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• High School Laboratories for Nanotechnologies

  …niversity, we started to develop nanotechnologies even before they became popular. At first, we were doing that on the base of the Department of Nanotechnologies and Materials Science, and now we are doing it as part of the Faculty of Physics and Engineering. 15 years ago, we launched our company, NT-SPb (Nanotechnologies St. Petersburg), that has been resident of IT…

  15.02.2018

• From Equatorial Guinea to Russia

  …e International Office with Juan. Besides your studies, have you participated in any other events at ITMO University? Juan: Yes, we participated in the Congress of Young Scientists. I presented there twice, both topics I suggested to my supervisor myself. For my first presentation, I examined words that are similar between Russian, Spanish and English. For the …

  15.02.2018

• ITMO is LOVE

  …Pavel Belov, PhD, Head and Chief Research Associate of Department of Nano-Photonics and Metamaterials: I love science as any other “crazy” researcher does. I love science as Sheldon Cooper loves trains, flags, and Spock from Star Trek. It is impossible to explain why and the reason for it, but I am 100% sure that it is so. H…

  14.02.2018

• Digital Culture: Why Everyone Should Learn Programming

  …Does everyone really need programming? Back in 1981, Soviet scientist Andrey Ershov – one of the pioneers in programming – presented a report titled “Programming, the Second Literacy” at the IFIP 3rd World Conference on Computers in Education in Lausanne, Switzerland. In his speech, he compared the spread of book-printing to the development of technology, coming t…

  14.02.2018

• New Materials, Genes, And Crowd Management: Science Slam in St. Petersburg

  …Georgiy Zograf, PhD student at ITMO University Silicon, the scientists’ yes-man Nanophotonics is a science with many applications: amongst those are quantum dot displays, optical fibers, solar batteries, and many more; being involved with each of them is simply impossible. What I focus on is optically-induced heating. We have t…

  13.02.2018

• The Dangers of Light Pollution

  …What is light pollution? In science terms, light pollution is the increase in sky luminance due to the diffusion of light on molecules of water and aerosol particles. Light pollution is associated with artificial lighting only, and does not have any natural causes. Thus, in the field of lighting design there now exists such a term as “unwanted light”. “When w…

  13.02.2018

• Academic Mobility: Studying Biotechnology at Sup Biotech Paris

  …ogy and training of mid-tier specialists for the bio-industry. According to the school’s representatives, its curriculum aims to maintain the interdisciplinary balance between scientific and engineering courses (lectures, laboratory work and projects), as well as gives students managerial skills and provides for communication with the industry.  Representatives of un…

  12.02.2018

• Chemist Ekaterina Skorb On International Work Experience And Prospects Of Infochemistry

  …By now, you’ve already worked in four different countries. You’ve always wanted to dedicate your life to science, haven’t you? I’ve always wanted to do chemistry, I liked this field of science, and I’ve been participating in different chemical contests since school years. So, when it came the time for me to choose a university, I cho…

  12.02.2018

• Researchers From ITMO Create First-Ever Light-Emitting Nanoantennas

  … pulsed laser ablation technique. Compared to alternatives, our method is relatively simple and cost-effective." While studying the obtained perovskite nanoparticles, the scientists discovered that their emission can be enhanced if its spectrum matches with the Mie-resonant mode. "Such resonances were named after the renowned German …

  12.02.2018

• 5 Science News Now

  …hysically "touched" by a movie when they see a looming object on the screen, such as an approaching spacecraft. The device was developed based on a study conducted by the neuroscientists to map brain areas that integrate the sight and touch of a looming object and aid in their understanding of the perceptual and neural mechanisms of multisensory integration. It can b…

  12.02.2018