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• New Academic Year Begins at ITMO: What to Expect (Part I)

  …1. When and how will studies begin at ITMO University? The academic year at ITMO University begins on September 1, 2020. The first week will be an “odd” week. All information about the educational process this semester will be provided in three phases: Phase 0 (introductory): ITMO Enter (online) When: August 17 – August 31 We will tell you all about th…

  06.08.2020

• How to Launch Your Startup: Your Questions, Answered

  …ehavior patterns in which they encounter problems. It’s best to start with open-ended questions about situations in which the interviewee finds (or doesn’t find) themself. For instance: how do they know what will be interesting to customers in the coming season? Have they ever tried to forecast demand? The situation your interviewee talks about must be real, not hypo…

  05.08.2020

• Digging Deeper: Literary Origins of St. Petersburg Metro Stations

  …r with Alexander Herzen’s Who Is to Blame, the two books are said to represent the two key questions of Russian culture and mentality – so check them out if you’re looking for insight into the “Russian soul”. Pushkinskaya Opened: April 30, 1956 It would be difficult to have a conversation about Russian culture without talki…

  04.08.2020

• How Algorithms Help Design Drugs: ITMO Graduate Aleksandr Sadovnikov On Developing Bioinformatics Software

  …st Master’ program on applied mathematics and programming was at the Academic University. And right at that time, it moved to ITMO - now it’s a corporate program with JetBrains. I joined it, and it turned out to be very difficult. ithout doubt, this was an extremely interesting and captivating experience. But the most important thing is that the knowledge I got ar…

  04.08.2020

• Russian Scientists Suggest Device to Make Breast MRI More Effective

  … of a patient.  “Compared to an X-ray or ultrasound examination, an MRI scan allows us to precisely localize the tumor, which affects the accuracy of the diagnosis,” explains Alena Shchelokova, first co-author of the paper and research associate at ITMO’s Faculty of Physics and Engineering. “MRI is especially relevant for young women with dense breast tissue or …

  04.08.2020

• ITMO Physicists Discover Way to Achieve Stimulated Raman Scattering in Isolated Silicon Nanoparticles

  … stimulated regime. It is required not only to optimize the absorption properties of the nanoparticle, but also to ensure the most efficient electromagnetic field distribution inside of it. Raman scattering operates at the wavelength of 654 nm while the particle is excited by a laser source with different wavelength – 633 nm. Therefore, the state of the electromagnet…

  03.08.2020

• 10 Essential Russian Riddles: Test Your Wit

  …shall shed tears (cидит дед во сто шуб одет, кто его раздевает, тот слезы проливает – sidit ded vo sto shub odet, kto ego razdevaet, tot slezy prolivaet). In the mountains, in the mountains, a coat and a kaftan is walking around (по горам, по горам ходит шуба да кафтан – po goram, po goram khodit shuba da kaftan). It doe…

  03.08.2020

• ITMO Student Alexander Berestennikov Becomes Recipient of Zhores Alferov Scholarship

  … would give annual lectures during which he’d tell us about the achievements of Soviet and Russian science, about making heterostructure lasers, about the history of the Ioffe Institute and the Soviet nuclear program. It was interesting to find out how it all developed historically. Perovskite nano-pancakes What research have you been working on lately? …

  31.07.2020

• ITMO University Students Launch a Digital Medicine Project

  …t we were in the same study group. This was how we decided to try launching our own project. The idea was to develop an algorithm which would pick an appropriate diet and vitamins for a user based on the results of their DNA test. It soon became clear that this idea wouldn’t fly, the main reason being that we opted for the wrong mechanics.  Only a handful of peopl…

  31.07.2020

• Song of the Month: July 2020

  …rner. This song makes you feel nostalgic and warmly melancholic, like when you found the smell of your childhood shampoo or your father’s old leather jacket. Another song is Pains by Silk Rhodes. This is one of those songs that you listen to alone in the kitchen while drinking a glass of wine and enjoying your own company. I highly recommend the High Fidelity Spotify…

  31.07.2020