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• ITMO Professor Creates Platform to Help Bloggers Understand Their Audience, Find Partners and Improve Content

• ITMO Scientists Propose Improved Method For Laser-Plasma Processing of Glass

  …To control a laser beam in a lab, scientists need lots of different equipment: special lenses, diffraction gratings, waveguides. They are all hard to manufacture. Controlled etching of a nanorelief on a glass surface turns a glass plate into a functional optical element that can transform laser emissions. Such transformed beams are wide…

  11.02.2021

• Venture Capitalist Dmitry Kulish on Business Unicorns and Why Not Chase Them

  … in the Room), the US federal government decided to impose control over startups. Until then, many companies resorted to IPO (Initial Public Offering – Ed.) withdrawals but new restrictions made it problematic and unprofitable. It became much cheaper to scale your business and then sell it to some strategists bypassing IPOs. Basically, unicorns appeared because offic…

  11.02.2021

• Student Spotlight: Vitor Figueiredo, Brazil

  …Why did you decide to get a Master's degree in mechatronics? I had chosen this field because I wanted to change my career direction to be more connected to the tendencies of the fourth industrial revolution.  Are you studying in English or Russian, and why did you choose that option? My Master’s program is taught in English. However, I'd studied the Russian …

  11.02.2021

• Inside the Labs: AIR Displays Projects by Art & Science Students

  …s held online: the artist supervised the students via Zoom as they worked in a lab.  In total, the exhibition features six projects; their creators strived to reflect on the interaction between human and non-human agents, see the world from a non-human-centric perspective, as well as focus on the ethical and moral issues of animal exploitation.  The gallery’s c…

  10.02.2021

• Not Just Bike Paths and Greening: What Urban Planners Really Do

  … specialists do is design cycling infrastructure. What do they really do? Partially, the media is to blame for such associations, as they often mention urban science in connection with fancy modern urban solutions. On the international level, specialists who are referred to as “urbanists” in Russia are usually called “urban planners”.  In reality, they poss…

  10.02.2021

• This Weekend in St. Petersburg: February 13-14, 2021

  …vigate this ever-changing world, then this online festival is your perfect chance. You will need to register here to get the full program, which this year will focus on the interconnections between literature and music (one of the best combinations, if you ask me). This weekend, you can virtually interact with the creme de la creme of modern Russian literature – all …

  10.02.2021

• Project by ITMO Professor Becomes Official Partner of Elon Musk’s OpenAI

  …nted Only a limited number of companies and research institutions have access to GPT-3. They all have the opportunity to use the neural network for projects that pass rigorous selection. Having gotten approval, scientists and businessmen can use OpenAI’s creation for their purposes in exchange for feedback and their research data. SoMin.AI will adart GPT-3 for the…

  10.02.2021

• Aquaformations and Communication With Nature: Artist Talk With Robertina Sebjanic

  … most tenacious creatures (even immortal), and robots inherently cannot die.  The second part of the project is the Proto Viva Sonification performance, which looks into the interaction of other species with humans. Several Aurelia Aurita, the most common jellyfish, are placed in a large aquarium. Their movements and contractions are…

  09.02.2021

• ITMO Staff and Students Launch New Popular Science Project on War History

  …er. Antonina Puchkovskaia, head of the Digital Humanities Research Center, explains that the DH Seed Grants is an open competition of interdisciplinary projects created at the intersection of humanities and computer science.…

  08.02.2021