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• Researchers Are on the Way to Obtain First Chemically Synthesized Metamaterial

  …cture comprising of iron clusters linked by organic ligands. The most apparent property of the resulting material is its giant porosity, which provides numerous active centers inside the crystal for the implementation of catalysis, gas sorption, separation and transport of substances. However, the scientists proposed to look at such structures from a completely diffe…

  02.08.2016

• Airborne Troops Day

  …rborne Troops will be also functioning during the festival. There is also an informal tradition to this festival – the bathing of troopers in many of St. Petersburg’s fountains. The city authorities have been trying to stop this tradition on a yearly basis (last year some of the fountains were turned off for this holiday), but, as th…

  02.08.2016

• Game Theory: “Game Core” to Make People Play and Give Back

  …at a computer. “Games are evolving. They become more and more useful. Education and training practices is only one of possible areas to which one can apply games. For instance, “EyeWire” was developed to create 3D map of eye retina’s neurons. Instead of games with some useful functions currently one discusses gamification of co…

  02.08.2016

• A Student from Iraq: “Studying in Russia was my Dream”

  … develop computer models of human’s heart work and blood flow. The research will help heart health experts analyze internal processes, make diagnoses and prescribe treatment.  Instead of 3D models I use diagrams to represent analyzed data. I work on this project in alliance with researchers from University of Amsterdam. We are the first who provide this kind of analy…

  01.08.2016

• The Master’s Program Enrollment Campaign: Bringing in Best Students and Training Elite Specialists

  …g special conditions for the students. To begin with, a master’s program implies that 35% of the study time shall be devoted to research. Our university’s status as a research institute is reflected in its many achievements, thus, we have all the necessary conditions for that. In the recently published rating of Russia’s research instit…

  01.08.2016

• Virtual Reality Classrooms: Education of the Future

  … chairs without a back and office chairs on wheels also aren’t suitable. There are some designs with private booths with speakers but these don’t really work in an educational institution.  So to design and create the right furniture for what we need, we invited colleagues from the Department of Furniture Design at the Stieglitz Academy. Now we already have a prototy…

  01.08.2016

• Five Things We Loved Last Week

  …e spines protruding from their dorsal plates. SciNews. New UNESCO sites. UNESCO added 21 new cultural, natural and mixed sites in 2016. They include Western Tien Shan mountains in Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan and Uzbekistan,  Gorham’s Caves in UK and works of modern architect Le Corbusier. UNESCO. Beer tastes better with music.  Just in time for summer festivals, the…

  30.07.2016

• Nature Index Names ITMO U as a "Rising Star"

  … “The institutions and countries we examine have increased their contribution to a selection of top natural science journals — a metric known as weighted fractional count (WFC) — from 2012 to 2015. In the competitive world of academic publishing, these are the players to watch.” explain the authors of the rankings. As mentioned by the Nature Index of Rising Sta…

  29.07.2016

• Look at Neptune and Visit a Warship: St. Petersburg Continues to Celebrate Navy Day

  …rafts, anti-submarine warfares and minesweepers — all thes boats will take part in the event. Furthermore Navy Day 2016 will be the first time when patrol ship Admiral Essen joins the parade. Those ships that are alongside the Lieutenant Schmidt Embankment will be open for visitors from 14.30 to 20.00! 7.00 pm. Palace Square turns into an open air area open to ever…

  29.07.2016

• Webometrics: ITMO Is Making its Way to the Top

  …includes Lomonosov Moscow State university (186th position), St. Petersburg State University (557th position), Novosibirsk State University (722th), Moscow Engineering Physics Institute (901th), ITMO University (905th) and Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology (921th). Several days ago Webometrics Ranking Web of Repositories and…

  29.07.2016