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• 230 Participants From 105 Universities Attend METANANO SCHOOL 2020

  …danov, the main organizer of the school, senior research associate at the Faculty of Physics and Engineering, and the head of the Nanophotonics and Metamaterials program, explains that this topic is both fundamental and applied. “Nowadays, photonics is trying to replace electronics in some fields – to create analogs for transistors, memory elements, and connecti…

  16.07.2020

• ITMO University Researchers Suggest Modification of Quantum Encryption System With Compact Detector

  …uantum radiation, which is extremely hard for eavesdroppers to intercept. “As a rule, QKD uses a weak laser light with an average number of photons less than unity,” explains Eduard Samsonov, a research associate at ITMO’s Faculty of Photonics and Optical Information. “This light has fundamental special features, the so-called quantum effects that leave no chanc…

  16.07.2020

• Nikita Bubnov: If You’re Dying to Do Something, You're Bound to Succeed

• This Mostly Stay-at-Home Weekend in St. Petersburg: Parks

  …nned as the royal residence, the garden was founded by an order of Peter I back in 1704. Over the course of its long history, the place acquired a variety of sculptures, fountains and design elements that are now part and parcel of its unique atmosphere. Summer Garden has inspired many a Russian poet – who knows, it might even

  15.07.2020

• Scientists from ITMO University Investigate Radiolabeling of Calcium Carbonate Particles and Test It In Vivo

  …t promising bioactive compounds. However, before their application in the field of  drug delivery, toxicity of CaCO3 particles should be checked, as well as their distribution inside the laboratory animal. The team of investigators from ITMO University’s Faculty of Physics and Engineering together with their colleagues from Russian Scientific Center of Radiology and …

  15.07.2020

• Uniting the Expert Community and Best Practices: Results of the ITMO.Distant Project

  …it as average (32%). A total of 12% of students marked the teaching level as low.  Preserving the quality of education has become one of the main tasks set by all education institutions. With the spread of the novel coronavirus and forced mass transition to the online format, universities adopted different formats to support their lecturers.  On March 18, almos…

  14.07.2020

• Researchers Improve Popular MRI Coil Using an Artificial Magnetic Shield

  … But it has its drawbacks, too. “The inner surface of an MRI chamber is made of metal. On a smooth metal surface, the electrical field equals zero. That means that if you insert a cylindrical coil – with a diameter equal to that of the shield – into a similarly cylindrical MRI chamber, it will not emit a field,” says Constantin Simovski, a chief research associa…

  14.07.2020

• Top Football Clubs in Russia: Who to Root for This Season

  …ys, so sometimes they are called zheleznodorozhniki (“railroaders”).  FC Spartak Moscow – Spartak was named after Spartacus, the famous leader of the slave uprising against the Roman Republic. This club is sometimes referred to as narodnaya komanda (“the people’s team”) because it was mostly supported by common people as opposed to the police or army. …

  14.07.2020

• ITMO University Researchers Develop New Technique for Production of Plasmonics Devices

  … to create non-linear photoconductive components, plasmonic elements, wave guides, and even color palettes in glass. “Such materials can be used as optical filters,” explains Pavel Varlamov, a research engineer at the Faculty of Laser Photonics and Optoelectronics. “White light, as we know, consists of a large number of wavelengths and you might need to, for exa…

  13.07.2020

• 5 Russian Must-Know Pop Singers

  …t with strangely entertaining film clips – side note, they were supposed to perform at Coachella in April 2020. So here goes. Little Big  5.97m YouTube subscribers 984k Instagram followers While I was surprised to discover that most of their songs are in English, I was equally surprised to see that this band, which appears to be extremely popular amongst ou…

  13.07.2020