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Six ITMO University Lecturers Awarded Prize by Government of St. Petersburg
…ng new heights. Galina Demidova, a lecturer at the Faculty of Control Systems and Robotics As a member of the R&D center ‘Precision Electromechanics’, which focuses on the production of high-precision technical systems, I used my experience to develop the study guide ‘Fuzzy-logic controllers in technical object management systems’. Young Russian scientists o…
03.12.2018
Chemists From ITMO University Created New Diagnostic Method for Difficult Climate Conditions
… or in mobile laboratories. Chemists from ITMO University suggest solving this problem by means of an alternative diagnostic method. The new method is based on a polymerization reaction, in which the liquid substance, acrylamide, turns into a gel in the presence of a detectable substance such as viral RNA. The polymerization is triggered by free radicals generated…
30.11.2018
Movie Fridays: New Releases
…e, the way it makes you fall in love with the band’s music. A little disclaimer for huge music devotees out there: though a biography, Bohemian Rhapsody is not a documentary, but a fiction story, in which you may find a number of “historical inaccuracies”. If this fact doesn’t put you off, go ahead and check out the highest-grossing musical biographical film of all t…
30.11.2018
ITMO Scientist’s Thesis Named Best at the Australian National University
…ere will be light dispersion at the plication, or defective, area. But if the optical fibers are made from our proposed material, then the light will disperse evenly without any reflection or reverse dispersion in spite of the defects. That’s why you could say that what we work on are next-generation, super-effective structures,” comments the researcher. Topolog…
30.11.2018
ITMO’s Digital Humanities Lab Wins Microsoft Prize for Project on History of Gulag
…f Liberal Arts and Science with a major in History of Civilizations, so, naturally, I found the latter option the most interesting. Our team was one of 11 that were picked by the selection committee out of 90. Initially, our idea was to build a 3D model of a Gulag that you’d be able to explore using virtual reality. It would have been an interesting, but time-cons…
30.11.2018
ITMO University and VR/AR Association Host Japan VR/AR Day in St. Petersburg
…mmunication. An important element of the fourth industrial revolution is the concept of cyber-physical systems (CPS), which are based on the digitalization and virtualization of production and sales alike. Virtual reality is a part of that. The main goal of the fourth industrial revolution and Industry 4.0 is to establish communication between humans and machines …
29.11.2018
MTS Lead Architect Mikhail Mishurovsky on Collaboration with ITMO
…ack has to do with video games and cyberindustry. MTS StartUp Hub Accelerator is a sort of a platform where young scientists and startups can share ideas and establish useful connections. And last but not least, artificial intelligence. AI is a very broad term. There are many definitions to it, from traditional to sector-specific. We regard AI as a set of t…
29.11.2018
This Weekend in St. Petersburg: December 1-2
…Petersburg. This weekend’s program includes: The Chocolate Case, a featurette depicting ‘three playful and cheeky journalists’ uncovering unsightly practices in the chocolate production industry in a bid to change it for the better, Wasted: The story of food waste, the documentary aimed at changing how people buy, cook and eat food, both screened on December 1, an…
28.11.2018
Professor Sergei Tihodeev on Soviet Science and Collaboration with ITMO University
…stand how the simplest switches work. Without public interest in science and well-organized education it is complete degradation that we'll be facing. In order for the high-tech production to function, we need to "produce" highly educated people. Another problem with advanced science in Russia is that we don't have the consumers …
28.11.2018
Physicists Conduct Study of Terahertz Radiation in Liquids
…quid is much higher than in a gas, so that a comparable pump energy makes it possible to excite more electrons and make the radiation stronger. Scientists investigated the direction of terahertz radiation in the liquid. Experiments were conducted in parallel at two universities so as to eliminate errors. Then, the scientists verified the independently obtained…
28.11.2018