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This Stay-at-Home Weekend in St. Petersburg: Virtual Travel
…ng desert panoramas with this interactive tour. And if this hasn’t quite quenched your thirst for knowledge, here are five other virtual tours of Egyptian heritage sites, a vast collection of resources of Harvard University’s The Giza Project, as well as a 360-degree walk-through video of the great pyramids of Egypt. Petra, Jordan A historical and archaeol…
10.06.2020
Digital Science: IT Solutions for Academic Writing
…hose for whom English is not a native language. Writeful’s machine learning algorithm was trained on an immense amount of published articles in all fields of knowledge. Its key function is to check whether a text corresponds with the principles of English academic writing, and offer replacement options for the elements which don’t. Relevant reading: How to Wr…
10.06.2020
Scientific Seminars by ITMO’s Faculty of Physics and Engineering Are Now Available Online
…ecordings gather hundreds of views, which is a significant audience for the field of theoretical and experimental physics. It’s therefore not surprising that after the pandemic restrictions are lifted and students and staff return to work onsite, the online broadcasts and recordings of the meetings will still carry on. In particular, there is a series of seminars…
09.06.2020
International Summer Schools You Can Apply for in June
…tion: a course on Chinese culture, economics, scientific and technological potential, as well as on the country’s recovery after the pandemic. The course is divided into four major sections: Understanding China, China’s Economic Development under the Pandemic, Introduction to the Development of Science and Technology in China, and Chine…
09.06.2020
International Double-Degree Master’s Programs at ITMO University
… Biotechnical Systems Business Information Systems with University of Rostock (Germany) Information Security with Aalto University (Finland) Industrial Ecology and Cleaner Production with Zittau/Görlitz University of Applied Sciences (Germany) This type of studies is also very attractive to students thanks to the cultural aspect of it, being able to acqui…
09.06.2020
Speak like a Russian: Cat Words
Scientists Create Smallest Semiconductor Laser That Works in Visible Range at Room Temperature
…matically in the green part of the spectrum. This problem complicates the development of room temperature nanolasers made of conventional semiconductor materials.” Material selection The green gap problem hindered the creation of small green lasers based on metal-dielectric technology which has been successfully used in the creation of subwavelength lasers t…
08.06.2020
ITMO University Scientists Work on New Properties for Bread and Beer
…used in baking is of the Saccharomyces cerevisiae kind. The same microorganisms are what helps wort to ferment, making it into beer. But what if yeast, while keeping these functions, would also be able to give products new properties? Is it possible to pick a yeast strain that would prevent bread from spoiling prematurely? ITMO University researchers have sug…
08.06.2020
We Made It in the Spirit of Apple: Former ITMO Student on Revolutionary Translator App
…the plans for its future development. Live in the future and do what is missing Tell us about your app. How is it different from hundreds of other translator apps? It’s a dictionary and a translator with brand new mechanics. Here’s how it works: you point at a word that you don’t know with your finger, show it to your camera, and see the translation on the …
08.06.2020
ITMO Staff Visit University of Toronto as Part of Megagrant Research Project
…In 2019, ITMO University’s SCAMT Lab received a so-called megagrant for purposes of developing functional materials. The prominent scientist Eugenia Kumacheva, currently a professor at the University of Toronto, stepped in as the project’s international partner. According to the staff of SCAMT, the combination of Russian scientists’ efforts, Kumacheva’s expertise, an…
05.06.2020