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• ITMO University Makes It Into Top-10 of RAEX Ranking

  …ays subjective, such rankings only outline some general trends but aren’t enough to say that one university is better than the other. What is also interesting is the huge gap between the first two “champions” and “all the rest,” commented Ilya Kuftiryov, head of ITMO’s Rankings Research Center. Dr. Kuftiryov also added that one shouldn’t take the results of such…

  05.09.2018

• Researchers Use Silicon Nanoparticles for Enhancing Solar Cells Efficiency

  …ht harvesting properties of the absorbing upper layer. Silicon nanoparticles have already surpassed plasmonic ones. The scientists hope that a deeper study of the interaction between nanoparticles and light, as well as their application in perovskite solar cells, will lead to even better results. “In our research, we used MAPbI3 perovskite, which allowed us …

  05.09.2018

• Digital Technologies in Theater

  …emotion, the computer matched it with corresponding words and displayed them on the big screen, as if the participants were writing poetry with their emotions. Cooperation between ITMO University and Tallinn University Participants of the summer school included ITMO University students Daria Chirimisina, a first-year PhD student and graduate of the Lighting Des…

  04.09.2018

• ITMO.GO: Thousands of First-Year Students Join ITMO University

  … possible wildfires. Guided by the team coach Igor Lositskiy, we assembled the robot from servo motors, Lego bricks, and various electronic devices. Using its internal neural network, our Forester robot can create forest maps, discern between different types of trees, gauge their condition, and include them in its database. ITMO Univ…

  03.09.2018

• Five Science Blogs You May Find Interesting

  … new media. She writes for such science portals as From The Lab Bench, Nature Magazine, and EMBO Reports, and has blogs on Altmetric, The Pursuit and Scientific American blog network. You can find links to her articles, research and recommendations on her Twitter, among lots of other interesting information that ranges from cooking recipes to insights into the import…

  31.08.2018

• Specialists From eScience Research Institute Participate in ICCS 2018

  …eld of Big Data-related research are the improvement of technologies of primary data collection and processing and the emergence of new digital mechanisms like IoT and social networks that can be used for registering unobservable processes. Specialists in such fields will be sought after by not just modern IT companies, but also hi-tech enterprises whose activities a…

  31.08.2018

• Phylogenetic Trees and Targeted Cancer Research: Bioinformatics Summer School

  …sity As part of the summer school I participated in a project on reconstructing phylogenetic trees. A phylogenetic tree is a type of graph depicting the evolutionary links between different species. Why do we need to master this technique for cancer research? So that we could retrace how a healthy cell transforms itself to a cancerous one. This would allow for ear…

  30.08.2018

• Neurotheater as an Instrument of Cognitive Science

  …ity. Interdisciplinary projects The European Commission has recently launched the STARTS (Science+Technology and Arts) project that is aimed at developing collaboration between scientists and media artists. This collaboration’s goal is to create innovative technologies; several projects are already being developed as part of this initiative. Multiple hackathons…

  29.08.2018

• UC San Diego Assistant Professor on Latest Software Development Trends

  …oftware engineering tasks does the automated models synthesis solve? An automated model is no more than a set of states (graph nodes) combined with conditioned transitions between them (designated graph edges). Due to its relative simplicity and illustrative properties, these models are often used for visualization and implementation of a variety of different proc…

  29.08.2018

• Making the Most of Your Student Life

  …say it wasn’t fun while it lasted, although I wouldn’t quite recommend this lifestyle to freshers. So my advice for first-year students would be to strike the perfect balance between work and play. After all, they don’t give you all the museums and cinema discounts for no reason, right? Use them wisely and have fun, but don’t forget to hit the books before it’s too l…

  28.08.2018