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• ITMO University’s Digital Humanities Center: A Place For Learning, Research, and Work

  …ence Master’s program. As you can see, practice is already an essential part of studying digital humanities, and yet some students, both from ITMO University and from other institutions, joined DH Center not only as students but also as staff members. We discussed their work experience with some of them. Eseniia Novokhatskaia, event manager at the DH Center, IT…

  20.10.2020

• ITMO Researchers Suggest New Way to Improve Quantum Encryption in Optical Fiber Communication Lines

  …er certain conditions. Moreover, we need to explore the way the quantum signal will be affected by the light found in DWDM channels, which is considerably less powerful,” explains Eduard Samsonov, a researcher at the Laboratory of Quantum Processes and Measurements and one of the authors of the paper.  The first effect studied by the researchers was chromatic di…

  19.10.2020

• Nobel Laureate Steven Weinberg on the Universe’s Expansion and Key Challenges of Modern Physics

  …he study of the atomic nucleus. Steven Weinberg compares an atom’s structure to the solar system. “An atom also consists mostly of “empty” space. Electrons revolve inside an atom like the planets of the solar system. At the center of the atom, by analogy with the solar system, there is a nucleus, which contains almost all of…

  19.10.2020

• Discover Yamal Peninsula: Wise Up and Learn to Welcome Change

  …Western Siberia, you say? Let’s get our bearings first. Yamal literally means the end of the earth in Nenets, the language of one of the native people of the peninsula, which is quite an accurate description. This 700 km-long stripe of land is covered with tundra and a whole variety of lakes. The river Ob meanders around it. As you can imagine (though I hardly can…

  19.10.2020

• ITMO Student Daniil Kazantsev on His Sign Language Translation Technology

  …ly used in modern bionic prostheses. Electromyography is one of the methods used to study muscle activity and is based on recording their electromechanical impulses. We can install a sensor on an arm or any other limb and receive real-time data on a muscle’s activities. The system makes measurements along the forearm – which is where the muscles responsible for th…

  16.10.2020

• Picture of the Week: Nanoparticles Based on Hyaluronic Acid

  … and the negative charge of hyaluronic acid, they, among else, can be used for injections. The work on this project takes place at the International Scientific and Research Institute of Bioengineering as part of the thesis Petr Snetkov, a PhD student, is working on in collaboration with Svetlana Morozkina, an employee of the Research Ins

  16.10.2020

• Unexplored St. Petersburg: Kanonersky Island

  …ri, comes from Finnish and means Cat Island. Locals affectionately call it Canary – referring to the fancy Canary Islands – although the reality is far from a paradise resort. Instead of the Côte d'Azur there's the cold Gulf of Finland, and the first thing that catches your eye (and ear) here is the surreal spider-like Western High-Speed Diameter rustling overhead. Y…

  16.10.2020

• ITMO Researchers Win Grant for Development of Smart Glasses Components

  … reality with various data: from medical readouts to social media messages. A large research team made up of staff members from ITMO University and the Lebedev Physical Institute of the Russian Academy of Sciences will seek a solution to this task. The group has been provided a research grant by the Russian Science Foundation. “Today, the only offers on t…

  15.10.2020

• ITMO University Teams Reach the Finals of Digital Opera Contest

  …ezhda Kumakova. Another team called Stovosmaya (“One Hundred and Eighth”) is represented by Ilia Smilga, senior lecturer at the Lighting Design Master’s program, Valeria Lukinskaya, coordinator of the Principles and Methods of Light Modeling subject, and Daria Chirimisina, an employee of the CLD ITMO University lab. The third team is named after its members – K…

  15.10.2020

• Staff Spotlight: Assel Romanova, Kazakhstan

  …know the Russians better, the barrier gets removed. The wind blowing from everywhere also came as a surprise. There was nothing like this in Almaty, a city surrounded by mountains. But the air of St. Petersburg is fresh and this is undoubtedly an advantage. In general, it took me a year to adapt and overcome my homesickness before I realized I enjoy being here a lot.…

  15.10.2020