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• This Week in St. Petersburg: March 13-19, 2025

  The current temperature drop notwithstanding, spring reigns in St. Petersburg and this week, we’ll be enjoying it at festivals, concerts, and exhibitions. Grab your calendar and let’s get planning!

  12.03.2025

• ITMO Researchers Unveil New Methods to Control Light for Making Hypersensitive Devices

  Physicists from ITMO and Harbin Engineering University have experimentally proven unique light scattering features in open optical systems with Mie resonators. Thanks to the discovered effects, it’s possible to control light absorption and gain coefficients, enabling high sensitivity of optical systems to external factors. These results pave the way to hypersensitive sensors and optical devices for information processing and transfer. The study was described in a paper published in Science Advances.

  11.03.2025

• ITMO Expert Shares Tips on Being a Better Friend

  True friendship is something coveted by many and lauded in countless books and movies, but how can one really foster deep, long-lasting connections in real life? We turned to Antonina Fedorova, a lecturer in the course Complex Communication and Public Speaking Techniques at ITMO, for advice on the matter. Read on to become a better friend in six simple steps.

  11.03.2025

• Finance Office Opens at ITMO University

  The Finance Office has begun its work at ITMO University in a test mode. Its single-window system allows the university’s staff to resolve issues related to procurement and payment, accounting, and material responsibility. The office offers both in-person and online consultations. What can it help with? Read on to find out. 

  10.03.2025

• Dare to Follow Your Curiosity: ITMO Researchers to Girls in Science

  At ITMO University, there are many talented female scientists who lead by example on the cutting edge of materials science, biology, chemistry, and physics. In the lead-up to International Women's Day, we'd like to shine the spotlight on a few of them and inspire our readers to follow their scientific passions.

  07.03.2025

• Master’s and PhD in Four Years: How To Fast-Track Your Academic Career

  If you aspire to have a thriving academic career, whether that is to work at a laboratory or research center, lead knowledge-intensive projects at companies, or be a university lecturer, you must first complete your Master’s and then PhD, defending a thesis. A PhD program alone will take you three to four years to finish, however at ITMO, you can do that in half the time by joining the combined Master’s-and-PhD track and shaping your own learning track. Here’s all you need to know about the track, the opportunities it offers, and admission requirements.

  07.03.2025

• ITMO Researchers Develop Algorithm for Rapid DNA Analysis

  Scientists from ITMO University have unveiled Strainy, an algorithm that identifies DNA bacteria within microbiomes and discerns between heterogenous strains with a high degree of accuracy. With the help of this software, researchers should be able to quickly determine the pathogenicity and antibiotic resistance of specific bacterial communities, as well as learn more about their evolutionary paths. The corresponding paper has been published in Nature Methods.

  05.03.2025

• Higgs Boson for People: How Fundamental Discoveries Transform Everyday Life and Where Physics Is Heading Now

  Attosecond pulses, neutrino oscillations, and the Higgs boson – the recent decades have yielded many fundamental breakthroughs, some of which were awarded with the prestigious Nobel Prize. But what’s next? How do these discoveries impact our life? And what will science bring us in the future? All these topics were covered in the talk by Dmitry Karlovets, a senior researcher at ITMO’s Faculty of Physics, held as part of the pop-sci festival at ITMO University. Here are the takeaways.

  04.03.2025

• ITMO Researchers Develop Analog GPS System for Autonomous Systems

  VOSTOK, a local navigation system for autonomous systems, has been unveiled at ITMO. Useful in areas with poor or non-existent GPS signal, the technology can be applied in autonomous vehicles, unmanned aircraft employed on icebreakers along the Northern Sea Route, or drones delivering groceries to the countryside. Compared to its counterparts, the system can gauge its position and speed faster and with more precision: the coordinates are calculated with an accuracy of up to four millimeters and speed – with an accuracy of up to two centimeters per second.

  03.03.2025

• Spring Opportunities: How to Enroll at ITMO Without Exams

  You don’t need to take exams to get into the Master’s program of your dreams when there are competitions and schools that can get you in, too. Read on to discover a plethora of opportunities you can use this spring to enter ITMO’s Master’s programs without entrance exams.

  28.02.2025