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• Science Comics: New Format of Science Communication

  …The importance of science comics Popularization of science is currently on the rise in many countries. Apart from the traditional formats like blogs, podcasts and Science Slams, science comics are now becoming more and more popular. In our country, this niche is yet to be …

  27.08.2018

• What’s the Commotion? ITMO Scientists Discover How Obstacles Change Crowd Dynamics

  …Which research technologies were used The scientists used portable GPS trackers, drones, and cameras to garner the research data. More than 3,500 surveys completed by festival pilgrims and collected by volunteers were also examined in order to identify the degree to which the Kumbh Mela participants had planned their walking routes. Using the obtained survey an…

  27.08.2018

• Sport, Recreation, Intellectual Hobby: What is Birdwatching and How it Helps Scientists

  …hological excursion that take place in many cities around Russia. In St. Petersburg they are conducted by Sergey Petrov with the Zoological Institute of the Russian Academy of Sciences. Birdwatching is very affordable: All you only need is binoculars and a guide book for birds in your area. The best of them are made with drawings, not photographs, because professi…

  24.08.2018

• Roger Roger: How to Make Websites Understand Their Users

  …t As we still have no instruments to help us speed up the process of speech recognition, developers have to make do with the Natural Language Processing (NLP), which is the science of how to work with speech algorithmically. But it will take more than 20 years to fully master that. So developers came up with a ‘dirty trick’ which is now actively used by tech giant…

  23.08.2018

• CEO of TuSion on Participating in Startup Festivals

  …is time, Yuri changed his focus from programming to neurophysiology, he’s now a PhD student at the Bekhtereva Institute of the Human Brain. It is he who is responsible for the scientific aspect of our project. What are the ways in which companies can benefit from neurofeedback? In order to talk about the benefits of certain effects, they have to be measurable. …

  21.08.2018

• St. Petersburg, Amsterdam, Singapore: ITMO Graduate on Improving City Infrastructure

  …Using autonomous traffic lights for blackout prevention Widely considered as a pioneer in Computational Science education, the University of Amsterdam has been cooperating with ITMO University’s eScience Research Institute since 2007. In 2012, the University of Amsterdam and ITMO University’s High-Performance Computing Department lau…

  21.08.2018

• Results of the 2018 Admissions Campaign at ITMO University

  … their entrance exams remotely. The average applicant-to-position ratio for all programs was 2.5. Among the most popular areas of research are physics & astronomy, computer science & computational technology, information security, technical systems management, photonics, instrumentation, optical and biotechnical systems and technologies, and industrial ecology & b…

  20.08.2018

• Scientists Create Antilaser for Bose-Einstein Condensate of Ultracold Atoms

  …velopment of optical computers. However, the problem is that nonlinear systems are often unstable, and predicting their behavior can be difficult. In studying this problem, scientists from Russia, Germany and Portugal became the first to construct an antilaser for waves propagating in a nonlinear medium. In their experiments, scienti…

  20.08.2018

• Physicists Propose Reversible Adjustment of Nanoparticles Color

  …covering the Fano resonance in perovskite nanoparticles. They also managed to gain control over the resonance spectrum for an array of inorganic nanoparticles. To do this, the scientists proposed a new method of tuning the nanoparticles’ radiation. Instead of synthesizing several different types of particles, the researchers suggested changing the composition of one …

  17.08.2018

• Houston, We Have a Problem: the Dangerous Subtleties of Space Flights

  …ation spacecrafts Orion and Dragon-2, as well as new trips to the Moon. But despite all the technological developments and extensive space missions experience the aeronautical science can boast today, there will always be dangerous situations arising during space flights. That’s why it’s crucial for astronauts to be professionals of the highest level possible. New sp…

  16.08.2018