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• ITMO PhD Student Joins Nobel Winner Konstantin Novoselov's Smart Membrane Research

  In the future, the results of this project may provide the foundation for artificial cells. The research was published in Nature Nanotechnology. 

  11.11.2020

• Russian Scientists Develop Perovskite Metasurfaces for Smart Glass

  Perovskite thin films will make it possible to turn normal glass into smart surfaces that can display information in AR devices and convert solar energy into electricity. The research of the group headed by ITMO scientists has been published in Laser & Photonics Reviews. 

  10.11.2020

• Three ITMO Students and a Graduate Win UMNIK Grant Competition – Here Are Their Projects and Plans

  The winners’ projects include a prosthetic elbow joint, 3D-printed dental implants, a medical diagnostics system, as well as a program that finds errors in code. The results of the competition were announced on October 23. 

  09.11.2020

• Art & Science of the 1920s: ITMO Graduate Creates 3D Visualization of Guidoni’s Luminous Monument

  Art historians Olga Kolganova and Anna Spiridonova joined forces with ITMO graduate Sofia Petrash to recreate the monument originally designed by Grigory Guidoni. Read on to learn more about the process behind the project – from the initial idea to its presentation at a conference. 

  06.11.2020

• New Gaming Consoles: Learning From the Previous Generation

  In order to understand the pre-sale agitation surrounding the launch of the new consoles, we need to go back to 2013, when Xbox One and PS4 were at the beginning of their life cycle, just as Xbox Series X/S and PS5 are now. The thing is, such major companies as Microsoft and Sony do learn from their mistakes, since their mistakes are usually too costly to ignore. As a result, the marketing campaign you see surrounding the new consoles now is, in many ways, a product of this learning.

  06.11.2020

• How to Enter Russian Universities Through ITMO University’s International Competitions

  International competitions, such as Open Doors and Open Competitions in Mathematics and Computer Science for school students, allow school and university students from all over the world to continue their studies at ITMO University or other Russian institutions. We compiled a guide to this year’s competitions

  05.11.2020

• ITMO Researchers Discover Material With Refractive Index Higher Than in Silicon

  This will potentially allow them to create more compact and efficient elements for lasers, sensors, and optical chips. Moreover, it proves the hypothesis that ITMO physicists had about the connection between a material’s refractive index and its electronic features. The research has been published in Nanophotonics.

  03.11.2020

• ITMO’s Gennady Korotkevich Wins VK Cup

  Gennady Korotkevich, a PhD student at ITMO University and multiple-time winner of various international programming competitions was named VK Cup’s top participant in the Engine category. This year’s winners of VK Cup split between themselves a prize sum of 2,752,512 rubles – in binary, this particular number converts to an elegant 1010100000000000000000.

  02.11.2020

• Collecting Sounds: ITMO Holds Workshop on Soundscapes and Environmental Acoustics

  As part of the Access Modes exhibition at ITMO’s new Art.ITMO.Residence space, the university held a workshop titled “The concept of a soundscape”. Those taking part were able to learn about noise pollution and tried to study the environment of sound surrounding them. 

  02.11.2020

• Bringing a Young Russian Startup to USA Step-by-Step: Advice & Lifehacks from Investor Mikhail Gavrilov

  ITMO Accelerator hosted a talk by Mikhail Gavrilov, vice president of Bank St. Petersburg, an investor, and founder of Fantasy Invest. He gave advice on how to find American investors and explained why startupers need Reddit. Read on for the main outtakes. 

  30.10.2020