Search results for «ins» 6342 results
ITMO Student's Guide to Housing in St. Petersburg
…rent an entire apartment or a single room in one – and whether you’d like to share your space with strangers or would rather find a friend; Some of your non-negotiables: for instance, no ground-floor apartments or a kitchen that comes with an oven. Equipped with all your criteria, you can head over to these websites and apps to search for your dream residenc…
10.09.2024
More Lung Cancer Cases Discovered Thanks to Computer Tomography
…onducting pilot CT lung cancer screenings. However, the method also has its drawbacks: without proper quality control, the diagnostic procedure can do more harm than good; for instance, it can lead to overdiagnoses and a high number of false positive results. Recently, a team from ITMO’s laboratory Digital Technologies in Public Health has identified tendencies i…
10.09.2024
ITMO Researchers Create Robots That Withstand Shock Loads
…ior. In order to test the method, ITMO PhD student Egor Rakshin has assembled a robot with flexible joints – its improved mechanism is impact-robust and can function even with insufficient information about its environment. When assembling the new model, the researchers used the one previously developed under the supervision of Prof. Ivan Borisov from ITMO’s Facu…
09.09.2024
ITMO’s Monday Science Roundup #63
…-Powered Platform To Fight Antibiotic Resistance *** Staying on the topic of nanoparticles: bright minds from the Faculty of Physics are doing their part in the fight against melanoma. Their latest publication in Nanophotonics describes the promising results of in vitro experiments involving the use of gold nanoparticles to eliminate tumor tissue. One of the…
09.09.2024
Triumph Again: Russian Students Win Four Gold Medals at International Olympiad in Informatics
ITMO Joins Interuniversity Consortium for Siberian Ring Photon Source
…The agreement was signed by Konstantin Astankov, the deputy head of ITMO’s Technology Transfer Center. Overall, the consortium welcomed 23 institutions of higher, secondary, and general education, institutes of the Siberian Branch of the Russian Academy of Sciences, and authorities of the Novosibirsk Oblast. The Siberian Ring Photon…
06.09.2024
Chinese Movies That Will Keep You Glued to the Screen
…Filmmakers from China excel at drawing inspiration both from successful movie industries of other countries and local culture and history. This leads to an amazingly diverse landscape of Chinese cinema. Action movies, dramas, comedies – you name it, the essence of each genre is masterfully extracted and reimagined in thousands of movies made in China annually. Whe…
06.09.2024
ITMO’s First Vice Rector Daria Kozlova: Big Tech Should Support Universities in Training IT Experts
…, Daria Kozlova said that not everyone is ready to work even with their own internal data – even if it could mean new opportunities for improving the quality of education. For instance, such data could be used to build efficient individual learning tracks for the future members of the “national IT team” that is so sought-after by big tech. Moreover, in the future, th…
05.09.2024
ITMO Physicists Develop Multifunctional Material for Thermal Melanoma Therapy
…nds, and the fourth – received nanomaterials and laser heating. Compared to control, the latter combination proved efficient: the malignant growth was stunted by 65.22%,” explains Elena Gerasimova, the paper’s first author and junior researcher at ITMO’s Faculty of Physics. In the future, the new plasmonic nanodiamonds can be used for local melanoma therapy.…
05.09.2024
Student Spotlight: Jorge Mayor, Colombia
…le tennis and badminton with friends and sometimes I just go for a run. I also like playing video games and board games, learning different languages, reading, playing musical instruments, and cooking whenever I have time. Do you like to travel? Yes, I’ve tried to visit all the small cities around St. Petersburg. Each one of them has something unique to offer –…
05.09.2024