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• 5 Myths About Student Life in Russia Debunked

  …ionally, students in St. Petersburg benefit from a special travel card, BSK, which covers both metro and ground transport. This card, available to students of higher education institutions in St. Petersburg, is the most affordable way of using public transport throughout the city. In addition, Russian Railways provides a 50% student discount on suburban train tickets…

  02.07.2024

• T-Bank’s Vice President for Business Technologies Speaks AI Assistants and Gives Career Advice to ITMO Students

  …nication with kids. The universe is fundamentally an ecosystem in which many services interact to generate additional value. Here is how it works: when looking for summer trip inspirations, users will turn to the traveling assistant that will aid them in finding suitable flight tickets in another service.  The universe of assistants is based on the company’s own u…

  02.07.2024

• ITMO’s Monday Science Roundup #58

  …Research Every once in a while, we have to write a news story that sounds like something out of sci-fi. Take this one, for instance: a team from ITMO’s Faculty of Physics has devised a system that “binds and controls particles of light and matter.” Sounds wild, right? And yet, that’s exactly what it does! The technology, in fact, is a curious middle ground in t…

  01.07.2024

• ITMO Lands in Top Three Among Russian Universities in Presidential PhD Stipend Competition

  …end, including 19 young scientists from ITMO. The university with the biggest number of stipend recipients is Lomonosov Moscow State University (27 winners) followed by Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology (22 winners). Thus, ITMO landed in the third place in Russia and the first – in St. Petersburg.  Amounting to 75,000 rubles per month, the new presidentia…

  01.07.2024

• AI Diagnostics and Virus Hunting: Projects of Young Genetic Scientists at ITMO University

  …ene structure, and addressed a number of other problems.  The hackathon was attended by 120 students and graduates (24 teams) from St. Petersburg, Moscow, Kazan, Voronezh, Minsk, Rostov-on-Don, and other cities. Among the event’s partners were Genotek, Zoogen, and Serbalab.  All participants who presented their projects will be accepted into the Applied Genomic…

  01.07.2024

• Business-Turned-Thesis: How To Defend a Startup as a Thesis and Make Your First Money

  …t as Thesis is one of the university’s projects aimed at developing student entrepreneurship along with the program Platform for Technological University Entrepreneurship.  Instead of defending a traditional paper, ITMO students can take advantage of the opportunity and implement their own startup ideas whilst still at university. During the final year of study, p…

  28.06.2024

• Discovery of the Month: Art World, Mobile Games, and More

  …ard screen-tapping; and that, for me, is a game changer (pun intended). – Vadim Classical music for regular people Who knew that a symphony is an audiobook and TikTok is inspiring a new musical form? This month, I discovered lectures about music by Anna Vilenskaya, and it blew my mind how much I’ve been missing. The videos are in Russian, but the lectures are u…

  28.06.2024

• ITMO Scientists Develop a Device to Control Light and Matter Quasiparticles

  …ge and laser power. Knowing that, we can understand when exciton-polaritons transition from one state to another. This is a step towards high-precision particle control,” explains Vasily Kravtsov, a senior researcher at ITMO’s Faculty of Physics and an employee at the Frontier Laboratory “Functional Materials for Polaritonic Quantum Logic.” The invention may…

  27.06.2024

• Student Spotlight: Tameem Maher Bourgi, Yemen

• Hack Me If You Can: Computer Hackers and Why They Need Hats

  …peared long before the first computer: it takes its roots from the English verb “to hack,” as in, “to cut.” Historically, hackers were lumberjacks or carpenters who could, for instance, chop down a tree in one swing. However, in the 1960s, the word acquired a new meaning – it began to be used for people who worked with computer architecture, which was then a highly c…

  26.06.2024