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Herzen University and ITMO Specialists Develop a Bot that Helps Prepare for the Unified State Exam in Chemistry
Everything You Need to Know About ITMO University’s Admission Campaign 2020
… and read about last year's winners here and here. Master’s admissions ITMO offers several types of Master’s programs. Among them are industrial and entrepreneurial, scientific and corporate. In recent years, the university’s Master’s programs have become geared towards the students’ individual demands: now, they have the opportunity to choose a program and…
30.04.2020
Is Fully Hack-Proof Code Possible?
…ncryption. What’s this? Is this the fabled unhackable key, then? If quantum key distribution is so close to ideal, why doesn’t my smartphone’s messenger use it? What are scientists in the field working on now? Does this mean that this encryption technology will appear on my phone? Encryption keys seem to be all the rage right now. But what are they? …
30.04.2020
ITMO University Researchers Test Innovative Pharmacy Refrigerator
…The modern pharmaceutical industry is a rapidly advancing field – scientists keep developing more and more complex medications, vaccines and preventive treatments. A lot of these products are difficult to produce, they are synthesized under specific temperatures and thus must be transported and stored carefully. All of these steps, however, can be negated if the tube…
30.04.2020
ITMO PhD Student Dmitry Zhirihin Receives Prestigious IEEE Graduate Fellowship
… One of the interesting points is that each day is unique. We don’t spend our days doing one and the same thing sunrise-to-sunset. There are weekly seminars on various natural sciences. We regularly have visits from researchers from all over the world, who come to us with lectures or even courses. We also have meetings with industrial partners. Our Faculty also activ…
29.04.2020
ITMO University in Bronze League of Round University Ranking
…with foreign scholars. All quantitative data for ranking the universities comes from data by the Global Institutional Profiles Project by Clarivate Analytics as well as Web of Science Core Collection, Scopus, and Google Scholar. In 2020, ITMO University has significantly improved its scores in three areas: the quality of research climbed 101 positions (7th a…
29.04.2020
Scientists Develop Light-emitting Composite Material Based on Perovskite Nanocrystals with Air- and Water Resistant Optical Characteristics
…Lead halide perovskite nanocrystals are one of the most investigated objects in modern Materials Science. They possess excellent optical properties, such as pure and bright emission, which make them attractive for implementation in modern laser systems. In particular, the use of perovskite nanocrystals may lead to micro-scale lasers, which can be employed for the vis…
29.04.2020
Radario Founder and Former ITMO Student Anton Bryantsev on Skills for a Successful Startup
… University. Did the knowledge you’d gotten come in handy in your career? Why did you decide to leave before graduation? Let me put it this way: fundamental and engineering sciences, undoubtedly, help form the right mindset for task-solving and give you a handle on a subject area. So some of the knowledge certainly did come in handy. But I can’t gauge the exact le…
28.04.2020
ITMO Researchers' Improved Text Recognition Algorithm Helps Analyze Century-Old Russian Texts
…gital Humanities Center. Its goal is to create an interactive map of St. Petersburg that illustrates the key locations connected to the lives of famous writers, composers, and scientists. “Our project St. Retrospect is a visualization of culturally significant toponyms in St. Petersburg based on corpus analysis of historical, cultural, and artistic sources,” tel…
27.04.2020
What Is Biotechnology?