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• FoodTech Master’s Program Head Olesya Volokh: Food Is Always in Fashion

  …partnerships not only with members of the industry, but with your colleagues from other scientific institutions, too? I actually believe that practical challenges cannot be solved without fundamental science. There are a number of scientific issues that businesses are concerned about, but they don’t have the resources nor the equipment to do the necessary research…

  03.12.2020

• Nanolasers, MRI, and Cultural Heritage: ITMO University Wins Three Megagrants

  …l set of methods that will provide insightful information about various diseases and positively affect the process of diagnosis and follow-up.” As the project aims to solve clinical problems, the team will also invite specialists from the Almazov National Medical Research Centre who will help identify the burning issues and evaluate the developed methods for…

  03.12.2020

• Soft Skills: What Are They and Why Do We Need Them?

  … others – and that’s a soft skill, too. What if I just wasn’t born to be sociable and charismatic? That is exactly the issue that soft skills are supposed to resolve. There is no genetic predisposition towards being a better or worse talker. A lot of it is influenced by the environment in which we grow up and the way we’re raised. Developing your soft…

  02.12.2020

• To Fear or Not to Fear: Psychologist Alexander Palin on the Nature of Phobias

  …racting with them. Relaxation and meditation can also ease your anxiety and fear. For this purpose, specialists also use hypnosis, group psychotherapy, adaptive problem solving, and sometimes drug treatment. There are ways to fight your fears even during the pandemic. For example, you can highlight the areas that you have little to no control over and accep…

  02.12.2020

• This Weekend in St. Petersburg: December 5-6

  …s by artists, researchers, writers, and art historians. Great things are bound to come from the merge of creativity with a crystal clear mind, and maybe you will be the one to solve the problem of soil, inspired by what you learn at the conference. To sign up for the conference, follow this link.  …

  02.12.2020

• Beneath the Pavement, Not the Beach: First Art & Science Conference on Soil

  …ous and healing. They can no longer be used for our own needs but can become a source of purification and renewal for the planet. These are, in a way, natural parks capable of solving environmental issues. Taste the soil Yulia Timofeeva, a soil specialist and researcher at the Dokuchaev Central Soil Museum, spoke about the extent of the environmental crisis. Ac…

  27.11.2020

• Scientists Propose Method of Assessing the Gene-Disease Connection

  …every gene. So that we’ll see that one gene is important with a probability of 35%, another – 75%, and the third one – at 97%.” Building a ship in a bottle In order to solve this problem, a team of scientists from ITMO University proposed a new approach to analysing the data on the probability of connections between specific processes and genes. As opposed to…

  27.11.2020

• Student Spotlight: Allison Ascanio, Colombia

  …e University? Was it difficult to obtain the necessary documents to study here? Communicating with the University was so easy from the beginning: the international office resolved all the questions that I had about the documentation process and helped me with my visa inquiries. Before arriving in St. Petersburg they had already explained to me how the accommodatio…

  26.11.2020

• Optical Computers Explained: Will They Replace the Regular Kind?

  …ause they can do them quicker and cheaper than electric ones. If they’re so efficient, why haven’t we started making them yet? There are still some issues to resolve. First of all, if we need to carry out nonlinear operations (such as logical AND/OR operations, which are common in software), we need to ensure that photons interact with each other. Unc…

  25.11.2020

• ITMO Staff Develop Cloud Platform for Virtual Labs

  …op and start implementing the first laboratories into the educational process,” he says. During the meeting, project managers presented three laboratories designed to solve a certain class of problems: ITMO.cLAB (a cloud laboratory with remote access to equipment), ITMO.IoT’S (a virtual studio for the Internet of Things), and ITMO.cVoAF (a cloud service for …

  24.11.2020