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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
Getting to Know Russian Literature: Part 1
…, the first “serious” authors that Russian schoolchildren get to read are Alexander Pushkin, Mikhail Lermontov and Nikolai Gogol. The former two are most famous as poets, but their fiction has greatly contributed to the development of Russian literature. The latter, a truly diverse novelist, has both fathered a whole tradition in Russian realist fin of the light source. At the same time, metamaterials have a number of other advantages compared with alternative methods of obtaining the tractor beam. Therefore, metasurfaces are …
27.11.2018
2018 Student of the Year Winners on Students’ Unions, Science, and Buddy Program
… you can make a good portfolio and go abroad, and then come back. Besides, if you work hard, science can be quite a profitable business. I study photonics, and particularly the interaction of light with nanostructures. What is your research about and how can it be applied? I study the interaction between transition metal dicha…
27.11.2018
Pop-Science Cinema at ITMO University
…tion of whether we need alternative energy and what can be done to protect the environment. The festival’s main goal is to give the audience an insight into contemporary non-fiction movies, as well as involve students in the conversation about the importance of research. After the screenings, there was a discussion with an invited expert on the film’s topic…
26.11.2018
Russian Developers Created a Platform for Interactive Analysis of Metagenomic Data
…Metagenomic analysis has become a very popular research method in such fields as biology, medicine, and food biotechnology. A metagenome is a collection of genetic material of all bacteria living in a given body site. By looking at one’s metagenome, scientists and doctors can characterize the composition and balance of intestinal microflora and draw conclusions about…
26.11.2018
Andrey Breslav on Kotlin, Time-Management, and Being a Programmer
…8. Naturally, we want to make it one of the world’s most popular languages. I think that our making it to the top-five is more than possible, and we’re doing lots of work in this direction. On Alter Alter is a service that helps users find a personal psychotherapist based on a special searching algorithm that was developed in close collaboration with experts fr…
26.11.2018
KonFest 2018: Experts on Development of K2B Market
… hammer, not vice-versa. When using machine learning, the machine can have more power than I do: it has more data and better efficiency. Therefore, when designing human-machine interactions, you have to make it so that the power balance is in favor of humans. Nina Yanikina: How sharing services will affect the K2B market We can well call the K2B market a market…
23.11.2018