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• International Olympiad in Informatics 2018 Winners: Even If You’re Tired, Don’t Lose Sight of Your Goals

  …that isn’t as big as making it to the country’s top-four. Competition at an event like this is very intense and there are lots of participants who are worthy of a place on the winners’ podium. Ramazan: In my second time as a participant I was this close to being accepted to the national team, but fell flat in the last round. I was extremely nervous and didn’t get …

  15.10.2018

• Motasem Awaja’s Journey: A 2018 Open Doors Scholarship Winner

  …e wants to learn from the best. “I am thinking to mix artificial intelligence with information security to get the perfect balance,” he adds. The Open Doors scholarship winners are selected based on a rigorous round of challenging competition exams. Motasem prepared by recapping on his earlier studies, and looking online at Russian forums. “It was my first tim…

  11.10.2018

• Dining with Laureates: ITMO PhD Student Shares His Experience of the Sixth Heidelberg Forum

  …ces, mathematics and computer science, together with the Heidelberg Institute for Theoretical Studies (HITS). The first HLF took place in 2013. Each year, only one Noble Pribe winner is invited to take part in the event as a speaker. This year’s special guest was William Phillips, an American scientist and laureate of the 1997 Nobel Prize in Physics. Bachelor’…

  10.10.2018

• ITMO.KIDS Carry the Day in SPb School CTF-2018 Information Security Tournament

  …hool, CTF393 from the Lyceum №393, and ‘Sila’ (Power) from the Gymnasium №426. All participants study in 7-11th grades. Apart from ITMO.KIDS, two other teams made it to the winners’ podium: second place was taken by the MBTM team, which consisted of five participants studying in the ninth grade, while the SMyViBorik team comprising six participants studying in nin…

  09.10.2018

• The Nobel Prize in Physics 2018: World-Changing Inventions

  …tanding and development of carbon-based materials. The names of the Nobel laureates in Physics were announced in Stockholm on October 2, 2018. Among this year’s Nobel Prize winners are American scientist Arthur Ashkin, French researcher Gerard Mourou, and Canadian scientist Donna Strickland, who became the third woman to receive the Nobel Prize in Physics. “T…

  05.10.2018

• Fighting Talk: Management Sparrings Participants Discuss their Experience

  …e Russian Championship in Management Sparring. A management sparring is an intellectual duel of two contestants who play opposite roles in a pre-set conflict situation. The winner has to not only show their mastery of management skills by solving the dispute to their own benefit, but also remain on friendly terms with the opponent and maintain their good reputatio…

  01.10.2018

• THE World University Rankings-2019: More Russian Universities Join the Top List

  …o the 301-350 position, and the National Research Nuclear University MEPhI, which moved to the fore of the table by assuming the 351-400 place. This year’s biggest national winner turned out to be the Peoples' Friendship University of Russia, which managed to make a big jump from the rankings’ ‘below 1000’ faraway to the esteemed 601-800 category. ITMO Universi…

  26.09.2018

• ‘I am a Professional’ National Student Competition Takes Off

  …ncy. Here's what last year's participants say about their life-changing competition experience.  In 2018, 97 Russian companies opened their doors to last year’s competition winners. Among them were many industry big namers of the likes of Sberbank, VTB Bank, Rosatom, Yandex, Interfax, Nornickel, and Kaspersky Lab. But it was the opportunity of getting into their d…

  26.09.2018

• METANANO 2018: Professor Stefan Maier on Nanophotonics’ Key Tasks

  …echnologies as flat lens, micro chip lens and so on. Another question: when will such inventions make their way into our daily lives? In a recent interview, Nobel Prize winner Andre Geim said that up to 70 years may pass between the making of a fundamental discovery and its implementation. Do you agree with that? It depends. There are multiple inventions th…

  25.09.2018

• Let Your Imagination Run Wild at this Tech Search-and-Rescue Solutions Contest

  …and X Prize, an independent fund advocating for innovations, the project offered participants to develop a viable lunar rover in a chance to be awarded 20 million dollars. The winning rover should be able to perform a successful Moon landing and ride a distance of no less than 500 meters, taking high-resolution photos and videos of its surroundings and sending the fo…

  21.09.2018