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• Stephen Hawking: Life in Books

  …ory of Time, he describes The Large Scale Structure of Space-Time as “highly technical” and unreadable for the common reader, but today this book is considered a classic. Collections of Essays Black Holes and Baby Universes, General Theory of Relativity, Geometric Ideas in Physics - these are Hawking’s collections of essays, p…

  19.03.2018

• Physicists Create Crystal Lattice from Polaritons

  …like electrons do in a solid body. We used polaritons to create a crystal lattice and studied their new properties. Now we know how polaritons condense in flat bands, how their interaction breaks the radiation symmetry and how their spin or polarization  properties change.” Since polaritons maintain their spin rotation continuously, scientists are now able to ob…

  19.03.2018

• ITMO University Professor Awarded for Mentoring

  …education for scientific, practical and methodological development of the “Innovative system for the search and training of highly qualified specialists in the field of software production on the basis of project and competitive approaches” for educational institutions of higher professional education. The “For Mentoring” award also honoured Nikolay Varukhin, …

  16.03.2018

• Scientists Invent Method of Catching Bacteria with ‘Photonic Hook’

  …rying wavelength, incident light polarization as well as geometric parameters of the emitting particle. This property can be used to redirect an optical signal, to overcome the diffraction limit in optical systems or to move individual particles on a nanoscale. "This idea was initially suggested by our colleagues from Tomsk State University. As soon as we made t…

  16.03.2018

• Eco-Friendly Board Game Teaches Students to Combine Business and Sustainable Development

  …le of heads of resource-mining companies. They must develop their business and make profit while also being mindful of the environment. To do that, they can compensate for their production’s environmental impact through various eco-friendly initiatives, such as planting trees, using purification filters, or spreading awareness – all of which, too, costs money. Pla…

  15.03.2018

• ITMO Researchers Study the Prospects of Switching to Driverless Transport

  …t there’s a set number of cars in the city that anyone can use), this is much more effective, as private cars stay idle about 95% of the time and take up a lot of space. When cars function as taxis, they are constantly being used, so the amount of vehicles necessary to meet the city’s transport demand decreases. This helps get rid of traffic jams, decreases the drivi…

  15.03.2018

• SCAMT Member on New Approaches to Chemical Education

  …attleship, Alias and mnemonics for studying Chemistry My first article for the Journal of Chemical Education was dedicated to a mnemonic device that can be used for remembering reactions of metals with nitric acid.  The device utilizes a left hand and schematically indicates the product of reduction of nitric acid as a fun

  14.03.2018

• ITMO Helps Train Optical Systems Design Specialists in Collaboration with European Union

  …ADOPSYS project was launched in 2013 with the support of the Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions grant system as part of the European Union’s 7th Framework Programme. Seven European universities, including ITMO University, as well as a number of commercial businesses, formed an educational consortium to train highly-qualified specialists in the field of optical systems de…

  14.03.2018

• From Russia with Gifts: Souvenirs

  …aditionally, they are painted to resemble a girl in a colorful dress, though nowadays you may find different designs, including sets styled after politicians, historical figures or fictional characters. Matryoshkas have no particular use except for placing one on your shelf, though many people like to store small objects in the smallest of the dolls, much like in a C…

  13.03.2018

• New Head of US English Language Office on How to Improve English-Language Education in Russia and the World

  …c community – and that applies to English-speaking countries, too. Regular and academic English are two different things. You can’t just pick some academic term and look it up in a dictionary, because scientists create new words in the process of their studies, and these words can only be understood within a specific, narrow context,” – noted Kelli Odhuu. She al…

  13.03.2018