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This Weekend in St. Petersburg: February 23-24
… better place to help you fill in the gaps in your knowledge of Russian history than St. Petersburg, the former capital of the Russian Empire. This Sunday, February 24, the mysterious St. Michael’s Castle (the one where the Russian Emperor Paul I was murdered and where his ghost is said to haunt) hosts the ‘Nicholas I’ exhibition as part of the city-wide initiative ‘…
20.02.2019
“It’s Your Call!” Winter School Launched at ITMO University
… produces and supplies unmanned aerial surveying systems, photogrammetric software and more. Konstantin Chainikov, fourth-year bachelor student, Ural Federal University, Ekaterinburg I took part in last year’s competition, but in a different educational track. I decided to choose another one this year because robotics is more closely related to my major. I’…
19.02.2019
Brussels, Prague and Rio de Janeiro: Exchange Students Share Their Experiences
…nk whose ATM you’re using. Sofia Butonova: University of Chemistry and Technology, Prague, the Czech Republic When I was choosing where to go on exchange, my main criterion was its location. It was important to me that the university would be in a major city. I’ve spoken to Europeans who study in small towns and they all said that living there can be a bit …
19.02.2019
Ex-Executive Director of Nobel Foundation Michael Sohlman: How to Win the Nobel Prize
…’s discovery of penicillin. In 1928, Alexander Fleming was carrying out an experiment as part of a several-year study on staphylococci. As he was growing colonies of bacteria, he found that some of his dishes had been taken over by the Penicillium mold, the same fungus that turns stale bread green. Around each spot of mold, Fleming noticed an absence of bac
18.02.2019
Project by ITMO Robotics Team Named Best at Baltic Science and Engineering Competition
…. “After the initial concept was decided on, we started looking for different options to implement it. The solution arose from ITMO University’s Chem-Bio Cluster: professor Ekaterina Skorb told us about the Soft Robotics technology, and the staff gave us small samples to play with. We took inspiration from that advice but did everything on our own after that. The cap…
15.02.2019
Dmitri Mendeleev: Everything You Need to Know About the Inventor of Periodic Table
…lectricity, magnetism, gravity and chemical reactions, so that was a task and a half! If Mendeleev had cracked the world ether problem, he would have gotten the keys to all mysterium cosmographicum, cosmic mysteries. His idea was simple: take a tube, completely suck it of air, and you’ll be left with world ether in all of its mys…
14.02.2019
Green Building: Putting Sustainable Development Into Practice
…ecause this first notion had somewhat of a baggage. Green building existed in the USSR, but more in the form of landscaping solutions. The experts also determined the three criteria of eco-construction. The first is resource-effective construction. Resource effectiveness encompasses all resources used for the construction and management of a building, time include…
13.02.2019
Over 300 Students From 14 Universities Compete for Potanin Scholarship at ITMO
…as the only venue to host the onsite round in St. Petersburg, with over 360 Master’s students from local universities, as well as from those of Moscow, Kazan, Krasnoyarsk, Yekaterinburg and Chelyabinsk competing on its premises in the course of three days, February 4, 6, and 8. Represented by the participants were Peter the Great St. Petersburg Polytechnic University…
12.02.2019
ITMO Open Science at Erarta: From MegaBattle to Open Talk
…lts of his research into quantum communications for cyber-physical systems; Sergey Makarov, Head of Laboratory of Hybrid Nanophotonics and Optoelectronics, shared about what material is equally suitable for a solar cell, a lamp, and a nanolaser, while Elena Koshel, an Associate Professor at ITMO’s Chem-Bio Cluster, talked about how to survive after the ‘microbial apo…
11.02.2019
Mendeleev 150, MedChem 2019, and Marnikov Congress: the International Year of the Period Table in Russia
…EUR, which is a whopping 80% discount as compared to the regular 150-175 EUR fee. The application deadline for participants is March 26. MedChem Russian Federation 2019, Ekaterinburg, June 9-14, 2019 The 4th Russian Conference on Medical Chemistry will be held at the Yeltsin Ural Federal University and Mikheev Institute of Metal Physics. MedChem Russia conf…
11.02.2019