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• Student Spotlight: Bashar Mawase, Israel

  …yes and no! Sometimes you can spot the sun even at 9 pm, but they are yet to match our expectations. Perhaps we will feel them more strongly in the middle of May. They will certainly be more prominent than what I experienced in London when I was 9 or 10 because St. Pete is situated more northward. Do you pursue any hobbies in your free time? In my free time…

  11.05.2023

• ITMO Fellowship Stories: Physicist Ksenia Chichay on Spintronics, Data-Related Advances, and Academic Career

  …ization in science: in order to store more data, we need to make our data storage devices smaller. Unfortunately, there is a limit to how small we can make them, since at a certain size the device becomes vulnerable to outside interferences, such as temperature changes. That’s when topological defects can become useful, since they each have a certain issues and it is even a little bit ironic in places. Hopefully, I am not wrong. I am rather wary of AI’s rapid, largely unsupervised development of late. If I ever did consider publishi…

  09.05.2023

• Mysterious Creatures You Can Meet in Russian Countryside

  …In Slavic mythology, there are several groups of creatures that act as hosts of certain locations. Some reign over natural areas (for example, leshy in the forest), while others inhabit human-made places, such as huts or barns. The only creature of the latter kind that is still popular in modern culture is domovoy. Not surprisingly so, as domovoy lives in a house, wh…

  08.05.2023

• Research Under Siege: How Leningrad Scientists Fought to Overcome Famine

  … Meanwhile, a team of the Department of Microbiology, led by associate professor Nikolay Novotelny, figured out how to ferment cellulose using fungi and use the materials obtained to, for instance, improve the quality of bread. Whereas the specialists of the Department of Food Production Equipment, associate professor Nikolay Golovkin and assistants Boris Novitsky…

  05.05.2023

• Two ITMO Students Set To Receive 300,000 Rubles From Alfa-Bank

  …lize machine learning technologies to analyze the physiological data of its users. The goal is to prevent burnout and loss of productivity while helping users to focus and maintain life-work balance when working remotely.” The Alfa-Chance scholarship contest is a program by Alfa-Bank that aims to support promising students of Russian universities. The progra…

  02.05.2023

• ITMO’s Rebranding Is Project of the Year According to Delovoy Peterburg Media

  …se changes are the result of the university’s recent development, following directly from ITMO’s 2030 Development Strategy. “Apart from being an honor, this award is a certain responsibility. Our new development model includes a new approach to training young specialists that we implement together with our industrial partners. This model demonstrates that higher…

  28.04.2023

• Cancer Explained: How Scientists Can Tame the Disease

  …in growth signals. Normal cells need external signals to start division, which can be transmitted by molecules or hormones that stimulate cell receptors to turn on or off a certain gene. Cancer cells, on the other hand, can produce such signals on their own, for instance, via autocrine signaling (cancer cells independently produce hormones and other chemical substanc…

  28.04.2023

• Quiz Champ's Tips for Erudites

  …st tagging along? Shared level of dedication. While some contestants wholeheartedly commit themselves to the game (and training), others may treat it as a form of entertainment. Your reasons for playing must be the same – or you risk a divide in the team..  Speed of thought. You can take notice of how quickly a person answers questions in a casual con…

  27.04.2023

• Student Spotlight: Rahim Hakimov, Tajikistan

  …rson. Hence, I consider plov to be my favorite dish. What attractions would you recommend to tourists visiting your country? I would recommend to tourists our scenic mountain ranges. They calm you down and give you a taste of what peace feels like. One would also not want to miss the museums. They house some really interesting artifacts. What motivated you t…

  27.04.2023