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Oleg Borisov: Development Means Leaving Your Comfort Zone
…Despite your focus on robotics, it is not the extent of your domain of interest. Which other fields does it include? My work generally concerns control engineering: it’s a wider field which has many practical applications, robotics included. If we’re talking about developing software for robotic systems, you have to know the theory - the overall principles of cont…
14.11.2017
ITMO Robotics Team Gets Gold at World Robot Olympiad 2017
…ITMO University’s school team from the Creative Robotics Lab at ITMO’s School of Computer Technologies and Control has taken first place in the Open category (Senior age group), coming out ahead of the German team (silver) and the Syrian team (bronze). The team includes three members – school students Gleb Zagarskih, Daniil Nechaev and Maksim Mikhailov, with Igor Los…
13.11.2017
5 Science News Now
…rity as well as protection from microbial attacks. Products made from converted lignin could subsidize biofuel production, making the cost of biofuels more competitive with petroleum. Fabric as personal air conditioner. Researchers have developed a new material for clothing that we could one day don as our own personal cooling unit, without any external energy ne…
13.11.2017
Scientists Complete Research on Ultra-Short Pulses in Resonant Mediums
…quence of such pulses of certain parameters can create light-induced population density gratings with a spacing several times smaller than that of a light wave, as well as control these gratings’ spacing. Results of this research are of interest in regards to both fundamental science and practical application. It might be useful in the development of a new generat…
10.11.2017
Physicist Maxim Gorlach on getting ahead in science: "The worst scenario is to just drift with the tide".
…, does not stand still. And although I continue to research metamaterials, now we are more focused on the so-called topological photonics. This is a new field that enables control over the propagation of light in the structure in such a way that, even if a defect is placed in the structure - that is, the structure is somehow damaged locally - the light, nevertheless,…
10.11.2017
WCSJ-2017: Making Science More Popular Than Politics
…epared for discussing scientific matters with journalists and general audiences. In Russian universities, scientists are only starting to understand the importance of their role in the popularization of science. Attempts at systematic promotion of science are being made at select locations – mostly at the participating universities of Project 5-100. “At the C…
10.11.2017
Programmer Daria Yakovleva: "You shouldn’t be afraid to try something new"
…the Master’s program. So students can choose those subjects that they have an interest in. This will increase the level of responsibility and awareness necessary for someone enrolling in their Master’s. Can you enrol in a Master’s program if you completely change your field? A person can express themselves in different activities.…
09.11.2017
Canadian Experts Test ITMO Quantum Network
…cialists as well as other Russian and international groups. Our task is to create a high-quality product for the network security market, and our quantum network will play the role of a testbed for adjusting new technologies and solutions,” he says. Quantum communications guarantee absolute impregnability of the optical communication lines to hacker attacks. As …
09.11.2017
Watching the Stars: Technologies of St. Petersburg’s New Planetarium
WorldSkills: How World-Class Specialists are Trained in Russia
… installing, tuning and operating of refrigeration unites, assembling of freon tubes, installing refrigeration circuit elements, making electrical connections, programming controllers and working with modern coolants and software. Andrey Pivinskiy “The Center has become a natural step in the creation of a training system that started in Russia in 2012. As o…
08.11.2017