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• This Weekend in St. Petersburg: November 14-15, 2020

  … Century St. Petersburg Art  50 rubles for students (regular rate – 150 rubles) Ever since their creation, mirrors attracted a lot of attention – being a means of self-discovery, a path into a distorted world, as well as a chance to see reality from a new angle. This international project, bringing together pieces from Russia, France, Italy, Greece, Israel, Sp…

  11.11.2020

• How to Explore the World of St. Petersburg’s Young Artists

  …st who prefers to capture the moment in sketches. Last month, she presented a series of works dedicated to the female image.  On November 13, 2020, a new exhibition called Discovering New Names will open here. It will be composed of select works by young artists that they submitted as part of the gallery’s contest. The final day of submission is today, so it’s sti…

  10.11.2020

• University College Dublin's Prof. John T. Sheridan on Holography, Career, and Irish Culture

  …e will be about two things: how to make holograms and how to “replay” them later on. All scientific fields have their own hot topics and a certain “frontier” where the discoveries are made. Where is that frontier in holography? Holography has been developing since the 1960s, and the first-ever holograms were made back in the 1940s. The potential application…

  09.11.2020

• Art & Science of the 1920s: ITMO Graduate Creates 3D Visualization of Guidoni’s Luminous Monument

  …ct are hoping that the 3D model will accompany the actual one on any future exhibitions. Meanwhile, work on the project is ongoing, as new facts and design elements are being discovered and added to the model.  “Sofia has helped Olga to visualize something that is hard to visualize. She managed to create a form, an image for future research. I find it really int…

  06.11.2020

• Keeping the Balance Between Creativity and Technology: Ekaterina Doronina on Her Path to Self-Discovery

  …l, as well as do an internship at the New Media Laboratory of the New Stage of the Alexandrinsky Theatre. ITMO.NEWS met with Ekaterina to learn more about her career, self-discovery, and her thoughts on uncertainty being an integral part of life. On choosing a career and first education I am an interdisciplinary designer specializing in graphic design. F…

  06.11.2020

• Food for Good: How To Join This Year’s Hult Prize and Help the World

  …, and played a board game designed by the anti-food waste project foodsavestheworld. According to Vyacheslav, Hult Prize is an international movement that helps students rediscover their own abilities and capacities and inspires them to change society for the better – so that they don’t just make money, but bring positive change in the process, as well. “You …

  03.11.2020

• ITMO Researchers Discover Material With Refractive Index Higher Than in Silicon

  …e they originally have. And this new mass is known as effective mass. As it turns out, our new parameter depends on both the band gap and the effective mass.” Unexpected discovery  The theoretical model demonstrated that the more the ratio is between these two parameters, the higher the refractive coefficient should be. First, the researchers tested their hyp…

  03.11.2020

• Collecting Sounds: ITMO Holds Workshop on Soundscapes and Environmental Acoustics

  …ng or aggressive, annoying or barely noticeable.  Marking sounds and your reactions to them is almost a meditation that broadens your perception and leads to extraordinary discoveries. For instance, you might learn that you like your favorite coffee shop because it is located in a quiet place and is full of textiles and carpets that absorb sounds. While you can’t …

  02.11.2020

• Ancient Art & Science, or What Killed the Medusa

  …osophers such as Archimedes and Euclides. The word “optics” stems from Greek “optikos” and means “the science of visual perception”. Even today, scientists still use the laws discovered by the ancient Greeks more than two thousand years ago. It’s less often mentioned that the ancient Greeks described the very nature of light and vision quite differently from how i…

  02.11.2020

• Song of the Month: October 2020

  …tled on Extended Play, an album by Fyfe (Paul Dixon) and Iskra Strings (who, I was pleased to find out, have collaborated with, dear me, Ólafur Arnalds himself among others). Discovered thanks to Spotify, this one has a lot to offer, from simultaneously thoughtful and dynamic Nørrebro and Two One, Four – to what some would call “absolute bops” like Gold. Sometimes, I…

  30.10.2020