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• ITMO Graduates Participate in School of Science Journalism in Erice

  …m which he tries to tell in his articles. According to Daniil Shirokov, such formats are rarely used in Russian science journalism. Still, it were not the lectures but the networking that the school’s participants found most useful. Informal communication between each other provided insight into the current state of science communica…

  20.07.2018

• Movie Fridays: Summer in the City

  …great plot that’ll keep you up at night brooding over existential questions: sometimes it seems as if the scriptwriters had a really hard time trying to find the words to put between the songs. But the breathtaking Croatian scenery, good cast (there’s Cher in it, hello) and the amazing ABBA soundtrack make the movie more than watchable. Enjoy! Yours truly, ITM…

  20.07.2018

• Emotional AI Helps Enhance Productivity and Fight Stress

  …otions. And there are many research on how to detect, control and synthesize these basic emotions. So, there are new research areas emerging that focus on the relationship between emotions and biological data? First of all, there is the already existing cognitive science which includes the concept of emotional intelligence. But it was first based on psychology …

  19.07.2018

• ITMO Student on Using IT to Help People With Dementia

  …planned for 2020. Among the project's participants is ITMO PhD student Daniil Razdyakonov, who studies on the Mathematical and Software Support of Computer Systems and Networks program. As part of the project, the student worked with scientists and programmers who develop mobile apps for people with dementia, did internships in Great Britain and Germany, and b…

  18.07.2018

• Innovative Method for Microcirculation Diagnosis Gives New Insights into Migraines

  … To fill this gap, scientists are developing new and non-invasive research methods. One of these innovative methods is optical plethysmography. A result of a collaboration between Russian and Finnish scientists, plethysmography gives a graphic representation of how the blood flow volume changes under functional overloads. This data is necessary for assessing the v…

  18.07.2018

• “Quantum Potential” Science Stand-Up Show Returns In Second Installment

  …s for some reason. It did bother us that the train didn’t stop at our stop! We found the attendant, who told us that we got on the express train to Cologne – with no stops in between. This was less than 12 hours before an important meeting. Luckily for us, the attendant stopped the train in Potsdam (30 kilometers from Berlin) where we spent the night before returning…

  17.07.2018

• ITMO University Makes a Big Debut in 2018 Shanghai Global Ranking of Academic Subjects

  …ni and staff. To make it into the 2018 ranking, universities had to meet the subject-specific minimal requirements of the number of papers published over the four-year period between 2012 - 2016, with Physics having the highest requirements for the Natural Sciences group and Materials Science for the Engineering group. Publishing metrics were obtained from the Web of…

  17.07.2018

• How Do Russian MOOC Platforms Compete With World Top MOOC Providers? Courseburg Investigates

  …workings of the five leading online education giants: international platforms ‘Coursera’ and ‘EdX’ and Russian-led ‘Open Education’, ‘Universarium’ and ‘Lektorium’. Collected between 2014 - 2017, the data was used for examining traffic statistics, page views, bounce rates, and users’ activity on each platform in question. “Embarking on this first-of-its-kind stu…

  16.07.2018

• Children Develop Robots at ITMO.KIDS Technopark

  … VK about the ITMO.KIDS summer school and decided to give it a try. I’m interested in programming and robotics. When thinking about the idea for our project, we were choosing between a quadcopter and an automatic climate control system for greenhouses but ended up designing a feeder. We acquired many useful skills during this summer school, such as working on a laser…

  16.07.2018

• TEDxSZIU: Experts Share Their Vision of the Future

  …inds of people in the modern world: some respect self-esteem and creativity, others - hierarchy and authority. Mr. Fomintsev believes that it is communities that shape social networks, ones with no hierarchy and authority, that can become the drivers of change. Before everything else, people compete for social ties which, in turn, help them acquire particular …

  12.07.2018