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• Get Outside: Socially Distanced Activities in St. Petersburg

  …ood, and the Hermitage. For a romantic sunset, take your SUP out to Lake Lakhta and enjoy the views of the Lakhta Center skyscraper amidst the greenery. Some companies offer instruction and rentals and some also offer small group tours or can set you up with a custom trip. Rent a bike Not quite ready to take to the water? They say you can’t forget how to rid…

  18.08.2020

• ITMO.GREEN Club Holds Online Ecohabits Camp

  …y shopping using your own bags and containers instead of disposable ones. I used to think “If others don’t care about the environment, why should I?” but now I realize that every action of every person counts. By changing our habits, we can actually help the environment a lot. The main thing is to begin. For example, try riding a bicycle more often instead of publ…

  18.08.2020

• Gold Changes Light: Scientists Find Optimal Nanoparticle Shape for Controlling Color

  …d laser light. We use a thin gold film on a glass substrate and focused femtosecond laser pulses. Thanks to the high intensity of the pulse and the extreme rate of heating, a small section of the film of several hundred nanometers in size turns into liquid and, as a result of hydrodynamic and acoustic processes, locally detaches   from the substrate. By controlling t…

  18.08.2020

• 5 Russian Architectural Wonders You Didn’t Know Existed

  …centers in the Ural region. The Tower itself came into being because of the factory and the residential areas of its workers located nearby. Made from reinforced concrete, the construction was fairly light while its style and appearance served as inspiration for other adepts of Constructivism in the later years. In the 60s, the tower fell into oblivion and was left t…

  17.08.2020

• Lasers for Medicine: ITMO and Partners Work on Improving Medical Titanium Alloys’ Biocompatibility

  …rnational Laboratory “Laser Micro- and Nanotechnologies”, professor Vadim Veiko. Among other organizations involved in the project are the Lenmiriot plant that focuses on the production of prosthetic components, the ORTOS dental milling center, First Pavlov State Medical University of St. Petersburg, Institute of Problems of Chemical Physics of the Russian Academy…

  17.08.2020

• Everyone Has an Aggio: ITMO University Graduates Create ERP Planning Software

  …ting with other startups,” explains Gor Karapetyan.  Custom products vs universally applicable ERP systems  Any system (ERP, CRM, telecom) ideally has a number of core functions and a general purpose but is actually developed for a particular company. Obviously, while ensuring the system’s maximum quality, this makes it fairly expensive.  “Not every …

  17.08.2020

• ITMO University Retains Its Position in Academic Ranking of World Universities

  …The ARWU (Academic Ranking of World Universities) has been published by ShanghaiRanking Consultancy for the past 17 years. Due to its transparent selection criteria, it is described as one of the most objective and prestigious global university rankings, along with the rankings compiled by QS World University Rankings and Times Higher Education. The ARWU ranking h…

  15.08.2020

• ITMO Team Joins the Silver League of Google’s Anti-Cyberbullying Competition

  … where they could discuss various approaches right during the tournament. Even though this was the ITMO team’s first time at the competition, it quickly rose into the silver section of the leaderboard, in which the top 5% of the teams are located. “Transformers are heavily dependent on how their training started and in which order the data was fed to them…

  14.08.2020

• Reject All Labels: ITMO Master’s Student Finds Way to Make PET Plastic Production Eco-Friendly

  … preform using a pulsed laser. ITMO.NEWS chatted to Ulyana about the new technology, the prospects of its integration, and its effects on the environmental aspects of plastic production and recycling. Can you tell us what makes this invention so unique? The technology is based on the introduction of metal nanoparticles into the…

  13.08.2020

• Scientists Develop a Better Yogurt with Chia Seeds

  …y quickly get oxidized. It means that it’s harder to use them as a food additive. ITMO University scientists proved that it makes more sense to use chia seeds in dairy products’ production. These conclusions are described in a recently published scientific paper called Rheological and Physical Chemical Properties of Yogurt with Oat-Chia Seeds Composites by Denis B…

  13.08.2020