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• Eleven ITMO Scientists Receive Presidential Scholarships

  …n to ITMO.NEWS about their projects. Aleksandr Litvin, researcher at the Center of Information Optical Technologies Aleksandr Litvin Project: study of interactions between quantum dots and semiconductor plasmonic nanocrystals for use in organic photovoltaic elements. The first research into this topic began two years ago. It was then that the idea emerg…

  15.01.2018

• 10 Top Tech Trends of 2018: Part Two

  …nue growing around mobility and transportation, while in Europe the focus will lean more towards energy consumption. In both cases, they will involve linking and sharing data between various city grids and infrastructures, combined with information from smartphone users who will become "integral nodes of smart-city networks". A discu…

  15.01.2018

• 10 Top Tech Trends of 2018: Part One

  …on of the virtual and the real worlds, which will contribute to creating a more advanced digital environment. Lastly, an important factor is the enhancement of interrelations between the growing numbers of consumers, companies, devices, content and services. Experts from the Consumer Technology Association (CTA) also shared their forecasts of the future develo…

  12.01.2018

• Social Media: Does It Change Us? Here’s What Science Thinks

  …enger software in the modern sense of the word, launched in 1996. However, the website Six Degrees, launched a year later, is considered to have been the first actual “social network”, letting users set up personal pages, find friends and exchange files. This means that social media is now barely more than 20 years old.  However, social netw

  12.01.2018

• ITMO and ER-Telecom Sign Research & Education Partnership Agreement

  …n developing Internet of Things (IoT) technologies for urban application using the LoRaWAN protocol. This data transfer protocol is used in large-scale, low power-consumption networks; these networks have an extremely high capacity and may support up to a million devices at the same time. LoRaWAN is great for IoT use as it can track a m…

  11.01.2018

• Scientists Propose New Type Of Terahertz Solid-State Laser

  …Terahertz radiation is a type of electromagnetic radiation with a frequency spectrum between IR and microwave bands. One of the most interesting things about it is that it can penetrate most dielectrics. For one, wood, plastic, and ceramic are transparent to it. Also, as opposed to x-radiation, it is totally harmless to the human organism. These characteristics ma…

  11.01.2018

• ITMO Master's Student Receives Praise for Immuno-Oncology Research

  …protein. It is important that the molecules are valid in terms of chemistry: they should not be toxic, and they need to be synthesized. The global idea is to train the neural network to recognize the active protein center and on the basis of the data on which the network is trained, to select possible chemical compounds to the protein. …

  10.01.2018

• Joint PhD Programs: Recent Graduates Share

  …s from the very beginning of my career that I decided to aim for a PhD program at some leading Western university. In my case, the agreement on a joint educational program between the two universities was concluded when I was already studying abroad. Thus, my PhD program at the University of Iceland transformed into a joint educational program with ITMO University…

  09.01.2018

• Exchange Student Shares: “I was truly surprised by the city”

  …’m taking Russian language courses at the same time. I specifically asked my university’s international department about exchange programs in Russia and was given a choice between St. Petersburg and Tomsk. I am glad to have chosen St. Petersburg, as I had heard that it’s a beautiful city with rich culture and history. It’s kind of the European version of Russia. I…

  08.01.2018

• Winter Holidays: Russian Orthodox Christmas

  … the countries of the world. The Russian Orthodox Church did not obey and kept all important church dates and celebrations in accordance with the old calendar. The difference between the two versions is 13 days, hence Christmas on January 7, also celebrated on this date by Orthodox Christians from Jerusalem, Serbia, Georgia and Poland. Most people in Russia celebr…

  05.01.2018