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5 Things You Need to Know Now
…. Safer, more efficient uranium extraction. The separation of uranium, a key part of the nuclear fuel cycle, could potentially be done more safely and efficiently through a new technique developed by chemistry researchers at Oregon State University. The technique uses soap-like chemicals known as surfactants to extract uranium from an aqueous solution into a keros…
30.01.2017
Creating Quartz-Based Nanocomposites: ITMO’s New International Collaboration
…chnologies. Thus, the international research team will study the properties of laser effects necessary for getting different nanocomposites. This will lead to development of new technologies that will be then introduced to production. The industrial partner of the research will be the "Laser Center" LLC. "The other goal of the grant is conducting international re…
27.01.2017
Available THz: An Article by ITMO’s Researchers Is on the Cover of the Magazine Laser&Photonics Reviews
…Nano-photonics and Metamaterials, and the first author of the article, sources of THz radiation that can work at room temperature were invented in 2000-s due to development of new laser technologies. For example, one can use a femtosecond laser — thanks to its ultra-short pulses, the beams of light require very little space, where the whole pulse energy is concentrat…
27.01.2017
Rectors are Human Too: Heads of Top Russian Universities Share Stories from Their Student Years
…ng was heating up, the door opened and in came … Ded Moroz [Russian version of Santa Clause — ed.] and said: "Who's the rector here? My friends and I’ve come to wish you happy New Year!" And in comes his entourage complete with bunnies, squirrels, dwarves, and of course, the Snow Maiden, a total of about 15 people. The music turns on and Ded Moroz says: "And now it’s…
26.01.2017
Wild Potato for the Welfare of Cultivated Vegetables
…les are in warehouses," said Ms. Kiprushkina. Romain Darriaut spent six months at ITMO University. He was always interested in Russia because his mother is Russian. When he knew that ITMO and Sup'Biotech are partner universities, he decided to use this opportunity to continue his studies in St. Petersburg and at the same time upgrade his language skills in Russian …
26.01.2017
New Priorities in Education: A Press Conference by the Minister of Education
…018. The government is working on a system for encouraging young scientists to stay and work at research establishments and defend doctoral theses. What is more, the work on a new law concerning science is in progress; it will include new methods to creating new Thesis Committees at different universities …
26.01.2017
A Taste for Science: Why the State Is Eager To Finance Universities' Fundamental Research?
…l-gel chemistry and have created a multipurpose research center from a single laboratory. ITMO University. Irina Melchakova At St. Petersburg Polytechnic University, the new funding — 115 million rubles — will be used for developing technologies in the field of metallurgy, mechanic engineering, development of new materials, power …
25.01.2017
Professor Xi-Cheng Zhang Is Awarded by Selby Scientific Foundation
…zlov. "American students take part in the Summer Camp and use the knowledge gained in Russia to create a quantum network in Rochester. In November the Journal Optics&Photonics News Journal published an article devoted to successful collaboration of Russian and American students." Xi-Cheng Zhang has 29 patents, wrote and was a second author of more than 400 scientif…
25.01.2017
Master’s Student on Cryptocurrencies and How to Organize an IT Business
…as to be used when dealing with machine learning, image processing, creating of servers and user interface designing. Haskell has lots of libraries, so we don’t need to create new things. To deal with front-end, Serokell uses PureScript, which resembles Haskell and translates to JavaScript. We also code our own database management system using Rust language. Unlik…
24.01.2017
Chitin — A Multipurpose Natural Material