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• ITMO Scientists Review 2D Heterostructure Architectures

  …boast a significant increase in the nanocrystals' properties. For instance, one of their most important features is the possibility of a spatial separation of charge carriers between the core and shell materials, which provides for controlling the nanostructures' optical properties on a high level. What's more, heterostructures allow the use of optical, electrical, a…

  04.10.2017

• Relocation Tips: Winter is Coming! What to wear if IKEA rugs is not your style?

  … St. Petersburg are “windy” and “wet”. In winter months, the temperature can vary from +5 to -30 degrees Celsius (41 to -22 Fahrenheit); for the most part, it stays somewhere between -5 and 0. But wind and humidity can sometimes make you feel like you are at the North Pole. So here are a few ideas for how to dress to feel great during a typical Russian winter. …

  04.10.2017

• TADHack 2017: ITMO Students Finish Third with Tourism App

  …a route to the location of a user’s “new friend”. “In the current state of the app that we’ve developed during the hackathon, we’ve only managed to establish connections between pairs of users; however, we plan to add ways to form larger groups. In other words, users can assemble groups of like-minded people and bring them together,” – explains Ilya Kokorin. …

  04.10.2017

• Digital Humanities: Digitizing History

  …esearch in the field of Digital Humanities in the middle of 20th century and new projects dedicated to different phenomena: from social media to digitalization of museums and network analysis of literature. Other major conferences are the International Conference of the History and Computer association and the annual EVA 2017 Saint Petersburg, Electronic Imaging &…

  04.10.2017

• Urbanist Dhiru Thadani: to Improve Cities, We Must Focus on People

  …ut the elderly. A large land area of a city is, no doubt, a huge advantage – but it is important to use it more effectively, and, in particular, pay attention to the space between buildings. After all, opportunities for leisurely activity should be created not only inside buildings, but outside, as well. At Dhiru Thadani's lecture at ITMO University At thi…

  03.10.2017

• Urban Evolution: Artists, Journalists and CEOs Discuss Future of St. Petersburg

• Blogger Boris Tsatsulin on Science Writing, Kamchatka and Memes

  …. They just raise awareness, like news headlines. Yet, if the goal of the project is to raise the literacy in what has to do with the subject, memes and short posts in social networks can only remind people about the problem, nothing more. In cases when you have to give people the information they continuously use in their real lives - yes, the video format is the be…

  02.10.2017

• Internet Day: How Internet Started in Russia and What’s with the Dish on ITMO”s Roof?

  …nd sent invitations to companies and organizations to conduct a type of ‘sensus” of the Runet - Russian Internet - population. At the time the Russian-language segment of the network already had about a million users. Today the Internet is used by over 87 million Russians - over 70% of the country. It’s, of course, impossible to pinpoint the exact date when Intern…

  30.09.2017

• "HOW should I trust?" - Thomas Leitch on Fake News

  …e ideas, yet I think that we have to focus on more pressing concerns and get to the root of the problem: why the upsurge of fake news even came to be, and how can one discern between fake news and real news? Donald Trump News is not some aggregate of undeniable facts We often wonder how fake news is created, forget about the other issue - how they are consum…

  29.09.2017

• ITMO won Silver "Dolphin" at the Cannes Corporate Media and TV awards

  …amous advertisement festivals held here. Traditionally, people working in the video production industry gather at Cannes. This is a good atmosphere for informal communication between professionals in the field, great for inspiration. This time the festival was awarded to 174 "dolphins". We had a unique opportunity to see all the videos in the competition - a huge num…

  29.09.2017