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Lawns vs. Paths: Why Urban Planners Can’t Please Everybody
… work concerns modeling large-scale complex systems, such as urban processes and human behavior. Together with other researchers we’ve discovered a few interesting things. For instance: one of our projects dealt with traffic simulation in Singapore. We’d gathered a lot of data from traffic systems, i.e. navigation apps and created a traffic simulation to model the ou…
20.06.2017
Admission Campaign 2017: Things You Need To Know
Youth in Science: Summer Internship in Photonics and Optical IT
…rst step towards careers in science. “I believe the biggest advantage over the way we used to work in 2003 and later – when we were still finding our way – is that today, instead of completing prepared lab tasks where the result is known in advance, the kids can work on actual major research and collaborate with young scientists,” – says Natalia Andreeva – “We’v…
19.06.2017
Fintech Cup 2017 Lets Teams Compete for Chance to Work With Financial Giants
… development of an assistant program that would translate voice requests into text and send them to the bank using the bank’s mobile app or a chat-bot. As Alexey Blagirev explains, this task gives the participants a chance to work on a product outside of the “traditional” range (cards, loans, etc.). “Since the championship’s purpose is to encourage the creation …
19.06.2017
Prime Minister Medvedev Congratulates ACM ICPC Winners
…a for their years of prolific scientific and educational work. The Prime Minister noted that the University has long ago secured its status as a leader in IT education that trains highly qualified experts in the field of informational technology. He spoke with the talented programmers and asked them about what makes ITMO University’s students so successful. …
16.06.2017
Fan-zone, Optoclones and Cat Achilles - St. Petersburg's Ready For Confederations Cup
…he Confederations Cup - the Northern Capital will host the opening ceremony, the first match and the finals. For this reason, the city has taken up additional liabilities. For instance, at 12:00 on June 17 a fan zone will be opened on the Konyushennaya square. Yet, the organizational committee has prepared entertainment for not just the football fans. At the House of…
16.06.2017
RVC Experts: Why Entrepreneurial Education Matters
…nomy and Technological Entrepreneurship” training program was announced during the Moscow International Education Fair in spring of 2017. The main purpose of the program is to instill entrepreneurial qualities in students of technical and natural-science programs at Russian universities. The training program is conducted by top staff of RVC, professors from ITMO U…
16.06.2017
ITMO Fellowship Stories: Italian Professor Shares his Thoughts about the Stradivarius of Science
…Roberto Morandotti, physics, Professor at the National Institute of Scientific Research (INRS) in Montreal and author of several articles related to nonlinear optics, terahertz photonics and quantum optics came to St. Petersburg to join ITMO’s Fellowship Program. According to him, he is a real traveler. Indeed, Dr. Morandotti got extensive research experience working…
15.06.2017
Airalab: The New Robot Economics Doctrine
…centralized: there should be no common center, and the interaction is to be based on direct liability contracts of autonomous robots. This will allow to avoid many risks - for instance, a single failure will not affect the system as a whole. Also, the new robot economy has to be safe for humans and independent from their economy - this is why robots won't have any…
15.06.2017
6th International Council Meeting: Looking at the Map of the Future Together
…Rector, Daria Kozlova, ITMO’s Vice Rector for International Relations, Lesley Wilson, Secretary General of the European University Association, Xi-Cheng Zhang, Director of the Institute of Optics at the University of Rochester, Yuri Kivshar, Research Director at Australian National University (ANU) and Co-Chair of International Research Center at ITMO, Peter Sloot, P…
14.06.2017