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• How optics rules influence perception of art and architecture

  … the Renaissance? What happened when a flat image in the paintings of the Middle Ages changed to volumetric and detailed drawn one? Here was not without science: it were optical projections that helped to transfer the realism of the objects," Falco says. Since 2000, Charles Falco, along with David Hockney, the artist, analyzes the Renaissance painting and looks f…

  03.04.2015

• St. Petersburg Governor launched the International Year of Light in Russia

  …ts of architecture, painting and theater at different stages of civilization development. Professor Alessandro Farini from the University of Florence, an expert in the field of interaction of optics and creativity, impressed guests with visual illusions.   At the opening ceremony, governor Georgy Poltavchenko said that St. Petersburg rightly takes the baton f…

  02.04.2015

• Student Chapters Leadership Meeting in St. Petersburg

  … student of the Photonics and Optical Information Technology Department, this is an excellent opportunity to establish scientific contacts with foreign institutions through the interaction of young scientists. "We showed our university to the guests, explained what research areas are developing here, and how we, young researchers, are involved in this process. Ou…

  02.04.2015

• Universities of Russia, Norway and Finland are preparing a joint educational project

  …  As noted by Elena Bogdanova, the dean of the Institute of International Business and Law, the education is unthinkable without practice, which is provided by the chain of interactions with partners in educational programs, tax and customs services, business that exists in the University. "The cooperation agreement with the Lapland University of Applied …

  25.03.2015

• Russian and American scientists have discovered previously unknown immune cells mechanisms

  …- American colleagues and us have developed method of non-targeted analysis of metabolic changes of macrophages, which allows "looking" into the mechanisms that regulate metabolic reactions. Reactions are an important part of our body; we study, particularly, biochemical ones: converting some substances in others, the synthesis of amino…

  25.03.2015

• ITMO University is a leader of the "5 in 100" Project

  …ed the best presentation and the best Roadmap among those I have seen today. ITMO University has deep understanding of what to do and how to achieve the goals set with the realistic action plan.” He also appreciated the novel and attractive interpretation of ITMO's “complicated” abbreviation with the slogan “IT's MOre than the University” Andrew B. Wachtel unde…

  23.03.2015

• Lectures of world experts on Science and Art

  …  Professor Charles M. Falco from the Arizona State University will talk about discoveries of the Arab scholar Ibn al-Haytham in XI century, as well as explicit and implicit connections between artists and optics researchers since ancient times: mirror anamorphosis, perspective distortion, common philosophical foundations of science and creation.   1:00 p…

  23.03.2015

• Russian quantum system of secure data transmission was presented at CeBIT exhibition in Germany

  …than 600 of its leading companies.   Information security was the main topic of the exhibition this year: the vast majority of the presented developments were related to protection of private, corporate and government data. At CeBIT, Angela Merkel, the German Chancellor, and Edward Snowden, the former CIA and National Security Agency employee, spoke on the ne…

  20.03.2015

• New properties of topological insulators will be used in the creation of quantum computers

  … the incident electromagnetic wave.   - What is so unique about this discovery?   - The attention of scientists around the world is now turned to research in this direction. Study of electromagnetic topological insulators are currently held only in St. Petersburg: in the Ioffe Physical-Technical Institute of the Russian Academy of Sciences and in our …

  19.03.2015

• The discovery of new metabolism mechanisms will help to cure autoimmune diseases

  …e key properties of macrophages is their ability to change state depending on environmental factors. Passing the activation process, macrophages can perform dramatically different functions in the human body as pro-inflammatory or anti-inflammatory. The study of these processes is important for the understanding of the human immune system and curing autoimmune diseas…

  18.03.2015