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• Hult Prize On Campus 2020: Results, Participants, and Projects

  …ed the projects on a five-point scale based on the following criteria: The team (diverse, idea-driven, and passionate); The idea (innovative, fulfills human needs, and solves issues of the food industry); The effect (the solution changes the world for the better and demonstrates how food can be used for the good of all mankind); The extent of the project …

  15.12.2020

• ITMO University Team Comes Second in Online Stage of ICPC Northern Eurasia Finals

  …Nikolay Budin, Stanislav Naumov, and Roman Korobkov, students of ITMO University’s Information Technologies and Programming Faculty, solved 11 problems, but were given slightly more penalty time than the team from the Higher School of Economics (St. Petersburg), which took the first place. The third place went to the team from the Higher School of Economics (Moscow),…

  15.12.2020

• ITMO University Student Wins One Million Rubles at Sberbank Competition

  …quire a response from a live operator, a simple link to the FAQ is enough. So, we are currently working on services that would reduce the wastage of the company’s resources on solving such issues – such as chatbots, but much nicer in terms of user experience. Do you like working there? Tochka has lots of cool features, for example, holacracy. This means that we…

  14.12.2020

• A Necklace of Resonators: How Scientists Efficiently Control Light in Nanoscale

  … the Institute for Physics of Microstructures of the Russian Academy of Sciences in Nizhny Novgorod and German partners from Martin-Luther-University Halle-Wittenberg tried to solve this problem. They decided to overcome the size limit by uniting several supercompact resonators into one system.  “We discovered a little trick that we could use – taking not one ex…

  11.12.2020

• NTI FoodNet: How Food Science and New Technologies Can Save the Planet

  …ite all fields connected to food products.” Roadmap The concept behind FoodNet came to Russia around seven years ago, and now its development is one of the tasks to be solved by the National Technological Initiative (NTI). For this purpose, the NTI team created a special roadmap, and have recently presented its vision statement. Olga Orlova was part of the te…

  09.12.2020

• ITMO University Researchers Shed New Light on Plasmonic Nanolasers

  …ssociate professor at the Faculty of Photonics and Optical Information. Importance for fundamental science From the very beginning, the researchers focused more on solving problems of fundamental science rather than seeking practical applications for the device. It was important to demonstrate the very possibility of the existence of such devices to prove…

  08.12.2020

• How To Survive Russian Winter: Tips From International Students and Staff

  …uch with friends, doing activities with them, and also looking for activities that you can do by yourself to keep your mind busy. If you feel depressed or lonely, don’t try to solve it all alone or isolate yourself; it’s always better to talk to your friends who also live in Russia and can understand your feelings. Jorge Medina, Colombia, Master’s Student at the F…

  08.12.2020

• A Breath of Fresh Air in Science: ITMO Graduate on Finding Herself in Science, Interdisciplinarity and Bioinformatics

  …er’s studies, I worked as a researcher at the Bioinformatics Research Center of Pavlov University, gaining practical experience in the field. I brought some of the problems we solved at the center to ITMO, so my projects were based on actual medical practice. For instance, one of my course projects included a study of a clinical case of chromothripsis. As a result, I…

  08.12.2020

• Picture of the Week: Spinneret of Linothele Fallax Spider

  …its protein molecules align and partial crystallization occurs in parallel to the fiber axis. At the last end of the tube, silk settles, and part of the water, which acts as a solvent, evaporates. ITMO University has its own spider farm with several dozens of species. They produce spider silk, which is then used by researchers at SCAMT Lab to create promising mate…

  07.12.2020

• In Search of Phantom: Regular Graphite and PVC to Help Diagnose Oncological Diseases

  …ue, it only takes several hours for the cells to change due to chemical processes. So we can use it for adjusting a device just once.” What’s a phantom In order to solve this task, scientists create special substitutes that have properties identical to those of healthy and tumorous tissue. These substitutes are different for different types of devices. Fo…

  07.12.2020