Search results for «etw» 3550 results
Education in Your Pocket: Ten Telegram Bots To Help You Study
Summer School in Photonics and Nanotechnologies: Students from Moscow's Institute of Electronics and Mathematics Come to Learn at ITMO
Kronstadt — the "Hub of the Universe" and the Might-Have-Been Capital of Russia
… 1704 (or 18th of May back when Russia was using the Julian calendar) of May, 1704 as the central part of fortifications built on the Gulf of Finland during the Northern war (between Russia and Sweden). The name comes from two German words — "Krone" (crown) and "Stadt" (city). There is a theory that Peter I planned on moving the capital of Russia onto this island. …
23.08.2016
Bringing the Aquabus Back: St. Petersburg Water Taxi Can Be in Demand Aain
… aquabuses started at 10 am on workdays, they automatically missed out on their main target group, those who could’ve used them to get to work starting at 8 am. The intervals between the rides were also ineffective – being from 20 to 50 minutes, when most people wouldn’t wait for more than 15 minutes. “I’ve conducted an Internet poll be…
23.08.2016
Evgeny Pidko: Chemistry is a Catalyst for Success
…mean that in addition to the desirable medicine or polymer building block or any other useful compound, the reaction will produce some waste molecules. In chemistry the ratio between the desirable and waste products is usually called selectivity. Selectivity defines to a large extend the economics and environmental footprint of the chemical process. What is a cata…
18.08.2016
Russian Coders: To Leave or not to Leave
The Ins and Outs of the Postgraduate Admissions Process at ITMO
…entific fields or specialities? The University is very flexible and responds quickly to new trends in scientific fields. In 2015 we started two new disciplines - “Systems, Networks and Telecommunication devices” and “Physics of Condensed Matter”, and in 2016 due to the growing demand of research in the field of Radiophysics and Quantum Electronics, we opened admi…
18.08.2016
«Yagodnoe» International Camp: Results and Achievements
…a Stepanisheva, the two weeks at the camp were split into three modules: one dedicated to education, one to sports and culture, and the recreational one. All the interactions between students — from cleaning up to preparing national food — were in English. The first to arrive at the camp were the French students — those were greeted Russian-style, with salt and bread…
17.08.2016
Creativity and Traditions of Resistance: Financial Times on the Development of Innovations in Russia
…– says one academic. “People who are 30 or 40 still look at entrepreneurs as something suspicious”. Pavel Durov, the founder of the Telegram messenger and Vkontakte social network, has also commented on this: “I still believe that Russia can become the “libertarian’s paradise”, as it was in the early 2000’s – though for a really short time. Russia is the synony…
17.08.2016
ITMO University Participates in the Erasmus+ Program
…nline course in the Internet of Things (IoT). IoT is becoming one of the most promising fields of technological development. The concept implies a constant interconnection between different things that is to be controlled by intellectual systems. A good example is the concept of a "Smart House", or even "Smart City". Household usage aside, IoT will help save energ…
15.08.2016