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• Crossing Single-Celled Organisms With AI: ITMO’s Art & Science Students On Interdisciplinary Art Experiments

  …y motto is idiocy and profanity. We poke fun at ourselves, our public and the whole world. Tell us more about your projects.  The first one, PHYSARUM//PERFORMER, was inspired by our Master’s program. Natalia Fedorova, a curator, told us about physarums or slime molds. It’s a single-celled organism that can be seen with the naked eye, and is not an animal, a…

  25.03.2020

• A Tour of Testa Center, GE’s Biotech R&D Facility in Uppsala, Sweden

  …ect may not be sure in the success of their invention, or not have the means to test and develop their product. “It costs 4 to 5 billion USD to produce one new molecule”, explains Andrey Demurin, CEO of GE Healthcare Life Sciences in Russia and CIS. The residents of Testa Center don’t need to form their own production lines or invest money in trying to understand whe…

  24.03.2020

• Russian Scientists Propose New Approach to Measuring Atoms

  …c distance, then their interaction is significant; otherwise, it can be neglected. “At some point, it was decided that interaction between molecules is significant in the instances when the distance between atoms is comparatively small, explains Mr. Chernyshov, but how do we find the specific value? Scientist Linus Pauling came up …

  24.03.2020

• ITMO University Team Takes Third Place in Bauman Robotics Club Tournament

  …g-out the ground. At the faculty, we have the German platform Robotino, which we took as a basis for our robot, we also made the mechanics for capturing objects ourselves, and installed a lidar. It was known that the number of transported objects would be identified randomly, but there would be no more than five for each loading and unloading area, so we made five ca…

  24.03.2020

• Swear like a Russian (not): Russian Mat

  …what it’s all about. Basically, mat is a specific kind of Russian obscene language which involves the use of several root words. While there are various theories on its origins and history (some of the first examples can be traced to the 13th century), most agree that there are four basic components which are used to form an almost infinite number of words and exp…

  23.03.2020

• Everything You Wanted to Know About ITMO’s Master’s Programs in Biotechnology

  …onal training system for those without prior experience in the field. Our students collaborate with students of other departments on interdisciplinary research projects,” explains Olga Volkova, dean of ITMO’s Faculty of Food Biotechnologies and Engineering.  What is it that biotechnologists do?  Design and create plant and protein products, and control…

  23.03.2020

• It’s All about Carboneum: How Carbon-Based Materials Help Create Efficient and Safe Solar Cells

  …cific task, which makes it possible to use the same material for creating both electron and hole transport layers, something that you can’t achieve with other materials,” explains Aleksandr Litvin.  At the same time, scientists and engineers have a wide range of carbon nanomaterials available: graphene, carbon nanotubes, fullerenes, carbon dots and graphene quan…

  23.03.2020

• ITMO University’s Main Campus to Get a Smart Floor

  …s on windows and other equipment in the room, gather information about the temperature, the lighting, heat and electricity consumption. To turn the lights on or close the curtains, you’ll no longer have to reach for the switch – the system will recognize a person, turn on the lights and regulate the temperature, or process a voice command. We’ve already drawn up a pl…

  23.03.2020

• Online Weekend Plans: Courses, Sports and Virtual Museums for Those Staying at Home

  …antum technology, robotics or survival technology. Moreover, Lektorium’s database has more than 5,000 lectures in Russian: from Computer Science to Ethnolinguistics. GeekBrains This platform specializes in programming and IT. Until March 31, everyone can pick three free courses from the list –  they mainly cover C++, Python and Java. In order to access them, yo…

  20.03.2020

• How to Choose a Profession in the Digital World

  …ing books. Everything is changing so fast that trends come and go every couple of months. By the time a book is written, printed, delivered and bought, the information it contains will have lost its relevance. It’s more efficient to follow online courses, blogs, and channels in order to always be aware of what’s happening. Education in the modern world All …

  20.03.2020