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• ITMO Scientists Gets the Presidential Grant on Studying Quasiparticles

  …lem — excitons are really unstable. They quickly degrade at room temperatures due to the nature of materials they emerge in. Yet, there is a type of material that can help the scientists solve it — metal-organic crystals. In such materials, excitons can exist under normal conditions. But choosing the appropriate crystals is hard, as there are many types of them, and …

  20.12.2016

• "Death and Life of Catalysts": Evgeny Pidko on Getting the ERC Grant and his Research Plans

  …o get. According to official statistics, the success rate of grant applications is only 14%. What's more, this is the rate between those who were already chosen among the many scientists there are. There are three types of grants ERC gives: ERC Starting Grants, ERC Consolidator Grants, And ERC Advanced Grants. The latter, 2.5 million euros for five years, i…

  20.12.2016

• Science Slam ITMO 2.0 Final

  …Alexandra Toropova, the winner, with the title "Can you eat a rainbow?" has combined her love of museums and candy with science. In her home town of Kaliningrad, together with her parents they founded the Marzipan Museum. Now it’s no longer about ordinary candy but more about multi-colored chocolate and caramel, not through the use of dye or chemicals, but with the m…

  20.12.2016

• "Art&Science: Art, Science, Museum": the New ITMO-Hermitage Collaboration Project

  … "I have elaborated my own definition of Art&Science, which is quite a formal one. It is a field of modern art where people use concepts, scientific practices, methods and modern technologies to create their art objects. This is still part of contemporary art, but from a particular point of view, Art&Scien…

  19.12.2016

• Smart Assistants Based on Neuroethologies

  …logies popular and attracting new people to this field," notes Ekaterina Egoshina, head of the Marketing Department. According to Natalia Lukovnikova, head of the Center for Science and Technology Foresight, neural technologies is a large market which is yet to be developed completely and is open to new ideas. "ITMO's specialists have developed an initiative call…

  19.12.2016

• 5 Things You Need to Know Now

• Janush Holyst: "Emotions Are the Main Engines for Discussions in a Cyber Community."

  … continue to argue about what basic discrete emotions are. This is a real problem, as a physicist, I got used to knowing the composition of a matter. But speaking of emotions, scientists cannot determine fundamental phenomena. There are several classifications of emotions, one of them was made by Robert Plutchik in 1980. The researcher divided emotions into opposite …

  16.12.2016

• Science Slam Participant on Improving Nuclear Plant Operation

  …rything about what's happening there. Then, when I first went to a nuclear plant as part of my work, I was really surprised at what I saw. I understood how important it is for scientists that work in sterile environments to see it all in reality: put on a hardhat, talk to the personnel, and find out the real conditions of plant operation. That'd be a whole lot differ…

  15.12.2016

• The Western High-Speed Diameter: More Roads Means More Traffic

• 12th in Russia: ITMO University On the Rise in National Rankings

  …nnaires completed by representatives from universities, information on universities posted on their official websites, information resources from the Ministry of Education and Science of the Russian Federation, and special information collected by analytical systems. Lomonosov Moscow State University took first place in the 2016 rankings. "Silver" and "bronze" wen…

  15.12.2016