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• It’s All about Carboneum: How Carbon-Based Materials Help Create Efficient and Safe Solar Cells

  …tal data on these processes, but we need to come up with theories that will allow us to forecast the properties of such structures,” concludes Aleksandr Litvin. This way, solving these issues can strengthen the position of perovskite solar cells in the race for efficiency that now seems to be at its height. Reference: Aleksandr P. Litvin, Xiaoyu Zhang, Kevin …

  23.03.2020

• Stay at Home: Popular Science Lectures for the Self-Isolating

  … lifestyle did the extinct animal lead? Was it warm-blooded? Did it reach puberty? Was it a boy or a girl? Pavel Skutschas will not only answer these questions but also try to solve a couple of real-life paleontological puzzles together with the audience. And just in case you haven’t heard, Coursera for Campus has opened the access to over 3,800 courses and 400 sp…

  18.03.2020

• ITMO University Professor Joins Nanomaterials as Special Issue's Guest Editor

  …ing of the above-mentioned “elementary” structures. However, the description of most of them is related to very complex mathematics. In principle, quantum mechanics allows for solving any modern problems, but the cost is the main question. The cost can be extremely high. A simple example from modern mathematics: there is the graph theory, which makes it possible t…

  18.03.2020

• Optical Tweezers, Quantum Cryptography, and 3D Television: New Equipment at ITMO University’s Faculty of Physics and Engineering

  …into details and just follow the algorithm to complete it. Some of them aren’t interested in such an approach, and they want to switch from completing basic pre-given tasks to solving tasks independently. Any proposed lab assignment can be put together from scratch, so the first task for a student is to assemble an installation in accordance with the goal of the expe…

  17.03.2020

• Product Manager vs. Project Manager: What’s in the Name?

  … system facilitated keeping up with manufacturing deadlines, as it made possible to monitor which stage a detail was in, where processes slowed down or got stuck – and quickly solve this problem. The principles of lean manufacturing and continuous improvement (kaizen) remain relevant today. They also served as a foundation for the methodology Scrum.  Also a rug…

  13.03.2020

• First ITMO Ecohack Participants Create Automatic Waste Sorting System

  …Around 30 students from ITMO and other universities took part in the contest. Any student could apply to participate.  The task the participants had to solve was taken straight from ITMO.GREEN’s actual agenda – creating a service that would monitor and analyse the statistics of waste sorting efficiency. It is planned that the ideas developed over Ecohack will late…

  11.03.2020

• Edible Food Wrap, Supplements for Bees and a Natural Antiseptic: Exploring New Applications for One of the Most Common Biopolymers

  …? Chitin can be modified into chitosan by using concentrated alkali and heating. Chitosan acquires an amino group that increases the polymer’s reactivity, its ability to dissolve in water and acids, and makes various chemical transformations possible. Chitosan turns into a versatile building block, which researchers can turn into a unique polymer fitted to their n…

  11.03.2020

• Business Model Canvas Week: Students from Russia, Finland, and Germany Join Forces on Sustainable Business and Recycling

  …teresting to compare and discuss them. Overall, ecology and sustainability are very relevant topics. I participate in several ecological projects: we take part in contests, solve business cases for major companies: Valio, L’Oreal. Nowadays, the brands are willing to cooperate with students a lot, and they are trying to reduce the amount of plastic they produce. We…

  10.03.2020

• ITMO University Students Participate in Training on Oil Production Simulators Used by Gazprom Neft

  …one of the simulators shown to students was copied from a real-life facility located in the Khanty-Mansi Autonomous Okrug. “During the training, you have opportunities to solve different tasks: set a well to operating mode, inspect the well cluster, measure the wells’ flow rate (that is, determine how quickly the oil is pumped), work with separation tanks, and c…

  10.03.2020

• ITMO Graduate and Serokell Co-Founder Arseniy Seroka on Science, Haskell and Working Out of Office

  … even registered the company online. What does your company specialize in? We’re an R&D company providing turnkey solutions. People come to us to have a specific problem solved. We try to take on tasks specifically from the field of computer science, though: we don’t just make websites but choose something related to algorithms, distributed systems or machine l…

  05.03.2020