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• ITMO Delegates Discuss the Development of Public Spaces During a Visit to Finland

  …m provided an opportunity to explore the best practices implemented at Aalto University (Aalto-Korkeakoulusaatio). This university is one of Finland’s leading higher education institutions, forming part of the national ranking’s top-5. It is also considered one of the best universities in terms of the quality of education and ranks among the world’s top-300 higher ed…

  19.08.2019

• The Comedy Legends of Would I Lie to You?

  …u, calm even, should have long become a topic for an investigation by British scientists with a consequent publication in The Lancet, but it hasn’t because some lab-coated boffins are more interested in teaching bumblebees how to play football than pursuing the topics that really matter. And to think that it could have given humanity an ins

  16.08.2019

• ITMO Students and Staff Take Part in Startup Festival *ship

  …dent that our experience is quite progressive. I noted that the involvement of successful entrepreneurs is a key method of making students interested in business. I spoke, for instance, of the time Oleg Tinkov came to the University – the place was packed. In our Finnish colleagues’ experience, attracting these kinds of rockstar businesspeople can sometimes be a chal…

  16.08.2019

• ITMO and Moscow State University Scientists Announce an Open Call for a Joint Article Series for Frontiers in Chemistry

  …019 statistics, Frontiers in Chemistry ranked as fifth most-cited scientific publication, with a 570-million views and downloading count. After the article series assembles 10 installments, Frontiers in Chemistry will publish an ISBN-indexed e-book which will consequently be promoted on social media. This will allow the authors to not only publish their work in a lea…

  16.08.2019

• New Luminescent Aerogel Production Method Opens Up Possibilities for Unique Materials

  …ighly resistant (aerogel can handle a load 2,000 times its own weight), exhibit extremely low heat conductivity and have a high surface area. Aerogels are used to produce heat insulation materials for industrial use. They also possess a number of useful biological properties, which makes them a promising material for use in biomedicine. One of the key topics in th…

  15.08.2019

• ITMO Researcher Represents Russia at QKD Security Workshop

  … any other scientific field today, is constantly developing. What questions are currently the most topical in your community?  Trends change with each year that passes. For instance, last year everyone was talking about achieving the maximum range and performance for the systems, but this had its own linear limit. This year, specialists managed to find a way to ci…

  15.08.2019

• ITMO University Retains Its Standing in Academic Ranking of World Universities

  …cal signals; Surface patterning of nanoparticles with polymer patches (Nature), co-authored by Ekaterina Zhulina, a staff member of the International Scientific and Research Institute of Bioengineering. The article concerns the interactions between nanoparticles and specific polymer structures; Electrophilic properties of itaconate and derivatives regulate the Iκ…

  15.08.2019

• This Weekend in St. Petersburg: August 17-18, 2019

  …Science Fest August 17-18 from 500 rubles Art performances and installations, a presentation of self-driving cars, waltzing robots, classic vs. electronic orchestras battles, robotics exhibitions, fashion tech, and a party at a planetarium: find all this and more at the annual Science Fest, to stun the whole of St. Pete and its surroundings on this weeke…

  14.08.2019

• 60,000 Steps a Day: ITMO Students on Organizing Mendeleev-150 Conference

  …was eager to help. There were a few interesting moments at the conference. I never would have thought I’d struggle with buying children’s toys (scientist Dmitry Weise’s installation required some 900 balloons and 165 building blocks). That turned out to be an unexpectedly difficult task: no store stocked that many items. I did find enough at the end, but I had…

  14.08.2019

• My Russian Mushroom Picking Adventure

  …nducive to spotting mushrooms. …. and according to my friend “if you really feel like picking it, it’s probably edible” - although I don’t think I’ve quite developed that instinct yet because I was wrong pretty much most of the time. But if you don’t know what you’re doing, ask and ask again.  There are also important strategies for not getting lost, like upl…

  13.08.2019