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Vadim Veiko: “Lasers Are Omnipotent”
…e were students during the Soviet period – back then our opportunities were limited. We could choose science or the industrial field. I graduated with honors – I always liked discovering something new. When lasers were discovered, I was a fourth year student of St. Petersburg Electrotechnical University “LETI.” It was my luck that Ko…
17.04.2017
ITMO’s Researcher to Boost Immune Response Using Computer Science
…y, metabolism is the set of chemical transformations whose products are called metabolites. The phenomenon of metabolites is poorly studied – recently, the international team discovered a new function of the metabolite called itaconate, which acts as an anti-inflammatory agent in macrophages. To understand what an immune reaction is, one needs to figure out the wh…
14.04.2017
"Green Universities: Innovations and Best Practices" Conference: Students Go Green
… So as to decrease the amount of litter from the canteen, the students proposed to stop using disposable cups. Instead, they promote bringing one's own: all who do that get a discount on coffee. Free University of Berlin: solar panels and an on-site vegetable patch Eight years ago, students from Free University of Berlin decided to place solar panels on the roo…
12.04.2017
Trapping Light: Anisotropic Structures Can Increase Optical Device's Efficiency
… away". Yet, if it passes above a quantum well, it gains enough energy so as to get away from the nucleus. Even in the early days of quantum mechanics development, scientists discovered the conditions when an electron that has enough energy stays bound to the quantum well. Until recently, this effect was seen as no more than an interesting occurrence that cannot be a…
11.04.2017
Research Associates Migraine with Hypertension
Why 404 and How to Fix Bad Gateway?
…annot verify it. Sometimes a page has changed its domain name, but the redirection function is not used. Among other reasons for such errors are antivirus blockings, internet disconnections and others. The most undesirable code is 404, but it helped choose the date for the Internet Day (the 4th of Aplri). This code means that server doesn’t manage to find the …
07.04.2017
A Specialist in Photonics Doing IT: ITMO's Master's Student Wins the Hackathon in Singapore
…ere given a database on calls; for each client, we had to choose different types of offers. For instance, if the client does international calls regularly, we were to offer a discount on those, and so on. Who were on your team, and how did you distribute responsibilities? Initially, it was planned that in the final round - the 24-hour long hackathone - there wo…
07.04.2017
ITMO Fellowship Stories: 'Crystal Is the Heart of Lasers'
…ith such promising non-linear materials as graphene, carbon nanotubes, zinc oxide and topological insulators. In 2006, the Nobel Prize in Physics was awarded for the graphene discovery. These materials and other 2D nanostructures are making a revolution in modern photonics. We don’t want to fall behind! Despite the fact that its thickness is about one atom, graphene …
06.04.2017
Research on Fairy Circles in Africa Will Benefit Agriculture
…Theories on fairy circles Fairy circles appear in South Africa's most arid regions, and have recently been discovered in Australian deserts. These "dead zones" can be from two to forty meters in diameter; what's more, they migrate periodically every several tens of years. There are many hypotheses on their nature. A couple of years ago, the idea that they have …
23.03.2017
Cyberattacks: XXI Century’s Main Challenge
…an be applied to most computers: to use it, the processor has to support hardware virtualization, and only very old models can't do that. Also, if any new vulnerabilities are discovered, updating hypervision is a lot easier than updating BIOS. Updates on BIOS can be made only by the manufacturer, and the service is available only to users with top computers. …
22.03.2017