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Social Media: Does It Change Us? Here’s What Science Thinks
… and Twitter (2006) followed by Pinterest and Instagram in 2010. Thus it can be said that the true, “active” age of social media is approximately 13 years. Despite being so new, social networks have won the hearts of nearly half the world’s population. Approximately 2.64 billion people used various social media outlets in 2017, and that number is likely to reach 3…
12.01.2018
ITMO and ER-Telecom Sign Research & Education Partnership Agreement
…ions on implementation of IoT technologies. The company has expressed interest in using some of the university’s existing projects, as well as collaborating on the creation of new applied technologies. Vladimir Vasilyev and Andrey Kuzyaev The company’s choice of partner university was also greatly influenced by the fact that ITMO University’s Rector, Vladimir…
11.01.2018
Scientists Propose New Type Of Terahertz Solid-State Laser
…anik Shahnazaryan, Ivan Shelykh, Alexander Alodjants, and their colleague Igor Chestnov from Vladimir State University was dedicated to solving these problems. They proposed a new concept of a solid-state terahertz laser based on asymmetrical gallium-nitride quantum dots. Vanik Shahnazaryan “We aimed to create a terahertz laser that would be highly tunable.…
11.01.2018
Things to Do in St. Petersburg: January 13-14
…a true marvel for anyone who’s into these kinds of things. For music lovers, there’ll be two notable events this weekend. St. Petersburg Jazz Philarmonic Hall will host its New Year’s Festival - an grand annual event commemorating the venue’s birthday; at the same time, the Saint Petersburg Court Chapel will hold the 15th Guitar Virtuoso Festival. See you next …
10.01.2018
ITMO Master's Student Receives Praise for Immuno-Oncology Research
…molecular foundations of modern biology and practical applications of scientific achievements in medicine and biotechnology, in the category "My work". Tell us, what does your new status of prize-winner give you? I received a diploma in the general competition in the category "My work", but there were other awards and offers for collaboration as well. For example,…
10.01.2018
Time Management: Ideas You Can Use
…agement The roots of time management go back to the business world. The industrial revolution of the 19th century and the rise of factories created a need to come up with a new formula for a relationship people generally have with time. Factory work, unlike agrarian labor, demanded punctuality. Thus, people had to learn to live by the clock rather than by the sun.…
09.01.2018
Joint PhD Programs: Recent Graduates Share
…ia; in Russia, I only presented my research at my department and as part of several conferences. My thesis was dedicated to controlling near electromagnetic fields by using new artificial metamaterial structures. These allow to control electromagnetic fields on a subwave level - a much lesser scale than that of a wavelength. This allows to create new optical properties by replacing some of the carbon atoms with atoms of other elements or applying a special molecular complex onto a dot’s surface. A modified carbon quantum dot would emit …
09.01.2018
Exchange Student Shares: “I was truly surprised by the city”
…in a lot of work experience. I decided to come to Russia for an exchange semester so that I could learn Russian and to experience being in a foreign country again. Visiting new places and getting to know the local culture and language is really interesting. Russia has the perfect combination of being something new and a bit of a chal…
08.01.2018
Winter Holidays: Russian Orthodox Christmas
…25? It’s because the Russian Orthodox Church still lives according to the Julian Calendar as the Russian Empire did before the 1917 revolution. One of the first decrees of the new Soviet Government was to change the calendar to the Gregorian one, like in Europe and most of the countries of the world. The Russian Orthodox Church did not obey and kept all important chu…
05.01.2018