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• “Edible Science” Course: How to Cook a Modernist Dish and Learn About All Colors of Potato

  …ted of ten lectures that alternated between theory and practice. Ilya Litvyak began the course by educating the listeners on why scientific approach gives advantage to a professional as opposed to someone who sticks to unconscious mechanical work and does not understand the nature of processes. As part of the theoretical course, participants learned about the history…

  05.05.2017

• Alexander Boukhanovsky Elected to Russian Science Foundation Review Board

  …The RSF's mission is to provide support for the most promising scientific projects and the most enthusiastic scientists.  The winners of the foundation’s grants receive long-term funding which allows them to fully devote themselves to world-class projects. The task of the foundation’s review board on scientific projects is to pick such projects. The board’s members a…

  05.05.2017

• Towards Better Tomorrow: How to Start Scientific Career in the Field of Photonics

  …odern tendencies in optical and optical-information systems’ design. According to Anna Voznesenskaya, head of the Faculty of Laser and Light Engineering, this year a new session devoted to the role of women in science was included into the list of the seminar’s events. The representatives of IEEE Photonic Society’s Women in Photonics Initiative appreciated the ide…

  04.05.2017

• Researchers Develop Word-of-mouth Computer Simulation

  …ny of them.” Reference: Alexander A. Visheratin, Tamara B. Trofimenko, Ksenia D. Mukhina, Denis Nasonov, Alexander V. Boukhanovsky (2017), A multi-layer model for diffusion of urgent information in mobile networks, Journal of Computational Science.  …

  04.05.2017

• Video360Production Films Construction Sites In Crimea

  …film the four sites in just one day.  We couldn't afford to spend even a day more on filming, as we had to edit what we filmed, and there were some problems with getting permissions to film the sites - each was given after we finished the previous one.  The last site - the power plant - is a restricted access facility, so we got the permission…

  04.05.2017

• Creative Mornings: Psychotherapist Andrey Kurpatov Explains How Our Brain Works

  …for all meetings in April is “Beyond” and so Andrey Kurpatov spoke about scientific paradoxes, how our brains are deceiving us every second and why our free will in making decisions is just an illusion. He debunked the idea of man as the “apex of creation”, described fascinating social experiments and talked about the modern view on the…

  03.05.2017

• Women in Photonics: Arti Agrawal on Female Scientists and Cultural Differences

  …When did you decide to devote yourself to science? My father wanted me to become a physician or a state official, but I was never interested in these fields. I made the decision to become a scientist when I was a child but at that time India had no a space program. Now it prospers in this field, but back then it wasn’t like that. When I got a Master’s degree in…

  03.05.2017

• The Ideal Getaway or a Temple of Holiday Boredom - A Sceptic’s Take on the Russian Dacha

  … towards the dacha - it may leave somebody cold or, on the contrary, visiting the dacha is kind of a hobby for others, but it is definitely an adventure with lots of new impressions – you will never know how you feel about it until you try!     …

  01.05.2017

• Open to Everyone: Ex-Students to Come Back to the University

  …thanks to this the representatives of different fields and generations can exchange their experience. Alexandra Tupic, graduated from ITMO in 2007 (the Faculty of High-Precision Mechanics and Technologies). I often visit ITMO’s lectures and conferences related to my field. I focus on tool engineering. I was working on a microdevice for molecular diagnostics for…

  28.04.2017

• Silicon Nanoparticles for Nanosurgery: Master’s Student Publishes an Article in Nano Letters

  …cles The technology of heating living cells using nanoparticles is not something new – one has been using it at least ten years. Heating processes are provided by laser emission in the infrared region, as these waves pass through biological tissues without affecting them. The emission enters a nanoparticle, which is made of gold or o…

  28.04.2017