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• The Experiment: Best Ways to Deal With Burnout

  This year, the usual winter energy drop just didn’t seem to want to go away for me any time soon. I also noticed that no tasks brought me joy anymore, I was almost always tired and almost never fulfilled, and everything had just sort of lost its point. A quick Google search later, I realized these symptoms looked suspiciously like burnout – and decided to do something about it. So I turned to the trusty internet to try out some common tips on dealing with burnout. Below is the result of my little experiment, which can hopefully act as a burnout prevention kit for anyone who also finds themselves struggling.

  25.03.2025

• ITMO’s Monday Science Roundup #75

  When it comes to science news, mid-March has been fruitful: from a whole new concept of physics to numerous AI-driven breakthroughs, there are plenty of things to be jazzed about. Read all about them in our latest digest.

  24.03.2025

• ITMO Lecturers Win 2.5 Million Rubles From Vladimir Potanin Foundation

  Five lecturers at ITMO University were granted 500,000 rubles each by the Vladimir Potanin Foundation for the redesign and advancement of educational programs to train sought-after specialists. Additionally, the university made it into the grant competition’s top 3 for the number of approved applications and the top 5 – for the number of supported initiatives.

  24.03.2025

• Next Stop – Houston: School Students from St. Petersburg Win FIRST Tech Challenge Championship

  Sputnik Original, a team of school students from St. Petersburg, reigned supreme at last month's international robotics competition FIRST Tech Challenge Championship in Italy. They outperformed more than 40 teams from 13 countries, becoming the event’s absolute winners. The team trains at Lyceum No. 244, where they are mentored by university students, including Master’s students from ITMO who once graduated from the school and have now returned to teach supplementary courses. What awaits the team next? The world finals in Houston (USA) in late April. ITMO NEWS got to talk to the team and now shares their story. 

  21.03.2025

• ITMO Researchers Discover New Type of Singularity – Exceptional Bound States in the Continuum

  A team of scientists from Russia, China, Austria, and the UK have found a new, previously considered impossible type of singularity, namely exceptional bound states in the continuum. The finding opens the door to producing energy-efficient optical transistors, modulators, and switches, as well as next-gen ultrasensitive sensors that can detect viruses and proteins more effectively. The results of the study were published in Physical Review Letters.

  20.03.2025

• New Study from ITMO: Waveguides Made Invisible to Each Other in 2D Lattice

  Physicists from ITMO and University of Chile have demonstrated mutual invisibility in a waveguide lattice for the first time. With this alignment, adjacent waveguides don’t exchange light: upon entering the lattice, light doesn’t scatter and instead remains a limited area. Conducted with support from the Russian Science Foundation grant No. 24-72-10069, the study was described in a paper published in Nano Letters.

  19.03.2025

• This Week in St. Petersburg: March 20-26, 2025

  It’s sunny, it’s warmish, the days are getting longer, and life is suddenly worth living! And it’s made even better by all the exciting events happening in the city. This is our selection for next week:

  19.03.2025

• Priority 2030: ITMO Leads Among Participants of National Project

  The Russian Ministry of Science and Higher Education has announced the results of defenses within the Priority 2030 national program. For its part, ITMO University presented a new plan for transforming the university into a research-, education-, and tech-focused corporation, retaining its position at the top of the program’s high-performers list. In 2025, the university will receive around 1 billion rubles to implement its all-encompassing development strategy, including projects in AI for business, science, and education.

  18.03.2025

• 5 More Russian Words With Unexpected Origins

  As you’ve learned from our previous article, Russian, just as any other language, is ripe with fascinating stories of cultural exchange, historical trends, and even comical misunderstandings. What do China and France have to do with Russian oranges – and which pastry might strike horror into language purists' hearts? Find out below.

  17.03.2025

• Cardiac MRI Now Processed in Minutes With ITMO AI Algorithm

  Researchers from ITMO and Almazov National Medical Research Centre used deep learning to develop a way to quickly detect cardiac fibrosis – with an algorithm that divides a cardiac image into 17 segments and then evaluates the location and amount of fibrosis tissue in each of them. With the new algorithm, clinicians won’t have to do the complicated MRI analysis, which would significantly facilitate the selection of treatment for heart attacks and other cardiovascular diseases. The results of the study, supported by the Russian Science Foundation, were published in Biomedical Signal Processing and Control.

  17.03.2025