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• Mile of Technology Contest in Ilmenau: ITMO Team Emerges Third in Drone Race

  …ations concerning flight altitude: points would only be given if the drones performed their maneuvers at the altitude of 100 to 180 centimeters. They had to avoid touching the nets, posts, and the ground, or restart the race if failed to do so. Places on the winners’ podium went to the teams with the most points. ITMO’s team brought a total of three drones to part…

  27.05.2019

• ITMO University at the Science of the Future – Science of the Youth Forum

  …lexey Kashevnik. The authors of the project propose using a modular robotic system (MRS) with retractable chassis and wheels of variable diameter. The concept of the Internet of Transport Things will be used to accumulate the context the robotic system is located in. Apart from that, the project’s authors plan to equip their robot with a quadcopter, which will a…

  24.05.2019

• Get to Know ITMO’s Soft Skills Lecturers

  …ing Without Thinking by Malcolm Gladwell. Best movie of all time? A Beautiful Mind. If you could be an expert in any field, what would you choose? Psychology and genetics. Mikhail Kurushkin, Internationalization of Research Why are soft skills so important for techies? Nowadays, the ability to communicate effectively is the key to success for…

  23.05.2019

• ITMO Master’s Student On Explaining Art By Means Of Multimedia

  …erest, the mechanisms of perception fail to work, and a person leaves disappointed. Our task was to think of a way to develop multimedia content that could be used on the internet, for instance, as a preview that would explain the author’s message. For example, we choose several paintings and organize them in one narrative (as every author tells a common idea in a mu…

  23.05.2019

• How ITMO's Advance Program is Helping Young Russians Jump Start their Careers

  …heir successes.” During the seminar, they also had a chance to develop their fundraising and negotiating skills, learn marketing strategies on social media, develop their networking and strategic management skills and acquire new soft skills needed to advance their career. “The most useful information and impression we received by participating in the semin…

  21.05.2019

• The Magic of: White Nights

  …Anna H. To me, white nights mean the first kiss, the first card with the drawbridges timetable (no internet or cell phones back then), the first climb up a winding staircase to take in the view of St. Isaac’s Cathedral against the cobalt sky. It’s about friends getting into a little boat for a midnight canal excursion after a night of heavy partying and the advent…

  21.05.2019

• Light in the City: How Light Affects Our Mood and Emotions

  …ages with interesting content. What is color temperature and how it affects our mood Color temperature is a characteristic of visible light (the portion of the electromagnetic spectrum that is visible to the human eye), measured in Kelvin (K). The Kelvin temperatures typically fall between a range of 1,000K to 10,000K, with lower temperatures resulting in orang…

  20.05.2019

• ITMO Physicists Found New Way to Optimize Nanoparticles and Light Interaction

  …ve shown that the complex interaction of currents in a particle can switch it into a special non-radiative or anapole state. These results help better understand the electromagnetic processes in nanoparticles and learn how to adjust their optical response to create more efficient devices. “Imagine that you have a mechanism which you can adjust to different m…

  20.05.2019

• Live from New York, It’s… Best of SNL

  … it from me, things won’t be getting better anytime soon. The War in Words Starring the august Claire Foy and a SNL veteran Mikey Day, War in Words is a thrilling vignette depicting a quickly derailing correspondence between a WWI soldier and his wife, who inadvertently lets her true personality shine. There are so many loose ends left that the whole Youtub…

  17.05.2019

• Social Animals: What Makes Us Human

  …merican psychologist Muzafer Sherif conducted a number of well-known experiments on this subject. One of his classic experiments was carried out in 1935 and employed the autokinetic effect. It went like this: the test subjects were placed into a pitch-black room, five meters away from a small light source that created an illusion of movement (due to the autoki

  17.05.2019