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• ITMO Scientists Propose Improved Method For Laser-Plasma Processing of Glass

  …. Its interaction with glass results in the forming of a micro- or nano-relief. “The idea of using laser emission-produced plasma in processing transparent materials is not new; it was successfully demonstrated by Vadim Veiko and his colleagues back in 1969, at the dawn of lasers,” comments Maksim Sergeev, senior researcher at ITMO’s Faculty of Laser Photonics and…

  11.02.2021

• Venture Capitalist Dmitry Kulish on Business Unicorns and Why Not Chase Them

  …Fantastic beasts and new monopolies In the business and financial worlds, a unicorn refers to a privately held startup company with a value of over $1 billion. These are, for example, Uber, Airbnb, WeWork, SpaceX, and Juul. Unicorns appeared 18 years ago. Before this, no entrepreneur sought to grow their company to a billion in revenue. They used to launch thei…

  11.02.2021

• Student Spotlight: Vitor Figueiredo, Brazil

  …the University of Bradford (the UK). What were your first impressions of the university and St. Petersburg? My first days at the university were exciting: everything was new and I met a lot of new people. I found the university beautiful. St. Petersburg has different weather than my hometown, but I love snow and cold, so I had no …

  11.02.2021

• Inside the Labs: AIR Displays Projects by Art & Science Students

  …d really is. The artists touch on the dichotomy between the living and the dead, identity and form, ethics and exploitation,” explains Khristina Ots. |s=1,center| ITMO.NEWS visited the exhibition and talked to the authors of the works to learn more about the meanings of their projects, the subjects covered therein, and the difficulties they experienced in wor…

  10.02.2021

• Not Just Bike Paths and Greening: What Urban Planners Really Do

  …t. So they only renovated the pavement, placed benches and trees in planters near the subway entrances, cleaned the front pieces from unauthorized constructions and somewhat renewed them. The expenses on this were a lot less than that of a full-scale renovation, but the benefit for the citizens and tourists was obvious. How does people’s attitude towards the i…

  10.02.2021

• This Weekend in St. Petersburg: February 13-14, 2021

  …y child growing up in the Soviet Union would most certainly have had Jules Verne among their reading experiences. The spirit of his underwater adventures seems to reign at the new exhibition by the Central Naval Museum that is meant to mark the 100th anniversary of the rescue service of the Russian Navy. Professional diving came to Russia in the mid-19th century with…

  10.02.2021

• Project by ITMO Professor Becomes Official Partner of Elon Musk’s OpenAI

  …ffectively capitalize on this channel, they need to keep providing content. This creates a problem of scalability as the demand for this content is very high. Having to create new content and adapting it to different formats and audiences can reach in the thousands of units for a single campaign. To keep up, brands need to spend a considerable amount of resources. …

  10.02.2021

• Holography, Space Science, and More: A Timeline of Science at ITMO

• Aquaformations and Communication With Nature: Artist Talk With Robertina Sebjanic

  …to installations, performances, and music albums. Her work has been exhibited at major festivals such as Ars Electronica and CTM, as well as in galleries in Berlin, Paris, and New York. Last November, Robertina Sebjanic delivered a talk on the problem of water pollution in St. Petersburg for ITMO’s Art & Science students. This study became part of her ongoing larg…

  09.02.2021

• The Art of Gift-Giving in Russia