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• ITMO University Hosts Potanin Scholarship Contest Finals

  … participants get to solve original cases and demonstrate their skills in real-life conditions. Thus, everyone has to be active, has to get involved, and they share their knowledge and skills right at the on-site round, which means that they take something out of the event,” explains Lyubov Zavarykina.   Every participant will receive a number of points base…

  10.02.2020

• Not Conflict, But Synergy: On Salvador Dali’s Relationship with Science

  … consults with our good friend Charles Falco, a professor of optics and physics at the University of Arizona. How does science influence art? There is a triangle of knowledge transfer, and its peaks are science, art, and technology. And no matter how you rotate it, each pairing has its nuances that influences the development of the neighboring fields. On the on…

  05.02.2020

• Active Learning: 7 Ways to Increase Students’ Motivation and Engagement

  …pinion, which means that they’ll stay passive in class. That’s why it’s crucial to give students the opportunity to make mistakes so that they learn and move from lack of knowledge to knowledge with the lecturer’s support. This is quite hard to implement in a class of 100-150 people but in this case, it may be useful to divide students …

  05.02.2020

• The Work of a Lighting Designer: Creating Magic on Concerts and Fashion Shows

  … lighting designer apart from a layperson. For instance, the Young–Helmholtz theory of color perception, color temperature, and an object’s natural luminescence.  This knowledge is meant to help you find a common ground with a client and understand what they want in terms of brightness, face tone in pictures, light in the audience and so on. You would also resort …

  04.02.2020

• ITMO University Scientist Sergey Makarov Receives President of Russia Award

  …and our scientific advisor Yuri Kivshar. In the last 10 years, they have managed to assemble an outstanding team of motivated young scientists who not only accumulate new knowledge but also generously share it with each other, opening the way to new discoveries. In my case, I’d like to note that at the faculty I have been lucky enough to actively cooperate and develo…

  03.02.2020

• Social Sciences in the Era of Social Networks: Studying Selfies, Likes and Geotags

  …ept of rhizome, which is best defined through the analogy with a mushroom spawn: it’s a non-hierarchical network that spreads not from the center, but from its knots and outer edges. The parts of a rhizome are equal, but the loss of one of them doesn’t bring with it the collapse of the whole system; a single part is insignificant. Doesn’t this look like a description…

  31.01.2020

• Smart Cities, Robot Bureaucrats: Japanese Digitalization Expert on Building the Right Kind of Society 5.0

  …xing motion sensors on street lamps for cutting energy costs or installing information displays on bus stops. The definition of a smart city implies the development of cutting-edge standards in the fields of architecture, global cooperation, and public-private partnerships.  “Within the framework of creating a super-city, we have identified a range of key factor…

  31.01.2020

• Yimer Getnet: Food Biotechnology is a Promising Field and I Want to Be Part of It

  …t ITMO University has several programs taught in English and Russian, and it also has double degree programs, which makes it easy and more convenient for scholars to gain knowledge and experience in two different universities at the same time.  It has only been four months since I came to St. Petersburg but I have already taken part in two international guest lect…

  30.01.2020

• Besting Elon Musk at Memristors and Making a Vascular System Model to End Animal Testing: Results of SCAMT Workshop Week

  … Workshop Week is a new format of week-long workshops that allows young scientists from all over Russia to try their hand at working on topical research problems using cutting-edge equipment. At the end of last year, the project was featured in the short-list of the QS Reimagine Education award.  “All participants of the school are divided into groups of thr…

  28.01.2020

• How to Teach in English: EMI Teacher Training Course for Lecturers of Russian Universities

  …The English Medium Instruction Teacher Training course is an intensive program for professionals who want to develop their knowledge and skills in the field of teaching in English, as well as intercultural communication and modern educational approaches. “I only recently started teaching, but in these 3.5 months I’ve learned more than in the last two years; …

  28.01.2020