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• ITMO Student on Building Robots, Dancing with Nobel Winners and Being on Chinese TV

  …erse. Others talked about power consumption measuring systems, chemical analysis using e-microscopes, a four-dimensional electron model, presented software for people with Parkinson’s disease, discussed cancer treatments, new sensors, experimental plane wings – all kinds of things. There were 25 of us in total, but the countries were represented a bit unevenly. Most …

  20.12.2017

• Winter Holidays in St. Petersburg: Merry Christmas!

  …ruly unique gifts – like a heart made of metal gears and screws or holiday feather wreaths – will be the stars at the New Year’s Fair at Etagi Lofts on Dec 23-24. Felt flower pins or hand-sewn iPad cases? Yes, please! If you’re thinking more along the lines of traditional European-style markets, you’d like the St. Petersburg Christmas Fair, complete with a theatri…

  19.12.2017

• ITMO Students Develop AI to Combat Car Insurance Fraud

  …How fraud works The algorithm developed by ITMO students is a decision support system for car insurance companies that can help tell whether some traffic accident is a work of swindlers or not. Nowadays, swindlers concoct minor and major traffic accidents to make their victims cover their insurance payments. Sometimes, policy holders…

  19.12.2017

• Tournament of Two Capitals: Promoting Robotics To The Young

  … their destination point. If a team doesn’t complete some task in full, it moves a bit faster, and if the Great Evil reaches its destination faster than the racer robot, Evil wins. “Neither of the teams allowed that to happen. All of the participants stayed within the time-limit, and if they made mistakes, that was due to anxiety, not some attempt to cheat. We w…

  19.12.2017

• Nanoscale Super-Resonator Extends Light Lifetime

  …One of the most important tasks of modern optics is to localize light inside a photonic system. For this purpose, usually resonators based on metals and dielectrics are used. A key feature of these devices is how long a light wave spends inside the system before being emitted. Scientifically, this time can be called lifetime of optical …

  18.12.2017

• Teaching 3D Tech to School Kids in Moscow

  …lready the third year of Caliber’s operation; one of its purposes is to create more jobs for the city’s inhabitants, creating a space which will bring more people to the Ostankinsky district. Adding a new area for children was a logical development for the technopark which helps to develop new skills in preparation for university as well as get to know more about inn…

  18.12.2017

• 5 Science News Now

  …off the body and internal organs, and are then detected by an electronic reader that gathers the data from a location elsewhere in the room. Tiny robots think and move like insects. Unlike traditional chips that process combinations of 0s and 1s as binary code, neuromorphic chips process spikes of electrical current that fire in complex combinations, similar to ho…

  18.12.2017

• ITMO Dean Sergei Kozlov Receives Auspicious Award

  …gh or, on the contrary, very low intensity. Back in 1997, we have published a paper on optics of waves with a small number of oscillations with my colleague from the Kurchatov Institute and it became one of the key, widely quoted articles in physics of high-intensity radiation of extremely short duration. This is nonlinear optics of ultrashort pulses - and it is in t…

  15.12.2017

• The History of Light in Art

  …ve Caty Olive graduated from the École Nationale Supérieure des Arts Décoratifs of Paris; she creates lighting designs for architectural projects, presents her own lighting installations at festivals and exhibitions, and designs stage lighting for plays. Ms. Olive has collaborated with many theatres and performers in France and around the world. “I have alway…

  15.12.2017

• Free Li-Fi, Light Swings, Bicycle Parkings and More Light Design from ITMO

  …escents to the water, illuminated lower walking level with less bright light, which will be more comfortable for the eye gazing at the water surface, a central zone with fountains, a pontoon in the central zone which can be used for different purposes depending on the season and last, but not least pedestrian zones. Such an approach aims at realization of the three m…

  14.12.2017