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• Travelling with the Rector

  …rk and finally to Phoenix in the state of Arizona. The entire journey to our first destination took 29 hours. We saw a new city every day for 5 days, Phoenix, Tucson, San Francisco, Los Angeles and New York. To give you a full picture, we traveled through the entire country from the west coast to the east coast. It was quite exhausting to go to a new city every day, …

  30.06.2017

• EVA Saint-Petersburg: New Applications Of VR/AR Technologies

  … special project developed in collaboration with Sieck's colleagues from Namibia. This is a book for African children that includes VR content: invisible elements that can be discovered by using a smartphone. As soon as one looks at the book through a smartphone's screen, it comes alive: trees start to grow on its pages, animals move and the like. A simple menu allow…

  29.06.2017

• Second Day of Geek Picnic: Evolution, Rats and Superstition

  … “Rat telepathy”, scientific errors and the supernatural Why are people so prone to hearing voices where there aren’t any? Can scientists make a mistake and accidentally discover that rats are “telepathic”? Alexander Panchin, a science journalist, writer and senior research associate at the RAS Institute of Communication Problems, explained how illusionists fool…

  26.06.2017

• What is EMI? Tips and Tools

  …g the classes. In addition, if a student tries to take notes in English, they may find themselves distracted from the content of the lecture. The tutors might also experience discomfort in trying to express subject-specific concepts in a less-familiar language, as well as in finding educational material for the class (or having to compile their own). EMI teaching …

  23.06.2017

• ITMO University Launches The New Organic Electronics and Photovoltaics Laboratory

  …searches the processes of electric currents' emergence in different materials under the effect of light. Presently, photovoltaics allows scientists from all over the world to discover new possibilities of using solar energy, most of which have to do with using thin-film systems. ITMO's new Organic Electronics and Photovoltaics Laboratory is not a classical laborat…

  22.06.2017

• ITMO Students in Singapore: How to Please Customers by Analyzing Their Social Media

  …eir individual characteristics and to offer the company some ways of dealing with the negative feedback and regaining the customers’ loyalty: perhaps they should be offered a discount or motivated to try a different product? “We worked, among other things, on compiling guidelines for working with various client groups. For instance: how to best deal with women u…

  21.06.2017

• Art&Science: Optical Devices In Fine Arts And Design's Role In Evolution

  …lements of their paintings are extremely realistic; so, the scientists concluded that the artists surely used some technological "doping". According to the professor, this discovery - the fact that artists made use of optical methods - is a real revolution in the history of arts. Some 2,000 years ago images were flat and artists depicted humans in two-dimensional …

  21.06.2017

• Lawns vs. Paths: Why Urban Planners Can’t Please Everybody

  …al norms. All of this could be used to gain an understanding of what factors can lead to harmful scenarios like, say, stampedes. Tell us about some of the most unusual discoveries you’ve made when studying urban networks? Most of my work concerns modeling large-scale complex systems, such as urban processes and human behavior. Together with other researcher…

  20.06.2017

• Youth in Science: Summer Internship in Photonics and Optical IT

  …nce, the kids can work on actual major research and collaborate with young scientists,” – says Natalia Andreeva – “We’ve even had a few cases when they contributed to notable discoveries.” The educational process This year, 11 teenagers joined the two-week Summer Internship. They are all tenth-grade students from the city’s top Physics schools: the Physic…

  19.06.2017

• 5 Things You Need to Know Now

  …ultra-secure communication networks and, eventually, a space-based quantum internet. Energy stored in electric vehicles can be used to power large building. UK researchers discover that by intelligently managing vehicle-to-grid technology, energy from idle vehicle batteries can be pumped back into the grid. The ‘Smart grid' calculates how much energy can be taken …

  18.06.2017