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• ITMO University Becomes the Co-Founder of CINPET Innovation Center

• “Physics: the Game of Light” - ITMO University and Newtonew Launch a New Online Game for School Students

  …ce? Anyone can play the game, though it was developed for highschoolers. The main requirements to a player are being interested in science and wanting to test his skills by solving engaging tasks. How does it work? All the tasks are to be solved online after registering on the game’s website. One can register whenever they want…

  28.03.2017

• Nanotechnologies for Teenagers: How ITMO Promotes Physics

  …ture. This is why for an engineer — someone who can "change" nature — physics gives full scope to the imagination." Can one write with a nano-pen and how can a schooler solve real tasks for business? As soon as the middle of April, the contest's winners will have the opportunity to visit ITMO's Metamaterials Laboratory Nanocenter — there, they will have the…

  28.03.2017

• Dynamically Lit Jewelry and Smart Backpacks: the Fashion of the Future by ITMO Students

  …y can track a person's pulse. Also, they can be fixed with such functions as reading body temperature, or temperature of the surrounding environment. Yet, the designers aim at solving other tasks, like developing new types of communication that have to do with one's emotional state. For example, if you want to show your emotions more obviously, your jewelry can help …

  24.03.2017

• Research on Fairy Circles in Africa Will Benefit Agriculture

  …everal years ago the ground layer of forests in Netherlands became filled with prunus serotina, a shrub that disrupted the ecologic balance. Scientists launched a research for solving the problem and found a particular mushroom — Chondrostereum purpureum — that killed the plant. By using it, more than 90% of forests in Netherlands were cleared of the shrubs. "This …

  23.03.2017

• Cyberattacks: XXI Century’s Main Challenge

  …ks on a motherboard's firmware for more than six months already. "Just think of it: you have a computer, it gets infected, but you can still format your hard drive, and thus solve the problem. Yet, there are programs that can infect the motherboard. We've conducted tests on several machines and found out that 25% were not protected from them. Point is, one can infe…

  22.03.2017

• Staying Ahead of Time: ITMO’s New Program of Neurotechnologies

  …nologies and mostly focuses on e-education systems. "It's all aimed at teaching the students to develop software systems that use neural interfaces and special equipment for solving particular tasks: person identification, defining one's emotional state, developing one's cognitive functions and such, shares Lyubov Lisitsyna. Thus, the program's graduate will not ju…

  21.03.2017

• Chemists Create Nanoparticles for Safe Imaging of Tumors

  … we’ve learned to shift the luminescence spectrum. For example, particles with terbium emit green light, and particles with europium — red. Such adjustments will be useful for solving specific tasks." As rare earth elements still have some level of toxicity, the researchers checked their effect on blood plasma and cell cultures by adding large amounts of particles…

  21.03.2017

• Mobile University: ITMO Presents Plans and Research Projects to Project 5−100's International Council

  …hreats, data overload, population aging — ITMO's scientists are ready to face the challenges of the XXI century. The recent project by the School of Photonics is devoted to solving the problem of transferring and processing the ever-growing amount of data by developing a whole new class of devices which will truly correspond to the new "post-electronic" era. There…

  20.03.2017

• Soft Skills for Engineers: Students Presented Solutions for Real-Life Business Cases

  …competencies, they are able to offer a better business model. "Such competencies detect the following problem: when a team consists only of engineers, it is hard for them to solve business tasks and deal with marketing. They are sure that it is enough to be versed in programming and physics but the task is more complex — they need to turn an idea into reality. That…

  16.03.2017