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CEO of 02 Light Systems on Importance of Seeing Eye to Eye with Engineers and Working with Universities
…eds to be inserted into the light source, a router, which needs to be placed nearby, and a client unit, which needs to be connected to a laptop. The key feature of this new technology is that the connection offered is much safer than that of Wi-Fi. It’s impossible to intercept data without direct contact with radiation. So should you want to have a secret meet…
25.01.2019
Vegetarian & Vegan St. Petersburg: Restaurants
Magic of Light: ITMO’s Interactive Exhibition in Shanghai
… and Vavilov State Optical Institute’s history and constitute the historical collection of ITMO’s Museum of Optics. Around 40% of the exhibition’s showpieces is represented by new items designed by ITMO University specialists especially for the event; the remaining part is a contribution by the Hellenic Institute of Holography, which can boast a great number of uniqu…
25.01.2019
The New Kilogram: Reasons Behind Upcoming Measurement Reform
…se changes, and now the choice has finally been made,” says Alexey Shcherbakov, a researcher at ITMO University’s Nanophotonics and Metamaterials Research Center. The new standard of a kilogram is based on the Planck constant. The device used to calculate it is called the Kibble balance. Just like any other weighing device, its main principle hinges on the c…
24.01.2019
Analyzing Metagenome Helps Understand the Role of Bacterial Species in Crohn’s Disease
…n microbiota donors for every patient. These findings also correspond with the scientists' earlier research that involved genome analysis of particular E. coli strains. The new results help study how microbiota changes in patients with Crohn’s disease, and which species and strains of bacteria take part in its development. This, in turn, can help better understand…
24.01.2019
This Weekend in St. Petersburg: January 26-27
…treets will be rife with sandbags, camouflage nets and anti-tank barriers, as per the custom of the time. Two big screens, set up especially for the project, will show wartime newsreels. Admission is free. On the eve of the big day, January 26, there will be a ‘Remembering the Feat’ event hosted in the Park of the 300th Anniversary of St. Petersburg. Participants …
23.01.2019
Moscow Topography of Terror, Geography of Holocaust and Gulag Retrospective: Digital Humanities Projects That Remind of the Horrible Past
…the texts were taken from existing sources and archives; the website also had cartoons about particular historical events like the murder of Rasputin, as well as infographics, news feeds, etc. On January 19, 2018, the authors closed the project and offered its users a new one, the Map of History. Map of History While in 2017 us…
23.01.2019
Science Day at ITMO University
…arding the technologies on display. The Power Pitch and Future Now sections will be held in three stages, each covering some particular topic. “ITMO Open Science is a new conference organized by ITMO University and aimed at establishing collaboration between different University’s departments. The idea was to make it both simple and entertaining to keep our …
23.01.2019
St. Petersburg’s Architectural Gems: Eclecticism
…thousands of former serfs moving to big cities to work at factories, which resulted in rapid urbanization. Together with the development of capitalism, it created the need for new city-planning strategies and approaches to the solution of functional and artistic problems. Criticized for being overly bureaucratic and impractical, Classicism with its grandeur and mo…
22.01.2019
Ins and Outs of Modern Animation
… in some scenes, the animation team reduced the number of frames-per-second to imitate the look of stop-motion animation. However, the biggest distinguishing feature of the new Spider-Man movie as compared to its animated peers is the characters’ facial animations. “When we looked at what made comic books so interesting, it was how the illustrators used lines…
22.01.2019