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• ITMO Scientists’ Project for Facilitating Transition to Industry 4.0 Wins Grant of Russian Foundation for Basic Research and Sirius Center

  … any big and medium-sized manufacturing facility today can’t do without robotic machines, “smart” conveyors, and programmable modules. These elements operate in a complex that scientists refer to as a distributed cyber-physical system (CPS). Forming the building blocks of automated factories, CPS are controlled by special software. This software is updated and change…

  02.12.2019

• Student Entrepreneurial Communities: Finnish and Russian Experience

  … program. Implementing it is a consortium that includes Kotka-Hamina Regional Development Company Cursor Ltd., ITMO University, XAMK – South-East Finland University of Applied Sciences, and St. Petersburg Foundation for Small and Medium-Sized Enterprise Development. The initiative is designed to support startups, student entrepreneurship, as well as small and medium …

  29.11.2019

• St. Petersburg Scientists Create Transparent Self-Cleaning Bactericidal Displays

  … Research Center for Optical Material Engineering has been working on bactericidal materials based on light metal oxides for several years. In the newly published article, the scientists presented a transparent structure based on such a material.  “We created our first coatings using zinc and tin oxides with added portions of cerium and yttrium oxides. We have d…

  29.11.2019

• PhD Student From France on Why He Came Back to ITMO and the Importance Of Collaboration

  …is in physics and mechanics, not in optics, so it was a very good opportunity for me. I wanted to come to ITMO because I wanted to spend one semester in a university where the scientific level is higher than my school and that is not so easy to find. Some universities are very famous but they don’t offer the education that I’m looking for so it’s not so interesting f…

  28.11.2019

• What Cells Do When They Can’t Breathe

  …t there would have to be a mechanism for them to react to the lack of oxygen. Prior to the works of William G. Kaelin Jr, Sir Peter J. Ratcliffe and Gregg L. Semenza, however, science couldn’t explain how cells detected this lack in their environment. These scientists, surprisingly enough, come from rather different fields of knowledge,…

  27.11.2019

• Student of the Year Contest: Four ITMO University Students Become Laureates

  …The Student of the Year contest was established in 2008 upon the initiative of St. Petersburg’s Committee for Science and Higher Education and the Rectors Board. Since then, many talented and motivated students have been awarded in 12 categories in such fields as science, sports, international collaboration, art, and student self-govern…

  27.11.2019

• ITMO’s Chess Team Places Second at World InterUniversities Championships in Croatia

  …ess-specific literature. I’m in my last year of Bachelor’s studies, I plan to do my Master’s at ITMO later on, but I’d like to opt for something applied: I don’t see myself in science in the future. I’d also like to continue playing chess, participate in tournaments and grow as a sportsperson. It’s important to note that the new manager of ITMO’s chess club gave us a…

  26.11.2019

• Social Anthropology Expedition: the Secret Lives of Physiologists

  …ns between employees at Amazon or Google in exactly the same way that travelers used to observe the lives of natives settled along the Amazon River.  “Contemporary social sciences, especially social anthropology, have started delving into the subjects that are closer to our everyday lives but are at the same time inaccessible to the general public,” says Roman A…

  25.11.2019

• ITMO Graduate and Evapolar Engineer Alexander Klyavinsh: University Is Crucial Time to Figure Out What You Want to Do in Life

  …you decided you want to work with robots?  It so happened that for me, robotics wasn’t that much of a childhood interest. Nevertheless, I had a natural propensity for exact sciences. Especially for computer science and physics: these were my strongest fields. So when the time came for me to apply to a university, I had to decide who …

  25.11.2019

• New Worlds, Warm Greetings and Research: Why We Love Gaming

  …onses to background music and graphical elements to the link between game rewards and exercise intensity is being conducted and published in peer-reviewed journals, attracting scientists from all fields of knowledge to video games.  As we attempted to demonstrate, these days being a gamer means being able to see a new form of art, brought to you by Subscribe

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