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• Digital Culture: New Educational Module At ITMO University

  …lls and competencies that both the university’s students and staff should possess.    A specialist who has skills in the field of Digital Culture knows how to apply the instruments offered by modern information technologies regardless of having education in the field of IT. What is more, there’s also the so-called Digital Ethics, which implies the understandin…

  16.01.2018

• Eleven ITMO Scientists Receive Presidential Scholarships

  …-superimposable on their mirror images. It plays an important role in chemistry, biology and pharmacology, as the majority of biomolecules are chiral (sugars, aminoacids, proteins, penicillin, ibuprofen, naproxen, DNA, etc.). Most medical products based on the opposite enantiomers of the same chiral molecule may have different pharmaceutical properties: one may have …

  15.01.2018

• Winter School “It’s Your Call!”: Leading Experts’ Lectures, Semi-Hackathon and Chess Pong.

  … their portfolios and motivation letters through a special form on the site (available in Russian) of the Winter School "It’s Your Call!". Students from any higher educational institution in Russia who are trained in programs corresponding to tracks supervised by ITMO ("Computer Technologies", "Information and Cybersecurity" and "Photonics") can take part. The organi…

  12.01.2018

• 10 Top Tech Trends of 2018: Part One

  …egrating “smart” devices into the common urban environment. A whole range of major companies presented inventions that map out the horizons of the existing innovations. For instance, Intel showcased a 49-qubit processor for quantum computers, and Fisker showed off an electric car that can cover over 600 kilometers without recharge. All the experts agreed th…

  12.01.2018

• Social Media: Does It Change Us? Here’s What Science Thinks

  …edia is now barely more than 20 years old.  However, social networks finally got big in the 00’s, with Facebook (2004), VK (2006), and Twitter (2006) followed by Pinterest and Instagram in 2010. Thus it can be said that the true, “active” age of social media is approximately 13 years. Despite being so new, social networks have won the hearts of nearly half the wor…

  12.01.2018

• ITMO and ER-Telecom Sign Research & Education Partnership Agreement

  …s multiscreen, catch-up and video-on-demand services, into its products. Its goal is to provide customers with an expansive range of opportunities for customization, like, for instance, by allowing them to create their own service plans. ER-Telecom and ITMO University have decided on the core areas of their collaboration, which are research and education. The part…

  11.01.2018

• Scientists Propose New Type Of Terahertz Solid-State Laser

  …ation, it is totally harmless to the human organism. These characteristics make terahertz radiation sources most attractive for a whole range of practical applications. For instance, terahertz radiation can be used in security systems for scanning people and luggage. It can be used to detect metal, ceramic, plastic and other objects hidden under one’s clothes from…

  11.01.2018

• ITMO Master's Student Receives Praise for Immuno-Oncology Research

  …ientific adviser was Yuri Porozov. The fact is, that during the training at the academy - in the last year - all students are sent to work in various laboratories and research institutes. And that's how I got to the laboratory at ITMO, where I completed my thesis project. So, I had two scientific advisors for my thesis: one from the academy and the second one - namel…

  10.01.2018

• Time Management: Ideas You Can Use

  …ith the right habits: punctual and productive. Soon enough “Time is money" - Benjamin Franklin’s famous quote - became the mantra of the business world. In 1911, Frederick Winslow Taylor published his book The Principles of Scientific Management and essentially started a whole new discipline. In this book he presented his own theory of management based on the anal…

  09.01.2018

• Joint PhD Programs: Recent Graduates Share

  …tamaterial structures. These allow to control electromagnetic fields on a subwave level - a much lesser scale than that of a wavelength. This allows to create new devices; for instance, a part of my research had to do with a new field of topological photonics, where scientists develop unique waveguides that allow to control the propagation of light without absorption…

  09.01.2018