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• Four ITMO University Students Receive SPIE Optics and Photonics Education Scholarship

  …eaders in the number of SPIE scholarship recipients.  The Society of Photo-Optical Instrumentation Engineers (SPIE) is an international non-profit society bringing together scientists, engineers and students. The Society boasts over 17,000 members from various universities and labs all over the world. Annually, SPIE publishes journals and organizes seminars and co…

  20.05.2020

• From Digital to Optical: Scientists Demonstrate the Work of First Chemically Synthesized Optical Switch

  …New outlook It often happens in science that in order to get a major result, you just need to look at familiar things from a new angle. For instance, scientists have been researching metal-organic frameworks (MOFs) for many years now. This is a class of functional materials which combine the properties of crystal lattice substances a…

  19.05.2020

• ITMO University Students and Graduates Create an Art Project at the Museum of Optics

  … manager at ITMO University’s Center for Creative and Corporate Projects. The project’s team is composed of Ethan Avila, ITMO University Master’s student in the Art & Science program, and Elizaveta Nekrasova, ITMO University’s graduate and a choreographer. The idea was to show two sides of science: its objectivity and strictnes…

  19.05.2020

• ITMO University Specialists Find Out How Much St. Petersburg Citizens Trust Online Shops, Communication on Social Media, and Online Banking

  …s they buy, what food they eat, and how they vote. This prompts sociologists to research the very mechanism of trust, what it consists of and what it’s influenced by. In this, scientists have to take into account the fact that technologies for interaction between people are constantly changing: a century ago, people mainly communicated in person or by correspondence,…

  18.05.2020

• Keep Off the Grass! What Are Desire Paths and What We Can Learn From Them?

  …es.  So how do we design a convenient path? The official recommendations on pedestrian network design created by the Russian Academy of Architecture and Construction Sciences in 1988 introduce the concept of a check angle. It is the distance between the current direction of a pedestrian and the direction of their goal. A pedestrian will stick to the current…

  18.05.2020

• VEEAM Specialist on How to Begin Your Career in Testing

  …Product testing is about evaluating the project from the business’s and user’s point of view. The main responsibility of a tester is to conduct experiments. “It’s like science: you can argue anything, but until you’ve proven it experimentally – you basically don’t know anything,” adds Denis Polev. Tips for beginners At the webinar, Denis invited t…

  18.05.2020

• Portable Lab: ITMO Master’s Student On Developing a New Chemiluminescence Sensor

  …versity including Ksenia Kirichek, a Master’s student, Daler Dadadzhanov, a PhD student, Andrey Ermolaev, a Master’s student, and Prof. Tigran Vartanyan, who advised the young scientists, has come up with a new solution.  “One of the advantages of our device is its low price – under 50,000 rubles, and that it requires less biological material to conduct the test…

  15.05.2020

• “Best Choice I’ve Ever Made”: ITMO Graduate Kseniya Zavatskaya on Her Education and Career in Optics

  …t at ITMO? I did. At ITMO, I joined OLIMP (the Open Laboratory of Ideas, Methods, and Practices, a community for makers and craftspeople of all kinds – Ed.) and the Student Scientific Laboratory of Optical Technology (SNLO). As a Master’s student, you were coming into optics from an adjacent field. Was it difficult to tune into the learning process? Initiall…

  15.05.2020

• Megabyte Media Launches New Podcast About Oncologic Diseases

  …cations at the Foundation, the experts were selected from those who have earned the Foundation’s trust and share its values: commitment to evidence-based medicine, progressive scientific views, and an extensive, successful work record. Several episodes are also planned to be recorded with prominent science journalists, for example Al…

  15.05.2020

• Movie Fridays: New Releases

  …t’s here – a new workplace comedy series created by The Office’s Steve Carell and Greg Daniels. Steve Carell is a four-star general who begrudgingly teams up with an eccentric scientist (John Malkovich) to get the U.S. military’s newest branch, Space Force, up, running and ready for the outer reaches. The line-up also includes Parks and Rec’s Ben Schwartz, Diana Silv…

  15.05.2020