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• ITMO’s Personal Development Center Launches New Courses

  … just those with key positions, i.e. senior executives and entrepreneurs,” says Anastasia Prichislenko.   The courses will be held by experts from different fields: professional psychologists, business coaches, HR specialists and marketing experts, as well as successful entrepreneurs who are ready to share their knowledge and experience. The topic and format of …

  14.02.2018

• Digital Culture: Why Everyone Should Learn Programming

  …World Conference on Computers in Education in Lausanne, Switzerland. In his speech, he compared the spread of book-printing to the development of technology, coming to a conclusion that if the development and spread of book-printing led to increase in literacy, the spread of computers will result in more people being skilled in programming. The report’s title had …

  14.02.2018

• The Dangers of Light Pollution

  …What is light pollution? In science terms, light pollution is the increase in sky luminance due to the diffusion of light on molecules of water and aerosol particles. Light pollution is associated with artificial lighting only, and does not have any natural causes. Thus, in the field of lighting design there now exists such a term as “unwanted light”. “When w…

  13.02.2018

• Chemist Ekaterina Skorb On International Work Experience And Prospects Of Infochemistry

  … Germany as an  Alexander von Humboldt fellow. Tellingly, the first project I took part in at Max Planck Institute had to do with industry - we worked on self-healing anticorrosion coatings. In fact, we developed special capsules that can prevent corrosion. How does this work? When corrosion occurs, the pH…

  12.02.2018

• Researchers From ITMO Create First-Ever Light-Emitting Nanoantennas

  …tructure-based devices is rather complicated due to the limited luminescence efficiency of the typical materials used, as well as non-directional and relatively weak light emission of single quantum dots or molecules. An even more challenging task is placing a nanoscale light source precisely near a nanoantenna. A research group from ITMO University has managed to…

  12.02.2018

• 5 Science News Now

  …ating electricity from bending a finger and other simple movements. Researchers are also working on developing a portable battery to store energy produced by the tab. They envision the system serving as a power source for various wearable and self-powered electronic devices. Mindfulness proves beneficial for computer engineering students. Researchers has shown tha…

  12.02.2018

• Member of ITMO School Robotics Team to Represent Russia at Intel ISEF

  … and Kazakhstan.  Projects are chosen based on the uniqueness and originality of their ideas.   High school students of different ages presented their research at poster sessions in several categories. In 2017 the competition also introduced a Robotics category. The winner of this category, Maksim Mikhailov (School 239) a student of Igor Lositsky, from ITMO’s Depa…

  09.02.2018

• Russian Superstitions: Some Do’s and Don’ts

  …rust me, they mean well. It’s supposed to bring good luck too. Or they’ll start spitting over their shoulder or making a “foo foo foo” noise, which is a more animated local version of the English phrase “knock on wood”. If you say something out loud and want it to come true, you knock on wood three times so as not to jinx it. If you can’t find wood, it’s ok to knock …

  09.02.2018

• How to Become Part of ITMO’s Academic Mobility Program

  …ce to pay for this amazing, unforgettable experience. We’ve asked some of our students who have already participated in academic mobility programs to share with us their impressions: Igor Katselenbogen, took a semester program at University of Seoul, South Korea “This experience teaches you, first and foremost, to overcome obstacles and break stereotypes.…

  09.02.2018

• If You Want to be the Best, Learn From the Best: ITMO University Collaborates with Alibaba Cloud University

  …up is one of the world’s leaders, and its founder is the richest man in China. Supporting and servicing its industry, Alibaba attracts the best solutions, technology and professionals. Thus, by learning from the company’s staff you are getting the latest knowledge relevant to the ever-changing world” - comments Sergey Chepinsky. Among the mentors for Alibaba's c…

  08.02.2018