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• New Femto-Camera with Quadrillion Fractions of a Second Resolution

  …ing cells is a complex sequence of biochemical reactions and physical processes; many of them take place with high temporal resolution. To register such rapid transformations, scientists need very accurate and much faster equipment. Biological tissue can be studied with an electron microscope, but this method requires introducing a special dye in the sample. The dye …

  22.06.2017

• ITMO Students in Singapore: How to Please Customers by Analyzing Their Social Media

  …their own laboratory where they work with their research teams. There is also a building reserved for project work. That is where the larger laboratories are located and where scientists test robots, drones and various other developments. The researchers often meet with investors and entrepreneurs during special events. Once a week ITMO University’s Master’s students…

  21.06.2017

• Art&Science: Optical Devices In Fine Arts And Design's Role In Evolution

  …he influence of optical devices on fine art techniques in classical European art. The researchers claimed that the emergence of realistic art had to do with the development of science and especially optical technologies. The professor is sure that optical methods, as well as devices, have been used by artists since 1425 and till today. Among the pioneers in this f…

  21.06.2017

• THE Rankings: ITMO University Gets Into Europe's Top-200

  …he rankings for the first time, getting 351-400 position and third place amongst Russian universities. The British ranking agency also included ITMO University in its Computer Science subject rankings. ITMO University got 56th place, becoming one of the two Russian universities (the other is Moscow State University) that got into THE's top-100. The agency’s recent…

  21.06.2017

• ITMO's PhD Students Will Simplify Online Learning On OpenEdX

  …s the users don't have to search for anything by themselves, yet it doesn't really work well when one looks for an answer to a particular question. This was the problem ITMO's scientists worked on. To solve it, the PhD students created an aggregation system based on the ECOLE semantic technology. The system already offered many interesting solutions, yet it did no…

  20.06.2017

• Lawns vs. Paths: Why Urban Planners Can’t Please Everybody

  …. That’s why authorities tend to try and test new solutions slowly and carefully, as even the smallest miscalculations in such projects can be catastrophic. I’ve spoken to the scientists who developed the integration strategy for self-regulating “smart” traffic lights in Dresden. They developed the idea in the 90’s and only began testing it after 10-15 years of “push…

  20.06.2017

• Youth in Science: Summer Internship in Photonics and Optical IT

  …ids were even allowed to visit the laboratories and use the equipment usually reserved for university staff. They would also have the opportunity to work with the department’s scientists on their own research projects. In a few years the initiative evolved into a constant project that collaborated with the city’s schools and gave children a chance to make their fi…

  19.06.2017

• 5 Things You Need to Know Now

  …New biofuel for regular diesel engines. A team of German scientists used a combination of three catalysts to blend rapeseed oil methyl ester (RME) — a common raw material for making biofuels — and ethylene into a fuel with the same boiling profile as petrodiesel and met the standard for commercial biofuel sold in the EU. China’s quantum satellite achieves ‘spooky …

  18.06.2017

• Prime Minister Medvedev Congratulates ACM ICPC Winners

  …pions and students at ITMO’s Computer Technologies Department – were welcomed at Konstantinovsky Palace by Russian Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev and Minister of Education and Science Olga Vasilieva. Mr. Medvedev awarded the university’s representatives with an honorary government diploma for their years of prolific scientific and ed…

  16.06.2017

• RVC Experts: Why Entrepreneurial Education Matters

  … during the Moscow International Education Fair in spring of 2017. The main purpose of the program is to instill entrepreneurial qualities in students of technical and natural-science programs at Russian universities. The training program is conducted by top staff of RVC, professors from ITMO University and Moscow State University, as well as various successful te…

  16.06.2017