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What Are Medical Humanities and Why Do We Need Them
Eight ITMO Scientists Receive Presidential Grants
…he Faculty of Physics and Engineering My project is aimed at implementing a strong connection between light and substance in systems that support topologically secured edge states. It unites two cutting-edge fields of study: two-dimensional materials and topological photonics. The main object of research in this project is hy…
12.01.2021
New Partnership: ITMO’s Esports Team and CS.MONEY
…ng up with new ideas. “Students are great employees as they have a flexible approach, critical thinking, and soft skills that are more difficult to master than tech knowledge. These features help them remain demanded on the market. Moreover, most players are students, and they have many stimulating thoughts, approaches, and ideas for esports. That’s why student…
12.01.2021
To Infinity and Beyond: How Modern Discoveries Are Changing Our Understanding of the Solar System
…ITMO.NEWS learned all about the cutting-edge breakthroughs in this field at a lecture (in Russian) by Vitaly Egorov, a space science communicator, founder of the Open Space project, and author of the book Делай космос! (Russian for “Do Space!” – Ed.). Here are the takeaways from the lecture. Structure of the Solar System We know now that the Solar System is …
11.01.2021
ITMO Student Dmitriy Tsarev on Theoretical Physicists, Quantum Physics and Its Similarities With Professional Sports
…l equipment and it is powerful, modern, and expensive. However, the university is more about the people. ITMO’s academic staff is highly qualified: everyone has extensive knowledge in their subjects and they know how to teach students. I learned a lot here, and I am infinitely grateful to ITMO University for my experience.…
11.01.2021
Potential Threat, Treasure Trove, or Future Home: Why Scientists Study Asteroids
…he belt is the remains of a formerly existing planet. If we were to bring all of its asteroids together, we won’t get even something comparable to the Moon, let alone a full-fledged Solar System planet. Classification of asteroids As of today, the key method for studying far space objects is spectral analysis. And as soon as scientists got the opportunity t…
08.01.2021
Seven Sins of Our Memory or Why We Forget Things
…ugh its functions: storage, consolidation (the process of transferring information from short-term to long-term memory), retrieval, and forgetting. Forgetting is also a full-fledged function of memory, and it’s quite important. Memory is most often compared to a warehouse or library where each book is responsible for a separate story. The only problem is that …
07.01.2021
Cyber-Corona: How Businesses Managed the Transition to Working From Home
… Andrei Bajin, the director for information security at VTB Capital, added that the human factor has become an additional problem: personnel who do not possess sufficient knowledge of cybersecurity are susceptible to the tricks that hackers use: for example, they often follow unsafe links in emails sent from addresses disguised as corporate ones. The risks of fraud f…
06.01.2021
Winter Break at Home: Staying Fit, Sane, and Entertained
…g up a new hobby? From coding and journaling to watercolors and poetry-writing, we’ve got a great list of where to start. You can even make your own contribution to human knowledge by taking part in any of a great number of citizen science initiatives. You can also read about an ITMO.NEWS reporter’s tale of his own experience as a participant of the Zooniverse projec…
05.01.2021
ITMO Ranks Among Top 10 Universities in Number of Contest Participants
… is one of the flagship projects of the presidential platform Russia – the Land of Opportunities. The main focus of the contest lies not on the depth of the participants’ knowledge or the breadth of their erudition but mainly on their professional skills that will help them become high-class specialists of the future. This year, the competition was held for the fourt…
31.12.2020