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• ITMO Is Placed Third in National IT Ranking

  …ersity retains its ninth position to which it rose last year. To compile the annual ranking, analysts from Interfax use various public data on the universities’ activities, scientific performance and the results of monitoring conducted by the Ministry of Science and Higher Education. The results of the analysis conducted by the Inter…

  04.06.2019

• Speak like a Russian: Speaking of Rain

  … and the common belief is that after them, it is the best time to go mushroom hunting. Well, that mostly covers the most common types of rain. Next time, our topic will be “scientific” words that made their way into common speech!…

  03.06.2019

• ITMO Researchers Develop Alternative Liquid-Based THz Radiation Source

  …ng the optimal type of liquid, the thickness of jets, the strength of excitation radiation, and a number of other parameters. In an article published by Optics Express, the scientists describe the efficiency of THz radiation generation in liquid jets under single-color excitation.  The study involved several types of liquid: water, ethanol, heavy water, and aceton…

  03.06.2019

• Konstantin Zaytsev, One of Top-5 Young Russian Scientists in Systems Biology, on Systems Biology in Russia

  …It was just yesterday that the winners of Skoltech Fellowship Program 2019 have been announced. You made it into the top-5 young scientists in the field of systems biology with a project dedicated to single cell RNA sequencing. Please tell us more about your work. I will only start working on this project as part of the program. Nevertheless, I already have a part…

  31.05.2019

• InnoCamp: How Russian and Finnish Students Reinvent Old Spaces

  …All in all, 24 students (12 from each side) from ITMO University and the South-Eastern Finland University of Applied Sciences (XAMK) took part in InnoCamp. As part of the Startup Connect project, students of the two universities spent six weeks working in teams on real cases from the project’s partner companies. Afterwards, the students traveled to the Finnish town o…

  31.05.2019

• 10th Bike Ride with Rector: Long-Time Participants Share Favorite Routes and Experiences

  …om where I live, it takes the same time to get to work by bike or by bus. But if the weather is good, the bike wins. Natalia Ros, second-year student of Master’s program in Science Communication The most fun for me was when I’d fall. I would take videos and photos for the university’s social media and kept falling from riding with one hand. Right now, I’m in Be…

  30.05.2019

• How Minkowski–Bouligand Dimension Helps Determine Signature Authenticity

  …Yuriy Rozhdestvenskiy, D.Sc. in Physics and Mathematics and professor at ITMO’s Faculty of Photonics and Optical Information, as well as young scientists Semyon Rudyi and Tatyana Vovk published an article on signature identification based on the fractal Minkowski–Bouligand dimension and methods of machine learning. “We consider a signature as a trajectory of a p…

  29.05.2019

• ITMO University Partners with Art&Science Day Skolkovo

  …Introduced in 2016, Art&Science Day Skolkovo is organized as part of Startup Village, an international conference for technological entrepreneurs. This year’s conference takes place at Skolkovo on May 29-30 and is expected to gather some 15,000 participants. The organizers have planned over 150 sessions on latest technological trends, the development of new markets, …

  29.05.2019

• Summer Festivals in St. Petersburg

  …том), and 50+ other artists from all over the world. Tickets start at 2,800 rubles. Geek Picnic July 6-7, Primorsky Victory Park Europe’s largest open-air festival of science, tech, and pop culture is back with another dose of geek goodness! Cosplay, merch, lectures and workshops, partying, and gaming; it’s simply too much to describe. Check out our report f…

  28.05.2019

• New Method for Analyzing Genes Activity Helps Predict Cancer Patients Survival

  …ns of different cells that need to be distinguished from each other in order for us to understand exactly what processes are happening in the tissue. To solve this problem, scientists have come up with special deconvolution algorithms, which allow to decompose the data and match it to different cell types. This method helps form an understanding of the cell types …

  28.05.2019