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• New Projects by Female Leaders

  …ostly ignore the importance of communicative skills, while in America this competency is extremely important. The success of a project often depends on communications and knowledge of conflict management. Natalia Lukovnikova "I presented a program of ITMO’s Foresight Center development as my project. Despite the fact that it is not a new program, the Center …

  07.02.2017

• The Master Provocateur

  …ooms many times but have never before looked with such intensity at Jordaens’s "Banquet of Cleopatra,' with its comic panache of caricatured courtiers, or Breughel’s "Forest's Edge' with its ominous glacial gathering clouds or De Vos’s Self Portrait with Wife Susan Koch, where the division between childish glee and adult posturing is so beautifully drawn. Farbre’s ag…

  03.02.2017

• Amusement or Science: The Role of Modern Museums

  …imes when there were only a couple of museums throughout the country, museums didn't have any "special" role in addition to just being museums. Yet now, when all kinds of knowledge are accessible via the 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 pla…

  31.01.2017

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

  …creasing. The point is that after graduation, such young specialists can already start working in their field during their first year at university, thus getting advanced knowledge. "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-…

  26.01.2017

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

  …le degree program three generations of ITMO’s students have received Rochester’s diplomas," shares Mr. Kozlov. "American students take part in the Summer Camp and use the knowledge gained in Russia to create a quantum network in Rochester. In November the Journal Optics&Photonics News Journal published an article devoted to successful collaboration of Russian and Ame…

  25.01.2017

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

  …fter graduation they’ll find jobs in places like Oracle, Intel, IBM, Yandex and Kaspersky Lab. One of the top majors "Photonics" helps students learn about the most cutting-edge fields of physics, including for example, "manipulating" light using metamaterials, and using quantum technology to prevent hackers from getting into communication lines. ITMO University h…

  23.01.2017

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

  …As of now, when a potential student enrolls to a university, it is his knowledge, not the skills that is assessed. 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 i…

  21.01.2017

• Smartphones Are no Longer "Smart" With Cloud Technologies

  …universities helps both business and students, as companies position themselves in the markets effectively while future experts are able to understand economic trends. "Knowledge itself becomes outdated. Currently it is more important to deal with new technologies as opposed to perceive information. It means that such skills as adopting new market conditions is bec…

  20.01.2017

• ITMO University Staff Win Government Award for Translational IT

  …f fields that require effective information systems, such as urban or social studies. For example, ITMO University’s TROIKA: Technology and Research on Information-Driven Knowledge Alliance, analyses people’s behavior in critical situations, modeling the occurrence and development of such situations and makes predictions based on Big Data. In the field of urban studi…

  18.01.2017

• Baltic Research Contest: Best Students, Great Opportunities

  …some big conference, as during your free time you don't idle near your stand, but try to learn what other research were presented, even in other sections. This thirst for knowledge is fundamental to the event. I plan to continue doing research at ITMO University, though I still haven't chosen a field. During my last year at school I decided to take up optics, thou…

  18.01.2017