Search results for «SiON» 5312 results

• KronBars: Leading the Way to a Healthier Lifestyle

  …teams, notes Evgeny, are very strong and have participated in numerous competitions.  The clubs are separated into three different levels: basic, intermediate and professional. Basic-level clubs are open to everyone and students can sign up for them at any time. Intermediate- and professional-level clubs are meant for students wh…

  10.09.2019

• Vaccines: Everything You Need to Know

  …sts believed that to ensure immunity, the disease could only be killed at the microscopic scale. Then, they understood that using an entire cell – resulting in fever and convulsions – is unnecessary when a part of it will do. Anatoxins were invented to fight bacteria that secrete harmful toxins. Then, scientists came up with the most complex and advanced method – gen…

  09.09.2019

• Speak Like a Russian: Student Slang

• Founder of ITMO Accelerator Resident GoRobo on Robotics and Entrepreneurship

  …ach children. “The first lesson was the most stressful for me,” shares Eldar Ihlasov, “I was nervous. Kids came together with their parents and I had to make a good impression. But it all went very well. That’s when I realized that this was exactly what I wanted to do with my life”. According to the founder of GoRobo, what makes his clubs different from oth…

  09.09.2019

• Unexplored St. Petersburg: Pulkovo Observatory

  …s, – Standard and Advanced – during which visitors may get the chance to explore sunspots using a projection telescope, and the evening tour, during which you may join a professional astronomer in observing planets, the Moon, stars, galaxies, and other breathtaking celestial phenomena. Provided there is a clear sky, of course. Once inside the Museum, visitors will…

  06.09.2019

• Prawns and Aerogels: Sol-Gel Science Slam

  …ned with the aim of supporting young researchers from all over the world. That’s why it encompasses such unusual sections as workshops in science communication and panel discussion on how to build a successful career. Another new thing at the Sol-Gel Conference was a Science Slam competition, held at ITMO University on August 29. Science Slam is a relatively new t…

  06.09.2019

• 2019 Presidential Scholarship: ITMO Winners on Their Research and Internships

  …ing lasers, and transmitting information. For my exchange, I chose the Friedrich Schiller University of Jena, Germany. Historically, Jena was the center of German high-precision optics – it was here that the Carl Zeiss company was located, and after the unification of Germany, the University of Jena became one of the world leaders in the field of nanophotonics. Th…

  06.09.2019

• ITMO Scientist Mingzhao Song: Each Time My Phone Runs out of Battery, I Realize That I Have to Work Harder

  …omparable to commercial samples, to the now-widespread metal coils. They can transmit energy at the distances equal to two or three of their radii. This means that the transmission range depends on the size of your resonator: the bigger it is, the further away the energy is transmitted. A metal coil operates on approximately similar parameters, but our technology off…

  05.09.2019

• This Weekend in St. Petersburg: September 7-8, 2019

  …ion center 150 rubles For over 20 years, Gerd Ludwig has been reporting on the aftermath of the nuclear catastrophe in Chernobyl. He took the first pictures of the exclusion zone in 1993 for National Geographic Magazine and returned in 2005 for a cover story, bringing him deeper into the contaminated Reactor No. 4 than any western still photographer. In his wo…

  04.09.2019

• Student Orientation and Meetings with Scientists: ITMO Introduction Days

  … program with a number of interactive zones.  ITMO.NEWS has talked to the first-year students to learn first-hand about their reasons for choosing ITMO University and impressions of Introduction Days. Viktor Litvinov, Cryogenic Equipment and Energetics  Back in the tenth grade, I started thinking about which university to apply to and decided that ITMO w…

  04.09.2019