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• ITMO Grad and AI Factory Co-Founder Greg Tkachenko: Startups Are the Cure for Burnout

  …e native for smartphones. There were other ideas, too, but none of them worked out. How did you handle that challenging time? Yes, it definitely was challenging. I felt totally broken inside. Even though in my mind I kept reminding myself that every experience is beneficial, it was difficult to go against my own emotions, especially when I looked at my friends’…

  12.02.2020

• ITMO University Student Team Becomes All-Round Winner of Moscow Travel Hack

  …he participants.  The hackathon lasted 30 hours, during which 50 teams, five per each of the ten tracks, were searching for creative solutions to the commissioned tasks. A total of ten teams made it into the finals, one per every nomination. Among them were two ITMO University teams: VoidNameNull (Neola Lisitsyna, Daniil Litvinenko, Vsevolod Kosarev) and Golden PS…

  12.02.2020

• It’s Your Call! Winter School Kicks Off at ITMO University

  …80 participants from 43 Russian regions. These are Bachelor’s and Master’s students who have passed into the second round of the student competition “I Am a Professional”. In total, there were over 500 applications to participate.  Greeting the participants with a welcoming speech was Julia Ablets, head of the Committee on Youth Policy and Cooperation with Non…

  11.02.2020

• ITMO’s Science Communicators Hosted a Discussion at the Total Dictation Conference

  …The 2020 Total Dictation: stellar and revolutionary The 2020 Total Dictation will take place under the main theme of space. It is this that is the focus of Per Aspera, the event’s core text written by Andrey Gelasimov. It’s dedicated to the pioneer of Russian astronautic theory, Konstantin Tsiolkovsky. St. Petersburg has been chos…

  11.02.2020

• ITMO University Hosts Potanin Scholarship Contest Finals

  …e good self-presentation skills. We are looking for students looking to fulfil their potential in a social, scientific or creative field. Even though only 500 students from a total of 2,000 will receive the scholarship, I believe that every one of them will benefit from taking part in the contest. Our participants get to solve original cases and demonstrate their ski…

  10.02.2020

• Besting Elon Musk at Memristors and Making a Vascular System Model to End Animal Testing: Results of SCAMT Workshop Week

  … “All participants of the school are divided into groups of three to six people, with each group pursuing their own research project; this year, we’ve had ten of these in total,” says Polina Khapaeva, SCAMT’s director for development. “In a week’s worth of work, they obtain not only theoretical knowledge but also, most importantly, a specific practical result: a …

  28.01.2020

• How to Teach in English: EMI Teacher Training Course for Lecturers of Russian Universities

  …uch educational materials in Russian,” shares Natalia Meiss, a lecturer of Economics and Management in the Oil and Gas Sector at Far Eastern Federal University. “A total of six lecturers from my university managed to come to ITMO to take part in this EMI course. I see this as a great opportunity to boost my professional skills. There are lots of students a…

  28.01.2020

• Bioinformatics Specialist Alexey Komissarov on Gaps in Genomic Studies and Plans to Close Them

  … genome completely straightaway, it’s for this that we need to the small fragments. Today, the best results are obtained by reading small pieces of 150 to 300 nucleotides. In total, the genome of the mustelid contains somewhere between 2.3 and 2.4 billion nucleotides. This is why bioinformatics plays such a role – manually, such a volume simply cannot be assembled. W…

  27.01.2020

• ITMO’s Rector Vladimir Vasilyev: Science Can’t Be Measured in Square Meters

  … buildings on Lomonosova, 9 suffered a floor collapse. This accident affected our laboratories and lecture rooms, including those of ITMO’s ChemBio cluster; the affected area totaled at around 6,000 m². Thanks to our employees and students as well as the Ministry of Emergency Situations working together, we were able to save a significant part of the valuable lab equ…

  21.01.2020

• Speak Like a Russian: On Kvetching And How Things Go Wrong

  …rd is often used to comment on a situation so bad that you don’t really know how to react to it.  Well, these few expressions aren’t much, but on the bright side, they are totally safe to use. Obviously, there are many stronger expressions in the Russian language, especially the obscene ones - but this is an entirely different subject! See you next time! Yours,…

  20.01.2020