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• Ace Your Tests and Win a Million: New Innovation-Focused Hackathon Starts at ITMO

  …eas outside of the university vacuum. It is expected that in the final presentation, participants will showcase a product that can be launched on the Russian market,” says Svetlana Sultanova, the vice dean of ITMO’s Faculty of Biotechnologies. There are 11 teams in the hackathon in total, each consisting of 8-10 members. All participants are first-year Maste…

  04.10.2024

• Vegetarian's Guide to Thriving in St. Petersburg

  …initely find something to sustain you during your busy uni days. Communities Sometimes, you just need to be with people who understand you instantly – no need for explanation behind your plant-based choices. At ITMO, such a place for all things cruelty-free, conscious consumption, and sustainability is the ITMO.GREEN student club. With their regular meetups…

  01.10.2024

• Quantum Computers, Dark Matter, and New Materials: Latest from Theoretical Physics

  …interaction, and weak interaction. However, there are still many questions regarding the peculiarities of their behavior. For instance, scientists do not have a fundamental explanation for why quarks do not exist separately, but only in groups within hadrons. How do quarks, which are almost free at very high energies, come together into a single whole at sufficiently…

  30.08.2024

• Stable Influx of New Startups: How ITMO Accelerator Supports New Projects

  … hypotheses, I assembled a focus group for testing. Next, I am planning to make the second MVP, launch sales, and reach payback in four months,” shared ProBuddy co-founder Svetlana Rimsh. ITMO Accelerator also helps participants attract investments. One of the most popular programs to support student entrepreneurship is Student Startup, implemented by the Founda…

  31.07.2024

• Steps Away: Places to Explore Near ITMO's Vyazemsky Dorm

  … Moon Cats’ Street – 11 minutes Step onto Kamenny Island to come across a quirky city landmark – a street that doesn’t exist, Moon Cats’ Street. There’s no official explanation for why the passage near the guardhouse building of the Kamennoostrovsky Palace has such an unusual name, but the fact is that it's now recognized by locals. At first, the name of the …

  21.06.2024

• ITMO’s Monday Science Roundup #56

  … what does this complex quantum mechanics concept stand for? And what is it good for, anyway? ITMO.NEWS spoke with the researcher Zarina Konratenko to lay out an accessible explanation that will clear it up once and for all.  Read more: Bound States in the Continuum: Theory and Applications In other news: New by ITMO Scientists: Digital Service to Facilit…

  03.06.2024

• Bound States in the Continuum: Theory and Applications

  …metastructure, and other flaws that occur during the manufacturing process. The creation of stable miniature BICs-enabled photon structures will pave the way for more compact planar sensors, low-threshold lasers, and nonlinear optical components. Additionally, the researchers at ITMO are currently working on new devices using their BICs knowledge. For instance, a …

  21.05.2024

• ITMO’s Monday Science Roundup #55

  … of EPDE, a new AI-based digital tool, believe to be possible. Developed by ITMO’s Laboratory for Composite AI, the algorithm sorts through data to identify the most likely explanations for complex processes and then converts them into mathematical equations. The end goal? To discover universal laws for fields thought to be too full of unpredictable factors. Read …

  20.05.2024

• Teaching AI to Discover New Laws of Nature

  … for social sciences, economics, and humanities – sciences where unpredictable factors play a big role. We have already started working on it: currently, we are looking for explanations of phenomena that haven’t really been theorized or studied. By the way, in 1975 the Soviet scientist Leonid Kantorovich was awarded the Nobel Prize in Economics for a differential …

  16.05.2024

• Voices of Leningrad: ITMO Students’ New Project Offers New Look at Children’s Stories of WWII Siege

  …. I reached the Vyborg Side. On the way back, I fell several times and slowly got colder. I got to the market and met Alka – my friend. He helped me get up and walk to the Svetlana factory. I warmed up in a shed and kept on walking home. In a ditch, I fell and nearly froze, but Mom was walking by and brought me home. On that same day, at 14 hours, Dad died sitting on…

  08.05.2024