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• Smart St. Petersburg: Citizens Will Help Shape the City’s Future

  …St. Petersburg’s unique image Many places have embraced the “smart city” concept in recent years. All in all, there are two types of smart cities: new cities built smart from the start, such as Songdo City in South Korea, or Masdar City in the UAE, and existing cities made smart, such as New York City, Copenhagen, Vienna, etc. St. Pe…

  23.04.2018

• 5 Science News Now

  …lion InSight lander, due to launch next month, carries three instruments designed to peer through Mars's rusty shell, including a seismometer that will detect “marsquakes.” New microscope captures detailed images and 3D videos on cellular and subcellular level. Astronomers developed a "guide star" adaptive optics technique to obtain the most crystal-clear and prec…

  23.04.2018

• How Online Courses Can Benefit Both Students and Universities

  …k? First, a student picks certain online courses depending on their field of study and the skills they want to acquire. Universities, in turn, analyze their choices and create new online courses that cater to the students’ needs. The system, therefore, works as a closed loop. What are the other benefits for universities? By launching online courses, universities c…

  20.04.2018

• ITMO University Launches New Bioinformatics and Systems Biology Master’s Program

  …anize their work in a more efficient manner and avoid making mistakes. Today, it has become really hard to work in modern biology if one doesn’t have those,” he adds. The new Bioinformatics and Systems Biology program will be in English; the module that has to do with programming, data analysis and machine learning will be taught by ITMO specialists, and the cou…

  20.04.2018

• Irina Hussainova: Estonian “Scientist of the Year”

  …as physics and mathematics are not a prerequisite and it is worth learning so that you can go through life without any problems. Ultimately, I challenged myself. Of course, I knew that physics is interesting. But I didn’t know which way to go at the age of 17. What helped you decide? Why did you choose optoelectronics? I cannot say that I decided it myself. I w…

  20.04.2018

• 5 Science News Now

  …well-suited to map areas of the world where maps are frequently out of date, which includes both places with lower population and areas where there's frequent construction. New tool to speed up wearable tech design. The technology is centered on materials that become electrically charged after they come into contact with each other, known as 'triboelectric materia…

  20.04.2018

• ITMO University Online Courses You Can't Miss

  …Fundamentals of Plasmonics (in English) This online course on the fundamentals of plasmonics will start on June 21 and will last for five weeks. Plasmonics is a newly emerging and fast growing branch of physics at the junction of nanotechnology, subwavelength optics, quantum mechanics, and solid state physics. The field of plasmonics studies how light interacts…

  19.04.2018

• Russia Secures ACM ICPC-2018 World Champion Title

  …ITMO University (four wins since 2012) and St. Petersburg State University (two wins since 2012). ACM ICPC-2018, although not the best year for the two leaders, has revealed a new “star” - the team from Lomonosov Moscow State University, who have previously never held the world champion title, but won the gold numerous times, even finishing in second place on five oc…

  19.04.2018

• Scientists “Hack” Regulatory Mechanism of Immune Cell Activity

  …udy was published in 2016 and attracted the attention of the scientific community. However, the exact regulatory mechanisms of this substance were described until now. In a new article published in Nature journal, researchers described the molecular mechanisms of itaconate activity for the first time ever. They demonstrated that metabolic regulation through this s…

  19.04.2018

• City of Professions: Career Day at ITMO University

  …eral fields of activities that the students will find most easy to tap into. For instance, there is a demand for analysts (business technologists) whose job is to come up with new banking products and new features for existing ones, communicate with developers and testers, solve emerging issues, and estimate the efficiency of these solu…

  18.04.2018