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• The 2018 Nobel Prize in Economics: Any Lessons for Russia?

  …The 2018 Nobel Prize in Economics, widely regarded as the most prestigious award in that field, went to two American scientists, Paul Romer and William Nordhaus, who study economic growth cycles and their effect on social and natural phenomena. The researchers’ main achievement lies in their creation of methods for solving the fundamental issues of sustainable econom…

  15.10.2018

• International Olympiad in Informatics 2018 Winners: Even If You’re Tired, Don’t Lose Sight of Your Goals

  …azan Rakhmatullin: I come from Kazan, where I graduated from the Lobachevsky lyceum of Kazan Federal University. I transferred to that school because of the intensive computer science training it offered. I started programming in 2014 right after I finished seventh grade at school. Before then, starting from my sixth grade, my main area of focus was maths. At first, …

  15.10.2018

• Unexplored St. Petersburg: The Museum of Sound

  … the heritage of European Philosophic cafés; the topics of lectures and open discussions that take place here range from contemporary art theories to the application of latest scientific inventions and the future of digital culture. My personal idea of fun has a lot to do with getting new experiences and looking at things from a different angle; if you can relate to …

  12.10.2018

• Rostelecom’s Project Leader Alisa Korzhenevskaya: We’re Slowly but Surely Digitizing the World Around Us

  …e cooperate with more than 400 banks with different IT capacities, so it’s a massive task to accomplish. Second, we want to stay on top of the latest trends in biometrics as a science, which would allow us to constantly perfect our product. Lastly, we’re doing our best to bust the myth that sharing your biometric data is something scary and will eventually be used ag…

  12.10.2018

• How to Write a Thesis on Marvel Comic Books: PhD Student Daniil Shirokov Explains

  …What was your work about? Titled as ‘Representation of Scientific Knowledge in a Visual Culture’, my Master’s thesis focused on three principal questions: how did a scientist’s image in Marvel comic books evolve over the years, in what way was this process influenced by societal changes, and what do we have now. The practical part w…

  12.10.2018

• Novgorod State University Hosts ITMO.REGIONS Innovation Weekend

  …of the Faculty of Technological Management and Innovations Nina Yanykina touched on the complex subject of intellectual property, while Anatoly Semenov, leading manager at the Scientific Business Partnership Center, filled participants in on the specifics of interacting with business partners. The Department of National Programs and Projects was represented by its he…

  11.10.2018

• University of Amsterdam Professor on the Importance of Crowd Behavior Research and Putting Minecraft to Good Use

  …t is defined by a set of parameters that include their age, mobility, speed, emotions, and experience of decision-making. Taken as a whole, this system of criteria enables the scientists to understand how people navigate through unfamiliar environments, in particular, how panic influences their decision-making. In a bid to understand how people approach their envi…

  11.10.2018

• ITMO University Launches Digital Humanities Research Lab

  … DHlab: the laboratory’s purpose As a research field, Digital Humanities implies using digitized materials and combines the methods largely accepted in traditional liberal sciences with IT, thus offering instruments and providing new opportunities for collecting and visualizing data, as well as data retrieval, intellectual data analysis, and the use of mathematic…

  11.10.2018

• Short-Term Academic Mobility Programs: How to Get University’s Financial Support

  …ticipated in the 4th “Promising Development Trends in National IT” conference that was hosted by Sevastopol National Technical University. The conference brought together both scientists and representatives of authorities and business, and I have to note that I really liked this systemic approach to solving relevant tasks. Me and my peer did reports in the “Smart Cit…

  10.10.2018

• Dining with Laureates: ITMO PhD Student Shares His Experience of the Sixth Heidelberg Forum

  …s held every year at the end of September in the German city of Heidelberg. The HLF was initiated by the German foundation Klaus Tschira Stiftung (KTS), which promotes natural sciences, mathematics and computer science, together with the Heidelberg Institute for Theoretical Studies (HITS). The first HLF took place in 2013. Each year, on…

  10.10.2018