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• The Art of Managing the University of the Future: A Roundtable on Effective University Governance Held in St. Petersburg

  …rm for active discussions and brainstorming; the work of the deans, directors of schools, and heads of departments; and the work of project groups formed on an ad hoc basis to solve specific tasks. The project groups, it has to be noted, aren’t always overseen by the rector, vice rectors or deans. The leadership’s role here is only to correctly assemble these …

  05.02.2020

• ITMO University Researchers’ Work on DNA-Based Nanorobot for Cancer Diagnostics

  …n of disease-related proteins is blocked, the cancer cells will no longer be able to multiply and will start to die out. There are different technologies out there designed to solve this problem but they all have some drawbacks. ITMO University researchers have proposed using chemically synthesized DNA elements to suppress the activity of pathogenic cells. DNA…

  04.02.2020

• ITMO University Scientist Sergey Makarov Receives President of Russia Award

  … 2015, in which, the high-performance method developed  for creating semiconductor nanoparticles and the relevant resonant effects studied was used to establish a platform for solving a number of related applied tasks.” Practical applications Apart from its fundamental contribution to science, Sergey Makarov’s research and the platform he developed have a…

  03.02.2020

• Global Warming and Cold: How Refrigeration Industry Reacts to Contemporary Challenges

  …ption leads to atmospheric CO2 emissions, which affect the environment – and that is why we aim to create energy-efficient technologies. This is how we see our contribution to solving global environmental problems.  Some of our projects involved connecting buildings up to renewable energy sources without any connection to centralized energy systems. We chose to wo…

  03.02.2020

• Smart Cities, Robot Bureaucrats: Japanese Digitalization Expert on Building the Right Kind of Society 5.0

  …ce was; I think we all expected a robot to cope with such a task much faster,” says the speaker. Also, according to the expert, there needs to be developed an approach to solve this problem. “We hear a lot about pilot projects and never talk about what happens to them two years later; we just don’t know what’s next. Our CIO wants us to consistently create a…

  31.01.2020

• Digital Humanities Week: Physicist and Mathematician Ivan Yamshchikov on the Use of Algorithms in Humanities Research

  … a survey and want to learn something that a person is not very inclined to talk about, such as religious beliefs or sexual orientation. The following mechanism can be used to solve this task: take a bag with black and white balls in the proportion 4/5 black and 1/5 white ones and offer the participants of your survey to tell the truth when they draw out white balls.…

  30.01.2020

• Besting Elon Musk at Memristors and Making a Vascular System Model to End Animal Testing: Results of SCAMT Workshop Week

  …in various fields of science and technology, including controlled drug delivery, optics, and gas sorption. In our synthesis process, we use different methods – for example, solvothermal synthesis, where we load the necessary reagents into the autoclave and the resulting crystals are obtained under the impact of temperature and pressure, and the slow diffusion meth…

  28.01.2020

• Good Product Is a User-Friendly Product: ITMO Student Working on Interface Design Framework for People with Dyslexia

  …ntal protection and pollution. I lived in a dormitory with lots of students from all over the world and I knew that there was no separate waste collection system out there. To solve this problem, I joined forces with other students and we started working on this project together. We conducted some studies, developed certain directions regarding the process of separat…

  27.01.2020

• Scientists Propose an Inkjet Printing Technology for Battery Elements to Make Them Compact and Flexible

  …n as possible. Apart from that, there is a growing demand for transformer devices that can be used both as tablets and laptops. Foldable and extendable gadgets are designed to solve these problems. Such devices were presented at the CES 2020 exhibition that took place at the very beginning of 2020. In order to develop such a device, engineers have to think not onl…

  24.01.2020

• FAQ: Registering Ownership And Protecting Intellectual Property

  …re-court, meaning that it is crucial to identify the offender and establish a dialog. You should only initiate the legal proceedings after you have exhausted every chance of resolving the conflict pre-court.  However, you might not receive any monetary compensation even if it was ruled so in court. Your offender might turn out to have no assets. It might also be a…

  24.01.2020