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KronBars: Leading the Way to a Healthier Lifestyle
…, as these activities require constant participation. Who can participate? Membership in KronBars is free and open to everyone. One can sign up in the University intranet system ISU: that includes regular students, exchange students and staff. Only summer school students are unable to participate, as the club’s facilities are closed during the summer. Studen…
10.09.2019
Vaccines: Everything You Need to Know
…ions of lives and created a culture of vaccination.” Types of vaccines There are five types of vaccines: live attenuated, inactive (dead), subunit, anatoxin, and genetically engineered vaccines. In essence, they depict the history of the development of vaccines over the past three centuries. Initially, scientists believed that to ensure immunity, the dise…
09.09.2019
Founder of ITMO Accelerator Resident GoRobo on Robotics and Entrepreneurship
Unexplored St. Petersburg: Pulkovo Observatory
…g which visitors may get the chance to explore sunspots using a projection telescope, and the evening tour, during which you may join a professional astronomer in observing planets, the Moon, stars, galaxies, and other breathtaking celestial phenomena. Provided there is a clear sky, of course. Once inside the Museum, visitors will learn the history of Russian astr…
06.09.2019
Prawns and Aerogels: Sol-Gel Science Slam
…-increasing entropy, energy resources are becoming increasingly exhausted. So we need to either reduce consumption or reduce waste. My solution is aerogel or an interconnected network of poles,” says Civioc. Aerogel includes an entire class of materials in which the liquid phase is completely replaced by a gaseous one. Such substances have a very low density, tu…
06.09.2019
ITMO Scientist Mingzhao Song: Each Time My Phone Runs out of Battery, I Realize That I Have to Work Harder
…stance and effectiveness of power transfer, which entails the application of some new physical approaches. We have also made use of metamaterials, meaning artificial electromagnetic structures, to expand the capabilities of the WPT technology to transfer energy at larger distances. This also called for some new physical approaches. What are these approaches? Which…
05.09.2019
Omega-3 Fatty Acids of Plant Origin and Biomedical Tasks: ITMO Scientists’ Research at University of Lorraine
…017, and the number of academic exchange programs for the universities’ young scientists grows with every year. Double degree program with the French university Daria Kuznetsova, a PhD student from the Faculty of Food Biotechnologies and Engineering who’s also working for the “Biotechnologies of the Third Millennium” international research center, says that she…
05.09.2019
ITMO Accelerator’s Graduates at St. Petersburg Digital Forum
… the Labra project came up with an action recognition technology aimed at improving labor efficiency in the workplace. They developed a video surveillance system with a neural network that captures and recognizes people’s actions, which allows employers to find out exactly how working time is spent. “It often happens that we do not initiate the installation of v…
04.09.2019
ITMO Accelerator: New Formats and How to Participate
…elerators are support programs for young startups. As a general rule, they include educational components such as workshops by successful entrepreneurs, as well as mentorship, networking support and initial investments. Most often, accelerators are run by experienced business investors wishing to help promising projects make their way to the market. ITMO Universi…
03.09.2019
Genome Goes Digital: IT in Genetics and Medicine
…ersity’s SPAdes assembler is one of the world’s best products of its kind these days,” explains Mr. Uliantsev. Metagenomics Metagenomics is a subsection of molecular genetics which studies genetic material procured from natural samples. Common subjects include seawater, soil, or part of the human organism. In the latter case, th…
02.09.2019