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Master’s Student on Cryptocurrencies and How to Organize an IT Business
…+ and Java. Many people believe that Haskell is a very difficult language used for math calculations. However I like this development tool more than others. When I started studying at the Computer Technology Department, I planned to became a programmer, or mathematician or scientist or to combine all these activities. All programming languages that we studied seem…
24.01.2017
Third Session of Hermitage’s Art&Science Project: How Air Harms Paintings and Why Would One Make a Mold of Grass?
…e information on how a painting initially looked like. Yet, we can understand which color was used for each element of the painting. From a historian's point of view, we also study the conditions people lived in and the tools they used. Vadim Fishkin, artist and professor at the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (Russia/Slovenia): "Light" Matters: all around the …
23.01.2017
VIII Gaidar Forum: Russia’s Leading Experts on the Future of Education
…ompetition. As for the relevance of continuous education, according to research by the Higher School of Economics, in Russia, only 10% of people aged 40 and older continue to study. In Germany that would be 40%, in Sweden — 60%. Mr. Mau also believes that entrepreneurship is important for a 3.0 university, but not as its main field of activity; yet, universities are …
21.01.2017
New Faculty Opens Its Doors for Bachelors
…o development of programs for Bachelors and organizational work. Next year, we will pay more attention to Master’s programs. Recently, ITMO won two grants — the first one for studying perovskvites (the project is headed by Anvar Zakhidov), and the second one for researching hybrid light-matter states in low-dimensional quantum materials (guided by Morris Skolnick)," …
19.01.2017
Genome Editing Will Help Cure HIV
… of Pediatric Oncology, Hematology and Transplantology led by Professor Boris Fehse and Professor Boris Afanasiev. ITMO University. Marina Popova "The method is based on studying the changes in the DNA sequences. We use site-specific genome editing to simulate the mutation that provides the cell's resilience to HIV. If that is done with bone marrow cells, then a…
19.01.2017
From Julius Caesar to Now: Migraine Is More than Just a Headache
…ad, but sometimes it can move to another. According to ITMO’s researchers, it can be explained by abnormal blood supply peculiar to people with migraine [Read more about this study here -Ed.]. Myth № 4: Migraine has been studied well Some say that migraine, as any other type of headache, is a neurological disease. On one hand, it is correct, but on other, migr…
18.01.2017
Baltic Research Contest: Best Students, Great Opportunities
…On participating in the Baltic Research Contest I've known about the contest for quite a long time, as I have been studying at the Laboratory of Continious Mathematical Education based in school #564 for some time. The laboratory bills itself as a beacon for young scientists — I got my Math skills there. For a couple of times, I've participated in organizing the B…
18.01.2017
Studying From the Comfort of Your Own Couch
…It was just five years ago that articles started to emerge on Habrahabr with titles like "What is online education?" or "How can you study at Stanford while lying on your couch". Now when your neighbor tells you about how he watched a lecture from MIT on programming, it doesn’t sound so shocking. Within just a few years, online education has conquered the market and …
13.01.2017
A Guide for Energy Saving: How to Make It Safer and Cheaper
…O’s Achievements St. Petersburg researchers are working on increasing renewable power sources including solar batteries. ITMO won a megagrant to build a new laboratory for studying these systems. The researchers at the university also develop colloidal nanocrystals that can be used in solar batteries. Currently such devices are not as effective as they could be…
13.01.2017
Singlet Oxygen and UV Emission, or Why Winter Strolls Are Good for Your Health
…. Singlet oxygen concentration is closely related to weather conditions and can be affected by many factors, so it is necessary to not only conduct pinpoint measurements, but study the system's dynamics, as well". To solve this task, the student developed a new optical solid-body sensor, which was used to construct a special gas analyzer. The analyzer can be used…
11.01.2017