Search results for «ins» 6385 results

• ITMO University Scientist Sergey Makarov Receives President of Russia Award

  …otocell structure. Previously, this involved using metal particles, but they were prone to heating up and, as a result, part of the energy would be spent on heating the device instead of powering it, which could also lead to additional damage. But if we add low-loss nanoparticles, they will trap more light and give everything back to the active material that surround…

  03.02.2020

• Global Warming and Cold: How Refrigeration Industry Reacts to Contemporary Challenges

  …eration.  Refrigeration used to only be applied to food items and air conditioners before, but these days cooling agents are applied in energy production. They are used instead of water on hydroelectric generating stations, because they emit the same kind of steam needed to spin the turbine. Any cooling agent can be used, but the most common one currently is h…

  03.02.2020

• Song of the Month: January 2020

  …you into a crazy whirlwind, and you just need something to help you keep your balance.  So this January, I’m listening to The Days by Patrick Wolf, a talented British multi-instrumentalist and singer-songwriter, whose music can defeat any chaos within me.  And of course, it will never be superfluous to recharge together with the bold and incendiary energy o…

  31.01.2020

• Social Sciences in the Era of Social Networks: Studying Selfies, Likes and Geotags

  …array of data, but it all comes down to a combination of 1s and 0s, the code being its main essence.  Any data comprising a certain entity, such as a Facebook profile or an Instagram page, is called a digital object. They all exist and operate in the digital sphere. We would have called this sphere a virtual reality before, but nowadays this term is outdated and t…

  31.01.2020

• Smart Cities, Robot Bureaucrats: Japanese Digitalization Expert on Building the Right Kind of Society 5.0

  …im: journalists, programmers, economists, startupers all came in flocks to listen about how the country the public conscious associates with robots and computers are trying to institute a next-gen society based on free exchange of data and integration of artificial intelligence in all spheres of life.  Mr. Zamma started by underlining that he wasn’t going to paint…

  31.01.2020

• Yimer Getnet: Food Biotechnology is a Promising Field and I Want to Be Part of It

  …e already taken part in two international guest lectures on food biotechnologу and those too have surprised me. As a Food Biotechnology undergraduate, I spent most of the time inside a laboratory doing experiments and it may be obvious for some but it is important that the facility remains organized it speeds up work a lot. ITMO is good…

  30.01.2020

• Myths about Aging and Its Reversibility

  …n’t feel pain even if you cut or burn it. Scientists believe that one of the possible reasons behind sand rats’ eternal youth is a high activity of telomerase and other intrinsic mechanisms for restoring damaged DNA structures. The selfish gene About half of the genes encoded in the DNA aren’t of much use to us. This is just information that’s distribute…

  30.01.2020

• Digital Humanities Week: Physicist and Mathematician Ivan Yamshchikov on the Use of Algorithms in Humanities Research

  … then worked at Yandex as a data analyst. He then defended his PhD thesis in Applied Mathematics in Germany and for the last three years, he has been working at the Max Planck Institute for Mathematics in the Sciences in Leipzig, where he specializes in text processing and generation. A few years ago, he implemented the Neural Defense project and is now working on re…

  30.01.2020

• Soft Skills For Anyone: ITMO Stand Up Comedy

  …ere was even time for Mikhail to address the students directly. He reminded them that he strongly supports a good sense of humour even during lectures, but he is completely against “jokes that aren’t funny”. “I do stand-ups quite regularly, this is the fifth one, and they often happen in cafes with ITMO’s students and employees coming to the performance. It …

  29.01.2020

• Students and Their Mentors Awarded St. Tatiana Badges of Honor in St. Petersburg

  …The official awards ceremony was held at the Smolny Cathedral, consecrated in 1835 as “the cathedral of all educational institutions”. By tradition, the ceremony started with a church service, which was attended by the heads and students of St. Petersburg’s educational institutions, as well as the representatives of the city administrat…

  29.01.2020