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• MathCompetitions: Experienced Participants Answer FAQ

  The Vojtěch Jarník International Mathematical Competition, which is considered the unofficial European Mathematical Championship, took place at the beginning of April. To solve even one task is a wonderful result! This year, several ITMO’s students took part in the competition. Gennady Korotkevich, who placed 2nd and his colleagues Alexey Latyshev and Dmitry Yakutov talk about the strategies they use to do their best. 

  12.04.2017

• Solving Tasks in Social Network – the Results of the ITMO Vkontakte Olympiad

  On April 9 the ITMO VKontakte Olympiad came to an end. It was the first time that 2,000 participants from Russia, Kazakhstan and Ukraine solved tasks using the social network. Some 375 finalists competed to gain an extra 10 points for the results of the Unified State Exam, prizes branded with ITMO’s logo and passes for the VK Fest. 

  10.04.2017

• Soft Skills for Engineers: Students Presented Solutions for Real-Life Business Cases

  The participants of the First Grant Competition Contest presented their solutions for real industrial tasks offered by companies of the Joint-Stock Financial Corporation "Sistema."

  16.03.2017

• The Results of Q.E.D Competition or How People Solved Math Tasks

  Last weekend ITMO hosted the Q.E.D Competition [from Latin "quod erat demonstrandum" which is "what was to be demonstrated" -Ed.]. The participants had to solve 10 tasks. They didn’t need to be versed in formula and theorems — one could solve everything using logic.

  13.03.2017

• Bioinformatic Contest 2017: The Results

  St. Petersburg's first contest in bionformatics took place in the end of February, 2017. The contest was organized by the Bioinformatics Institute, and all the tasks were prepared by ITMO's students and graduates. During the two-week preliminaries, which lasted for two weeks, three thousand programmers and specialists in bioinformatics tried to get into the final round, where in just 24 hours they had to reconstruct a metagenome, define an unknown part of a modified DNA strand, and solve many other tasks. Vinaliy Aksenov, ITMO's PhD student and one of the contests coordinators, shared on its tasks and results.

  07.03.2017

• Does Your School Have the Best Programmers? ITMO Does!

  On February 19 HackerRank platform published the results of the University CodeSprint, the international contest for programmers. This year ITMO University took first place (361.9 points) by a significant margin (the team placed 2nd got only 299.58 points).

  21.02.2017

• Big Data for Insurance: How Algorithms Affect Car Insurance Prices

  Owners of red cars get into car accidents more frequently than others. This statement may seem ridiculous, but sometimes, having analyzed large amounts of data, specialists find unexpected facts. Moreover, the results of Big Data surveys are very helpful for marketing strategies. Yaroslav Polin, who recently received the award for his big data analysis in the field of insurance, talked about his project.

  10.02.2017

• Science by High-School Students: Young Engineers Presented their Projects

  Over the last few days, the 13th Baltic Science and Engineering Competition has been taking place at ITMO. This year you can look at 289 projects by 349 participants from Russia, Belarus and Kazakhstan. Here are some projects made by some of the young talents.

  02.02.2017

• 13th Baltic Science and Engineering Competition: From Small Discoveries to Great Accomplishments

  While adults think of global trends, children contribute to the future having no doubts. This year, they presented their technical solutions for the 13th time at the Baltic Science and Engineering Competition in St. Petersburg. Traditionally, the competition took place in ITMO.

  01.02.2017

• Baltic Research Contest: Best Students, Great Opportunities

  The Baltic Research Contest gives its winners a rare opportunity: to experience what a full-fledged scientist does and present a project to a group of world-class experts at the Intel International Science and Engineering Fair (ISEF). Maksim Vagner, last year's winner and now a freshman at ITMO University, shared about his research project, the skills he got during the contest and Intel ISEF.

  18.01.2017