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• Winter School “It’s Your Call!”: Leading Experts’ Lectures, Semi-Hackathon and Chess Pong.

  …workshops. So, the excursions common to all the tracks will be covered not only by the leading companies of the country (Yandex, Kaspersky Lab, Avantgarde), but also by ITMO’s scientific and educational divisions, including FabLab, Optics Museum, eScience Research Institute, International Laboratory "Solution chemistry of advanced mater…

  12.01.2018

• Social Media: Does It Change Us? Here’s What Science Thinks

  …hat “they” do or think. These people come to suffer from social anxiety and despair. Many experience strong negative effects from FOMO, yet refuse to accept it. Advice: the scientists themselves joke that FOMO must be compensated with YOLO (you only live once). If you want to deal with FOMO, the simplest solution is to distance yourself from social media – which i…

  12.01.2018

• ITMO and ER-Telecom Sign Research & Education Partnership Agreement

  … continuing vocational education programs. In the future, students of ITMO University will have the opportunity to intern at ER-Telecom facilities in St. Petersburg. As for scientific endeavors, ER-Telecom is interested, first and foremost, in developing Internet of Things (IoT) technologies for urban application using the LoRaWAN protocol. This data transfer prot…

  11.01.2018

• Scientists Propose New Type Of Terahertz Solid-State Laser

  …t or plaster, which is most important in restoration of art objects. Intensive research in this field has already been going on for the last twenty years. During this time, scientists have proposed different concepts of terahertz lasers, both atom and solid-state. For instance, there are graphene-based gas lasers, lasers based on photonic crystals, quantum-cascade…

  11.01.2018

• ITMO Master's Student Receives Praise for Immuno-Oncology Research

  …You won the open competition of the popular scientific portal "Biomolecule", dedicated to the molecular foundations of modern biology and practical applications of scientific achievements in medicine and biotechnology, in the category "My work". Tell us, what does your new status of prize-winner give you? I received a diploma in the …

  10.01.2018

• Time Management: Ideas You Can Use

  … enough “Time is money" - Benjamin Franklin’s famous quote - became the mantra of the business world. In 1911, Frederick Winslow Taylor published his book The Principles of Scientific Management and essentially started a whole new discipline. In this book he presented his own theory of management based on the analysis and synthesis of work flows. And the main obje…

  09.01.2018

• Joint PhD Programs: Recent Graduates Share

  …Alexei Slobojanuk, Australian National University Completing a PhD program is a must if you’re planning to become a scientist and focus on conducting research; in a sense, it becomes the boundary you have to cross to call yourself a scientist. After getting my Bachelor’s degree, I decided that I need to broaden my horizons, so I set …

  09.01.2018

• ITMO Begins Research on Carbon Nanodot Synthesis Methods

  …ith atoms of other elements or applying a special molecular complex onto a dot’s surface. A modified carbon quantum dot would emit light on a specific wavelength. As of today, scientists have managed to produce carbon quantum dots capable of effective luminescence in the blue and green areas of the spectre. Unlike regular quantum dots, where the spectral position of …

  09.01.2018

• ITMO Fellowship Stories: 'Science is Our Common Language'

  … the Fundamentals of Laser Material Interactions and Nanotechnologies Conference; his team suggested that we do a joint project. Then, there was a competition, as is common in science. I didn’t think it would actually work on the first attempt, but it did.  What is the project you’re working on right now? It focuses on ultra-precise nanostructuring of optical m…

  04.01.2018

• ITMO Fellowship Stories: 'Interest In Research Is Primary, Success Is Secondary'

  …How did your career in science begin? I moved to St. Petersburg from Krasnoyarsk and enrolled in St. Petersburg State University in 1989. I then graduated from the university and entered a PhD program at the Institute of Nuclear Physics. As I neared the end of my PhD program, I started working with research groups abroad and left Russia for Holland upon defending …

  02.01.2018