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• Experience Academic Mobility: International Students On How they Feel about Studying at ITMO

  …TMO’s lab I work at the Laboratory for Microbial Drug Technology — some equipment I need for my research is there. My Russian colleagues and I plan to publish the results in a scientific journal. When I say that I am from France people start talking to me about Napoleon! I’d recommend French to work on their historical background before coming here. Jenna Leskinen,…

  14.12.2016

• The First Results of the Massive Open Online Course on Science Communication

  …f activity is usually about 100−150 messages," says the expert. Ms. Ivanova also noted that among participants, there were various people like students who are interested in science, actual researchers and skilled science communication experts. They focused more on journalistic tasks rather than PR ones. The organizers think that the …

  14.12.2016

• "It's More than ESP" Exceeds Our Expectations"

  …estigious positions and easily communicate with international colleagues. It makes EL classes an essential part of technical studying courses. It’s is no longer possible for a scientist to have a couple of elective classes of a foreign language — being fluent in English becomes a top-priority. Elizabeth England, Robert Cote, John Kuti, Ana Maria Ferraro, Irina Tit…

  13.12.2016

• Aiming High: World’s Leading Experts on Modern Sports Programming

  …ugh, and the USA still holds top positions due to their development infrastructure. "A modern programmer starts to work right during the fourth year, if he does not go in science where the pay is lower, regrettably. And there is a lot of work out there. If we are talking about St. Petersburg, there are some 400−500 IT-companies here who try to create something n…

  13.12.2016

• Scientists Produce Water Based Tunable Metasurfaces

  …al, i.e. as a lattice of artificial atoms called meta-atoms. Usually, meta-atoms are made of metals and ceramics, but it turned out that can be used for this purpose too. The scientists from ITMO University, and Technical University of Denmark firstly demonstrated a metasurface composed of cells with water as meta-atoms. These cells have asymmetrical oval shape and …

  13.12.2016

• From Akinator Genii to Machine Learning: A Science Slam Participant on Detection Technologies

  …s like the formula I used to solve math problems came alive and became a website known to millions of people. Akinator genii How do you plan to present your idea at Science Slam? The main point I want to share on is that computers can "see", and "see consciously". Surely, that's different from how we see things, but they can quietly make shots of you an…

  12.12.2016

• 5 Things You Need to Know Now

• ITMO has the Best Business Incubator in Russia

  …e Future Technologies accelerator program which has two tracks. The first is FT Start, which is for projects that are still at the idea stage. The second track is FT IT and FT Science, which is for projects which already have a high-tech R&D prototype or product in the IT field. Under the SumIT brand, international summer startup schools for IT projects continue to b…

  08.12.2016

• Hermitage’s Head Clocksmith on his Work, Laboratory and the Importance of Restoring Technological Marvels

  …lock of the Ferapontov Monastery and the tower clock of the Marble Palace. In the early 90-s we were contacted by the Hermitage Museum: they decided to create a Laboratory for Scientific Restoration of Timepieces and Musical Mechanisms, as there are more than three thousand of them in the museum's collection. At first, I did not agree to join it, as I was working in …

  07.12.2016

• Ivan Zasursky: Inaccessible Knowledge Divides Society

  …Each scientist knows that it is very hard to find out relevant research manuals because many books are not digitized, and you need to spend a lot of time in libraries. Pirate sites also don’t help, as errors of search algorithms lead to the loss of important information. It causes a problem of entropy. Our society has changed — today we don’t have enough time to han…

  05.12.2016