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• ITMO Rector Vladimir Vasilyev Appointed to Russian Science Foundation’s Supervisory Council

  …ory Yuri Balega, State Duma deputies Nikolai Govorin and Mikhail Emelyanov, the director of National Medical Research Center for Endocrinology Ivan Dedov, the President of the Institute of World Economy and International Relations Alexander Dynkin, the Russian Minister of Science and Higher Education Mikhail Kotjukov, the Rector of Pirogov Russian National Research M…

  13.12.2018

• On the Origin of Memes: Meme Scientist Explains Post-Irony and Future of Internet Culture

  …ies the deeper meaning of memes from the points of view of culture, psychology, and sociology. Its founding father is said to be the British evolutionary biologist Richard Dawkins, who in his 1976 book The Selfish Gene proposed a basic unit of cultural transmission: a meme. A meme to memetics is what a gene is to genetics. Both evolve and propagate according to the l…

  13.12.2018

• Microbial Fuel Cell, Space Station, and Electronic Guide: Finals of Quantoriada Competition

  …p with by the end of the first round and share about their progress. As I have already mentioned, the main task of the final round is to come up with a working solution,” explains the competition's coordinator Ivan Riazanov. Yaroslava Timirbaeva and Yaroslava Mikheeva, VIINELTEAM team, 9-11th grade, Penza We were given only one task: to develop a micr…

  13.12.2018

• Techies Tell: Best Podcasts for Data Aficionados

  …news in data analysis over a cup… of something, helping you stay on top of the newest developments in the field. The article was originally written in Russian by Sophia Kulminskaya for Megabyte Media. Translated by David Prowse.…

  13.12.2018

• This Weekend in St. Petersburg: December 15-16

• How New Advanced Materials Help Fight Bacteria – and Cancer

  …ble or the IR spectra. The absorbed energy can be reproduced with a lower energy rate or transferred onto metal atoms. Changing the type of metal will have an effect, too: for instance, the element Europium will emit red light, while Terbium emits green light. Anti-bacterial materials The world today is facing the issue of bacterial resistance to pharmaceutical…

  12.12.2018

• Winter in St. Petersburg: Perks, Gripes, and Getaways

  …uch better at speed wanted to upgrade my skills to actual downhill skiing but that seemed like a quick way to lose some valuable limbs, and I was perfectly happy with mine, so instead, I opted for a Finnish sled, which is essentially a chair on metal runners. You kick off with one foot and glide forward, going nowhere too fast. This year, I plan to upgrade it to t…

  11.12.2018

• Future of NTI Centers Discussed at NTI Ecosystem Forum in Sochi

  …mart cities by March 2019. Taking part in the discussion from ITMO University was Advisor to the Rector Oleg Malsagov and Senior Research Associate at the eScience Research Institute Vyacheslav Ilyin. “NTI centers remove the borders that exist between science and business. ITMO University’s NTI competence center accommodates the work of scientists by comm…

  11.12.2018

• ITMO Students Score Second and Third in Robotex Competition

  …t back to the body using red tape. Thanks to this, their device evoked associations with the team’s name RED. “Despite the difficulties, we never get angry at our robots. Instead, we treat them like Soviet drivers treated their Kopeykas, tenderly calling their cars “Swallow”. It sounds a bit weird, but that’s how things work here. If you treat your robot like a …

  11.12.2018

• The Alchemy of Silk: Bioart Pioneer Joe Davis’s Workshop by The Polytechnic Museum and SkBioLab

  …ganized by Olga Vad, the head of Art&Science department of the Polytechnic museum, and head of SkBioLab Ippolit Markelov. “Joe Davis is unique in that he doesn't just get inspiration from scientific knowledge, but can talk to biologists as an equal, he has a keen knowledge of scientific techniques and applies scientific methods in creating his works," says Olga …

  11.12.2018