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• Traveling at the Speed of Light: What Is Special Relativity?

  …t important? By developing spaceships that can travel at near-light speeds, we can make interstellar travel possible – for instance, we will be able to visit faraway planets and galaxies and get there in a reasonable amount of time. Near-light speeds are also common on particle accelerators, such as the Large Hadron Collider. However, the researchers are inter…

  18.08.2022

• Meet the Minds Behind ITMO’s English Social Media

  …Petersburg and Russia. I like to keep myself updated about the country’s history and culture. What are your favorite digital detox tips? Elizaveta: Stop paying your internet bills! When there’s no Wi-Fi, you will automatically move away from social media. You might then want to pick up a book, grab a cup of coffee, and get lost in an imaginary world.  Vadim:…

  18.08.2022

• ITMO Student Makes App to Play Music With Emotions

  …the commands of users, but rather are empathizing with them.  Face Music Control is based on a face detector, a pre-editing module that converts facial images, and a neural network that can recognize seven basic emotions: anger, disgust, fear, happiness, sadness, surprise, and a neutral state. The network is trained on a FER2013 data…

  17.08.2022

• ITMO Scientists Find a New Way to Control Topological States

  …Topological photonics is a relatively new cutting-edge field that studies unconventional electromagnetic properties in optical systems. The field’s main focus is on topological edge states that appear in resonator arrays and are characterized by electromagnetic fields located on the edge of the system. Topological states are fascinat…

  16.08.2022

• Best Startup Projects at ITMO Accelerator’s Demo Day 2022

  …th the help of a special app and a stethoscope created by the team of Dmitry Fedorov. Here is how it works: a user records the sound using their smartphone and then the neural networks start analyzing the data to put it into one of the following categories (“good”, “bad”, or “unclear”). After the procedure, all the information, including sounds, channel images, and u…

  15.08.2022

• What Is the Metaverse?

  …unication between people and valuables, such as different purchases, goods, and services. In order to function, the metaverse requires VR and AR technologies, a broadband internet connection, wearable sensors, and more. All of these elements make up the metaverse, turning it into a new format, a virtual world linked to the real one but existing in parallel. Who …

  12.08.2022

• Find Us at @itmo_uni

  …nstitute, as it was known then, changed its name from LITMO to Saint Petersburg Institute of Fine Mechanics and Optics. And so it is no surprise that with the rise of the internet, back in the 90s, the university took the domain name ifmo.ru. Later, presumably to match, the social media pages that were created followed suit with @spbifmo chosen as the preferred handl…

  11.08.2022

• ITMO.Online: ITMO Launches its Own Learning Platform

  …irs in the near future.  Among other upcoming releases are three educational programs in digital transformation (big data and machine learning in education and industry), genetic consulting, and programming electronics (the development of electronics using programmable logic devices). Ten more courses in data analysis, marketing, food technology, and modern edu…

  10.08.2022

• Over the Hills: ITMO Students Complete Two-Week Trek of the Russian Far East

  …and the Khabarovsk Krai. During their trek, the trainees would set up sample plots and collect specimens of plants, soil, and water. The journey was complicated by near-impenetrable forests and high humidity; nevertheless, the students managed to summit the mountain Chernukha (650 meters above the sea level), reach the water-logged grasslands and swamps, and hike …

  09.08.2022

• Top Ten Questions from ITMO’s Endless Science Livestream

  … How can the universe be “endless”? According to the infinite divisibility theory, there is an infinite number of layers in the universe: atoms make up stars and planets, which form into galaxies, which form the universe. Consequently, you can choose to study any of the layers, which is a little like traveling: you can visit every country in the world, but…

  08.08.2022