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• 4SPB Hackathon: Machine Learning for Socially Significant Projects

  …g the hackathon means that we'll get help with completing the project, and I think that'll take several months at least. I guess we'll have to try several more runs using data science, analyze the provisional results and communicate what we’ve learned to the public. After all, this topic is stigmatized, and not everyone is ready to listen." The hackathon's winne…

  21.02.2019

• ITMO University and EUSP Launch Joint Master’s Program ‘Science and Technologies in Society’

  …‘Science and Technologies in Society’, the first joint Master’s program between ITMO University and the European University at St. Petersburg, will welcome its first students in the fall of 2019 and will aim to train specialists in the field of social research on science and technology. As ITMO University’s Rector Vladimir Vasilyev has …

  20.02.2019

• “It’s Your Call!” Winter School Launched at ITMO University

  …ant, the Director of Product Marketing at Yandex, Alexander Boukhanovsky, head of ITMO University’s School of Translational Information Technologies, and Alexander Baulin, the Science and Technology Editor at Forbes Russia. Project work All students of the Winter School will attend workshops on soft skills and public speaking. These skills will come in handy wh…

  19.02.2019

• Brussels, Prague and Rio de Janeiro: Exchange Students Share Their Experiences

  …ity of Chemistry and Technology is one of the top Czech universities, but I wouldn’t say there’s something special about it from the academic point of view. I chose it for its scientific profile: my program at ITMO University isn’t in the university’s main subject area, and I hoped to go somewhere with a focus on chemistry to learn about this subject. Even though the…

  19.02.2019

• Ex-Executive Director of Nobel Foundation Michael Sohlman: How to Win the Nobel Prize

  …imin, who not only taught chemistry to Alfred Nobel but also provided Nobel with important connections in the world. In fact, Nobel had learned about nitroglycerin through the scientific community which Zimin had introduced him to years earlier. On state support It’s hard to downplay the importance of resources, and the countries that invest in

  18.02.2019

• Internships at Huawei: ITMO Students Share

  …in such fields as computer vision, natural language processing, as well as establishing an open ecosystem and training the associated personnel, which implies cooperation with scientists and partners all around the world. According to Jiancheng Zeng, head of Huawei St. Petersburg Research Centre, the company is now interested in attracting new talented employees l…

  15.02.2019

• Project by ITMO Robotics Team Named Best at Baltic Science and Engineering Competition

  …Baltic Science and Engineering Competition: exhibition of projects with over 3,000 attending This year, the Baltic Science and Engineering Competition (BSEC) celebrates its milestone 15-year anniversary, as the contest has been held annually since 2005. According to the organizers, now it’s one of the biggest …

  15.02.2019

• Dmitri Mendeleev: Everything You Need to Know About the Inventor of Periodic Table

  …ng around 96% alcohol and 4% water becomes a constant boiling mixture. But Mendeleev was the first one to manage it. He created fully anhydrous, meaning absolute, alcohol. The scientist turned the 12 buckets of regular alcohol he was given into a glass of absolute, which was very handy if one wanted to dilute or concoct different substances. Where did the 40-d…

  14.02.2019

• The Neuroscience of Love

  …Neurotransmitters and hormones The abundance of “Love is…” comic strips shows how little we know about love. The only scientifically correct caption for one of them would be “Love is… a dopaminergic goal-directed motivation for the establishment of pair bonds”. Dopamine is a neurotransmitter, or a substance used by brain neurons to communicate with each other. Wha…

  14.02.2019

• This Weekend in St. Petersburg: February 16-17

  … Indian school children and students of the Hindi School in St. Petersburg, as well as the international conference ‘India at the at the crossroads of cultures and traditions: science, education, art’. Admission is free. Old Istanbul photo exhibition Don’t want to go back to the wintry St. Petersburg just yet? For those out there like myself fed up with the col…

  13.02.2019