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School for Young Scientists: ITMO University Hosts PI School by SCAMT
…mmunication, promptly put together teams, look for funding, and negotiate with industrial partners,” says Vladimir Vinogradov, one of the school’s organizers and head of SCAMT Institute at ITMO University. “These aren’t our typical lab heads but principal investigators (PIs). The school aims to demonstrate how these new specialists can work in Russia. Our experience …
15.04.2021
ITMO Holds First Stage of Its Physics Contest for School Students
…ime that ITMO University holds a physics contest for senior school students. This year, the defining feature of all contest tasks is their relevance to contemporary research – instead of abstract concepts, they will focus on topics like composite materials, LED, 5G, and MRI. Online round The contest will be held in two stages. The first online stage will have …
14.04.2021
ICPC Semifinal Winners On Training for The Final and Life After Programming Contests
…e from the other teams are those who you spend most of your time with. Anyway, you only compete directly with them in the semifinal – at other stages, we are also competing against every other university. When will the final take place? Nikolay Budin: Unfortunately, we don’t know that yet. Last year’s final had been planned for June, 2020 but was postponed a…
14.04.2021
Lighting Design Expert on Light in Culture
…g designers are, what they can contribute to a project, how this industry operates, its values and significance in the context of cultural differences, the role of light as an instrument of experimental modeling in art, architecture and design, discussed the issues of the lighting environment of a city: person – society – culture, and so on. The key goal was to give …
13.04.2021
Mind-Blowing Research of the Month: Exploring the Deep Sea
…ng bodies. If we ignore the difficulties of surviving under extended pressure, we can even consider these environments peaceful and calming. A kind of tiny galaxy hidden right inside our planet. Surprisingly to those of us who believe that the deep sea is home to giant monsters, it's the smaller creatures who thrive here because they can adapt to limited food res…
13.04.2021
ITMO Students Win Moscow Travel Hack for Second Year in Row
…gy. “Together with another team member Mikhail Ershov, we participated in the Moscow Travel Hack for the second time and have been long engaged in such activities,” explains Alexander Blashenkov. “In 2019, we came up with our own strategy at the VK hackathon. When both of us are in charge of codes, the work goes faster. This time, we have a new member, Alexande…
13.04.2021
Introducing ITMO’s New School of Physics and Engineering
…y-made devices, as well as interaction with industrial partners. The Faculty of Nanoelectronics will focus on strengthening the existing and developing new ties with the Ioffe Institute in both fundamental and applied fields. Many employees from the Institute are part of the school, so this is yet another proof of the tied collaboration…
12.04.2021
Picture of the Week: Lithium Niobate Crystal
…uent movement of the domain wall. A domain wall is an area with an interruption of the order of the crystalline lattice along which the contact of two differently directed domains takes place. Such areas can hold mobile charges. In the image, the bright “arrows” characterise areas with strong charges that accumulate on the edges of domain walls. The research on th…
12.04.2021
Top Places To Learn About Space in St. Petersburg
…n 2017, but in these few years it has managed to become one of the most popular venues in St. Petersburg. Its very location – a massive former gas holder – is very impressive. Inside its massive hall, visitors can lounge in bean bags and enjoy high-quality films about space as they’re projected onto the huge (37 meters in diameter – the biggest in the world!) domed c…
12.04.2021
The New Things We’re Trying This Spring
…own Mother Russia. I can’t say for sure what it’s going to be – a baby step to visiting some of St. Petersburg suburbs on a weekend or a grand week-long tour to the Ural Mountains, depends on how lucky and productive I will be. But I believe it’s a high time to discover and rediscover many-sided Russia not through YouTube videos, but through first-hand experience, le…
09.04.2021