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• ITMO’s Avatar: A Truly Digital University

  …asses, attendance of some events and staying away from others that are not as interesting for the user.  After you share your personal values and plans for your development inside the university with your Avatar, you can trace your personal progress, set your goals, find like-minded people and get the best of not only your professional but also your personal devel…

  24.06.2020

• Promising Materials, Reservoir Computing and Li-Fi: Research at ITMO’s International Research Center of Functional Materials and Devices of Optoelectronics

  …he center’s goals. Its co-heads are Kharri Kalevi Lipsanen,  a professor at the Department of Electronics and Nanoengineering of Aalto University, and Guillaume Huyet from the Institut de Physique de Nice, Université Côte d'Azur, and it has partner relationships with such leading universities as Aalto University, University of Florida, University of Virginia, Aristot…

  24.06.2020

• ITMO Ranked Among Top 10 Russian Universities by Forbes

  …took eighth place.  As before, universities were ranked based on three metrics: Quality of Education, Quality of Graduates, and Forbes Factor, which reflects an educational institution’s prestigiousness. This year, however, significant changes were made to how points are calculated within each of these categories.  For example, assessment in the Quality of Grad…

  23.06.2020

• Winners of ITMO.STARS Talk About Their First Year at ITMO University

  …tific papers based on my research. If there will be an opportunity, I’d love to enter an internship or another kind of short-term exchange activity at the university’s partner institutions. I would also like to visit Yagodnoye. ITMO.STARS is a contest that offers talented and motivated students a chance to join the university even if their Unified State Exam s…

  23.06.2020

• Summer Foods for When it’s Hot in St. Petersburg

  … bubbles and fizzes and you top it with a dollop of sour cream and sprinkle it with minced dill and there’s your summer in a plate. Some people use kefir – a sour milk drink – instead of kvas but to me the tart and sweet kvas is the way to go. And no, it’s not like pouring Coca Cola over Olivier salad. It’s way more authentic.  Vasiliy As a kid, I once hear…

  23.06.2020

• St. Petersburg Physicists Synthesize Hyperbolic Material for THz Frequency Range

  … properties of a hyperbolic medium in the THz range. This, however, had not been proven experimentally.  “Hyperbolic media are a special class of optical materials,” explains Anton Zaitsev, another co-author of the paper, engineer at ITMO’s Terahertz Biomedicine laboratory. “The main components of the dielectric conductivity in such materials have opposite charg…

  23.06.2020

• Scientists Develop Method to Facilitate Plant Growth with Glass-Ceramics Lamps

  …can barely see. So now, we use the light that’s more comfortable for humans and not optimal for plants, which don’t get the IR radiation they need.” Glass with crystals inside All this means that we need to find a material that can be used in light diode lamps in such a way that they would produce light of a wider spectrum, including the IR range. A group o…

  22.06.2020

• Venture Investment: What It Is and How to Work With It

  …ompanies that could become the next Skype, Airbnb, Google, Amazon, etc. Almost all big digital projects were born thanks to venture funds.  A venture fund is a professional institutionalized enterprise, unlike a business angel. In essence, a fund is a money chest that was contributed to by different investors. As a general rule, only one project out of 10 can yiel…

  22.06.2020

• Russia Marks Day of Remembrance and Sorrow

  …22, 1941, loud speakers around the Soviet Union announced that the country had been invaded by Nazi Germany. That day, German planes bombed Kiev (now the capital of Ukraine), Minsk (now the capital of Belarus), Riga (now the capital of Latvia), Sevastopol (Crimea) and other cities and towns. The war lasted 1,418 days and took the lives of over 27 million Soviet peopl…

  22.06.2020

• Top Five: Podcasts Against Boredom

  …hosts will never stop, err, podcasting themselves. ‎Imaginary Worlds Strap in for a sci-fi and fantasy galore with this bi-weekly gem of a podcast, in which host Eric Molinsky talks with novelists, screenwriters, comic book artists, filmmakers, and game designers about the craft of creating fictional worlds. Each episode dissects one popular trope – from time t…

  19.06.2020