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• Grants of 2016: ITMO Gets 90 Millions on Hybrid Light-Matter States Research

  …nge of research that is being conducted at the "Photoprocesses in mesoscopic systems" international laboratory (Ivan Shelykh is its co-head, the other one being Ivan Iorsh, a staff member for the Department of Nano-photonics and Metamaterials). While the laboratory only deals with theoretical issues, the new research implies experimental projects in collaboration wit…

  13.10.2016

• ITMO University Receives the UNESCO Award

  …of the anniversary celebrations of the World Science Day for Peace and Development — an official holiday that is celebrated on October, 10th since 2001. On this day, UNESCO's staff conduct lectures, seminars and roundtables on global concerns that can be addressed by closer cooperation between scientists and general public, and organize exhibitions and other cultural…

  11.10.2016

• Relativity Theory in Layman’s Terms: a New Lecture at the «Gutenberg's Lounge»

  …ome time, so the first publications were around 1949; after the war it was used for nuclear research in design of safe reactors. In 1978, a study was conducted among medical staff. They were presented with a following problem: there is a rare disease that affects only 1 in a thousand. There is a test with a 99% accuracy. We take any passer-by and get a positive resu…

  05.10.2016

• The Ceaseless Chain: Why Schools and Universities Have to Collaborate?

  …ies. This helps promote science to children, which can become the key aspect in choosing one's future career path. One of the tasks that stand before the lyceum's pedagogical staff is creating a chain of ceaseless engineering education, the active participation in the system of training future qualified personnel. The lyceum is a center for pre-professional educatio…

  05.10.2016

• A New Approach to Education: ITMO’s Academic Board Elaborates New Concepts

  …student orientation, openness and module-based education. As of now, the Academic Board approved of the approaches and ideas presented by Mr. Mikhaivol. Now, ITMO's academic staff is to work on checking the single elements of the project, assessing the costs and elaborating the necessary road maps.…

  05.10.2016

• The 2016 Nobel Prize in Physics: Topological Phases of Matter over the Experimental Discovery of Gravitational Waves

  … in physics before — and that is topology», — explains Andrei Bogdanov, Research Associate for ITMO's Department of Nanophotonics and Metamaterials. Alexandr Atrashenko, staff member for International Nanophotonics and Metamaterials Research Centre, notes that the fundamental research by American scientists already starts to be implemented into applied science. …

  04.10.2016

• Russia’s «First Non-Classical» Welcomes: an Open Day at ITMO’s School of Internet Technologies and Programming

  …ere, students can partake in the forming of the curriculum, and do things like analyzing poetry to define the authors' mood at the moment he wrote them. Vladimir Uliantsev, a staff member of the «Computer Technologies» International Laboratory adds that only few of his peers continue to live in Saint Petersburg. Some moved to San-Francisco, some to London or Munich, …

  03.10.2016

• New ITMO Accelerator Creating Businesses that Benefit Society

  …nd prostitutes. They find ways to help prisoners earn money without committing crimes and also contribute to society. For example, in California there is a cafe where all the staff are prisoners. They also create special educational centres to help them to find a new profession. Another priority is increasing environmental awareness and contributing to its betterment…

  29.09.2016

• Grants of 2016: ITMO University will get 90 million rubles funding for developing new hybrid materials for a new generation of optoelectronics

  …funds are best used for investing into talented researchers. The recent development of the International Research Center proves this hypothesis — now, there are more than 160 staff members here. The Center developed from a laboratory created by ITMO University on the grants won several years ago. «The startup concept works: we bought the necessary equipment and att…

  28.09.2016

• A student from Mexico: I Got Even More than I Expected

  …o the city of his dreams and entered ITMO University. «I found ITMO’s website by chance and was interested in its engineering programs. When I came here to learn more, the staff at the International Students Office talked to me about opportunities for those who have Russian background.» The state support program «Sootechestvenniki» (Compatriots) helps young peo…

  26.09.2016