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• ITMO Launches a Series of Scientific Meetups With the Vice Rector for Research

  …laser at a flat surface, they won’t appear. In order to produce them, scientists use defects on metal surfaces – tiny cavities or diffraction gratings. With one problem solved, another one appears: how do you control the direction of light particles that propagate on the metal surface? Scientists suggest using nanoantennas made from semiconductors. These anten…

  24.11.2020

• Gennady Korotkevich Wins Topcoder Open's Algorithm Track for Second Year in Row

  …opment, First2Finish, QA, and UI Design. The championship kicked off on October 1, 2019, and for the first time was held fully online.  Gennady Korotkevich was the first to solve the task of the Algorithm Competition and became a three-time champion. There were several ways to get into the TCO20 Finals. The Algorithm Competition featured four online stages, two…

  23.11.2020

• How Learning Analytics Is Helping ITMO Students Design Their Educational Tracks

  …everyone’s lives easier. By motivating students to study, we can reduce the number of drop-outs,” says Sviatoslav Oreshin. Current accomplishments The team has already solved a number of tasks related to predictive systems. For instance, they’ve developed a service, currently in use by the Student Services Office, that forecasts students’ research activity, a…

  19.11.2020

• ITMO Technopark Resident Creates a Sophisticated Distance Learning System

  … rubles. Initially, it was intended only for online tutors, but the pandemic and school closures have shown that this system can be widely used at schools and universities and solve some of the challenges of online education. “Clearly, the pandemic has stirred up the demand for various distance learning systems. And we understand that there is a problem with tec…

  19.11.2020

• ITMO University Holds Sixth International UX Conference WUD@ITMO

  …o Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? by Philip K. Dick. Both of these works were written in the late 1960s, but 50 years on we still haven’t created a sufficiently strong AI or solved the ethical and moral dilemmas accompanying it.  Alexander Volosyuk gave a brief overview of the history and theory of human-robot interaction, drawing attention to the main concepts …

  18.11.2020

• ITMO University, Gazprom Neft, and Innopolis University Organize Online Hackathon Blockchain.Hack

  …ognizes the need to ensure transparency and control over mutual transactions made using smart contracts. “We expect the teams to demonstrate an unconventional approach to solving these tasks; we’ll pay special attention to their development methodologies and how they design their algorithms. The main assessment criterion will be their ability to solve this problem, we applied the treatment of the perovskite surface by the alcohol salt solution vapour which allowed us to quickly restore the material’s properties.” Paving the way to…

  10.11.2020

• ITMO's Creative Lighting Department Joins the International COVID CARE LAB Workshop

  …ronments by the guest lecturer Dr. Kevin Charras, an environmental psychologist at the Rennes University Hospital (France). Over the course of five days, students will also solve practical problems – architects will design spaces for the elderly, and lighting designers will create lighting solutions for these spaces. The final assignment, on November 13, will b…

  10.11.2020

• Art & Science of the 1920s: ITMO Graduate Creates 3D Visualization of Guidoni’s Luminous Monument

  …ent of the project. It was supposed to feature a stage in the middle, where four plays could be simultaneously performed. Sofia used AutoCAD, Blender, Photoshop, and DaVinci Resolve to bring the project to life.  According to her, one of the hardest parts of the project was deciphering and implementing the light and color score. This stage, as well as the complete…

  06.11.2020

• Keeping the Balance Between Creativity and Technology: Ekaterina Doronina on Her Path to Self-Discovery

  …olest thing is that you can communicate with professors as equals not because you don't respect them anymore but because you feel like a more self-confident person, capable of solving problems on your own. It empowered me and brought me a feeling of real life.  The experience of such communication came in handy in my future work, when I had to learn how to correct…

  06.11.2020