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• Ivan Kalashnikov: You Must Be 100% Focused, Especially When Training as a Group

  …etitions. It creates strong friendships. What do you feel when you compete? I feel inspired, a surge of strength, a desire to train harder and win. Do you have any specific things you do to help you get in your best-focused state? I have to beat my nerves. I take a deep breath and tell myself that I will do everything to win. Do you think attitude …

  30.07.2020

• ITMO Graduate Nikita Teplyakov on Working in Switzerland, Studying in the UK, and Breaking Stereotypes

  …ures. I wrote the second part at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Lausanne (École polytechnique fédérale de Lausanne, EPFL), where I worked on an adjacent subject, specifically the study of new two-dimensional materials – such as multi-layer graphene. Were you there on an exchange? Not really. I was awarded a Presidential scholarship and went there…

  28.07.2020

• Environmental-Monitoring Water Drones to Be Tested on St. Petersburg Rivers

  …nals and watercourses of the Northern capital.  The project’s final task is to develop a small fleet of drones capable of conducting joint measurements on the water.  Specifics of working on the water The development of floating drones is especially difficult because of waves and the water’s high resistance, these devices have to be capable of independent de…

  28.07.2020

• ITMO’s Russian Language and Culture Summer School: A Passion for Learning

  …popular in Romania. But what interests her most about Russian culture is the cuisine. Her teacher told her about this summer school.   “At the summer school, I learned specific terms that I needed for translation. This is a very difficult but also interesting topic for me,” she shares. During her studies at university she learned Russian from Romanian teach…

  28.07.2020

• Scientists Optimize Growing Neurons from Stem Cells Using Machine Learning and Robots

  …ons,” says Anton Nikolaev. “The gist of the project is to learn to make logical circuits from human neurons. We want to turn stem cells into neurons, put each neuron into a specific place, and then teach them to communicate with each other. This is not only an applied task, it also has fundamental significance. We want to have a better understanding of how neural cir…

  27.07.2020

• Yagodnoe: More Than a Summer Camp

  … to those portrayed in the sometimes fanciful and overly made-up movie world. Yet, yes, I was there and it was happening! I was so glad to get to know that place, with that specific gentle and warm people that I had the joy to be accompanied by.” If you're looking for a getaway in nature, and want to pick berries outside your door, apply to visit Yagodnoe now.…

  24.07.2020

• ‘Free From Sulfates, Phosphates, and Parabens’: What Is Chemophobia and How Is It Tackled at ITMO

  …n treating phobias with the help of virtual reality – this is an established research field. Nevertheless, so far, absolutely no one in the world has proposed a way to deal specifically with chemophobia, although the need to counteract it is quite obvious. We decided that ITMO is the perfect place for creating such an interdisciplinary project at the intersection of …

  24.07.2020

• Cities on the Moon, Villages on Mars: What's Stopping Us?

  …n euros. Nuclear rocket engines RD-0410 and NERVA had passed ground testing but were never used in space. These reactors passed the tests successfully and produced a specific impulse twice as powerful as the current chemical ones. However, both inventions were scrapped. Single-layer carbon nanotubes by the Russian company OCSiAL are a promising invention th…

  24.07.2020

• Campbell’s Law: Why Smart Technologies Don’t Always Make Life Better

  …or crimes get the maximum amount of five points. The problem is, one point was added for each time a person was stopped by police on the street, even if there was no specific reason. Police officers could stop anyone they wanted, for example, because of their suspicious appearance. The mere fact of filling out a contact card during such arrests had an impact o…

  23.07.2020

• Evolutionary Computations Explained in 9 Simple Questions

  …a solution’s fitness and how the solutions should be represented on a computer. Sometimes, special mutation and crossover operators are developed that take into account the specifics of the task at hand. The actual process of finding optimal solutions usually occurs not with human involvement but with the help of an evolutionary algorithm that exists as a special pie…

  23.07.2020