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• Science Film for the Modern Viewer

  … Russian Geographical Society headquarters and ITMO University, where director Dmitry Semibratov presented his film “Effect of Rhenium” about an expedition to the site of the discovery of the rare metal rhenium in a volcano on the island of Iturup. As he himself explains, festivals such as this are an opportunity for filmmakers to meet their audience. “Peopl…

  23.10.2017

• 5 Science News Now

  …y developed a method of extracting a rare Higgs boson signal from copious noise data. Higgs is the particle that was predicted to imbue elementary particles with mass and was discovered at the Large Hadron Collider in 2012. The new quantum machine learning method is found to perform well even with small datasets, unlike the standard counterparts. Flexible skin hel…

  23.10.2017

• Relocation Tips: Where to Grab a Bite Between Classes

  …orget to keep an open mind and try new places! St. Petersburg’s food scene is incredibly diverse and unorthodox. And be sure to also check out our list of places that provide discounts to members of ITMO’s Student Union.…

  17.10.2017

• How to Change the World Through Cooking

  …ine the concept of bitterness and try to figure out where it comes from. This is still a somewhat unexplored subject – as of now, 250 chemical sources of bitterness have been discovered, but there may be a lot more. “I want children to get into research, as this course is just the first step towards the creation of a full-on multi-sensory laboratory where people…

  13.10.2017

• ITMO Scientists Prove Skyrmion Laser Manipulation

  …Exactly ten years ago, in 2007, the Nobel Prize in Physics was awarded to scientists Peter Grünberg and Albert Fert. In 1988, they discovered the giant magnetoresistive effect (GMR effect), or giant magnetoresistance (GMR). This effect initiated spintronics. Spintronics is a technology of data storage and processing in which information is encoded in the orientation …

  12.10.2017

• ITMO Graduate from India on Benefits of Double Degree

  …r. I’m not working right now, as I plan to come back to ITMO for my postgraduate studies. I’d also like to conduct a large-scale research project and combine all my skills to discover or develop something that may be used in real life and solve real issues. Besides, I want to work in Russia. One of my main reasons for that is that it has a very international work cul…

  11.10.2017

• 5 Science News Now

  …filled a century-old prediction from Albert Einstein and opened up a whole new way to explore the heavens. This week, three leaders of the massive experiment that made the discovery received the Nobel Prize in Physics. The Physiology or Medicine Prize recognized work on how several genes work together to control the basic circadian clock, encoding proteins tha…

  11.10.2017

• Relocation Tips: Cost of Living

  …r type. Prices at Hypermarkets are a little bit higher than in shops around the corner, but they usually launch one or more campaigns when products are sold with considerable discounts.  These campaigns generate profit for the hypermarket even if goods are sold for the reduced price as they attract more customers and only the most strong-willed can pass through the h…

  10.10.2017

• What It Means to Be an Architect in 21st Century

  … the one hand, that is an ambitious and flattering position; on the other, it puts a great deal of responsibility on the person. The new pace of life encourages architects to discover new facets of their work. Cities of the 21st century tend to be established metropolises, with very little space for architects to express their creative potential. In the age of the…

  10.10.2017

• Promising Projects: ITMO to Fund Innovative Ideas by Young Scientists (Part 1)

  …roject while preparing her Ph.D. thesis. Initially, the project entailed the creation of a gamma radiation spectrometer, but in the course of analyzing relevant research, she discovered that a visualization system would be a more effective solution and, besides, there are few such projects in existence right now. “What makes this project unique is that the gamma…

  09.10.2017