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Third Session of Hermitage’s Art&Science Project: How Air Harms Paintings and Why Would One Make a Mold of Grass?
…Ostin Nevin, Research Associate at the Institute of Photonics and Nanotechnology (Italy): "Environments: cultural heritage preservation and the art of light". One of the questions that stands before scientists is how did artists create their works? I mean — how were pigments, or art glass, created? No one would allow me to just take an art object and do a chemical a…
23.01.2017
New Faculty Opens Its Doors for Bachelors
…According to Pavel Belov, dean of the faculty, it is a project by ITMO’s International Research Center for Nanophotonics and Metamaterials, which has been conducting research and educational activities for the past six years. One day, its stakeholders decided to expand the hub by establishing a new center for training students. "To work in the field of pho
19.01.2017
From Julius Caesar to Now: Migraine Is More than Just a Headache
…s are among the reasons. Biochemical mechanisms behind migraine have not been studied sufficiently, but it’s known that they cause disorders of metabolic activity of thrombotonin (serotonin), catecholamine and histamine. There is a theory that migraine is caused by the inborn disorder of hypothalamus, which is responsible for meta…
18.01.2017
ITMO’s Researchers for Nature: How Does New Ultra-Compact Laser Work?
…According to Dr. Rybin, deputy head at the Department of Dielectric and Semiconductor Photonics, BICs concept can be explained like this: a ball is rolling across a plain surface and then falls in a hole. If the ball has enough energy, it can escape from the hole and move forward. Otherwise it stays in the hole. In the same way, an elementary particle can "fall" into…
17.01.2017
How to Сatch Up with New Technologies: Universities of the Future
A Guide for Energy Saving: How to Make It Safer and Cheaper
…areas have to be able to follow cost cutting principles and be resistant to overloads, believes Alexander Atraschenko, engineer at the International Research Center for Nanophotonics and Metamaterials who won a grant for developing his project "The New Generation of Supercapacitors." Supercapacitors will help replace lithium-ion battery with new ones. The problem …
13.01.2017
ITMO University Joins the Horizon 2020 to Develop MRI
…ready-to-use equipment based on this new principle that will be more effective and fast. Stanislav Glybovski, the researcher at the International Research Center for Nanophotonics and Metamaterials, talked about the details of the consortium’s activities. MRI: cheaper, safer and more effective The main aim of the researchers is to create a an MRI scanner of the …
12.01.2017
The Art&Science Cluster Opens Its Doors
…main goals of the Cluster is to establish interdisciplinary communities of professionals and commercialize novelties. Its projects correlate with ITMO’s top majors like IT, photonics, robotics and others. "Using the facilities of the Cluster we plan to train professionals who will understand both art and scientific languages and use two thinking paradigms, anal…
09.01.2017
ITMO Fellowship Stories: 'Your Own Way Is not the Easiest One'
…ctivities at his laboratory. It turned out that interests of the professor and ITMO’s researchers coincided in the field of MR, as the International Research Centre for Nanophotonics and Metamaterials initiated an experiment devoted to improvement of MR imaging."I am sure that the team ledby Pavel will make a revolution in MR field," says the professor. Carlos…
04.01.2017
A Research Student from China on Studying and Life in Russia
… — Ed.). Upon returning to China, they became renowned scientists, who've founded many scientific schools in my country. Secondly, the International Research Center for Nanophotonics and Metamaterials has a strong team of scientists which I really wanted to join. My third reason was personal — my girlfriend went to study in Saint Petersburg, so I followed her here; a…
02.01.2017