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How To: Outdoor Ice Rinks
…o. So, to stay safe you will need to wear a mask and keep a distance from others. We hope our tips will help you get the most out of your ice-skating adventure! And if you want to get some more winter inspiration, check out our review of Russia’s coldest places, a great collection of winter activities in St.Pete, or our list of best mood-boosting strategies for t…
04.12.2020
FoodTech Master’s Program Head Olesya Volokh: Food Is Always in Fashion
…eat that amount. As a student, you learn a lot about yourself and what you eat. Exams are done in the form of small research projects on topics chosen by the students. Some want to work with sweeteners, others – to find out whether chicken or quail eggs are the healthier ones. Working on something they’re personally interested in helps students stay involved. That…
03.12.2020
Nanolasers, MRI, and Cultural Heritage: ITMO University Wins Three Megagrants
…phosphide, which can be potentially used in the production of compact optoelectronic devices for various applications – from communication lines to optical computers. “We want to create working prototypes of optoelectronic devices,” emphasizes Sergey Makarov. “We want to start by conducting fundamental research. For example, lasers…
03.12.2020
Scientists Demonstrate New Opportunities for Controlling Light in Optical Graphene
… its spatial period much like how electron energy depends on their impulse in the presence of spin-orbit interaction. It was experimentally demonstrated that the structure (we want to remind you that a wave’s structure is defined by four components) depends on the propagation direction differently if the system is excited in the vicinity of Gamma and K points. The…
03.12.2020
Student Spotlight: Omar Ceesay, Gambia
…nstitution in research and that attracted me to come to this university. Why did you choose that program? I’m a computer science fan and my best friend is my computer. I want to build things, useful software and applications from anywhere in the world, only with the help of my computer, which is why I decided to study mobile and network technologies – a branch …
03.12.2020
Best Projects by Participants of Online School by ITMO Avatar Developers
…ochenina, head of the project, senior research associate and head of the Algorithms of Complex Systems research group at ITMO’s National Center for Cognitive Technologies. “We wanted to give the participants of the school both theoretical knowledge on the development of such platforms and practical experience of introducing their services into existing platforms. We …
02.12.2020
Soft Skills: What Are They and Why Do We Need Them?
…eep a self-observation diary; or ask people you know for feedback on your communication skills. It’s very important to practice your soft skills regularly. For example, if you want to get rid of stage fright, you need to consider every force majeure citation you’re afraid of (an awkward question, a technical difficulty, a forgotten line, etc.) and devise a specific p…
02.12.2020
New Citizen Science Project Helps Researchers Find Volunteers
…n be found on the service’s social media pages. Projects involve different forms of participation: some require physical help for archaeological digs, others are for those who want to participate in psychological or medical experiments or want to collect data or analyze photographs. “For example, our new project with the Russian Ge…
01.12.2020
ITMO Graduate Andrei Gorodetsky on His Career, European Science, and Work in Different Countries
…CV to all research teams that dealt with my topic, had many publications, and participated in conferences. At that time, I didn't care where to live, the main thing was that I wanted to do only science and nothing else. Two teams contacted me, and I chose a more advanced one at the Institute of Electronic Structure and Laser in Greece. Yet, it wasn’t the best time…
01.12.2020
Where Bananas Become Hammers: Coldest Places in Russia
…a rich cultural heritage. Generally, Yakutsk is not so hard to reach: a seven-hour direct flight from Moscow will take you right to this chilling destination, but you probably want to ask yourself if you really want to take the leap of visiting there. To give you a rough idea of what all this fuss is about – I know it’s hard to imagi…
30.11.2020