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It’s Your Call! Forum Winning Projects: Fighting Burnout and Recycling Face Masks
This year, ITMO University held the It’s Your Call! student educational forum for the fourth time. The forum is part of the I am a Professional student contest, where ITMO oversees five competitional tracks. On Saturday, May 15, the best teams presented the projects they had been developing for five days. ITMO.NEWS visited the contest’s final and talked to the forum’s winners.
17.05.2021
Biologist Dmitry Zhukov on Stress, Depression, and Displacement Activities
As part of the Mental Health Month, ITMO University arranged a lecture on stress and ways to deal with it, given by Dmitry Zhukov, a biologist, professor at the Pavlov Institute of Physiology of the Russian Academy of Sciences, writer, laureate of the Enlightener Prize, and author of the best-selling book Стой, кто ведет? Биология поведения человека и других зверей (Stop, Who’s Leading? Biology of Human and Animal Behavior). He discussed the biological meaning of stress in humans and animals, ways of dealing with it, and how to minimize the harm it causes. ITMO.NEWS has prepared a summary of the lecture.
14.05.2021
Life During Exams: Self-Care 101
Have you ever found yourself not fully enjoying something exciting when it happens before you submit an important assignment? Or maybe you don’t even allow yourself to meet up with friends or take a quiet walk before you finish a task? Today, we are here to hopefully fix that and tell you how self-care can mean much more than just indulging in bath bombs or delicacies. Make yourself comfortable and enjoy (even if you haven’t crossed out everything on your to-do list yet)!
14.05.2021
ITMO.Career: First Open Careers Forum for Prospective ITMO Students
On May 20, ITMO University will host ITMO.Career, an open forum on career prospects that will bring together experts from Unilever, SberBank, JetBrains, T-Systems, Gazprom Neft, and 15 other major Russian companies and prospective employers.
13.05.2021
Elena Rybnikova on Why You Shouldn’t Fight Stress
Everyone from school students to CEOs complains about stress. Stress is considered to be one of the key factors that reduce life expectancy. Does this mean that stress is our enemy? Elena Rybnikova, DSc and deputy head of scientific affairs at Pavlov Institute of Physiology RAS, gave a lecture about fighting (or helping?) stress as part of the Open Lectorium of New Holland Island and the Mental Health Month.
13.05.2021
ITMO’s Andrey Filchenkov: How To Train Neural Networks To Identify Debtors Based on Their Expenses
Researchers at ITMO’s Information Technologies and Programming Faculty created a model that can tell responsible loaners from those who don’t pay back their bank loans by the spending pattern. The algorithm can also serve as the basis for a system that would notify credit card users about their risky behaviour. ITMO.NEWS asked Andrey Filchenkov, associate professor at ITMO, head of the Machine Learning Lab, and one of the authors of the project, how the algorithm works, if it is possible for it to make a mistake, how ethical it is to use it, and, most importantly, why people keep viewing neural networks apprehensively despite their obvious successes.
13.05.2021
Researchers Highlight Inbreeding Among Amur Leopards Through Whole Genome Sequencing
The genomes of 26 African and Asian leopards, including Amur leopards, were analyzed as part of research. As a result, the scientists uncovered surprising differences between the African and Asian groups of subspecies and noted a high level of inbreeding among leopards living in the Russian Far East, which might threaten the long-term existence of this subspecies. The research paper was published in Current Biology.
12.05.2021
This Weekend in St. Petersburg: May 15-16, 2021
Only a week ago it was possible to freeze if you didn’t dress carefully enough, but now you are more likely to get sunburnt. That’s St. Petersburg in all its unpredictability! We are highly predictable though, for it’s Wednesday and here comes another weekend guide: a wide range of exhibitions and even a marathon – we have ideas for every taste. Enjoy!
12.05.2021
SEWAN 2021 International Conference: How Pandemic Affects Energy Industry and Vaccine Storage Management
ITMO University has held the third International Scientific Conference on Sustainable and Efficient Use of Energy, Water and Natural Resources SEWAN 2021, where the university acted as the organizer together with Tomsk Polytechnic University. At the conference, researchers discussed when the global fuel and power complex will return to pre-COVID metrics, how to maintain the temperature conditions for vaccine storage, and how to make houses more efficient.
06.05.2021
ITMO Student Daria Fedorova On Winning Pyaterochka’s Student Ideas Contest
Daria Fedorova, a Bachelor’s student at ITMO’s Faculty of Technological Management and Innovations, was named one of the winners of the NEXT5 contest organized by Pyaterochka retail company. Together with her friend, Daria suggested a modification to the company’s corporate application that would allow potential employees to experience a sneak preview of their job in a virtual simulator, while current retail and storage facility workers would accumulate points to be counted towards their promotion or a salary raise. We reached out to Daria to ask her why she decided to apply, how long it took her to develop the concept, and why she thinks it useful to take part in such events.
30.04.2021