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• Genome Goes Digital: IT in Genetics and Medicine

  …e DNA library. But analyzing that library manually is a problematic task. Bioinformatics specialists develop new algorithms to determine the initial position of each gene. For instance, they’ve developed mapping software, which identifies the proper gene sequence and the relative distance between nodes in a linkage group. Another key task faced by bioinformati…

  02.09.2019

• Interactive Games, Drones, and Thousands of Participants: ITMO.GO Celebration for First-Year Students in Review

  …sked the participants of the celebration about why they chose ITMO University, what programs they enrolled in, and what their plans for the future are. Gleb Novikov (Chelyabinsk), entered the Faculty of Infocommunication Technologies Why did I choose ITMO University? In fact, it’s ITMO that chose me, as I entered the university via the ITMO.STARS program. T…

  02.09.2019

• Ready for Take-Off: Happy New School Year!

  …. You can’t avoid it - Russia’s all around you now - so what if you learn to “do it like a Russian”? Or took a deeper dive into Russian language and Russian literature?  Get inspired by other international students. Your peers from around the world regularly share their experiences, successes and failures. You might just find “your people!” Stay in the know. Chec…

  02.09.2019

• Song of the Month: August 2019

  … heart eyes emoji status.  Maria The end of summer kind of made for sadness: it doesn’t matter if you are happy with the passing heat, or terrified from the coming rains, it's simply impossible to avoid a slight melancholy from how quick and elusive time is. So it's a perfect time to listen to Red Red Wine by Neil Diamond. A beautiful classic pop song, w…

  30.08.2019

• ITMO Staff Develop AR-Solution for WorldSkills Kazan 2019 Opening Ceremony

  …sualization Laboratory at ITMO University’s National Center for Cognitive Technologies. “The basic premise was quite similar to what we’ve done for the European Games in Minsk. Our task was to create augmented reality effects during the opening ceremony that would be visible on television broadcasts and on audience members’ smartphone screens. Both of the softwa…

  30.08.2019

• This Is (Not) Art: Insights into the Origins of Art, Its Connection to Science and the Makings of a Masterpiece

  … needs it? Animals don’t need it, but for some reason, cave people did. If we consider art in the contemporary sense of the word, it’s completely unclear how humans, whose intrinsic, existential goal is just to survive, could have created non-utilitarian art. Science speak of this case as that of reflection, positing that art is first and foremost a tool for cognizin…

  30.08.2019

• SciComm at Sirius: ITMO Graduates Help Kids Explore Science and Art

  …plinary field of Art&Science. In essence, the artists and scientists involved in it use the language of art to talk about science. For my classes, I picked projects that would inspire kids to create their own works; for their final assignment, I asked them to create a prototype of an art object symbolizing a situation wherein scientists create custom-made living crea…

  29.08.2019

• ITMO Researchers Describe Carbon Dot Structure, Discover Red Emission Amplification Method

  … study is the first to suggest fractional hybridization. That means that atoms in carbon dots are suspended in a state of intermediate hybridization between sp2 and sp3,” explains Nikita Tepliakov, author of the article published in ACS Nano. Comparison to experimental data has shown that the researchers’ intermediate hybridization model provides a suitable …

  28.08.2019

• Don’t Believe Your Eyes: How Visual Illusions Work

  … right one, although, in fact, they are the same in length. Another example which also points to errors in our perception of size is the Ponzo illusion. Portrayed against the background of two converging lines, two identical parallel segments appear different because the brain interprets the converging lines as forming a perspective. We think that the upper…

  28.08.2019

• Your Guide to Events at ITMO University in 2019-2020

  …. On September 2-3, newcomers to the University will learn everything they need to know about the educational process at ITMO University. For the first two days of studies, instead of attending classes the students will take part in a quest that will take them through themed areas dedicated to the many aspects of being an ITMO student. There, they will: lear…

  27.08.2019