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• Neural Interfaces to Control Reality: a New Project at the Future Technologies Accelerator

• Amusement or Science: The Role of Modern Museums

  …he Internet, museums have to bend with the wind and change their strategies. So, what is a science museum? A place where they store information about the past? A place that promotes science?A place to conduct research at? It's hard to say for sure. In the USA, museums are "socialized",and act as cultural centers. This is true for some Russian museums, as well, esp…

  31.01.2017

• Creating Quartz-Based Nanocomposites: ITMO’s New International Collaboration

  …s for micro- and optofluidics, "laboratories-on-a-chip" and microanalytical systems. Optofluidics is a science about using light to control micro-flows of fluids, and is quite promising in such fields as fast diagnostics. A good example of a microanalytical system is a gas sensor: a device that can detect particular substances in the air by reacting with them on a ch…

  27.01.2017

• Rectors are Human Too: Heads of Top Russian Universities Share Stories from Their Student Years

  …the Czech Republic! You should’ve pulled out the poppies and left the grass!" Later, when everyone calmed down, the officer talked to the commander who had a good laugh and promised to bring more seeds of the inconspicuous flowers from the Czech Republic. Victor Koksharov, rector of Ural Federal University, PhD Graduate of the History Department of the Ural …

  26.01.2017

• New Priorities in Education: A Press Conference by the Minister of Education

  …ge. "This approach is really useful. We can see similar practices in all of the educational systems worldwide", underlines the minister. She added that the state continues promoting blue-collar jobs; for instance, it inspires young specialists to take part in the WorldSkills international contests. The minister also expressed gratitude to universities who teach h…

  26.01.2017

• A Taste for Science: Why the State Is Eager To Finance Universities' Fundamental Research?

  …rsity decides on its project's priority, it has to define the module the research belongs to from the point of its relevance. At the same time, it is essential to assume which promising applications can be results of its fundamental theory. For instance, to analyze signals from space, scientists need hi-end measuring equipment. This leads to developing technologies t…

  25.01.2017

• Professor Xi-Cheng Zhang Is Awarded by Selby Scientific Foundation

  …The main goal of this award is to reward distinguished scientists who were invited to Australia to present open lectures and seminars that aim to promote scientific ideas. The candidates have to be both experienced researchers and wonderful lecturers. According to Sergei Kozlov, head of the International Institute "Photonics and Optical Information Technology," Xi…

  25.01.2017

• First Open Day in 2017 and How to Apply to ITMO

  …erent. So ITMO University is trying to train the kind of specialists that will be in demand and focus on breakthrough fields and technology. The first major on offer is the promising field of internet technologies and programming. Computing power which used to take up several floors of research institutes, now can fit into your pocket, and there’s software that ca…

  23.01.2017

• VIII Gaidar Forum: Russia’s Leading Experts on the Future of Education

  …Vladimir Vasilyev noted that every university aims to get talented students. So, if they want to focus on entrepreneurship and inventions, they are to make use of schools that promote further education — andit is best if they engage potential employers in the process, as well. "One has to understand that there is no point in creating technologies for the sake of te…

  21.01.2017

• Smartphones Are no Longer "Smart" With Cloud Technologies