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

  …experience in various fields under their belt. What did you get out of this internship? I found this semester at Tallinn University very useful both in terms of the knowledge I acquired and personal development. The experience of living in another country makes you more flexible and resistant to any challenges. During this semester, I met a lot of interesting p…

  27.01.2020

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

  …ver, I see that now schoolchildren know what they want to do at university from their 5-7th grades: they understand what they’re interested in, where they can acquire the knowledge they need and how they will use this knowledge. I didn’t think much about it all: all Soviet kids wanted to become astronauts and those who didn’t had to fin…

  23.01.2020

• Scientists Create Listeriosis-Immune Mice by Turning off Gene in Myeloid Cells

  …nearly in the same manner as their regular counterparts, they were nevertheless vulnerable to their own immune system. “A permanently active immune system is a double-edged sword,” explains Zaitsev. “There is a lot of background inflammation going on. It’s no accident that the immune system is at rest most of the time. We don’t want it reacting to the many p…

  22.01.2020

• ITMO’s Rector Vladimir Vasilyev: Science Can’t Be Measured in Square Meters

  …nclude not only ITMO and the Institute but many other organizations. A system, which would educate our younger colleagues by giving them an opportunity to take part in cutting edge research in the fields specified by the participants of the system.    It’s hard not to smile at the comments from the Institute’s employees which we read online these days. We believe…

  21.01.2020

• Scientists Studied Hybrid Nanoparticles Capable of Generating Broadband Radiation

  … example, Si, Ge, GaP, etc.) opens up opportunities for the enhancement of nonlinear effects in these materials. However, this task remains challenging due to the lack of knowledge on the integration process of metal and high-index semiconductor components in such nanoobjects. The researchers studied metal-dielectric nanostructures produced using the method of las…

  21.01.2020

• ITMO Graduate Elena Ushakova on Scientific Career, Research Projects and Working in Hong Kong

  …respect their lecturers?  Yes, they do. But thanks to the fact that their educational trajectory is much more flexible, they know from the beginning of the course what knowledge they are going to get and are thus more demanding towards their lecturers. It’s more of a business relationship that students and lecturers have there: they are more like partners. …

  21.01.2020

• International Team of Scientists Discover New Phenomenon in Topological Physics

  …ty of Physics and Engineering. “What makes topological insulators interesting is that they are in fact typical insulators, but can conduct electricity through their surface or edges. They were first observed during a study on the physics of the Quantum Hall effect, when electricity was passed through a sample and voltage that took quantized values emerged perpendicul…

  20.01.2020

• ITMO.KIDS: A Technopark for Children

  …so that the children can understand whether they are interested or not,” comments the technopark’s head. Business projects and creativity Apart from getting basic knowledge in robotics, physics and programming, a student can also create their own project at ITMO.KIDS summer school. It takes place during the holidays so the kids can study for several days with…

  17.01.2020

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

• Wikipedia Is Not an Ivory Tower: ITMO Graduate On Working For The ‘Net’s Greatest Encyclopedia

  …of how hard or easy it can be to explain a scientific concept to the public, it’s about how to make this public interested, to demonstrate how they will benefit from this knowledge. I realized that you shouldn’t strive to teach people something when you do science communication. People don’t want to be taught, it’s not one of their needs. You need to focus on those w…

  15.01.2020