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• ITMO University Professor Wins L’OREAL – UNESCO ‘For Women in Science’ Contest

  …a’s innovative work and fascinating career in this interview she gave to ITMO.NEWS. In its eleven years of existence, the Russian ‘For Women in Science’ program awarded 105 promising female scientists with 500,000 rub worth of fellowships marking their significant scientific accomplishments.…

  17.09.2018

• Password-Protected Labs on the Red Sea Shore: KAUST Photonics Summer School

  …a much smaller scale. Only a few of university staff are locals; the majority of researchers and lecturers come from all over the globe. Famous KAUST professors include prominent scientist Andrea Fratalocchi, who, by the way, is also a partner of ITMO University and works in close cooperation with Yuri Kivshar, co-head of ITMO’s International Research Center o…

  14.09.2018

• ITMO University’s National Center for Cognitive Technologies Holds its First Session

  … that will find demand on the market. At the session, Alexander Boukhanovsky, head of ITMO’s School of Translational Information Technologies, told the audience about the most promising research in the field and what tasks the consortium must accomplish to develop useful technology and successfully introduce it to the market. Systems that are able to learn and pro…

  14.09.2018

• Developing an Automated Approach to Recycling and Sorting Waste

  …esses in this field. As a result, we understood that there’s no common system that would’ve allowed to automate MSW recycling. What is more, we want to use our new platform to promote waste sorting. There are many citizens who want to do that, but it’s inconvenient for them because getting to a collection point takes too much time, or for other reasons. We want to ma…

  13.09.2018

• Transcending Humanity: Evolution of Technological Art

  …istic experiments. Late 20th century saw the emergence of first digital devices for transporting people to virtual reality. The American artist Bill Fontana’s work is a prominent example of the digital art popular in 70’s-90’s. In 1983, the creator decided to explore the theme of sound ecology and set in motion a very technologically complex project that invol…

  12.09.2018

• Do It Yourself: How to Start Projects from Scratch and Make a Career out of Your Hobby

  … rather than in a team. Many people believe that in our capitalist world if you want to get something you have to pay for it. In fact, it doesn’t necessarily work this way. We promote the idea that you don’t always have to buy specialists but can cooperate with them instead. For instance, I know a man who really wanted to do web development. He found 30 people who al…

  11.09.2018

• Scientists Create New Magnetic Nanosphere For Efficient Drug Delivery

  …Although the scope of magnetic nanoparticles research and use is constantly expanding, biomedicine remains one of the most promising areas. Particles for targeted drug delivery are actively used, for example, in the fight against tumors and thrombosis. To be effective, this application implies that the nanoparticles comply with several parameters: their size should f…

  10.09.2018

• Grand Chess Fest: ITMO Participants On Noble Game’s Unfading Appeal

  …here are many blitzes and tournaments for this game as well.  The Grand Chess Tournament is a new addition to the otherwise very well-established Grand Chess Fest. Aimed at promoting chess, it also includes other sports, thus connecting the game to the wider sports culture: for example, there are events for table tennis and different board games like Go. I’ve been…

  10.09.2018

• Disability and Accessible Environment: Participants of Exchange Program on Japan’s Best Practices

  … we do. As of now, the Japanese are getting ready for the 2020 Paralympic Games, and they are concerned that they don’t have such a tradition. Tokyo regional center for promoting IT for people with disabilities Natalya Startseva: At the center, they showed us many unique devices designed for people with health limitations. Among their top inventions are sma…

  07.09.2018

• The Land of the Rising Sun: Politeness, Self-Management, and Nature Conservation

  …ve and beyond to follow this instruction, and our schedule was changed significantly. The trip turned out to be very interesting though: we were told about how people in Japan promote environmental protection both inside the country and abroad. In general, the Japanese are very sensitive to nature. In Nagasaki we sailed to the island where there used to be a coal-…

  06.09.2018