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• Smoke and Mirrors: ITMO’s Lighting Designers to Present Projects at Light Nights in Gatchina Festival

  …oosing to immerse into the study of the installation’s abstract objects or to take a photo and expand the work with new discourses,” shares Mikhail Andreev. Full immersion A more technologically complex installation is Stardust, which was developed by Valeria Molodovskaya, a graduate of the Lighting Design Master’s program and seasoned participant of the …

  03.06.2019

• ITMO Researchers Develop Alternative Liquid-Based THz Radiation Source

  …tion and experimental confirmation of the optimal pump pulse duration, which depends on the thickness of the jet. The resulting efficiency of optical-to-terahertz energy conversion is more than 0.05%, which is comparable to the results produced by laser filamentation in gas mediums. Prospects In the future, these results can be applied in the creation of a new …

  03.06.2019

• Konstantin Zaytsev, One of Top-5 Young Russian Scientists in Systems Biology, on Systems Biology in Russia

  …. Now, we can take a sample and split it into cellular components straight away. This means that we can immediately learn the number of lymphocytes and their gene expression, the number of monocytes and their RNA, and so on. Biology-wise, it’s sampling all the same, but it allows us to attain a higher level of analysis and a better understanding of what’s happ…

  31.05.2019

• Song of the Month: May 2019

  …nastasia My credo with music is, when in doubt, listen to a band from Manchester. Seriously, you can’t ever go wrong with a band that’s from Manchester. The Smiths, Joy Division, New Order, Happy Mondays, Buzzcocks, Take That, The Verve, Oasis: there must be something in the city’s water that makes Mancunians so incredibly talented. But my absolute favorite band f…

  31.05.2019

• InnoCamp: How Russian and Finnish Students Reinvent Old Spaces

  …pt, as in today’s world you really have to understand the value of nature and our role in preserving it. In addition to project work, our stay in Kotka included yoga sessions in the morning, Latin dance classes, good music, and great conversation by the fire in the evenings. Since every participant had the chance to share their talents, each initiative was wel…

  31.05.2019

• ITMO University Teams Take the Crown at Yauza CTF-2019, RealCTF and FaustCTF Cybersecurity Competitions

  …ion was prefaced with a presentation on that topic as it was unfamiliar to a lot of participants. These kinds of tasks are usually given at higher-level competitions for professionals. The qualification round did include a task from this category, but only a couple of teams actually managed to solve it. I think it’s safe to say that the organizers succeeded in introd…

  30.05.2019

• 10th Bike Ride with Rector: Long-Time Participants Share Favorite Routes and Experiences

  …rs student sports club We try to come up with something new for every bike ride. This year, for example, we encouraged people to come dressed as superheroes. On another occasion, we were accompanied by our rowing team, who followed us along the shore of Yelagin Island. Our mascot, Tim the Snow Leopard, changes his modes of transportation: he’s already ridden a gyr…

  30.05.2019

• How Minkowski–Bouligand Dimension Helps Determine Signature Authenticity

  …d Optical Information, as well as young scientists Semyon Rudyi and Tatyana Vovk published an article on signature identification based on the fractal Minkowski–Bouligand dimension and methods of machine learning. “We consider a signature as a trajectory of a pen tip that obeys the Langevin equations (stochastic differential equations that describe Brownian moti…

  29.05.2019

• ITMO University Partners with Art&Science Day Skolkovo

  …ological entrepreneurs. This year’s conference takes place at Skolkovo on May 29-30 and is expected to gather some 15,000 participants. The organizers have planned over 150 sessions on latest technological trends, the development of new markets, and integration of breakthrough technologies in regular business practice. Each year, Skolkovo brings in guest curators …

  29.05.2019

• Summer Festivals in St. Petersburg

  …t money to spend on all the offerings! Wanderlust 108 July 13, Yusupov Garden The worldwide “mindful triathlon” that combines a 5k run, some yoga, and a meditation session is held each summer all around the world, and St. Petersburg is no exception. Head on over to Yusupov Garden and don’t forget a yoga mat, some sunscreen and a windbreaker – because no kind…

  28.05.2019