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WorldSkills Winner on His Competition Experience
…ow State Technical University. He and I have a mere three-point difference in our results, so I believe that could have won the competition; I just didn’t have enough self-control. I finished with hydraulics and electrics on the second day of the final round. I had two hours left to adjust the electronic flow control valve which regulat…
14.12.2018
Movie Chitter-Chatter: Pride and Prejudice
…y. Where can I sign this petition? Any other thoughts on P&P? I saw it yonks ago and still up to this day wonder whether Julia Sawalha was ordered to snort-laugh in her role as Lydia by that Davies creep or it was her own initiative. Cool. Yes, and I also like how theatrically the whole thing is staged. There is drama, there is attitude, there are pregnant …
14.12.2018
Microbial Fuel Cell, Space Station, and Electronic Guide: Finals of Quantoriada Competition
…ayer. The task we’re working on now is identical to the one we were solving during the first round but a little bit more complicated. Every person in our team has their own role. We have two biologists, a programmer, physical scientists, and mathematicians. We’ll need all these competencies to assemble the device. The competition's closing ceremony will take pl…
13.12.2018
How New Advanced Materials Help Fight Bacteria – and Cancer
…e resistant to any treatment. The situation is worsened by the reckless and unnecessary use of antibiotics and other anti-bacterial drugs. “In our work, we try to control these processes. Our main focus today is the use of silver as an anti-bacterial material. Silver is really good at killing bacteria, but it can also be toxic to the human body. What we need…
12.12.2018
BizCycle: Moving Towards Comfortable Biking Infrastructure on Russian-Finnish Border
…roject will conclude with a presentation of the finished ICT solution, or, in other words, the set of IT tools that will be offered to the BizCycle users. ITMO University’s role Each partner involved in the project has their own task to oversee. For example, some participants will be responsible for developing IT infrastructure, while others will focus on inter…
12.12.2018
Winter in St. Petersburg: Perks, Gripes, and Getaways
… can imagine one. That slush, for example. You can look at it as a good leg workout, a greyish-brown gift from nature which obviously wants to save you from the obesity you’re rolling towards with your excessive chocolate consumption. The streets are dull and sunless, that’s true, but look not to the ground but to all the festive decorations that gleefully shine from…
11.12.2018
ITMO Students Score Second and Third in Robotex Competition
…shing pole, which made us giggle. But then their robot made ten perfect circles and our jaws dropped,” recalls Valeriy Chernov. According to the students, the drone’s control algorithm developed by RED’s team member Konstantin Pachkovskiy is much more flexible than the one made by the competition winners. But the German students had prepared a detailed mini-map …
11.12.2018
The Alchemy of Silk: Bioart Pioneer Joe Davis’s Workshop by The Polytechnic Museum and SkBioLab
ITMO Fellow Ilya Anoshkin on Nanotubes and Working Abroad
…Ilya Anoshkin’s main research interest is the chemistry of carbon nanostructures, such as nanotubes. Explained in the simplest way, these are carbon rolled into a cylinder. Their chemical properties and applications liken them to graphene, an innovative two-dimensional material for the groundbreaking research of which Russian scientists Andre Geim and Konstantin Novo…
10.12.2018
Cakes vs. Tortes: Do Carbs Like a Russian
…it’s usually round and sweet. If pirozhok looks like a little dough torpedo, bulochka can be a flirtatious swirl dotted with raisins and smelling of cinnamon. Or a cute little roll with poppy seeds topped with glaze. Some bulochkas are more like rolls and supposed to be good for you - with seeds and oats and such - but that’s just borin…
10.12.2018