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• The Ins and Outs of the Postgraduate Admissions Process at ITMO

  …What is the role of postgraduate study today and how does it differ from other levels of education? Postgraduate studies give students an opportunity to embrace scientific creativity. This is when you can refine your ideas, implement a unique project, and try your hand at teaching. There are huge opportunities for personal development and naturally, this is all ac…

  18.08.2016

• Light-Emitting Glass Will Enhance Solar Panel Efficiency

  …ave luminescent properties at all or will emit infrared light, which can be used to charge only specific types of solar cells. The clustering process is quite difficult to control and that is why luminous protective screens and solar panels should be developed together.   Reference: Y. M. Sgibnev, N. V. Nikonorov, A. I. Ignatiev, Luminescence of silver clust…

  17.08.2016

• «Yagodnoe» International Camp: Results and Achievements

  … of the local wildlife reserve. We had to write to the Environmental Inspection Committee to make them utilize it», — comments Alyona. Yet, the large dump played a positive role in the camp's work. The coordinators proposed finding unusual artifacts in the waste. In the end, the international guests gathered a whole car's basic frame from what they found. Another …

  17.08.2016

• Faster, Higher, Smarter: 5 Main Technological Novelties of 2016 Olympics

  …ity is upheld by 47 thousand guards, 65 thousand policemen and 20 thousand military. Still, Brazilian authorities found these measures insufficient: they've also introduced patrol blimps that are fixed with Logos Simera and Altave Omni surveillance systems. Each has 13 cameras that can record high-detail videos with a resolution of 120 mega-pixels (100 for Omni) over…

  16.08.2016

• ITMO University Participates in the Erasmus+ Program

  …T). IoT is becoming one of the most promising fields of technological development. The concept implies a constant interconnection between different things that is to be controlled by intellectual systems. A good example is the concept of a "Smart House", or even "Smart City". Household usage aside, IoT will help save energy (Smart  Grid), improve health care syste…

  15.08.2016

• Rudolf Kalman Passed Away

  …nology, and his Ph.D. in Columbia University in New York. His most famous invention was the Kalman filter, a mathematical technique widely used in the digital computers of control systems, navigation systems, avionics, and outer-space vehicles. It allows to extract a signal from a long sequence of noisy and/or incomplete technical measurements, and is applied in many…

  15.08.2016

• Migraines May Be Caused by Vascular Reactivity

  …Increased vascular reactivity is most commonly observed in spasms of the arteries and less – in their extension. Every blood vessel binds with the nervous system, which controls its contraction. The nervous system harmoniously transmits the pulsations throughout the body. If for some reason, this coherence is violated, serious disorders may arise; according to the…

  12.08.2016

• Lenticular Images: Researchers Combine Art & Science

  …presentative of Hellenic Institute of Holography. "We have fixed a camera to a slider which consisted of modular yards and a tripod, and a smartphone or a tablet to control movements of the camera. Before that we determined the shooting parameters and required number of photos, which depends on the characteristics of the ribbed surface of the lens used to make…

  11.08.2016

• ITMO University Welcomes New Students

  … the applications were sent in via the postal service. According to the results of Bachelor’s program admission campaign, by August 8th more than a thousand students have enrolled tuition-free. 3.4% of the first years were admitted to programs affiliated with Russia's high-tech industrial establishments. Fee-based education There were more than 950 applicati…

  10.08.2016

• Scientists Count Microscopic Particles Without Microscope

  …on. Ordinary lenses cannot cope with these tasks at nanoscale, so scientists are working with artificial optical materials – photonic crystals and metamaterials, which can control the propagation of light in most extraordinary ways. However, fabricating optical materials with desired properties is a laborious process that needs constant improvement. A research tea…

  09.08.2016