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Elena Rybnikova on Why You Shouldn’t Fight Stress
…t it’s not quite true. Firstly, these things are not stress in itself, these are stressors – factors that influence our bodies and threaten our homeostasis. Stress is not a specific situation, it’s a body condition, the launch of special reactions that try to balance things out. Secondly, both stress and stressors aren’t necessarily negative – winning a race or havin…
13.05.2021
ITMO Researchers Suggest Design for Biointegrable Controlled Nanoparticles
…. We were able to substantiate the behavior of polymers in complexes of this kind from the chemical point of view. This, in turn, gave physicists the opportunity to achieve specific optical effects,” explains Anna Nikitina, a staff member at ITMO’s Infochemistry Scientific Center. The methodology of nanoparticle control has already been tried and tested – th…
12.05.2021
Over 100 School Students Give Presentations at 10th Congress of Young Scientists
…S. I’m not used to pulling ideas out of thin air. As a programmer, my task is to improve people’s lives. I knew that teachers have to submit documentation on each lesson specifically, so I tried to find a way to solve this problem. I started working on this project in September and since then I’ve revised it a bunch of times. My school already uses this technology…
06.05.2021
Congress of Young Scientists: Projects in Inclusive Education
… career guidance to students with disabilities. The online service includes lists of all specializations and majors at ITMO and of professions not recommended to those with specific disabilities, as well as a matrix of competencies (per the Atlas of Emerging Jobs). Artem also plans to adapt his service for the visually impaired with the help of an expert optometrist,…
04.05.2021
Continuing Professional Education: Big Data for Managers – Law and Marketing for Developers
…es. So, it’s too late for a “conditional future,” as digital specialists – managers, lawyers, and others – are already our present. And only those who possess both industry-specific and digital competencies will succeed on today’s labor market,” shares Semyon Kraev, dean of ITMO’s Faculty of Digital Transformation Big data for everyone It’s not easy to start …
28.04.2021
ITMO Dean Sergey Makarov on Profession, Publicity, and Scientific Openness
…d technologies and thus I think that this category is rather a good fit for us. Why do you think your work is so highly cited? Does it have something to do with the specifics of your research or with the fact that it's a new field? On the one hand, our laboratory possesses a wide range of different competencies – from both fundamental theory and special ex…
28.04.2021
PhD Studies at ITMO University’s Faculty of Physics and Engineering
…ffe Physical-Technical Institute of the Russian Academy of Sciences, with which ITMO’s Faculty of Physics and Engineering has established long-time cooperation. Seminars on specific topics held by guest speakers from all over the world also take place. Another important aspect of PhD studies is teaching. At the same time, each student has an opportunity to choose …
27.04.2021
ITMO Launches Russia’s First English-Language Master’s Program in Public Health Sciences
…etween this sphere and the conventional scopes of biology and medicine, which usually study the processes that exist within human bodies. While medicine focuses on curing a specific person from an illness or its aftereffects, health sciences study the spread of diseases, their effects and risk factors, as well as protective factors such as the effects of drugs and ot…
22.04.2021
10th Congress of Young Scientists Wraps at ITMO
…ary session included a lecture by Andrey Bruk, CEO of Carel Rus, a company specializing in refrigeration and AC systems, who used the example of vaccines to speak about the specifics of storing thermolabile materials. Other representatives of the university’s industrial partners who featured among the event’s speakers were Sergey Shadymuhamedov, head of the Oil and G…
22.04.2021
ITMO Robotics Team Converts Hoverboard Into Life-Sized Robot
…lowing a tradition set by all previous humanoid robots at the lab. The well-known robot Seldon – the winner of various awards, including the silver medal at the RoboCup Asia-Pacific 2017 – plays the guitar, and ELSA – the second-place winner at RoboCup 2019 – is a flute virtuoso. As explained by Igor Lositskiy, the head of ITMO’s Youth Robotics Lab, the team wants to…
21.04.2021