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What universities will face on second step of 5-100 Project realization
…ot of intersections. There is no certain information yet, but I think that all the universities during the second step will continue their initiatives connected with the expansion of the international research network, activation of innovative activity. I'm sure that in every road map the important thing will be about an active international recruiting and attractin…
17.04.2015
Moscow International Education Fair launch
…cation. Participants agreed that entrepreneurship education in schools is necessary primarily in order to develop children's leadership skills, ability to make independent decisions and take responsibility for them. Nina Yanykina, the head of the ITMO University Design and Innovation Activity Department, stresses that the participation in business incubators and acqu…
16.04.2015
Saint Petersburg development strategies will be discussed at the Harmony of Versatility Forum
…tersburg and Leningrad region. The leaders of the 35 world cities and experts in the field of urbanistics, history and architecture are invited to the event. At the plenary sessions, the participants will discuss the possibilities of cooperation in modern conditions and ways of the joint overcoming the social and economic barriers. According to Vladimir Vas…
15.04.2015
Universities’ subject rankings were discussed at the Project 5/100 seminar
…pportunity to compare yourself in certain areas, to show strengths," Mikhail Antonov says, the director of the Project 5/100 Management office. During the substantive session, Waldemar Sivinsky, the president of the Perspektywy education fund, said that the subjects’ rankings are a transitional stage between the traditional elite universities rankings and ranki…
14.04.2015
Scientists learnt to make objects invisible without metamaterial cloaking
… The scientists studied light scattering from a glass cylinder filled with water. In essence, such an experiment represents a two-dimensional analog of a classical problem of scattering from a homogeneous sphere (Mie scattering), the solution to which is known for almost a century. However, this classical problem contains unusual physics that manifests itself when …
13.04.2015
Second Eurasia Innovations Convention forms vision for new Eurasia
Chinese telecommunication corporation is interested in cooperation with St. Petersburg developers
…e interested in several areas of research conducted at ITMO University, in particular, research in the field of wired and wireless technologies, coding and information transmission, machine learning and other issues. …
08.04.2015
Global Technology Symposium: how universities form a model of innovative development
…he Forum's events is networking: during the GTS it is possible to meet the right people and conduct the negotiations promptly. The second type of activities is the panel discussions on topics relevant to the industry. And, of course, the event can't do without performances of famous experts in the field of entrepreneurship and innovations: on the third of April there…
07.04.2015
How optics rules influence perception of art and architecture
…ght-based Technologies in St. Petersburg, addressed the issue of color perception. In the optical "the thing - the lighting" relation there is another important member - the vision of the observer: depending on the characteristics of the person and the lighting, the color of the object will be perceived differently. Wrong answers cannot be here, said the speaker, it …
03.04.2015
St. Petersburg Governor launched the International Year of Light in Russia
…tion development. Professor Alessandro Farini from the University of Florence, an expert in the field of interaction of optics and creativity, impressed guests with visual illusions. At the opening ceremony, governor Georgy Poltavchenko said that St. Petersburg rightly takes the baton from Paris, as here some important discoveries and domestic developments …
02.04.2015