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• ITMO Scientists Created a Surface Allowing Loss-Free Propagation and Management of Light

  …losses. This unique property is called a topologically protected edge state. Topological insulators that would transmit not the electrical current but “protected” electromagnetic waves, will change the development of optical technologies. In modern optical fiber and optical waveguides, the signal mostly propagates in straight lines, scattering in case of any infle…

  13.03.2019

• Founder of CourseBurg.ru Aleksander Alkhov on the ABC of Entrepreneurship

  …ints. Even if you won’t attain a leadership position and stop halfway, you’ll still cover 30% of the market, which is good. At McDonald’s, they say that they feed 1% of the planet’s population. But that’s 1% of 7,5 billion, and they eat every day. On the whole, a successful business has to have 20-30 customer segments. And each segment has its own properties: grow…

  13.03.2019

• Datathon on Texts Annotation: How Programmers and Humanities Specialists Analyze Texts

  …ork, solving a task on the linguistic annotation of historical and culturological sources needed for creating a corpus of texts and enabling the following training of a neural network. At the teams’ disposal was a large body of culturally significant data such as diaries of music composers and famous personalities on the theater scene of the 18-19th centuries St. …

  11.03.2019

• Materials Scientist Alexandre Nominé on Challenges of his Field, Learning Russian, and Creativity at ITMO University

  …ol them at hundreds, maybe a thousand degrees per second. Imagine what we could do with the instruments that we have. Materials science is a fight between thermodynamics and kinetics, and our tools allow us to create wonderful things. We are often working in the framework of optics to create new materials. Sometimes it involves creating brand new materials, li…

  07.03.2019

• 10 Summer Schools to Attend This Summer

  …iomedical science and want to learn about new applications of biotechnologies, as well as the latest advances in cancer treatment, synthetic biology, structural biology, and genetics of plants. Participants of the school will embark on a scientific journey, with each day focusing on one particular topic, ranging from molecules and genes to cells and diseases. 5…

  07.03.2019

• Quantum Communications Project at ITMO Receives 100 Million Rubles Investment

  …structure projects with Quanttelecom, the launch of a range of devices for various markets, the introduction of quantum encryption technology into the company’s existing comms network, and the development of its competencies as a communications provider in the field of quantum communications. As of now, Quanttelecom employs 30 staff members. In 2018, the global qu…

  06.03.2019

• On Way to Smart City: Head of St. Petersburg e-Government Department on Digital Economy and City Services

  …acilities which enable the exchanging of data. You can’t expect a breakthrough to happen if some areas of the country are still experiencing difficulties in accessing the internet. The third is the forming of research competencies and technological capacities. We understand that the Russian plants producing complex, high-priority technologies have been, for one re…

  06.03.2019

• ITMO University Scientists Remember Nobel Laureate Zhores Alferov

  …pplications. For example, semiconductor lasers (which are based on semiconductor heterostructures) are used to transmit signals through an optical fiber, which is how the internet works. Such lasers are also used in optical drives, CD and DVD discs, as well as laser printers. Another application of semiconductor heterostructures is in high-frequency transistors. T…

  05.03.2019

• Sberbank’s Cyber-Security Staff on Protecting Bank’s Network Perimeter

  …Protection of the bank’s corporate network perimeter Sberbank’s St. Petersburg branch includes an office responsible for the security of the bank’s network perimeter. In order to ensure the safety of the company’s operations, security specialists focus their attention on protecting the network perimeter…

  05.03.2019

• Head of RN-Burenie Oil Company’s IT Department: Every Bit of Fundamental Knowledge I Have, I Learned at University

  …ork on after you graduated? I had tried myself at many things, but, of course, I tried to stay in my profile area. I’ve worked in many different telecommunications and internet companies. I started out at small companies, back when it was the peak of their development in the city. I also worked on a few IT projects. Back then there was a lot of excitement about in…

  04.03.2019