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• Experience Academic Mobility: International Students On How they Feel about Studying at ITMO

  …elor degree in German, I was surprised by some peculiarities of the Russian educational system. For instance, I had no idea what "metodichka" is [It is a student guideline with instructions of how to prepare for tests and do home tasks -Ed.]. In Germany we had large studying groups, about 200−300 people, here I study together with a dozen students or less. Lecturers …

  14.12.2016

• Innovation Ecosystems Forum: Universities are to Turn into Corporations

  …n informal setting, as well", shares Nina Yanikina. Innovations Ecosystems Forum Credit: social networks "As for me, the "Innovations Ecosystem" forum is mostly about interaction of universities and STI, as well as choosing our university's future strategy", shares Oleg Malsagov, Rector's Advisor for Development. "Also, we had an opportunity to negotiate wi…

  13.12.2016

• Scientists Produce Water Based Tunable Metasurfaces

  …otation. "The incident wave is partially transmitted, partially reflected, partially absorbed. Redistributing water inside the cells, we change the balance between transmission, reflection and absorption. This determines where the metasurface can be applied: for polarizers, filters, or selective absorbers," notes Andrei Andryieuski, research fellow of the Department …

  13.12.2016

• Surviving Yemen, Surviving ITMO

  …even though there’s no electricity. People find ways to deal with life under difficult circumstances. So he’s confronting the language barriers and the new culture with the same conviction. When in class he doesn’t catch the words the lecturer says, he uses his creativity to just write the words that he hears or take a picture of what his classmate writes. Eventually…

  12.12.2016

• "Neuronet": Who Will Control Our Brains in The Future

  …chnologies will enhance people’s possibilities and change all aspects of their lives. The first road map for "Neuronet" was developed in 2015. Now it is being developed in six directions: neuropharma and neuromechanical serve to improve the quality of life of sick people; the other four aim to improve opportunities for the healthy. These projects are the CoBrain, …

  12.12.2016

• From Akinator Genii to Machine Learning: A Science Slam Participant on Detection Technologies

  …Why did you decide to work on detection technologies? There are lots of areas where they are used. That would be medicine, defense industry, security and even entertainment. That same Snapchat uses them for its filters. As for security, forest fires are now detected using special probes with cameras that are a lot better at detecting fire outbreaks that airborne i…

  12.12.2016

• Hermitage’s Head Clocksmith on his Work, Laboratory and the Importance of Restoring Technological Marvels

  …sked to repair a broken clock. I tried and failed, but got interested in the subject. Later, my senior friend, Yuri Platonov (also LITMO's graduate) called me to work on the reconstruction of the tower clock of the Gatchina Grand Palace that suffered during the war. Then we worked with the clock of the Ferapontov Monastery and the tower clock of the Marble Palace. In…

  07.12.2016

• Video360Production Becomes Samsung Russia’s Official Partner

  … videos, and then share this content via social networks. So, with the launching of their hosting, Samsung started to search for video 360 content all over the world. As Video360Production has one of the biggest portfolios in Russia, the company turned to us", shares Denis Stolyarov, Video360Production's project director. After signin…

  07.12.2016

• "Searching for Lost Kitties": ITMO student Develops an App for Finding Lost Pets

  … would have more similar features. As of now, we are yet to help anyone, so there's lots of place for improvement. We have to improve the usability, and also upgrade the search function. As soon as we solve this, we'll add other large cities to the app's geography. The most important part of our work would be interacting with users. Unfortunately, our app is not s…

  06.12.2016

• 5 Things You Need to Know Now

  … tons, and is the largest movable land-based structure ever built and is supposed to secure the unit for at least 100 years. A single atom meets a single photon… Mapping the interaction between those two may inform design of quantum devices. "The photon knocks the atom into an excited state. To build reliable devices, scientists will need to control the intera

  04.12.2016