National Technology Initiative

    The  Russian venture company (RVC), together with the Agency for Strategic Initiatives (ASI) and the Foundation for Assistance to Small Innovative Enterprises in science and technology were co-organisers of the Foresight Fleet taking place on the Volga River from May 12 to May 16, 2015. It  focused on development of road maps of the National Technology Initiative (NTI).
     NTI is a program of measures to build fundamentally new markets and create the conditions for global technological leadership of Russia by 2035.

BRICS countries universities will prepare professionals together

     In April 2015, Russia for the second time entered the rights of the BRICS chairman, an informal association of five major emerging national economies: Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa. The BRICS summit in Ufa will become the central event of the Russian presidency. The event will be held on the 8-9 July, where the partner-countries representatives will discuss the economic partnership and the roadmap for investment cooperation.


    IX International Forum "From Science to Business"


     ITMO University is one of the organizers of the IX International Forum "From Science to Business" that will take place in St. Petersburg May 13 - 15, 2015.
    Founded in 2007, the forum focuses on a science-based economy. More than 200 experts from higher educational institutions and academia, science, business and authorities take part in the event annually.

Russian and German scientists will conduct joint research with using unique laser

     A framework agreement on cooperation between ITMO University and the Technical University of Freiberg was signed in April 2015. During the meeting, issues of scientific cooperation in the framework of the European research center XFEL - X-ray laser on free electrons, which is going to start working in 2017 in Hamburg, were discussed. Some 12 countries are involved in the international project on the laser setup construction, but core funding is carried out by Germany and Russia. In parallel, universities discussed the prospects of creation a joint Master Degree program in the materials science.

More details:

http://en.ifmo.ru/en/viewnews/4739/Russian_and_German_scientists_will_conduct_joint_research_with_using_unique_laser.htm

PHOTON 2015: International Conference on the Structure and the Interactions of the Photon including the 21th International Workshop on Photon-Photon Collisions and the International Workshop on High Energy Photon Colliders


    The International Conference PHOTON 2015 will be held at Budker Institute of Nuclear Physics (BINP), Siberian Branch of Russian Academy of Science, Novosibirsk, Russia, from 15 to 19 June, 2015.
   This conference is a part of the series initiated in 1973 in Paris, as an International Colloquium on Photon-Photon Collisions at Electron-Positron Storage Rings. The latest Photon conferences took place in Paris (2013), Spa(2011), Hamburg(2009), Paris (2007), Warsaw (2005) and in Frascati (2003). At the conference, recent progress in understanding photon-photon and photon-proton processes will be presented. In addition, recent results on astrophysics and other related topics will be discussed.    

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