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• Navigating the ITMO Application Process

  …7 a new program on “Nanophotonics and Quantum Optics” was opened in the Faculty of Physics and Engineering, aimed at strong physicists from around the world.  For those who want to create new types of food while keeping their healthy properties enroll in the “Refrigeration Industry and Food Biotechnologies” academic school, and finally there’s the “Economics, Mana…

  17.04.2017

• ITMO's Technology Brokering School: Results and Prospects

  …r a project. We decided to work as pure technology brokers: gathered a team with particular competencies and found a project that suited us, or, more exactly, a specialist who wanted to introduce his idea," shares Alexander Nikitin, one of the School's graduates who presented a project on stimulating the cultivation of fruit crops saplings. During the graduation…

  17.04.2017

• Gutenberg's Lounge: Why Stonehenge is an Observatory, How Satellites Stay on the Orbit and Where One Starts His Way to Mars

  …ght light. To have a chance to see that, tourists participate in a lottery: only 50 people can enter Newgrange at the same time, and there are always about 30,000 of those who want to. Spatialization was also a problem for ancient people, especially those who lived in steppes and the like, i.e. where they had no ground signs to orientate. In Altaic steppes, there …

  14.04.2017

• St. Petersburg Landmarks - The Secret History of Mikhailovsky Castle

  …ow denies the very idea of entering. Yet, the strange, almost illusory castle dominates the surrounding area; for some, it even ends up becoming one of those places one always wants to check out, but never really does. Besides its strange outward appearance, Mikhailovsky Castle has an even stranger history. It was built by Pavel I, Russia’s 8th and arguably the mo…

  13.04.2017

• Adapting To Russia: International Students Share Their Experience

  … particular explanations, while for others they are crucial. Why did you choose ITMO and not some other university? Manuel Gasteiger, University of Innsbruck, Austria: I wanted to try something new; going to Germany or Italy wouldn't be that. So, I asked my professors, which universities in Russia we collaborate with, and where can I go for an exchange semester…

  13.04.2017

• ITMO and Acronis Open New IT Lab

  …h the students how to collect information on user’s behavior. It is necessary to understand how to protect their data. Having determined where the user saves valuable data, we want to understand how to prevent data loss. It is a task related to detecting various breakdowns. Then there is the final step, which is to detect processes that can affect the data. It can be…

  10.04.2017

• Total Dictation at ITMO University

  …themselves. Vladimir Vasilyev, ITMO's rector, was also among the event's participants. Many say that "technicians" study at technical universities partly because they don't want to deal with the basics of linguistics. When asked about why a technical university supports this non-technical event, the Rector does not hesitate to answer: "I believe that any spec…

  10.04.2017

• Solving Tasks in Social Network – the Results of the ITMO Vkontakte Olympiad

  …pants were offered 16 disciplines including math, physics, chemistry, social science, English language and informatics. Moreover, participants could have as many tests as they wanted. The online testing started on February 15. Those who showed the best results participated in the finals, which took place in St. Petersburg on April 8. Apart from solving tasks the p…

  10.04.2017

• Why 404 and How to Fix Bad Gateway?

  …ral websites that correlate with user’s interests. When the status codes become visible… In the cases mentioned above, users cannot see the status codes. However, if one wants to look at them, one can push F12 and then click the Network tab - the status code will be shown in the tool bar. Yet, the  three-digit codes become visible when something goes wrong with…

  07.04.2017

• A Specialist in Photonics Doing IT: ITMO's Master's Student Wins the Hackathon in Singapore

  …athon was also for this purpose - the best participants were invited for job interviews. DBS Hack2Hire Singapore Why did you decide to participate? First of all, I've wanted to take part in a hackathon for a long time already. By the way, about five years ago, during my first years at the university, I worked as a developer, plus I’ve hadsome groundwork sinc…

  07.04.2017