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ITMO University Researchers Shed New Light on Plasmonic Nanolasers
…” explains Nikita Toropov. Long way towards publication Work on the project began in 2014, when one of the authors, Aisylu Kamalieva, enrolled in ITMO’s international Master’s program Physics and Technology of Nanostructures and started working at the Photophysics of Surface Laboratory under the supervision of Nikita Toropov and Tigran Vartanyan, a professor…
08.12.2020
How To Survive Russian Winter: Tips From International Students and Staff
… try to solve it all alone or isolate yourself; it’s always better to talk to your friends who also live in Russia and can understand your feelings. Jorge Medina, Colombia, Master’s Student at the Faculty of Secure Information Technologies To have a great winter in St. Petersburg, I always check the weather app before I go outside – it’s a great tool that helps…
08.12.2020
A Breath of Fresh Air in Science: ITMO Graduate on Finding Herself in Science, Interdisciplinarity and Bioinformatics
…nly further education courses at the Bioinformatics Institute in St. Pete. The search was not easy, but I could not drop it. Then I stumbled upon an announcement of ITMO’s new Master’s program – which made me really happy! Finally, I got what I wanted: full-scale higher education and a serious curriculum with loads of cutting-edge materials. I got into the first coho…
08.12.2020
5 Things That Make St. Petersburg Russia's Cultural Capital
…There are over 221 museums (the State Hermitage Museum being the largest), 2,000 libraries, more than 80 theaters, 100 concert halls, 45 galleries and exhibition halls, 62 cinemas, and around 80 other cultural establishments. The city annually hosts around 100 festivals and various art and culture competitions, including more than 50 international ones. Over 250 Russ…
07.12.2020
Food of the Future: What’s to Come?
…lity or even safety of food, today they put more effort into the long-term prospects and make an effort to use better-quality products. Better ingredients are used even on the mass market – for that purpose, manufacturers are looking for new sources of raw material. To produce foods that can be stored for a long time without the need for preservatives, you nee…
04.12.2020
Scientists Develop Transparent High-Performance Material for Flexible Displays and Solar Panels
…heir consumers with foldable smartphones or rollable TVs. However, the materials industry only takes the first steps in this field, so flexible devices are high-priced and not mass-produced. “Any display is an optoelectronic device. Roughly speaking, contacts connected to the display generate photons, so one of these contacts must be transparent,” explains Ivan…
04.12.2020
How To: Outdoor Ice Rinks
…e Rink is located practically in the city center in its own beautiful cluster of public spaces, paths, and cafes. The space is usually wonderfully lit and decorated for Christmas and New Year with festive music adding to the atmosphere. The prices range from 190 to 500 rubles with the cheapest sessions on offer for students and on Mon-Thu afternoons. Note that you p…
04.12.2020
FoodTech Master’s Program Head Olesya Volokh: Food Is Always in Fashion
…y’s industry are yet another opportunity for me to do that. What are your current responsibilities at ITMO? I am the head of the Bachelor’s program Biotechnology and the Master’s program FoodTech. Will you be teaching a course yourself? I’ve got a course on nutritional science in the works. It’ll be a separate discipline for Bachelor’s students and pa…
03.12.2020
Scientists Demonstrate New Opportunities for Controlling Light in Optical Graphene
…rbon atoms in graphene compose hexagonal cells. Such a structure of a crystal lattice makes it so that electrons in this material can behave as particles with a zero effective mass despite having mass. This is what gives graphene its unique properties. What happens to electrons in graphene is described by the laws of quantum mechanic…
03.12.2020
Best Projects by Participants of Online School by ITMO Avatar Developers
…signments, presents at various scientific events, and engages in sports. “The hardest part of the development process was coming up with an idea,” says Sergei Ryzhakov, a Master’s student at ITMO’s Game Development Technologies Master’s program. “I came up with a tamagotchi that you need to feed and dress and that would develop alo…
02.12.2020