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• ITMO Scientists Propose Improved Method For Laser-Plasma Processing of Glass

  …To control a laser beam in a lab, scientists need lots of different equipment: special lenses, diffraction gratings, waveguides. They are all hard to manufacture. Controlled etching of a nanorelief on a glass surface turns a glass plate into a functional optical element that can transform laser emissions. Such transformed beams are widely used in “optical tweezers”, …

  11.02.2021

• Venture Capitalist Dmitry Kulish on Business Unicorns and Why Not Chase Them

  … worth remembering Theranos; it is a classical case of a company that understood the consumer problem but not the technology, thus, underestimated its complexity, and saved on scientists (check the 2019 documentary The Inventor: Out for Blood in Silicon Valley). On the other hand, we have the Evernote application, which was developed by one of our brilliant compat…

  11.02.2021

• Inside the Labs: AIR Displays Projects by Art & Science Students

  …AIR.Showcase is a great chance to see art objects created by students as part of workshops hosted by professional artists and science art experts. Works presented at this exhibition were developed during a BioArt course under the supervision of Lyndsey Walsh and Laura Rodriguez. Together with Ms. Walsh, they learned to work with biomaterials and use them to create ar…

  10.02.2021

• Not Just Bike Paths and Greening: What Urban Planners Really Do

  …ironments? If there exists accurate knowledge on how to design public spaces, why are Russian cities ever so gloomy? How does people’s attitude towards the issues of urban science change and why have people started paying more attention to what surrounds them? Is there a possibility that the issue of people’s comfort will once become a priority in urban plannin…

  10.02.2021

• Project by ITMO Professor Becomes Official Partner of Elon Musk’s OpenAI

  …mpiled into a text that was published by The Guardian. And in late 2020, biologist Aleksandr Panchin published his talk with GPT-3 on such topics as the meaning of life, pseudoscience, and aging. Access granted Only a limited number of companies and research institutions have access to GPT-3. They all have the opportunity to use the neural network for proje…

  10.02.2021

• Holography, Space Science, and More: A Timeline of Science at ITMO

  …Today, on Russian Science Day, we will look back on landmark scientific discoveries and what is happening in their corresponding fields today. The first computers and the development of programming, lasers, holography, space science and more – 80 years of the history of scien…

  09.02.2021

• Aquaformations and Communication With Nature: Artist Talk With Robertina Sebjanic

  …well as in galleries in Berlin, Paris, and New York. Last November, Robertina Sebjanic delivered a talk on the problem of water pollution in St. Petersburg for ITMO’s Art & Science students. This study became part of her ongoing large-scale project titled Aquaforming in the Age of Aquatocene. During the meeting, the artist spoke about her Science Project on War History

  …igital Humanities Research Center, explains that the DH Seed Grants is an open competition of interdisciplinary projects created at the intersection of humanities and computer science.…

  08.02.2021

• ITMO University to Host the International Food BioTech Conference 2021

  …Tech conference is to establish and discuss the latest trends in the field of biotechnologies and present ITMO University as one of the flagships of innovation. “A lot of scientists visit us from abroad, for example, as part of the ITMO Fellowship program that our School actively participates in. They always ask if it’s possible to participate in our events and …

  05.02.2021

• ITMO Researchers Create Algorithm for Predicting Vocational Interests

  …ling with the problem of career guidance for many years and have even developed multiple career aptitude tests to help teenagers make one of the most important life decisions. Scientists and students from ITMO University together with their fellow psychologists from St. Petersburg State University decided to create an algorithm that could also help in solving this pr…

  05.02.2021