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• HEX Hackathon: 32 Hours to Make the World a Better Place

  …cause, as Bloomberg highlights in their Future Society challenge, smaller charities suffer the most from lack of visibility. “We chose this track because of its social mission. Maxim and I both work in for-profit companies, but we also wanted to contribute to social change”, shared Andrei Vinogradov. “Bloomberg asked that we create an application that…

  04.04.2018

• Russian Easter: a Feast of Cheer

  …ost of the countries. Because Orthodox Easter is not a fixed date like Christmas, sometimes it falls on the same date as Western Easter or the Jewish Passover.  Such rare occasions are commonly considered great dates to discuss and underline the common humanistic basis of all religions. Russian Easter Traditions Russian Orthodox Church considers Easter the mai…

  03.04.2018

• Video Games vs. MBAs: How Gaming Makes You a Better Employee

  …40 questions asking about motivation, communication skills, preferences for teamwork, and personality, with most questions relating to the Big Five personality traits: extraversion, agreeableness, openness, conscientiousness and neuroticism. Then the researchers compared the players’ survey answers to their characters’ in-game stats. They wanted to find out what kind…

  03.04.2018

• #ITMOCODE: Competition for Vacant Posts for Professors and Lecturers

  …al sciences; systematic, analytical, critical and creative thinking) and “Augmented” F (digital culture and skills, entrepreneurial culture and skills, design thinking). Professional Skills (PS) are developed through the specific fields of each of ITMO’s Schools, while Soft Skills (SS) include language, management skills, emotional intelligence, and teamwork. ITMO…

  02.04.2018

• 5 Science News Now

  …e how they reflect heat, smoothing or wrinkling their surfaces in under a second after being stretched or electrically triggered. That makes them invisible to infrared night vision tools or lets them modulate their temperatures. AI searches telescope data for evidence of distant planets. NASA has established a crowdsourcing project in which volunteers search teles…

  02.04.2018

• Startup Pallium Promises Smarter AI

  …lish-speaking partners. We also have a talented programmer from Innopolis Mikhail Lubinets, who is now completing his studies. You have recently won a Japanese pitch-session and then you went to the Minsk Blockchain & Bitcoin Conference, where your project took the first place. Now you are competing for a prize 120 thousand dollars. Tell us about this experien…

  30.03.2018

• Dean of Faculty of Control Systems and Robotics Anton Pyrkin Named “Professor of the Year”

  …ounds like the person you’re talking to. This and other examples show us that everything around us has elements of automated control. That’s anything that makes its own decisions or simply does things for so long that you get used to them – because it makes things easy. Unmanned vehicles are becoming popular these days, and so are drones. These kinds of technologi…

  30.03.2018

• ITMO Student Wins IEEE Undergraduate Scholarship

  …the plate spun and noticed that the mark on the plate moved faster than the plate itself. Based on this observation he developed a set of schematics for the mathematical expressions governing the behavior of subatomic particles, which later became known as the Feynman diagrams. In addition to physics, Feynman had many other hobbies. What do you do apart from your …

  29.03.2018

• Russian, German and French Scientists to Collaborate on Nanowhisker Research at European XFEL

  … in June 2017. Participants discussed joint research with the Center for Nanophysics and Nanotechnologies (France), represented by professor Jean-Christophe Harmand. The discussion was also attended by Professor Sergey Molodtsov, Head of the Transnational Scientific and Educational Uni-FEL Center for Advanced Materials Research, Vladislav Bugrov, Director of ITMO’s S…

  28.03.2018

• ITMO Scientists Develop Topological Defect Detection Method

  …cal systems. To detect topologically non-trivial structures, scientists usually scan the propagation of an object’s near-field. In other words, they monitor an object’s emissions at a distance much smaller than a wavelength. The resulting near-field map lets them draw conclusions about the topology of the object’s photonic bands. For…

  28.03.2018