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• From dry Statistics to Reality: the Experts Explain How Numbers Reflect the State of Russian Science

  …prevalent? These days, the greatest expenses go to research in the field of transport and space systems (219.2 billion rubles.) It is more than one third (34.9%) of Russia’s total expenditure on science. In comparison, 13.7% are spent on "Nuclear power industry, energy efficiency and preservation," 11.9% on "Information and telecommunication systems," and only 4.1% …

  14.02.2017

• "Come Out and Solve!" - The First All-Russian Test in Technical Sciences

  …mural STEM School turned 50, so they've got the idea to gather graduates and ask them to "show how it's done". And then we thought: why not make an all-Russian event like the Total Dictation? So, this is how "Come Out and Solve!"came to be", commented Mr. Polozkov. About 25,000 people registered for the test; yet, as the event has been held for the first time, many…

  13.02.2017

• Meadowsweet Decoction Showed its Activity in Cancer Preventing

  …ffected the nervous system. On the contrary, most tumors found in rats from groups 1 and 2 hit these organs. All the first-group rodents got cancer, often multiple. Among the total tumor number in this group, 86% went to the brain and 43% - to the spinal cord, 29% were found in peripheral nerves, and 31% - in the kidneys. In the second group, the tumor incidence fell…

  08.02.2017

• ITMO University Takes Part in the "Innograd" Project

  … Petersburg’s satellite town in the southern part of the city -Ed.], engineers and researchers will be able to live near their workplaces. According to the project plan, the total area of Innograd will be about 1 square kilometer. The new hub will create up to 12,000 new workplaces. The Start Development Corporation will become the main investor of the project. …

  03.02.2017

• ITMO Has Yet Again Made It Into Webometrics

  …nalyzing their web contents. The indicator called "Presence" takes into account the whole amount of web-pages on the main domain of a university indexed by Google (10% of the total number of points). According to this criterion, ITMO took 958th place. The "Openness" indicator evaluates PDF archives of research publications (10%) — here ITMO came 1179th among over 20,…

  02.02.2017

• Rectors are Human Too: Heads of Top Russian Universities Share Stories from Their Student Years

  …the rector here? My friends and I’ve come to wish you happy New Year!" And in comes his entourage complete with bunnies, squirrels, dwarves, and of course, the Snow Maiden, a total of about 15 people. The music turns on and Ded Moroz says: "And now it’s time for the rector’s present — a dance with the Snow Maiden!" As the squirrels and bunnies cheered, right in the m…

  26.01.2017

• A Taste for Science: Why the State Is Eager To Finance Universities' Fundamental Research?

  … are interested in our fundamental groundwork finding practical applications", underlines the university's representative. As Irina Melchakova notes, by the end of 2016 the total volume of contracts, R&D financing, grants and funding from Project 5−100 for ITMO University amounted to about 2 billion rubles. The amount of extrabudgetary funding for St. Petersburg Po…

  25.01.2017

• Artificial Intelligence: How to Regulate Human-Machine Interaction?

  … opposed to "creation." Robots seem to change all aspects of our lives. So, in the future it will be necessary to change economic systems, as industrial development will be totally different when robots will participate in the division of labor. Apart from that, we have to think about how the society will accept robots who will deal with lots of everyday issues ins…

  17.01.2017

• ITMO’s Researchers for Nature: How Does New Ultra-Compact Laser Work?

  …However there is no perfect mirror; that is why light "disappears" from this structure. BICs allows localizing and increasing resonance. "Usually to confine light, mirrors, total internal reflection effect and various periodical structures are used. The effective light confining requires large devices. Using bound states in the continuum, one can create compact las…

  17.01.2017

• Studying From the Comfort of Your Own Couch

  … and ITMO University was second with 18 courses. Unlike Western universities, the most common themes for MOOC’s in Russia are economics and business, which make up a third of total content. In second place are courses on natural sciences and medicine, which make up 18% of all courses. In third place by a long way are humanities subjects which make up 2% of courses. M…

  13.01.2017