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My Culinary Journey Through Russia
…e would be for the specific purpose of making Olivier salad. In Russia, mayonnaise (or sour cream) is basically a staple for any salad or even soup. While the Olivier salad I knew and loved all my life was a lot more creamy, the Russian version is “chunkier”. All the ingredients - carrots, potatoes, eggs, pickles, and usually ham rather than chicken - are cut into id…
01.01.2018
ITMO Scientists Develop New “White” Near-Field Optical Microscope
Seven Words that Describe ITMO in 2017
… University's programming team became World Champions at the ACM International Collegiate Programming Contest World Finals, which took place in Rapid City, SD (USA), setting a new record in the history of the contest. No other university has been able to win the Cup seven times. The team was personally congratulated by Prime Minister Medvedev soon after and later ac…
29.12.2017
New Opportunities: ITMO University Revamps Its Entrepreneurial Activities
…The Faculty of Technological Management and Innovations is a somewhat new structure, founded in 2015. Yet, by that time, the entrepreneurship function had already been stated as part of the university’s mission. What did it imply at that time? If we're talking about the functions of a university, historically they've always been places of education; then, a strong…
29.12.2017
ITMO’s Technopark Resident Company Takes Best BioTech Innovations Prize in Hong Kong.
…ss. The company's executives also see good prospects in its application for the treatment of neurodegenerative diseases. The medicine is a regular capsule, which contains a new derivative of creatine, a nitrogen-containing carboxylic acid, which participates in energy metabolism in the human body. In the course of chemical synthesis, a phenyl group was attached to…
28.12.2017
ITMO Physicists Use Radiofrequency Trap to “Freeze” Nanocrystals
…one of the trap’s creators, – “It is a somewhat expensive method and one incapable of holding a particle long enough to cool it effectively and study its properties”. The newly-developed system allows scientists to cool a nanocrystal to a temperature of 10-8 К, which is 10 billion times less than room temperature and is also the quantum limit. “In those con…
28.12.2017
ITMO’s Academic Council Wraps Up 2017
…chnology at SmartBiz Expo in Hong Kong. The company also won three gold medals for their pharmacological projects. ITMO’s Museum of Optics expanded its collection with some new and unique exhibits this year. In collaboration with the Hellenic Institute of Holography and Russia’s Gokhran (State Fund of Precious Metals and Stones), the university’s scientists built …
28.12.2017
Russian And German Students Collaborate On An Industry 4.0 Project
…arted to develop concepts of making enterprises “smart”. Today, the term “Industry 4.0” is used as a synonym of the fourth industrial revolution. Its key point is to create new cyber-physical complexes and unite them in a unified digital ecosystem. In this sense, intellectualization of processes and product life cycles becomes one of the most prioritized fields. …
28.12.2017
ITMO University Partners Up With TRA Robotics
…TRA Robotics is a technological startup that designs flexible software-driven workflow. The company’s representatives believe that this new approach will considerably decrease the time spent on bringing products to the market, ease making changes to their design and functionality in real-time mode and cut down on the end products’ costs. TRA Robotics creates fully ro…
27.12.2017
Yandex.Taxi and Programmers’ Ability To Predict Users’ Behavior
…her similar services? During rush hours, they spend 85% of the time with passengers. This happens thanks to the network effect (in layman’s terms, network effect is when every new user who joins improves the service for everyone). The Android system is a classical example. The more users there are, the more applications are developed for it, the more capabilities it …
27.12.2017