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Picture of the Week: A Holographic Image in the Augmented Reality System
… a special waveguide made out of photo-thermo-refractive glass (PTR). The waveguide ensures the image transmission from the microprojector to the user’s eye. The image remains sealed in the waveguide during this process. Holographic Bragg gratings are used in order to insert it from the microprojector into the waveguide – these grat…
09.10.2020
ITMO University Launches New Preacceleration Program
…prove our technology with their help. Boeing has a patent in this area – they put similar devices along their runways. In China, there are even dance clubs with piezoelectrics inserted in the floor that emit light. In Russia, a team from Saratov is also engaged in this field, but they only started last year. Irina Zaguzina First-year Master’s student of the Mul…
08.10.2020
ITMO Graduate Dmitry 'Finargot' Plyusnin On His Career in Streaming and Russian Voice-over of Dota 2
… the organizers and went there as a reporter. I had the chance to meet lots of people from this field and started to attend all important events after this: I went to Moscow, Minsk, and last year I visited Disneyland in Paris. Did you do this for your Youtube channel or on commission? Basically, I worked on the content for my channel, and then I just found …
08.10.2020
In a Nutshell: Genome Editing and the 2020 Nobel Prize in Chemistry
… it’s the CRISPR/Cas9 method that we’re talking about, you begin with choosing a target ― a DNA sequence that you want to edit. Then, researchers prepare a construct that contains the cas complex (a protein, endonuclease, that uses RNA to find a target in the DNA and disrupt the sequence) and a tag for our target, and transform the object with it. It’s possible to cr…
08.10.2020
Staff Spotlight: Daniel Nsengumuremyi, Rwanda
…or the country’s population. In spite of being mud, sapropel has high value and is used in agriculture, saunas, and medicine. If I could study how to use it to fight mycotoxins more thoroughly, the outcome may be of global-scale importance. Did you think it’s difficult to be a scientist? I found it hard in the beginning, four years ago. It was a new life and…
08.10.2020
Speed Science Dating, Smartphone Orchestra, And More: ITMO Hosts Art & Science Marathon
…ences of collaborating with the Dokuchaev Museum of Soil Science. The third participant of the pitch session, the first-year Master’s student Kseniia Gorlanova, shared some insights into the specifics of creating projects at the intersection of science and art. Kseniia noted the possible challenges of teamwork and warned the participants that you can’t be liked by…
07.10.2020
In a Nutshell: Black Holes and the 2020 Nobel Prize in Physics
…ational collapse (or contraction) of stars at the final stage of their evolution. For a star to become a black hole, it has to have the mass of around 45 Suns, so that the remains of the star wouldn’t have enough support from the pressure of degenerated gas and will have to collapse into a black hole. Only a low-mass black hole can be the outcome of that, while the b…
07.10.2020
This Weekend in St. Petersburg: October 10-11, 2020
What is ITMO's Buddy System and How Does it Work?
…rnational Bachelor's and Master's programs. Accidents are not accidental The current head of the club, Anna Gargalyk, at that time a 3rd-year Bachelor’s student, was inspired by the stories of her fellow students and her best friend Daria Volkova, who got into the club in its first years. Anna also decided to take part in the project in the fall of 2018. Me…
07.10.2020
ITMO.STARS 2020 Winners: Who Are They?
… in the university's programs on tuition-fee positions regardless of their Unified State Exam (USE) scores. This year, 14 people from St. Petersburg, Yekaterinburg, Chelyabinsk, Khabarovsk, Simferopol, and other Russian cities became the winners. All of them presented their achievements to the contest committee: implemented projects, participation in conferences,…
06.10.2020