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This Weekend in St. Petersburg: October 15-16, 2022
It’s mid-October and the “golden autumn” season is in full swing, with all the colorful leaves brightening every park in the city. Sometimes, the weather is not particularly suitable for long walks outside – and this is where our trusty guide to the best events in the city comes in handy. This week, we have a market, a festival, an exhibition, and a concert, so let’s get right into it.
12.10.2022
ITMO Students Win Russian Information Security Competition OpenBonch 2022
The team ITMO))) won the national information security cyberdrills OpenBonch 2022. Students from the Faculty of Secure Information Technologies were first to solve the task and earned 89/100 points, setting the competition’s record.
11.10.2022
Highlights of National PROF-IT Forum: Helping School Students Define Their IT Futures
What is the best way to offer career advice to school students? Participants of the workshop on current problems in IT training have offered their solutions at the tenth national PROF-IT forum. Over 60 school and university students, lecturers, educators, and representatives of IT companies attended the event.
10.10.2022
Don’t Get Skinny Like a Russian: Tackling Common Food Myths
Growing up, many of us heard some seemingly absurd things about what it means to eat healthy – and some of us have even witnessed these practices in action. In this article, we look at the best of the worst eating advice to be found on the Russian granny grapevine.
10.10.2022
Announcing the Upcoming International Conference on Robotization of Chemical Technologies
On October 21-23, ITMO University will host an international conference on the robotization of chemical technologies that will feature presentations by keynote speakers in infochemistry and сhemical robotization, round-table talks with business representatives, and a school for young scientists on research methods in materials science. The event is organized by ITMO’s Infochemistry Scientific Center and will be held both online and offline.
07.10.2022
Nobel Prize in Chemistry 2022: All About Click Chemistry
Today, the Nobel Committee announced this year’s winners of the Nobel Prize in Chemistry: Carolyn R. Bertozzi, Morten Meldal, and K. Barry Sharpless "for the development of click chemistry and bioorthogonal chemistry." How can their research impact science and our daily lives? ITMO.NEWS turned to Ekaterina Skorb, head of the university’s Infochemistry Scientific Center to find that out.
05.10.2022
Nobel Prize in Physics 2022: What Are Entangled Photons and Why They Are Important?
This year’s winners of the Nobel Prize in Physics were announced today, and they are Alain Aspect, John F. Clauser, and Anton Zeilinger for "experiments with entangled photons, establishing the violation of Bell inequalities and pioneering quantum information science," as stated by the Nobel Committee. ITMO.NEWS talked to Vladimir Egorov, the head of the university’s Laboratory for Quantum Communications, to learn how these experiments impacted quantum computers and what we should expect next in this field.
04.10.2022
ITMO Students Win Israeli Ministry of Foreign Affairs’ Scholarship
The Consul General of Israel in St. Petersburg Dr. Uri Resnick awarded grants for two Master’s students from ITMO’s Faculty of Photonics. The award ceremony took place at ITMO on October 3. The scholarship will cover one year of studying at Tel Aviv University.
04.10.2022
ITMO’s Monday Science Roundup #15
Excited about this week’s Nobel Prize reveals? So are we! And to sate your hunger for science, here’s a pick of ITMO.NEWS’ most insightful stories on the subject from the past two weeks.
03.10.2022
Biomimetics: The Science of Robo-Animals
Boston Dynamics’ Spot, bionic kangaroos and even ants – biomimetics allows us to replicate almost any living thing. But why do roboticists look to animals for inspiration, what do they do at ITMO, and how do you make a robot act “natural”? ITMO.NEWS investigates.
03.10.2022