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• St. Petersburg’s Architectural Gems: Art Nouveau

  …esponse to industrialization and tracing back to the British Arts and Crafts Movement and the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood, Art Nouveau (meaning ‘new art’ in French) rebelled against the sway of machine-made, mass-produced goods – shoddy and often tasteless – and emphasized craftsmanship, creative expression, and the use of natural motifs and high-quality materials. …

  12.03.2019

• ITMO Alumni and ITMO Ambassadors: Staying in Touch After Graduation

  …optical components designer at OPTIKOELECTRON, a major engineering plant in my home town of Panagyurishte (located 90 kilometers to the east of Sofia, in the Sredna Gora mountains). In 1998, my colleague and the plant’s CEO Ivan Cholakov (also an ITMO graduate) had been removed from his post, and in a couple of years I left to work at his private enterprise OPTICS AD…

  12.03.2019

• Young Scientists Awarded ITMO University’s First Own Academic Degree Diplomas

  …protection levels and include a QR code that links to the information on the degree holder, their thesis and thesis defense, given in both Russian and English languages,” explains the head of the Office of International Postgraduate and Doctoral Studies. Maria Skvortsova adds that these advantages can improve the diploma holder’s employment prospects, including …

  12.03.2019

• Software Engineering Program by ITMO and JetBrains: Students Share

  …at least one of the two major drawbacks: they were either quite formal or gave overspecialized knowledge. So, I have to say that I didn’t have much choice apart from the JetBrains’ corporate Master’s program. Program features We get an all-round education. Many of the subjects have to do with the field of Computer Science. They offer the understanding of many o…

  11.03.2019

• Datathon on Texts Annotation: How Programmers and Humanities Specialists Analyze Texts

  …uage processing, and shared about cases from their experience of working in the field. For one, Huawei Technologies specialists Denis Teslenko and Vlad Tretyak provided insights into the recognition of named entities; Evgenia Bogacheva, a staff member at the machine learning center of ITMO’s Computer Technologies laboratory, gave a presentation on coreference …

  11.03.2019

• Head of Leningrad Laser Systems on Specifics of Russian Optical Components Market

  …s to make use of the local scientific infrastructure. We already collaborate with several laboratories, among which are Arthur Gleim’s Quantum Informatics Lab and the Research Institute of Light-Guided Photonics. We also collaborate with the School of Photonics and the International Research Center of Biophotonics, Optical and Quantum Information. We also want to sta…

  11.03.2019

• Women in Science 2018

  …l Prize was awarded to Frances Arnold, an American chemical engineer and the Linus Pauling Professor of Chemical Engineering, Bioengineering and Biochemistry at the California Institute of Technology (Caltech), who has become the fifth woman in history to receive this prestigious award. Frances Arnold was honored for her work on the directed evolution of enzymes. …

  08.03.2019

• Amazing Russian Women Who Shape Our Lives

  …Princess Olga of Kiev This fierce and smart lady was instrumental in the course of Russian history. A pagan tribe called the Drevlyans killed her husband, Igor of Kiev, which made her the official ruler of Kievan Rus’ ( as in ancient Russia) until their three-year-old son Svyatoslav reached adulthood. Instead of succumbing to marriag…

  08.03.2019

• Materials Scientist Alexandre Nominé on Challenges of his Field, Learning Russian, and Creativity at ITMO University

  … the processes of synthesizing new metals. Steel-making plants are enormously huge, and, unfortunately, simply making them smaller won’t help you make metals at the nanoscale; instead, you need to change the entire process. A lot of my work is fundamental; I work on complex materials for optics. When we say “complex materials”, we might mean that their atomic comp…

  07.03.2019

• 10 Summer Schools to Attend This Summer

  …udents to think outside the box and learn with and from each other while improving their language and intercultural skills. The Natural Science specialization gave students an insight into molecular biology, offering workshops and laboratory classes on gas chromatography or DNA forensics, while the Engineering and Technology specialization consisted of lectures and l…

  07.03.2019