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• ITMO Engineers’ New AC System Brings a Breath of Fresh Air to Historical Buildings

  …e “used up” air onto the street along with extra humidity, carbon dioxide, and bacteria. And though the time is long past midnight, the staff of the Faculty of Cryogenic Engineering – inventor Sergei Muraveinikov’s team – are hard at work. Several months ago, they’ve installed a new air conditioning system of their own design in order to test it and create a proto…

  06.02.2020

• Not Conflict, But Synergy: On Salvador Dali’s Relationship with Science

  …ecause Dali is a unique example of an artist who was genuinely inspired by science; he can only be compared to Leonardo da Vinci who, having only a basic education, created engineering structures purely by intuition. Dali, in turn, perceived the principles of quantum mechanics and the fantastic genetic memory of living beings. So this is less about artists-sci…

  05.02.2020

• Active Learning: 7 Ways to Increase Students’ Motivation and Engagement

• ITMO University Scientist Sergey Makarov Receives President of Russia Award

  …by physicists all over the world. In the last few years, Sergey Makarov, a young physicist at ITMO University and senior research associate at the Faculty of Physics and Engineering, has published a range of experimental papers on the topic of light management on a nanoscale. He proposed using the concept of optically resonant semiconductor nanoparticles and the o…

  03.02.2020

• Social Sciences in the Era of Social Networks: Studying Selfies, Likes and Geotags

  …obe. The field is only beginning to develop in Russia and is currently most relevant in China and Japan. One of the most renowned researchers is Yuk Hui, a Chinese computer engineer,  technology philosopher, and the author of On the Existence of Digital Objects.  Ever since Pythagoras claimed the numbers to be the core of everything else and therefore put mathemat…

  31.01.2020

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

  …ll the necessary paperwork can be done in one place. However, says Mr. Zamma, the problem of bureaucracy and paperwork still remains in the Land of the Rising Sun. Japanese engineers even invented a special robot for stamping. “For Japan, the issue of stamping is a real problem as we have to use stamps. You have to print out your documents, put a stamp on th…

  31.01.2020

• Yimer Getnet: Food Biotechnology is a Promising Field and I Want to Be Part of It

  …echnology for all the possibilities it has. Can you elaborate more on why you chose this field? Well, food biotechnology deals with production processes, including bioengineering, that makes food.  I have always felt a fascination with this discipline. Ethiopian economy depends on agriculture but most of the country’s agricultural products are being consumed wi…

  30.01.2020

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

  …el electrophoresis. I also really liked the lectures we had.  Irina Tamanyan, a student at ITMO University I’m studying at the Faculty of Food Biotechnologies and Engineering and want to move forward in my research work and gain more knowledge, and this is why I got interested in participating, though the school’s focus isn’t exactly similar to what I norma…

  28.01.2020

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

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

  …How to achieve a bigger capacity for lithium-ion batteries but simultaneously make them lighter and more compact? This is an issue facing many engineers of hi-tech companies. It is the battery’s size and capacity that determines how heavy a laptop will be, how much time a smartphone will be able to work without needing a recharge for, and how far an electric car will…

  24.01.2020