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• ITMO Scientists Develop Topological Defect Detection Method

  …e since they both have a hole in the center. Topological invariants lie at the core of many important observable properties of matter. They are incorporated in the creation of new, unusual materials, which are used, for example, to control light propagation in optical systems. To detect topologically non-trivial structures, scientists usually scan the propagation …

  28.03.2018

• Telegram Messenger: a Short Guide to the Hit Russian App

  … token sales and ICOs. While Initial Public Offerings (IPOs) give investors stock ownership in a company, ICOs provide tokens that their sellers promise will be useful in a new digital network, once it gets built. Virtually non-existent until last year, ICOs raised over $4 billion in 2017, according to Autonomous Next. The new dig…

  27.03.2018

• How to win a Vladimir Potanin Scholarship

  …'t hesitate to praise yourself. Mention all your achievements in the application form. The purpose of the competition is to support leaders who know how to innovate and deploy new technologies. Even if your past achievements seem small or irrelevant, they can still help you make a good impression. Provide details when answering questions. This will make your presen…

  27.03.2018

• itmo.ru: The Best Birthday Present

  …hich is what my older friends did. By 2001 they were eager to move to other things, and I was invited to take over. As I started working on the site, I was inspired by new people: students from completely different departments were registering, connecting on the forum, sharing materials and ideas. We also met offline and had a great time. Over time, the stude…

  26.03.2018

• Dmitry Volkov vs. Tatyana Chernigovskaya: Superintelligence and Living Machines

  … Does nature have the mathematics of humans? Does it obey our laws? The brain is in the physical world, it is controlled by physics and mathematics. But what kind of physics - Newton, Einstein or Bohr? A decent answer is all of it. And what kind of mathematics do we apply - Lobachevsky or Aristotle? I ask these questions to everyone, I did not receive answers until r…

  26.03.2018

• 5 Science News Now

  …A new interactive map shows climate change everywhere in the world. The map draws on five decades of public meteorological data recorded from 50,000 international weather stations around the Earth and allows students or researchers to compare the climates of places anywhere in the world. New device harvests water from dry air. The sy…

  26.03.2018

• ITMO Hosts AI Academy Open Lessons

  …ything that has to do with machine learning seems all the more promising. For now, we are looking to choose a particular field to tie our future with, so getting to know about new professions is most interesting. Today, we learned about data science, which looks very interesting, as well.” Another of the participants, Aleksandr Kokov, an 8th grade student at Pre…

  23.03.2018

• ITMO Master’s Student on E-governance in Estonia and Interning at Tallinn University of Technology

  … “Most importantly, participating in such an internship is a good way to get out of your comfort zone; it allows you to look at some things from a different angle, learn new things that you never even noticed. What’s more, I got to compare the approaches that are applied here and abroad, more so in a country that holds a leadership position in the field of e-go…

  23.03.2018

• Become an AEGEE Member and Travel Around Europe

  …gies at ITMO University Travelling Summer University: Czech Republic, Austria, Slovakia and Hungary. I first learned about AEGEE in 2016, when I realised that I wanted a new and challenging experience. I found out that there was such a program and decided to attend an open lecture by the organisation’s activists. Since it was my first trip abroad, I chose the T…

  22.03.2018

• Russian and Finnish Students Learn About Business Together with FIRST+

  …er segments, resources, supply channels, costs, and revenue streams. Business canvas model is used by companies to analyze their existing business model and find weak spots or new growth areas. The project was initiated by Tiina Wickman-Viitala, a professor at TAMK. She emphasized that the program is very much practice-oriented: throughout the week, students d…

  22.03.2018