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• Mendeleev 150: IUPAC’s Birthday and Invention of Periodic Law

  …clature and terminology; the union’s staff are responsible for establishing the standards of methodology, atomic weight, and other crucial values. In addition, IUPAC publishes scientific reports and books and assists in the organization of major chemical conferences, Mendeleev 150 being one such event. This year, the organization has turned 100 years old. “IUPAC…

  02.08.2019

• Recognize Me If You Can: Can Facial Recognition Systems Really Tell How We Feel?

  …ior by tracking patterns that are unnoticeable with the naked eye. Nevertheless, psychologists note that this issue is much more complex than it seems, and there’s no solid scientific evidence of software being able to identify a person’s emotional state based on their face. A recent study conducted for the American Association for Psychological scientists have worked to discover where each of the 118 elements had come from. Within the first 15 minutes after the Big Bang, hydrogen atoms combined with a cloud of “newborn” particles, whi…

  01.08.2019

• Camp in Programming: Intense Problem-Solving

  …Het Dilipkumar Patel, Suraj Gehlot and Parekh Hardev are majoring in Computer Science at Parul University in India. From Venezuela, Allan Zea is in the process of transferring to a university in Berlin. Despite the cold and rainy weather, the students came in smiling brightly and feeling excited.  Students from Parul University found out about the program throug…

  01.08.2019

• ITMO University Presents Its 2018 Annual Report

  … ITMO.TECH: the development of entrepreneurial culture and innovations at ITMO; ITMO.FAMILY: the community, public events, and campaigns; ITMO the “First Non-Classical”: science stand-up show Quantum Potential, summer festivals, and the new Telegram sticker pack; Financial Report: research revenue, an expenses breakdown, and more. The report’s introducto…

  31.07.2019

• Baikal: Fighting for the Future of World’s Deepest Lake

  …p waste into the water. On January 13, 2010, then-Prime Minister Vladimir Putin signed a decree allowing the dumping of waste into Baikal. The plant finally closed in 2013. Scientific opinion In June of 2019, head of the Limnological Institute of the SB RAS Andrei Fedotov declared that the water in Baikal has become undrinkable. According to the science fiction was still a novel genre in Russia, and the authors who gave it a go were few and very different. For this reason, their works deal with a wide range of topics, stand apart from …

  30.07.2019

• Summer Edition of Webometrics 2019: ITMO University in Top-5 Russian Universities

  …ranking’s methodology centers on the analysis of the universities’ presence in the global information space, thus providing for an indirect evaluation of their educational and scientific achievements. Its results have been published since 2004 every six months, at the end of January and at the end of July. The authors conduct their comprehensive assessment by way of …

  30.07.2019

• MIT Professor Marin Soljacic: AI Will Play a Large Role in the Future of Research

  … electromagnetism research. But there is another topic you’ve been exploring in recent years, and it is that of photonic crystals. What makes these materials so interesting to scientists? From the perspective of physics, there exists a close similarity between the propagation of photons in photonic crystals and the movement of electrons in semiconductors. In other…

  30.07.2019

• ITMO University and United Investors Syndicate Launch a Joint Program Univest

  … selected by experts from ITMO University and United Investors. Univest will become a platform for activating the exchange and development of partner relationships between the scientific community and investors.  Founded this year, the United Investors syndicate, with the participation of venture industry-recognized thought leaders, is willing to provide expert an…

  29.07.2019