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• How Course Assessment Influences the Quality of Education

  …Russian) Thinking (in Russian) (You can follow the links in order to find out what those modules are all about.) Even though these educational modules have been functioning for two years, we still need to constantly edit and develop them in order to provide students with the best possible education. What is more valuable for improvement than feedba…

  22.07.2020

• At-Home Lab Experiments: A Look at the Summer SCAMT Workshop Week 2020

  …n option. We even delivered some boxes to their St. Petersburg addresses by ourselves. But at the end of the day, we’re happy with how everything panned out. And the participants’ reaction was priceless: they were really surprised that what we sent them wasn’t just merch, but entire home labs, and even recorded videos about it,” says Polina Khapaeva, a coordinator of…

  22.07.2020

• Cognitive Science: How Memory Works and How to Make Yours Work Better

  … get married, but one of the partners wished to remain childless and was anxious to announce it to the other. There were two alternative versions of the story – with two different reactions of the second partner to this unexpected piece of news (they either agreed or disagreed on the matter). The participants were then told that the couple either married or decided t…

  21.07.2020

• Scientists Suggest Using Gold Nanoparticle Metasurfaces to Determine Substance Molecular Composition

  …orbing a certain amount of energy while they’re at it. As a result, the outcoming energy will be less. The frequency at which the energy was absorbed, can be used to determine the functional atomic groups a molecule consists of. Then, a ‘molecular ID’ could be created that can then be used by a detector as it determines the kind of substance it was presented with.” …

  21.07.2020

• Mission Inboxible: How to Set Up a Successful Marketing Mailout

  … details, and culminating in additions and clarifications in small print in the very end. It’s better to use more images and less text, though this rule depends on the purpose and function of each specific email. But for regular letters with announcements of sales, new additions and discounts, events and so on, the aforementioned model proves the most effective.  …

  21.07.2020

• Russian Books to Read This Summer

  …ng. It’s quite different from other short stories by Chekhov, for there is no irony or satire. Instead, it’s a beautifully written tale of a journey through the steppe with not much action going on – perfect for reading without a haste on a summer evening. Elizaveta: Moscow to the End of the Line by Venedict Erofeev Moscow to the End of the Line (also known by …

  20.07.2020

• A Great Opportunity to Practice Public Speaking: SPIE Photonics Europe Participant on the Advantages of Online Scientific Conferences

  …adadzhanova to find out how unusual it was to present a report online, and how the experience of participating in online conferences can come in handy.  What was your first reaction when you found out you wouldn’t be able to attend the conference? The SPIE Photonics Europe 2020 conference was supposed to be my first international conference held outside of …

  20.07.2020

• ITMO University Scientists Recognized With Two Awards at Prestigious Evolutionary Computation Conference GECCO 2020

  …s Maksim Buzdalov, the head of ITMO University’s Evolutionary Computation laboratory. “By first approximation, it’s a way to apply different metaphors, such as evolution, natural selection, mutations, and crossing, to the solution of complex tasks. A potential solution is coded as some species and then it evolves somehow. Sometimes other metaphors are borrowed, for e…

  20.07.2020

• ITMO University and VK Carry Out Research in the Field of Machine Learning and User Metrics

  …decrease. It’s important to understand how these short metrics, which could be influenced, are connected to long metrics, which we want to influence. We want to build an objective function that would allow us to change long metrics by impacting the short ones accordingly.” But short metrics are many and varied, and their impact on the long ones isn’t always obvi…

  17.07.2020

• Researcher Svetlana Ulasevich on Fighting Resistant Bacteria With Ultrasound

  …surfaces. On biomimetic materials and sonochemistry From the very start, when I was still a student at the Belarusian State University, I always picked topics at the intersection of medicine and chemistry. The university encouraged us to do research alongside studies. I was interested in being a part of actual research, the kind where you don’t know the res…

  17.07.2020