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• Digital Humanities Week: Physicist and Mathematician Ivan Yamshchikov on the Use of Algorithms in Humanities Research

  … a survey and want to learn something that a person is not very inclined to talk about, such as religious beliefs or sexual orientation. The following mechanism can be used to solve this task: take a bag with black and white balls in the proportion 4/5 black and 1/5 white ones and offer the participants of your survey to tell the truth when they draw out white balls.…

  30.01.2020

• Besting Elon Musk at Memristors and Making a Vascular System Model to End Animal Testing: Results of SCAMT Workshop Week

  …in various fields of science and technology, including controlled drug delivery, optics, and gas sorption. In our synthesis process, we use different methods – for example, solvothermal synthesis, where we load the necessary reagents into the autoclave and the resulting crystals are obtained under the impact of temperature and pressure, and the slow diffusion meth…

  28.01.2020

• Good Product Is a User-Friendly Product: ITMO Student Working on Interface Design Framework for People with Dyslexia

  …ntal protection and pollution. I lived in a dormitory with lots of students from all over the world and I knew that there was no separate waste collection system out there. To solve this problem, I joined forces with other students and we started working on this project together. We conducted some studies, developed certain directions regarding the process of separat…

  27.01.2020

• Scientists Propose an Inkjet Printing Technology for Battery Elements to Make Them Compact and Flexible

  …n as possible. Apart from that, there is a growing demand for transformer devices that can be used both as tablets and laptops. Foldable and extendable gadgets are designed to solve these problems. Such devices were presented at the CES 2020 exhibition that took place at the very beginning of 2020. In order to develop such a device, engineers have to think not onl…

  24.01.2020

• FAQ: Registering Ownership And Protecting Intellectual Property

  …re-court, meaning that it is crucial to identify the offender and establish a dialog. You should only initiate the legal proceedings after you have exhausted every chance of resolving the conflict pre-court.  However, you might not receive any monetary compensation even if it was ruled so in court. Your offender might turn out to have no assets. It might also be a…

  24.01.2020

• ITMO Scientists and Mariinskaya Hospital Specialists Are Developing a New Thrombolytic Drug

  … What is the current treatment of thromboses, and why did you decide to develop a new drug?  Head of ITMO University’s SCAMT Center Vladimir Vinogradov: The methods of dissolving blood clots by means of special thrombolytic drugs have been in place since the end of the 20th century. Upon entering the body, they cause a cascade of reactions, which leads to the fo…

  23.01.2020

• Author and Musician Viacheslav Kovalev on Dreams, Music, Engineering Skills and Business

  …it’s not that simple with these either: the equipment is old there and the sound engineer can easily be late for the concert. This is why we decided to open our sound cafe, to solve this problem. This is a premium establishment in terms of concert services, a unique venue for performers with an audience of fewer than 80 people. Honestly, there is demand. Musicians…

  23.01.2020

• Physicists Trap Light in Nanoresonators for Record Time

  …s, the more likely light is to escape it. The near-ideal shape for this case was a cylinder, which possesses the minimal number of boundaries. One question that remained to be solved was which ratio of diameter to height would be the most effective for trapping of light. After mathematical calculations, the hypothesis had to be confirmed experimentally. “Our Kor…

  17.01.2020

• Pharmacological Constructor: Scientists Propose Method for Synthesising Calcium Carbonate Particles with Different Geometry for Targeted Drug Delivery

  … of growth of particles of various morphology, as well as the connection between the morphology of particles and the crystalline phase of calcium carbonate. In order to solve this problem, an international group of scientists from ITMO University, Tel Aviv University and the First Pavlov State Medical University of St. Petersburg studied in detail the process …

  16.01.2020

• TVs for Instagram Videos and Flying Taxis: 2020 Consumer Electronics Show

  …elerates, traffic and congestion get worse with the growth of the urban population. People are wasting a lot of time on the road, and current traffic systems are not enough to solve this problem. We need a new mobility system, and Urban Air Mobility will take intra-city transportation to the next level.” Lowering emissions is a concern shared by other car ma…

  15.01.2020