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• Be a Cool Scientist, Not a Boring Nerd: Physicist Alexey Kokhanovskiy on His Career in Science and Neuromorphic Computing

  …Researchers often know their calling since childhood. Did the same happen to you?  From the start, I was interested in physics and mathematics; I was good at solving problems in these fields; therefore, I was accepted into a specialized course at Novosibirsk State University in the ninth grade. And then, in my final year, I became absolutely certain I made the rig…

  15.01.2025

• ITMO’s Monday Science Roundup: 2024 in Review

  …cientists broke their own record and once again created the world’s smallest nanolaser – with a beam just 200 nm in size! In other news, a team at the Faculty of Physics had resolved the mystery of ultrafine plasmonic particles or, more specifically, their spectral properties.  Next, a story straight out of sci-fi: a system that “binds and controls particles of li…

  13.01.2025

• ITMO Fellow Alena Kulakova on Merging Chemistry and Physics

  …act the Titan group as our industrial partner. We are developing a method for producing N-methylpyrrolidone using microfluidic technologies. N-methylpyrrolidone is a versatile solvent used in many fields, from the oil industry to pharmaceuticals. Its production is kind of like cooking borscht: all the ingredients are placed into a giant vat and, roughly speaking, boi…

  13.01.2025

• Unsolvable Problems and Human Computers: Physics and Fantasy in The Three-Body Problem

  …nate history, Chinese scientists contact an alien civilization during the Cultural Revolution. The title itself refers to an actual problem in orbital mechanics that cannot be solved analytically. The three bodies or point masses in the problem move with their initial velocities and orbit each other; the task is to calculate the location of each body in space at a…

  09.01.2025

• Everything Wrong With Arrakis: A Physicist’s Take on Dune

  …s described as the result of the Holtzman effect, named after a fictional scientist who studied instantaneous long-distance data transfer. However, in his work he had not only solved this task, but also made an unexpected discovery that made it possible to create personal shields, nullify gravity, and “fold” space-time for space travel. Even though these phenomena ar…

  06.01.2025

• Slavic Myths, Robots, and the Meaning of Life: Video Games To Play This Holiday Season

  …at has gained human consciousness. The android finds itself in a world filled with ruins of ancient civilizations and high-tech gadgets. While exploring this world, the player solves varied puzzles in order to collect “sigils” that allow them to advance into newer areas. Throughout the game, you’ll also receive messages from a strange voice that poses philosophical q…

  04.01.2025

• Top Collabs, Educators, and More: Meet the Winners of ITMO LOVE Awards 2024

  …sented contemporary research methods for working with big data to address environmental issues. At the same time, school students from all over Russia polished their skills in solving cases related to food industry, tourism, construction, and IT, which were provided by the companies Beeline, Unifood, and Green Zoom, as well as the Kronotsky Nature Reserve. Hackathon …

  25.12.2024

• New City, University, and Field: ITMO Mega Contest Winners Share Tips and Impressions

  …ming software. If you face any issues, such as your camera freezing, the curator who’s always online during the final round will help you fix them. Take the time to solve the demo tasks and the tasks from previous years. Sometimes, you’ll see similar tasks during the contest. Anastasiia Galanina, a first-year Master’s student in industrial bi…

  23.12.2024

• ITMO Students Win 3.4 Million Rubles at AI Junior Challenge

  …r Smirnov, a student of ITMO’s Artificial Intelligence Technologies Faculty, and Nikita Iltyakov, a student of HSE University, took first place as the team [RASCAR] O2, having solved the case from T-Bank on the best AI solution for self-development. “Our case dealt with detection of speech defects. At each of the competition’s three stages, we had to add one new…

  20.12.2024

• Revise To Win: Prepare for ITMO Mega Contest With Tips From Its Developers

  …til January 14. Learn more about joining the contest here.  Registered participants will soon be able to access the demo versions of the tasks in each track of the contest. Solving them is one way to better prepare for the actual contest tasks. Choose the track that interests you most – for international students, the tracks are Robotics and Physics – and learn th…

  19.12.2024