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• ITMO University Scientists Found a Way to Release Drugs from Polymer Carriers in a Non-Invasive Way

  …International team In 2017, George Zograf, a PhD student at ITMO’s Faculty of Physics and Engineering under the guidance of professor Sergei Makarov published a scientific work dedicated to optically-induced heating and simultaneous temperature measurement of resonant semiconductor nanoparticles. Some time later, Mikhail V. Zyuzin, a researcher at ITMO’s Faculty o…

  12.02.2020

• It’s Your Call! Winter School Kicks Off at ITMO University

  …1st Century”, “Let’s Clean Up Space Debris”, and “Actively Working Throughout Our Lives”. The main task faced by each team is to come up with an engineering, market, or scientific solution as part of the proposed topic and defend it in front of the judges in the form of a short presentation. Each of the five tracks is coordinated by ITMO University’s PhD st…

  11.02.2020

• ITMO’s Science Communicators Hosted a Discussion at the Total Dictation Conference

  …ce it’s the cradle of three revolutions, it’s here that we have to organize another, grammatical one,” commented Ilya Stakheev, deputy director of ITMO University’s Center for Science Communication (CSC). Is the Russian language a science? The first large-scale Total Dictation conference was held in Moscow thus attracting mo…

  11.02.2020

• St. Petersburg Scientists Propose a Technology That Can Reduce the Cost of High-Efficiency Solar Cells

  …Today, with the rapid exhaustion of hydrocarbon fuel reserves and a growing concern about environmental issues, scientists are paying more and more attention to the development of the so-called “green technologies”. One of the most popular topics in the field is the development of solar energy technologies. “Hydrocarbons as a traditional source of energy are exh…

  11.02.2020

• ITMO Open Science: Science and Cutting-Edge Inventions Presented at One of Russia’s Largest Contemporary Art Museums

  …On the eve of Russian Science Day, February 7, the Erarta Museum of Contemporary Art hosted the second ITMO Open Science conference. The event became a platform on which scientists and students could speak about their research, ask questions, and discuss common problems and goals in a non-conventional atmo…

  10.02.2020

• ITMO University Hosts Potanin Scholarship Contest Finals

  …eaders who can assess any situation logically and critically and have good self-presentation skills. We are looking for students looking to fulfil their potential in a social, scientific or creative field. Even though only 500 students from a total of 2,000 will receive the scholarship, I believe that every one of them will benefit from taking part in the contest. Ou…

  10.02.2020

• How to Find Your Favorite Video Game Genre

  …ated from the legendary Dungeons & Dragons, role-playing games (RPG) center around one character giving the player full control of its actions. Typically set in a fantasy or a science fiction universe, RPGs often consist of a number of quests the player has to complete in order to finish the game and advance the character. Modern representatives of the genre also fea…

  07.02.2020

• What Is Infochemistry?

• MOOCs for Everyone: How to Create an Effective and Useful Online Course

  …s and avoid including anything unnecessary – this can get you extra negative reviews from the users. Lots of practice. This piece of advice is more relevant to applied sciences, for example programming – you won’t go far without practice there. Try to include as many practical tasks as you can into every module, so that students would be able to acquire enoug…

  06.02.2020

• Not Conflict, But Synergy: On Salvador Dali’s Relationship with Science

  …andscape (1934), Soft Self-Portrait with Grilled Bacon (1941), Dematerialization Near the Nose of Nero (1947), and The Maximum Speed of Raphael's Madonna (1954). Artist and science Professor Stafeev, can you tell us how you ended up working on this project? The Fabergé Museum is one of the exhibition’s key partners, and it has long been a friend of ITMO …

  05.02.2020