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• St. Petersburg Tragedy

  …On the afternoon of 3 April 2017, there was an explosion in St. Petersburg's metro that claimed the lives of a number of people. We express our deepest condolences to the friends and relatives of the victims and wish a speedy recovery to all those who suffered as a result of this terrible incident. In light of these events, we are suspending publication of ne…

  04.04.2017

• Clean Up Your Brains: The All-Russian Lab Session

  …How did the All-Russian Lab Session come to be, and what's its difference from today's popular outreach programs? Actually, the reasons behind conducting this project are quite serious: there is a great amount of scientific knowledge that has to do with how the world works; such knowledge is really important for understanding the world we live in, yet it's somethi…

  03.04.2017

• 5 Things You Need to Know Now

  …apidly grow. About 50% of US jobs are at risk of being lost to automation. SpaceX successfully relaunches rocket. The first-stage booster, which was previously used on a mission 11 months ago, helped send a telecommunications satellite into orbit from Florida's Kennedy Space Center. Traditionally, rockets are expendable - their various segments are discarded and d…

  03.04.2017

• IT and Fashion: How Will Technologies Revolutionize the Fashion Industry

  …lobal leaders in the field of fashion from nine countries discussed the modern tendencies and pressing issues of today's fashion industry. You moderated one of the panel discussions at the conference. Please tell us about the conference's results and whether the fashion industry is ready to respond to the new challenges. I'd like to note that it was an excellent e…

  31.03.2017

• ScienceMedia-2017 Prizes

  …Creating media from scratch and developing it to a level that exceeds mediocre student initiatives is no simple task, especially if most of your staff members are not professional journalists or even journalism students. They don't get paid, but they still have almost as much work as acting journalists. Enthusiasts face many challenges: funding, lack of space, equipm…

  30.03.2017

• An Introvert's Guide to Survival

  …ant conversation, prepare for it: imagine how it will go, what the other person will say, what you should or shouldn't say and the possible ways to solving the matter of discussion; 6. Sometimes, communication doesn't go the right way and becomes tense, so you need to calm it somehow. How do you do that if nobody is ready to back down? Visualization might work her…

  30.03.2017

• Cameras On A Chip And Holographic Displays: How Dielectric Nanophotonics Changes Our Future

  …tting the opportunity to dynamically control the optical properties of each nanoparticle separately. In practice, that will allow to create a display that will show three-dimensional images. Interactive holographic display. Credit: habrahabr.net "We are not talking about the kind of holograms in Star Wars movies, where the image appears in front of the screen…

  30.03.2017

• ITMO Conducts Research for Alexander Park Renovation

  …lts will be announced. Alongside the contest, the "Beautiful St. Petersburg" movement will launch a survey among St. Petersburg citizens. Its goal is to let anyone share his vision of the park's further development, pinpoint the relevant problems and offer their own solutions. A similar approach was already tested during discussions abo…

  29.03.2017

• ITMO University Becomes the Co-Founder of CINPET Innovation Center

  … University, creating a team that will do work on forecast, research, emergency prevention and increasing efficiency of the city's heat power industry was a very important decision. Signing of the agreement "In essence, today we create a smart system that will combine the competencies all of its participants possess: this includes robotics and our university’…

  29.03.2017

• ScienceMedia-2017: Students Changing the Face of Media

  …ts, not including those from ITMO’s student media group, Megabyte. Many participants, remembering the first ScienceMedia, came to re-live the experience of meeting other professionals in the field of science journalism. By the second half of the final day of the forum, participants had visited nearly all the events of the program, all that was left was to present the…

  28.03.2017