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More Than 50 Thousand Students Apply for "I am a Professional" Contest in a Week
…"I am a professional" (available in Russian) contest’s organizers see their main purpose in providing new opportunities for talented students from Russian regions. The project can serve as a tool of social mobility for talented and motivated young people: bachelors, specialists and master’s students throughout the country. As a matter of fact, all the winners of the …
17.11.2017
Fabio Bagarello on Quantum Computing and Importance of Interdisciplinary Research
…annot control how the neural network works at all. I used neural networks in my research. They can be useful in some situations, but they can lead to completely wrong conclusions in others. I’ll give you an example: we used a neural network to predict possible health problems people may suffer from - and it worked perfectly. But when we tried to use a neural netwo…
17.11.2017
Alena Shchelokova, Presidential Scholarship Recipient: To Achieve Something, You Have to Get Over Yourself
…n. But that didn’t scare me away. A keen command of English and my natural perseverance helped me learn the skills essential to my project. What moved you to take risky decisions and change your life? To achieve something, you have to get over yourself and leave your comfort zone. I understood that when I started to participate in academic competitions in scho…
16.11.2017
ITMO’s 7th International Council Meeting in Arizona
…tunity to visit these rooms. The official meeting of the International Council with some of ITMO’s representatives was held on the 8th of November. The main themes of discussion were ITMO University’s roadmap for 2018-2020, transformation of education at the university, ITMO’s new Highpark campus and shared spaces, services, education and research. Internatio…
15.11.2017
ITMO University Hosts GoTo Project School
… Schekoldin, Director of ITMO.KIDS Technopark This is the first time that GoTo project school is hosted by ITMO University. The school’s organizers proposed to conduct a session here, and we offered full support of the project. GoTo provides speakers who have massive experience, some of them once worked or graduated from our university. We decided to support the p…
15.11.2017
Tournament of the Two Capitals: St. Petersburg to Host Robots Battles This Autumn
…etimes cities), according to each year’s tournament’s outcome. Here you can find all the key information for 2018 international ITMO applicants: on majors and courses, admission process, campus and student life, careers and class schedules (available in Russian, English and Chinese).…
14.11.2017
Oleg Borisov: Development Means Leaving Your Comfort Zone
… and guidance of quadcopters and surface crafts; it was a complex study that summarized the results of three years’ worth of work dedicated to control algorithms of multidimensional objects. Last month, your team’s project uHVAT won at GoTech. What’s so good about your invention? What problems does it solve? At GoTech, we presented our multipurpose gripping un…
14.11.2017
"Assemble a University": Nationwide Hackathon Contributes to NTI Project
…s, workshops, and hackathons as well as university programs and online programs or everything altogether. A special neural network will search databases for accomplished professionals in the chosen field of activity and use their data to develop the educational path which leads to similar results. Also, the project’s authors plan to develop a bot which will help user…
13.11.2017
Scientists Complete Research on Ultra-Short Pulses in Resonant Mediums
…rce without a need for additional optical devices such as compressors, amplifiers and others. Another unique task the team is working on is the study of resonant medium emissions in conditions where an ultra-short pulse traverses the medium with a speed higher than the speed of light in vacuum. The produced Cherenkov radiation possesses unusual spectral properties…
10.11.2017
Physicist Maxim Gorlach on getting ahead in science: "The worst scenario is to just drift with the tide".
… signal-to-noise ratio, even things like materials invisibility. I was assigned a specific task: we investigated new effects taking place in metamaterials due to spatial dispersion. This feature of their electromagnetic response is very rare or does not occur at all in natural environments. What projects and research are you doing now? Science, of course, does …
10.11.2017