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• Scientists Explain Why Paradise State Is Hard to Reach

  … or more (p parameter), then the entire system will reach the “paradise state”, when all the triads are balanced.” It’s worth noting that such models don’t function in specific communities that include Peter, Mary, or Hannah. Just like the quadratic formula ax2+bx+c=0, these models are mathematical abstractions that are supposed to show the way to reach structur…

  14.10.2020

• Summing up ITMO Preaccelerator's First Workshop

  …interested in. If you read biographies of prominent people and dive into the cases of the most successful companies, you will find out that oftentimes it all started with a specific dream, enthusiasm, and interest. The second step is to search for a problem specific to this field: the needs of your audience. And, finally, take a look…

  12.10.2020

• In a Nutshell: Genome Editing and the 2020 Nobel Prize in Chemistry

  …ny genetic disorder? Better said, we can now edit practically any part of a genome. The current challenge is to tell what exactly needs to be edited in order to cure a specific genetic disorder. As of today, there are already cases of successful use of CRISPR/Сas9 in the treatment of some illnesses, for example, sickle cell disease and thalassemia. Why a …

  08.10.2020

• Speed Science Dating, Smartphone Orchestra, And More: ITMO Hosts Art & Science Marathon

  …g with the Dokuchaev Museum of Soil Science. The third participant of the pitch session, the first-year Master’s student Kseniia Gorlanova, shared some insights into the specifics of creating projects at the intersection of science and art. Kseniia noted the possible challenges of teamwork and warned the participants that you can’t be liked by everyone – and that’…

  07.10.2020

• ITMO.STARS 2020 Winners: Who Are They?

  …stem and Applied Software program at the Faculty of Software Engineering and Computer Systems Robot show and other competitions I am the winner of the RoboCup Asia-Pacific 2019 competition, which took place in Moscow this year. My category was called OnStage Advanced and our task was to put on a vivid show of robots using the latest technologies such as neu…

  06.10.2020

• Epidemiologist Vasily Vlassov on Medical Problems Exposed by the Pandemic

  …cludes people who died in hospitals while diagnosed with this particular ailment. It excludes people who died outside the hospital and those who weren’t diagnosed with this specific kind of heart disease. That’s why successful results reached by doctors aren’t clearly reflected in the general mortality rate statistics. “This example illustrates how even advanced…

  06.10.2020

• You Can Fight the World and Win: ITMO Graduate Kirill Rivkin on DataArt, Studies in the US and His Startup

  …hether you get jobs and funding. Each year of your academic career is strictly delineated in certain stages. By the time you are twenty, you have to publish an article in a specific journal with a certain citation index. By the time you are twenty-five, it has to be in Physical Review Letters or Nature. To achieve that, you have to be working with a reputable researc…

  05.10.2020

• Scientists Create New IR-Activated Coating for Local Drug Delivery

  …. Light control Many external factors can activate drug delivery systems, such as temperature, magnetic and electric fields, ultrasound exposure, environment acidity, specific molecules, etc. “We chose infrared radiation because it is easy to use and it can penetrate up to twenty centimeters deep into the human body,” says Svetlana Ulasevich. “As a layer t…

  02.10.2020

• Media Research Group’s Aleksandr Farseev On Advertising Algorithms and Social Network Monopolies

  …marketing – sales growth based on a detailed understanding of one’s target audience and better quality of targeting. You can also apply data analysis in HR, but that’s more specific. How did AI contribute to this revolution? Artificial intelligence made a revolutionary breakthrough much earlier than people began to talk about it. You can see its results by look…

  01.10.2020

• ITMO University and Gazprom Neft Launch Energy Club

  …“It will be practical work with students: we will offer internships, industrial on-site training, thesis topics, and various events. Our colleagues might even teach in some specific fields,” explains Nikolay Vyatkin, head of the innovation ecosystem development department at Gazprom Neft. “All this is aimed at synergistic work in the future and the search for young t…

  30.09.2020