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• Crystals and Peculiar Stars: Final Day of Mendeleev 150 at ITMO

  …ganov, a Russian crystallographer, mineralogist, chemist, and professor of the Russian Academy of Science, known for his research on computational discovery of new materials and prediction of crystal structures. Until the mid-00s, the scientific community believed that crystal structures were fundamentally unpredictable. The opinion has changed since, and the USPE…

  01.08.2019

• ITMO University Presents Its 2018 Annual Report

  … annual report to serve as your guide into the world of a university that is truly a part of St. Petersburg,” say the report’s authors. This year’s Annual Report is split into sections focused on the key areas of interest for the University: Strategic development: our development strategy up to 2027 and our placement in academic rankings; Research: the U…

  31.07.2019

• Baikal: Fighting for the Future of World’s Deepest Lake

  …he coasts of the Black and Azov seas, discovering 13,000 plastic fragments with a total weight of nearly half a ton. In 2019, the attention of the public was brought to the construction of a bottling plant near the village of Kultuk in Irkutsk Oblast. The construction began in January 2019 and, according to Irkutsk Oblast’s deputy mi…

  31.07.2019

• Getting to Know Russian Literature: Soviet Sci-Fi, Part 1

  …e who were part of it is a worthwhile experience. In this article, we'll examine the earliest examples of Soviet sci-fi literature. In the beginning of the 20th century, science fiction was still a novel genre in Russia, and the authors who gave it a go were few and very different. For this reason, their works deal with a wide range of topics, stand apart from eac…

  30.07.2019

• Summer Edition of Webometrics 2019: ITMO University in Top-5 Russian Universities

  …h its position increasing by 102 points. It has to be noted that the indicator’s assessment of Russian universities wasn’t subject to any noticeable change as the period for the collection of data had only increased to one year (2013-2017). The lowering of ITMO’s Visibility indicator, which measures the volume of external links leading to the university’s websites…

  30.07.2019

• MIT Professor Marin Soljacic: AI Will Play a Large Role in the Future of Research

  …ve that it is truly important to be familiar not only with your own field but with one or two others as well. I’ve found that there are always opportunities to be found at the intersection of any two sciences. It never hurts to know about things outside of your area of expertise. There are reasons to believe that, with time, artificial intelligence will begin to p…

  30.07.2019

• ITMO University and United Investors Syndicate Launch a Joint Program Univest

  …this field to our partners jointly with ITMO University. I see massive unrealized potential in Russian young scientists and entrepreneurs, which lack the opportunities for real interaction with the industry and investors to help their projects fly. We will be pleased to act as a platform for building these connections,” shares Alexander…

  29.07.2019

• Results of Mendeleev 150 International Conference at ITMO University

  …, we’ve taken the lead in chemistry and chemical technologies among Russian universities according to the “Expert” analytical center’s subject rankings. I think that work in this direction has also allowed us to become the organizers of the Mendeleev 150 International Conference,” shared the rector.  The program of the conference consisted of three days; a t…

  29.07.2019

• ITMO Urban Studies Specialist Participates in Major Urban Planning Conference in China

  …t you don’t know where to go. Our algorithm works like an online map, but the routes it offers are not the shortest ones but the most interesting ones with the biggest number of attractions on the way.…

  26.07.2019

• Chief Editor of Nature Photonics Oliver Graydon on Russian Science, Researcher’s Path and Ways to Start Publishing in World’s Leading Journals

  …ovide them with opportunities and equipment, wonderful things will happen.  Another growing trend is interdisciplinarity. There have been more and more research done at the intersection of different scientific fields. How much more difficult it is to work with interdisciplinary research than it is with narrow-focus articles? The most interesting science happens…

  26.07.2019