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• ITMO University in Top-300 of THE Physical Sciences Subject Ranking

  … international outlook (48.9 points, up 3.7 from last year). This indicator estimates universities’ internationalization level on the basis of the percentage of international staff and students, as well as the number of joint publications with international researchers,” comments Ilya Kuftiryov, the Head of ITMO’s Rankings Research Center. Apart from ITMO Univer…

  19.11.2019

• The Kunstkamera: St. Petersburg’s “Chamber of Curiosities”

  …inster,” shares Rikter. House of science Besides being a museum, the Kunstkamera has also been known as one of the nation’s most important scientific centers. Its staff made several world-class discoveries. For instance, Yuri Knorozov made a breakthrough in linguistics when he deciphered the Maya script. His research on the history and language of the …

  14.11.2019

• Participants of Google’s STEP Internship Share Tips for First-Timers

  …. My team was very kind and welcoming, and I never felt as if I was an intern that came there just to see the office. Each day over those 12 weeks, I was actually a member of staff. I also acquired the priceless skill of digging through someone else’s code and managing to understand it; my English reached a new level and I tried my hand at the different aspects of so…

  13.11.2019

• Quests, Gamification and Simulators: ITMO Graduate Maksim Ivanov on New Education Formats

  …cifics is that a team is assembled for a specific project, and when the task is complete, we go about our business but still stay in touch. Thus, I don’t need to keep a fully staffed office running on a constant basis, which allows me to work at the university with the projects a person external to these processes may not encounter, yet understanding how education wo…

  13.11.2019

• Big and Small: Changes that Shape Life in St. Petersburg

  …lready not the next day. So don’t make any generalizations about this city! Catherine  What I notice more and more often is that plastic bags are no longer a given. The staff at my favourite bakery, for example, stopped automatically putting every to-go purchase in plastic, they wait for you to ask for it instead - which, of course, I never do. It is a small sh…

  12.11.2019

• Living Science: Inside ITMO’s Infochemistry Center

  … projects As highlighted by Ekaterina Skorb, the foundation of the Center was a natural next step: in two years, the infochemistry research group expanded to several dozen staff, with many of them implementing their own independent projects supported by the Russian Science Foundation. Working as part of the Center today are some eight research groups.  “W…

  12.11.2019

• Leading Experts Look Into the Future at ITMO International Council’s 11th Meeting in Israel

  …ector of the UvA Institute for Advanced Study; and Yuri Gunko, Professor at Trinity College Dublin.  The meeting, which also featured other members of ITMO’s strategic staff including Marianna Chistyakova, Head of the Strategic Development Department, and Vladislav Bougrov, Head of the School of Photonics, was held under the banner of “Towards ITMO’s 2021-2027…

  11.11.2019

• Serious Science: How School Students Create Projects at Sirius and Develop Them Under the Guidance of ITMO

  …Here, they visited various labs of ITMO’s Faculty of Physics and Engineering and the Leningrad Regional Clinical Hospital and attended a lecture course given by the Faculty’s staff. The students plan to publish the outcome of their collaboration.  They told ITMO.NEWS how it feels to come up with a project and develop it while you are still at school.  Aleksandr…

  08.11.2019

• Yagodnoe Revamp: New Concept by ITMO and SPSUACE Students

  …the emphasis on the history of Yagodnoe, its nature and highlight the spirit of this unique place,” shares SPSUACE student Vladislava Reshetnikova. Challenges The staff of the Yagodnoe sports and recreation center are very grateful to the participants of the project for the work they’ve done. “It must be noted that despite the students’ interest and …

  08.11.2019

• ITMO Teams Win First and Third Prizes at AR-CRAFT Augmented Reality Tech Competition

  …o October 2019, they were to develop an application for Epson AR glasses that would provide some interactivity to the 19th-21st centuries art exhibition hosted by the General Staff Building. A total of 14 applications were submitted by student teams from various St. Petersburg-based universities. Of the three deemed most notable by the event’s jury, two came from …

  08.11.2019