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• How an American Ended Up Teaching at ITMO University

  …When it comes to all things international, ITMO University has been making leaps and strides in this direction. A few years ago at ITMO, there was a small number of English language staff and a few hours a month when students could engage in some English language study. Over the last few years, the Foreign Language Training Center at ITMO University has been pushing …

  18.10.2016

• The New Google Translate: What is the Future of Neural Networks?

  …to recognize a letter from a digital image. It analyzes the "A" letter, but gets "L" as the result. When such errors occur, the network rolls back and starts making mathematical corrections to every preceding layer to get a correct answer as a result. This is called backpropagation, and can be repeated as many times as necessary. It all depends on the amount of initi…

  18.10.2016

• Academic Mobility: ITMO’s New Collaborations in France

  …ast choice of programs in English. As of now, the French educational system is undergoing significant changes. According to representatives of Paris Saclay, it’s moving in the direction of university mergers. The enormous amount of small universities is to be replaced by big combined ones that will have many schools training students in different fields of science…

  17.10.2016

• A Solar Lab: What Mysteries are Hidden in the Sun?

  … close range we can see that the sunspots are surrounded by constantly moving granules. They are usually caused by a process similar to boiling water in a kettle which is called convection. Thus each granule is a convection cell. This process can be explained easily in terms of physics but one needs to take into account that the average…

  17.10.2016

• Indexes That Matter: Elsevier’s Consultant on How to Use Bibliographic Databases

  … can be calculated for any group of articles — for example, it can be counted for publications of a certain author, a group of authors or a whole university. Formally, if f is the function that corresponds to the number of citations for each publication, we compute the h index as follows. First we order the values of f from the largest to the lowest value. Then, we l…

  14.10.2016

• Researchers Find Way to Enhance Photon Entanglement

  …sity developed a calculation method that allows scientists to design more efficient and compact devices for entangled photons generation. The calculations are based on the Green’s function, which has been used in physics for a half of a century, but for entirely different tasks. In turn, the logic of the new approach for generating entangled particles is such that fi…

  14.10.2016

• How Customs Correlate with Physics, Chemistry and Analytics

  …The International Customs Student Association (ICSA) is a new platform for professional interaction of future experts, which has its' source in the annual international youth conference "i-Customs" and the PICARD Forum (Partnership in Customs Academic Research and Development). The main stakeholder and organizer of the Association is ITMO’s Faculty of the Internation…

  13.10.2016

• Nonlinear Metamaterials in Making Computers More Effective

  …terials can be a lot more powerful than that of natural crystals. This property can become crucial for creating fully optical systems of information processing, as addition and subtraction of signal frequencies, as well as controlling the distribution of light is only possible in nonlinear structures. Still, a fundamental problem arises: how to describe the proper…

  13.10.2016

• Grants of 2016: ITMO Gets 90 Millions on Hybrid Light-Matter States Research

  …ight behavior abstractedly from matter. Material excitations — electrons, protons, neutrons, single atoms and molecules — are affected by things like Keesom forces or Coulombic interactions, whereas photons don't interact at all and have only a slight effect on the matter's properties. Still, under particular conditions, the interaction…

  13.10.2016

• Expert Opinion: How to Predict the Behavior of a 75 Million- Crowd

  …ts visualized the Mahabaleshwar temple’s space in order to detect peculiarities of crowd behavior in a closed space when crowd density is extremely high. To determine a satisfaction rate the volunteers analyzed the visitors' impressions. About 3,500 people filled up a special questionnaire. The Cul-de-sac experiment aimed at analyzing the strategies chosen by …

  12.10.2016