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• IT-evening for High Schoolers: Sports Programming, Evolutionary Algorithms and Genome Sequencing

  …-5. Life-hacks for entering ITMO University from Svetlana Podkolzina, 3rd year at the Department of Computation Technologies Don’t be afraid to try yourself in new fields. Surely, it calls for more effort, but you might find something that you’ll be ready to dedicate your whole life to! If you don’t like a subject, try doing it faster…

  21.03.2018

• This Weekend in St. Petersburg: March 24-25

  …le exhibitions will open in St. Petersburg. The Touch inclusive exhibition project (March 23 - April 4) at Manege Central Exhibition Hall is a project that aims to introduce a new type of relationship between art and audience. The exhibition focuses on interpreting human experiences on a multitude of levels: individual understanding, social identification, human inte…

  21.03.2018

• Nowruz: The Start of Spring

  …for millennia both as a secular and religious holiday by people of many countries which were once part of the Persian Empire. The history of Naw-Ruz (which literally means “new day”) dates back to the Achaemenid Empire, which existed some 2,500 years ago. In the ancient Persian calendar it is the first day of the first month of the solar calendar, and for Zoroastr…

  20.03.2018

• ITMO PhD Student on Doing Medical Modeling at University of Sheffield

  …ation. This affects the trajectory of cell migration, and we can speculate why this happens,  - explains the researcher. - Accordingly, based on the simulation, we can offer a new design of the experiment to test this assumption. If this assumption is correct, this will affect the stent design, which in the future will reduce the risk of complications after surgery. …

  20.03.2018

• Startups to Compete for 16 Million Rubles in GenerationS Superfinal

  …igital models, apply engineering calculations and employ various software algorithms. This technology is widely used to control the quality of production, detect errors, train new employees and present models of new products to customers. The last finalist of the GenerationS TechNet Track was A.A.C Polymers, a company from Volgog…

  20.03.2018

• Stephen Hawking: Life in Books

  …and quantum mechanics. General Theory of Relativity is a collective monograph by famous scientists from the USSR, the USA and the UK, while Geometric Ideas in Physics provides new approaches to quantum field theory. These essays didn’t become popular, but he didn’t intend them to be. When writing these essays, Hawking was a lecturer on gravitational physics an…

  19.03.2018

• Physicists Create Crystal Lattice from Polaritons

  …rons mix with photons. Such hybrid particles interact with each other, much like electrons do in a solid body. We used polaritons to create a crystal lattice and studied their new properties. Now we know how polaritons condense in flat bands, how their interaction breaks the radiation symmetry and how their spin or polarization  properties change.” Since polarit…

  19.03.2018

• ITMO University Professor Awarded for Mentoring

  …ook “Notes on Motivation” (link in Russian), where he shares his thoughts and stories about why we should and actually need to constantly move forward. In his article for ITMO.NEWS, he also notes that two conditions are necessary to keep the talents in the country: ​​a decent salary and freedom of creativity. In the article he also describes the first National forum …

  16.03.2018

• ITMO Student Team Wins QCTF Starter Competition in Computer Security

  …a non-stop format; onsite competitions, where each team works at a separate table, usually take up to eight hours or more. QSTF Starter competitions are meant for those new to CTF rules. The participants are given tasks where they have to find particular “flags”; whoever finds the most flags in the least time wins. The tasks are in different categories, among …

  16.03.2018

• Scientists Invent Method of Catching Bacteria with ‘Photonic Hook’

  …rsity, along with their colleagues from Tomsk State University, the University of Central Florida, the University of Ben-Gurion and the University of Bangor, have discovered a new type of curved light beam – the photonic hook. “Photonic hook is formed when we direct a plane light wave to a dielectric particle of an asymmetric shape," – says Alexander Shalin, hea…

  16.03.2018