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• ITMO Student Alexander Berestennikov Becomes Recipient of Zhores Alferov Scholarship

  … metamaterial – a topological insulator – we can achieve a complete lack of scattering and wave decay. Another curious property of such structures is the presence of N-dimensional modes. By combining topological insulators with perovskites, the former possessing wonderful optical properties, we can produce highly efficient light-emitting devices, such as lasers. …

  31.07.2020

• ITMO University Students Launch a Digital Medicine Project

  …se in Russia, this field hasn’t been fully regulated yet. This is a gray market: it seems not to be prohibited, but at the same time, doctors, for example, can’t provide conclusions on the internet. There are very fine lines here, and in order to tap into this market, you have to act very carefully from the legal point of view. With that in mind, we’re now at the sta…

  31.07.2020

• Esports, Mental Health, and AR: Demo Day at Joint ITMO and MTS Accelerator

  …eir commercial potential, and the team line-up.  The first place went to project OverPRO, an esports tournament platform with bets where amateurs can compete with professionals and improve their skills. The jury’s members gave the highest mark to the project’s team which consisted of its founder Amir Tomashvili, and Andrey Rovniy, the project’s chief technolog…

  30.07.2020

• Researchers Develop Supersensitive Method to Measure Surface Topography With THz Radiation

  …y is an excellent aid. And when at sea, you can monitor bottom topography with an echo sounder.  These technologies, however, are getting more complex by the day, and professionals need to either establish new methods of acquiring images or improve the ones already applied today. Sometimes, specialists need to get a 3D image of an object’s surface. In such cases, …

  30.07.2020

• Not a New Format, but a New Form of Communication: ITMO Teaching Staff on Distance Learning

  … International Digital Humanities Center, presented their reports during the meeting. Participants shared different takes on distance learning. Various ITMO staffers’ impressions ranged from “an interesting experience” and “a challenge” to “an emergency” and “a source of stress.” Of course, all things new cause fear and concern – but distance learning is far fr…

  29.07.2020

• Neurotechnologies and Software Engineering Master’s Program to Go Corporate and Open Two New Specializations

  …The first version of this program was launched in 2018. Since 2019, it has changed its status, and its training and curriculum contents have been changed in accordance with the two new specializations.  The learning process now covers such fields as: studies of cross-cutting technologies: artificial intelligence, virtual and augmented reality, the Internet o…

  29.07.2020

• ITMO Graduate Nikita Teplyakov on Working in Switzerland, Studying in the UK, and Breaking Stereotypes

  …y. Today, I can say that those stereotypes can and should be dismantled. Was that why you chose ITMO University? That’s right. In 2014, ITMO University gave me the impression of a university where people don’t just do science, but delve into the latest discoveries in photonics. And that they look at these discoveries not only from the point of view of fundament…

  28.07.2020

• Environmental-Monitoring Water Drones to Be Tested on St. Petersburg Rivers

  …y of Control Systems and Robotics.  The tests were to be conducted in the summer, but the COVID-19 pandemic changed the scientists’ plans. Nevertheless, the engineers envision that they’ll be able to properly test their system on St. Petersburg’s waters as soon as this September. From Volga to Neva The water drone project capable of conducting automati…

  28.07.2020

• ITMO’s Russian Language and Culture Summer School: A Passion for Learning

  … lessons.  “The ITMO online classes have been very interesting. It is exciting to learn about Russia-related topics from the Russian perspective. The teachers are very passionate and knowledgeable, and my fellow classmates were also eager to learn and were very friendly. All the courses I took inspired me to learn more about the subjects. Overall, it has been ve…

  28.07.2020

• Path to Immortality: Old and New Ways to Fight Aging

  …Genomic instability. This leads to mutations, which are the most common cause of cancer. Telomere attrition. Telomeres are the endpoints of our chromosomes. During each division, chromosome cells are doubled, DNA is copied, and telomeres become shorter. They don’t carry any data, but once telomeres become too short, it may result in damage to functional genes loca…

  27.07.2020