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• Scientists Propose Tractor Beam Concept to Capture Particles Using Light

  …Tractor beams are familiar to many thanks to the Star Wars and Star Trek franchises, as well as the countless images of a UFO kidnapping a cow. However, scientists have yet to create such rays in reality, and there are already several ways to make objects move towards a source of light. So far, however, these objects are represented by small particles and atoms inste…

  27.11.2018

• 2018 Student of the Year Winners on Students’ Unions, Science, and Buddy Program

  …at next year we’ll go even further, and in some five years, we’ll have awards in every nominated category. We have already earned awards for volunteering, students’ unions and science. Only a few categories are left. What do you think about the student government at ITMO? In my opinion, our student government is one of the best in Russia. We don’t look at o…

  27.11.2018

• Pop-Science Cinema at ITMO University

  …The Days of Science Cinema is not a conventional film festival, but a non-profit social project. Any independent organization, be it a library, a contemporary art gallery, or a creative cluster, can join it. It’s up to participants to choose movies out of the 20 films present in the festival’s program. All the movies focus on the most topical issues of scientists and doctors can characterize the composition and balance of intestinal microflora and draw conclusions about its contribution to health of cohorts. Moreover, this method can be used …

  26.11.2018

• Andrey Breslav on Kotlin, Time-Management, and Being a Programmer

  …st launched this floppy disk and sat there staring at the computer display. But then I remembered that somewhere around the house, there was an old Soviet textbook on computer science which may have had something to help me in my predicament. I digged it up, flicked it through, and found a whopping two pages on Basic. That alone could have hardly been enough, but luc…

  26.11.2018

• I am a Professional: Qualification Round Starts with Over Half a Million Participants in the Game

  …gistrations are accounted for by students aged between 19 to 21 years old. “For the second year in a row, the majority of applications is for social, economic and natural science competition tracks. Interestingly, there’s also been a twofold increase in the popularity of IT tracks compared to last year; they now account for over 65,000 applications submitted,” c…

  23.11.2018

• KonFest 2018: Experts on Development of K2B Market

  … example for it from Canadian agriculture. Developers wanted to teach a machine to identify sheep on pictures and showed it some hundred thousand images. Then they conducted a scientific investigation in order to uncover what exactly the machine learned. It turned out that it learned to recognize the beautiful landscapes from the backgrounds and not the sheep. Art…

  23.11.2018

• Voting Begins as ITMO Highpark Exhibition Opens in St. Petersburg

  …ingdom) A&M has a lot of experience with cultural, educational, public and residential projects. The highlights of their portfolio include master plans for universities and scientific centers such as Girton College (Cambridge, UK), Nalanda University (India) and others. Concept design Presentation  BUSarchitektur (Austria) This architectural bureau has…

  22.11.2018

• Scientists Designed Nanocontainers for Bacterial Metabolism Control

  …The problem of bacterial resistance to antibiotics is becoming increasingly important, so scientists are constantly looking for alternative ways to influence the metabolism of microorganisms. For example, researchers are now trying to control bacteria by physical means, such as exposure to light. Members of ITMO University’s SCAMT laboratory suggest using special lig…

  22.11.2018

• Beautiful Physics: ITMO Scientist Wins Award of Wikipedia’s Science Photo Competition

  …About the contest Organized by Wikimedia RU together with the scientific TV channel Nauka, Science Photo Competition is a scientific photography and illustration contest which was taking place from July 15 to October 2, 2018. Its main goal was to promote science and discov…

  22.11.2018