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• Potential Threat, Treasure Trove, or Future Home: Why Scientists Study Asteroids

  …many asteroids are there? The number of asteroids that we know of is nearing nine hundred thousand, most of them are situated in the so-called main belt that’s located between the orbits of Mars and Jupiter. There are also some asteroids that are orbiting closer to the Sun and occasionally get close to Earth. Scientists split them into several groups depend…

  08.01.2021

• Cyber-Corona: How Businesses Managed the Transition to Working From Home

  …sked about the main challenges of transitioning to remote work. The first issue had to do with providing secure access to staff members. The companies that didn’t have VPN networks of their own had to quickly create them — and teach their employees to use them correctly. Those who’ve already been using VPN, but only on work PCs, had to solve the issue of giving ac…

  06.01.2021

• ITMO Technopark in 2020: Tech Business, New Clubs, and International Cooperation

  … that allows students to develop their entrepreneurial skills and work on pilot projects. The platform is created within the framework of the cross-border cooperation program between South East Finland and Russia, as well as the TWIN Campus project. The new space has all the devices necessary to work in IT, robotics, and VR/AR: 3D printers, quadcopters, action camera…

  31.12.2020

• Specialists from 20 Regions Discuss the Results of Monitoring Russia’s e-participation Resources in 2020

  …icipation in various aspects. They placed a focus on the emergence of social institutes, institutional connections, and the specifics of the electronic interaction mechanisms between citizens and the government. In November 2020, ITMO specialists presented a ranking of regions by the development of e-participation platforms. According to its authors, the ranking r…

  30.12.2020

• Greening for Sustainable Development: Highlights from Lectures on Urban Studies

  …intoxication with harmful emissions.  We should also keep in mind noise pollution. Researchers have analyzed the data on the health and death rate of 8.6 million Londoners between 2003 and 2010. It turned out that the death rate was higher by 4% in areas with noise levels over 60 dB at daytime than in areas with the noise level below 55 dB. At the same time, we kn…

  30.12.2020

• This Weekend in St. Petersburg, January 2-3, 2021

  …ine. What's more, there is a curious event organized by the London Symphony Orchestra that is both family-friendly and rather experimental: it claims to explore the spaces between sounds and notes, the way music itself travels from one instrument to the other in a live orchestral performance. It is available on a great number of dates all the way till February, in…

  30.12.2020

• Scientists from ITMO Discover a New Way to Create Reconfigurable Topological States of Light

  …. To create such states, scientists, as a rule, use structures based on resonant particles arranged in a suitably designed lattice. Symmetry of the grating and interaction between the particles produce edge states at a certain frequency. At the same time, topologically protected states only appear for a relatively small number of lattice geometries. Such an app…

  30.12.2020

• Presidential Scholarship for Studying Abroad: Winners Share Their Stories

  …to considerably increase the number and diversity of experiments and learn new methods and principles of working with equipment that I don’t have at my lab. On differences between Russian and Belgian universities As a Master’s student at ITMO, I have an opportunity to freely come to the lab, make arrangements with other staff members on using specific equipment…

  29.12.2020

• ITMO.Mentors Program Welcomes First Graduates

  … and upon the completion of the training. The mentors were also able to receive help from their curators. They communicated in group chats in messenger apps and social networks. According to Ekaterina Bezyzvestnykh, the students wanted to take part in the project for various reasons: some had always wanted to fulfill their childhood dream and become a teach…

  29.12.2020

• Neuroculture Lab Supported by ITMO Opens in St. Petersburg

  … special cubes placed on the device’s surface, users can create various auditory content. And you don’t even need to know musical notation or have absolute pitch – the neural network at the core adapts to each user and sets the sound range and the device’s operation individually for each user.  “From the very beginning, children came up with another name for the…

  28.12.2020