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• Bio & Art Summer School: Biomaterials in Art

  … The summer school covered several topics, ranging from vegetal fibers, the aesthetic potential of microbial cellulose, and the philosophical implications of working with biomaterials to the development of innovative ideas that address issues of sustainability, ethics, and aesthetics of working with living organisms. It also allowed the participants to have their own…

  20.08.2020

• Why Teach Robots How to See? Nine Burning Questions About Computer Vision

  … images and video streams. If we split this term into its parts, we can talk about low-level algorithms (that deal with receiving a digital video image, its representation, filtering and elimination of noises), middle-level algorithms (image recognition and structure blocks detection) and high-level algorithms (semantic image analysis, structure blocks classification…

  19.08.2020

• Gold Changes Light: Scientists Find Optimal Nanoparticle Shape for Controlling Color

  …The work of scientists who focus on a specific topic does not end with discovering some new material, molecule, or a way to produce them. After the sensational presentation of a novelty, there comes a time for tedious and labor-intensive work on its optimization, improvement, and adaptation to the demands of our daily lives. Several years ago, scientists from Far …

  18.08.2020

• 5 Russian Architectural Wonders You Didn’t Know Existed

  …White Tower, Yekaterinburg  This constructivist water tower was built in the 1930s on the outskirts of Yekaterinburg, one of the most important administrative and cultural centers in the Ural region. The Tower itself came into being because of the factory and the residential areas of its workers located nearby. Made from reinforced c…

  17.08.2020

• Lasers for Medicine: ITMO and Partners Work on Improving Medical Titanium Alloys’ Biocompatibility

  …ciences, and University of Lyon (France). The project focuses on solving the relevant problem of implant rejection and the risk of tissue inflammation as a result of bacterial contamination. The team proposed a special biometric design of implant surface that imitates the structure of bone tissue. The specific design is still a work in process: the scientists …

  17.08.2020

• ITMO University Retains Its Position in Academic Ranking of World Universities

  …The ARWU (Academic Ranking of World Universities) has been published by ShanghaiRanking Consultancy for the past 17 years. Due to its transparent selection criteria, it is described as one of the most objective and prestigious global university rankings, along with the rankings compiled by QS World University Rankings and Times Higher Education. The ARWU ranking h…

  15.08.2020

• ITMO Team Joins the Silver League of Google’s Anti-Cyberbullying Competition

  …spects of the competition called for the use of such models.” Training the network The participating teams had over two months to develop their solution. As training material, they were provided data from the previous competitions – around two million English-language comments for training and 8,000 comments in three languages for validation. These comments w…

  14.08.2020

• Friday Experiment: Decluttering

  … Friends and Influence People. The office clearly needed reorganizing. An experienced procrastinator, I needed to research this and came across a video about a 30-day decluttering challenge. The idea is simple: each day get rid of stuff. Day 1 – one thing, day 2 – two things, day 3 – three, and so on. Or you can go backwards and start with 30 things on the first d…

  14.08.2020

• Reject All Labels: ITMO Master’s Student Finds Way to Make PET Plastic Production Eco-Friendly

  …so unique? The technology is based on the introduction of metal nanoparticles into the polymer polyethylene terephthalate (PET) and then printing an image directly on the material. We used an ytterbium pulsed fiber laser with a 1.07 micron wavelength, to which PET is almost transparent. The color of the material is changed by way of …

  13.08.2020

• Scientists Develop a Better Yogurt with Chia Seeds

  …ted, and show their gelling properties, so a simple mill wouldn’t be enough –  an expensive cooling device is also necessary, otherwise the seeds will lose many valuable characteristics. Secondly, according to the research, yogurts with cereal toppings aren’t popular in Russia. That’s why the authors of the paper believe that they should go beyond studying the str…

  13.08.2020