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• No Entrance Exams: Applications Open for Mega School

  …licants need to register on the website (link in Russian), fill out their personal information, select the track of their interest, and wait for a follow-up email with detailed instructions.  Applications are accepted until January 28, 2025, 11:59 pm (GMT +3). Mega School in 2025 Date: January 29-31, 2025. Format: fully online; applicants can join the…

  10.12.2024

• Making Sense of Russian Street Names: St. Petersburg Edition

  …f the Russian Civil War (Chapayeva St., Lunacharskogo Pr.). Another notable category honors the heroes of the Great Patriotic War (Gastello St., Tipanova St.).   The star of the section is Vladimir Lenin, the first head of the government in Soviet Russia – streets and avenues named after him rank among the top ten most common toponyms in Russia. You may note …

  09.12.2024

• Student Spotlight: Dorsa Abbasi, Iran

  …Welcome, Dorsa! Let’s start our conversation with your brief introduction.  Of course! My name is Dorsa Abbasi and I’m from Shiraz, one of the largest cities in Iran. It’s a beautiful place with very friendly people. I was born and raised there. I completed my Bachelor’s degree in medical engineering at the Zand Institute of Higher Education. During my final year,…

  05.12.2024

• ITMO Students Develop AI Model to Detect Car Malfunctions

  …Both of the competition’s stages offered students applied AI tasks based on real cases from industrial partners. Out of 2,500 online selection round participants, 84 students (30 teams) proceeded to the finals. There, students had to solve a computer vision task by Yandex Go: they needed to create an AI model that would check a car’s condition before a ride. Daria…

  04.12.2024

• Cube Laboratories for Bacteria and Cell Experiments To Appear in Russian Schools

• Sunlight: Friend or Foe?

  …UVA and UVB rays You might have seen this distinction on sunscreen bottles: apparently, there is not just “one” kind of solar radiation – there are actually two different components to it. UVA rays, which make up 95% of solar radiation and can enter the middle layer of your skin, are lower-energy. They are responsible for the skin’s premature aging after prolonged…

  03.12.2024

• 500 Dates of Science: ITMO Presents Digital Networking Assistant

  …ime, scientists attend conferences in their fields, where they get to mingle within the community. However, scientific development is made by interdisciplinary research at the intersection of various frontier fields. This cannot be achieved by cold emails to other universities or labs – we need to know someone personally to understand them and their ideas and feel co…

  03.12.2024

• ITMO’s Monday Science Roundup #69

  …at least, as close to real science as you can get. So, just how real is it? ITMO.NEWS recently chatted with School of Physics and Engineering head Pavel Belov about the most common fictional superpowers, from telekinesis to invisibility, to find out whether they could soon become real – and how. Read more: Real-Life Superheroes: A Scientific Take on Superpowers …

  02.12.2024

• Daria Kozlova at Congress of Young Scientists: Education vs Roblox and Twitch

  …inking, the value of in-person education, when we can look each other in the eye, will increase. However, as online solutions become more prevalent, the demand for face-to-face interaction will also grow.…

  02.12.2024

• Real-Life Superheroes: A Scientific Take on Superpowers

  …e brain’s electrical activity with electrodes and can be invasive (implanted into the brain) or non-invasive (i.e., wearable).  BCIs can literally turn their user’s thoughts into actions and compensate for some functions, which is particularly beneficial for people with disabilities, who can use BCIs to control a cursor, an exoskelet…

  29.11.2024