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• Tourist Routes for 2018 World Cup Host Cities by ITMO University

  …, Volgograd and Nizhny Novgorod. The 2018 FIFA World Cup’s official webpage also provides a list of tourist sites for each host city. According to the researchers from ITMO’s eScience Research Institute, the weak point of these lists is that they cover not only the cities themselves but also the suburbs. That is, it takes guests longer to plan an interesting single-d…

  15.06.2018

• New Non-Linear Metasurface Changes Basic Properties of Light

  …aces based on metals. They function based on plasmon excitation, i.e. the density fluctuation of electronic gases along the surface of metals. Using this type of metasurfaces, scientists were able to reproduce the functions of regular, linear optics, which include manipulation of lightwaves’ direction, amplitude and polarization. However, due to massive energy loss t…

  15.06.2018

• ITMO University and JetBrains Launch New Master’s Degree Program

  …The program Scientists and developers from major St. Petersburg companies will head the program that offers relevant knowledge in the field of software development. The program will include basic (algorithms, programming, machine learning and others) and specialized courses (deep learning, data retrieval, image analysis, etc.) that provide a modern approach to wor…

  14.06.2018

• International Students Share Experiences from ITMO's Summer Camp in Photonics

  …ine told me about this summer camp. I came to St. Petersburg, first of all, to acquire new knowledge. During these two weeks, we attended lectures on various topics related to science and technology and learned how to conduct experiments using modern equipment. In my research, I studied a method of estimating the refractive index in the terahertz frequency range. Thi…

  14.06.2018

• How to Become Successful: Tips From Boris Solopov, CEO of Opticom St. Petersburg

  …n entered ITMO University. During the third year of my Bachelor's program, they sent me on an internship at the Institute of Macromolecular Compounds of the Russian Academy of Science. Those who worked there were scientists, and it was there that I learned that I am not some fruit that has to mature, but that I am a person who has to do…

  14.06.2018

• What to Expect from a Master’s Program at the Faculty of Physics and Engineering

  …artment of Photonics and Optical Information. Even two years before I applied for my Master’s, I was working at the lab and doing microwave research in an anechoic chamber. My scientific supervisor, Pavel Belov, told me there was a new Master’s program that would let me fill the gaps in my knowledge and combine research with course work. This program is great for …

  13.06.2018

• Health Awareness and Making the Transition to Preventative Medicine

  … Opportunities for programmers and other non-medical professionals The healthcare of the future will require new technologies that will have to be created by computer scientists. In addition to decision support systems and data analysis algorithms, we will need programs to store patients’ medical histories and AI that will find patterns in information sets a…

  13.06.2018

• ITMO Researchers Create Optoclones of Unique Historical Treasures from the Russian Diamond Fund

  …r holograms of valuable items from Gokhran and the Diamond Fund’s collection. Since all of the optoclones are made by the staff of ITMO University in collaboration with scientists from the Hellenic Institute of Holography (HIH), Alkis Lembessis, director of HIH, was present at the meeting, too. The parties agreed on the production of optoclones of ten unique o…

  09.06.2018

• ITMO has the Best Science Communicators in Russia

  …There are several categories. “Experiment” is the first category which assesses popular scientific events that were organized by the university team or that the university or a research center took part in. “The Presence Effect” category evaluated the most successful projects that the teams of science communicators have implemented toge…

  09.06.2018

• ITMO University Wins Most SPIE Scholarships in 2018

  …members submit applications for scholarships from these organizations. Their committees tend to assess each project’s relevance, content and the applicants’ organizational and scientific work. The five chapter members who won this year’s SPIE scholarships are regular participants of various conferences and symposiums. Maxim Masyukov, fourth-year Bachelor’s student…

  09.06.2018