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2D into 3D: Optical Holography Founder Yuri Denisyuk and His Legacy
…esearch outside his working hours. He didn’t have access to lasers, so his first images were recorded with a mercury lamp. Once he documented the results of his studies, he wanted to publish them, but his paper wasn’t accepted because it didn’t reference any prior works on holography. This was a precarious situation because it was impossible to defend a PhD title …
08.02.2024
Student Spotlight: Saadiallakh Normatov, Kazakhstan
…one day I approached Dr. Valiev and asked for his advice about my future career. He didn’t name any particular universities, but he told me I should focus on my IT skills if I wanted to work in computational chemistry. After that, I started searching for universities online, with two results: ITMO and Bristol University in the UK. I applied to both and on the day…
08.02.2024
This Week in St. Petersburg: February 8-14, 2024
…bruary 8 Exhibition: There are Ladoga, Vuoksi, cliffs… Until March 25, 11 am - 10 pm daily ArtMuza Free On display are works by local artist Ilya Kozlov, who wanted to capture the beauty of his home region in heartfelt, colorful landscapes. Ilya believes that the “truth of nature” is always original in itself, if you look at it closely enough – this…
07.02.2024
12th SCAMT Workshop Week: How to Enter Master’s Programs Without Exams and Kickstart Your Academic Career at ITMO
… School Edition held in Omsk in 2023 and the AGNI Workshop Week delivered by researchers from ITMO’s Advanced Engineering School in Almetyevsk. That’s why the minds behind SWW want to create something new. “In the future, we want to look for a new format of the event that might be better tailored towards senior Bachelor’s stud…
06.02.2024
How to Be Confident: ITMO Lecturer Shares Her Tips
…ompared to that of others, we might struggle with confidence in the future. As we’ve already noted, confident people don’t compare themselves to others. They know what they want and that’s what they are working towards. Comparing yourself to others or worrying too much about what others think of you, can have a negative impact on your confidence. Instead, it’s bet…
06.02.2024
The Most Puzzling Letter of Russian Alphabet
…ure вепрь Ы (wild boar Y) – a ferocious creature that can’t be killed with iron, but only with bone – in Arkady and Boris Strugatsky's Hard to Be a God (1964). If you want to explore the Russian language further, check out our stories about the origins of the Cyrillic script, the unusual role of the letter ё in Russian, and other Russian language features.…
02.02.2024
ITMO Thanks: New Online Platform to Say Thank You to Someone at ITMO
…dinova, a teaching and learning specialist at ITMO’s Office of Educational Technologies. You can read messages left by others or write your own at ITMO Thanks. And if you want to stay up-to-date on all things education and teaching practices, follow ITMO.Expert on VK and Telegram.…
02.02.2024
Student Spotlight: Md. Imran Hossain, Bangladesh
… Why did you change your field from textile engineering to mathematical and computer modeling? That’s a good question! After working at a textile engineering corporation, I wanted something new, something fresh. Mathematical and computer modeling is an integral part of any engineering or industrial project. So, I wanted to specialize…
01.02.2024
ITMO Fellow Muhammad Ali Abbasi Talks New 2D Nanomaterials for Wastewater Remediation, Discovering St. Petersburg, and Learning Russian
…an move to the US, the UK, or other English-speaking countries for work; other destinations, including Russia, are a rare choice. For me, it provided additional motivation – I wanted to go to a new world, explore it, and tell the people in my country about Russia and its people. You’ve been in St. Petersburg for six months already. How do you like it? Did it …
30.01.2024
New Lab at ITMO: Using AI to Build Molecular Machines for Therapy and Diagnostics
…m to develop a suite of tools based on AI, data science, and computational methods, that will be able to create molecular machines for applied purposes. In the future, we also want to build a “Lego” system for molecular machines: it will search and create specific individual modules. Moreover, this system will include methods of assembling molecular machines with pre…
29.01.2024