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• ITMO Alumni and ITMO Ambassadors: Staying in Touch After Graduation

  …, I joined LITMO’s (ITMO’s former name -- Ed.) Faculty of Physics and Engineering, the Department of Optoelectronic Devices. I studied under the guidance of such distinguished scientists as Leonid Porfiryev and Sergei Avdeyev, as well as professor Igor Konyakhin who is still teaching at ITMO and whom I got to meet in 2015 and 2018 when I visited the university. Af…

  12.03.2019

• Young Scientists Awarded ITMO University’s First Own Academic Degree Diplomas

  …to fill in the role of one of the thesis opponents present at a defense. The requirements for how theses are presented were, too, subject to change. For example, a candidate’s scientific results should from now on receive approbation at a national- or international-level conference before they are put to defense, which wasn’t in the rules set by the SCC. The acade…

  12.03.2019

• Software Engineering Program by ITMO and JetBrains: Students Share

  …me came to choose a Master’s program, I found myself in quite a strange situation. On the one hand, I had good theoretical knowledge in such fields as mathematics and computer science thanks to my competitions background and me having studied particular textbooks and courses independently. On the other, I had no practical skills whatsoever. For this reason, I wanted …

  11.03.2019

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

  …puter Technologies”, whose specialists conduct research on machine learning, evolutionary computation, and discrete optimization. DHLab is both ITMO University’s international scientific laboratory on digital humanities research and the first large-scale project on the popularization of digital humanities, a field of science at the inte…

  11.03.2019

• Head of Leningrad Laser Systems on Specifics of Russian Optical Components Market

  …with equipment and optical components, from optical tables and local clean rooms to components for fiber-optic solid-state lasers. In 2018, we decided that our prospects in scientific activities looked quite promising, and decided to become residents of ITMO Technopark. We’ll be opening our own laboratory here, which will make it easier for us to make use of the l…

  11.03.2019

• Women in Science 2018

  …8 marked the first time when women received the Nobel Prize both in Physics and Chemistry. A total of three women made it to the list of Nobel laureates this year. Canadian scientist Donna Strickland became the first woman in 55 years and the third woman ever to win the Nobel Prize in Physics, which she shared with her research partner from France Gérard Mourou an…

  08.03.2019

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

  … which is used in the research of renewable energy. I myself am not directly involved in such projects, but I have many great colleagues who are. My background is in materials science, so my job is mostly to downscale the processes of synthesizing new metals. Steel-making plants are enormously huge, and, unfortunately, simply making them smaller won’t help you make m…

  07.03.2019

• 10 Summer Schools to Attend This Summer

  …1. Engineering and Science Summer School, University of Southern Denmark (Denmark) Dates: August 5-16, 2019 Application deadline: June 1, 2019 Tuition fee: free of charge for ITMO University students The Engineering and Science Summer School is held in the Danish city of Odense, known as the robotics hub of Denmark with more tha…

  07.03.2019

• Awardees of 2018-2019 Potanin Scholarship Reveal Their Winning Hacks

  …line one with 6,800 students from all over Russia, and the second, onsite one, with 1,998 participants in the game. In the first round, we had to submit a motivation letter, a science-pop essay on the topic of our Master’s thesis, as well as two essays on leadership and our future plans. It was important to show how passionate you are about your Master’s topic, and g…

  07.03.2019

• From Leucippus to Dmitri Mendeleev: History of Periodic Table

  …Ancient philosophers The science of chemistry is based on the concept of the atom, the smallest piece of matter; every solid, liquid, gas, and plasma is composed of atoms. It is at the atomic level that we study such fundamental properties of every chemical element such as atomic weight, atomic number, electronic structure, number of electrons, oxidation state, va…

  06.03.2019