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• Life in World of Resonances

  …day, the new Faculty of Physics and Engineering accepted its first students, and so did ITMO's new affiliated Department of Dielectric and Semiconductor Photonics in the Ioffe Institute. The new Department is headed by Mikhail Limonov, one of the review's authors, senior researcher at ITMO's Metamaterials laboratory and chief research fellow at the Ioffe

  01.09.2017

• ITMO.GO: New Students Join the ITMO Family

  … one of the top 5 Russian universities in terms of the average Unified State Exam points among entrants. This year’s Master’s students come from more than 300 higher education institutions of Russia and the world; postgraduate students, too, have completed challenging tests to be accepted. Just like ITMO University’s graduation events, this celebration was hel…

  31.08.2017

• Algorithm Summer School: New ITMO-STC Initiative

  …line-system so as to minimize the mistakes of speech recognition using lip movements and voice. "We've been collaborating with ITMO University for five years already; for instance, we've co-organized the Department of Speech Information Systems. When the question of doing a summer school came up, we didn't even think for a second. We already had an affiliated de…

  31.08.2017

• Back Into Swing: Life-hacks For Adapting Your Lifestyle

  … is necessary Tedious work, be it in an office or on research projects, is the number one cause of stress, often followed by neurological conditions and heart diseases. For instance, a certain research shows that those who work more than eight hours a day have a 40% higher risk of suffering a heart attack. Also, workaholics perform worse in cognitive ability tests…

  31.08.2017

• Eduroam - Next Step Towards International Education System

  …vices, including the Eduroam brand. Eduroam’s operating principle is simple. In each country that introduces this technology, there are servers that store Eduroam data. For instance, if a person registered in the system is from Belgium, and later comes to ITMO University and logs in from there, Eduroam’s servers in Russia connect with the server in Belgium. That s…

  31.08.2017

• Divide and Conquer: How S&R Built a Successful Chemical Startup in Russia

  …mber of advantages, the lack of need for high-temperature treatment among them. In addition, unlike many similar technologies, pervaporation allows for separation of the more “inseparable” mixtures. For instance, membrane separation can be used to produce a 99% ethanol solution from a 40% one. Technically, this technology is nothing …

  30.08.2017

• FactoryFinder: ITMO Graduates Develop Service To Optimize Procurement

  …lso used by some of Russia's tender and b2b platforms - for example, supl.biz, B2B-Center, and several others. Yet, they also limit the customers' operations in some ways: for instance, a company has to create an e-signature to access the platform. To start working with FactoryFinder, none of that is necessary: the supplier company only has to pass a simple validatio…

  30.08.2017

• Yandex Expert Shares Rules for Co-Existence of Humans and AI

  …arning), transportation, urban planning – these are just some of the industries that are already being changed by certain projects. The German robot AILA. Credit: businessinsider.com “Do not interpret my words as if these are the most actively developing fields and the rest are slow and stagnant industries where you can dwell until retirement without learni…

  29.08.2017

• Russian-Japanese Exchange Program: Participants Share

  …o discuss the most important issues. I got to know Japan by reading Haruki Murakami’s books, and I grew up on cartoons by Hayao Miyazaki, but I’ve never been to places that inspired them, where they created their works. One could call it a dream come true! I wanted to see real Japan, find Japanese friends and share a piece of our culture with them, which may well …

  29.08.2017

• Relocation Tips: Banking in St. Petersburg

  …t get flagged as fraud or declined. It’s also a good idea to check if your credit card charges a commission on purchases. As a side note, some credit cards also have travelers insurance as a standard part of their package – something else worth looking into. Travelers Checks are not widely accepted in St. Petersburg and where they are, the commission can be quite …

  29.08.2017