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• Campus Festival: Why Data Science Is All Around Us And Why Memes Are Folklore?

  …me context which is incomplete and to be finalized by the user. A popular example in Russia would be the popular meme with a person standing in a swamp; one can add various explanations to the picture, like “When I start cramming for exams” or “when I start to clean up” - such memes always imply having some written message. A strange type of meme is a meme based o…

  02.11.2017

• Kinda Science: Festival of Absurd and Bizarre Ideas

  …long as it’s presented in a formal manner. The comic served as an inspiration for Weinersmith’s brainchild BAHFest, an event where unlikely theories with even more unlikely explanations are presented as serious academic research. Authors of the most bizarre hypotheses are awarded with statues of Charles Darwin looking doubtful and of alchemist Hennig Brand boiling hi…

  02.11.2017

• What It Means to Be an Architect in 21st Century

  … provide them with a proper work statement. Being present at the site every day is, too, a duty of an architect. They must not leave the workers nor the citizens without explanations as to what they should await.…

  10.10.2017

• How Music Affects Our Brain

  …o experience a strange satisfaction after they’ve emotionally reacted to tragic art, be it music, cinema, paintings or others. Japanese psychologists have proposed that the explanation for this phenomenon is due to how people associate sadness with romantic feelings. Besides that, sad music is not seen as a threat to the organism, but as a way to relieve psychologica…

  20.09.2017

• How to Make the Perfect User Interface

  …The main requirement was to create a kind of basis for a future product and develop scenarios for interaction between users and the interface, as well as to provide logical explanations for the inclusion of each element. “It’s impossible to develop and finalize an interface in a day, just like it’s impossible to acquire a new skill in four days. To become an exp…

  11.09.2017

• Life in World of Resonances

  …or? In 1935, Hans Beutler observed asymmetric lineshapes in the absorption spectra of noble gases. The same year, Ugo Fano, a young pupil of Enrico Fermi, offered an explanation of this effect which he based on the superposition principle of quantum mechanics. He developed this idea in his famous paper in 1961, which became the most cited article in the second…

  01.09.2017

• ITMO’s Russian Language Summer School: Gaining New Experiences

  …ambassador in Georgia which requires a high level of Russian. Steffi Caroline (Indonesia): I was exposed to some Russian songs, and I read a book about Ukraine from Svetlana Alexievich, called “Voices from Chernobyl”, but also I adore Putin, he’s very masculine and sticks to what he says rather than just following the majority. Luca Brusadin (Italy): My mot…

  28.07.2017

• ITMO Scientists Receive Russian Science Foundation Grants

  …resonators, but this method is only viable at the experimental stage and in some particular applications. Another way of controlling the emission properties of NV- centers in planar optical integrated circuits is by placing them in proximity of an optical wave-guide; this method will be used in the aforementioned project. In certain conditions, this configuration all…

  19.07.2017

• ITMO Enters Medialogia's Universities Media-Ranking

  …did its best to make sure that our triumph at ACM ICPC remained relevant for as long as possible. Prior to the Finals, we sent out event information where we provided vivid explanations:  the topic is not a familiar one for Russian mass media; few people understand what collegiate programming is. So we decided to draw a comparison between the Contest and the Olympic …

  12.07.2017

• ITMO Scientists Develop New Polymer Holograms

  …n the stencil plate with the hologram is transferred on a metal template, which can then be used to emboss microreliefs on different items' surfaces. This is quite crude an explanation of how the holograms work, yet it explains the operating principle: when we look at the hologram from different sides, we see the same reflected light we would've seen if we were to lo…

  27.06.2017