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• Well-Known but Never Observed: Dark Matter Explained

  …ered? Back in the 1930s, Fritz Zwicky, a Swiss astronomer, observed the rotations of spiral-shaped galaxies. According to the laws of mechanics, stars located at a galaxy’s edges must move slower than those in its middle, otherwise, they would fly apart. In fact, Fritz Zwicky found that all stars in a spiral galaxy travel at nearly equal speeds, whereas periphery …

  23.10.2023

• ITMO Fellowship Stories: Kirill Bronnikov on Mie-Tronics, Resonance Effects, and the Future of Photonics

  …My family and I decided to move to St. Petersburg, so I was searching for a new place where I could pursue my research. ITMO met all my needs: strong science teams and cutting-edge research. I learned about the university from my former colleagues, and physicist Aleksey Kohanovskiy, who is also an ITMO Fellow, told me about the program.  How are you liking it here…

  20.10.2023

• Why to Apply and How to Prep for Information & Cyber Security Track at I Am a Professional

  …il hacking an Android or web application, and intercepting and analyzing network data.  The theoretical aspect of the contest will assess the participants’ specialized knowledge and skills in information security:  principles of cryptography; post-quantum cryptography and calculating public keys based on the input; the fundamentals of web development, de…

  18.10.2023

• CTF Competitions: Reasons To Join and Preparation Tips

  …nd train fundamental cybersecurity skills in real time.  CryptoHack. Here, beginners and advanced professionals can complete five courses on cryptography and test their knowledge in each field.  Videos on binary exploitation. The channel offers a playlist of 59 brief videos for students who want to explore the topic and put their knowledge…

  13.10.2023

• 6 World-Changing Breakthroughs in Modern Physics

  …ough both the world’s best universities and tech giants, like IBM, Google, and Intel, have significant investments in quantum computers, scientists have not developed a full-fledged quantum computer yet – but there already exist quantum programming languages based on simulation libraries.  Unlike conventional computers that are based on bits, which can be either 0…

  11.10.2023

• Why to Apply and How to Prep for Robotics Track at I Am a Professional

  …am Bzhikhatlov, this year’s tournament will have two key modifications; the first being that the qualifying round’s tasks will now focus on both theoretical and practical knowledge. It means that participants will be expected to understand both the fundamental physical phenomena and their applications, which will help them prepare for practical tasks and qualify for …

  10.10.2023

• Russian-Born Scientist Receives The 2023 Nobel Prize in Chemistry

  … Alexei Ekimov received the award. He competed for the prize in the early 2000s with another physicist, Zhores Alferov, but in the end, 20 years later, his efforts were acknowledged – which makes me extremely happy,” shares Alexander Baranov, a professor at ITMO’s International Research and Educational Center for Physics of Nanostructures. Nowadays, quantum …

  05.10.2023

• Nobel Prize 2023 in Medicine Awarded for mRNA Vaccines: What Does It Mean?

  …e critical for developing effective mRNA vaccines against COVID-19 during the pandemic that began in early 2020,” states the Nobel Assembly’s official website.  As acknowledged in the press release, the work of Katalin Karikó and Drew Weissman made it possible to develop vaccines against COVID-19 in record time.  Matrix RNA was first suggested for use in vacc…

  02.10.2023

• Assistants Real and Virtual: 12 Services for ITMO Students and Staff

  … second, it can summarize a textbook chapter, identify its key points, and use them to make a presentation or graph on the topic, as well as generate a test to check your knowledge.  If you upload a research paper, the tool can easily produce an adapted version of the text (or vice versa – you can choose the complexity of the final text yourself). Notion AI can al…

  27.09.2023

• Applications Open for the I Am a Professional Contest

  …uter Sciences, Engineering and Technologies, Medicine and Healthcare, Arts and Humanities, and others.  The contest seeks to assess students’ theoretical and practical knowledge by allowing them to work on challenges that are as near to real-world cases as possible and practice for their future jobs. The competition tasks are created by professionals from renowned…

  27.09.2023