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PhD Student from MIT on Internship at ITMO, Russian Culture and Science
…You are currently working with the research team of Marin Soljačić (a professor in physics at MIT; in 2007, The New York Times included him into the list of the 70 authors of exceptional and ingenious ideas). Can you tell us in more detail about your research, please? I am currently a third-year PhD student at MIT, and I am working in Marin Soljačić’s research tea…
19.06.2019
QS World University Rankings: ITMO University Enters Global Top-500
…putation is largely inert and retrospective: it characterizes the achievements a university has already had for a long time. Meanwhile, many Russian universities are exploring new trends and fields, and rankings don’t always catch up to these changes, he adds. Overall, this year’s QS ranking includes 1,001 higher education institutions from 82 countries, which is …
18.06.2019
Two-Time ICPC Champion Niyaz Nigmatullin: Life Outside the Code
…ogramming Contest and the winner of the 2015 VK Cup tournament. The programmer has also recently been named among Tatarstan’s Top 50 People in IT in a ranking developed by the news outlet Business Online on the occasion of the 4th anniversary of Tatarstan’s IT-capital Innopolis. Right now, Niyaz is busy teaching at the university, hosting training camps for school…
18.06.2019
ITMO University Researchers Develop ‘Smart Table’ for Wireless Charging at Record Distance
…Metasurfaces are a new class of artificial planar materials with unusual properties that cannot be found in nature. For example, a special arrangement of their unit cells, which are usually smaller than the wavelength, supports the propagation of electromagnetic waves over long distances. Scientists used this exact feature to create a new
18.06.2019
Five ITMO University Scientists Awarded SRIE Scholarship
…g there is about a system and predict the future with certainty, but the future in the quantum world is less certain. In quantum physics, experiments are conducted to work out new exotic laws. These are the laws that the microscopic world around us – the world of atoms, molecules and elementary particles – abides by. It took people quite a long to time to start takin…
18.06.2019
Made in Russia: Bad Brand or Unexplored Potential?
…As a dictionary would tell us, a creative person is someone who intuitively feels what must be done to come up with a new idea or solution, which detail to add to change everything, and how to create new things or deconstruct and reassemble the usual into unusual. That seems to me like an apt description of us, Russians, in our every…
17.06.2019
Roscosmos Opens Admissions for Astronauts
…st sought-after specialists are physicians, engineers and pilots. According to Dmitry Rogozin, the CEO of Roscosmos, the selected candidates will get an opportunity to work on new spacecraft and participate in long-distance expeditions. The head of the corporation also encourages women to participate. Though now there is only one woman in the Roscosmos team, Dmitry R…
17.06.2019
ITMO Scientists Awarded for Achievements in Science and Education by Acting Governor of St. Petersburg Alexander Beglov
…gold medal of the World Robot Olympiad 2018 in Thailand and first place at this February’s Baltic Science and Engineering Competition (more information in this article by ITMO.NEWS). A special place belongs to projects in the field of art, which aim to develop robots capable of playing musical instruments, dancing and drawing. One such development is the robot…
17.06.2019
Matryoshka: A Modern Icon?
… The iconic stereotype is alive and well around the world. It seems to draw on the concept of layers of meaning as well as trending nostalgia for the 90’s.Netflix has just renewed “Russian Doll,” a dark-ish comedy about a girl who keeps reliving her birthday. Games are plugging into a new adventure game From Matryoshka with Love. …
17.06.2019
Unexplored St. Petersburg: Tacos and Tracks at Berthold Center