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• Public Council of the Ministry of Science and Higher Education Discusses a Report on Higher Education During the Pandemic

  …roslav Kuzminov, rector of the Higher School of Economics. “32% of Russian students prefer online over intramural learning. But it is very important to note that the report specifies that many university activities traditional to classical education – including project and practical work, extracurricular activities, and pastoral care – cannot be moved to online space…

  03.07.2020

• ITMO University Researchers Become First in Russia to Grow a Three-Dimensional Gallous Oxide Single-Crystal Ingot

  …When working on a new way of producing a specific material, researchers always have to solve a problem with several unknowns. Each new step poses new questions which must be answered. Such was the story of Russia’s first three-dimensional single-crystal gallous oxide ingot of high crystalline quality that was grown at ITMO University. Interest towards the creation…

  03.07.2020

• Wargaming Specialist Hosts Intensive Course for Master’s Students of Game Development Technologies

  …quickly develop an initial idea into a full-fledged working concept for a prototype. The approach is based on the Business Model Canvas, but with a strong shift towards the specifics of game development. According to Svyatoslav Torick, this method makes it possible to quickly get rid of all unnecessary bits and prepare a project for a presentation or pitch for…

  01.07.2020

• ITMO Fellow Anna Zhuk on Her Path from Mathematics to Bioinformatics and Research at ITMO

  …State University’s Center of Genome Bioinformatics to specialize in the field of bioinformatics and genomics under the guidance of Stephen O’Brien. What kind of research specifically did you conduct?  During my Master’s, I started to study the mechanisms of mutagenesis in different objects. That is, I studied how mutations occur, how some mutations turn into ot…

  30.06.2020

• ITMO University’s Work Schedule for June 29 to July 12

  …Only specific categories of ITMO staff members will continue working on site, such as the rector, vice rectors, chief accounting officer, heads of Informatization Department and Information Security and Access Department, as well as other staff members whose presence at ITMO is essential for its functioning.  All other staff members who can work remotely without h…

  29.06.2020

• Interactive Media Design: a New Specialization of ITMO’s Master’s Program in Lighting Design

  …verall knowledge of the world. That’s why I think that the interactive media specialization will be interesting for curious people who don’t want to limit themselves to one specific area of knowledge. These are multispecialists who find it important to look around them, learn new things and master a whole bunch of new skills.” Seeing cities as a single unit …

  29.06.2020

• New York-Based Seed Stage Fund Starta Ventures Currently Accepting Applications to Online Pre-Accelerator

  …tartups enter the international market. We see great potential in the creators of projects from Eastern Europe; you need only explain to them how to adapt their idea to the specifics of the US and its business culture. After that, their zeal and insight will do the trick,” says Alexey Girin, the founder and partner at Starta Ventures. The Starta Accelerator …

  26.06.2020

• Evolutionary Biologist: The Brain Attracts a Lot of Attention, but We Still Don’t Know Much About It

  …ent types of cells not by their electrical activity but by the genes involved.  The brain is a heterogeneously organized organ which has many compartments performing specific functions. How is the brain then different from other organs, like heart and liver, which also have various parts that perform specific tasks? Unlike, for e…

  25.06.2020

• St. Petersburg Physicists Synthesize Hyperbolic Material for THz Frequency Range

  …ssing through them faster than it does through air, when we raise the thickness of bismuth,” says Petr Demchenko.  Thus, the material behaves like a hyperbolic medium, specifically in the THz range, which could not be achieved before.  Possible applications     The new material will be used to create a prototype of a portable high performance supersensitiv…

  23.06.2020

• Scientists Develop Method to Facilitate Plant Growth with Glass-Ceramics Lamps

  …ided to use not a different crystal but glass-ceramics,” says Anastasia Babkina. “This is a transitive material between glass and crystal. What’s the difference? We have to specifically grow crystals, whereas glass is synthesized by moulding, and it can be produced quickly and in large amounts, in any shape you need. The drawback is that glass is fragile. For this re…

  22.06.2020