app, fruit lovers then choose any berry they would like …
19.11.2018
Movie Fridays: The Best of Edward Norton
… area. Surrounded by death, disease and destruction, the characters see each other in a new light. As the movie’s tagline goes “Sometimes the greatest journey is the distance between two people”, and in this case, this journey played by two charismatic beautiful actors is really interesting to watch and you will surely find yourself really rooting for this couple (I …
16.11.2018
Intercultural Nights, Legends and Movies: Erasmus+Youth Exchange Program
…pant that fails to claim a chair loses. But our task was to find room for all the players on however chairs we were left with. Who can participate and how Anyone aged between 13 to 30 years old is welcome to take part in Erasmus+Youth exchanges. It doesn’t matter whether you’re a student or a working specialist. Our team included both. You can learn more on t…
16.11.2018
National Technology Revolution 20.35: Universities as Driving Force of Change
…ing university with a century’s worth of history and accomplishments. Vasily Tretyakov, CEO of the University of National Technology Initiative 20.35, on the right balance between innovations and the classical education system NTI University is a platform that allows for creating the perfect blend of traditional education opportunities and novel trends such…
16.11.2018