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Arizona University Expert: Pros and Cons of English as a Global Language
… to tell them more about the culture of French-speaking countries. If I were to teach a group of Russian students, I would, first of all, ask them what they need English for: studying, working abroad, working in their own country, communicating with Americans or, say, Singaporeans? The answers to these questions show to what extent you should concentrate on cultural …
25.04.2018
School Student Does Research on Holographic Paradigm of Artificial Intelligence
…cheekbones. This way, the AI would account for different features in order to form a common concept. What were the goals that you had set for yourself when conducting this study? This research is a continuation of a research by my research advisor, Aleksandr Pavlov, who is an Associate Professor at ITMO’s Department of Photonics and Optical Information Technolo…
24.04.2018
Physicists Discover Way to Control Transitions Between States of Matter
…ticles, in our case polaritons, populate the ground state of the system with minimal energy. Usually, the ground state is extended through the entire area of the system under study. The soliton and Bose-Einstein condensate are two widely different regimes, and we managed to observe the transition between them,” explains Ivan Shelykh, head of the International Laborat…
24.04.2018
InnoJam: Students Help Develop Smart Solutions for ITMO’s New Campus
…laboration with SAP Next-Gen Lab – an innovation and networking laboratory for students and young specialists. Its core function is to provide practical training to students, study SAP technologies and solve tasks relevant to the company’s clients. SAP Next-Gen Lab is created for the Generation Z – students and specialists who prioritize practice and career over raw …
23.04.2018
5 Science News Now
…NASA’s lander to probe interior of Mars. NASA has sent orbiters to study the atmosphere of Mars and rovers to study its surface. Now, the agency plans to look inside the planet. The $814 million InSight lander, due to launch next month, carries three instruments designed to peer through Mars's rusty shell, including a seismometer that w…
23.04.2018
How Online Courses Can Benefit Both Students and Universities
…ge of online learning is that it allows for a more personal approach to education. How do they work? First, a student picks certain online courses depending on their field of study and the skills they want to acquire. Universities, in turn, analyze their choices and create new online courses that cater to the students’ needs. The system, therefore, works as a closed …
20.04.2018
ITMO University Launches New Bioinformatics and Systems Biology Master’s Program
…m fundamental research to clinical practice and industrial applications. For instance, computer aided techniques and statistical methods can be used in DNA sequence assembly, studying the functions of genes, predicting the properties of proteins, neonatal diagnostics, choosing treatments for particular kinds of patients and even drug design. Specialists from ITMO’…
20.04.2018
Irina Hussainova: Estonian “Scientist of the Year”
…aracter are more humanitarian that anything else. I decided, however, that everyone should know foreign languages and literature and it is nothing that is worth five years of studying. Whereas physics and mathematics are not a prerequisite and it is worth learning so that you can go through life without any problems. Ultimately, I challenged myself. Of course, I knew…
20.04.2018
Scientists “Hack” Regulatory Mechanism of Immune Cell Activity
…cientists have suggested that itaconate, or itaconic acid, reduces the inflammatory activity of macrophages by blocking one of the most important enzymes in these cells. This study was published in 2016 and attracted the attention of the scientific community. However, the exact regulatory mechanisms of this substance were described until now. In a new article publ…
19.04.2018
City of Professions: Career Day at ITMO University
…mes to test their knowledge of business processes. During the first game, the players were to work on the customer-executor relations; the second was about conducting a small study on improving the operation of a university canteen. For that matter, the students were to come up with several hypotheses (for instance, that could be a hypothesis about 60% of ITMO’s stud…
18.04.2018