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• Baikal: Fighting for the Future of World’s Deepest Lake

  … and weigh each fragment. The team aims to identify the top-10 plastics contaminating Baikal and share the list with government authorities and ministries. According to the news portal Takie Dela, this list may be used as the basis for a list of single-use items to be made illegal in Russia. Greenpeace will also welcome the assistance of volunteers interested in c…

  31.07.2019

• Getting to Know Russian Literature: Soviet Sci-Fi, Part 1

  …ing to a scientific approach. Still, as the plot delves into the nature of this idea, it gets even scarier than the futures described in Orwell’s 1984 or Aldous Huxley's Brave New World, the two most famous dystopian classics. The Fatal Eggs (1924) by Mikhail Bulgakov  Though Mikhail Bulgakov is best known for his novel The Master and Margarita, he also authore…

  30.07.2019

• Summer Edition of Webometrics 2019: ITMO University in Top-5 Russian Universities

  …s the number of links on external websites leading back to a university’s web pages. ITMO University in the July 2019 edition of the Webometrics ranking According to the new ranking, ITMO University is placed 686th in the global ranking (650th in last year’s ranking). What is remarkable is that the university has managed to retain its position in the top-5 of R…

  30.07.2019

• MIT Professor Marin Soljacic: AI Will Play a Large Role in the Future of Research

  …sented a report on the use of deep learning in photonics. Today, there is truly no field of science that IT has not found its way into. What are the biggest opportunities that new technologies offer you in your research? Artificial intelligence, and deep learning in particular, are, indeed, having a great effect on many fields of science, including speech and faci…

  30.07.2019

• Speak Like a Russian: Getting Around

• Results are In: Online Round of ITMO University’s CtF Competition CyBRICS Comes to an End

  …the XCTF Finals in China. The second place went to team Nu1L from China, and the third to team fargate from ITMO University. Members of the latter have recently spoken to ITMO.NEWS about their training habits. The tasks for both rounds of CyBRICS are developed by SPbCTF, an independent community of competitive hacking enthusiasts. Its mentor team is made up of exp…

  29.07.2019

• Results of Mendeleev 150 International Conference at ITMO University

  … and quantum technologies, as well as life sciences, the field that has started to gain popularity in recent years.  “Just some five years ago, we started to develop this new field at ITMO University, chemistry and biology. Already this year, we’ve taken the lead in chemistry and chemical technologies among Russian universities according to the “Expert” analytic…

  29.07.2019

• Song of the Month: July 2019

  …ed by sadness and melancholy when I listen to Empty by Ray LaMontagne (and when you listen to it – be honest: do you like Detachment like I do?) And I find strength for new achievements if I listen to a very inspiring song One of Us by the Danish rock band New Politics, which renews my faith in huma…

  26.07.2019

• ITMO Urban Studies Specialist Participates in Major Urban Planning Conference in China

  …ly. Just 15 years ago, there were some ten metro stations in Wuhan. Now there are 200, and it’s not even a capital. To put this into perspective, there have been built only 50 new stations in Moscow over the last 15 years. What do you think about the fact that urban studies are gaining popularity in Russia? On the one hand, it’s great that bloggers have sta…

  26.07.2019

• Chief Editor of Nature Photonics Oliver Graydon on Russian Science, Researcher’s Path and Ways to Start Publishing in World’s Leading Journals

  …ndex (you can read more about it here – Ed. note). But also importantly, we have been shown the plans for the impending changes at ITMO University, including the creation of a new campus (ITMO Highpark – Ed. note), the existence of megagrants and the fact that ITMO has become very successful in obtaining these. That’s why I think that the future increase of publicati…

  26.07.2019