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• ITMO Launches Entertainment Show About Science and Tech

  What would it look like if Seldon the Robot took Alice on a date? What do St. Petersburg residents think about black holes in the Milky Way? And why should you stop referring to the Crazy IT Party meme when talking about scientists and programmers? ITMO University launched a new entertainment show about science and technology. Warning: some scenes may contain elements of populist nature. To learn what the Rector Vladimir Vasilyev would say to Elon Musk if they ever met, watch the pilot episode.

  05.06.2018

• Data Analysis and Scientific Approach: New Technologies Effect on Oil Sector

  Today machine learning helps companies to find a profitable location for a new salespoint, optimize purchases and improve employee efficiency. Artificial intelligence can tell you how to work with clients, keep them and increase their loyalty. Along with retailers and finance specialists, the energy industry is developing a large number of new technology projects. “The fourth industrial revolution dictates new rules for oil companies”, believes Pavel Sorokin, head of the Interaction with Universities Department and the Personnel Management Department of Gazprom Neft Science and Technology Center. In his lecture at ITMO University he presented the changes in modern industry, talked about the specialists in demand and explained the companies focus on fundamental education and cooperation with leading Russian universities.

  28.04.2018

• Bar Talk: Young Scientists on Making a Career, Finding Your Place and Globalization of Science

  In the eyes of a layperson, the career of a scientist might seem an extraordinary, lifelong adventure. People foreign to the world of science have little understanding of the factors that influence a scientist’s path in their field. This week, young scientists from ITMO University and The Ioffe Institute gathered in a bar to discuss how the career of a scientist differs from that of other specialists, what is special about working in the Academy of Sciences, whether it is worth it to move to another country, and what is wrong with the current policies of encouraging women into science. ITMO.NEWS publishes the highlights of the discussion.

  13.04.2018

• ITMO Student Wins IEEE Undergraduate Scholarship

  This year six young scientists from the USA, Canada and Russia were awarded an IEEE MTT-S Undergraduate Scholarship. Maxim Masyukov, a fourth-year student at the Faculty of Photonics and Optical Information, was among the winners. MTT-S is the biggest international society of experts in microwave, millimeter-wave, and terahertz technologies. The society exists as part of the IEEE, the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, and provides scholarships to students and postgraduates. Maxim’s research concerned the development of a chiral metasurface with tunable polarizing properties in THz frequency range. ITMO.NEWS asked him some questions about how to win such a scholarship.

  29.03.2018

• International Team of Scientists Proved How Intestinal Microbiota Can Affect the Flu

  An International team of scientists from Washington University School of Medicine (USA) and ITMO University proved experimentally that intestinal microbiota in mice can influence the body’s immune response to the flu. Metabolites, which are formed in our gut, stimulate the increase of interferon which is a protein responsible for suppressing the virus’s replication. The results of the research are published in Science magazine

  04.08.2017

• Young Scientists from ITMO University Receive Presidential Grants

  On May 30, during a special ceremony, 53 young scientists from St. Petersburg's universities and institutions of the Russian Academy of Sciences in St. Petersburg were given presidential grants. ITMO University was represented by five researchers who received grants in the Physics and Astronomy category. In an interview for ITMO.NEWS, the researchers shared about their research.

  05.06.2017