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ITMO University Graduates Will Help Integrate Technological Innovations
…r already existing knowledge and the ability to use it. If a student demonstrates ambition not just in class, they are not likely to have trouble finding employment. We have a Master’s program called “Innovative Transportation Technologies”. The students there have been working together with businesses for a while now, and there are already job positions awaiting the…
17.05.2017
ITMO Launches the Open Academy of Laser Microtechnology
… Among the laboratory's future plans is also creating a set of laboratory classes on laser microtechnology - "Laser engineering of functional materials of photonics". Several Master's theses on this topic have already been defended, and soon, Doctoral theses will be completed as well. "Opening of this laboratory is a great example of how science, experimental r…
17.05.2017
Tournament of Two Capitals - Participants Share
…e of 14) competed in the "Bridges" and "King of the Hill" categories, while the older ones (from 14 to 18) were to participate in "Seasaw" and "Racing". In "King of the Hill", massive robots were to climb the "hill", and then tackle others from it. In "Bridges" category, each team had two robots: one built bridges, and the other tested them. In "Seesaw", one robot ha…
16.05.2017
Visiting Scientist Silvio Hrabar: Why It’s Important to Find New Uses for Old Discoveries
… a global trend of these two scientific fields becoming combined. What do you think of ITMO students’ knowledge of metamaterials? First off, I want to underline that the Master’s students here have different educational backgrounds. Some are more familiar with physics, while others come prepared with knowledge of engineering. These two fields employ different s…
16.05.2017
ITMO Launches the Nanophotonics and Metamaterials International Doctoral Summer School
…The event is organized by ITMO's International Research Center for Nanophotonics and Metamaterials, and will take place from May 15 to 19. During this time its participants - Master's and PhD students and young researchers - will hear reports by leading specialists in the field of photonics and metamaterials on different problems of plasmonics, optical mechanics, nan…
16.05.2017
A Successful Start: ITMO's Schools, Academies and Centers for Schoolers
…eir Unified State Examination without having to resort to private tutors, and get essential career guidance while still studying at school. The students meet ITMO's lecturers, Master's and PhD students, as well as visit ITMO's laboratories. Younger children get a chance to start doing science on a university level and engage in collaborative programs with ITMO's <…
15.05.2017
Carving Your Niche
… adulthood. She studied fine arts at the Imperial Academy of Fine Arts. “The way they teach art here is amazing, it's focused on skills, it's rooted in tradition, it goes from master to student for 300 years ago, disciples teach disciples, they teach academic art, painting, sculptures.” “The emphasis is on accuracy first and self-expression second, it's more about…
12.05.2017
ITMO and Finland's XAMK University Strengthen Relationship
…Finland University of Applied Sciences (XAMK) is one of Finland’s largest universities, with campuses in Kotka, Kouvola, Mikkeli and Savonlinna. There are 60 Bachelor’s and 23 Master’s Programs and 9,000 currently study there. On May 10 XAMK’s delegation, headed by Rector Heikki Saastamoinen, conducted a visit to ITMO University. During the meeting, the visitors w…
12.05.2017
Royal Society Member Maurice Skolnick: Why Making Science Understandable to Society Matters
…ways to strengthen the interaction between light and matter as well as to create hybrid light-matter states, polaritons, which, unlike photons, can interact with each other as massive particles. The effectiveness of their interaction is very high and therefore only very low light levels are required to achieve the desired interactions. The megagrant will also allow u…
11.05.2017
Coordinating Blood Banks and Organizing International Summer Camps - How One Develops Social and Ecological Projects?