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• 2016 Rio Olympics: ITMO University Graduate Takes Bronze in Shooting

  …ts of prizes. He became a winner at the ISSF World Cup 2015, the World Cup 2015 finalist and received the silver medal at the 2015 Summer Universiade.  The Olympic champion trains under the guidance of his father, Akop Grigoryan. In 2014 Kirill Grigoryan graduated from the Chair of Secure Information Technologies with honors. As of now, the medal table of Russia h…

  12.08.2016

• Lenticular Images: Researchers Combine Art & Science

  …erent angles. Vasilii Trushin, researcher at ITMO’s Design and Multimedia Center, who worked with this equipment, was guided by Andreas Sarakinos, a representative of Hellenic Institute of Holography. "We have fixed a camera to a slider which consisted of modular yards and a tripod, and a smartphone or a tablet to control movements of the camera. Before that w…

  11.08.2016

• Perseids 2016: Guide to Watching a Meteor Shower

  …though it was a weak one. Those who missed this phenomenon should wait for new solar flares and cloudless dark nights. The stronger the aurora, the easier it is to see it from inside the city - one should go up to a high place (like a balcony or a rooftop) and look North. For those who like these strange flares in the sky, but aren’t good with specialized websites, t…

  11.08.2016

• Optics Used for Measuring Blood Velocity

  …nfirmed the efficiency of our approach", - says Yuri Emelyanov. Occlusive laser-optical plethysmography allows to asses both blood velocity and the tone and capacity of veins in the study area. The method using electrical resistance is being developed in the USA, but the equipment is times more expensive than the device developed by scientists from ITMO. Dmitry …

  10.08.2016

• Ready to Move: Young Coders Share their Career Experience

  …is area correlates with my Bachelor’s and Master’s theses. My graduation paper is devoted to studying of individual and group characteristics of social networks’ users. For instance, analyzing photos from Instagram and Twitter’s texts one can determine demographic characteristics such as gender, age, marital status and so forth. This…

  10.08.2016

• Scientists Count Microscopic Particles Without Microscope

  …ary ways. However, fabricating optical materials with desired properties is a laborious process that needs constant improvement. A research team from ITMO University, Ioffe Institute, and Australian National University for the first time suggested analyzing the structure of photonic crystals using optical diffraction method, that is, by looking at the light patter…

  09.08.2016

• Joining Big Science: How PCs Help Large-Scale Projects

  …. Despite the fact that signals by aliens were not found and people lost interest in the project experts realized that volunteers can assist in solving global tasks. It inspired them to launch BOINC (Berkeley Open Infrastructure for Network Computing), the open platform for involving individuals in computing projects. Everybody can participate by offering faci…

  09.08.2016

• Russia’s First Multi-Node Quantum Network: the Next Step for Quantum Communications of Tomorrow

  … photons transform completely. Quantum communication systems will become a foundation for a new generation of network security systems, which will be in great demand among all institutions that need to exchange confidential data – financial, governmental and industrial. In the nearest future, quantum communications are to be integrated into the Internet of Things con…

  08.08.2016

• Drones at Work: Delivering Pizza, Searching for the Lost... and Dismembering Snowmen

  …-shots jobs, sometimes big ones - like delivering 500 packages during a month. In a number of countries, drones have already caused a range of dangerous situations. For instance, there are many videos of drones delivering drugs on the Internet, as well as of drones flying in the airport's aerial space near the planes, and others. Actually, it's easy to imagine…

  08.08.2016

• Life-hacks for Studying Abroad: Students Share their Advices

  …ng it as soon as the university approves your application. Note that it can take from 4 days to a couple of weeks for the I-20 form to arrive via the postal service. Medical insurance is mandatory. The university offers a medical insurance from its partner company, which costs $2,000, though our fellows who went to Rochester after us …

  08.08.2016