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This Weekend in St. Petersburg: July 20-21
…k will soon be turned into the magnificent kingdom of flowers! This year’s Imperial Bouquet Festival is dedicated to the celebration of the Year of Theater in Russia. Take a stroll through the park, gaze at exquisite floral sculptures, paintings, art objects and even dresses made of flowers by local florists, participate in a Venetian carnival, watch plays performed …
17.07.2019
ITMO Researchers Discover New Properties of Terahertz Radiation
…timeters. This property of terahertz radiation is successfully used in cancer diagnostics. Apart from that, this type of radiation can be used for ensuring safety, quality control of food and drugs, and scanning luggage and people in airports. There are many research groups at ITMO’s Faculty of Photonics and Optical Information that do research into terahertz radi…
17.07.2019
Participants of ITMO Summer School on Topological Photonics on the Latest Trends in the Field
…e of topics, this school focused solely on topological photonics, a rapidly emerging field of research in which geometrical and topological ideas are applied to design and control the behavior of light. “It took us quite a long time to come up with the topic for this year’s Summer School. First, we looked at what competencies we had in our Center. Second, we att…
16.07.2019
ITMO Master’s Student on Internship in Israel and a New Cancer Treatment Method
…out modern research conducted in this field. At the moment, there are several treatment methods being developed to fight cancer. One of them suggests using special tetrapyrrole molecules capable of destroying cancer tumors. A great example of such combinations is chlorin e6. When exposed to light and oxygen, it generates one of the most active forms of oxygen, si…
15.07.2019
ITMO University at World Conference of Science Journalists
…nference of Science Journalists in Lausanne are climate change, questions related to the CRISPR/Cas9 method, fake news in science, interaction with audiences, promotion of the role of press officers in scientific organizations, YouTube’s impact on science journalism, visualization of scientific data, and many others. “The main idea of this conference is to bri…
12.07.2019
The Planets by Prof Brian Cox: The Actual Best
…Planets begins on a very high note with A Moment in the Sun, an overview of space would-have-beens, a poetic, but at the same time profoundly scientific, essay on the wondrous role of chance and circumstance in the formation of our Solar System and the fate of its inhabitants. Together with our sagacious guide Prof Brian “Brain, More Like” Cox, we hop from one planet…
12.07.2019
Historian Sergey Kuznetsov on the Stroganovs, Their Connection to ITMO, and History of Entrepreneurship in Russia
…oganovs? The Stroganov dynasty gave rise to many brilliant entrepreneurs. For one, a 16th-century representative of the family, Anika Fedorovich Stroganov, set the ball rolling on a successful salt manufacturing venture, after which he and other members of the family continued the innovative technology chain. It consisted of producing salt, packaging it, trans…
11.07.2019
International Journalists on Russian Science and Future of the Science Communication Community
…utely sure that now is the time of international cooperation that allows us to quickly transport knowledge and competencies around the world. Associations play an important role in the development of the community of science communicators and journalists. In France we have the Association of Science Journalists that regularly conducts events for science journalist…
09.07.2019
International Competitions, Research, and Conferences: the First Year of ITMO.STARS
…ability in the VK social network In his first year at ITMO: switched to a tuition-free position and became a regular participant of Capture the Flag competitions I enrolled a year earlier than the rest of ITMO.STARS initiative's first batch of winners, so I was a trailblazer of sorts. To me, the second year of studies was the most productive; I became more …
08.07.2019
ITMO University Takes Second Place at RoboCup 2019
…Prior to going to Australia, the members of the Youth Robotics Laboratory of ITMO University’s School of Computer Technologies and Control (Vasily Dunaev, Dmitry Kharlapenko, Maxim Mikhailov, Daniil Nechaev and Levon Pogosov) took the second prize at RoboCup Open Russia, the national round of RoboCup 2019 competition held in Tomsk. Though first place went to another …
08.07.2019