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• Higgs Boson for People: How Fundamental Discoveries Transform Everyday Life and Where Physics Is Heading Now

  Attosecond pulses, neutrino oscillations, and the Higgs boson – the recent decades have yielded many fundamental breakthroughs, some of which were awarded with the prestigious Nobel Prize. But what’s next? How do these discoveries impact our life? And what will science bring us in the future? All these topics were covered in the talk by Dmitry Karlovets, a senior researcher at ITMO’s Faculty of Physics, held as part of the pop-sci festival at ITMO University. Here are the takeaways.

  04.03.2025

• Always Calculate: Physicist Ivan Terekhov on Fundamental Studies and Scientific Anecdotes

  Ivan Terekhov has been passionate about science since childhood: in primary school, he wanted to build his own laser and studied the imaginary unit; in fifth grade, he was already solving university-level problems. This passion has colored his whole life, taking him to universities in the UK, Germany, and Australia. Recently, he has joined the team of ITMO’s School of Physics and Engineering, where he performs calibrations that can help increase optic-fiber traffic capacity and studies electron interactions in 2D materials. In this interview, he shares where to look for inspiration in fundamental research and why experienced researchers should keep working with students.

  03.02.2025

• Teaching AI to Discover New Laws of Nature

  At ITMO, scientists have developed a digital tool called EPDE that can identify new laws of nature; it describes its findings using mathematical equations and even provides possible solutions. ITMO.NEWS talked to Alexander Khvatov, the head of the Laboratory for Composite AI, about the creation of the new tool, its successes, and possible new applications.

  16.05.2024

• Molecular Building Blocks: Scientists Demonstrate Controlled Melamine Cyanurate Nucleation

  The conducted experiments may potentially be applied in creating capsules for targeted drug delivery. As the structure of melamine cyanurate is similar to that of DNA, a thorough study of its formation can bring researchers closer towards artificial DNA.

  18.03.2021

• Nobel Laureate Steven Weinberg on the Universe’s Expansion and Key Challenges of Modern Physics

  How does particle physics help us explore space? What great challenges are scientists still facing? And what are they going to do next? Steven Weinberg, a Nobel Prize-winning physicist and science popularizer, addressed all these issues at the NAUKA 0+ Festival.

  19.10.2020

• Scientists Manage to Capture Light in a Polymeric Quasicrystal

  In the future, the use of quasicrystals may open up new possibilities for laser and sensor design. This paper was published in the Advanced Optical Materials journal.

  28.09.2020

• ITMO Graduate Wins National Theses Competition

  Vadim Rybin, a Bachelor's graduate of the Faculty of Photonics and Optical Information, won the national competition of theses called Be First in the Physics and Astronomy category. Now, Vadim is pursuing a Master’s degree. He discussed his thesis and scientific interests with ITMO.NEWS, and also told us how he created the “It’s a trap” student club, whose members are engaged in the study of ion traps.

  15.09.2020

• ITMO University Professor Joins Nanomaterials as Special Issue's Guest Editor

  Today, physicists, chemists, and materials scientists around the globe seem to have immersed themselves in the world of nanostructures, which promises us materials for unique lasers, remarkably efficient solar cells, quantum computers, and high-resolution monitors. But how efficiently can modern physics explain all the processes taking place in the nanoworld? Do theoretical and experimental physicists have enough reliable and simple tools to solve fundamental problems concerning nanomaterials? These questions are the subject of the special issue of the international peer-reviewed journal Nanomaterials". Its guest editor is Anatoly Fedorov, the head of the International Research and Education Center for Physics of Nanostructures and a professor at ITMO University.

  18.03.2020

• ITMO University’s UniFEL Center Staff to Conduct New Research at European XFEL

  European XFEL is a research facility housing the world’s most powerful X-ray free-electron laser, which allows scientists to observe chemical reactions, decipher the structure of complex biological objects, and solve other topical tasks. In 2018, ITMO University scientists for the first time gained full independent access to the facility’s equipment and carried out research on a new class of materials. This fall, they will use the facility to work with the ultrafast demagnetization effect to consequently apply it in high-speed magnetic storage devices.

  06.06.2019

• MSU Student on Working in Different Laboratories and Doing Internship at ITMO

  Alexander Chezhegov, a third-year student at Lomonosov Moscow State University, Faculty of Physics, took part in the “I am a Professional” competition and the “It’s Your Call!” Winter School that was held at ITMO University last winter. His project focused on creating a hydrophobic coating for solar cells. In July 2018, he did an internship at ITMO’s International Research Center of Nanophotonics and Metamaterials, where he studied hybrid states of light in low-dimensional quantum materials. In his interview with ITMO.NEWS, he shared his experience of working in different research groups.

  09.08.2018