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• Volunteering in St. Petersburg: Present Situation and Prospects

  …organized by students or, small initiative groups, then it's has a lot more trust. Thus, students are good at promoting the idea of volunteering to the general public», — explains the chairman of the Student Volunteering Center, Alyona Stepanisheva. Also, today's students are tomorrows generation of socially-responsible citizens, who will graduate with a cl…

  21.09.2016

• «Metamaterial Black Holes» Can Absorb Radiation at any Distance — a Scientist from University of Coimbra on his Recent Research.

  …waves will be higher and others — lower. At set temperatures, the radiation in one spectral range will reach a particular maximum value that is defined by Planck's law. For instance, Sun is an ideal black body with a surface temperature of about 6,000 degree Kalvin. The greater part of Sun's heat emission is within the visible light band that can be seen. For g…

  21.09.2016

• New Online Courses on the Open Education Platform. Part 2

  … to reach their offices. Such systems are also used in aircrafts, liquid level control devices and other devices that make use of automated mechanisms. This online course contains lectures on analysis, synthesis and applications of linear systems of automated control. The students will use Scilab math modelling system. The applicants need to have basic theoretical ba…

  21.09.2016

• SAP Marketing Director Makes Predictions about the Future

  …panies, small and unknown, took their places. I consider myself as a young man who accepts new tendencies easily. But nevertheless I am astonished at all of these changes. For instance, Airbnb, which is the largest online service for renting apartments as my mother would say, sells air. It has almost nothing and the only thing it does is offering its' online platform…

  20.09.2016

• New Online Courses on the Open Education Platform. Part 1

  …here they will analyze protocols. The tasks will be hard — they are aimed more at students, though the knowledge we give will be of use to IT specialists as well, as they give insight into informational security and other application aspects. We plan to divide the course into three parts: the first one will be launched soon, in September, the second — in the next sem…

  20.09.2016

• The Hidden Treasures of St. Petersburg — a Quick Guide to Visiting St. Petersburg’s Suburbs

• Philips’s Vice President: Darkness is the other side of the Lighting Design

  … this strategy to use when started working on a project for Galleria West, a shopping mall in Seoul. It was an ex industrial building that looked like a large single-tone box. Inspired by glass bottles that can reflect all colors of the spectrum he made several experiments and then covered the mall’s walls with LED lamps that render millions colors. The lamps were co…

  19.09.2016

• ITMO Imagines at EAIE Conference and Expo in Liverpool

  …ion at any level had an opportunity to learn from the vast experiences of all the presenters. However, Richard Gerver, the key-note speaker at the opening plenary warned against "looking for a silver bullet" during the conference, but rather to think about "a culture shift that will lead to a sense of empowerment". He explained that "people find change cool if the…

  19.09.2016

• Alternative Transport Lines in Saint Petersburg — ITMO’s Experts Share Their Opinions.

  …rg — those are about two times faster. Though the speed is not very impressive, one should note that it's the average speed — and it guarantees no traffic jams and delays. For instance, the average speed of public traffic in St. Petersburg is about 10 km/h. What is more, according to the data presented at one of the recent press conferences, the speed of public trans…

  19.09.2016

• A New Victory for Gennadiy Korotkevich — ITMO’s Master’s Student Wins Russian Code Cup

  … from 11th to 25th position — 15 000. According to Lydia Perovskaya, tutor for the Computer Technology Department, the final round this year was shorter than usual: two hours instead of three. The tasks for the contest were all unique: even the first one had to be challenging and noteworthy, as Russia's top-50 programmers participated in this round. We'd like to add…

  19.09.2016