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• Ready for Take-Off: Happy New School Year!

  … exchange semester. In October we’ll welcome over 200 international students to our foundation program. They’ll be joining the nearly 2000 students enrolled at the university studying their Bachelor’s, Master’s or PhD, as well as part of short-term programs.    Many people who work here were once exchange students too so we know what it’s like - and we’re happy…

  02.09.2019

• This Is (Not) Art: Insights into the Origins of Art, Its Connection to Science and the Makings of a Masterpiece

  … date back to the Renaissance era, when artists turned to Antiquity and the ancient Greek concept of “mimesis”, meaning “imitation of nature”. Realism directs creators to the study of anatomy and physics in order to convey, as accurately as possible, the similarity of a picture with the original that inspired it. According to Nina Gavrish, the second wave of the incr…

  30.08.2019

• Fresh Start: Opportunities for Students at ITMO University

  …est Optical Student Chapter, which includes branches of three international organizations: SPIE, OSA and IEEE. Read more about the opportunities for young scientists here. Studying abroad Why stay at home when there are so many opportunities out there for you to study abroad? Every year, ITMO University students participate in aca…

  29.08.2019

• ITMO Researchers Describe Carbon Dot Structure, Discover Red Emission Amplification Method

  …bon atom is linked to four nearby atoms. In graphite, each atom in the state of sp2-hybridization is surrounded by three atoms in-plane and has weak vertical connections. Our study is the first to suggest fractional hybridization. That means that atoms in carbon dots are suspended in a state of intermediate hybridization between sp2 and sp3,” explains Nikita Tepliako…

  28.08.2019

• Don’t Believe Your Eyes: How Visual Illusions Work

  …s a hallucination is an error in perception, which is why it is often associated with mental health issues. Verification with a camera One of the main problems when studying the nature and properties of visual illusions is the lack of a unified approach to their description and classification. However, there still is a way to tell them apart from illusions …

  28.08.2019

• How Human Thinking Works and Why It Why It Can Fail Us

  … tries to find a pattern in everything. Two systems of thinking The topic of heuristics is the focus of Daniel Kahneman, a prominent cognitive psychologist who has been studying the decision-making process under the conditions of uncertainty. He has mainly dealt with issues related to money: how irrationally we treat money and how we can evaluate the same amoun…

  27.08.2019

• Cognitive Experiments: How Our Brain Works

  …ze the tasks they are given and answer intuitively, the percentage of correct answers is about 60-70% in the first part and 50-60% in the second. “In this experiment, we study intuition in the scientific sense of the word. The first part of the experiment shows how unconscious learning works, when guesswork can give you more correct answers than analytics, which…

  26.08.2019

• ITMO University and University of Lorraine Expand Opportunities for Student and Staff Mobility

  …internships, teaching  Under the framework of the Erasmus+ program, students, staff and young scientists (PhD students) can receive funding to offset a significant part of study and accommodation costs related to pursuing an exchange at one of Europe’s universities, while universities can invite leading professors to give lectures on relevant topics.  For insta…

  26.08.2019

• Russian and Swedish Scientists Work Together on New Biomedical Product

  … for non-invasive detection and visualization of biomaterials in real-time mode. The developed material can pave the way to modern biomedical technologies, the authors of the study add. An insectarium was created specifically for the research and development of new materials at SCAMT laboratory; about 60 spiders of two species, Linothele fallax and Holothele i…

  23.08.2019

• Russian Language Summer School: Behind the Curtain

  …and has been teaching Russian language to international students for 17 years. For the past three years she has been working with students from the University of Mons who are studying to become Russian language translators.  This summer Daria participated in both the Russian Language Summer School and Summer Quest Programs. The main difference between the two prog…

  22.08.2019