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• ITMO Master’s Student Yan Koval on His Internship in Denmark and Importance of Public Opinion in Lighting Design

  …ad some experience with the specifics of lighting in two Scandinavian capitals: Oslo and Stockholm. What is your thesis about? My thesis’ title is “The Development of an Instrument for the Assessment of User Experience of Lighting Solutions in Architectural Lighting”. Many companies these days pay more attention to economic and technological matters when workin…

  22.05.2019

• Choosing a Master’s Program at ITMO, Part Two: Industrial and Entrepreneurial Programs

  … underlines Anton Gopka. Master’s programs in promising fields Belonging to this group are programs that for now are centered on ITMO University’s youngest department, Institute of International Development and Partnership, but in the future will spread to all of the University’s schools. As of now, the ranks of ITMO’s Master’s programs in promising fields in…

  22.05.2019

• How ITMO's Advance Program is Helping Young Russians Jump Start their Careers

  …the English Language Office at the US Embassy in Russia, and operates in twelve other cities across Russia: Tula, Rostov-on-Don, Khasavyurt, Nizhny Novgorod, Syktyvkar, Chelyabinsk, Cherepovets, Smolensk, Yekaterinburg, Yakutsk, Kursk and Nalchik.   The program’s participants come to ITMO twice a week to study Business English and either Entrepreneurial Skills or …

  21.05.2019

• Choosing a Master’s Program at ITMO, Part One: Scientific and Corporate Programs

  …specific demands of prospective students. “In conditions of information being totally and easily accessible, the role of universities as mere transmitters of knowledge begins to lose its relevance. What is in demand is direct access to unique knowledge on the forefront of science and industry, as well as to interesting tasks and state-of-the-art infrastructure. …

  21.05.2019

• The Magic of: White Nights

  …s, the first card with the drawbridges timetable (no internet or cell phones back then), the first climb up a winding staircase to take in the view of St. Isaac’s Cathedral against the cobalt sky. It’s about friends getting into a little boat for a midnight canal excursion after a night of heavy partying and the adventures I missed out by refusing to join them. It’s …

  21.05.2019

• Environmental Scientist Jaana Sorvari on Sustainable Waste Management in Europe and Russia

  …imple. Paper is reused as paper. Glass was somewhat problematic: when we had just begun recycling it, there was no market for it. People began to realize that there were mountains of glass just laying there at every garbage dump, which was demotivating. It’s no longer an issue today. Biowaste is used for composting. The market for it is not that large, however, an…

  21.05.2019

• Light in the City: How Light Affects Our Mood and Emotions

  …mple, specialists at parks in Rome discovered that owls have vanished from their premises. They started to analyze the problem and found that it was caused by light pollution. Insects react to light on a cellular level: most often, light attracts them. Thus, as the insects shift their location, birds shift theirs too: you can see it as …

  20.05.2019

• ITMO Physicists Found New Way to Optimize Nanoparticles and Light Interaction

  … successfully describe new features of the optical response of dielectric particles. They managed to demonstrate that there are complex configurations of displacement currents inside the particle, which lead to toroidal moments of higher orders. What is more, the researchers have shown that the complex interaction of currents in a particle can switch it into a specia…

  20.05.2019

• “Calmness, Only Calmness.” Classic Soviet Cartoons to the Rescue

  …e sticking to the budget for your prototype? Matriskin, the wise cat in the “Winter in Prostokvashino”, is upset with Sharik, the dog, who splurged on a pair of fancy sneakers instead of reasonable winter footwear. “We have the means, we just lack the brains!” he says, summing up the frustration in all of us. In a traditional Russian…

  20.05.2019

• Live from New York, It’s… Best of SNL

  …ne is about to happen. So let’s experience this one more time. And one more time after that (this one being 2019 Oscars-related) if the first time wasn’t enough. Barbie Instagram If someone were to write a 1,000-page treatise on why Donald Glover is great, they should include this skit as a separate section. I don’t know what to praise here more, his matter…

  17.05.2019