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• ITMO Scientist’s Thesis Named Best at the Australian National University

  …committee over. There was a clear winner this year, though: Alexey Slobozhanyuk, a research associate at ITMO University’s School of Physics and Engineering. Topological photonics and next-generation devices: how to unite fundamental science and applied tasks Over the course of three years, the young scientists studied at a joint ITMO University-ANU PhD program…

  30.11.2018

• ITMO’s Digital Humanities Lab Wins Microsoft Prize for Project on History of Gulag

  …e to obvious ethical reasons. Our goal is to instill a sense of involvement in users and make sure that this important part of our nation’s history is not left forgotten. Antonina Puchkovskaya: Our first and foremost task was to analyze the data and find an optimal solution and set of tools to implement our idea. In fact, a larger part of the time spent on such pr…

  30.11.2018

• Professor Sergei Tihodeev on Soviet Science and Collaboration with ITMO University

  …ion of single molecules, nanomotors). Then I also started research in the field of electrodynamics, namely solving Maxwell's equations in complex spatially-modulated media: photonic crystals and metamaterials. I also started teaching. During the Soviet times, a scientist could work on an important, complex, but obscure topic and get stable financing. Nowadays,…

  28.11.2018

• Physicists Conduct Study of Terahertz Radiation in Liquids

  …eate a prototype device that will allow us to produce different types of terahertz radiation from liquids,” says Xi-Cheng Zhang, co-director of the International Institute “Photonics and Optical Informatics” at ITMO University, and a researcher at the University of Rochester. Reference: “Terahertz wave generation from liquid water films via laser-induced br…

  28.11.2018

• Scientists Propose Tractor Beam Concept to Capture Particles Using Light

  …er of the International Laboratory “Nano-optomechanics” at ITMO University. Reference: Optomechanical Manipulation with Hyperbolic Metasurfaces. A.Ivinskaya et al. ACS Photonics, 17 October…

  27.11.2018

• 2018 Student of the Year Winners on Students’ Unions, Science, and Buddy Program

  …ever you like. For instance, you can make a good portfolio and go abroad, and then come back. Besides, if you work hard, science can be quite a profitable business. I study photonics, and particularly the interaction of light with nanostructures. What is your research about and how can it be applied? I study the interaction between transition metal dichalco…

  27.11.2018

• Andrey Breslav on Kotlin, Time-Management, and Being a Programmer

  …and that they were thinking of creating a new programming language, and a big one at that. Initially I thought that they were mad. At that point I was doing an internship in Estonia, but still visited St. Petersburg from time to time. In one of these visits, I was invited to drop by JetBrains for a chat about these plans, and as a result, I decided to give it a go. …

  26.11.2018

• I am a Professional: Qualification Round Starts with Over Half a Million Participants in the Game

  …of 54 tracks coordinated by Russia’s top universities. ITMO University runs not one but several competition tracks: last year’s ‘Programming and Information Technologies’, ‘Photonics’ and ‘Informational and Cyber Security’, as well as two new routes of ‘Big Data’ and ‘Robotics’ (which is co-organized by Far Eastern Federal University). Sberbank is the main partner…

  23.11.2018

• Beautiful Physics: ITMO Scientist Wins Award of Wikipedia’s Science Photo Competition

  …on wireless systems, envisaged to transmit information much faster than the technology we have today. Such research is also carried out by ITMO’s International Institute of Photonics and Optical Information Technologies, which the laboratory Semyon Smirnov works in belongs to. Four years on from this memorable experiment, Semyon happened upon an ad of Wikipedia’s …

  22.11.2018

• Tel Aviv University Professor Boris Malomed on Non-Linear Physics and Solitons

  …turally, it made sense for me to work with the University. Right now I work closely with two universities on a quasi-constant basis: ITMO University and The Institute of Photonic Sciences in Barcelona; by the way, their acronym, ICFO, if very similar to yours. At ICFO, we collaborate with a well-known Russian scientist, Yaroslav Kartashov, an expert on numerical s…

  21.11.2018