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• ITMO University Team Wins NordCTF With More Points Than All Other Contestants Put Together

  … About the contest NordCTF was organized by ITMO University together with the Inter-regional public organization "Association of Chief Information Security Officer” and the Science and Higher Education committee of the Government of St. Petersburg. Next day after the contest, another NordCTF round was held at ITMO University, this time for those still at sc…

  14.10.2019

• Cats Can Love

  …irst, the animals stayed with their owners, then they were left alone and after that owners returned to the room where they stayed; the whole test took six minutes. The scientists monitored the behavior of kittens and identified several levels of attachment based on the results. They considered the attachment secure if kittens let their owners hold or pet them…

  11.10.2019

• Academy of Talents: ITMO’s Specialists from Institute of Design & Urban Studies Host Lectures for School Students

  …the Big Challenges competition, the students will be interacting with experts who will provide online consultations to ensure their best level of preparedness for the national scientific and technological contest in the “Smart City” track.  The Big Challenges program represents only an intensive course on theoretical and practical activity for school students from…

  11.10.2019

• Scientists Develop World’s First Photonic Quadrupolar Topological Insulator

  … the last decade, researchers started to develop ideas on how to create such states in photonics, as well. In order to increase the range of electrical topological insulators, scientists replace electrons with photons – quanta of electromagnetic radiation. For this purpose, they create special structures, photonic crystals and metamaterials, that have a specific latt…

  09.10.2019

• Education Goes Digital: Results of ITMO DigiEduHack

  …try Ioksha notes that he has already chosen ITMO University.  The participants of the track “VR and AR in Education” were offered to create a virtual laboratory for natural science disciplines, a platform for conducting exams in the VR format, as well as a method that would allow for using VR and AR technologies for studying programming and robotics of humanities.…

  09.10.2019

• Data Science for Gazprom Neft: Internships for ITMO Students

  …ne for a future professional. “Doing an internship is essential for a student, even if they don’t stay to work at that company”, notes Vadim Abbakumov, an expert and Data Science analyst. “This is something that can later help pass an interview at a different employer. This offers good experience and an opportunity to see how a major company operates, what its b…

  09.10.2019

• ITMO University Students Win The Largest Hackathon in History

  …brought together over 3,000 young specialists from 77 Russian regions split into some 600 teams. In the course of 48 hours, they solved tasks in five categories: Education and Science, Healthcare, Public Administration, Housing and Urban Environment, and Transport and Logistics, as well as in special categories provided by the competition’s partners. Their progress w…

  08.10.2019

• Must-Have for Drivers: New Development by ITMO Scientists Will Make Car Trips Safer

  …ess and inattentiveness?  Adaptation and individualization are the topics we are currently looking into. A little more than a year ago, we received a grant from the Russian Science Foundation supporting fundamental research in this field. Right now, drivers can teach the app by providing feedback on specific dangerous states which we plan to use to teach our neura…

  08.10.2019

• Light Can Cool: ITMO Scientists Propose Concept of Optical Nano-Refrigerator

  …Researchers and engineers pay more and more attention to such optically active material as perovskite halide. Some scientists are even talking about the upcoming “perovskite revolution” when this material will be able to force standard semiconductors out of the market of the production of solar cells and lasers. As of now, the widespread development of perovskite-…

  07.10.2019

• Top Five: Podcasts

  …you to sleep from boredom at the same time.  Where to start: This is a tricky question as there is so much material to choose from, so maybe resorting to the tried-and-true scientific guess approach (just closing your eyes and pointing at a random episode) would be the least overwhelming option. Here’s one of our first choices: The Power of Cute. You’ll never look…

  04.10.2019