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• Interaction with the Government: ITMO Students Offered Fresh Ideas

• Modern Universities: How to Combine Education, Science and Commercialization

  …ss and science become more and more necessary for Russian higher education. According to Elena Tkachenko, representative of St. Petersburg State University of Economics, the interaction of economic oriented and technical universities is a trend to be followed. However it is pointless to teach those students who don’t want to study business because only 10 % of tec…

  22.03.2016

• Accelerator iDealMachine Turns Four

  …n? How to adjust to unstable market? Today all companies undergo changes taking into account new technologies and methods. During these four years we have changed the program, selection standards, session structure and lesson plan several times. We teach future entrepreneurs to check all hypotheses and choose the best ones quickly. So we also apply this idea for o…

  22.03.2016

• Predicting the Flu using Mathematical Models

  … beds in hospitals and so on. How do you do this and what is this data? The Research Institute of Influenza situated in St. Petersburg provided the data. The Institute also functions as the WHO National Influenza Centre of Russia.  They monitor statistical data and if certain epidemiological thresholds are exceeded, they report it to the WHO and regional organ…

  18.03.2016

• Urbanism of the Future: City Farms, Floods and Comfort

  …xico, they build four-level traffic interchanges? Or are we going to have problems like in Los Angeles, where the authorities don’t know how to close one of the main roads for construction? Are we going to be able to respond to a challenge like a collapse? Collapse is the final point of infrastructure growth. I don’t know a single university that’s working on modelin…

  17.03.2016

• English Grammar: Not Boring and Very Exciting

  … as “definite” “indefinite” are too long to define such short words as “a” and “the” articles. Moreover, students also should learn the rule of using zero article. It refers to all sections of English grammar studying where students cannot develop their intuition and creativity. “One usually associates the word “grammar” with something negative, which prevents u…

  16.03.2016

• From Scientists to Entrepreneurs: Future Technologies Bridges the Gap

  … get their project involved in the Internet of Things to enable the network to be connected to their devices. This, according to Dmitry Zamaruev, expands the possibilities and the functions of Brelock, and enables them to open many more doors (not only for buildings).   The team intends to use two methods for commercialising their idea. For the first feature, that…

  16.03.2016

• Spicing Up Art with 3D Projection Mapping

  …w extremely popular in Western countries. We were not afraid to try to do something similar – we found designer models and only later came up with the idea to spice up the whole production with projection mapping, and thus found specialists in this field. Now there are six people in our team, but we are still expanding the staff. Sergey…

  15.03.2016

• High North for Youth: ITMO`s Ecologist Presented the Best Arctic Case Solution

  …nging to Arctic Council. Taking part in the case competition young experts developed solutions for sea gas fields in the Arctic. “Using initial data such as location of extraction units, climate conditions, geological parameters, estimated gas reserves, gas composition, an infrastructure of a region and so forth, the participants provided technical, ecologic…

  15.03.2016

• Toward Optical Computing

  … his colleagues presented two articles devoted to peculiarities of surface plasmons and magnetoplasmons in graphene nanostructures. Plasmons are quasi-particles arising from interaction of light waves and electron oscillation in semiconductors. Usually this phenomenon occurs on metal surfaces. Currently studying of plasmons is very relevant because by using them o…

  14.03.2016