Search by tag «Main» 2585 results
This Weekend in St. Petersburg: December 5-6
Winter is finally here and on this suddenly sunny Wednesday, we are happy to help you plan your first December weekend. Two very colorful exhibitions, a film festival, a conference, and an online charity market – these are going to be two action-packed days!
02.12.2020
ITMO Researchers Find Quick and Easy Way to Detect Tick-Borne Encephalitis
Scientists from ITMO University have created a testing device to detect tick-borne encephalitis that can be used to identify the virus at home. The results of this work have been published in ACS Applied Bio Materials.
30.11.2020
New Coworking Space Now Open at ITMO’s Lomonosova 9 Campus
Just last month, a new coworking space opened its doors at ITMO’s main building on Kronverksky Prospekt 49. On November 24, a counterpart opened at the Lomonosova St. 9 campus. Both of the coworking spaces and the upcoming library have been developed as part of the university’s overall transformation strategy that aims to make studying, working, and socializing comfortable and enjoyable for all students.
26.11.2020
Picture of the Week: Light-Emitting Perovskite
Perovskite-based devices could potentially be used to create commercial-purpose full-color displays that would be cheaper and more efficient than their existing OLED counterparts.
23.11.2020
Gennady Korotkevich Wins Topcoder Open's Algorithm Track for Second Year in Row
The results of this year’s Topcoder Open were announced on November 22. Gennady Korotkevich, a PhD student at ITMO University and an award-winning programmer, won the Algorithm competition for the second year in a row.
23.11.2020
Friday Experiment: Attempting to Write Every Day
Whenever life tries to get the better of me, I always find myself either with a pen and a random notebook, the first I could lay my hands on, or, lately, in front of a white blank Word page. So, when November presented me with plenty of homework, a Master’s thesis experiment, and a dozen other projects, I knew what was coming – and tried to make good use of it.
20.11.2020
Project by ITMO Student Displayed at the State Museum of Urban Sculpture
A video mapping project by Daria Protnikova, a Master’s student at ITMO’s program in Multimedia Technologies, Design and Usability at the Faculty of Software Engineering and Computer Systems, became a part of the Night of Arts exhibition at the Mikhail Anikushin studio.
20.11.2020
Top Nine Questions About Genome Decoding
These days, we often hear about scientists having decoded the genome of this or that species. ITMO.NEWS and Aleksey Komissarov, a researcher at ITMO’s SCAMT Institute, explain what DNA is, how it helps us study animal ancestry, and in what way DNA testing differs from genome research.
20.11.2020
ITMO University Holds Sixth International UX Conference WUD@ITMO
The annual WUD@ITMO was held for the sixth time by ITMO’s Center for Usability and Mixed Reality to celebrate World Usability Day.
18.11.2020
Brain as a Hologram: Exploring Vision at ITMO’s Museum of Optics
Interdisciplinarity is all the rage right now, and it’s no longer chic to stay within the narrow boundaries of your own subject. By now, you would have definitely heard about infochemistry or bioinformatics, but what about combining physics and neurophysiology? In this article, we will tell you how these subjects converge at ITMO’s Museum of Optics that creates a unique environment for new insights into vision and mind.
17.11.2020