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• The Recent Nanophotonics and Metamaterials International Doctoral Summer School - Participants' Impressions

  …and lose energy. Our approach is using high-index dielectric nanoparticles instead of metal ones. Those don’t lose much energy; also, the researcher has the opportunity to control their interaction with light. By using metamaterials, it is possible to create specific waveguides - upon passing them, light changes its properties, thus allowing to change the properties …

  23.05.2017

• The Power of Light: How Lighting Design Affects Our Lives

  …yone? As we said, light is a powerful instrument that can be used to manipulate the society. That is why understanding the culture of lighting in a city can help resist control over one's emotions. What is more, lighting design has great social, cultural and even philosophical importance. Science and art have been interacting throughout the world's history. Tod…

  22.05.2017

• Science Without Borders: The IV International i-Customs Conference

  …t countries often find it hard to get inside information due to access restrictions. Thanks to us working together, the process of gathering and processing information was controlled by our scientific advisors who are renowned professionals in their fields, thus we were able to conduct great research which can give important application results. We hope that conducti…

  22.05.2017

• Trolling Evolutionists with Flatfish or: Five Facts that Prove Natural Selection

  …ss religion. Conversely, if  scientists say they believe a certain theory, it means they’ve studied it, examined the author’s evidence and research results, checked if the control studies and computations were conducted properly, considered if anything could be missing, noted the flaws and how it would fit into the rest of scientific knowledge. Secondly, many take th…

  22.05.2017

• Art Debut: ITMO's Robotics School Team Wins RoboCupNationals

  …, has funny ears and loves communicating with people. For the contest's jury, he gave a whole musical performance inspired by the Men in Black movie: Seldon played Adel's hit "Rolling in the Deep" on ukulele, having three more robots and two human members of ITMO's team as backup dancers. All in all, the team led by Igor Lositskiy consisted of five school students: L…

  19.05.2017

• Music Under the Sky and Art that Never Sleeps: Lively Weekend in St. Petersburg

• Neural Networks Never Get Tired: Data Science Specialist Andrei Sozykin On Opportunities Offered By Neural Networks

  …n introduced, a neural network can receive incoming documents and identify them. Then it does the work a human accountant would do. Surely, a human accountant still has to control its work, but thanks to automation, companies need less such specialists, as they will no longer have to do routine work manually. What tasks and challenges now stand before scientists i…

  19.05.2017

• Everybody Wants a Piece of the Pie: Why Universities Need to Create and Support Innovation

  …t would create the new ideas. Others are resources and funding for the innovation process. When the developing team expands to a few dozen, management begins to play a crucial role.  Information flows matter, too. Not just for commercial purposes, but for coordinating the team. Later on, when everything is organized, someone needs to create a development strategy. A …

  19.05.2017

• Deputy Head of St. Petersburg Information and Analytical Center: Why the City Needs IT Experts and How to Create Systems for the Government

  …is regard – here, it took much longer to gain approval on paperwork and so on. Among other prospective areas is safety – this includes road safety, traffic analysis and control, ambulance services control, street cleaning management. All the things that are part of housing, utilities and transport infrastructure will be united under …

  18.05.2017

• ITMO Launches the Open Academy of Laser Microtechnology

  …conducts a major project as part of a federal targeted program "Development of laser technology for forming the surface microgeometry of construction materials in order to control their physical and chemical properties". As results of the research, five prototypes of laser systems are to be developed: a prototype of a laser marker that will allow to create color iden…

  17.05.2017