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Startup Boom: SumIT Summer School at ITMO University
…ons. I think that, first and foremost, it’s not about money but about giving people a chance to support their heroes,” shared Tianmiao Zhang, a student at ITMO’s Faculty of Photonics and Optical Information. After two weeks of workshops and communication with experts, participants will present their startups to investors and businesspeople. This will give them a…
22.08.2019
New Technologies for Longevity: Joint Project by ITMO University and European Partners
…production of smart furniture, will allow participants of the project to bring their business ideas into life and make public spaces more comfortable for everyone. In Estonia and Finland, for example, a large percentage of seniors traditionally attend church every Sunday, where they meet with their friends. Many of these people experience mobility problems. To…
21.08.2019
Leading Experts Discuss Advances in MRI Research at BioMETANANO
ITMO Students and Staff Take Part in Startup Festival *ship
…ena Gavrilova, the head of ITMO’s Entrepreneurship Center A workshop focused on the exchange of experience between the entrepreneurial communities of Russia, Finland, and Estonia took place as part of the *ship festival at XAMK University’s coworking space XLab. At the workshop, Igor Kuprienko, the head of ITMO’s Center for Project Development, and I, along with v…
16.08.2019
New Luminescent Aerogel Production Method Opens Up Possibilities for Unique Materials
…on of such properties as biocompatibility, high surface area, and upconversion luminescence makes possible a wide range of applications for these materials, from optics and photonics to medicine,” adds Grigoriy Kiselev. Above all, the use of such materials is safe for humans: infrared radiation can penetrate biological tissue deeply without damaging it. In a…
15.08.2019
ITMO University Retains Its Standing in Academic Ranking of World Universities
… peripheral glial cells generate neuroendocrine cells of the adrenal medulla (Science), co-authored by Vyacheslav Dyachuk, a junior research fellow at the Department of Nanophotonics and Metamaterials. Its authors studied the emergence of chromaffin cells, responsible for the fight-or-flight response, from stem cells; Network science on belief system dynamics under…
15.08.2019
This Weekend in St. Petersburg: August 17-18, 2019
… middle of the city jungle will multifunction as a grandiose open-air music venue. Come round for live performances by the local maestria, with the weekend program including Antonio Vivaldi’s and Astor Piazzolla’s Four Seasons for August 17, and well-loved rock hits, cinema soundtracks and zesty arrangements of classical chef-d’oeuvres for August 18. Inside Art …
14.08.2019
Crystals and Peculiar Stars: Final Day of Mendeleev 150 at ITMO
…g took to the stage to speak about his family, and namely his father, Glenn Seaborg, a Nobel Prize laureate involved in the discovery of ten elements of the periodic table, plutonium being the most well-known. Glenn Seaborg was born in Michigan, USA in 1912. At the age of ten, he and his family moved to California, where his chemistry and physics teacher Dwight Lo…
01.08.2019
MIT Professor Marin Soljacic: AI Will Play a Large Role in the Future of Research
…You are well-known for your electromagnetism research. But there is another topic you’ve been exploring in recent years, and it is that of photonic crystals. What makes these materials so interesting to scientists? From the perspective of physics, there exists a close similarity between the propagation of photons in photonic crystals…
30.07.2019
Results of Mendeleev 150 International Conference at ITMO University
…ther things, he noted that ITMO University is now one of the leading universities in Russia. Among the fields it specializes in are IT, cyber-physical systems and robotics, photonics, metamaterials and quantum technologies, as well as life sciences, the field that has started to gain popularity in recent years. “Just some five years ago, we started to develop t…
29.07.2019