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• Campus Festival: How to Learn About Science at a Bar

  How to discover a platinum field, why scientists can’t replicate more than half of their experiments and what is hidden behind the petroglyphs of North Europe and the treasures of the Hermitage? Last Friday, seven bars of St. Petersburg turned into an educational space for just one night. All in all, 12 lectures were given throughout the city. Vladimir Borisov, postgraduate student at ITMO University’s Department of Photonics and Optical Information Technologies, explained the construction of a laser and the concepts of holographic memory and supercontinuum, while Varvara Lymar, research fellow at ITMO University’s Institute of Design and Urban Studies, gave her thoughts on what could be done with St. Petersburg’s industrial areas. ITMO.NEWS paid a visit to the young scientists’ lectures and found out what a scientific gathering at a bar looks like and why this format is becoming ever more popular.

  29.05.2017

• “Edible Science” Course: How to Cook a Modernist Dish and Learn About All Colors of Potato

  The first series of interactive lectures “Edible Science” has ended at ITMO University. It was launched this February at the School of Biotechnology and Cryogenic Systems by the International Research Centre “Biotechnologies of the Third Millennium”. For 2.5 months, the course’s participants, under the guidance of chef and head of Umami project Ilya Litvyak, learned to approach food preparation in a scientific manner. At the final meeting the participants received certificates of completion and spoke to us about the lectures and what they learned at the laboratory.

  05.05.2017

• Gutenberg's Lounge: Why Stonehenge is an Observatory, How Satellites Stay on the Orbit and Where One Starts His Way to Mars

  Humankind has always reached out to the stars, to the endless space above. And those are not just words: since ancient times, people were set on researching celestial bodies, using them to track time and create calendars. In several thousands of years, humans launched the first artificial satellite, flew to space and set foot on the Moon's surface. As of now, we can well aspire to building a new home on some other planet. On the Space Exploration day, optical engineers and science writers gathered at Gutenberg's Lounge to speak about humanity’s long history of conquering space.

  14.04.2017

• Popularizing Science: Director Dmitry Zagilevsky on Shooting Popular Science Films in Russia

  In Russia, a director who can shoot a true-to-life, proper science popular films is something rare. There are few documentarians who cover the work of scientists in Russia, as well. At the same time, people have become more interested in science, and open lectures by different scientists gather large audiences. Director Dmitry Zavigelsky shared on what popular science films should be like, why one sees fringe scientists on TV more often than true ones, and when sci-pop becomes something bad. His film "Waiting for Waves and Particles" will be shown at the Relevant Science Film Festival at ITMO University on December, 6th.

  05.12.2016

• Gutenberg’s Lounge — Machines and Intuition

  Sometimes you are totally sure about something, but you just can't explain why. That is what intuition is. So, is it possible to teach intuition to a machine? And is there any point to it? Ivan Ivanchei, a research associate from Saint Petersburg State University, shared on this subject during the recent session of the Gutenberg's Lounge sci-pop project.

  17.11.2016

• In Terms of Science: the Explanation for Paranormal Phenomena

  Ghosts, demons, aura — all these phenomena can be explained from a scientific point of view. Alexander Panchin, biologist and science communicator disproved well-known paranormal phenomena at his lecture for Gutenberg Lounge, sci pop project, which took place at ITMO University.

  04.10.2016