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• ITMO University Among Interfax’s Top 10 Russian Universities

  …n 2017 this number reached 49% and is currently the highest among other leading participants of Project 5-100. ITMO University’s performance in the “Research” ranking also remains steadily high: for the second year in a row, ITMO took fourth place. “The main growth points for us are “Social Environment” and “Education”. ITMO University already has a great tr…

  05.06.2018

• Bridge Watching in St. Petersburg

  …there shouldn’t have been any bridges in the city: Peter the First, its founder, wanted it to become the “Northern Venice”, and banned bridges so that citizens would use boats instead. As great as that may sound, the idea never really worked out, and some hundred years after Peter’s death, the ban was lifted; since then, over 300 magnificent bridges have spanned Neva…

  05.06.2018

• ITMO Launches Entertainment Show About Science and Tech

  …A bit of “Evening Urgant” vibes, Zach Galifianakis-style absurdism and lots of science: that’s what the new show is about. But instead of boring science, serious lectures and discussions, it features talks about what a date for two robots would be like, or what ITMO University’s Rector would say to Elon Musk. “We came up with the idea of this show last autumn, w…

  05.06.2018

• ITMO University Shines at TechCrunch International Robotics Conference

  … May 11 in the University of California in Berkeley, one of the leading universities in the field of robotics. This year, the conference revolved around such topics as AI, bio-inspired design, cloud robotics and self-driving vehicles. Experts had an opportunity to talk about new startups and the latest trends in this area, as well as discuss how robots affect our soc…

  05.06.2018

• ITMO University and Russian eSports Federation Launch Scholarships for Gamers

  …ts that are being developed on a national scale, along with football, hockey, and basketball. Esports scholarships exist at universities and colleges of the US and Canada. For instance, the University of California Irvine provides scholarships to students who have excelled in Overwatch, and the Find Your Grind foundation has created a $450,000 annual scholarship fund…

  04.06.2018

• ITMO Scientists Get St. Petersburg Government Award and Presidential Grants

  …titution of computer chips and electrical wires with optical ones will help decrease energy consumption and make it possible to process information tens of times faster,” explains Andrei Bogdanov. Sergei Kovalchuk, Associate Professor at the High-Performance Computing Department, received a grant for his “Methods and technologies of managing complex models with …

  04.06.2018

• Science Communication Research from American Journalists

  … How to find topics MH: I study various open data on my topic, talk to experts from the industry in order to understand how companies operate. For me, that is a powerful instrument that helps me to come up with ideas for my stories. Also, there are topics I just like writing abou, like autonomous vehicles, commercialization of technologies, and many other. W…

  01.06.2018

• How Your Brain Makes Decisions

  … One of them has to do with planning future activities. Long-term planning involves many problems; oftentimes, people who are engaged in this activity behave irrationally, for instance, they don’t contribute enough to their retirement fund or don’t buy enough medical insurance. Long-term planning is not an easy task for most people: we …

  31.05.2018

• Biosystems Engineering 2018: Chia Seeds, Camel Milk and Foods of the Future

  … has both beneficial and harmful microflora. We have studied lactic acid bacteria and yeast in detail, as shubat is a product of mixed fermentation, and found out that it contains yeast, which is also present in wine. We plan to create a fermenting agent for application in biotechnology”, shares Ludmila Nadtochiy, an associate professor at the Department of Applied B…

  30.05.2018

• Future Culture Lab: Artists and Scientists Present Their Vision of Tomorrow

  …and emotional human condition, and which new questions may arise. The projects were developed between May 18 and 20, and the creators then spent several more days creating the installations. Lectures and workshops were held by media-art experts, inventors, artists and communications specialists. Participants created 11 projects: an astonishing result when you conside…

  30.05.2018