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• Smaragda Georgouli: Art is Not a Hobby, It’s a Way of Life

  …did you find attractive in European and International Studies to make you choose it as your field of studies?  I was and still am interested in many fields, but it’s a long story of how I chose to be engaged in International Studies.  Something that I like about it is that it’s a very broad field, from politics and law to energy studies and economics. Besides this…

  27.02.2020

• Scientists Develop Algorithm for Researching Evolutionary History of Species with Whole-genome Duplications

  …several copies that are more or less similar to each other. The ancestral genomes didn’t have such duplicates, but the duplication happened at some point of its evolutionary history and got a foothold in the population. “Sometimes the genome or some part of it duplicates. At first, it happens incidentally, but this change takes a foothold and stays in future gen…

  27.02.2020

• This Weekend in St. Petersburg: February 29 – March 1, 2020

  …ists – the whimsical spirit of the carnival will reign. Also in the program are live music, games, photo ops, and creative workshops.  Maslenitsa tours at the Russia – My History museum February 29, tours starting at midday, 3pm and 5pm Russia – My History multimedia museum 350 rubles Want to practice Russian and expan…

  26.02.2020

• ITMO FabLab: DIY Coworking Space For the Creative

  … the FlashStep automatic decorative lighting system. FlashStep was developed by the laboratory’s co-founder Evgeniy Anfimov. It is a system for lighting the stairs of multi-story country houses. The solution was monetized and is now popular among smart house owners. Another noteworthy project is the SMARR – a prototype robot that makes use of VR and AR technolo…

  25.02.2020

• ITMO’s International Center for Digital Humanities Research Presents Results of DH Week at NYCDH Week in New York

  … Days as the keynote speaker. It was he who gave us advice on the organization of Digital Humanities Lab and became its co-head. On the whole, this was the beginning of DH’s history in ITMO,” comments Antonina Puchkovskaya. In 2019, ITMO’s DH Center launched the international Master’s program “Data, Culture and Visualization” that is dedicated to analysis an…

  25.02.2020

• Education Helps You Understand Things, Science Communication – to Explain Them: An Interview with ITMO University Graduate Daniil Shirokov

  … extremely interesting job: I love reading lots of articles. One moment you’re starting to understand how blood analysis chips work, and then you’re reading something on the history of hydroponics. You learn new things all time and process a huge amount of data. Does your degree in biophysics help in your job? I think it would be impossible to work without …

  25.02.2020

• Fort Konstantin: A Historic Island Fortress in the Gulf of Finland

  … The original fort was built out of wooden logs, sand and rocks. It was equipped with 49 guns that protected the fairway.  Over the next century, it was converted into a two-story fortified structure with the world’s first steel-armored artillery battery. Fierce and heavily armed, the fort scared off the enemy multiple times, including the French and English shi…

  21.02.2020

• A Mechanized Future: Sberbank’s Alexey Gonnochenko on the 10 Challenges of Robotics

  …ubtedly be worse. One of the conditions guaranteeing that robots will be everywhere soon is the acceleration of social development that we have seen throughout the entire history of social institutions. The later new technologies appeared, the faster they went from prototypes to mass market capture. All of you have experienced how many technical innovations that s…

  19.02.2020

• Codeforces Founder Mikhail Mirzayanov: How the Biggest Competitive Programming Platform Has Changed Over the Past 10 Years

  …? We gladly work with companies, conduct joint events, sometimes with on-site finals. We’ve collaborated with VK for quite a long time and organized VKCup; we have a long history of collaboration with Mail.ru and other companies, both major enterprises and startups. We are open to collaboration with anyone who shares our interest in sports programming, who are rea…

  18.02.2020

• ISS Simulation Software, Laser Breathalyser and Metal 3D Printer: A Tour of Laser Systems

  …Laser Systems, located in the suburbs of St.Petersburg, is a black two-story building which miraculously has enough space to fit in all of the production and offices of the company including test labs and sales department. This unique place brings together new industrial 3D printers, lasers, cutting-edge software and space exploration technologies.  First, the par…

  17.02.2020