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• ITMO Master’s Student Tatiana Statsenko on Internship Abroad During COVID-19

  …es. First, we obtain a precursor and check whether we really got what we need. Then, we use the precursor to create a different material, which will stimulate the growth of specific participles. It takes time and a number of reagents, which must be 100% pure. Otherwise, we won’t be able to produce participles of the desired shape and phase. Are you going to contin…

  09.03.2021

• ITMO Hosts PM School in Project Management

  …, we start preparing a project by analyzing financiers’ demands. This might seem odd, as people often come to financial sources just to get money. We pay attention to how a specific project can help the representatives of financial structures and grant foundations achieve their goals and tasks in accordance with state and international agreements.” Among the sch…

  05.03.2021

• Smart Light: ITMO Researchers and Students Create Lighting System That Adapts to How Its Users Feel

  …n order to get accurate data, researchers will need at least 30 volunteers in each group. That’s why the organizers invite everyone to take part in the experiment.  Task-specific lighting The collected data will be processed by a neural network. As a result, a system will be created that will monitor the user’s state and adjust the color temperature and level o…

  04.03.2021

• Highlights of Another Break Down by Atoms Lecture at the Informational Center for Atomic Energy

  …e reasons behind the onset of these diseases, we have a poor understanding of why they happen, and can’t really treat them.   Parkinson’s disease involves the death of a specific type of neuron, dopaminergic ones, in one specific place – the substantia nigra located in the midbrain. This leads to a significant drop in the production …

  03.03.2021

• ITMO Researchers Develop Method for Production of Hollow Nanoparticles From Liquid Metal

  … their total area, making them more or less porous, or changing the thickness of their walls. It’s a versatile method. It will allow any researcher to create a capsule of a specific shape and size, fit for the needs of whichever experiment they’re planning.” …

  03.03.2021

• How the Pandemic Is Causing a Technological Revolution in Medicine and Biotechnologies

  …n actively used in the development of vaccines against the coronavirus. Simply put, the method involves blocking a part of the RNA that is responsible for the production of specific proteins. This is basically like turning certain genes on and off. At the same time, the process is reversible, unlike gene therapy technologies. The company Moderna, which has been worki…

  02.03.2021

• Mind-Blowing Research of the Month: Brain-Computer Interfaces

  … restore vision in those blinded in adulthood, help paralytics restore some control of their limbs, or prevent seizures in epileptics – all by stimulating either muscles or specific brain areas. Such cases are often referred to as neuroprosthetics and studied separately. Some BCIs are non-invasive – more on that later. It is exciting to realize how many previously “u…

  02.03.2021

• Giant Turnips and Runaway Buns: Essential Russian Folktales

  …азать” (skazat’) – to say.  The second genre is represented by stories either completely made up by a modern author or based on a folktale but edited and attributed to a specific creator. Today, we’ll take a look at folktales. No one knows who, where, and when came up with them, but everyone in Russia knows what they are about. You can find that out, too, and i…

  01.03.2021

• ITMO Professor Alexander Boukhanovsky on How AI Can Help Economy in Crisis

  …with short-term prediction methods for such processes. Fourth, we develop generative design methods that allow us to synthesize financial products that will be efficient specifically in conditions of crisis, even if for a short time.  Fifth, we improve tools for experimental studies in this field. As each crisis is unique and the 2020 data from the COVID-19 are…

  25.02.2021

• How To Write a Successful Grant Application and Get Funding: Tips for Young Scientists

  …what you are striving for and what you want to get as a result, it will not be obvious to experts reading your application, too. Your project should have an aim and solve a specific problem, which, in turn, should be substantiated and represented in facts and statistics. The problem defines the goal of the project. So, basically, it is a plan in pursuit of spe

  25.02.2021