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• Blood Nanofilters and Graphene Gas Sensors: “Big Challenges” Summer Camp

  …ic summer bootcamp for talented high school students was organized by the Sirius education center and took place in Sochi, Russia’s southern resort turned research powerhouse. Winners and high-achievers of the national contest of physics, maths, technologies, and natural sciences research projects were invited to attend. Tutored by leading ITMO scientists, students d…

  08.08.2018

• Per Aspera Ad Astra: ITMO.STARS Contest Results

  …to July 20, 2018, the participants were asked to create a profile on the contest's website, to which they had to enclose their portfolio and motivation letter. How were the winners chosen? There was no predefined number of positions covered by the university; the winners were selected by the contest committee comprised of ITMO Sch…

  07.08.2018

• Go Green in the City: ITMO Team Wins Regional Stage of Eco-Friendly Competition

  …d. This is why the competition is conducted in several stages that take place throughout the year. The finals usually take place at one of the major offices. The competition’s winners get the opportunity to be employed by the company and bring their projects to life; runner-ups with the most interesting solutions also get mentorship from the company’s representatives…

  31.07.2018

• ITMO Young Scientists Win BASIS Foundation Grants For Physics and Maths Research

  … support in the past two years. Maxim Gorlach, a junior research associate at ITMO’s International Research Center for Nanophotonics and Metamaterials and another grant winner, is conducting research on topological photonics. In layman’s terms, topological photonics can be described using the following example: a mathematician can say that two surfaces are “to…

  26.07.2018

• Rain Falling Upwards and “Critique of Pure Reason”: a Guide to “Gatchina Lightnights”

  …In 2018, 26 teams entered the final round of the competition and received an opportunity to bring their ideas to life. The winners will be selected by the jury. “The festival is becoming more and more popular: we received three times more applications than last year, from artists from 27 cities all over the world,” comments Olga Arshanskaia, the festival’s organ…

  24.07.2018

• Think Critically: ITMO University Student Creates Popular Science Podcast

  …iscussions offline, as well. How would you define pseudoscience? I’m asking this because many people see the Ig Nobel Prize as a total opposite of the Nobel Prize, i.e. its winners are either pseudoscientists or failures as scientists. In reality, those are regular scientists who get fun results: like the claim that cats can be considered liquid. So, what is pseud…

  24.07.2018

• “I Am a Professional” Winners On How Competition Changed Their Lives

  …Leonid Barkalov, Tomsk State University of Control Systems and Radioelectronics, Computing Systems Department, winner of “It’s Your Call!” Semi-Hackathon I came across the competition by accident: I saw the ad on social media and decided to click on it. After learning that it was hosted by ITMO University, Yandex and Sberbank, I got very excited because I’d been d…

  20.07.2018

• Movie Fridays: Summer in the City

  …nd yourself stuck at home with a wall of torrential rain outside of the window, why not watch Goodbye Christopher Robin, a biographical drama film showing the backstory of the Winnie-the-Pooh creator A. A. Milne and his bittersweet relationship with his son Christopher Robin. We know what you’re thinking: you left Winnie-the-Pooh storie…

  20.07.2018

• Computer Simulation Technologies: New Master’s Program at ITMO

  … The program is coordinated by leading scientists and IT specialists. Among the teachers are Professor Anatoly Demin, Doctor of Technical Sciences and one of the most award-winning experts in the field of computer simulation, Lyudmila Muravyova-Vitkovskaya, Candidate of Technical Sciences, Ivan Perl, Candidate of Technical Sciences, one of the coordinators of the …

  17.07.2018

• Urban Scientist Steve Kuddins on Overfencing in St. Petersburg: Causes and Solutions

  …s. No reasonable arguments work for them, they just continue talking about safety like it’s some mantra. This spring, the Open Data Hackathon took place in St. Petersburg, its winning project being the one that analyzed the open statistics by the Ministry of Internal Affairs and defined danger zones on roads. We came up with the idea of using the statistics for three…

  13.07.2018