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• ITMO Team Wins First Place at National Robotics Olympiad

  …ecial sensors help precisely measure distance to an object and determine where a tree is, what kinds of tree it is and what state it’s in. Daniil Nechaev with an early version of Forester during development Still, the victory at the Russian stage does not necessarily mean that the winners will indeed take part in the World Robot Olympiad, which will be held i…

  30.06.2017

• EVA Saint-Petersburg: New Applications Of VR/AR Technologies

• Created Chip Churns out High-Dimensional Entangled Photons

  …ultaneously, and the colours of each photon in a pair are linked (entangled), regardless of their separation distance. With each frequency — or colour — representing a dimension, the photons are generated on-chip as a high-dimensional quantum state (quDit). Thus far, quantum information science has largely focused on the exploitation…

  29.06.2017

• ITMO Student Named Among 2017’s Best Graduates

  … - the Bronze Sphinx. "Among the 70,000 St. Petersburg's graduates we've chosen the best of the best. Surely, the universities are different, each has its programs and mission, its field of research, yet there is something that unites us - we're all from St. Petersburg. All of us are St. Petersburg's students, graduates, lecturers, and it's most symbolic that we…

  28.06.2017

• Laser Tech Summer School: Graduates Share Their Experience

  …entury, but it is now that laser technology is becoming more and more advanced; there are few things that aren’t done using lasers these days. We want the kids to get an impression of the industry so that when they return to the university, they are already aware of where they’re heading and what results they can expect. Besides, laser technology is one of ITMO Unive…

  28.06.2017

• Alexander Voiskynsky: Psychologist On Informatization

  … This is a real loss, and such behavior is most probably a sign of addiction. Last week, the conference on Addiction Medicine took place in Moscow, where there was a session on non-chemical addictions like gluttony and the very same internet addiction. Serious experts focused on this issue, so it seems like this field of research is quite promising as well. …

  28.06.2017

• University of Amsterdam Renews Partnership Agreement with ITMO

  …rg This partnership had its roots in scientific collaboration. The two universities had been developing a project on the topic of distributed emergency computations for decision support in critical situation, led by Alexander Boukhanovsky and Peter Sloot, professor at UvA, ITMO University and the Nanyang Technological University (NTU Singapore). At the same time, …

  27.06.2017

• PhD Programs at ITMO University: Admission Campaign-2017

  …nts as well. They will get bonus points for having publications in science journals indexed by Scopus and Web Of Science (4 points) or included in the Higher Attestation Commission list (2 points), for receiving individual grants (3 points), having patents or invention certificates (2 points), and getting awards at conferences or exhibitions, or participating in the …

  27.06.2017

• Second Day of Geek Picnic: Evolution, Rats and Superstition

  …e of some ancient existence that they lost a long time ago. This is how evolution tends to work. In Australia’s example, we can witness how it happens and even make some conclusions for ourselves”. One can learn more about why Australia is so strange and the lives of wombats, echidnas and bandicoots on the YouTube channel “Just Like Other Animals”. Or you ca…

  26.06.2017

• Geek Picnic-2017: Richard Dawkins, Cyborgs, VR and Psychological Experiments

  …esentatives of its species - they do not have to be "better" that the one chasing them, but just be faster than the others who are being chased. Richard Dawkin's signing session At the same time, this "arms race" is asymmetrical. The rabbit runs faster than the fox, as the two animals have different motivation. The rabbit runs in order to survive, and the fox r…

  25.06.2017