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• Eco-Friendly Board Game Teaches Students to Combine Business and Sustainable Development

  …nd make large contributions near the end of the game. The game also features random events, such as floods or financial crises. “So far, we’ve developed two aspects of sustainable development: ecology and economics. But we already have a few more ideas on how to improve it: we’re planning an expansion called “Society”, which will add the third aspect of sus

  15.03.2018

• ITMO Researchers Study the Prospects of Switching to Driverless Transport

  … beneficial to the common users? I can’t give you any particular numbers, as we had no such goal in our research. Still, considering the amount of money people spend on maintaining their private cars, it is very unlikely that using taxis will be more expensive. Even now, there are instances when using taxis is cheaper than owning a car. Naturally, we suppose that …

  15.03.2018

• HR Hackathon: Making Things Easier for Employers and Employees

  … test helps evaluate their level of involvement, adaptability, openness and other qualities. Having filled out their profile, job seekers can browse a list of companies, containing short job descriptions and salaries. Upon choosing something they like, they can examine it in more detail. Companies, meanwhile, can visit candidates’ profiles and see their test resul…

  12.03.2018

• BioHack-2018: 48 Hours to Make a Difference

  …t of a neurodegenerative disease based on the analysis of repeat genetic sequences. These repeat sequences are cause of the RAN-translation process, which produces proteins containing certain amino acid sequences. These proteins, in turn, are involved in the formation of particular substances that are associated with neurodegenerative d…

  07.03.2018

• ITMO's Young Scientist on How to Win Two Grants and Go to Berlin

  …created a sensor platform that can detect pathogens such as Legionella. How Did You Become ITMO’s Ambassador? What’s Your Mission? My mission is to establish and maintain contacts between ITMO’s teachers, scientists and students and representatives of other universities all over the world. Apart from that, I organise various events and conferences. For e…

  07.03.2018

• Bookstores of St. Petersburg

  …chitecture, design, politics, history, music – the list goes on. Located in a building that was once home to prominent Russian writer Ivan Turgenev, this bookshop seeks to maintain the literary ambience of the past by organizing seminars and lectures on literature and culture. The shop offers a discount of 7-10% to university students. Dom Knigi Nevsky Prospekt…

  06.03.2018

• ITMO Scientists Study Properties of Terahertz Gauss-Bessel Beams

  … compared it with the research studies of the previous authors where they looked into the superluminal propagation of terahertz pulses in Bessel beams. As of now, we need to obtain experimental evidence for our results, which is going to be our next step,” concludes Maksim Kulya.   Reference: On terahertz pulsed broadband Gauss-Bessel beam free-space propagat…

  05.03.2018

• Climate Change: Future Challenges for Urban Scientists

  …. Still, there’s an important thing one has to understand in regard to the modern climatic period: global warming does not mean that it’s getting warmer just everywhere. Certainly not. There are even territories where it can get colder. This is only natural, as Earth has a complex structure, and there are many factors that affect local manifestations of different …

  05.03.2018

• Dmitry Moscovich, CIO at Gazprom Transgaz Saint-Petersburg, on Introducing IT Systems at Enterprises

  …ar understanding of the particular fields of business they are dealing with, which is unfortunate. Most modern information systems used at enterprises are seen as means for sustaining their standard business processes; few perceive them as an opportunity to gain competitive advantage. When you are improving the system and developing new algorithms, you should already…

  02.03.2018

• Mapping the City: ITMO Students Launch New Urban Development Project

  …loping a system for modeling pedestrian routes in the Petrogradsky District which we plan to present at ICON-LA (International Conference On Landscape Architecture: Towards sustainable urban environments) in June 2018. At the current stage, you already have interesting results - you’ve developed an interactive map of the quality of cleaning. How do you plan to use…

  01.03.2018