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• What is EMI? Tips and Tools

  …What is EMI? EMI (English Medium Instruction) implies using the English language to teach academic subjects in countries or jurisdictions where English is not the official language and in which the students’ first language is not English. The use of EMI has a number of advantages for both the students and the university. For insta…

  23.06.2017

• ITMO Scientists Develop New Protective Pipeline Coating

  …mparison with foreign-made coating materials, but surpass them in its properties,” – says Evgenia Guseva. Unlike many other poly-ureaurethane coatings, this material contains no solvent or thinning agents. Many of today’s manufacturers are making an effort to cut down on the use of such elements, mainly out of ecological concerns. This is because thinning agents…

  23.06.2017

• International Team Proposes New 3D Topological Insulator Design

  …  Topological insulators are materials that conduct electricity on their surfaceonly, while their core remains dielectric. At the same time, electrons on their surface are resilient to external disturbances or any defects of the surface's material. Previously, scientists from ITMO University have already developed a similar material,…

  23.06.2017

• ITMO University Launches The New Organic Electronics and Photovoltaics Laboratory

  …ain goal is to conduct R&D in the field of organic electronics and photovoltaic materials and devices. Highly competent specialists took part in designing the laboratory - for instance, Dmitry Parashuk from Moscow State University, who came to the project about a year ago and now provides for the laboratory's science and technology maintenance. "This is the …

  22.06.2017

• “Digital Talents”: How a New Generation of Specialists Changes the Way Companies Work

  …out 75 years to gain the status of a household item. The cell phone took about a quarter of that time to do the same – approximately 16 years, says BCG. Facebook, WhatsApp and Instagram garnered millions of users from all over the world in even less time – only two to four years. These days the speed at which new services ingrain themselves in people’s lives is measu…

  22.06.2017

• New Femto-Camera with Quadrillion Fractions of a Second Resolution

  …s well as monitoring cells during surgical interventions like, for example, cancer therapy. “Our device will help biologists and genetic engineers track what is happening inside a living cell with a resolution of about 50 femtoseconds – this is enough to resolve many biochemical reactions. Theoretically, the camera can even capture an electron jumping to another…

  22.06.2017

• ITMO Students in Singapore: How to Please Customers by Analyzing Their Social Media

  … should be offered a discount or motivated to try a different product? “We worked, among other things, on compiling guidelines for working with various client groups. For instance: how to best deal with women unsatisfied with product design or with men who find the prices unreasonable. Meaning that the project doesn’t focus on individual treatment of particular …

  21.06.2017

• Art&Science: Optical Devices In Fine Arts And Design's Role In Evolution

  …us that Jan van Eyck used such methods as well," shares Charles Falco. What's more, Jan van Eyck also used projections: despite their small size, some of the details (for instance, the chandelier on the painting) retain its proportions, which allows scientists to suggest that the artists did the necessary measurements before depicting the actual object. Yet, Jan…

  21.06.2017

• THE Rankings: ITMO University Gets Into Europe's Top-200

  …ell. First place belongs to Oxford University, then Cambridge, then Imperial College London, fourth place belongs to the only non-British university in the top - Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Zurich, and King's College London is in 5th place. Another country whose universities are widely represented in the rankings is Germany with 41 universities. As for R…

  21.06.2017

• ITMO's PhD Students Will Simplify Online Learning On OpenEdX

  … principles are very simple; as of now, MOOCs have already become one of the best formats for distance learning. The OpenEdX platform has many such courses. It already contains thousands of educational programs developed by different educational establishments. Previously there was no interconnection between them - no direct links from one course to another that w…

  20.06.2017