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• Three ITMO Students and a Graduate Win UMNIK Grant Competition – Here Are Their Projects and Plans

  …to Small Innovative Enterprises and is organized within the framework of the national program Digital Economy in the Russian Federation. The competition is meant to give young scientists a chance to talk about their commercially-oriented research and engineering projects – and support such projects. Each winner will receive 500,000 rubles to help them polish their id…

  09.11.2020

• University College Dublin's Prof. John T. Sheridan on Holography, Career, and Irish Culture

  …ents, such as lenses. There are plenty of applications. Essentially, my course will be about two things: how to make holograms and how to “replay” them later on. All scientific fields have their own hot topics and a certain “frontier” where the discoveries are made. Where is that frontier in holography? Holography has been developing since the 1960s, and…

  09.11.2020

• Picture of the Week: Rainbow Shine in Polymeric Materials

  …ffect, he used an LCD with a white slide that generates polarized light, a DSLR, and a circular polarizing filter. The glow effect arises from optical inhomogeneity (or, as scientists say, anisotropy) in initially homogeneous (or isotropic) solid materials, including polymeric ones. Inhomogeneity is caused, in turn, by internal mechanical stresses that are formed …

  09.11.2020

• Art & Science of the 1920s: ITMO Graduate Creates 3D Visualization of Guidoni’s Luminous Monument

  …dern world.   According to the authors of the project, they wanted to demonstrate to contemporary people that already back in the 1920s the interdisciplinary field of Art & Science was developing in the USSR. Olga Kolganova, a research associate at the Russian Institute of Art History who studies Guigoni’s heritage initiated the project. Together with Sofia Pet…

  06.11.2020

• Keeping the Balance Between Creativity and Technology: Ekaterina Doronina on Her Path to Self-Discovery

  …eelancer, and am engaged mainly in graphic design. At first, I studied at Peter the Great St. Petersburg Polytechnic University and received a degree in Applied Information Science in Design (or Digital Design as I would call it now). This program is initially intended for those people who plan to make computer games. There was a wide range of disciplines such as …

  06.11.2020

• How to Enter Russian Universities Through ITMO University’s International Competitions

  … Polina Petrusha, a coordinator of the Open Doors competition, as well as Irina Kim and Ekaterina Masterova, coordinators of the Open Competitions in Mathematics and Computer Science, shared all necessary info on how to apply and succeed. This year, all of these competitions will take place online in Russian and in English.  For prospective Master’s and PhD stude…

  05.11.2020

• ITMO University Researchers Predict New Quantum Phase of Matter in Chains of Oscillating Atoms

  …f atoms placed above a waveguide – an optical channel with photons streaming inside. ITMO University researchers have proven this as part of a project supported by the Russian Science Foundation.  “We’ve demonstrated that ultrastrong coupling can occur in a system of atoms above a waveguide,” comments Ivan Iorsh. “In this case, the waveguide serves as a resonato…

  05.11.2020

• Student Spotlight: Kevin Santisteban, Guatemala

  …ies in the ICPC (International Collegiate Programming Contest) so I knew that it was a good university for IT. I decided to choose this degree because I love coding and the scientific basis that it implies, not only at a modern high level and commercial languages but those closer to hardware. I’ve worked as a programmer, thus I do believe this is the degree tha…

  05.11.2020

• TEDxStPetersburg Speakers on the Future of Education, Quantum Revolution, and Burnout Prevention

  …Entertainment, Design) events cover various topics: from personal efficiency to high tech. This time, speakers from the fields of education, art, business, economics, and data science discussed the main question of 2020 – how will our world change after the pandemic? The university of the future In the beginning of her talk, Daria Kozlova, ITMO University’s…

  03.11.2020

• Building Resilience and Coping With Stress