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• COMSOL DAY: Tractor Beams, Optical Traps and Nanoparticle Manipulation

  …such speakers, Alexander Shalin among them. COMSOL Day’s organizers had taken notice of the Nano-Opto-Mechanics Lab. The Lab’s Facebook and VK pages regularly published the scientific results gained through the use of Multiphysics software. “Any program needs to be applied correctly or it will produce faulty results. In nano- and optomechanics, one needs to c…

  03.11.2017

• Campus Festival: Why Data Science Is All Around Us And Why Memes Are Folklore?

  …“Everyone talks about Big Data, though few understand what it is” - Yuri Volkov, Science Slam’s participant and student for ITMO University’s Department of Computational Technologies. Defining Data Science - the science about data - is no easy task. This is a data-based scie

  02.11.2017

• Kinda Science: Festival of Absurd and Bizarre Ideas

  …Kinda Science is a satirical science event where scientists can make fun of themselves and science enthusiasts. Researchers are tasked with examining an unusual phenomenon, theory or statement and prove it using a seemingly legitimate hypothesis, employing logic, factual data…

  02.11.2017

• Chemist Artem Oganov: On Blind Spots in Chemistry and Materials of Future

  … spend most of my time. In 2015 I became a Professor of Skoltech, just two days ago I received the George Gamow Prize, a month ago I became a Member of the European Academy of Sciences. But I haven’t mentioned the most important thing yet: I have three children, and my fourth is on the way. USPEX USPEX software interface. Credit: uspex-team.org What we are…

  02.11.2017

• Master’s Student: Why IT Specialists Need to Get Involved in Science

  …quire a deeper, better knowledge of STEM subjects. After that, I applied to St. Petersburg State University’s Mechanics and Mathematics Faculty and graduated from the Computer Science Department there. I went there with the intention of getting a general education in tech, as I did not yet decide what I wanted to do in life. There wasn’t a specific focus in the pr…

  01.11.2017

• BIOCAD Expert: Building Teams in Innovative Businesses

  …How does one effectively work with distributed teams, motivate scientists and researchers and help employees develop themselves on a daily basis? According to Tatiana Tangisheva, head of personnel development at BIOCAD, innovative teams, unlike traditional businesses, require a different set of rules and regulations. This introduces new challenges to managers and per…

  31.10.2017

• RoboFinist Festival: Teaching Robotics to Kids

  …inist is an international festival that aims to bring together like-minded robotics enthusiasts, facilitate the development of talented youth and promote robotics and creative science. The event is organized by the Charity Foundation Finist, Lyceum №239 and the company StarLine. According to the organizers, this year’s festival drew more than a thousand of both yo…

  30.10.2017

• Technophobes And Fear of New Technology

  …eakthroughs, there was a hope in the society that the development of technologies would solve social issues. Previously, people tended to see the advancement of technology and science as a reason for social optimism. They thought that humanity is on the verge of recovery from wars and will then break through into a better, brighter tomorrow. This optimism can be trac…

  30.10.2017

• ITMO Codes Its Way to Top of Academic Excellence Project 5-100

  …nguage, developed by ITMO graduates, was chosen by Google as an official language of development for Android; the university has been included in the top 100 of THE’s Computer Science subject ranking for two years in a row. For that reason, the university’s presentation was focused around the idea of “programming” its future, the language of that programming and the …

  28.10.2017

• Edible Coating Makes Food Last Longer, Reduces Waste

  …e apples, one could return them to their original color and smell. The project’s status As of now, Aleksander Podshivalov and his team of students focus on the materials science aspect of their project, i.e. studying the coating’s properties. In future, they will conduct practice-oriented research to find out how such coatings affect the products’ storage proce…

  27.10.2017