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• Scientists Develop Nanodiamond-based Controllable Light Source

  … found that their radiation can be enhanced by combining the NV-center luminescence spectrum with optical Mie resonances of diamond nanoparticles. This can be achieved at a certain position of the NV-center and the appropriate particle size. This way one can increase the nanodiamond’s Purcell factor. This indicator is used to estimate how a diamond shell affects the …

  27.04.2018

• High School Students Present Their Research at VII Congress of Young Scientists

  … would've liked to continue doing research in this field, i.e. my work for the congress will serve as a foundation for my future plans. Margarita Seleznyova, Ecology and Sustainable Development section For my project, I analyzed the main sources of pollution, as well as the automatic data systems that are used for controlling it. As the results of my project, I…

  26.04.2018

• Open Letter to Presidential Adviser on Internet from ITMO University’s Rector

  …, and undercuts its position on the global education market. The measures taken by Roskomnadzor against the aforementioned companies have made it significantly harder to maintain communication between our scientists and their international colleagues. Collaborative work on documents relevant to numerous international research projects is paralyzed or greatly impede…

  26.04.2018

• From Russia with Gifts: Best Places to Look for Souvenirs

  …e can be a huge help. Another type of shop you should consider are specialized stores that focus on a particular kind of items; for instance, there are company stores of certain manufacturers, like those of St. Petersburg’s Imperial Porcelain Factory or the Pavlovo Posad Shawl Manufactory, which are basically the best places you can get these original souvenirs fr…

  24.04.2018

• School Student Does Research on Holographic Paradigm of Artificial Intelligence

  … example. In the subway, they use security cameras featuring face recognition. It would’ve been nice if they could recognize faces based on one’s overall image and not just certain features: this way, even if someone shaves off their moustache, for instance,  or puts on a hat, the face would still get recognized based on the form of their nose, ears, cheekbones. This…

  24.04.2018

• Physicists Discover Way to Control Transitions Between States of Matter

  …t ITMO University in St Petersburg. The group, which included Professor Maurice Skolnick, Dr. Dmitry Krizhanovskii and Dr. Maksym Sich from the University of Sheffield, obtained the experimental data, while the theoretical group, led by Ivan Shelykh, developed a theoretical model for quantitative description of the experiment. “First we had to create polari…

  24.04.2018

• InnoJam: Students Help Develop Smart Solutions for ITMO’s New Campus

  …lp introduce project work into the educational process, including as part of course papers and theses. “For this InnoJam, we decided to support the United Nations’ sustainable development initiative, namely the Goal 9, which concerns infrastructure, industrialization, and innovation; smart products can’t exist separately from sustain<…

  23.04.2018

• “Vzlet” Hackathon: Students to Help Mobile Providers Enter eSport Market

  … yet another novelty proposed by the team). The students also came up with the idea of a new “Cybersport” service plan for Megafon that offers an unlimited access to such entertainment platforms as Youtube and Instagram, as well as optimal SMS and minute bundles. The users will also get access to a premium account and private tournaments. Also, the students’ plan…

  23.04.2018

• Smart St. Petersburg: Citizens Will Help Shape the City’s Future

  …nce, efficiency, and benefit for the citizens. It is also important to note that the pool of experts will be constantly growing in order to minimize the risk of fraud, when certain projects are evaluated by people who can benefit from their realization. Of course, there’s still a risk of fraud when it comes to counting public votes, but this has more to do with infor…

  23.04.2018

• 5 Science News Now

  …t “marsquakes.” New microscope captures detailed images and 3D videos on cellular and subcellular level. Astronomers developed a "guide star" adaptive optics technique to obtain the most crystal-clear and precise telescopic images of distant galaxies, stars and planets. Now a team of scientists are borrowing the very same trick. They've combined it with lattice li…

  23.04.2018