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ITMO Scientists Simplify Nanomaterials Design With ML Model
… model to predict the form and size of nanoparticles, as well as some of their magnetic properties – for instance, their coercive power, which may be used to increase the precision of MRI units. “Our technology opens new avenues for materials science. We have laid the groundwork for a platform that will be able to account for more parameters, including nanopart…
07.02.2025
Student Spotlight: Truong Huynh Duc, Vietnam
…I arrived in Russia in 2023 and am currently pursuing a Master’s degree in artificial intelligence at ITMO. Beyond my studies, I work as a DevOps engineer and I have a deep passion for technology and traveling to new places. Very interesting! Tell us more about the region where you grew up. Quảng Bình is a province in central Vietnam. It’s home to Phong Nha-Kẻ …
06.02.2025
ITMO Scientists Step Closer to Explaining How Pulsar Nebulas Form
…um (OAM), which is considered an additional characteristic or a degree of freedom that allows a twisted electron (positron) to convey more data than a regular one. The emission is accompanied by a reversal event, namely the absorption of a twisted photon by an also-twisted electron. The process is poorly understood in terms of mechanics, although it could shed mo…
05.02.2025
Five Soviet and Russian Cars That Made It Onto the Big Screen
…tributed between heads of Soviet republics and other “apparatchiks” – administration bigwigs. A phaeton-type model was also produced specifically for various parades and processions. |s=5,center| Devyatka: VAZ-21099 As seen in: The Criminal Quartet (1989), Genius (1991), Black Summer series (2019), From spy cars, we proceed right on to the stereotypical …
03.02.2025
Always Calculate: Physicist Ivan Terekhov on Fundamental Studies and Scientific Anecdotes
… unit is just a square root of -1, but then in middle school, when we studied equations, I could fully appreciate algebraic abstractions. So your teachers supported your passion? I had a great math teacher, Valentina Prichko. Even though she never raised her voice, everyone behaved in her class. What’s most important, though, is that she would assign everyone t…
03.02.2025
Augmented Reality: Present and Future
…tal objects from several centimetres away as if they are located at an arm’s length or further. At the same time, we have to be able to see other objects within our field of vision: digital and real objects have to seem to be in the same dimension, otherwise we won’t be able to focus on them simultaneously. The scientific approach. F…
31.01.2025
Discovery of the Month: Indoor Rowing, Neoclassical Palaces, and More
…t go by a new planning method without trying it. This January, it was the 12 Week Year, which guides you through first creating a bird’s-eye view of your next 10-15 years (a vision), then describing a more concrete three-year plan, and finally breaking it down into several goals that you set for, you guessed it, 12 weeks at a time. However, apart from seemingly just …
31.01.2025
ITMO Student Wins China Intelligent Robot Fighting and Gaming Competition
…rn or stop on its own; then, they analyzed the robot’s progress along the maze. According to Natalia Leshchenko, she really benefited from courses in programming and machine vision that she took at ITMO, as well as the tutorials and robots from the robotics lab of the Beijing Institute of Technology. At the competition, the team had to recreate the success of thei…
30.01.2025
Student Spotlight: Ege Başar Kasap, Turkey
…s media. What motivated you to choose this field? I’ve been interested in computers and informatics since I was a child. Over time, I realized that software is the profession of the future and I wanted to specialize in it. It’s a field where I can create, solve problems, and contribute to technological advancement. That’s cool. How has your life been in Russ…
30.01.2025
AI Levels Up: What Makes DeepSeek So Powerful
…-R1, which rapidly gained global popularity, is not the company’s first release. Back in December 2024, they launched DeepSeek-V3, a GPT4o (the core of the previous ChatGPT version) competitor that could generate text and answer questions. The latest release, though unveiled just a month later, outperforms an analogous model, o1, by OpenAI: DeepSeek-R1 can “think” li…
29.01.2025