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• How to Become Part of ITMO’s Academic Mobility Program

  …heir scientific advisor or the department about their plans as early as possible,” – says Ekaterina Tulugurova. For double-degree programs, your choice is made when you enroll. Therefore it is known to you just where (and when) you’ll go, as the curriculum is drawn up in advance. How to take part in an academic mobility competition: Fill out the for…

  09.02.2018

• If You Want to be the Best, Learn From the Best: ITMO University Collaborates with Alibaba Cloud University

  … the University is electrical engineering and computer technology. HDU is a “city within a city”, explains Sergey Chepinskiy, Associate Professor from the Department of Control Systems and Computer Science, about his experience of visiting the Chinese university. Each faculty has a separate building. The administrative building, library, and cafeteria are all stan…

  08.02.2018

• Cheap, Eco-Friendly, Biocompatible: Bright Prospects For Nanocellulose

  …r applications. Optical properties of nanocellulose. Research at SCAMT laboratory Nanocrystalline cellulose reveals its optical properties if obtained by the means of hydrolysis using a 65% sulfuric acid solution. This way, all of the non-crystalline regions are broken down to glucose, and negatively charged sulfonic groups form on the surface of nanocrystallit…

  08.02.2018

• New Semester At The Children's University

  …e organizing a training session for children is that it is not the lector who has to tell children things, but it is the children who have to speak their minds. The lecturer’s role is to to ask questions, make children think, and direct them towards the right answers; the students have to not just gain knowledge, but learn to draw conclusions on their own. Such an ap…

  07.02.2018

• HACKATHON 2025: Innovations for Cities of the Future

  …: Team RCAS (Security) proposed an IoT system for residential buildings. The automated system will let house management, government bodies and construction companies control the infrastructure within a set territory (buildings, public spaces, adjacent grounds). Team Ruby (Education) presented a project for continuous education through VR. Using the developers…

  06.02.2018

• Andrey Sebrant On Machine Learning, Public Confidence and Relevant Education

  …ts in any machine learning system. It is something that is even more trivial than the recognition of medical images. At the press-conference dedicated to the launching of Korolev (a new search engine by Yandex -- Ed.), we mentioned that we associate a 300-dimensional semantic vector with every request made. And here’s the problem: one can easily explain what a 2D …

  06.02.2018

• 5 Science News Now

  …anadium dioxyde: A revolutionary material for tomorrow's electronics. First came the switch. Then the transistor. Now another innovation stands to revolutionize the way we control the flow of electrons through a circuit: vanadium dioxide (VO2). A key characteristic of this compound is that it behaves as an insulator at room temperature but as a conductor at temperatu…

  06.02.2018

• Meduza Publisher on Living in the Era of Bad News

  …too, can be helpful. All news are somewhat virtual; they rarely affect us directly. What happens around you is only as relevant as you decide, so this is something you can control. On the other hand, you still have to be aware of things. And gamification is one of the ways to do that. Explain things A journalist’s task is to help us solve the issues we all …

  01.02.2018

• ITMO Researchers Team Up With French Scientists on New Type of Hybrid Nanoparticles

  …o breakdown under the effects of, say, heat. This problem was recently brought up in an issue of Science [Vol. 458, Issue 6366, pp. 998] in regards to the possible ways to control probes sent to study the surface of Venus. It’s an extremely hot planet, and so none of the transistors we have today would work there. So what materials and data analysis methods do we nee…

  01.02.2018

• How to Start Your Own Business: Advice from Experts

  …ntrepreneur can waste all funds on attracting sales, and fail to find additional investments if there would be none. If a startup has an investor, the investor strictly controls the fulfillment of predictive metrics. If something goes wrong, the startup can change its general concept and test new hypotheses. If a startup works on its own, without help from an expe…

  31.01.2018