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• "Green Universities: Innovations and Best Practices" Conference: Students Go Green

  …redevelopment, and promoting ecological awareness to students and staff. Traditionally, "green" universities conduct their own eco-festivals and events, introduce separate waste collection and energy-conservation systems, and include programs on sustainable development into the curricula. Projects on creating "green campuses" are conducted as part of a long-term p…

  12.04.2017

• Trapping Light: Anisotropic Structures Can Increase Optical Device's Efficiency

  …The News&Views section mostly covers the most relevant and important topics. Its authors explain the essence of recent publications in leading science journals in simpler terms, so that scientists from different fields would understand them. Research on bound states in continuous spectrum is a fast-developing and promising field of science, and their results are in h…

  11.04.2017

• Algorithms Fighting Hazards: the Soter Analytics Startup

  …ollars". What's next? It took us a year to develop the idea to the point of having a prototype, as of now, we are finalizing the device; soon we'll be ready to start the production, shares the Soter Analytics co-founder. At the same time, the startup continues to look for investors. This March, Alexei Pavlenko won the ticket to Slush B in Helsinki for the tea…

  11.04.2017

• ITMO and Acronis Open New IT Lab

  … At the end of last year, Acronis also opened an office in St. Petersburg. Its team of programmers headed by a famous developer Sergei Ulasen, is going to develop solutions for protection and storage of data and new technologies based on AI and machine learning. At the same time Acronis signed a cooperation agreement with ITMO University for developing new joint …

  10.04.2017

• Research Associates Migraine with Hypertension

  …hest, for instance) with a three-time decrease in the musculocutaneous circulation. People with migraines have it even more severely. Yet, those with hypertension only have a weak reaction to cold. Thus, migraine and hypertension manifest differently, yet may have similar consequences," comments Oleg Mamontov. It's also interesting that due to physical character…

  10.04.2017

• Why 404 and How to Fix Bad Gateway?

  …nses to requests in accordance with the Hypertext Transfer Protocol (http). The http is one of the most widespread network protocols, i.e. certain rules for regulation of server connections and data exchange. This protocol provides for the well-coordinated work of various programs, operating systems and devices. In other words, thanks to http protocol users can use b…

  07.04.2017

• A Specialist in Photonics Doing IT: ITMO's Master's Student Wins the Hackathon in Singapore

  … tasks, all very particular: they were more about introducing the solutions than coming up with original ideas. The first one was on developing a system for tracking suspicious transactions. We were given a database on operations with credit cards, and had to learn to define which of them are suspicious, so as to use this database to track potential frauds. That was …

  07.04.2017

• ITMO Fellowship Stories: 'Crystal Is the Heart of Lasers'

  …ention to anisotropic crystals rather than highly-symmetric ones. It is a very long process, as it is hard to apply existing models to anisotropic crystals that have different directions in terms of their physical properties. We have to use new models and even modify the terminology. This needs a background in physics. Often it is necessary to start from the so-ca…

  06.04.2017

• ITMO University Improves Its Position in the Round University Ranking

  … are asked to choose the strongest universities in the field of teaching. For Research, the survey is conducted among renowned scientists that are indexed by Web of Science Core Collection logs. They have to choose 15 universities that they believe to be leading in a particular field of science.    The ranking's main mission is to help graduates and their parents …

  06.04.2017

• Beloved City, United We Stand

  …During the Second World War, the city (then called Leningrad) was besieged for almost three years with the only connection to the outside world across the frozen lake. Over a million lives were lost, and no family left untouched. During the war, people fought together to survive, and after - to rebuild their city and their lives. Through mutual support and cooperatio…

  06.04.2017