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• ITMO to Enter New Academic Year with New Athletic Field

  …skin, chairman of the “KronBars” club, ITMO University does not yet possess its own athletic fields, grounds or any other self-contained sports infrastructure. That is why the construction of an outdoor athletic field will help students maintain a fitness regimen without resorting to the use of third-party facilities. The field’s main purpose will be its use as venue…

  26.06.2017

• Geek Picnic-2017: Richard Dawkins, Cyborgs, VR and Psychological Experiments

  …f Engineering and Computer Graphics organized a VR and AR zone. The visitors could put on VR glasses and get a bird-eye view of St. Petersburg -  a video prepared by the Video360Production Company. They’ve also presented a 3D game based on AR technologies. ITMO's eScience Research Institute demonstrated Russia's first urban development computer model which can be use…

  25.06.2017

• 5 Things You Need to Know Now

  …omputationally what lenses do using large pieces of glass: it manipulates incoming light to capture an image. New screen coating for reading in sunlight. The new flexible antireflection film has a surface reflection of just .23 percent, compared to iPhones 4.4. It also is scratch-resistant and self-cleaning. The inspiration? Moth eye…

  24.06.2017

• What is EMI? Tips and Tools

  …What is EMI? EMI (English Medium Instruction) implies using the English language to teach academic subjects in countries or jurisdictions where English is not the official language and in which the students’ first language is not English. The use of EMI has a number of advantages for both the students and the university. For insta…

  23.06.2017

• ITMO Scientists Develop New Protective Pipeline Coating

  …ial anti-corrosive coatings. Poly-ureaurethane coatings have been the most efficient in cases involving complex geometry and field application (a process that involves unearthing a section of the pipeline and applying a coating to its warmed-up surface – Ed.), but even they tend to lose their protective properties due to the high temperature of transported material. …

  23.06.2017

• International Team Proposes New 3D Topological Insulator Design

  …ems and communication lines. In such communication lines, the signal can propagate not just linearly, but in different ways, depending on the waveguide's curves, while remaining reflectionless and with zero energy loss.  One will be able to control the signal by changing the wave's polarization, as in 3D topological insulators it is possible to control both compon…

  23.06.2017

• ITMO University Launches The New Organic Electronics and Photovoltaics Laboratory

  …se of the university's resources. In the beginning of the year, the space now occupied by the laboratory was an old gym. In just four months, the organizers turned it into a multi-functional scientific environment. "The main idea is that students and researchers who work here would have access to a full production cycle - from raw …

  22.06.2017

• “Digital Talents”: How a New Generation of Specialists Changes the Way Companies Work

  …in information society – research in social informatics, sociology and culturology of cyberspace, digital evolution of urban environment, theory and practice of “smart cities” construction, transformation of entrepreneurship and workflow in the digital environment and many others. Among the event’s key speakers are Dr. Gianluca Demartini  from the University of Sh…

  22.06.2017

• New Femto-Camera with Quadrillion Fractions of a Second Resolution

  …Vital activity of living cells is a complex sequence of biochemical reactions and physical processes; many of them take place with high temporal resolution. To register such rapid transformations, scientists need very accurate and much faster equipment. Biological tissue can be studied with an electron microscope, but this method requires introducing a special dye in…

  22.06.2017

• ITMO Students in Singapore: How to Please Customers by Analyzing Their Social Media

  …tify the unique qualities of users, researchers “train” it using an existing set of data, meaning that the result of their analysis is already known. The software needs to build connections between the parameters to come to the same conclusions. Basically, the neural network is trained to match the data with what it means. After training, the software will be able to…

  21.06.2017