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• ITMO Students Shine at VkusVill’s R&D Incubator

  … track focused on finding a healthy alternative for coffee and energy drinks, while the fish track team was looking for an easier way to cook pollack. Those teams that passed the selection round then entered a three-month stage with tasks from VkusVill and workshops from the company and its partners – all aiming to help the teams bring their projects to MVP under the…

  20.01.2025

• City of Superlatives: Rainbow of St. Petersburg

  …lors: red, orange, green, blue, and purple. Learn more on how to sound like a local when picking your metro destination from this article – and let’s dive into our actual rainbow selection. Red Starting to assemble our list from the city center, we turn to one of St. Pete’s most iconic red buildings, the Twelve Collegia. In Peter the Great’s time, it housed …

  17.01.2025

• Be a Cool Scientist, Not a Boring Nerd: Physicist Alexey Kokhanovskiy on His Career in Science and Neuromorphic Computing

  …etasurfaces as layers of a neural network. With the help of resonance effects, we can localize optical fields, achieving significant nonlinear effects at lower energies. Nonlinear functions are crucial in the majority of computational algorithms. To design a neuromorphic computer, we will first need to study the effects of thermodynamics, optics, and phase changes…

  15.01.2025

• This Week in St. Petersburg: January 16-22, 2025

  … 8 pm St. Petersburg Philharmonia 600-1,500 rubles In celebration of Mozart’s birthday (January 27), the chamber orchestra of St. Petersburg Philharmonia will perform a selection of his most renowned pieces under the baton of Leo Kraemer, a long-time friend of the philharmonia from Germany. The flute solo in the Flute Concerto No. 1 for Flute in G major wil…

  15.01.2025

• From Unicorns to Orange Trees: St. Petersburg's Most Unusual Local Flags

  …ch flank the harbor’s entrance and are the only remaining structures from the district's original 18th-century ensemble. All these elements symbolize the district’s location and connection with the sea. Shuvalovo-Ozerki The Shuvalovo-Ozerki district’s flag features another mythical creature, namely a unicorn. In heraldic tradition, the unicorn is rather a s…

  14.01.2025

• ITMO’s Monday Science Roundup: 2024 in Review

  …It’s been a big year for science at ITMO, so much so that it can be tough to pick the very best! To review all of the past year’s developments, visit the Science section of our website – or better yet, check out all the previous installments of our Science Roundup series. *** Physics and more A new method of twisting particles with the help of a laser beam m…

  13.01.2025

• ITMO Fellow Alena Kulakova on Merging Chemistry and Physics

  …quipment. Starting from my third year of studies there, I interned at the N. D. Zelinsky Institute of Organic Chemistry of the Russian Academy of Sciences, where I learned to plan reactions, produce new compounds, and write research papers.  You’ve also studied in France. Tell us a bit about that. It so happened that the A.N. Nesmeyanov Institute of Organoe…

  13.01.2025

• The Heat-Ray: How H.G. Wells Predicted Lasers

  …942), he received his PhD. In 1988, he found work as a teacher and started to publish his research papers. But it wasn’t until the age of 27 that he started in journalism and later fiction. “On the surface, his novels and The War of the Worlds in particular may seem as a fruit of his creative mind, but in fact, H.G. Wells didn’t make up the stories; he had an in…

  10.01.2025

• Unsolvable Problems and Human Computers: Physics and Fantasy in The Three-Body Problem

  …for this, we would need a lot of space to gather all the participating people. Next, we’d need some kind of flying device to monitor the calculations. This is where we face a contradiction: if the aliens have such a flying device, it means they understand mechanics and thus can create at least primitive computing devices. Even the simplest of them would be performing…

  09.01.2025

• This Holiday Season in St. Petersburg: Part 2

  …d since holiday decorations are still on, partly thanks to the Old New Year celebrated on January 14, now's a good time to walk along the city's main arteries and enjoy the main attractions in all their glory: Nevsky Pr., Moskovsky Pr., Voznesensky Pr., Bolshoy and Srednyi Pr. of Vasilyevsky Island, Kamennoostrovsky Pr.; Christmas trees: Vosstaniya Square, Go…

  08.01.2025