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• Best Graduation Papers Among ITMO Students

  … the ternary dots due to the scientific uncertainty about the processes underlying the radiation of these types of nanocrystals. In particular, we wanted to find a physical explanation for the broadening of their photoluminescence band. On choice of topic Before joining ITMO, I studied diamond-like nanofilms at St. Petersburg State University. Looking for labor…

  07.02.2022

• Optomycelium 2022: Open Call for ITMO Scientists

  … willingly interacted with the installation, asked about evolutionary algorithms, and thanked us for popularizing things that were previously known only to specialists. Svetlana Ulasevich an associate professor, the head of the biomimetic materials team at ITMO University’s Infochemistry Scientific Center Together with the artist Galina Alferova, we worked o…

  04.02.2022

• ITMO.EduStars Winner Irina Timofeeva on Making Ecology Interesting

  … more tools to study nature. In fact, evolution is the finest creator as it’s already created everything we need. For far too long, some natural phenomena had no scientific explanations. For instance, we had no idea about how geckos manage to climb up a smooth glass without falling off. As it turned out, their feet are covered in tiny hairs, which in conjunction with…

  31.01.2022

• ITMO.EduStars Winner Svetlana Kurashova: “To Me, Teaching is a Source of Joy”

  …ocess fun and comprehensible. I still tell his funny stories to my students. Naturally, I’m trying to recreate the LSU atmosphere and approach to students. For example, Svetlana Nazarova, our lecturer of English, called us “bunnies” – we felt really loved and happy during her lectures. Now I call my students “kittens” and they like that too. Surprisingly, Svet

  28.01.2022

• Future Tech and Mushrooms: Media Art at Optomycelium Exhibition

  … there? There won’t be a sea, no resorts to visit, no air to breathe – all too polluted. You can find out how the sea will smell in 2070 using samples we’ve developed with Svetlana Ulasevich from the Infochemistry Scientific Center based on fish extract, diesel fuel, and algae. According to my artistic study (based on numerous scientific facts), the tentative point o…

  27.01.2022

• Digital Humanities Specialist

  …What is digital humanities? It’s nearly impossible to give one specific explanation of what digital humanities is. There’s even a website with hundreds of possible meanings of this term. Generally speaking, digital humanities is a research field at the intersection of computer sciences and humanities. This means that methods of history, linguistics, literary studi…

  24.12.2021

• ITMO Supervisory Council Discusses Development of ITMO Highpark

  …in, managing partner at Newman Sport, co-founder of IRONSTAR competition and ROSA RUN festival; Andrey Ivanov, SVP of Investments, Research and Education at JetBrains; and Svetlana Merkushina, director of the Department for Audit of Education, Science and Innovation of the Accounts Chamber of the Russian Federation.…

  20.12.2021

• What Helps the Brain Keep Your Balance

  …s “from the outside” ourselves has been used as proof for many spiritual theories, but, as it turns out, it might be much more down-to-earth. Today, one of the prevalent explanations comes down to a discoordination between various sensory inputs, such as what we see, what each of our limbs feels, and what the vestibular system has to say of the way our body is loc…

  07.12.2021

• ITMO Fellowship Stories: ‪Maxim Likhanov on Importance of Spatial Skills and Synergy Between Chemistry and Neuroscience

  … I should wear a hat in winter, I ask for research on this topic. It’s a big problem. It makes it hard for me to watch the news or give popular science lectures with simple explanations. Even when the first COVID-19 vaccine appeared in Russia, I had my doubts, which were gone as soon as I read the article about Sputnik V published in The Lancet. There, I learned that…

  23.11.2021

• Five Ancient Russian Cities with Fascinating Legends

  …a the river Vuoksa until they heard a cuckoo. They followed the gods’ advice and settled where Priozersk is located today. Although probably just a legend, it’s a beautiful explanation for the Swedish (Kexholm – “cuckoo’s hill”) and Finnish (Käkisalmi – “cuckoo’s strait”) names for Korela Fortress. Velikiye Luki First mentioned in 1166  Unfortunately, this c…

  08.11.2021