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ITMO Researchers Create Optoclones of Unique Historical Treasures from the Russian Diamond Fund
…bjects would only be sent to the laboratory with the written permission of the director, Mikhail Piotrovsky. The holographic equipment we used was bulky, heavy and required specific conditions. It was outright impossible to record holograms in the museum. Zhores Alferov’s creation of the world’s first semiconductor heterostructure laser, which can work at room temper…
09.06.2018
ITMO and Partners Present New Projects at 2nd Lasers&Photonics Congress
…composite holograms Precision approach path indicators are used to determine a plane’s correct angle of approach to a runway. When a plane is on approach, pilots can see specific signs that let them identify a correct angle and land successfully. Major airports use special units for that purpose, but it is fairly large and not very mobile. Researchers at ITMO have…
08.06.2018
ITMO U ROCKYed in Philadelphia at NAFSA’18
… literacy, education, and human rights delivered a statement at the opening plenary session. Mrs. Bush shared her White House memories and experience, which no doubt was of specific interest for most of the participants. She also touched upon her current projects and charity activities. Mrs. Bush emphasized the importance of equal access to education, creation of ope…
06.06.2018
“People Need You!” Junior: Social IT Projects for Schoolchildren
…children have a rather high level of knowledge of fire safety, but the main purpose of the project was to hone their practical skills. The team also plans to develop a more specific test and come up with more efficient memorization techniques. A project called “Your Opportunity” from a team representing the Peterhof Gymnasium of Emperor Alexander II also took …
01.06.2018
Future Culture Lab: Artists and Scientists Present Their Vision of Tomorrow
…n the one we held in Moscow this winter. There, we focused on the general image of the future, and it was a lot more abstract. Here, we asked the participants to focus on a specific question: how will the inevitable development of technology affect our perceptions of ourselves and others? We intentionally invited people of very different trades to let them work toget…
30.05.2018
English at ITMO: From ABC to ESP
… Starting in their third year, all undergraduate students at ITMO attend English for Specific Purposes (ESP) classes and Academic Writing classes. ESP classes are currently being designed specifically for students based on their educational programs in order to provide them with specific skills and voc…
29.05.2018
Dissolving Borders: teamLab’s Founder on Digital Art
…go of their smartphones and interact more We believe that digital art can help people communicate and interact more. Each installation we create is only available in one specific place, and you have to perceive it here and now. This is different from when you put on a VR headset at home and start doing something in a digital environment. In the case of digital art…
29.05.2018
New Blockchain-Based System Will Control Quality of Medical and Chemical Products
…ess must be tracked; they’ve set up sensors, collected data and stored it in a database that lets them store data arrays unchanged. Right now, the developers are working on specific platform solutions that will let all members of the chain receive and analyze the data in a format they find suitable; for instance, a logistics company that deals with shipping will need…
25.05.2018
St. Petersburg International Economic Forum: Hi-Tech in IT, Medicine and Economics
…ore IT specialists. Even today, the demand for talented programmers, web designers, sysadmins, engineers and managers grows. Knowledge of IT is starting to be seen not as a specific skill, but something that should be familiar, at least in some degree, to everyone, noted Elena Bunina, CEO of Yandex. She also spoke of her company’s initiative for an online educ…
24.05.2018
NSP2018: Scientists Discuss Nanostructures in Photonics
…; you could say that these are the top-priority areas of research for us. We’ve already got some very good results in this area. One of the major goals is to understand the specifics of molecular movement in various reactions, and the first steps have already been made. We’ve also just finished the second competition that will determine how much time with the laser w…
24.05.2018