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• This Stay-at-Home Weekend in St. Petersburg: Using Online Opportunities

  … Barefoot Festival As you might guess from the title, Barefoot Festival is actually meant to celebrate the outside and going back to your roots “as you feel the grass between your toes”. This year, the event takes place online, giving you a chance to foster your imagination and creativity as you transform your home into a tent for the three days of the festiv…

  20.05.2020

• Our Ideas for Dealing with Social Distancing

  …e and some 3D modeling. Sometimes I even forget half of the world is still in isolation. Nevertheless, music, art and taking trips with my favorite dog Машапан (a combination between Masha and the Mexican candy Mazapan) to a nearby park is good enough to enjoy and refill my energy towards life to keep striving forward on these difficult times. If I could give advice …

  19.05.2020

• From Digital to Optical: Scientists Demonstrate the Work of First Chemically Synthesized Optical Switch

  …fficient, and low-cost light control. “All of today’s digital electronics are built on so-called triggers,” explains Nikita Kulachenkov. “These are devices for switching between two states – 0 and 1. For optical devices, which might in the future take the place of our electronic devices, we also need this special switch.” ITMO University scientists’ work ca…

  19.05.2020

• ITMO University Students and Graduates Create an Art Project at the Museum of Optics

  …s me remember about the binary aspect of our psyche, light and dark. Order and chaos. These opposites form our reality and ITMO’s Museum of Optics plays with that spectrum in between the two opposites. The dance of light and dark. That’s what makes it beautiful. I’m happy that we could come together and do it even in these hard times and show how the spirit is still …

  19.05.2020

• ITMO University Specialists Find Out How Much St. Petersburg Citizens Trust Online Shops, Communication on Social Media, and Online Banking

  …esearch the very mechanism of trust, what it consists of and what it’s influenced by. In this, scientists have to take into account the fact that technologies for interaction between people are constantly changing: a century ago, people mainly communicated in person or by correspondence, fifty years ago – by phone, and today, most of communication happens on the inte…

  18.05.2020

• Keep Off the Grass! What Are Desire Paths and What We Can Learn From Them?

  … are actually two of them: a rare employer will set time and money aside for preliminary planning, and a rare landscape designer will actually be able to predict a pedestrian network.  If we need to design paths in an already existing neighborhood, then we can at least be aware of all the main points of attraction for its inhabitants. But what if we’re talking abo…

  18.05.2020

• VEEAM Specialist on How to Begin Your Career in Testing

  …sk: why does a person who is simply looking for bugs need so many traits? The thing is, testing is much more than that. A tester plays the key role in a team: they are a link between developers, product managers, and support specialists. How does it work? Product managers come up with a concept for an IT product, research the market, and describe the features need…

  18.05.2020

• “Best Choice I’ve Ever Made”: ITMO Graduate Kseniya Zavatskaya on Her Education and Career in Optics

  …ere very attentive and helpful, which alleviated my regret. It turned out later that choosing this faculty was the best choice I’ve ever made. What did you do in that year between your Bachelor’s and Master’s studies? I was a volunteer. I needed a change of scenery and an understanding of where I should go next. Eventually, I realized I still wanted to be an en…

  15.05.2020

• ITMO Graduate and UbiQD’s Senior Director of Physics Nikolay Makarov: A Scientist’s Interests Must Always Be In Flux

  …died optical effects in various types of quantum dots. We wanted to describe the causes of photoluminescence in CIS quantum dots and to understand some of the inconsistencies between perovskite quantum dots and other, more conventional quantum dots. We even developed quantum dot-based film that would function as a scintillator and detect neutrons. I did this for four…

  14.05.2020

• Scientists Report on Crucial Reduction of Indian Lion Genome Diversity

  …rchers performed computer modeling. Its results demonstrate that right after the divergence of species during the Pleistocene, there was almost no interspecific hybridization between the ancestors of modern lions and their (at that point, quite close) relatives – cave lions, even though their habitats used to be intersected. What’s even more surprising is the fact th…

  14.05.2020