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• Royal Society Member Maurice Skolnick: Why Making Science Understandable to Society Matters

  Why do we need to “disassemble” light into photons and how can it change the world? How do you explain to someone what a soliton is? Which discovery has shown the importance of long-term research to the world? Maurice Skolnick, a member of the Royal Society and a visiting scientist at ITMO University answers these and other questions in an interview with ITMO.NEWS. Prof. Skolnick’s field of work is semiconductors and he is currently studying methods of dispersing light into photons to create new modes of communication. He came to ITMO to work at a new international laboratory on hybrid light-matter states. 

  11.05.2017

• Researchers Develop Word-of-mouth Computer Simulation

  Russian researchers have created a computer simulation that works on the word-of-mouth principle to show how information spreads among mobile phone users. The model reconstructs call paths and estimates whether the news was transferred through them or not. The program makes its conclusions based on open-source cellular communication data. According to the researchers, there is currently not enough such data to adapt the project for real-life application. Data for follow-up studies can only be provided by mobile network carriers. The paper was published in the Journal of Computational Science.

  04.05.2017

• Holography Helped to Quickly Learn the Number of Particles in Volume

  Optical engineers from ITMO University in Saint Petersburg developed an express method for analyzing the distribution of particles in optically transparent media, based on correlation analysis of holograms. As a big part of the study, they created an algorithm capable of processing images in a few seconds. The new method can be applied to engineering devices for monitoring metal shavings in the engine oil, studying a plankton in water or tracking viruses in living cells. The work was published in Scientific Reports.

  20.04.2017

• Research Associates Migraine with Hypertension

  St. Petersburg's scientists learned that that though arterial hypertension and migraines manifest themselves differently, they may have a similar origin. The researchers discovered that patients who have migraines have twice more relatives with cardiovascular problems than healthy people.  Yet, patients with migraines and normal blood pressure and patients with migraines and hypertension react to autonomic regulation of circulation tests differently.  According to the scientists, by studying the links between these diseases, one will be able to better understand mechanisms of their development and causes of frequent cardiovascular complications in migraine patients. The article was published in the Autonomic Neuroscience: Basic and Clinical.

  10.04.2017

• Videogames and Violence: the Pro’s and Con’s of Gaming

  The problem of violent video games, whether there is anything good about them, or do they turn kids into potential maniacs, has been around for many years already. Yet, scientific research on the subject shows that expecting a yes/no answer to it is totally wrong: one has to consider individual traits of every person. The point is, violent video games have a different effect on different people. Read more on the subject in our article.

  17.03.2017

• New Faculty Opens Its Doors for Bachelors

  The new Physical Technical Faculty started working on January 1, 2017. This summer it will launch a program for Bachelors called "Nanophotonics and Quantum Physics."

  19.01.2017

• Baltic Research Contest: Best Students, Great Opportunities

  The Baltic Research Contest gives its winners a rare opportunity: to experience what a full-fledged scientist does and present a project to a group of world-class experts at the Intel International Science and Engineering Fair (ISEF). Maksim Vagner, last year's winner and now a freshman at ITMO University, shared about his research project, the skills he got during the contest and Intel ISEF.

  18.01.2017

• ITMO’s Researchers for Nature: How Does New Ultra-Compact Laser Work?

  Among others articles in January’s issue of Nature there is "Optical physics: Supercavity lasing" article by ITMO’s researchers Yuri Kivshar and Mikhail Rybin, devoted to research by physicists from University of California, San Diego. In the article Russian researchers talk to representatives of scientific fields, unrelated to photonics, about compact infrared lasers of a new generation that use bound states in the continuum (BICs) concept.

  17.01.2017

• A Guide for Energy Saving: How to Make It Safer and Cheaper

  Modern science is still puzzled with the problem of a lack of fuel materials and aims to develop new effective and safe methods of storage and saving energy. These days bio and nanotechnologies as well as nonstandard chemical elements are used for these purposes. We’ve prepared a review of achievements in this field made by international researchers and ITMO University.

  13.01.2017

• The Art&Science Cluster Opens Its Doors

  Recently ITMO University initiated the Art&Science Cluster. Created thanks to the interaction of specialists from different areas and fields like science, education, culture, business and art, this "innovative environment" will meet the requirements of the modern world. Read how experts in such dissimilar fields plan to work side by side.

  09.01.2017