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ITMO University During the Second World War
…r students of 1945 who managed to finish their studies graduated in 1951. However, regardless of their fate, all these people became a part of the history of Leningrad optical science and the optical-mechanical industry, and ITMO University remains their successor. We also would like to add that you can read about the life of a family from Leningrad during the war…
08.05.2020
Lectorium 2.0: How Culture Goes Online
…members are researchers, so the topics of their articles are often too complex to be comprehensible to the general public. So in this time of crisis, many museums would invite science communicators to help them overcome this barrier. Unfortunately, specialists like that are few, so museums’ staff themselves will have to learn new skills and bridge the gap between …
08.05.2020
What Is Stress and How to Cope With It During Self-Isolation
Lead Analyst at Mail.ru Group Anatoly Karpov: Statistics are Available to Anyone
…n analytics. It might seem unusual that someone turned to analytics after studying humanities, but it’s quite a normal practice for IT. Even people with a background in social sciences are now rather equipped in the field of applied statistics. And many scientific methods, mathematical models and experiments now enter the humanities, it…
07.05.2020
Beginner’s Guide to Submitting Your Research to Scopus and Web of Science Journals
…shed? My article was rejected – is this the end? What about money? What’s special about the journals indexed by Scopus and WoS? The Scopus and Web of Science systems monitor thousands of journals around the world and only pick the ones that adhere to the principles of independent reviewing and anti-plagiarism, which helps maintain a rather h…
06.05.2020
ITMO University Graduate Dmitry Vavulin on His Love for Physics, Science, and Working at Yandex
… and the teachers told me that my problem-solving wasn’t bad. Interestingly, even at the time when my grades were poor, my attitude towards physics didn’t change: I loved this science and wanted it to be my profession. How did you choose the university? In the 11th grade everyone was mulling over where to apply. Truth to be told, ITMO University was a popular …
06.05.2020
U.S. Fulbright Scholar Victoria Alexander on St. Petersburg, Isolation and Nabokov’s Connection to Evolution
…ted in the theory of evolution, and in the evolution of butterflies in particular. He had an intuitive understanding of the process of speciation. This is what led me into the sciences. I never imagined that this would happen when I started my literary studies. I became a visiting researcher at the Santa Fe Institute to work on complex systems theory, self-organizati…
05.05.2020
Founder of CritMouse Podcast Aleksandr Golovin On What’s Wrong With Popular Science Podcasts in Russia
…ic is very hard, misspelling a single letter is all it takes to fail at finding the one you need. While the podcast format seems ideal for the purposes of the promotion of science, there are very few popular science podcasts in Russia. In the USA, there are hundreds of them, some being very popular: Stuff You Should Know, 99% Invisi…
04.05.2020
Optical “Nanomixer”: Scientists Propose New Method for Mixing Liquids
…roscopic doses of substances for the purpose of creating highly efficient drugs, and conduct experiments on cells. Still, there’s one issue associated with their operation: scientists have little to no control over the mixing speed, or, scientifically speaking, the diffusion of liquids and reagents inside such laboratories-on-a-chip.…
04.05.2020
ITMO University Holds Closing Ceremony of 9th Congress of Young Scientists in Minecraft
…aculty. On the day of the ceremony, pixelated fireworks were launched from the main square in front of the University to mark the closing of the 9th Congress of Young Scientists. Even the event’s participants say it is difficult to believe that they got to play Minecraft while attending the closing ceremony of a scientific c…
02.05.2020