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• Student Science Open Day: Your Guide to ITMO Master’s Programs and Opportunities

  ITMO University has recently hosted Student Science Open Day to let first-year Master’s students get acquainted with all the opportunities the university provides. ITMO.NEWS sums up all the main points of the event in this guide that will help you develop in science, entrepreneurship, and teaching.

  23.10.2020

• Picture of the Week: A Holographic Image in the Augmented Reality System

  Thanks to a special technology, the image can be seen both up close and from afar – its levels of brightness and contrast remain equally high.

  09.10.2020

• In a Nutshell: Genome Editing and the 2020 Nobel Prize in Chemistry

  This year, the Nobel Prize in Chemistry went to researchers who developed the CRISPR/Cas9 genome editing method. ITMO.NEWS and Pavel Dobrynin, a researcher and engineer at ITMO’s Information Technologies and Programming Faculty, explain the essence of the winners’ research and what makes it a truly world-changing discovery. 

  08.10.2020

• Picture of the Week: Hematite Crystals in Glass

  Once you put particles of hematite in glass, it becomes attracted to magnets, remaining transparent at the same time.

  02.10.2020

• Media Research Group’s Aleksandr Farseev On Advertising Algorithms and Social Network Monopolies

  During the past three years, a team of researchers from the Machine Learning Lab has been studying artificial intelligence in the field of social network analysis. Aleksandr Farseev, the head of the team, discussed tasks they worked on and the results they achieved.

  01.10.2020

• New Historical Exposition Set to Open in Russia’s Oldest Science City

  The Pavlov Institute of Physiology in St. Petersburg plans to renew and expand its historical exposition dedicated to the life and work of Russian physiologist Ivan Pavlov in Koltushi. ITMO University professor Irina Aktuganova will take the lead in the creation of the renovated museum. 

  01.10.2020

• Picture of the Week: A Holographic Prism

  The prism can be used to calibrate devices with angular scales. Beams produced by this prism went through liquid nitrogen. As it disperses them, they become clearly visible.

  25.09.2020

• Bioinformatics Explained

  DNA structure was discovered almost 70 years ago. Nowadays, scientists are not only able to decode the genome, but also to identify the functions of each gene and its sequences, as well as edit genes and create new ones. It all became possible thanks to the development of computer technologies and a new field of studies called bioinformatics.

  24.09.2020

• Two ITMO University Students Named Among St. Petersburg’s Top Graduates of 2020

  On September 18, an annual awards ceremony was held at the Peter and Paul Fortress to honor the best graduates of St. Petersburg’s universities. Two ITMO Master’s students – Ksenia Oreshkina and Egor Nevezhin – received the Bronze Sphinx awards. Learn more about the ceremony and the graduates’ achievements in this article by ITMO.NEWS.

  23.09.2020

• ITMO University Launches an Online Course on Climate and Journalism

  ITMO University’s Science Communication Center is launching a six-week course for everyone who’s interested in climate change, wants to learn more about it, and make a difference. Learn more about the course in this ITMO.NEWS article.

  22.09.2020