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• Portuguese Scientist Talks About Optical Technologies

  …teams worldwide work on this as well. We are also interested in creating waveguides with a repeater. We study the subject by making comparisons between physical phenomena. For instance, you have a physical body — a metal shield, and one more of the same kind. When they rub against each other, they generate light. And this process can be…

  12.09.2016

• Transport of the Future: A Foresight Session at the Anichkov Palace

  …ury and the curators were representatives of ITMO University, Smolny and the city's Palace of Youth Creativity, as well as experts from Saint Petersburg Metro and state public institution "Organizer of Transport". The schoolers and the university students made their presentations separately, but, as Ms. Natalya Lukovnikova, the head of ITMO's Foresight Center notes, …

  12.09.2016

• The University of Children: Their Dreams and Plans for the Future

  …Sisters Sonya and Rita, 4th grade Rita: We've really liked the teacher ­she explains everything really good. It's great, since few teachers at school can do it. For instance, during lessons on our city's history they always talk about Peter and Paul's Fortress, and what we want is interesting stories about other places. Speakin…

  12.09.2016

• METANANO-2016: Best Reports and Future Collaboration

  … has become popular among scientists worldwide. ITMO University got the right to organize the event in Russia due to support from Mr. Alexei Kavokin, head of The Mediterranean Institute of Fundamental Physics and the founder of the conference, as well as funding from the Russian Science Foundation. "There were not only scientists from foreign universities at the…

  10.09.2016

• The Shock of the New — Latest Developments in St. Petersburg Theater Part 2

  …mposer and a fragile young woman named Dorothy who may be fan, stalker, housekeeper, lover or muse — or all at once, we’re never really sure. She breaks free from some type of institution — perhaps a lunatic asylum — to inspire him to continue living to the full and writing music. Everything is lovingly conjured by Tumina using metic…

  09.09.2016

• Quantum Perspectives: Present and Future Tech

  …our everyday life. The simplest example is flash storage devices. In solid-body data storage devices the bytes of information are stored as a charge that is implanted into the insulator - silicon oxide. To rewrite the information, you first have to remove the existing one. To remove the charge from the oxide, quantum tunnel effect is used: the electrons escape the el…

  09.09.2016

• Unified State Exam Scores: ITMO in Top-10

  …ond best in Saint Petersburg - the first place was taken by Saint Petersburg State University; also, this result is third amongst Russia's technical universities (after Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology and National Research Nuclear University MEPhI).  In comparison with last year, the mean score increased by 4.2 points. This is the highest index of positive…

  08.09.2016

• Keeping Things Simple: ITMO Freshman Makes Reading English Easier

  …rd is indicated by the frequency of its use. From this database, I choose the synonyms that are used most frequently. Of course, there are drawbacks to this method, as in some instances you can't use synonyms, but I'm working on it. How did you decide to become a programmer? I took up programming in my 7th grade — first during my Informatics lessons, then, afte…

  08.09.2016

• METANANO-2016: Interview with Scientists

  …Mr. Kirill Belyaev from the Ioffe Institute I work in the Quantum Confinement Heterostructure Laboratory. The research area for this topic is vast and includes problems of plasmonics and single-photon systems. I try to pursue the most promising fields of science which in my point of view is cryptography. Regrettably, it's hard to find funding in Russia. One ha…

  08.09.2016

• Experiencing VR: A List of Apps You Might Like

  …s. Within does not focus on documentaries only: there are other videos as well, for example a psychedelic video clip Stor Eiglass or an underwater tour on the language of dolphins and cachalots. Jaunt VR (iOS, Android) In 2013, one of the app's developers visited the Zion National Park and understood that he wanted to get back there - at any time, from any …

  08.09.2016