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Forum for Strategic Initiatives: Experts Look Towards the Future
…and demonstrated their best practices. Many round tables and discussions were focused on educational issues. “The forum’s most popular topic was the future of industry, science, project management, education, and new competencies. Everything was focused around the “millennials” generation, the new industrial revolution and, obviously, around the implementation…
26.07.2016
Time to Register For Russia’s First Online Science Communication Course
…The course is comprised of two modules: the first one concentrates on science journalism and the second – on science PR, and offers an in-depth approach to several relevant topics, such as writing news articles and long-reads, working with media, experts, etc. The students will learn of the current state of scie<…
25.07.2016
ITMO U is in the Top-10 Russian Research Universities
…mber of educational programs at universities, high performance computing and computer simulation rates as well as number of citations per paper according to Scopus and Russian Science Citation Index. Interfax International Information Services Group presents university rankings every year since 2010. It publishes sub rankings based on such criteria as education, r…
25.07.2016
ITMO U Helps Talented Children at Sirius Center in Sochi
…The "Sirius" project is organized around three main areas: science, art and sports. Sessions for science and art programs took place from 1 July to 24 July. The participants were divided into teams and spent their time working on complex research assignments and practical tasks — like doing projects on making space habitable, designing …
24.07.2016
Five Things We Loved Last Week
…on problem by cleaning its air at a nano-level and turning carbon from smog into diamonds. World Economic Forum. New map of the brain. Using multiple MRI measurements, scientists have charted the cerebral cortex – brain’s outermost layer – into 180 separate parcels, 97 of which have never been previously described, offering greater insight into brain’s inner …
23.07.2016
Robotic Skeletons: How to Develop Hi-Tech Startups
…es. Expert Opinion Well-organized team and effective management are integral parts of a successful startup, supposes Yuri Baulin, professor at Department of Natural Sciences. He is sure that ExoAtlet succeeded in promotion their device because of high-grade experts in various fields who joined the engineering team. “To share results of research activit…
22.07.2016
Scientists Produce Microresonators with Unprecedented Level of Precision
…rozen inside. When these strains disappear, the fiber swells a little and a microresonator forms. To achieve the high reproducibility of each microresonator parameters, the scientists annealed the fiber by laser, measured loss after the light propagation through the microresonator and corrected its shape. The undulation correction is the most painstaking step in m…
22.07.2016
PhD Student Knows how to Protect State Secrets
…on of Vladimir Bogatyrev, professor at the Chair of Computation Technologies. The student wants to put his research into practice but at the same time supposes that results of scientific breakthroughs should be accessible. “If a scientist discovers something he doesn’t have to keep it a secret. Sometimes researchers don’t share detai…
21.07.2016
QS BRICS: ITMO U Becoming More International
…ity Fellowship and Professorship programs add to the effect.” – commented Daria Kozlova, Vice Rector for International Relations at ITMO University. Categories related to scientific research have also seen a change this year in terms of ITMO University’s place amongst Russian educational institutions. QS BRICS-2016 showed a significant increase in citations per …
20.07.2016
How an Iranian Student Chose St. Petersburg Over New Zealand
…While the young Iranian has clearly mastered his profession in the field of programming and computer science, he hasn't been interested in computer science and computers since his childhood. He actually only got his first computer soon after military service. He quickly learned about programming and began to study various computer netwo…
19.07.2016