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"Assemble a University": Nationwide Hackathon Contributes to NTI Project
…Trends: individual assistants in education How can one understand which educational courses will be effective and which not? The new Liderium application developed by ITMO University’s A Team can help with that. The program helps evaluate one’s skills, competencies, and preferences based on the data provided, and offers an educational path aimed at reaching a partic…
13.11.2017
ITMO Scientists Develop Gene Analysis Software to Combat Superbug Viruses
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…o connect computing devices, or in diagnostic and monitoring systems that could be attached to the skin or implanted in the body, flexing easily with the natural tissue. A new moneymaker for biofuel. A Sandia National Laboratories-led team has demonstrated faster, more efficient ways to turn discarded plant matter into chemicals worth billions. Lignin, the tough …
13.11.2017
Scientists Complete Research on Ultra-Short Pulses in Resonant Mediums
…owever, since optical impulses were longer back then, the things we write about couldn’t be implemented. It was spoken of, but not considered relevant. Today, this topic gains new significance and relevance,” – explains researcher Mikhail Arkhipov. The authors have managed to provide theoretical and quantitative proof that a sequence of such pulses of certain pa…
10.11.2017
Physicist Maxim Gorlach on getting ahead in science: "The worst scenario is to just drift with the tide".
…e quite successful. For example, I got into the university via one of them. Thanks to these studies, by the 11th grade I clearly understood that I wanted to do science, and I knew what branch of physics I would be doing. And since I grew up in Minsk, I had two basic options to get education in physics: the Department of Radiophysics and the Physics Department of the …
10.11.2017
WCSJ-2017: Making Science More Popular Than Politics
…ted by employees of ITMO’s Center for Scientific Communication – Dmitry Malkov and Alexandra Borissova. Alexandra is also the co-founder of AKSON and will teach classes at the new Master’s degree program in Science Communication at ITMO. She has previously held the position of Science Editor at Gazeta.ru, took part in opening the first press-service at the Moscow Ins…
10.11.2017
Programmer Daria Yakovleva: "You shouldn’t be afraid to try something new"
…What “ignites” your love for programming, and particularly competitive programming? Programming is a creative process. You are creating something new, inventing different systems and solving problems that haven’t been solved before. Instead of following instructions, you are looking for new methods and approaches. It’s very cool that…
09.11.2017
Canadian Experts Test ITMO Quantum Network
…ti-node quantum network in Russia and CIS by uniting four nodes in different districts of Tatarstan’s capital. ITMO University’s quantum network was based on a conceptually new approach - a method of single photon generation in which the signal photons are not emitted directly by a source but are generated on subcarrier frequencies, or sidebands, as a result of mo…
09.11.2017
Watching the Stars: Technologies of St. Petersburg’s New Planetarium
…The new Planetarium #1 is now the world’s biggest, having topped the record of its counterpart in Nagoya, Japan, with a diameter of 35 meters. The new dome was fixed into a historic building of a former gas-holder that once supplied St. Petersburg’s public lighting. The construction is similar to a saucepan in its appearance: round, wit…
09.11.2017
Vasiliy Leonenko: "If You Are Sure About Your Current Choice, It Is Better to Develop In This Direction
…ior to the surgery. By checking where the patients lose most time, the specialists can advise to increase the amount of staff performing particular tasks. Can we expect any new mathematical modeling methods to appear soon? We use different approaches to mathematical modeling depending on the quality and quantity of data. For instance, if there’s few data, the c…
08.11.2017