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• Cognitive Science Tales for Halloween: 4 Mysterious Cases

  … forever lost to him.  Fighting till the end Here’s some sad truth: wars tend to be drivers of all fields of science from engineering and physics to medicine and, specifically, anatomy. I could’ve stopped there and it would already have been spooky, but it is only the premise for this last story, the story of Lev Zasetsky. He was a soldier who suffered a se…

  27.10.2020

• From Science Lab to Real Business: New School of Technology Brokership at ITMO University

  …nership Center, who will speak of the strategies of mediation with partners and investors, and Yulia Lubchenko, the vice head of ITMO’s Legal Department, who will cover the specifics of intellectual property rights protection and the process of transferring them from a university to a business when selling a technology. While the course doesn’t imply intensive…

  26.10.2020

• Russian Horror Stories: What Do We Find Spooky?

  …ppear in the mirror. You can ask her a question, then wipe everything off the mirror and burn the card. More ways to frighten your friends Other than these rather specific stories, there are also the so-called strashilki-pugalki (from пугать (pugat’), meaning “to frighten”). They are more about the unexpected ending, rather than the plot. One of the most po…

  26.10.2020

• Student Science Open Day: Your Guide to ITMO Master’s Programs and Opportunities

  …allows Master’s students to try their hand at teaching, after completing a theoretical course on the basics of pedagogy, mastering modern educational advances, learning the specifics of disciplines, and passing practical tasks. Mentors participate in the organization of classes and methodological work, consult other students, help with exams and seminars, and so o…

  23.10.2020

• ITMO Researchers Find a Way to Control Whole-Cell Biocatalysis Using Magnetic Fields

  …mentation reaction. The researchers have demonstrated that they can use an external stimulus – an alternating magnetic field – to “turn” the biocatalysis on and off at a specified time. The “urchins” were added to the yeast, left to incubate, and then the mixture was placed into a magnetic set-up that can subject it to an alternating magnetic field of a spe

  22.10.2020

• ITMO University Students Win the Rosneft Robotics Hackathon

  … But I'm more interested in design and modeling. I think it is more about practice than code. On the task and challenges of the hackathon The task was interesting yet specific, but there were also some challenges. We had to work a lot. On the first day, we had to model everything in such detail so as not to redo it on the second day.  From 8 am to 8 pm, we w…

  21.10.2020

• ITMO University Grant Competition: Participants and Projects

  …tend the defenses in person to get acquainted with the presented projects and “catch” some promising projects in their early stages. Now, some enterprises are interested in specific projects and are ready to discuss prospects for cooperation with their authors. We will be organizing these meetings shortly. We sent information about the competition and a catalog of…

  20.10.2020

• ITMO Researchers Win Grant for Development of Smart Glasses Components

  …pe and optical qualities of the waveguides – which all differ in geometry and structure. Regular waveguides are the core and outer layer, but the scientists aim to identify specifics of the processes of compression and decompression of glass under the influence of femtosecond laser pulses, which will make it possible to also use multilayer and multi-channel types of …

  15.10.2020

• Harvard Professor Stefanie Stantcheva on the Role of Surveys and Experiments in Economy

  …e distributed among members of society using social mechanisms or taxation. Initially, the scientists worked upwards from a stereotype which suggests that there is a specific “American” view of intergenerational mobility associated with the idea of ​​the American Dream as an opportunity to achieve everything through one’s work. As the professor notes, with inc…

  15.10.2020

• ITMO Graduate Stanislav Krasnoyarov’s Journey From a Full-Time Employee to His Own Business

  …d at development but also a little at product management. That is, we do not just create systems, but also improve certain business indicators – and this is clearly seen in specific numbers such as increasing employee productivity, revenue, etc. Let’s say there is a large accounting company that employs a thousand people. It takes them ten hours to prepare a month…

  14.10.2020