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• Holidaying with Robots: Quirky New Year Gadgets

  …smerizing; it did win us over for sure. The result is unquestionably impressive, too, but the only downside is the price; the nifty invention of a Californian company Evil Mad Scientist comes with a steep price tag, so you may want to think twice about signing that card yourself before you commit to this daylight-robbery purchase. Good on you and your wallet if yo…

  02.01.2019

• M-Cube Named One of the Best Innovative Projects by European Commission

  …ludes ITMO University’s Center for Nanophotonics and Metamaterials, was awarded a European Horizon 2020 grant, surpassing more than 500 participants. The M-Cube project unites scientific groups and companies from seven countries working on a new antenna technology for MRI. In the course of four years, the scientists plan to develop the …

  29.12.2018

• Popularization Committee of the Russian Academy of Sciences: Fighting Pseudoscience with Science-Pop

  …AS vice-president Alexey Khokhlov during the session of the Executive Committee of the RAS that took place on September 18, 2018, the Academy sees a large scope of work in the science popularization field. This includes performing expert, methodological, organizational, publishing and technical tasks, launching and overseeing contests, and supporting existing, as wel…

  29.12.2018

• Creative Technologies: A New Core Course at ITMO University

  …think of themselves as creative. It’s a stereotype that hinders their ability because they either don’t believe in themselves or don’t believe that creativity belongs in exact sciences. But you can’t create new technology, make a discovery or an invention if you only think in clichés. It’s important that the students realize the power of creativity and learn to harne…

  28.12.2018

• Scientists Create First Topological Nanostructures Which Make Infrared Light Visible

  …d wavelength control have been described several years ago. However, so far, researchers haven’t managed to realize such topological structures at the nanoscale. A group of scientists from Russia represented by ITMO University, the Ioffe Institute, Moscow State University, and the Nizhny Novgorod Institute of Applied Physics, together with colleagues from the USA …

  27.12.2018

• Entrepreneurial Culture: A Look Into the New General Course at ITMO

  …the educational process for our Master’s students from the Institute of Design and Urban Studies. We involved representatives of consulting and IT businesses, as well as urban science experts and government officials, to participate in the classes and project defenses. Natalia Aniskevich, FTMI lecturer This was the first run of the Project Management course…

  26.12.2018

• ITMO University Awards Its First Academic Degrees

  …motely. The level of thesis defenses will also improve due to the participation of international experts. The requirements to presenting theses have also changed. For one, the scientific results now have to be put to test at conferences, which wasn't among the Supreme Certification Commission's requirements. The number of thesis boards members has also become fewer: …

  25.12.2018

• Head of ITMO's Femtomedicine Lab Olga Smolyanskaya on Applications of Terahertz Radiation in Medicine and Biology

  …tate University), Tomsk (Tomsk State University), St. Petersburg (ITMO University), and Nizhny Novgorod (the Institute for Physics of Microstructures of the Russian Academy of Sciences). MSU professor Alexander Shkurinov stepped in as the head of this project aimed at examining biological tissues, fluids and exhaled air for signs of socially significant diseases in t…

  25.12.2018

• Mind Maps, Open Spaces, and Cooking Contests: ITMO Staff Visit UK’s Oxford Brookes University

  …velop thanks to their investment in innovative educational tools.” The University is split into four faculties: Oxford Brookes Business School, Faculty of Health and Life Sciences, Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences, Faculty of Technology, Design and Environment. A total of 20,000 students are enrolled there, and internation…

  21.12.2018

• ITMO Launches New Master’s Program ‘Bioeconomics and Resource Management’

  …stry, and biotechnology with the use of green chemistry technologies. “What made us decide to develop this program?” remarks Maya Uspenskaya, head of ITMO’s International Scientific and Research Institute of Bioengineering. “In the recent years, many international students coming here on internships want to learn about the new approaches to major environmental t…

  20.12.2018