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• UniverSum Summer School: Competitive Hacking for School Students

  …familiarize themselves with the basics of computer security and CTF competitions and don’t get frightened off by complex tasks straight away. This autumn, SPbCTF launches a new season of workshops that will focus on a classic, Attack-Defence format of CTF, which means that participants interact with each other during the competition. Anyone can participate, regard…

  23.07.2018

• Sun, Sea, and Computational Science: YSC-2018 Participants Discuss Their Conference Experience

  …The University of Crete, ITMO’s new partner university, became the conference venue. Located in Heraklion, the university is the largest higher education institution on the island and home to more than 13,000 students, 2,000 of which are enrolled in postgraduate studies. The university has an extensive network of partner institutions from Europe and worldwide. As of …

  23.07.2018

• “I Am a Professional” Winners On How Competition Changed Their Lives

  …s. It was very well-organized, education and entertainment perfectly balanced each other. What I liked the most was the Semi-Hackathon, Andrey Sebrant’s lecture, and a trip to New Holland and the planetarium. The competition made me discover more about the winter school and ITMO University, and it greatly contributed to my decision to enter ITMO University as a Ph…

  20.07.2018

• ITMO Graduates Participate in School of Science Journalism in Erice

  …s been my first international experience. Yet again, I realized that science communication in Russia is rapidly developing, and is moving in the right direction, which is good news. If I were to compare Russia, Europe and the more faraway countries (there were participants from Brazil, India, Egypt, and Israel at the school), I would say that we are all similar and y…

  20.07.2018

• Movie Fridays: Summer in the City

  … terribly endearing restaurant owner monsieur Septime in The Big Restaurant. Already know all the Louis de Funès classics by heart and want to check out something (relatively) new? Try Knock on Wood; this movie, touted by some as ‘the second-funniest French comedy ever’ (that’s a huge claim!), follows a private detective Campana (Gérard Depardieu) and his walking fai…

  20.07.2018

• Decline of Antibiotics and Nanoparticle Drugs of the Future

  …om are working on a massive database with information on every citizen of the EU. Thanks to machine learning, we’ll be able to predict and diagnose diseases, as well as create new medicines. One of the project’s segments is called Nanomedicine; its goal is to create new drugs based on nanostructured materials. As its participant, I deve…

  19.07.2018

• Emotional AI Helps Enhance Productivity and Fight Stress

  …n of emotions recognized worldwide made up of eight basic emotions. And there are many research on how to detect, control and synthesize these basic emotions. So, there are new research areas emerging that focus on the relationship between emotions and biological data? First of all, there is the already existing cognitive science which includes the concept of e…

  19.07.2018

• This Weekend in St. Petersburg: July 21-22

  …y and Mariinsky Theatres. The show kicks off at 12pm on July 21 and July 22. Entrance fee is 250 rub. Whatever you choose, we hope you enjoy your weekend! Yours truly, ITMO.NEWS.…

  18.07.2018

• ITMO Student on Using IT to Help People With Dementia

  …ive, behavioral, psychological and social problems, which acts as a major hindrance to social activity and personal well-being. Participants of MSCA-RISE «MinD» aim to develop new approaches that can help such people. They plan to come up with a reliable methodological structure for development and assessment of associated projects, as well as a comprehensive model t…

  18.07.2018

• Innovative Method for Microcirculation Diagnosis Gives New Insights into Migraines

  …okes. Nevertheless, despite their importance for the overall health, capillary coordination mechanisms are still not fully decoded. To fill this gap, scientists are developing new and non-invasive research methods. One of these innovative methods is optical plethysmography. A result of a collaboration between Russian and Finnish scientists, plethysmography gives a…

  18.07.2018