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• This Weekend in St. Petersburg: October 5-6

  …am to 8pm ArtMuza contemporary art gallery and creative space Free admission Rainy October calls for cozy weekends at museums, and in that department at least, you certainly are in luck: for one, the ArtMuza gallery on Vasilievsky Island will display the works by one of St. Petersburg’s most illustrious artists, Ivan Slavinsky. Reputed for his signature tech…

  02.10.2019

• Maker’s Day by ITMO FabLab: Hands-On Workshop for Robotics Beginners

  …he person giving the presentation.  Do it yourself  It was the workshop that became the star aspect of the event, giving participants the opportunity to not only obtain valuable knowledge but also apply it on the spot. Guests attempted to assemble a circuit and connect it to a microcontroller, while FabLab programmer Ruslan Bobko guided them on how to avo…

  02.10.2019

• 10 Rules of Eco-Friendly Behavior: Expert on Simple Sustainability Lifehacks

  …The tragedy of common resources One of the main myths that stop people on their way to more sustainable behavior is the thought that their contribution would mean nothing. “If I were the only one to not buy a car and commute on bike instead, would something really change? Everyone around is still continuing to do that.” There is a term in science called the traged…

  01.10.2019

• ITMO University Researchers Showcase Potential of Perovskite-Based Solar Cells

  …nanophotonics, and was first used in solar cells around a decade ago. In its structure, this artificial material is identical to natural perovskite, discovered in the Ural Mountains in the 19th century and named after Lev Perovski, a Russian Home Affairs Minister and an avid mineral collector. Despite the fact that many scientists around the world have been trying…

  01.10.2019

• BizCycle Workshop in Vyborg: Creating Comfortable Biking Infrastructure

  …d speaker was Michael Kramer, a bike traveler, member of the European Parliament (2004-2019) and the European Green Party, as well as the initiator of the EuroVelo13 – Iron Curtain Trail project. This is a cycle route of over ten thousand kilometers, stretching from the Barents to the Black Sea. The main goal of this project, uniting 20 countries, is to help the cycl…

  01.10.2019

• Scientists Describe Universal Way of Compressing and Stopping Light for Ultrafast Optical Data Transmission

  …y and, accordingly, the speed, the light cannot move away from it,” explains Alexander Petrov. How to stop or change light  Using this effect, it is possible, under certain conditions, to catch the light signal and save it for some time to then transmit it with a delay. You can also compress it to increase the data transfer speed. “The passage of light t…

  30.09.2019

• Life at St. Petersburg Lyceum 239’s Boarding School “Formula for Success”

  …e school enjoys a location in the historical district of St. Petersburg, in a fairytale-esque merchant’s mansion beloved by Russian cinematographers. Some of the rooms still retain their original decor, and starting in 2019 the Lyceum will renovate the building as well as adapt its rooms for laboratories and classrooms. Soon, it will also be home to a technopark wher…

  30.09.2019

• THz Success: ITMO Master’s Student Presents His Research in Paris

  …erences. Why do you think it’s so important for students to attend such events?  I think that conferences allow you to break free from laboratory work once in a while and obtain new experiences, which is an important reason because you need to have a break from your day-to-day work to look at your research from a new angle. And, of course, any specialized events, …

  26.09.2019

• Big Grants and Where To Find Them

  …n electronic format via our ISU system. The information is published in both the News section as well as a special Foundations and Contests section. This is a database that contains information on the currently available sources of funding. What’s more, I really recommend reading the ITMO.NEWS (just put in “internships” as a keyword). You can look for the university’…

  25.09.2019

• Max Planck Institute Scientist Nikolai Avdievitch on New MRT Devices and Opportunities They Offer

  …gineering. More specifically, we are developing sensors for ultra-high-field experimental MRI, which is used at the stage of excitation, reception and processing of a signal obtained as a result of the physical NMR (nuclear magnetic resonance) effect. One of the main fields here focuses on the development of new experimental ultra-high-field MRI systems, that is, …

  25.09.2019