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• Houston, We Have a Problem: the Dangerous Subtleties of Space Flights

  …to foresee all the risks Italian astronaut Luca Parmitano almost drowned in his own space suit. During a space walk outside the ISS, he reported water in his helmet. The engineers in the Mission Control Center told him that it probably was drinking water from the water tube, so Parmitano swallowed it, but it tasted strange. Soon the water started increasing until …

  16.08.2018

• Schrödinger’s Paradox and Doctor Faustus’ Lab: the Many Faces of “Gatchina Light Nights”

  …t would take several hours for a spectator to see them all. Among the festival showstoppers was a laboratory of no less than Doctor Faustus himself. Designed by the Russian Engineering Theater visionaries Vadim Gololobov, Nick Khamov, and Yury Galkin, this project featured kinetic objects, each functioning on its own idiosyncratic laws, and it was the audience’s role…

  15.08.2018

• ITMO University Enters Academic Ranking of World Universities for the First Time

  …ace patterning of nanoparticles with polymer patches (Nature), co-authored by Ekaterina Zhulina, a staff member of the International Scientific and Research Institute of Bioengineering. The article concerns the interactions between nanoparticles and specific polymer structures. ITMO University also showed great results in regards to the number of indexed art…

  14.08.2018

• How to Train for Competitions and Why do it Now

  …om understanding the task’s essence. Usually, it’s the first thing to do when getting such a task. Roman Polozkov, Head of the Department of Physics, on training for engineering competitions: When does one have to start training for an engineering competition? How long can it take? And is it possible to show good results durin…

  14.08.2018

• Dire Straits and Silver Linings: a Syrian Student's Journey to ITMO

  …Youssef never planned to come to Russia and certainly didn’t plan to study at ITMO University. He completed a Bachelor’s degree in civil engineering, a field not offered within ITMO’s unique profile. In 2009, when he completed his studies at Aleppo University in Syria, he was top of his class. The war in Syria hadn’t started yet and cultural exchange agreements aboun…

  09.08.2018

• Results of ITMO’s Bachelor Admissions Campaign 2018

  …eptance were for the programs “Information Systems and Technologies” (291 out of 310, with an average 99.1 subject score), “Applied Mathematics” (99.0 points) and “Software Engineering” (96.1). As of August 8, more than 350 students enrolled into fee-based positions; their average USE score is 76. Talents This summer, even those whose USE score was below…

  09.08.2018

• Blood Nanofilters and Graphene Gas Sensors: “Big Challenges” Summer Camp

  …ects which they came up with during their time at Sirius resembled that of university students’ theses,” shared Mikhail Zhukov, “Big Challenges” nanotechnologies mentor and engineer at ITMO University’s Department of Nano-Photonics and Metamaterials. Creating ordered nanostructures arrays To work on this project, the students joined forces with Mikhail Zhukov…

  08.08.2018

• Per Aspera Ad Astra: ITMO.STARS Contest Results

  …uired to have a good understanding of their how their studies at ITMO will contribute to their future development,” comments Pavel Kustarev, Dean of the Faculty of Software Engineering and Computer Systems. Results 14 school students from St. Petersburg, Blagoveshchensk, and Yuzhno-Sakhalinsk were selected by the contest committee. Alexander Blashenkov fr…

  07.08.2018

• “Will Musk Catch Up With Korolev”: Private Space Industry's Journey to the Stars

• ITMO University Expands BIM Program in Partnership with Industry Leaders

  … that reflects all the possible effects of various factors, helping find the optimal solution in order to save resources. BIM can also be used to model the operation of all engineering systems, choose materials and even calculate the economic aspects of construction. It can also track the status of construction in real time and predict various outcomes in the event o…

  03.08.2018