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• Novgorod State University Hosts ITMO.REGIONS Innovation Weekend

  …tical terms, for example, explaining what is knowledge-based economy, technology transfer, import phaseout. This theoretical debrief was also sustained by the related Russian laws and regulations as we realized that specialists often struggle with different legislative interpretations, which impedes them in their work. Our second and main emphasis was on researchers’…

  11.10.2018

• Movie Fridays: The Autumn Showdown

  …itically-acclaimed maverick South Korean director Park Chan-wook, and John le Carré himself weighing in as an exclusive producer, we’re right to expect miracles. The show draws on le Carré’s emblem motif of a layman (laywoman, in this case) embroiled in an explosive spy affair. Following a discovery that her holiday romance Becker (Alexander Skarsgård) is in reali…

  05.10.2018

• The Nobel Prize in Physics 2018: World-Changing Inventions

  … Prize recipients. 17 world-class researchers made it to the Clarivate Analytics’s list. Among the possible Nobel Prize laureates in Physics were such researchers as: David Awschalom from the University of Chicago (the USA) and Arthur Gossard from the  University of California (the USA), for observation of the spin Hall effect in semiconductors; Sandra Faber fr…

  05.10.2018

• Password-Protected Labs on the Red Sea Shore: KAUST Photonics Summer School

  … as possible about the distinctive features of the place we found ourselves in. The first week of the school was spent on familiarizing us with the university staff and local laws, some of which were rather unusual. For example, we were surprised to learn that in Saudi Arabia it is forbidden to talk about religion, hostile neighboring states, alcohol, and lots of oth…

  14.09.2018

• Disability and Accessible Environment: Participants of Exchange Program on Japan’s Best Practices

  …lities and employ people from this category. Those who don’t comply with these rules have to pay fines; they also have a special organization that supervises the execution of laws that have to do with employing handicapped people. Andrei Zlenko: What’s more, any activities aimed at helping people with disabilities get financial support from the government. For ins…

  07.09.2018

• Internship at MIT: Active Learning, Virtual Reality, and Entrepreneurial Skills

  …ories, including the one specializing in virtual reality technologies in education. The teachers were demonstrated a VR application which can be used to study the fundamental laws of physics.  According to the laboratory experts, developing a VR educational system doesn’t take long, but some special equipment is needed to implement such technology on a mass scale. …

  07.09.2018

• Scientists Create Antilaser for Bose-Einstein Condensate of Ultracold Atoms

  …of matter waves. Strong repulsive interactions between the condensed atoms induce nonlinear properties in the system. For example, the interaction of waves ceases to obey the laws of linear interference. To "catch" the condensate, scientists use a periodic optical trap formed by the intersection of two laser beams. A focused electron beam applied to the central ce…

  20.08.2018

• Schrödinger’s Paradox and Doctor Faustus’ Lab: the Many Faces of “Gatchina Light Nights”

  …by the Russian Engineering Theater visionaries Vadim Gololobov, Nick Khamov, and Yury Galkin, this project featured kinetic objects, each functioning on its own idiosyncratic laws, and it was the audience’s role to establish them. In addition to that, Nick Khamov and Yury Galkin decided to up their game by creating a performance installation called “Faustus 3.2 LABOR…

  15.08.2018

• This Weekend in St. Petersburg: August 4-5

  …h entertainment and some food for thought, displaying an array of essay-like movie reflections on modern art, culture, and society. This weekend’s program includes Saturday’s Dawson City: Frozen Time, in which a story about the Gold Rush is intertwined with the history of cinematography, and Sunday’s Austerlitz, a documentary chronicle on how the Nazi concentration c…

  01.08.2018

• ITMO Young Scientists Win BASIS Foundation Grants For Physics and Maths Research

  …r optical cavities. Such a prognosis contradicts common intuition, as the emergence of bound states usually implies the involvement of attraction, but still complies with the laws of physics. With support from the BASIS foundation, Maxim Gorlach plans to initiate experimental research in this field. This year, 19 young Russian researchers won grants in the “Ph…

  26.07.2018