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• To Fear or Not to Fear: Psychologist Alexander Palin on the Nature of Phobias

  …fear public humiliation. Other phobias The most common specific phobias are environmental (thunderstorms, water, or heights), animal (spiders, snakes, or dogs), bodily (injections, blood, or injuries), situational (planes, cars, elevators, bridges, or enclosed places), and many others. Oftentimes, people tend to have around two subcategories of phobias. It …

  02.12.2020

• This Weekend in St. Petersburg: December 5-6

  …Art Deco Figurines from the Collections of Sergey Morozov and Evgeny Gerasimov October 10, 2020 – January 7, 2021 The State Hermitage Museum 500 rubles  This exhibition is a great opportunity to dive into the world circa 1920s-1930s – hopeful and trusting in technological advances as it was, with exquisitely furnished houses, decorated with a unique at…

  02.12.2020

• New Citizen Science Project Helps Researchers Find Volunteers

  …cts and look for helpers.” Launched in October, the website now offers about 50 projects in various fields: archaeology, philology, physics, and medicine. There are no restrictions on subject areas and scientists from any field can use this free platform to search for volunteers. ITMO University has been the project’s partner since its launch. One of the …

  01.12.2020

• Finno-Ugric Spots of St. Petersburg

  …, and the former Soviet republics. Among them are rare editions of books in languages of indigenous peoples of Russia, including the Finno-Ugric peoples. Another multilingual collection of more than 7,000 books is available at the Library of National Literatures on Sadovaya St. 33. It’s a very cosy place where you can find literature in small languages of the Russ…

  01.12.2020

• ITMO University Debuts in Five RAEX Subject Rankings

  … The RAEX agency assessed universities working in the following fields: mathematics, physics and astronomy, mechanical engineering and robotics, engineering and technology, construction and architecture, medicine and healthcare, economics and management, agriculture, humanities. The agency’s specialists note that three factors were taken into account: the appli…

  01.12.2020

• ITMO Graduate ‪Andrei Gorodetsky on His Career, European Science, and Work in Different Countries

  … microns, which is the size of a terahertz impulse. Since the terahertz impulse is exactly one field oscillation, all entering electrons will be simultaneously accelerated in one direction. There are also ways to generate terahertz impulses that will have an intensive electric field that is much stronger than the one generated by huge electromagnets. So, the accelera…

  01.12.2020

• ITMO Researchers Find Quick and Easy Way to Detect Tick-Borne Encephalitis

  … find a quick and accessible way of detecting TBE.   Scientists from the Chemometrics group of ITMO’s Infochemistry Research Center developed a mini-device for fast home-based detection of the TBE virus. The testing device uses electrochemical analysis and a multilayer perceptron, a machine learning method based on a feed-forward neural network. All you’d need to …

  30.11.2020

• Rukami Fest 2020: ITMO’s TECHNOHISTORY Project Highlights Digital Loneliness and Bacteria Representation in Media

  …wledge: from VR visualization of cultural heritage objects to the history of atomic physics. Each track was based on interdisciplinary research or a small-scale project at the intersection of social and natural sciences. “When we launched the TECHNOHISTORY project, we not only wanted to make humanities more interesting for students and involve them in the creati…

  27.11.2020

• Beneath the Pavement, Not the Beach: First Art & Science Conference on Soil

  …workshops on modern farming and farming technologies throughout Germany. The artists focused on a vegetable garden planted on an unused cemetery lot in order to study the people’s reactions to such an unconventional solution.  The problem of using unclaimed territories has been well-studied by a group of researchers of the Terraforming project, organized by th…

  27.11.2020

• Scientists Propose Method of Assessing the Gene-Disease Connection

  … Modern technologies make it possible to identify the correlation between a specific gene and a process in the organism, but it doesn’t necessarily mean that there really is a connection. A team of scientists from ITMO University have proposed a new method that makes it possible to assess the probability of such a connection for every…

  27.11.2020