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• Cutting-Edge Science With Roots in Ancient Rome: All About Nanophotonics

  Nanotechnologies have been a hot topic for over 15 years now, while nanophotonics still remains known to the rare few. It is a brand new interdisciplinary field at the intersection of optics, laser physics, materials science, physical chemistry, physics, and chemistry of solids, nanostructures, and nanotechnologies. What does this discipline study and where can this research be applied? In this article, Ivan Toftul and George Zograf, PhD students at ITMO’s Faculty of Physics and Engineering, help us answer these questions. 

  09.09.2020

• Why Teach Robots How to See? Nine Burning Questions About Computer Vision

  How does a driverless car distinguish between pedestrians and trees? And how can Face ID tell whether it’s you or a thief logging into your phone? These and other tasks are tackled by specialists in the field of computer vision. In this article, Sergey Shavetov, associate professor and deputy dean at the Faculty of Control Systems and Robotics, explains whether a robot or an AI can be taught to see the world as a human being, why it is so hard and what will happen when it is finally possible. 

  19.08.2020

• How and Why Do Scientists Create Nanorobots?

  We can often read about nanorobots in various scientific articles. They are said to be one of the most promising tools to combat serious diseases. But what are nanorobots? In this article, ITMO.NEWS joined forces with Diana Markozashvili, participant of the ITMO Fellowship and Professorship program, to answer all your questions on the topic.

  29.07.2020

• Why is Quantum Physics so Hard to Understand?

  Quantum mechanics is deemed the hardest part of physics. Systems with quantum behavior don’t follow the rules that we are used to, they are hard to see and hard to “feel”, can have controversial features, exist in several different states at the same time - and even change depending on whether they are observed or not. Valerii Kozin, PhD student at the Faculty of Physics and Engineering and researcher at the International Laboratory of Light-Matter Coupling in Nanostructures, talks about the ways of researching such unpredictable phenomena, and why study quantum mechanics in the first place.

  25.06.2020

• How to Write an Article That Will Be Accepted by International Journals

  English became an international language long ago and it is used for publications in leading journals. Being published in them is not only a matter of prestige, but a proof that the researcher is part of the worldwide academic community. It’s not easy to be published in Nature, Science, or Cell, but for a start you can improve your academic English. Inna Anokhina, a senior lecturer at the Foreign Language Training Center and the head of the Academic Writing Lab, and Roman Zakoldaev, a PhD and a junior research associate at the Faculty of Photonics and Optical Information with a lot of experience in publishing papers in international journals indexed by Scopus, discuss how to do it in this ITMO.NEWS article.

  04.06.2020

• Navigating in the World of 8,000 Programming Languages

  The amount of programming languages keeps growing: some of them become popular, others are forgotten; some require a lot of time to learn, and others – only a couple of months. Why are there so many of them? Why do new ones appear? How to understand which one will become popular in the future? Roman Elizarov, a teacher of the Parallel Programming course at ITMO, JetBrains employee, an expert in Java, and one of the Kotlin developers, as well as John Mostovoy and Arseniy Seroka, Serokell founders, helped us figure it out.

  22.05.2020

• Is Fully Hack-Proof Code Possible?

  We all want our messages, be it a credit card number, an invitation to visit a friend or a declaration of love, to be read only by their receiver. The developers of messengers and banking systems are extolling the virtues of using encryption keys for information protection. What are those keys and can you make them fully hack-proof? ITMO.NEWS attempts to answer these questions as part of its new project with the help of Anton Kozubov, head of quantum computing research at ITMO University’s International Laboratory of Quantum Informatics. 

  30.04.2020