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• That Blockchain Life: Cryptocurrency Experts on Field’s Challenges and Opportunities

  …Vladimir Demin, scientist and inventor in the field of IT, Advisor to the Chairman of Vnesheconombank The challenges standing before our crypto community are the same as they were a year ago. The first is the extremely low level of tech literacy among government officials, our main customers. According to some estimates, about 70-80% of the Russian economy is acco…

  14.11.2018

• ITMO Student Picked as Torchbearer of 2019 Winter Universiade

  …f Physical Education, Sport and Health to meet the governor of St. Petersburg, Universiade officials, and famous athletes. How do you feel about the stereotypical notion of scientists as this sort of lab hermits who never get out and are averse to sports and working out? This is indeed a thing. It’s true, I do spend my days working at the lab, writing my thesis…

  14.11.2018

• Physicists Discover New Way of Resonance Tuning for Nonlinear Optics

  …eir new research, a team of physicists from ITMO University and the Australian National University, led by Prof. Yuri Kivshar, has revealed a new physics of high-Q resonances. Scientists found that the high-Q sharp resonances are mainly determined by asymmetry of meta-atoms, and they almost do not depend on the thickness of metasurfaces and the type of materials demo…

  14.11.2018

• New York University Professor’s Take on Future of Digital Cities

  …n cities as comfortable to live in as possible. Because city systems are extremely vulnerable and complex, modern technologies play a very important role in the field of urban science. Digital cities The concept of digital cities implies the use of analytical approaches aimed at making people’s lives safer and more comfortable. Digital informatics is based …

  13.11.2018

• When VR met AR: ITMO University Students Created a SMARRt Robot with Lots of Potential

  …out as part of practice-oriented R&D initiative, a special competition for tech-savvy students held by ITMO. Best student inventions were given financial support and help of a scientific consultant, a role filled in by the university’s leading researchers.  Authors of SMARR and the many difficulties they faced SMARR is a joint creation of a group of Bachelo…

  13.11.2018

• ITMO’s KronBars Tops List of Russia’s Best Student Sports Clubs

  … achieved by the Association over the course of the last five years. They had to take into account the interests of all parties such as the Ministry of Sports, the Ministry of Science and Higher Education, sports federations and leagues. When the Forum came to an end, the participants presented their final resolution featuring their main ideas. Among the key point…

  12.11.2018

• Do Smart Traffic Lights Dream of Self-Driving Cars? Traffic Expert Nil Podozerov Thinks So

• Neural Network-Generated Illustrations and Food Delivery App for the Visually Impaired: Teens in Tech School at ITMO

  …d Goal Setting’, and other activities. According to ITMO graduate and one of the school’s speakers Nikita Lopatin, a technological entrepreneur serves as a mediator between science and business. “Technological entrepreneurs don’t just earn money; they understand the way the system works. That’s what we try to teach our students: how the market functions, how …

  12.11.2018

• Kunstkamera: Russia’s Bizarre First Museum

  … the title of Russia’s first museum. Established in 1714 by the country’s most famous (and eccentric) emperor, Peter the Great, it is still considered a part of the Academy of Sciences, and can well be called Russia’s first attempt at science communication. Most of its objects were brought by expeditions to faraway lands, which made it …

  09.11.2018

• ITMO Scientists Win Scopus Award Russia 2018

  …The Scopus Awards, established by the major scientific publisher Elsevier, was first held in China in 2004. Since then, the awards for scientists with most publications and citations are given out in Latin America, Asia, Europe and Russia. The amount of one’s publications is indexed through Scopus, the world’s largest interdisciplina…

  09.11.2018