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• Russian education comes to leading positions in the world

  …logue, we have managed to discuss the pressing issues of our cooperation with foreign colleagues once again." The conference program was full of various workshops and sessions devoted to specific issues of the universities international activities: recruitment of foreign students and staff, academic exchange programs, the concept of a liberal education and othe…

  03.03.2015

• Optical methods of information transfer and sound waves in 3D: what the President grant is given for

  … Nikita says. Irina Blinova, the scientific employee of the international laboratory Mathematical methods of complex physical systems researches. The theme: Low-dimensional mathematical models for nanosystems. "We live in a three-dimensional world, but it is not easy to solve physical problems in 3D-space. For these purpos…

  27.02.2015

• The university delegation visited the leading US universities

  …ement of the university headed by Michael Crowe, the rector, to administrative and scientific-teaching staff.   Center for urban science and progress, the young subdivision of the New York University, became another interesting thing for the ITMO University delegation. Today, this center is one of the most modern and progressive projects in IT-urbanism. It pr…

  26.02.2015

• Evert Verhagen, an urbanist: "The world is ruled by creative industries"

  …ure on Urban transformation, by Evert Verhagen, became the first in a new series of Around street art educational program of the Museum of street art. The objects of the discussion are the various facets of street art: architecture, art critic, actionism, urbanism. Lectures were held in the Hermitage Youth Center, the St. Petersburg State University Institute of Hist…

  20.02.2015

• University scientists have created completely new nanocomposites

  … of Physical Chemistry C answers to many questions in the field of magneto-optical modulating in colloidal systems. "We are not the pioneers in the field of three-dimensional optical modulating in colloidal systems, which is interesting for all those involved in magnetism researches," the employee of the laboratory says. "But we were the first to show the uni…

  18.02.2015

• Fablab is opened for students: bring your idea to life

  …ll develop the potential of students and attract new ones to the university. I'm sure this is just the beginning, and in case of successful FabLab performance its further extension will be only a matter of time." Alexander Kolousov, the head of the ITMO University Technopark. Today the ITMO University FabLab has 3D-printers and scanners, milling machine with co…

  17.02.2015

• Russia builds connections with Latin America in the education sphere

  …ng that unites the largest entrepreneurial university in Mexico with the ITMO University. In both universities a lot of attention is paid to the development of universal professional competences, the so-called «soft skills». Graduates can become not only scientists and engineers, but also successful entrepreneurs, able to promote their ideas to market.   The …

  17.02.2015

• The Horizon is getting closer: the European Union program of research projects co-financing

  … European office, which was opened in November last year.   Many of the participants noted that the full-time program representation and the possibility of their discussion helped to understand the nuances of participation in them better.   …

  16.02.2015

• Open lecture by Nobel laureate Zhores Alferov on energy and light transformation

  …ning in St. Petersburg and a series of public lectures on Science and Culture in the Twenty-first Century. An outstanding scientist gave a lecture on Effective Light Conversion and Generation, outlining the history of technologies of energy and light acquisition and conversion. According to the Nobel laureate, by the middle of this …

  16.02.2015

• ITMO University students will change the look of St. Petersburg embankments

  …ce of the city. Therefore it is important to conduct the tours on its "problem" sites not only for designers, architects and builders, but also for the students of other professions. So that the changes will occur in the complex, because urbanism is an interdisciplinary field of science," Taisiya Khalikova says, the first-year student of the Design of urban ecosystem…

  10.02.2015