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• ITMO Fellowship Stories: Italian Professor Shares his Thoughts about the Stradivarius of Science

  …Roberto Morandotti, physics, Professor at the National Institute of Scientific Research (INRS) in Montreal and author of several articles related to nonlinear optics, terahertz photonics and quantum optics came to St. Petersburg to join ITMO’s Fellowship Program. According to him, he is a real traveler. Indeed, Dr. Morandotti got extensive research experience working…

  15.06.2017

• Airalab: The New Robot Economics Doctrine

  …ented by blockchain technology. They've decided to focus on the Ethereum platform and its idea of smart contracts. The term isn't new - it was proposed by Nick Szabo, computer scientist, legal scholar and cryptographer back in 1994; later, the concept was brought to life by VitalikButerin, Ethereum's co-founder. Such contracts allow exchanging money, property, stocks…

  15.06.2017

• 6th International Council Meeting: Looking at the Map of the Future Together

  … about research looked at the importance of quality rather than quantity and also about the need for interdisciplinary projects, a common practice in other universities, where scientists from various backgrounds work together addressing a big global challenge. The need for more internationally-minded researchers here at ITMO was also expressed with a view to furth…

  14.06.2017

• ITMO International Days: Best Practices

  …nts for attracting foreign students are online platforms. Not only does ITMO University have many web resources of its own, it also has a page on the Ministry of Education and Science's official website for international students - studyinrussia.ru. The webpage contains information about the university, news, feedback from its students, and such things as photos and …

  14.06.2017

• ITMO International Days: International Collaboration as One of the Main Trends

  …s were such renowned universities as ParisTech, University of Technology of Troyes and ESIEE Paris from France, Tampere University of Technology and JAMK University of Applied Sciences from Finland and Germany’s Ilmenau University of Technology. “We follow the same strategy as in the previous years: we show our guests as much of our university as possible: its m…

  13.06.2017

• ICCS 2017 Kicks off in Zurich

  …The theme for ICCS 2017 is “The Art of Computational Science. Bridging Gaps – Forming Alloys”, to highlight the role of computational science as a broad, multidisciplinary science tackling problems and creating synergies with other fields. This conference will be a unique event focusing on recent develo…

  13.06.2017

• ITMO-UCLA Partner Program Graduates Showcase Projects

  …The “Next Generation of Women Leaders in Higher Education” program was launched in January 2017. It was developed for women working in the field of education: scientists, professors, managers and experts of various departments. Its task is to facilitate the development of leadership skills and promote projects aimed at development of higher education, developed in co…

  13.06.2017

• 5 Things You Need to Know Now

  … components from end-of-life vehicles can be recycled with coconut oil and microwaves and re-used as foams for the construction, packaging and automotive industries. Summer science reads 2017. Try your hand at brewing ancient-style beer? Enjoy strange stories on nuclear history and Earth’s real-life apocalypses? Or learn about how a well-known chemist once paid a …

  13.06.2017

• What is “True” Ecology?

  … One of those is that organic products are better for one’s health than inorganic ones. Actually, being “organic” mostly has to do with bringing less harm to the environment - scientific research conducted thus far on various organic food items has not been able to give strong evidence about the superiority of organic food over non-organic food. So eating too much “o…

  09.06.2017

• “Natural” AI: On the Way to Whole Brain Emulation

  …also reading up on life extension and bioinformatics. All these topics are now being intertwined in the concept of brain emulation which is gaining more and more support among scientists worldwide. There are several major projects that aim to create a full-scale computer model of the brain for research purposes such as studies of the brain, consciousness and human be…

  09.06.2017