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• Quizzing and Mythbusting: Medical Lab Initiative Comes to ITMO University

  …hose who want to prepare. Medical Lab will take place on Saturday, August 17, at 12 PM at ITMO University’s main building at Kronverksky Prospekt 49, room 285. Participants must sign up here. The educational project Open Lab is held annually since 2017. The previous event, Gene Lab, was held on April 25, 2019 (the International DNA Day); on October 12 of this y…

  06.08.2019

• Taste Summer Like a Russian

  …nks just about on every menu as a local alternative to carbonated soft drinks. In its authentic version, Kvas is a lightly fermented rye drink that will leave you with a foamy mustache and a soft buzz. The grocery store brands are a completely non-alcoholic, slightly sweet drink that you can count as your daily serving of carbs.  Mors is a sweet and tart fruit dri…

  05.08.2019

• ITMO University Scientists Present Record Amount of Works at the 2019 Genetic and Evolutionary Computation Conference in Prague

  …ave a fairly large population. But in practice, a large population, especially if we want to parallelize the process of calculating the fitness of a species, signifies that we must have a lot of processors, several thousand of them. It’s more feasible to use dozens, or even hundreds of processors, but this amounts to a different situation in which this method is n…

  05.08.2019

• Getting to Know Russian Literature: Soviet Sci-Fi, Part 1

  … a harsh satire on the ideas of the Russian revolution, was overwhelmingly popular despite being banned by the government and was later turned into a film that is considered a must-see by most Russians. This covers our introduction to the world of Soviet science fiction. Enjoy your reading – next time, we’ll be exploring Russian science fiction of the mid-20th cen…

  30.07.2019

• MIT Professor Marin Soljacic: AI Will Play a Large Role in the Future of Research

  …nics, and it’s exciting to figure out precisely which opportunities we will now have. It’s often said today that, in order to do successful and truly relevant research, you must expand outside your niche field of study. Would you agree with that? In your opinion, what are the key competencies a modern scientist must possess? That …

  30.07.2019

• Results are In: Online Round of ITMO University’s CtF Competition CyBRICS Comes to an End

  …s for participating. The number of participants was a surprise to us; we were expecting 300 teams and ended up with four times that number. Our reputation in the CtF community must have played a part, and the international teams got interested in what kind of competition the members of Russian teams LC↯BC, SiBears, PeterPEN, and Yozik would organize. Nevertheless, ou…

  29.07.2019

• ITMO Fellow Fabio Bonsignorio and Professor Alexander Kapitonov: Research Reproducibility Will Generate a Sea Change in Our Economy

  …ur educational process because I think that it needs to be more open and transparent. Reproducibility and transparency are two new and very important trends of today. Students must publish their reports and results of their lab work, offering everyone to check or recreate their experiment. This improves the quality of work of both students and educators.  What…

  24.07.2019

• 10 Movies for a Summer Night-In

  … you’d feel inclined to binge the show from start to finish even if you had a life-or-death meeting the next day (totally not our case, but maybe Sophia Amoruso is reading). A must-watch perfect for a clammy summer evening to fully immerse yourself in that suffocating, on-edge ambiance of the plot. Faces Places Iconic director Agnès Varda and photogra…

  19.07.2019

• How to Apply for (And Get) the Chevening Scholarship

  …ot. Each year, some 10 to 15 Russian students are awarded the scholarship. It’s difficult but definitely worth a try. Main criteria To apply for the scholarship, you must be a citizen of a Chevening-eligible country. By the time you apply, you must at least have the following: A graduate degree Chevening doesn’t par…

  19.07.2019

• Over 400 Scientists from All Over the World to Discuss Key Trends in Nanophotonics and Metamaterials at METANANO 2019

  … the chance to come to St. Petersburg to participate. You can really feel the friendly ambiance here. I would also like to mention great organization of the event; this really must have required a great deal of work. For one, what I find really useful is the app, which shows real-time updates in the conference’s program. I’ve also seen the famous electronic posters. …

  16.07.2019