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• The Master’s Program Enrollment Campaign: Bringing in Best Students and Training Elite Specialists

  …s proclaimed in the mission of ITMO University is training elite specialists ready to work in the modern conditions of a fast-changing world and ensure advanced development of science and technology. Obviously, such specialists can only be trained at Master and Post-Graduate level, and this calls for special conditions for these students. A few years ago ITMO U set a…

  01.08.2016

• Five Things We Loved Last Week

  … 10,000 meters, with temperatures dropping to -56C, causing his oxygen mask and drinking water to freeze. The Telegraph.  Check out the video. Smallest hard disk. A team of scientists at Delft University developed a disk that writes information atom by atom and reached a storage density of 500 Terabits per square inch (Tbpsi), 500 times better than the best commer…

  30.07.2016

• Nature Index Names ITMO U as a "Rising Star"

  … “The institutions and countries we examine have increased their contribution to a selection of top natural science journals — a metric known as weighted fractional count (WFC) — from 2012 to 2015. In the competitive world of academic publishing, these are the players to watch.” explain the authors of the rankings. As mentioned by the Nature Index of Rising Sta…

  29.07.2016

• Webometrics: ITMO Is Making its Way to the Top

  …esence criterion evaluates universities according to the total amount of web-pages on the main university’s domain that are indexed by Google. The openness criterion evaluates science publication archives made by universities. The excellence criterion “counts” the number of cited articles according to SCImago Lab’ analyses. The visibility criterion, which demonstrate…

  29.07.2016

• New Technologies Make Energy Safe and Effective

  … researchers analyzed about a million different quinones, before to create a new class of battery electrolyte material. According to them, it expands the possibilities of what scientists can do. Instead of metal ions used as conventional battery electrolyte materials they used acidic electrolytes with quinones, molecules that store energy in plants and animals. Hi…

  28.07.2016

• Webometrics: ITMO Makes it to Top-3 Russian Universities

  …university’s top ten authors in the Google Scholar system. It is yet to be included into the Webometrics overall ranking and is currently in a testing phase – almost a million scientists are registered on Google Scholar, as well as about 5,000 universities. According to this ranking, ITMO is in Russia’s top three, along with M. V. Lomonosov Moscow State University an…

  28.07.2016

• Virtual Reality Technologies: What to Expect in the Foreseeable Future?

• Multivitamin Supplements: To Take or not to Take

  …ng this period of time patients underwent medical tests at Canadian and American medical clinics. A total number of 450 thousand patients took part in the research. Finally scientists didn’t discover any difference in health condition between the two groups. Multivitamins don’t provoke complications but at the same time they also don’t reduce the risk of heart dis…

  27.07.2016

• Getting Close to Nanostructures

  … drawbacks, and are used for their own particular tasks; all in all, they complement each other well. Mikhail Zhukov, a graduate of the Chair of Nanotechnologies and Materials Science explains that one of the unique benefits of probe microscopes are that you can work with biological specimens in their native (live) state, while cutting their surface and manipulating …

  26.07.2016

• Exchange Semester in Switzerland Turns into a Two-Year Master’s Program

  …ite difficult to be self-funded. I won’t be able to get a part-time job till August, when I get my residence permit.   What is the process of choosing your thesis topic and scientific advisor at EPFL? I won’t say that the choice of one’s thesis topic and scientific advisor is of pressing concern. What’s most important during the f…

  26.07.2016