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ITMO Robotics School Team Wins Medals at All-Russian Olympiad in Robotics.
…curity and contribute to ending hunger. In order to make the best of their ideas, the students had to apply the skills they've been training during the regional stages: construction, project development, and presentation skills, as well as show great teamwork. All of these competencies allowed the Russian national team to show great results in 2017's WRO in Co…
25.06.2018
EMI Professional Development Course Launched at ITMO
…ademics from all around the world to improve their skills in teaching EMI courses at their universities. A few months later, during the summer, some workshops on English Medium Instruction (EMI) were also organized for ITMO’s lecturers. At the start of this academic year, ITMO implemented its own 72 academic hour teacher training course for its professors and lect…
25.06.2018
Student Wins Lab Design Competition
…y designed by Veronika is based on the principle of zoning. That is, she decided to divide the territory into several separate parts, such as a mockup area with desks and an air extraction system for fitting works, cabinets for workwear and personal protective equipment, and drawers for tools and measuring instruments; and a design area with four computers where work…
25.06.2018
Holographic Quantum Dot Laser in Progress
…o their original places, and when they do so they emit a photon. This is called spontaneous emission. It is incoherent, meaning that photons have different wavelengths, different directions, and other characteristics. An atom has to be influenced by electromagnetic radiation, e.g. light, to get to this excited state and force its electrons’ transition. This process i…
25.06.2018
How Creativity is a Survival Strategy in Today’s World
…ool. At the same time, creative thinking is something that is constantly active. The best definition of creative thinking that I can think of is the process of tracing ambiguous connections between obvious phenomena: the more ambiguous the connection is, the stronger is the inspiration that we feel,” comments Ms. Lekus. Ilya Smilga…
22.06.2018
How Creativity is Survival Strategy in Today’s World
…ool. At the same time, creative thinking is something that is constantly active. The best definition of creative thinking that I can think of is the process of tracing ambiguous connections between obvious phenomena: the more ambiguous the connection is, the stronger is the inspiration that we feel,” comments Ms. Lekus. Ilya Smilga…
22.06.2018
How Creativity is Survival Strategy in Today’s World
…ool. At the same time, creative thinking is something that is constantly active. The best definition of creative thinking that I can think of is the process of tracing ambiguous connections between obvious phenomena: the more ambiguous the connection is, the stronger is the inspiration that we feel,” comments Ms. Lekus. Ilya Smilga…
22.06.2018
St. Petersburg 2103: Building the City of the Future
…ITMO University. Modern technologies combined with knowledge in the field of urban development allow us to analyze the city dynamics”. The exhibition is divided into three sections: the past, the present and the future. The first section features the history of city planning in St. Petersburg. Why did Catherine II want to ma…
22.06.2018
ITMO Volunteers Get Training in Germany
…s very important that such issues are brought up at the national level. Though there are attempts in St. Petersburg to raise the ecological awareness and organize separate waste collection points, such initiatives rarely have governmental support, so the process goes very slowly. For example, I know that representatives of the Kind Bottletops organization visit schoo…
21.06.2018
4th International Conference on the Periodic Table: Mendeleev 150
…he scientists who received invitations to speak at the Conference will be Yuri Oganessian, a Soviet and Russian nuclear physicist, a researcher at the Flerov Laboratory of Nuclear Reactions at the Joint Institute for Nuclear Research and the only currently living person with a chemical element named after him, George Whitesides, a prolific author with the highest Hir…
21.06.2018