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ITMO’s Technopark Resident MerkleBot Receives an Award at the World’s Largest Developer Conference
…IES Award competition. In 2020, MerkleBot, an ITMO’s Technopark resident, won the DEVIES Award in the category Robotics. The company itself was founded as a collaboration between Russian and Boston developers. Three MerkleBot staff members are now at work in the US, while St. Petersburg and Tolyatti in Russia host the company’s back office. Robots for sma…
02.03.2020
Song of the Month: February 2020
…wned clinical psychologist Jordan Peterson. Not only does this song include the answer to life, the universe and everything in the title, but it has a beautiful crossover between a classic melody and the knowledge of a contemporary thinker. …
28.02.2020
Painting with Plasma: ITMO University Researchers Propose a Way of Fast and Inexpensive Glass Processing for Microoptics and Microfluidics
…” says research team member, ITMO University’s PhD student Vladimir Rymkevich. “We had placed a glass on a graphite plate and performed laser radiation processing on the edge between the glass and the graphite. We had to develop software that allowed us to systematize experimental data and put it into one database with modes and results of the glass processing.” D…
28.02.2020
Smaragda Georgouli: Art is Not a Hobby, It’s a Way of Life
…ics. Besides this field, I’m also really interested in art, I have been since I was born. Art is not a hobby, it’s a way of life. What do you think is the main difference between your studies and art? The main focus of International relations and any other political/social science department is in understanding the way society works, and how societies interact…
27.02.2020
Exploring New Cultures, Studying New Materials: ITMO Students on Their International Internships
…n and, following that, draw conclusions about their viability. Relevance and practical applications of the research The project’s goal was to understand the interaction between the cell and the photoactive matter in order to explain the ways of managing cells. Its possible theoretical applications could be microfluidic chips and the modeling of processes in art…
27.02.2020
This Weekend in St. Petersburg: February 29 – March 1, 2020
…Neapolitan composer Giovanni Battista Pergolesi – and one of the most celebrated stage works of the 18th century. Having started off as a light-hearted connecting performance between the acts of another of Pergolesi’s works, the substantial Il Prigionier Superbo, the fame it enjoyed was such that it went on to become a solo act, and an influential one at that. This w…
26.02.2020
Art Born of Slime Moulds and Bacteria: ITMO Hosts BioArt Workshops
…ue ethical questions: biologists and social scientists have fundamentally different views on ethics. A lot of BioArt projects are trying to establish some form of interaction between these two fields, at times creating something even more meaningful. I approach these topics as a theoretician. I would love to do BioArt, but, unfortunately, I have no access to …
26.02.2020
Clarivate Analytics Expert on Why Russian Researchers Are Cited Less and Universities Aren’t Included in Innovation Rankings
…ver, due to it being a new developing field, we expect a new, higher peak at some point. We had selected the most cited publications and tried to visualize the connections between the publication and its keywords by means of applications like VOSviewer. That way, we managed to find the most groundbreaking topics that kept scientists busy in the last couple of year…
26.02.2020
ITMO’s International Center for Digital Humanities Research Presents Results of DH Week at NYCDH Week in New York
…uch events as DH Week is to explain it to the public,” explains Antonina Puchkovskaya. DH Week is a free event. Apart from popularizing DH, it also serves as a great networking platform where representatives of cultural institutions can meet with various specialists. “Sure enough, the main goal was to speak about DH in St. Petersburg, and I think that w…
25.02.2020
Education Helps You Understand Things, Science Communication – to Explain Them: An Interview with ITMO University Graduate Daniil Shirokov
…n. My favorite example would be subway trains. Firstly, in Japan trains are usually late for less than 0.1 seconds, which amazes in itself. Secondly, there’s basically no gap between the train and the platform. I think that a lot of things in Japan are the results of neverending aspiration to an ideal. From studying to working You started to participate in …
25.02.2020