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How to Sleep Well When You’re Anxious
Student Spotlight: Alonso Arbildo Prieto, Peru
This Weekend in St. Petersburg: October 15-16, 2022
ITMO Researchers Develop Novel Strategy to Tailor Photonic Topological Insulators
…. A slight change in the geometry of such a lattice would cause light in a certain frequency range to propagate along the edge of the structure, going around any obstacles and sharp corners without backscattering. The same properties can be found in the kagome lattice, named after the Japanese basket-weaving pattern. In 2020, a group of scientists from ITMO and City …
11.10.2022
Highlights of National PROF-IT Forum: Helping School Students Define Their IT Futures
…ays Dmitry Isaenko, a first-year PhD student at the Bonch-Bruevich Saint Petersburg State University of Telecommunications. At universities, too, IT professionals can share cutting-edge knowledge, talk about the changing trends in the industry, as well as offer interested students jobs at their companies. This solution will allow universities to keep in touc…
10.10.2022
Don’t Get Skinny Like a Russian: Tackling Common Food Myths
…a good one. As in, “cross the street on the red light” or “the polite way is not to say thank you ever.” Today, we have decided to accumulate our collective bad wisdom and share some widespread (un)healthy eating recommendations of rather questionable character that we all heard as kids from our grandparents, aunties, and on TV. Read at your leisure, but proceed …
10.10.2022
How Biomimetics Helps Scientists Create Materials With New Properties
…ht, they acquire antibacterial properties. In the future, the scientists plan to study the influence of UV radiation on antibacterial qualities. “We would like to imitate shark scales. Research shows that the surface of this fish decreases biofouling and friction, so if we manage to recreate its properties on a ship, it will solve two problems at once. It will b…
06.10.2022
Nobel Prize in Chemistry 2022: All About Click Chemistry
…, resulting in new substances. What did each of this year’s winners contribute to science? This year marks the second Nobel Prize in Chemistry for Karl Barry Sharpless, which is quite a rarity. In 2001, he shared the prize with William S. Knowles and Ryōji Noyori. Sharpless was awarded fo…
05.10.2022
This Weekend in St. Petersburg: October 8-9, 2022
ITMO to Host Eco Art Festival and Upcycled Fashion Show
…The philosophy The festival is organized by Elina Monahova, Maria Sharonova, and Daniil Mironov, the members of ITMO's Sustainable Development Club. When coming up with the idea for their event, the students, or othersiders, as they call themselves, draw inspiration from Timothy Morton, a philosopher who proposed to stop dividing the natural world and the human wo…
05.10.2022