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ITMO Scientists Develop an Algorithm That Makes the Inference of Population History Models for People and Animals Easier and More Accurate
…ons can be found in the population’s demographic history: a scenario that shows what stages a population went through in the course of its history, whether it underwent any mass extinctions, migrations, or sharp spikes in its numbers. “Before people learned to decode genomes, the only way to find out what happened to populations of people, cats, dogs, elephants…
04.03.2020
Smart Urban Environment: ITMO University Holds First Professional Development Course for Staff of Sevastopol State University
…blic and Business Council on the Smart City Priority Project and a specialized unit created under the umbrella of the Department of Economic Development of the City of Sevastopol. Functioning within Sevastopol State University’s Institute of National Technology Initiative, the unit trains software engineering-majoring Master’s students for work in the field of smart …
04.03.2020
Explore Saint Petersburg Like a Local: Moskovsky Prospect
…t this monument is the first to welcome the city’s visitors. As you travel north, you’ll also travel back in time. The architecture around you will change to the grandiose construction of the Stalin era, who at one point had a plan to move the city’s administrative center here, away from the floods and the tsarist past. The houses are substantial and imposing. Th…
03.03.2020
Researchers Suggest Using Blockchain to Boost Self-Driving Cars’ Security
…t agree on many things, but they do tend to describe the near future in similar terms: smart cities, driverless cars and road services that react to accidents or traffic lights malfunctions before they cause traffic jams all over these smart cities. To make it all possible, we have to first develop a way to collect, analyse and store the giant stream of information t…
03.03.2020
10th Birthday of International Sports Programming Project Codeforces Celebrated at ITMO University
…that nickname. “I don’t even remember where I first saw a link to Codeforces,” he says. “It was a work-in-progress project back then, and it was a platform with communicative functions. There were lots of blogs, and when the programming world cup was happening, its participants and visitors posted pictures and fascinating stories about it. There started to appea…
03.03.2020
New Way to Digitize: ITMO Students and Staff Invited to Take Part in University’s Digital Transformation
… long dreamt of seeing their ideas implemented in one of the aforementioned areas,” says Andrey Lyamin. “Maybe some of the students know what needs to be changed about the course selection system or how individualized learning tracks are made. Perhaps researchers or heads of labs have some ideas for ways to create research teams, find grants, and so on using digital …
02.03.2020
Over Twenty ITMO University Students Win Potanin Scholarship Contest
…udent union. There, I learned to negotiate with different people and find solutions pertaining to many aspects of students’ lives. I think that these qualities helped me pass the selection and win the scholarship. What winning the contest means tome is the recognition of my achievements in both research and societal spheres, as well as financial support of my further…
02.03.2020
ITMO’s Technopark Resident MerkleBot Receives an Award at the World’s Largest Developer Conference
… who can provide their professional opinion on the hardware in question. This solution can help the parties to the contract calculate and assess the risks, and determine the production margin. For banks, this is a way to be sure of the company they provide services to, and for companies it is an opportunity to introduce a dynamic interest rate so as to avoid goin…
02.03.2020
Painting with Plasma: ITMO University Researchers Propose a Way of Fast and Inexpensive Glass Processing for Microoptics and Microfluidics
…surface can be processed and pictures etched on it. In order to do it well, it’s often necessary to change the laser beam’s profile. It can be done by certain optical elements: diffraction gratings, phase converters and various micro-optical elements that are produced on glass. “Nowadays, it’s not hard to create high-power laser radiation sources,” says Maksim S…
28.02.2020
Students of Three European Universities Visit Russia to Study Closed-Loop Economy on the Example of St. Petersburg Companies
…e management – I’m really interested in both of these topics as these are the spheres you can really make a difference in. That’s because they are about the effectiveness of the production process, which is what interests the majority of companies since it holds out the prospect of financial gain. Our team was allocated the case by the company TPV – they produce m…
28.02.2020