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• St. Petersburg Scientists Propose a Technology That Can Reduce the Cost of High-Efficiency Solar Cells

  …hide (GaP). However, it’s not very suitable for the fabrication of the solar cells since it has poor sunlight-absorbing property. But if we take GaP and add nitrogen (N), we obtain a solution of GaPN. Even at low N concentrations, this material demonstrates the direct-band property and is great at absorbing light, as well as having the capability to be integrated ont…

  11.02.2020

• Do Valentine's Day Like a Single Russian

  …ish. It’s not even so much about learning as new skill as it is about the joy of working with your hands and pure creativity, as well as seeing things in a new light (maybe a stained glass workshop?). Go on a shopping spree. Last year, Singles Day in China brought over $30 billion in online sales. All these people were single and shopping for themselves. When’s th…

  10.02.2020

• How to Find Your Favorite Video Game Genre

  … start by watching gameplay trailers and reading the game’s wikipedia page to get the initial idea of the world and its mechanics. Then, if you are still not sure whether a certain game is a good fit for you, you can watch walkthroughs of the first few minutes over on YouTube or numerous online streaming platforms. This will allow you to get the feel of the game and …

  07.02.2020

• ITMO University Engineers Take First Steps Towards Creating Holograms of Underwater Objects

  …ultiple series of images – three images from every angle. When you work with objects located on the ground and use a drone to get your images, you can simply program it to maintain a certain trajectory along each of the three axis. With an underwater robot, you have to go underwater and take pictures yourself to teach it how to do it. A…

  07.02.2020

• GIS for Beginners: How to Start Working with Maps and Why Do it in the First Place

  …ate their own map. The system’s only disadvantage is the limited opportunities for working with the map’s design. As noted by the workshop’s host Maria Podkorytova, the maps obtained via QGIS are more suitable for research work rather than presentation of results. However, you can export them and, having tweaked the design to your liking, present your research result…

  07.02.2020

• ITMO Engineers’ New AC System Brings a Breath of Fresh Air to Historical Buildings

  … all the sensor readings. The fridge principle A glance at the system makes it clear just how compact the engineers’ solution is. In essence, the entire system is contained within just three moderately sized boxes: one heat exchange unit on the input pipe, one on the output, and a control module nearby, all connected by small tubes through which the heat ag…

  06.02.2020

• The Art of Managing the University of the Future: A Roundtable on Effective University Governance Held in St. Petersburg

  … in any case, this is a shift towards absolute platform openness. And we plan to achieve this in the future. But when we’re moving to these forms, it becomes impossible to maintain the existing regulatory arrangements. Abiding by the state standards will become extremely difficult – they will become obsolete faster than new ones will be appearing.” …

  05.02.2020

• Active Learning: 7 Ways to Increase Students’ Motivation and Engagement

  … grasp and that would be close to their interests in a specific subject field. This is especially important for Master’s students: for example, their practical projects can pertain to the area of their specific skillset if they’re already employed by specialization.  Allow people to make mistakes Active learning is, first and foremost, about a student’s own…

  05.02.2020

• The Work of a Lighting Designer: Creating Magic on Concerts and Fashion Shows

  … – he was blind.” What this quote tells us is that everyone naturally knows a thing or two about lighting, because it’s a rather subjective field. There are still, however, certain professional skills that set a lighting designer apart from a layperson. For instance, the Young–Helmholtz theory of color perception, color temperature, and an object’s natural luminescen…

  04.02.2020

• ITMO University Researchers’ Work on DNA-Based Nanorobot for Cancer Diagnostics

  …chemists, pharmacists, and biologists. Scientists have high hopes for gene therapy, which combats mutations that occur in cells. “DNA is the foundation of the cell, it contains its genetic material, which is needed to encode proteins that are vital for the existence of the cell,” shares Ekaterina Goncharova, a co-author of the research. “When a cell becomes canc…

  04.02.2020