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White Nights Forum Experts on Combating Pseudoscience in Medicine
…te of being a community that is independent in making its own decisions. It’s not about the paternalistic approach, when a doctor dictates you a course of treatment with no explanations of the reasons why, anymore; it’s the attempt to affirm yourself as a person that wants to obtain reliable information and make an independent decision. We often make decisions on tre…
25.06.2019
PhD Student from MIT on Internship at ITMO, Russian Culture and Science
…and matter, we need structures with featured properties. Dielectric nanostructures are a very interesting area of research to design such interesting properties (one simple explanation is that lossless dielectric structures offer the possibility of confining light very efficiently). What are the possible applications of this research? One application of such ph…
19.06.2019
ITMO University Researchers Develop ‘Smart Table’ for Wireless Charging at Record Distance
…Metasurfaces are a new class of artificial planar materials with unusual properties that cannot be found in nature. For example, a special arrangement of their unit cells, which are usually smaller than the wavelength, supports the propagation of electromagnetic waves over long distances. Scientists used this exact feature to create a new type of wireless charging pl…
18.06.2019
Five ITMO University Scientists Awarded SRIE Scholarship
…upport localized electromagnetic waves with a polarization-based degenerate spectrum. This will allow to create analogues of classical polarization devices for waveguides and planar technologies, and to improve many existing optical technologies. This research is supported by grants from Russian Foundation for Basic Research, Russian Science Foundation and the Founda…
18.06.2019
InnoCamp: How Russian and Finnish Students Reinvent Old Spaces
…n their eyes. When you see how hard they work, you just can’t bring yourself to work less than them. And that’s how each of us got a little bit better all the time. Svetlana Mikhailova, second-year student at the Faculty of Cryogenic Engineering My team worked on the renovation of the Pyhtää Airfield. Unfortunately we didn’t get to visit the place, but we w…
31.05.2019
Magic of Light Exhibition in Shanghai: The Dazzling Results
… To make the kids more engaged in the topic, I started with showing them a couple of thematic experiments, and then I gave them a tour of the exhibition with a step-by-step explanation of what holography is. I did a survey before and after the class, and then sent in another one a week later. The resulting data showed the dynamics of the students’ knowledge levels. I…
24.05.2019
Get to Know ITMO’s Soft Skills Lecturers
English Teachers Unite at NATE Convention
…he biggest English language association in Russia – the National Association of Teachers of English (NATE). The association is headed by its honorary President and Founder Svetlana Ter-Minasova who describes it as a “new way to learn about other cultures through learning their language”. NATE brings together the most enthusiastic teachers of the English language all …
25.04.2019
Urban Change Week: Do Your Bit to Change the City for the Better
…tersburg’s parks, streets, squares, embankments, and other public spaces. Its citizens and guests can use the map to share their perception of different locations and leave explanatory comments, which are then analyzed by researchers. At the moment, there are 2,029 marks on the map. The map indicates that people in St. Petersburg feel excited about green areas, spots…
24.04.2019
Hot, Greasy, Delicious: Russian Fast Food to Make You Happy
…reens, and bread. Some people even joke about shawerma being perfectly healthy (which it is totally not). Still, that doesn’t explain why shaverma became so popular. One explanation to that may be its unique feature: every cook makes it in a slightly different way. For some, trying different recipes has become some sort of a gastronomic hobby, which eventually led…
16.04.2019