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Interaction with the Government: ITMO Students Offered Fresh Ideas
…t and society and for simplifying bureaucratic runaround. “At the seminar students will learn modern information systems used by St. Petersburg government and maybe offer new ideas connected with mobile applications for urban needs,” said Andrey Chugunov, head of State Information Systems Management Chair. Situational Center of St. Petersburg was organi…
23.03.2016
ITMO’s Software to Be Used Across the Country
…Industrial Geodetic Systems” company was invited to become the head of the lab. The work of this lab in the development of HSP software enables the wide implementation of a new national geodetic coordinate system GCS-2011. To achieve this it is necessary to replace currently run-down systems, a process which will be lead by ROSREESTR to combine existing and
22.03.2016
Modern Universities: How to Combine Education, Science and Commercialization
…e independent departments connected with innovative activities, for example, Isis Innovation LTD based on Oxford University. As Mr. Kuznetsov noted, such centers commercialize new technologies developed by universities. The representatives of ITMO University mentioned that iDealMachine is a striking example of accelerator facilities. “Four years ago when we laun…
22.03.2016
Accelerator iDealMachine Turns Four
… Please tell us, is accelerator a routine or constantly changing organization? How to adjust to unstable market? Today all companies undergo changes taking into account new technologies and methods. During these four years we have changed the program, selection standards, session structure and lesson plan several times. We teach future entrepreneurs to check a…
22.03.2016
Citius, Altius, Fortius: ITMO University Among the Leaders of Project 5-100
…ions, and the total number of scientific publications co-authored with foreign colleagues,” – explains the vice rector. Marianna Chistyakova explains that, based on this new decision regarding subsidies for 2016 and subsequent years, new elements of financial support will be introduced for universities, who are trying to make it t…
21.03.2016
Predicting the Flu using Mathematical Models
… cities. The flu, unlike the majority of conventional acute respiratory infections, was brought into the country from the outside. Usually in South-East Asia there is a new strain of it, and air travel brings it to Western Europe. From Europe it usually came to the USSR through Moscow or Leningrad and after that spread across the whole Union. Leonid Rvachev wa…
18.03.2016
Urbanism of the Future: City Farms, Floods and Comfort
…to include these issues into college curriculum,” Muller noted. Local Manufacturing Paradigm Scientists keep pointing out the need for the cities to go back to nature. New York, for example, already has urban farms that grow vegetables for local consumption. “Is it possible to imagine that everything we need will be grown within a city? For example, in h…
17.03.2016
Researchers from India and Russia – Partnering Up on a Project
…opment of nanoantennas, rather to use dielectrics. Due to this replacement nanoantennas allow for more effective control of the scattering of electromagnetic waves and acquire new unique properties such as magnetic response and superdirectivity. Their only drawback is their size: if the linear sizes of plasmonic nanoantennas can be, for example, tens of nanometers, t…
17.03.2016
English Grammar: Not Boring and Very Exciting
…ne usually associates the word “grammar” with something negative, which prevents us from free communication by setting many strict rules. However grammar is a tool for getting new information and expressing one`s thoughts correctly. Don`t make students learn the rules, just give them apt examples that will help them remember grammar constructions. One can speak any l…
16.03.2016
From Scientists to Entrepreneurs: Future Technologies Bridges the Gap
…founder and director of the Brelock project, involved in making the “smart” key for a building’s entry system, shared that as a result of the grant, the team has announced two new features of their system. The first, to ensure adequate security there will be encrypted data between devices (the smartphone and the specially developed controller that controls the locks)…
16.03.2016