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• Technology and Policy Student Julia Milton: Science is a Very Good Instrument for Stabilizing the State of International Politics

  …ngs and and discuss policy. Not long ago, I contributed to the plans for engaging  young people to the Multi-stakeholder Forum on Science, Technology and Innovation for the Sustainable Development Goals (STI Forum 2019). Do your research work and public activity intersect in any way? Well, there are actually many ways to apply space technologies within the …

  20.06.2019

• Stellar Living: Bright New World of Space Design

  … snugly inside. The main task of the architect was to develop the apposite interpretation of the idea of foundation. His structure has nothing that would be binding it to a certain surface; instead, it would gel well with any landscape it happened to interact with thanks to a special kind of spherical stylus serving as its core. But this project also remained a specu…

  19.06.2019

• Two-Time ICPC Champion Niyaz Nigmatullin: Life Outside the Code

  …do this in the future. For example, Anatoly Shalyto (an eminent scientist and professor at ITMO University’s Information Technologies and Programming Faculty – Ed. note) is certain that I’ll never leave Russia to settle somewhere abroad, but I can’t promise him that. Life changes; I just can’t decide on a country yet. After returning from the States, I said, “Guys, l…

  18.06.2019

• Five ITMO University Scientists Awarded SRIE Scholarship

  …ry. What makes quantum physics different from classical physics is that in classical physics, you can know everything there is about a system and predict the future with certainty, but the future in the quantum world is less certain. In quantum physics, experiments are conducted to work out new exotic laws. These are the laws that th…

  18.06.2019

• Matryoshka: A Modern Icon?

• 8 International Summer Schools to Attend This Summer

  …an opportunity to receive a grant that will cover the registration fee The main goal of this summer school is to train highly qualified specialists in urban planning and sustainable development. The school includes two stages: during the first week, you familiarize yourself with the world of urban logistics, and in the second week you solve a range of practical ta…

  14.06.2019

• Perfect Day in St. Petersburg

  … the 2018 World Cup, past Lakhta Center, the tallest skyscraper in Europe, into the Gulf of Finland and plops your right into the famous postcard view of the Grand Cascade fountains and cream-colored palaces. Why do I love it? It’s a nice way to see the best of the new architecture and a few minutes later step into the imperial splendor. And it’s a fun ride! Vasil…

  12.06.2019

• SPIEF 2019: Speakers Discuss Achievements and Problems of Russian Education

  …nderperformance: on average, it amounts to 20%, which is two times higher than in Europe. In some 90% of instances, academic underperformance contributes to one’s failure to attain economic success in their adult lives. In today’s Russia, two and a half million young people aged from 15 to 25 neither work nor study. I believe that solving this problem is a national c…

  11.06.2019

• Quantum Computing: Challenges, Prospects, and Current Developments

  …st a theory or a field, but a full-fledged industry. Starting in 2014, some of the world’s top companies have presented their quantum computer prototypes. Google’s computer contains 72 qubits, and Intel and IBM’s devices contain 49 and 50, respectively. When I first joined this field, quantum computers were only made up of 2 or maybe 4-…

  10.06.2019

• ITMO Researchers Win Russian Academy of Sciences Award

  … years. Their research is based on their joint articles on the topic of active optical nanoantennas. The scientists have developed a new type of nanostructures that support certain optical modes and can function as light emitters. This field is in high demand now both in academia and the industry, as it covers a wide range of tasks: from sensing and high-precision mi…

  10.06.2019