St Petersburg University researchers to talk about tardigrades, neural networks and quantum dots
St Petersburg University is launching a popular science podcast series in which the University academics will talk about their research and developments, and share how their work affects lives of ordinary people. The first episode of the series, Heinrich Terahertz, will be available on 25 December on the popular VKontakte platform.
The Morse code message "ГЕНРИХ ГЕРЦ" ("HEINRICH HERTZ" in Russian) was the first radio transmission received in 1896 by Aleksandr Popov, the famous graduate of St Petersburg University. The first message on radio frequencies was transmitted between different buildings on the St Petersburg University campus.
Today, in these same buildings, St Petersburg University continues to advance science and scholarship — from the study of ancient languages to the quest for quantum particles and the development of future technologies. The popular science podcast "Heinrich Terahertz" will focus on: the current state of science, its connection to the achievements of the past and its commitment to drive forward.
For almost 300 years, St Petersburg University scholars have had a well-earned reputation in the scientific and research communities worldwide. Nine Nobel Prize laureates and many scientific schools in various fields of knowledge provide evidence to support this statement. For example, researchers in the Laboratory of New Semiconductor Materials for Quantum Informatics and Telecommunications at St Petersburg University continue to study quantum dots and improve quantum technologies for microelectronics, thus developing the scientific field associated with the name of Alexei Ekimov, a 1967 graduate of St Petersburg University and the 2023 Nobel Prize laureate in Chemistry. St Petersburg University academics are recognised experts in their fields, who are willing to share facts about most interesting scientific achievements, debunk some common myths and demonstrate that science is nearer than we think.