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• Crystals and Peculiar Stars: Final Day of Mendeleev 150 at ITMO

  …able, scientists have worked to discover where each of the 118 elements had come from. Within the first 15 minutes after the Big Bang, hydrogen atoms combined with a cloud of “newborn” particles, which then expanded and cooled down. Some of these atoms went on to form helium. Hydrogen and helium make up 98% of the universe and serve as the primary components of stars…

  01.08.2019

• ITMO Students on Recent Start-Up Internship Program in China

  …ervice for easy printing at the university campus, and Nikita Lisovetin was developing the YourLib app for helping users to categorize messages in messenger apps.  ITMO.NEWS talked to the students about their projects and their participation in the international summer program in China. Tell us about the projects that helped you get on the program in China.…

  01.08.2019

• Camp in Programming: Intense Problem-Solving

  …tinues his studies and applies for jobs.  Everyone agrees that the amount of studying they have been doing until now has been very intense and challenging. Allan notes, “I knew what I was getting myself into based on the program description, but when I came here it multiplied by three.” But instead of feeling discouraged, it has made them even more motivated to pu…

  01.08.2019

• ITMO University Presents Its 2018 Annual Report

  …to 2027 and our placement in academic rankings; Research: the University’s research and publication activities and grant projects; Education and international development: new educational programs and international projects; ITMO.TECH: the development of entrepreneurial culture and innovations at ITMO; ITMO.FAMILY: the community, public events, and campaigns;…

  31.07.2019

• This Weekend in St. Petersburg: August 3-4, 2019

  …dstock: Three Days That Defined a Generation filmmaker’s Barak Goodman studies the cultural, political and social ramifications of the 1969 Woodstock Music Festival in upstate New York, putting under the spotlight on the values, attitudes and hopes of the 500,000 young people attending the revolutionary event, under the spirit-of-the-times accompaniment of songs by J…

  31.07.2019

• ITMO Master’s Student on Her Exchange in Barcelona: Tips, Tricks, Impressions

  …and Research in Informatics (MIRI). I chose four disciplines, all of them in the field of programming. Because I enrolled in the Faculty of Programming, I encountered a lot of new information. I knew only the basics of programming at the beginning of my studies, while all of the other students knew it very…

  31.07.2019

• 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