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• Great Prospects, Great Expectations: European XFEL Inaugurated

  …ity The main components of the set-up that generates coherent ultra-brilliant, tunable laser pulses in the X-ray mode are the linear electron accelerator and a system of magnetic undulators that stretches along a three-and-a-half kilometer long underground tunnel. Electron beams in the ultra-conductive linear accelerator are accelerated and then routed to the undu…

  04.09.2017

• Breakthrough Technologies Will Soon Leave Laboratories: School Students Share Their Vision Of Future

  … to become a surgeon. I believe that the future belongs to neurobiology, as well.  It would be great if we were to invent more advanced prostheses in the near future. As for genetic engineering, I guess there are lots of challenges we are to face, primarily in what has to do with developing the corresponding legislation and solving many ethical issues.  It is most im…

  01.09.2017

• Life in World of Resonances

  …visibility. How? At particular frequencies, the Fano resonance profile equals zero. This means that there's no or very few scattering for this frequency band, so the electromagnetic wave passes through an object without even noticing it, and if there's no scattering, the object can't be seen. Surely, that would work only for a particular frequency band, and with cert…

  01.09.2017

• Algorithm Summer School: New ITMO-STC Initiative

  …Nine students from different universities who successfully solved the test on neural networks participated in the first Algorithm summer school; they came to St. Petersburg from different cities to master the fundamentals of machine learning under the guidance of the field's experienced practitioners. "The test was about creating a system for road sign recogniti…

  31.08.2017

• Back Into Swing: Life-hacks For Adapting Your Lifestyle

  …colleagues who didn't. Credit: hsto.org Renouncing web-surfing doesn't help It seems obvious that if a student or employee distracts himself by surfing through social networks or watching cat videos, that would have a negative effect on their work. Yet, research recently showed that suppressing the urge to do that has an even worse effect on one's performanc…

  31.08.2017

• Eduroam - Next Step Towards International Education System

  …About Eduroam Eduroam (education roaming) originated in 2002 thanks to the TERENA non-profit organization from the Netherlands. TERENA’s mission is to contribute to the development of technological infrastructure that is imperative for collaboration in the field of education in Europe and around the world. Thus, they introduce new communication systems, conduct le…

  31.08.2017

• Things to do in St. Petersburg this weekend

  … event’s organizers! Telnyashka Day Telnyashka - a horizontally striped marine shirt - is something you’ll commonly see sold at souvenir stalls along with matreshkas, magnets with views of St. Petersburg and the like; in a sense, it has long become an attribute of a stereotypical Russian as they portray them along with a vatnik and vodka. On Sunday, there’ll be…

  30.08.2017

• FactoryFinder: ITMO Graduates Develop Service To Optimize Procurement

  …eir main task is to build a long-standing system for communicating with foreign suppliers. The team is already working with European and Asian companies; the expansion of this network allows Russian companies to work with foreign suppliers directly, without the need to turn to middlemen’s services. Apart from communicating with foreign suppliers, the service’s tea…

  30.08.2017

• Yandex Expert Shares Rules for Co-Existence of Humans and AI

  …telligence. Yet they don’t seem to notice that AI surrounds us already – we use it every day. Search engines employ machine learning, and modern ones are all made up of neural networks. Internet spam is a self-learning system. These days, all online financial transactions are based on self-learning machines – every time you use a credit…

  29.08.2017

• Russian-Japanese Exchange Program: Participants Share

  …trip, I got the urge to go back to studying Japanese. Cultures become similar due to globalization only - both countries watch American movies, use iPhones and the same social networks, many wish to travel and learn more about the world. When talking about traditions and mentality, this is the only way we can study each other’s cultures. Japan and Russia are two diff…

  29.08.2017