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• 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

• The Art of Managing the University of the Future: A Roundtable on Effective University Governance Held in St. Petersburg

  … views on the topic were Vladimir Vasilyev, Rector of ITMO University; Vadim Volkov, Rector of the European University at St. Petersburg; Marina Borovskaya, Deputy Minister of Science and Higher Education; Daria Kozlova, First Vice Rector of ITMO University; Vladimir Knyaginin, Vice Governor of St. Petersburg; Andrei Volkov, Academic Policy Advisor at the SKOLKOVO Mo…

  05.02.2020

• Active Learning: 7 Ways to Increase Students’ Motivation and Engagement

  …rceived in the same way. The attention of a student is directly proportional to a lecturer’s personal involvement in the topic. So don’t be afraid to become known as that zany scientist constantly enthusing about their subject; this could be what boosts your expert authority and attracts students’ interest. Your studies are your own business An essential princi…

  05.02.2020

• ITMO University Researchers’ Work on DNA-Based Nanorobot for Cancer Diagnostics

  …The development of effective cancer treatment drugs without severe side effects is now one of the most important tasks faced by chemists, pharmacists, and biologists. Scientists have high hopes for gene therapy, which combats mutations that occur in cells. “DNA is the foundation of the cell, it contains its genetic material, which is needed to encode proteins th…

  04.02.2020

• ITMO University Scientist Sergey Makarov Receives President of Russia Award

  … opportunities in the power industry, medicine, computing technology and other fields. But successful application of nanoparticles for light management calls for a fundamental scientific base which is now being developed by physicists all over the world. In the last few years, Sergey Makarov, a young physicist at ITMO University and senior research associate at th…

  03.02.2020

• Social Sciences in the Era of Social Networks: Studying Selfies, Likes and Geotags

• Yimer Getnet: Food Biotechnology is a Promising Field and I Want to Be Part of It

  …s a place to study?   When I was a teenager, I had the opportunity to learn a lot about Russia. I discovered that it has a fascinating history and considerable influence on science and technology.  In my opinion, Russians are very educated people. This influenced me greatly. Before coming here, I also knew that it was home to many distinguished artists, philosophe…

  30.01.2020

• Myths about Aging and Its Reversibility

  …lly impervious to cancer. In laboratory conditions, it can live for up to 30 years, which is really long for a rodent. It also doesn’t feel pain even if you cut or burn it. Scientists believe that one of the possible reasons behind sand rats’ eternal youth is a high activity of telomerase and other intrinsic mechanisms for restoring damaged DNA structures. …

  30.01.2020

• Digital Humanities Week: Physicist and Mathematician Ivan Yamshchikov on the Use of Algorithms in Humanities Research

  …analyst. He then defended his PhD thesis in Applied Mathematics in Germany and for the last three years, he has been working at the Max Planck Institute for Mathematics in the Sciences in Leipzig, where he specializes in text processing and generation. A few years ago, he implemented the Neural Defense project and is now working on research projects at the intersecti…

  30.01.2020

• A Tour Around ITMO University's “Functional Materials and Devices of Optoelectronics” Lab

  …ids. In the student community, this lab on Lomonosova 9 is often called “The Romanov Laboratory”, since both the lab and the center are headed by Aleksey Romanov, Doctor of Science in Physics and Mathematics and Dean of ITMO University’s Faculty of Laser Photonics and Optoelectronics, the author of more than three hundred scientific …

  28.01.2020