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New Citizen Science Project Helps Researchers Find Volunteers
…te a project that would help researchers and their potential assistants find each other. “In 2020, the AKSON team applied for a presidential grant and received support to promote and develop citizen science in Russia and create the necessary infrastructure for it,” explains Yana Plekhovich. “On the People of Science website, volunteers can easily find research p…
01.12.2020
ITMO Graduate Andrei Gorodetsky on His Career, European Science, and Work in Different Countries
…tion of three-dimensional images and terahertz radiation helped me to get images of a much higher resolution than with MRI and, most importantly, in real time. I think it is a promising field in biomedicine. Some projects are intended to use this technology in laparoscopy – an operation performed through small incisions. According to preliminary studies, terahertz ra…
01.12.2020
Rukami Fest 2020: ITMO’s TECHNOHISTORY Project Highlights Digital Loneliness and Bacteria Representation in Media
…t at the festival were Oleg Eliseev and Ekaterina Khorosheva, representatives of ITMO’s Student Science Center, who talked about its work and projects. They also presented two promising practical R&D projects: the first, headed by Stanislav Rochas, concerns the development of an automated lidar cleaning system for driverless cars; the other, headed by Zheneveva Snezh…
27.11.2020
ITMO University PhD Student Rodion Yuriev on Business Development and Self-Confidence
…ompany is a startup with a turnover of 10 million rubles. A year ago, we had nothing save for an idea. Now, many major Russian organizations, including Russian Railways and Gazprom Neft are interested in working with us. We lack the hands to process the incoming flow of requests. And we don’t have any investors: we do everything on our own, participate in numerous co…
26.11.2020
Digital Art and Opera: Winners of Digital OPERA Performance on Contests’ Benefits and Media Content Trends
…ry digital art. It is held annually by the St.Petersburg Seasons organization with the support of the Government of St. Petersburg. The mission of Digital Opera is not only to promote opera but also redefine and modernize this classical genre, as well as find its place in the context of advanced digital technologies. The festival brings together world-famous oper…
26.11.2020
Friday Experiment: Attempting to Write Every Day
… or posting regularly enough that slowly but steadily grows with every date missed, every page left blank. Ultimately, this leads you to feeling weak, unable even to fulfill a promise you gave yourself. But this is not the way to go, is it? So, on the very first day of my challenge, as I stared into the infinitely empty page, I tried to view this as an infini…
20.11.2020
How the Stones of Ancestors Exhibition Changes Our Perception of Archaeology
…Ekaterina Loginova, an analyst at ITMO University’s Center for Science Communication, took part in the project and helped with market placement, communication strategies, and promotion. The latter was especially important, as the project was self-financed by its team members without support of state institutions or grants. We talked to Ekaterina Loginova and Nikolay …
19.11.2020
ITMO Technopark Resident Creates a Sophisticated Distance Learning System
…e launched in February 2021. The first ten thousand devices will be also sent to schools in Kazakhstan, as well as to Nazarbayev University. As for Russia, the product will be promoted here later, after the piloting is over. “It was important to complete the product and successfully test it by the beginning of this academic year. That’s why we had no time for sa…
19.11.2020
ITMO University, Gazprom Neft, and Innopolis University Organize Online Hackathon Blockchain.Hack
… that would assess our system for vulnerabilities,” comments Alexey Dudnichenko, head of the Leading Research Center for Blockchain Technology at Innopolis University. Gazprom Neft has provided four tasks: Ensure intact data transfer between blockchain networks; Enable intact data transfer between blockchain networks or different blockchain platforms; …
18.11.2020
Results of ITMO University’s First Online Course on Climate and Journalism
…Russian and English. Students were to learn about the structure of academic text, its content, and main purpose, as well as to use the acquired skills to write essays aimed at promoting and explaining scientific concepts. “The students had to complete two homework assignments: make an infographic and an explainer – a popular science explanation of a topic,” says…
18.11.2020