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• Relativity Theory in Layman’s Terms: a New Lecture at the «Gutenberg's Lounge»

  …e: it's something mankind invented about 5,000 years ago, between the wheel and writing. When talking of the dice as a random variable, we imply that it has six faces, each is inscribed with a number from 1 to 6, and there are no other options. The second component is probability distribution, in our case the probability of getting each face is 1/6. Here, probabiliti…

  05.10.2016

• The Ceaseless Chain: Why Schools and Universities Have to Collaborate?

  …events as the «St Petersburg's Young Engineers» festival, «A Step to Your Profession» and «Educational Horizons» exhibitions. It's also important to have different clubs. For instance, we've got clubs for robotics, programming, modeling, and provide additional courses in mathematics, physics, and astronomy. Participation of university lecturers in the educational pr…

  05.10.2016

• A New Approach to Education: ITMO’s Academic Board Elaborates New Concepts

  … has to turn to internal competition. It's the law of economics, the law of life — it works anytime, everywhere. That's a necessary requirement, though in our case, it's still insufficient», — shares Mr. Mikhailov. ITMO University. Nikolai Mikhailov To achieve this goal, electivity is to be promoted on all levels of the educational process. Some electivity element…

  05.10.2016

• New Optical Biosensor Can Diagnose Infections in Few Seconds

  …quiring spectra of light passing through the sample, one can infer the presence of specific bacteria or viruses in the sample. To prove that the novel biosensing platform can instantly detect pathogenic microorganisms, the scientists used common bacteria called Staphylococcus aureus. Such express-analysis may be widely used in large transport hubs, such as airports…

  05.10.2016

• The 2016 Nobel Prize in Physics: Topological Phases of Matter over the Experimental Discovery of Gravitational Waves

  … in conditions of extremely low temperatures and colossal pressure. As for superconduction, there are several materials that have such property. Superconductors are used in trains that are based on magnetic levitation. Scientists from the Physics Land club of ITMO university love an experiment that is good at illustrating the process — a magnet levitates above a supe…

  04.10.2016

• In Terms of Science: the Explanation for Paranormal Phenomena

  … Sometimes everybody feels strange constraint right after awaking. At the same time it may seem that something or somebody is near your bed or, which is even worse, pushes against your chest so that you cannot breathe. Previously, people explained that by demons. Each culture has its' own superficial creatures: Arabs call them jinns, Russians have the «domovo…

  04.10.2016

• Web Standard days: a Quick Guide for Future Web-Developers

  …sity for several years. Proportion As a rule, there are more workers than engineers in any industry. IT is the same: about 10% of people in the field know complex instrumentation like high-level mathematical abstractions, and the remaining 90% are standard developers. Therefore, there are not many tasks that call for advanced knowledge. Also, as soon as…

  04.10.2016

• 56th in the Times Higher Education Ranking: Reasons Behind ITMO’s Success

  …in 2012, so the progress is more than evident. By the way, in «Computer Science» ITMO’s citation rating was even higher than that of M. V. Lomonosov State University — 98.7 against 61.0. Also, ITMO had a higher index in what had to do with scientific articles and reports for international conferences, which is especially important, as it gives a chance to tell the sc…

  04.10.2016

• Russia’s «First Non-Classical» Welcomes: an Open Day at ITMO’s School of Internet Technologies and Programming

  …School of Translational Information Technologies. Information Technologies change the world, and there's nothing one can do with it — notes Daria Kozlova, Head of ITMO’s Institute of International Development and Partnership. Old professions become things of the past, and new inventions come into our lives. IT-specialists are at the center of these changes. «…

  03.10.2016

• Wiki-Conference 2016: The Problem of Rights and Freedom

  …sity. «We are now at the „Dark Ages“. In Middle Ages that was the time when people lost access to cultural values and could access them only in certain places, churches, for instance. Now it is the same. The development of new technologies led to communications being conducted in real time — but no one can really work this way. We can bring up a problem online — bu…

  03.10.2016