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• This Weekend in St. Petersburg: December 5-6

  …s by artists, researchers, writers, and art historians. Great things are bound to come from the merge of creativity with a crystal clear mind, and maybe you will be the one to solve the problem of soil, inspired by what you learn at the conference. To sign up for the conference, follow this link.  …

  02.12.2020

• Beneath the Pavement, Not the Beach: First Art & Science Conference on Soil

  …ous and healing. They can no longer be used for our own needs but can become a source of purification and renewal for the planet. These are, in a way, natural parks capable of solving environmental issues. Taste the soil Yulia Timofeeva, a soil specialist and researcher at the Dokuchaev Central Soil Museum, spoke about the extent of the environmental crisis. Ac…

  27.11.2020

• Scientists Propose Method of Assessing the Gene-Disease Connection

  …every gene. So that we’ll see that one gene is important with a probability of 35%, another – 75%, and the third one – at 97%.” Building a ship in a bottle In order to solve this problem, a team of scientists from ITMO University proposed a new approach to analysing the data on the probability of connections between specific processes and genes. As opposed to…

  27.11.2020

• Student Spotlight: Allison Ascanio, Colombia

  …e University? Was it difficult to obtain the necessary documents to study here? Communicating with the University was so easy from the beginning: the international office resolved all the questions that I had about the documentation process and helped me with my visa inquiries. Before arriving in St. Petersburg they had already explained to me how the accommodatio…

  26.11.2020

• Optical Computers Explained: Will They Replace the Regular Kind?

  …ause they can do them quicker and cheaper than electric ones. If they’re so efficient, why haven’t we started making them yet? There are still some issues to resolve. First of all, if we need to carry out nonlinear operations (such as logical AND/OR operations, which are common in software), we need to ensure that photons interact with each other. Unc…

  25.11.2020

• ITMO Staff Develop Cloud Platform for Virtual Labs

  …op and start implementing the first laboratories into the educational process,” he says. During the meeting, project managers presented three laboratories designed to solve a certain class of problems: ITMO.cLAB (a cloud laboratory with remote access to equipment), ITMO.IoT’S (a virtual studio for the Internet of Things), and ITMO.cVoAF (a cloud service for …

  24.11.2020

• 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