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• Spicy Food Guide to St. Petersburg

  …round the city. The way in which their menu somehow incorporates various elements of Pan-Asian cuisine while retaining their individuality can be attributed to its head chef’s science-based approach to cooking. Their hottest offering? The famed Indonesian Rendang, a dish of spicy stewed beef with coconut milk and rice. *** Ultramen Where: Fontanka River …

  22.10.2024

• ITMO Wins Digital TOP Award in Education

  …The new lab was established as part of ITMO’s Infochemistry Scientific Center in November 2023. It is headed by Mikhail Medvedev, a researcher at the center and the head of the theoretical chemistry group at the N. D. Zelinsky Institute of Organic Chemistry. Members of the laboratory study the behavior of chemical systems and develop new compounds with required prope…

  22.10.2024

• ITMO’s Monday Science Roundup #66

  …Nobel Prizes In mid-October, science media was abuzz with the latest Nobel Prize laureates. Of particular note was the prevalence of artificial intelligence in several of the winners’ works: a passing fad or a sign of things to come? That remains to be seen. But for now, we’ve spoken to several of ITMO’s resident experts in physics, chemistry, and medicine about t…

  21.10.2024

• (Not) A Serious Discussion: Humor as a Tool To Promote Science

  …Why to joke Talk about complex things. Humor can help you get your message across and make it more engaging. It can also attract a wider audience to science, be it current and prospective students or graduates. Academics can also use humor to make science more accessible;  Spend resources irrationally. As humans, we sub…

  21.10.2024

• ITMO PhD Students Train Chess-Playing Algorithm to Design Robots

  …ions of solutions to a given task while accounting for the available data. Then, the algorithm simulates the scenarios to test their effectiveness and chooses the optimal one. Scientists from ITMO decided to apply this sifting function in robotics – once reprogrammed, the algorithm was efficient in choosing the most optimal robot designs. The resulting open-source re…

  18.10.2024

• ITMO and Sberbank Make Secure Data Transfers Possible

  …eral commands and sets it up for training.  “Stalactite is a follow-up of our long-term work with Russia’s leading research centers aimed at developing and improving data science tools. This year, we presented several reports at top AI conferences, some of which focused on federal learning. The created framework, in particular, has the potential to improve recom…

  18.10.2024

• I Am a Professional Contest: Information & Cyber Security Track FAQ

  …y enthusiasts Why participate I Am a Professional is a national competition for students majoring in a variety of fields, including engineering, humanities, natural sciences, pedagogy, agriculture, and medicine. In its seven seasons, the contest welcomed over a million students. Monetary prizes. Medalists will receive prize money of between 100,000 and …

  16.10.2024

• This Week in St. Petersburg: October 17-23, 2024

  …modern medicine, new diseases, and preventive medicine, as well as share their long-held dreams as an endocrinologist and an allergist. Noble Talks is a series of free popular science lectures organized by ITMO’s Center for Science Communication.  The lectures are delivered in Russian. Saturday, October 19 IFF Message to Ma…

  16.10.2024

• What Shapes Reality: New Screen-Centric Exhibition By ITMO’s Art & Science Center

  …o human presence; and various digital and virtual screens. The exhibition sums up the results of audiovisual experiments conducted by a team of 12 artists from ITMO’s Art & Science and Dom Radio. At their meetings, the participants turned to media and film theory, as well as screen studies, and attempted to define what a screen is and whether it can exist without …

  15.10.2024

• Science, Culture, Medicine, and Humor: Noble Talks by ITMO Kick Off in St. Petersburg

  …This year, ITMO’s Center for Science Communication has launched Scientific Petersburg, a new umbrella initiative supported by the Russian Ministry of Science and Higher Education that allows locals and tourists alike to observe St. Petersburg from a fresh perspective, be it scie

  14.10.2024