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• Physicists Discover New Way of Resonance Tuning for Nonlinear Optics

  …Quality factor (the so-called Q factor) is one of the most important characteristics of a resonant system that determines the effectiveness of light-matter interaction and amplification of external signals. It shows how well the structure can trap light. When the sample is reduced in size, especially in thickness, its quality factor is also reduced significantly, mak…

  14.11.2018

• Studying Russian in Russia

  …e you use an adjective, noun or pronoun you have to consider a) the gender of the noun b) whether the noun is singular or plural c) what is happening to the noun, i.e. what is its function, what is its case? And this combination of factors determines the ending you have to choose for the noun, adjective or pronoun. It makes a potential choice of 24 different endings …

  13.11.2018

• New York University Professor’s Take on Future of Digital Cities

  … and more aspects of our life become digitized, vast amounts of data are generated. City traffic, energy consumption, taxi and public transport routes, phone calls, credit card transactions, Wi-Fi and Bluetooth data, social networks – we leave our digital traces everywhere. Nowadays, these data are actively used in smart cities research and planning in order to ma…

  13.11.2018

• When VR met AR: ITMO University Students Created a SMARRt Robot with Lots of Potential

  …SMARR (smart manufacturer augmented reality robot) is a mobile robotic platform for facilitating remote presence of humans. The robot’s defining feature is that it functions on a combination of VR and AR technologies. Users can control the system with virtual reality glasses Oculus Rift. The video stream that comes from the fitted-in camera is enhanced with augmented…

  13.11.2018

• Do Smart Traffic Lights Dream of Self-Driving Cars? Traffic Expert Nil Podozerov Thinks So

  …tempted to find an optimal definition of what makes a traffic light smart, and I’ll explain it on the example of our peripheral traffic light controller ‘SPEKTR-2’. Active directional control in place of phases What we are most accustomed to in Russia is a phase-based traffic light control model, which implies that there is a sequential flow of states (traf…

  12.11.2018

• Neural Network-Generated Illustrations and Food Delivery App for the Visually Impaired: Teens in Tech School at ITMO

  …n science and business. “Technological entrepreneurs don’t just earn money; they understand the way the system works. That’s what we try to teach our students: how the market functions, how to present your project, how to make a business model. It’s not only technical skills and theoretical knowledge what matters; we want our participants to understand that they…

  12.11.2018

• Pick a Dream Apartment Like a Russian

  … have to use the shower according to a schedule. Many of these places, however, have been converted back to beautiful and expensive single-family apartments with giant windows and functional fireplaces. Some have been divided into smaller, well-upgraded downtown gems. But as the city spreads, you’re more likely to find yourself in a 15-story beehive of a house tha…

  12.11.2018

• Kunstkamera: Russia’s Bizarre First Museum

  …y after is a single room at the museum’s far end, the one which gives the place its most commonly used name: the Kunstkamera. This small chamber hosts the museum’s very first collection: items brought by Peter the First from his journeys to Europe. This Cabinet of Curiosities (which was the common name for such places) displays exhibits most startling and grotesqu…

  09.11.2018

• ITMO Scientists Win Scopus Award Russia 2018

  …s a result of a collaboration between Dmitry Gets, Eduard Danilovsky, Arthur Ishteev, my team and the staff of MISIS University, we have been able to create the world’s first dual functional devices. It turns out that solar panels have the capacity to transform such devices into light diodes. Perovskites can enable such functions, and t…

  09.11.2018

• Go with the Flow, Ask Questions, and Shoot for the Stars: Lessons from a Gamedev Meetup

  … to help young teams master the technology and connect with like-minded people from other studios. In the future, we will continue with our initiative and add in new formats of interaction like round-tables and project presentations. Andrey Karsakov, Head of the education program ‘Game Development Technologies’ The exchange of experience and expertise that happ…

  09.11.2018