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• ITMO Scientists Study Properties of Terahertz Gauss-Bessel Beams

  …er of rings that can cover an infinite distance. Secondly, thanks to their unique physical properties, these beams can “restore” themselves even after meeting an obstacle, for instance when propagating in humid atmosphere. These properties make Bessel beams attractive for different applications, wireless communications included. In this regard, beams of THz radiat…

  05.03.2018

• Science Slam: Dark Matter and Liquid Batteries for Electric Vehicles

  …gine that such a thing as "dark matter" would ever interest me. In the end, everything turned out differently, and today I want to tell you about one of the theories that explains the existence of dark matter. It is called "anapole". What is dark matter? It constitutes nearly 96% of our universe, but its nature is a mystery. There is no theory that would be 10…

  05.03.2018

• Climate Change: Future Challenges for Urban Scientists

  …ere it can get colder. This is only natural, as Earth has a complex structure, and there are many factors that affect local manifestations of different climatic variables. For instance, in 1998 the warming affected the territory of Northern America the most, and in 2007, it manifested in the Russian territories of the Arctic Basin. Humanity has become a geolog…

  05.03.2018

• 5 Science News Now

  …astric distress. Aqueous storage device charges in 20 seconds. A new hybrid energy storage device can be charged in less than half a minute. It employs aqueous electrolytes instead of flammable organic solvents, so it is both environmentally friendly and safe. It also facilitates a boosting charge with high energy density, which makes it suitable for portable elec…

  05.03.2018

• Mining Hardware Helps Scientists Gain Insight into Silicon Nanoparticles

  …cles. They are efficient at localizing light, but weaken the signal, causing significant losses. However, dielectric and semiconducting materials, such as silicon, can be used instead of metal. Silicon nanoparticles are now actively studied by researchers all around the world, including those at ITMO University. The long-term goal of such studies is to create ultr…

  02.03.2018

• Dmitry Moscovich, CIO at Gazprom Transgaz Saint-Petersburg, on Introducing IT Systems at Enterprises

  …s, why risk changing it? Still, the work of business analysts is to know when the refusal to introduce a new system threatens facing even greater risks in the near future. For instance, in 2014 the first sanctions were imposed on Russia. At that time, our company used systems by Oracle and Microsoft, so we analyzed the risks and decided to develop a domestic platform…

  02.03.2018

• ITMO Students Develop VR Lecture Hall to Replace Onsite Education

  …just watch a video on the internet, but can perform actions that are essential for their training. In other words, this can act as a replacement of intramural education,” explains Roman Vakhrushev. The project’s unique feature is that it does not require expensive equipment - only a smartphone and cardboard VR headset. By the way, foreign counterparts (VR Class …

  02.03.2018

• Mapping the City: ITMO Students Launch New Urban Development Project

  … of a bigger study of the Petrogradsky District that we’ll be conducting over the next few months. This project will be conducted by first year Master’s students following the institute’s Urban Development and Urban Informatics programs; having gotten the theoretical knowledge during their previous semester, they’ll be now applying it to practice. Part of this stu…

  01.03.2018

• ITMO University Climbs 100 Positions in QS Computer Science & Information Systems Subject Ranking

  …ersity Rankings that were published in June 2017, as the metrics that were used for the general ranking last year were also applied when calculating the subject rankings, explains Ilya Kuftiryov, head of the ITMO Rankings Research Center. He also adds that, as per QS’s methodology, the scientometric analysis accounted for the publications made in 2011-2015 and the ci…

  28.02.2018

• ITMO Researchers Develop Wireless Signal Transfer Method for MRI

  …tation in question is created by a uniformly distributed radio-frequency magnetic field. At the same time, there is a strong permanent magnetic field (1.5-3 T for medical MRI) inside the imaging unit. The combination of permanent and radio frequency fields affects the hydrogen atoms in the soft tissues of the body. These conditions create nuclear magnetic resonance w…

  28.02.2018