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• Limitless Fashion: Developing Adaptive Clothing For The Disabled

  …dy details as closings based on magnets and velcro, and such. During the first stage of the contest, we sent them an electronic application where we explained the project’s mission, the problem it solves, and its social and business aspects. We executed it as a fashion magazine dedicated to our project. At the contest’s preliminary stage, they identified 20 best team…

  27.09.2018

• This Weekend in St. Petersburg: September 29-30

  …hout September and October, St. Petersburg is also home to Nordic Weeks, a celebration of all things Scandinavian. Among this week’s events are: a series of meet-the-artist sessions with contemporary female comic creators at the Mayakovsky Library (Sept. 29, 30), an exhibition of works by 20th-century artists Xan and Julie Krohn at Arts Square Gallery (Sept. 27), ope…

  26.09.2018

• THE World University Rankings-2019: More Russian Universities Join the Top List

  …ntific research, promotion of science in universities, integration of research into the general education process, an increase in universities’ international outlook, and expansion in the number of international research collaborations,” said the expert. Lomonosov Moscow State University regained its leadership of the Russian segment of THE World University Rank…

  26.09.2018

• ‘I am a Professional’ National Student Competition Takes Off

  …Why participate? Aimed at creating new opportunities for promising young people, the first ‘I am a Professional’ competition was launched last year. The competition organizers see it as a social elevator for talented and ambitious Bachelor’s and Master’s students from all higher education institutions countrywide. Following last year’s competition results, 434 fin…

  26.09.2018

• Twin Campus: New Joint Project by ITMO and XAMK

  …esentatives of the Kotka City Council and the regional development council came to ITMO. By that time, the university had already formed a workgroup that prepared the first version of the project. As a result, the sides agreed to prepare an application that was later approved by all of the consortium’s participants, as well as the associated committees of St. Petersb…

  26.09.2018

• Boundless Science: Interdisciplinary Meeting for ITMO Fellowship and Professorship program

  … exchange ideas and find common ground in an informal setting. “At some point we realized that our fellows and professors are often not familiar with other university divisions, and mostly communicate with the staff at their host department. So we decided to create a possibility for interdisciplinary exchange for all participants of the ITMO Fellowship and Profe…

  25.09.2018

• METANANO 2018: Professor Stefan Maier on Nanophotonics’ Key Tasks

  … less materials for producing solar panels, which will also weigh less, be more efficient, and hence cost less. If applied in the field of biology, this will increase the precision of molecule detection, which is very important for such purposes as screening. So you can say that our key focus is making things cheaper, lighter, and more responsive. Speaking of meta…

  25.09.2018

• Signal Peptides as Means to Increasing Longevity

  …getting older. The WHO identifies different age categories as follows: young old (69-74 years), middle old (75-89), and oldest old (90+). This categorization is used in the pension legislation of different countries. According to the UN estimates, the amount of people of 60 years old and higher amounted to 810 million in 2012, and will exceed a billion by 2020. This …

  24.09.2018

• METANANO-2018 Conference on Nanophotonics and Metamaterials Comes to a Close in Sochi

  …lopments and future prospects of 2D-heterostructure research (you can read our interview with Prof. Geim here). Over the five days, METANANO-2018 hosted more than 40 sessions, including nine special ones. Special sessions were organized in collaboration with partners of ITMO’s International Center of Nanophotonics and Metamateria…

  24.09.2018

• Movie Fridays: Laughs A La Française

  …ier Nakache and Eric Toledano. Yet again, the plot revolves around a migrant from Senegal played by Omar Sy who works as a dishwasher in a hotel and dreams of becoming a professional chef. When his longtime ambitions for a better life seem just within reach, immigration authorities suddenly hit him with an order to leave France immediately. In his search for a way to…

  21.09.2018