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• Student Spotlight: Ogom Faith Blessing, Nigeria

  …Please introduce yourself to our readers. My name is Ogom Faith Blessing and I am from Nigeria. I love technology and am passionate about cybersecurity. Since high school, I have wanted to study deeper and get good expertise in this field. And now I am living my dream here at ITMO. What are you currently studying at ITMO? I am enrolled in the Foundation Prog…

  13.04.2023

• This Weekend in St. Petersburg: April 15-16, 2023

  …iversity April 16, 7 pm Peter the Great St. Petersburg Polytechnic University (White Hall) 390-640 rubles (go here for tickets) And if you want to honor the occasion even further, consider visiting this concert at a rather peculiar location: the White Hall of St. Petersburg State Polytechnic University (colloquially known as Politekh). Accompanied by t…

  12.04.2023

• Top Highlights From ITMO Open Science Rocks 2023

  … Properties of Novel 2D Materials in Low Temperatures Garage Band: lobbies, posters, and casual convo In between two major blocks, participants could enjoy a poster session, which added up to the overall style of the conference with its digital screens instead of paper posters and exhibits that they could be touched and seen in action.  During a coffee bre…

  10.04.2023

• TV Host Alexander Pushnoy on Scientific Experiments, AI Dangers, and Science Popularization

  …e using Galileo episodes as textbooks. It made science appeal to a wider audience, and it was really good at it. However, actual education requires a whole other level of immersion. The goal of wrapping paper is to look good and attract attention, but it’s not really valuable without the gift that’s inside. At the end of the day, Galileo was simply great packaging…

  07.04.2023

• Explore St. Petersburg Through Details

  … welcome you with their doors open, and to visit others, you’ll have to wait for residents to leave or enter the house (which is legal, but it's still a good idea to ask permission to avoid conflict with babushkas) . For inspiration, check out this Telegram channel – they equip you with all the addresses needed and post stunning pictures from these locations. …

  07.04.2023

• ITMO Student and Cardiologist Finds Way To Prevent Medical Errors

  … came to learn that in over 60% cases (out of 2,000 people), patients received treatment with insufficient preventive effect.  The solution I came up with is a clinical decision-support system. Though my colleagues and supervisor fully supported my idea, all they could recommend to me is to find an IT specialist who could make it happen. The search led me to ITMO,…

  06.04.2023

• Student Spotlight: Sara Nikolic, Serbia

  …ecide to study in Russia? Studying in Serbia was not so appealing to me because I wanted to experience something new and challenging. So, I decided to study abroad. The decision to study in Russia was quite random, but I always liked their culture and wanted to explore the country. So, I tried my luck and it worked out well. How has your student life been at IT…

  06.04.2023

• Researchers Suggest New Way To Boost Perovskite Solar Cell Performance

  …lar cells are most often made with the use of silicon – approximately 95% of today’s solar photovoltaics market is taken up by such devices. And even though their energy conversion efficiency has grown by 16-20% (or even 24-26% in lab conditions) in the past 10-15 years, it’s still not quite so high. In fact, the theoretical maximum performance threshold for silicon …

  05.04.2023

• New Discovery Makes Cheap, Compact Lasers Possible

  …st-efficient. As most lasers consist of a pump source, an active medium, and a resonator, specialists have to pump the active medium with energy to establish a population inversion – a state in which the number of excited electrons and holes (positively charged particles) is greater than of those in a normal, unexcited state. When members of the system are excited – …

  04.04.2023

• Speak Like a Local: St. Petersburg Metro and Districts

  … Балты́/Balty (Балти́йская/Baltiyskaya) and Ветера́нов or Ветры́/Vetry (Проспе́кт Ветера́нов/Prospekt Veteranov) – these names share similar peculiarities: their shorter versions resemble certain words yet differently stressed. Thus, Балты́ is not to be confused with Ба́лты, meaning the Balts, and Ве́тры is one of the possible spellings for the plural form of the …

  04.04.2023