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• How Course Assessment Influences the Quality of Education

• At-Home Lab Experiments: A Look at the Summer SCAMT Workshop Week 2020

  …cal program thanks to the engagement of group leaders working at SCAMT within the framework of the ITMO Fellowship program. Among the new additions was the project Immunity Against Cancer, which proved very popular among the applicants. Unfortunately, though, this project was left without its practical part, which had to be replaced with computer modeling. However, a…

  22.07.2020

• Cognitive Science: How Memory Works and How to Make Yours Work Better

  …ive is stored in an unchanged form somewhere in our brain, like the attic metaphor would suggest, then we would have to posit that those poor participants simply heard “boats” instead of “canoes”, or somehow got more information from the marrying couple story than there originally was, – so the problem was not in the lost access to recollections of the story but, wel…

  21.07.2020

• Scientists Suggest Using Gold Nanoparticle Metasurfaces to Determine Substance Molecular Composition

  …ed methods is vibrational spectroscopy.  “With vibrational  spectroscopy, you can easily learn the molecular composition of any substance previously unknown to you,” explains Daler Dadadzhanov, PhD student in a joint program of ITMO University and Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, Israel, research associate at the International Research and Education Center fo…

  21.07.2020

• Mission Inboxible: How to Set Up a Successful Marketing Mailout

  … crucial, from the very get go, to decide on a general business goal, the marketing tasks, and communication channels with the help of which these tasks can be solved.  For instance, if you have a general goal of growing your sales, your marketing goal will be to attract new clients and increase customer loyalty to the brand. Communication goals here will consist …

  21.07.2020

• Russian Books to Read This Summer

  …as little time, but I actually couldn’t take my eyes off and read it in one sitting. It’s quite different from other short stories by Chekhov, for there is no irony or satire. Instead, it’s a beautifully written tale of a journey through the steppe with not much action going on – perfect for reading without a haste on a summer evening. Elizaveta: Moscow to the End…

  20.07.2020

• A Great Opportunity to Practice Public Speaking: SPIE Photonics Europe Participant on the Advantages of Online Scientific Conferences

  … – special molecules which, when interacting with light and oxygen, are capable of generating a special type of oxygen, namely singlet oxygen. The appearance of singlet oxygen inside cancer cells leads to their destruction. One of the positive qualities of a photosensitizer such as chlorin e6 is its ability to accumulate exclusively in cancer cells. Thus, the combine…

  20.07.2020

• ITMO University Scientists Recognized With Two Awards at Prestigious Evolutionary Computation Conference GECCO 2020

  …l issues in their field.  “Evolutionary computation is a way to solve extremely complex tasks, so complex that they can’t be adequately solved by any other methods,” explains Maksim Buzdalov, the head of ITMO University’s Evolutionary Computation laboratory. “By first approximation, it’s a way to apply different metaphors, such as evolution, natural selection, m…

  20.07.2020

• ITMO University and VK Carry Out Research in the Field of Machine Learning and User Metrics

  …ays conduct A/B testing: test one version of a new feature on one group of users, test another version on another group, and don’t test it altogether on the third group,” explains Lidia Perovskaya, manager for educational projects at VK. “We have to monitor whether these users’ behavior really changes based on the experiment. This tracks well with what has been done …

  17.07.2020

• Researcher Svetlana Ulasevich on Fighting Resistant Bacteria With Ultrasound

  …Dr. Ulasevish graduated from the Belarusian State University’s Faculty of Chemistry as one of the top ten students of her year; she worked on her PhD thesis at the Institute of General and Inorganic Chemistry of National Academy of Sciences of Belarus and the Max Planck Institute of Colloids and Interfaces in Potsdam, Germany. In 2017, …

  17.07.2020