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• ITMO’s Russian Language and Culture Summer School: A Passion for Learning

  …e-intermediate and intermediate learners. More experienced learners were able to delve into such themes as Russian politics and diplomacy, modern literature, media, rock and history. Besides the courses on offer, all participants were invited to participate in an online walking tour of St. Petersburg, Russian cooking classes, and a special online tour of the Hermitag…

  28.07.2020

• St. Petersburg's Nobel Prize Legacy

  …ist wouldn’t be complete without him – one can hardly deny the connection this poet continues to have with the city of St. Petersburg to this day (most evident in the graffiti story of the recent weeks; in short, one of the building’s near ITMO’s Lomonosova campus now boasts a portrait of Brodsky on its side). Apart from being a prolific poet, Brodsky was also an ess…

  27.07.2020

• Path to Immortality: Old and New Ways to Fight Aging

  …hat this unrestrained energy would replenish the human body’s resources and rejuvenate it. Companies would sell radium-infused creams and water. The beverage Radithor became history’s first energy drink – right up until its consumers started to die off. Naturally, none of these methods have proven scientifically sound. Today, there are three basic approaches: dece…

  27.07.2020

• Yagodnoe: More Than a Summer Camp

  …tion, among other places. As of 2020, you can also reach Losevo by bus 960 from the Parnas metro station. Yagodnoe is an integral part of the university's culture and history. There’s now a museum, created by students from the Yagodka and Anything to Make student clubs, that explores its history and features a six-square-meter mo…

  24.07.2020

• Serhan Agrali: Visiting Silicon Valley Inspired My Major

  … from. Can you tell us a bit about Istanbul? Many adjectives have been given to Istanbul, but I think the word “diverse” fits it best. Diversity of the cultures, food, history, and most importantly, diversity of people. After all, it is the place where Europe meets Asia, east meets west, old meets new. If you haven’t visited Istanbul yet, I highly suggest you g…

  23.07.2020

• How Course Assessment Influences the Quality of Education

  …eir hard skills. The core set of disciplines includes: Digital Culture Soft Skills  Creative Technologies Entrepreneurial Culture History (in Russian) Thinking (in Russian) (You can follow the links in order to find out what those modules are all about.) Even though these educational modules have been fun…

  22.07.2020

• Cognitive Science: How Memory Works and How to Make Yours Work Better

  … influences was suggested and successfully demonstrated by the Cambridge experimental psychologist Frederic Bartlett back in the 1930s. In his experiments, participants read a story, War of the Ghosts, and then were asked to recall it at various intervals. Naturally, the longer the intervals, the less accurate and confident in their stories were the participants. Wha…

  21.07.2020

• Russian Books to Read This Summer

  … suit but what about a tea set?” or “No suits here but can get a sturgeon.” This is the opening to my summer favorite Manjunja Writes a Fantastical Novel by Narine Abgaryan, a story about two tween girls getting into all sorts of mischief over the summer holidays. It’s sunny, sweet, adventurous, easy to read and filled with Russian humor and cultural references that …

  20.07.2020

• A Great Opportunity to Practice Public Speaking: SPIE Photonics Europe Participant on the Advantages of Online Scientific Conferences

  …ould take place, whether the articles would be published, what would happen if the internet connection was unstable and I couldn’t fully deliver my presentation. To cut a long story short, it was hugely stressful for me.  But the organizers thought of and suggested to the participants an interesting format for organizing the conference: you had to prepare the pres…

  20.07.2020

• ITMO University Scientists Recognized With Two Awards at Prestigious Evolutionary Computation Conference GECCO 2020

  …t possible to avoid the entire procedure – everything takes place automatically, no sorting through models has to be done, you just have to launch our software and enjoy the history generated. Secondly, we conducted experiments on the data for which evolutionary histories had already been built in existing papers using the old method. And we managed to show that prac…

  20.07.2020