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• ITMO's Metamaterial MRI-Boosting Invention Praised by St. Petersburg Government

  …The competition was held among scientific teams developing innovative projects at enterprises and universities of St. Petersburg. Winners were determined in three categories: “Best scientific innovation”, “Best innovative business solution” and “Best innovative product”. In each category, projects from six areas were included: nanosyste…

  28.09.2017

• Google Celebrates 19th Birthday

  …ngines have access to various data – some documents that Yandex can access, Google cannot,” – explains Dmitry Muromtsev, head of ITMO’s International laboratory of Information Science and Semantic Technologies. In 2012, Rinat Safin, head of Google’s search quality team in Moscow, shared with readers about Google’s official blog on Habrahabr how the company’s…

  27.09.2017

• Japanese Exchange Students Share Impressions of Russia

  … their experience of visiting a country and show viewers how things really are. At MSU, we also visited departments where students are taught journalism, psychology, political science, as well as the Institute of Asian and African Countries, where we spoke about international relations and other political subjects. Reiki Takenaka, Kyoto University I found out a…

  27.09.2017

• Top 5 Science News

  …re under 'normal' traffic volumes -- which is around 2,000 to 3,000 cars an hour. Stopping ice from forming – by cracking it. A research team at the Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU) is working with a novel approach to prevent ice build-up - By manipulating substructures in a special silicone coating, researchers have reduced the ability of ice…

  24.09.2017

• The Evolution and Future of Public Lighting

  … As Natalya Bystryantseva, head of ITMO’s Higher School of Lighting Design, International Research Laboratory of Lighting Design for Urban Environments and Institute of Art & Science, who served as the discussion’s moderator, noted, today St. Petersburg, which has always remained at the forefront of public lighting in Russia, faces the task of forming a new approach…

  22.09.2017

• Youth Foresight Festival Tackles Future of Transportation

  …The main objective for the foresight project is to familiarize the younger generation with the advanced scientific and technological achievements in the field of transport and look into the future of science and technology. Foresight sessions, competitions and workshops, as well as meetings with famous people give children and youth the…

  21.09.2017

• Optoelectronics On Quantum Dots: Review By ITMO Researchers

  …s of about 10 nanometers in size that have great optical properties. One of them - luminescence - can be applied in different devices with displays: smartphones, TVs, laptops. Scientists first produced them in the 1980s, and started to introduce them in early 90s: in 1994, the first LED based on quantum dots was developed, which gave a boost to the development of ele…

  21.09.2017

• Bike Ride With Rector Goes National

  …ched the monumental Russky bridge, visited the historic Voroshilov battery and came back around. The final route ended up 10 kilometers long; participants included professors, scientists and postgraduate students from ITMO University, Moscow State University, University of Southhampton (UK), Aalto University (Finland), National University of Singapore, Swinburne Univ…

  21.09.2017

• How Music Affects Our Brain

  …ything? These people exist, and they make up approximately five to seven percent of the planet’s population. To find out how the brains of those who don’t care for music work, scientists from McGill University (Canada) have scanned the brain activity of 45 healthy test subjects while the latter listened to music; some of them were these “anti-melomaniacs”. It turns o…

  20.09.2017

• METANANO-2017: International Conference on Nanophotonics and Metamaterials held in Vladivostok

  …have prepared a jam-packed five-day program for the participants. Each day of the conference will open with a plenary session, each headlined by one of the several world-class scientists in the field of Photonics and Metamaterials. Among them are Mordechai (Moti) Segev (Israel Institute of Technology), Andrey Rogach (City University of Hong Kong), Jeremy Baumberg (Un…

  19.09.2017