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• Laser Tech Summer School: Graduates Share Their Experience

  …res, pay a visit to some of ITMO’s research labs and its production area to personally witness how lasers are applied in real life. The high-schoolers also learned about the history and the structure of a laser and about its various uses. For example, optoelectronic devices can be used to determine the freshness of foodstuffs, study antique paintings, detect gravitat…

  28.06.2017

• Second Day of Geek Picnic: Evolution, Rats and Superstition

  …o distance? To understand how the scientific community came to realize that laws of physics can’t be understood intuitively, Borisov joined the audience in going through the history of relativity problematics, starting with aether and fine-tuning and ending with Einstein’s virtual experiments. Those who like a more interactive approach could visit ITMO University’…

  26.06.2017

• “Digital Talents”: How a New Generation of Specialists Changes the Way Companies Work

  … academic secretary of IMS Conference and convenor of DTGS Conference, this is the first time that the event is held in such a format, although it has almost twenty years of history behind it: the Week’s key event – the 20th National Conference – has been held annually in St. Petersburg since 1998. The Week has both Russian and international parts. On June 21, the…

  22.06.2017

• Art&Science: Optical Devices In Fine Arts And Design's Role In Evolution

  …ists surely used some technological "doping". According to the professor, this discovery - the fact that artists made use of optical methods - is a real revolution in the history of arts. Some 2,000 years ago images were flat and artists depicted humans in two-dimensional space. Jan van Eyck succeeded in portraying a person similar to how he looked in real life. S…

  21.06.2017

• Prime Minister Medvedev Congratulates ACM ICPC Winners

• ITMO Fellowship Stories: Italian Professor Shares his Thoughts about the Stradivarius of Science

  … know about ITMO and the Fellowship program? Roberto Morandotti: I visited St. Petersburg several times to attend conferences. And I really love this city, because of its history, its beauty and the friendliness of its people. A colleague of mine previously mentioned that ITMO was advertising a position for visiting professors and I decided to apply. At the time I…

  15.06.2017

• ITMO International Days: International Collaboration as One of the Main Trends

  …a Tulugurova, head of ITMO’s International Educational Programs Department, this year most of the guests were representatives of universities that, though they’ve had a long history of collaborating with ITMO, never took part in International Days before; the only exception was the delegation from ITMO’s long-standing partner, the University of Eastern Finland. Among…

  13.06.2017

• 5 Things You Need to Know Now

  … foams for the construction, packaging and automotive industries. Summer science reads 2017. Try your hand at brewing ancient-style beer? Enjoy strange stories on nuclear history and Earth’s real-life apocalypses? Or learn about how a well-known chemist once paid a million dollars for a portrait of his chemistry equipment? Here’re the summer reads picked by Scienc…

  13.06.2017

• Erasmus+: How To Effectively Collaborate With European Universities

  …le will their collaboration project play in it. Participants of the seminar on Erasmus+ "Everything prior to your collaboration project shall look like some ideal love story. You have to write everything about the visits between you and your partner, your agreement and also describe what results will your projects bring to each of the participants," explains …

  09.06.2017

• E-Contenta Founder: How to Go Global With Your Start-Up

  …spent on content marketing. But when you’ve got content in abundance, the problem is delivering it to the customer – whatever was written by the brand needs to show a specific story. But what will get the customer’s attention, gain his brand loyalty? If there are 10-20 thousand articles on your website, how do you choose what to show to a certain user? This is the ar…

  06.06.2017