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• Freedom, Science, and Creativity: Why Pursue PhD at ITMO University

  …chemical equipment. Laboratories of this kind can already be found in some Russian schools. Another research project I'm working on is aimed at identifying the optimal corrosion inhibitors in petroleum fluids. In particular, we’re looking into substances that protect metal pipes from being destroyed by oil-produced water. My PhD studies are about more than just…

  21.01.2025

• 2025 Trends and Activities: Predictions by ITMO.NEWS

• ITMO Students Shine at VkusVill’s R&D Incubator

  …lova, a PhD in engineering, an associate professor at ITMO’s Faculty of Technological Management and Innovations, an expert on the FoodNet market, and head of the New Food division of the National Technological Initiative.  At the finals, students presented their project concepts to the jury and investors and provided tasting samples of their product. TechSo…

  20.01.2025

• City of Superlatives: Rainbow of St. Petersburg

  … Arguably, it turns all colors of blue and violet only on clear days, when it reflects the sky – so let’s manifest more of those in the coming spring! Fun fact: on special occasions, the tower lights up with different colors – for instance, green on New Year’s, to symbolize the Christmas tree.  Polezhaev’s revenue house is one of the more colorful landmarks inside …

  17.01.2025

• Student Spotlight: Raden Galen, Indonesia

  …studied at Thursina IIBS, a boarding school in Malang. Living away from my parents taught me independence and how to take responsibility for myself. Going there was my own decision and it shaped me in many ways. And why did you decide to study in Russia? My interest was sparked by Russia’s technological advances, as well as culture and history. I felt challenge…

  16.01.2025

• Be a Cool Scientist, Not a Boring Nerd: Physicist Alexey Kokhanovskiy on His Career in Science and Neuromorphic Computing

  … project? At the moment, it’s difficult to develop optical computers that can truly compete with their electronic counterparts. This research is conducted with a ten-year vision. Some additional results closest to practical implementation could be the development of metasurfaces for optical processing of images. For instance, the design for hyperspectral cameras u…

  15.01.2025

• Best in St. Petersburg: ITMO Tops Admissions Quality Ranking

  …llment quality at Russian universities. The results of the study are indicative of both students’ proficiency levels and the reputation of universities and subject areas. Admissions quality was evaluated based on the mean Unified State Exam (USE) score of applicants enrolled in tuition-free and fee-based positions in Bachelor’s programs – at ITMO, the indicator is 86…

  14.01.2025

• ITMO Fellow Alena Kulakova on Merging Chemistry and Physics

  … was relevant to me: I hadn’t run experiments as a child, had never looked for topical books, and my chemistry teacher was “ordinary.” It was just a series of good and bad decisions that had landed me in that place. So I said to everyone, “Well, it seems like I am not a scientist.” It was an answer nobody had expected, so everyone just laughed. Like many kids, I c…

  13.01.2025

• Family History: Getting Started With Genealogy

  …oin an optional course dedicated to family history research (in Russian). Meanwhile, you can learn about local history through ITMO.NEWS articles, such as our recent one on mansions around St. Petersburg. …

  10.01.2025

• Unsolvable Problems and Human Computers: Physics and Fantasy in The Three-Body Problem

  … How much would change with the addition of a third body? Turns out, quite a bit: the third body makes the problem much more complex in terms of math. Whereas the two-body version can be solved by calculating the movement of just one body and making the other a reference point, the three-body problem cannot be calculated similarly. Leonhard Euler and Joseph-Louis…

  09.01.2025