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• A Specialist in Photonics Doing IT: ITMO's Master's Student Wins the Hackathon in Singapore

  …our first time in Singapore, isn't it? What are you doing there this time? Last year, I did a three-month internship at the Data Storage Institute of Singapore's Agency for Science, Technology and Research (A*STAR) as part of the Singapore International Pre-Graduate Award (SIPGA) international short-term program. At that time, I was working on a project on dielect…

  07.04.2017

• ITMO Fellowship Stories: 'Crystal Is the Heart of Lasers'

  …short pulses. What research are you doing at ITMO? I continue working on projects on laser crystals and nanomaterials in which I participated in cooperation with various scientific centers. There are a lot of crystals that can be used in lasers, but only few of them have been analyzed in detail. That’s why we have many possibilities to work. As of now,

  06.04.2017

• ITMO University Improves Its Position in the Round University Ranking

  …or teaching reputation assessment, they are asked are asked to choose the strongest universities in the field of teaching. For Research, the survey is conducted among renowned scientists that are indexed by Web of Science Core Collection logs. They have to choose 15 universities that they believe to be leading in a particular field of <…

  06.04.2017

• Expert Opinion: What are Dielectric Nanoantennas and how to Apply THz Radiation?

  …Lepeshov Medicine, quality control, safety, military purposes – these are only several areas to which THz technologies can be applied. However, the main application area is science. Today researchers are interested in interaction of THz radiation and other objects. For these research projects one uses complex and expensive devices including THz sources. The more e…

  06.04.2017

• Clean Up Your Brains: The All-Russian Lab Session

  … to be, and what's its difference from today's popular outreach programs? Actually, the reasons behind conducting this project are quite serious: there is a great amount of scientific knowledge that has to do with how the world works; such knowledge is really important for understanding the world we live in, yet it's something we easily forget after graduating fro…

  03.04.2017

• IT and Fashion: How Will Technologies Revolutionize the Fashion Industry

  …with defining the target audience, the promising technologies are those used for creating new metrics based on indirect data on customers. This works at the confluence of many sciences, enveloping cultural anthropology and evolutionary psychology, Big Data and digital media. Interpreting data from social sciences with mathematics can le…

  31.03.2017

• ScienceMedia-2017 Prizes

  …ometimes even deciding on the goals and formats is a problem: everyone understands that student media are aimed at students, but what exactly do they have to offer? Winners of ScienceMedia-2017 shared about why media centers have become an essential part of the educational process and how one creates engaging content.   Aleksander Shidlovskiy, Belarus State Ped…

  30.03.2017

• An Introvert's Guide to Survival

  …The problem The nature of every introvert's problem is quite simple: the inadequately processed emotions he feels accumulate and burden his conscience, deforming his perception of communication. Thus, he has to learn how to perceive and process emotions adequately. Introverts often feel misplaced: for instance, when during some workshop they are asked to speak abo…

  30.03.2017

• Cameras On A Chip And Holographic Displays: How Dielectric Nanophotonics Changes Our Future

  …What was once science fiction becomes fact Britain's THE IET AF Harvey Prize is a prestigious international award in the field of engineering research; it is conducted annually by the Institution of Engineering and Technology (IET) - one of the world's largest and most successful engineering institutions. It was awarded for the first time in 2011, with a prize fun…

  30.03.2017

• ITMO Conducts Research for Alexander Park Renovation

  …and proposals so as to make this space more inclusive and adjusted to their needs. Yet, if we're talking about ITMO's overall task on the city level, what is it? Despite Urban Science being quite a young subject area in our university, thanks to such projects and strong IT-competencies we are already capable of doing more complex things that go beyond just urban anal…

  29.03.2017