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ITMO University Students Win NTI Competition
…d in 2015, the Competition of the National Technology Initiative is aimed at searching for and developing talent to participate in the program for the creation of conceptually new markets and the ensuring of Russia’s global technological leadership by 2035. It’s held annually by the Agency for Strategic Initiatives and Russian Venture Company together with Innopolis …
22.03.2019
Augmented Reality Course at Oxford Brookes: Participants Share
…t from Oxford Brookes professors, we were also instructed by invited lecturers. At the end of the week, representatives of Microsoft came to the university to tell about their new HoloLens headset. What’s more, we were given these headsets for the whole week so that we could study their capabilities. What else did you like about the course? Yulia Trushina: They…
21.03.2019
Love, Death & Robots: Deadpool Director’s Love Letter to Nerds
…First news about the project started coming in as early as 2008. Back then, Tim Miller, the filmmaker visionary behind Deadpool, and David Fincher, who worked on Fight Club and the more recent The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo, House of Cards and Gone Girl, expressed their interest in creating an anthology of short Sci-Fi stories. 11 years down the road, their plan has…
21.03.2019
This Weekend in St. Petersburg: March 23-24
…etersburg, golden church domes, and delicate flower blossoms – Kustanovich’ paintings have it all. The exhibition is open daily from midday to 8pm. Admission is free. Great news for classical music aficionados out there! This Sunday, March 24, St. Isaac’s Cathedral hosts a concert of Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov’s music to commemorate the 175th birthday of the renowned…
20.03.2019
ITMO Scientists Determine Impact of Probiotics on Human Gut Microbiome
…Modern research is constantly bringing out new confirmations that gut microbiome has a significant impact on our overall health. This is why the examination of the gut’s microbial community structure and the search for ways to influence it are now among the scientific community’s most topical tasks. ITMO University researchers approach these through the analysis of m…
20.03.2019
What Are Vernacular Regions and Why Study Them?
…ict spaces that people don’t want to visit or a completely indifferent to. For example, our data shows that the most “emotional” location in St. Petersburg is the island where New Holland is located. What’s more, urban scientists create maps for local communities. There are several different ways of doing that; for instance, by mapping different communities that are …
20.03.2019
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Gold Nanoparticles and Canadian Science: ITMO Student’s Internship at University of Waterloo
…e inside. Combined with signal molecules, these nanostructures can cause local electric field enhancement, a property that can be used in electrocatalysis and the synthesis of new materials for chemistry and biology. We published our research in Nanoscale. The project we worked on was conducted in two stages. First, we synthesized nanoparticles and then carried ou…
19.03.2019
Winter Universiade Participant Vadim Shvedov on Maths and Curling
…it more than they do usually, and sometimes it got too frozen. We expected it to be different, and particular moves that we were used to just didn’t work. And our competitors knew how to adjust well. The Universiade is not your first major competition. Where else did you play? During the season before last, we won two Russian championships: for 19-year-olds and…
19.03.2019
Science Communicator Daria Dvorzhitskaya on How to Measure the Effectiveness of Science Pop Events
…s student of the science communication program, Daniil Sharov, who’s now in Shanghai coordinating the Magic of Light exhibition (you can learn about it in this article by ITMO.NEWS). Apart from this, I’m also familiarizing myself with the work of the Center to then join the staff in the projects they’re doing. Now you’re busy working on a large-scale project fo…
19.03.2019