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• Seven Sins of Our Memory or Why We Forget Things

  …ivykh's lecture about memory that has recently taken place at the Nekrasov Central Library. Memory and its functions Memory was one of the first cognitive functions that scientists began to study simply because it was the easiest to approach. Scientists struggled to find an experiment that would allow them to study attention or th…

  07.01.2021

• Winter Break at Home: Staying Fit, Sane, and Entertained

  …ors and poetry-writing, we’ve got a great list of where to start. You can even make your own contribution to human knowledge by taking part in any of a great number of citizen science initiatives. You can also read about an ITMO.NEWS reporter’s tale of his own experience as a participant of the Zooniverse project. Missing the great outdoors? You can head outside a…

  05.01.2021

• Watermelon Snow and Palm-Size Snowflakes: Exciting Facts About Snow

  …the Sahara Desert. Mikhail Semenov, an associate professor at Tomsk Polytechnic University’s Division for Experimental Physics, spoke about the mathematical terms that help scientists describe the shape of snowflakes, explained the concept of the Koch snowflake, and how that natural formation inspires computer scientists. Top snow…

  05.01.2021

• ITMO Volunteer Center Wins Ministry of Higher Education’s National Competition

  …The competition was held by the Federal Educational Center for Support and Development of Volunteering, established by the Russian Ministry of Science and Higher Education, and with the expert support of the Association of Volunteer Centers. Despite the competition being very new (it was held for the first time this year), it received 353 applications from 179 uni…

  31.12.2020

• ITMO Technopark in 2020: Tech Business, New Clubs, and International Cooperation

  …ect, and Twin Campus, which includes ITMO Technopark, St. Petersburg Technopark, St. Petersburg Foundation for SME Development, the South-Eastern Finland University of Applied Sciences, and the regional Finnish company Cursor Oy. The Startup Connect and Twin Campus projects are funded by the EU, Russia, and Finland under the 2014-2020 South-East Finland – Russia cros…

  31.12.2020

• Specialists from 20 Regions Discuss the Results of Monitoring Russia’s e-participation Resources in 2020

  …ems. We’d like to add that the development of monitoring methods for Russia’s e-participation resources is conducted by the eGovernment Center with support from the Russian Science Foundation as part of the project №18-18-00360 “E-participation as a factor in the dynamics of politics and policy-making.”  …

  30.12.2020

• Greening for Sustainable Development: Highlights from Lectures on Urban Studies

• Scientists from ITMO Discover a New Way to Create Reconfigurable Topological States of Light

  …towards topologically protected resonators with a frequency resilient to defects and imperfections of the structure. The research was conducted with the support of the Russian Science Foundation. The article is published in Laser & Photonics Reviews. Edge states of light Right now, there is a tendency to replace electronic devices with photonic ones. Such photo…

  30.12.2020

• Presidential Scholarship for Studying Abroad: Winners Share Their Stories

  …s of Nanostructures On an internship with the Physics and Crystallography of Materials research group at Rovira i Virgili University, Spain On becoming interested in science At school, I’ve always liked physics and mathematics, as I was really impressed by optical phenomena. When the time came to choose a university, ITMO suited me perfectly. But I becam…

  29.12.2020

• ITMO.Mentors Program Welcomes First Graduates

  …t, which tools should be used by teachers, what motivates students, how to control discussions, and how to interact with a large audience.  “I realized that teaching is a science, an art, and a profession at the same time,” he says. “One of the most interesting aspects for me were soft skills, to which we paid a great deal of attention. It’s very important to be…

  29.12.2020