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VK Hackathon 2018 Winners Make Donating Blood Easier
…, it’s easier to come up with something unique, especially in Russia, where there are not so many technical solutions in this area. Besides, the task was pretty clear, and we knew that we could do it. And last but not least, Lena and Grisha are donors themselves and they had some useful connections that might have come in handy. Elena Selivanova: The other guys to…
23.11.2018
ITMO Master’s Students Win National Lighting Design Competition
…igorate pedestrians passing by starting their workday, or, conversely, relax them on the way home. To that end, the students decided to replace the old lighting systems with a new one, having developed a unique solution that accounts for the tunnel’s unique structure. Their solution creates a semblance of the sky and moving clouds via controlled dynamic lighting hidd…
22.11.2018
Voting Begins as ITMO Highpark Exhibition Opens in St. Petersburg
… Several of this Russian firm’s projects have been chosen as winners of international competitions over the years. Among their most renowned works is a concept design of the New Museum of Hans Christian Andersen in Odense, Denmark, the Nike Air Box sports center in Moscow, and the Skolkovo Seeds residential district master plan. Concept design Presentation …
22.11.2018
Scientists Designed Nanocontainers for Bacterial Metabolism Control
…d containers might be used for controlled drug delivery. In the near future, researchers are about to test the system created on solid bacterial environment, as well as to use new bacterial strains. For example, strains whose radiation can sterilize the environment from the inside. “This research is important since we managed to show the general principle of the…
22.11.2018
Beautiful Physics: ITMO Scientist Wins Award of Wikipedia’s Science Photo Competition
… foundation of his PhD thesis, which the young scientist defended in 2017. Semyon notes that the findings he obtained allow for a deeper understanding of physical processes in new phenomena which occur from using giant-pulse lasers, and paves the way for applying these radiation sources to the development of new concepts of data transmi…
22.11.2018
Inkjet Printers Can Produce Cheap Micro-Waveguides for Optical Computers
…es become smaller and smaller, scientists and engineers have come up with an analog of fiber on a microscale. Such devices are called waveguides. They are integral in creating new-generation computers on an optical basis, serving to ensure efficient signal transmission and processing. Most researchers now suggest complex and expensive technologies for creating wav…
21.11.2018
Tel Aviv University Professor Boris Malomed on Non-Linear Physics and Solitons
St. Petersburg’s Architectural Gems: Classicism
…i was ordered to retire. One of the greatest Baroque architects of St. Petersburg who devoted his whole life to the city died in Italy, poor and almost forgotten. He asked the new administration to at least return his architectural drawings, but his request remained unfulfilled. The new empress Catherine II wasn’t fond of luxurious ‘…
20.11.2018
The Secret Life of Plants
…ith water. Secondary successions are categorized by influencing factors. Autogenic successions happen under the influence of internal forces (a fallen tree is replaced by a new one), while allogenic successions happen due to external factors (such as if the tree is felled by humans). Xerarch succession Xanthoria, or the orange wall lichen, is the first s…
20.11.2018
Top Russian and European Firms Present Concept Designs for ITMO Highpark
…, the international expert council, which includes renowned architects, urban scientists, and education experts, reviewed four design concepts for ITMO University’s innovative new campus in the south of St. Petersburg. The solutions were developed by the following firms: MVRDV (The Netherlands) MVRDV has previously worked on a number of major construction proje…
20.11.2018