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• ITMO Researchers Create MRI Antennas That Allow For Better MRI Scans

  …Magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) has several different applications. Everyone knows about the importance of MRI in healthcare, where it is used for high-precision diagnostics. However, this technology also plays a big role in research – scientists analyze scans of volunteers to better understand the functions of a particular organ or track the mechanisms behind the d…

  22.01.2021

• What Can AI Tell About Us Through Our Social Media Profiles

  … Many companies ask potential employees to share their social media profiles. On one hand, it makes sense, as each employer would like to know more about personal and professional qualities of an applicant. On the other hand, it’s reckless to demand this. Firstly, not everyone has social media profiles. Of course, few people don’t use messengers or social netwo…

  21.01.2021

• ITMO University Holds Course on Science Communication for Scholars and Grantees of the Vladimir Potanin Foundation

  …hard and soft skills but also to create a highly-effective team communication while working on their projects. The success of courses, the launch of Master’s programs and admissions campaigns, the demand for scientific and educational projects largely depends on a person's ability to be savvy in the world of information opportunities. To help them solve these task…

  21.01.2021

• Carbon Dots and Solar Cells: Best Graduation Papers Among ITMO Students

  …nd the efficiency of the entire structure. On choosing the topic In the second year, we had to choose our supervisors. Back then, we didn’t know much, so we made our decisions based on presentations about the scientists and their works. The concepts that stood out the most to me were solar panels and solar energy. Ever since my school years, I’ve been intere…

  20.01.2021

• Startup for Startups: How UXSprint Helps Projects Get Better Before They Even Hit the Market

  …ay that during the time that our project is in the Pre-Accelerator, I have changed my thinking and attitude to entrepreneurship. Now for me, it is about creativity, self-expression and the benefit of other people. Thanks to our traction meetings with the mentor, new ways of development were opened to me, which were not at all obvious at first. As for the financial…

  20.01.2021

• This Weekend in St. Petersburg: January 23-24, 2021

  …ssing them with light, or refreshing with water. The author captured the quiet and expressive landscapes of the Novgorod region, which appear to the audience as mind-blowing visions. This is the type of art to carry you away! Kirov Central Park and an open-air ice rink Starting on January 18, daily from 10 am - 10 pm Kirov Central Park The ice rink is fr…

  20.01.2021

• What Fashion and Urban Design Have in Common

  …f the world’s population will live in cities by the year 2050. As of now, they consume 75% of natural resources, produce half of the waste worldwide, and 80% of greenhouse emissions. Olga Johnston Antonova believes that fashion of the future is about ecology, production and consumption of clothes, as well as about changes in people’s lifestyle. In fashion, much li…

  19.01.2021

• How to Study Effectively: Five Memorization Techniques for Acing Any Exam or Test

  …ead or write but still had to memorize a wealth of information. Mnemotechnics refers to the application of mnemonic principles and techniques in order to organize memory impressions and facilitate their later recall. One of the renowned mnemonists with numerous books (the most famous being On the Shadow of Ideas) on mnemotechnics was Giordano Bruno. It’s called th…

  19.01.2021

• ITMO Scientists Propose Systems With Unique Interaction Between Photons and Mechanical Motion of Atoms

  …d matter can interact in a number of different ways. Under certain conditions, light particles (photons) can affect the movement of atoms of matter. It happens because the emission and absorption of photons are followed by recoil. Such interactions are a study subject of one of the physics’ subdivisions, namely, quantum optomechanics. …

  19.01.2021

• Three Monsters of Thinking: ITMO Holds a Lecture on Evidence-Based Policy As Part of Hard Core Philosophy Project

  …ophy. The first one is to reduce it to a number of critical thinking methods. It is obvious that we have to think critically in our day and age, when we exist and make our decisions with an excess of information at our disposal and a variety of tools to manipulate opinions. It is crucial to have autonomous ways to navigate this world, evaluate any situation, detect f…

  18.01.2021