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• The Experiment: Living Zero Waste for a Week

  …nday morning scouring the nearby shops for a better option and found glass-packaged hummus at Vkusvill, which turned out to be okay-ish in taste. I guess that the moral of the story is, look for more eco-friendly options for your snacks of choice, and you shall find. (Or change your snacks of choice, you know, as an alternative, though a hateful one.) Monday: Work…

  09.08.2019

• Modern Visual Effects: Applications and Software

  …e, water, gunshots, explosions are usually spruced up by VFX artists. Apart from the film industry, VFX artists are also sought after in advertising and game development. History of VFX and the influence of science The first visual effects specialists in the film industry didn’t use computer technologies. In the first half of the 20th century, visual effects we…

  09.08.2019

• How Games are Changing Education

  …tional community (a majority of them from the USA, Sweden, and Finland) use the game to teach a number of subjects. For example, recreations of ancient cities can be used in history and geography classes; during physics classes, the game can be used to learn the theory of relativity; and interactions between chemical elements come in handy during chemistry classes. …

  09.08.2019

• 15 Talented Prospective Students Become Winners of 2019 ITMO.STARS Unique Achievements Contest

  …ce provides a user with a set of emojis, using which they have to guess an artwork and locate it in the museum, after which they can learn more about their find in the popular Story format as seen on numerous social media.  Pavel Zolotov (St. Petersburg) developed the application My Day, a modern planner available for devices in the Android operating system. The a…

  08.08.2019

• This Weekend in St. Petersburg: August 10-11, 2019

  …as eco-friendly workshops, an eco market and discussions by prominent experts.  The line-up includes Ivan Dorn, Richard Bona, All In Orchestra, Magicool, FUN2MASS, Junkyard Storytellaz, Super Collection Orchestra, Kenako, and Arina Faul for August 10 and ZAZ, Therr Maitz, All In Orchestra, SPB Blind Orchestra, Triangle Sun, Gulnara Gilyazova, Dizzy Dutch Duck and …

  07.08.2019

• Quizzing and Mythbusting: Medical Lab Initiative Comes to ITMO University

• Mendeleev 150: IUPAC’s Birthday and Invention of Periodic Law

  …and the third explains. Personally, I value the first kind most,” notes Pekka Pyykkö. Professor Igor Dmitriev of the St. Petersburg State University, too, spoke about the history of the periodic law. He pointed out that Mendeleev’s works were inspired by the results of the 1860 Karlsruhe Congress and the works of Jean Baptiste André Dumas. “In October of 1867…

  02.08.2019

• ITMO University Presents Its 2018 Annual Report

  …g about ITMO University. A key concept of this year's report is the relationship between ITMO University and St. Petersburg. The University is inseparable from the city's history, spirit, destiny, and achievements, and that is evident from the yearly statistics. St. Petersburg's landmarks, vistas, and people are all part of the city's cultural code, written in par…

  31.07.2019

• Getting to Know Russian Literature: Soviet Sci-Fi, Part 1

  …tly focusing on historical novels, this is a great example of early science fiction. Often considered Tolstoy's finest fictional work, the novel has many traits of a detective story, which makes it great for any kind of reader. The story revolves around a charismatic villain who uses his wits and a laser-like invention in an attempt to …

  30.07.2019

• Results of Mendeleev 150 International Conference at ITMO University

  …three days; a total of 30 speakers presented the results of their work. Among them were not only renowned experts in the fields of chemistry, physics, education, philosophy, history of science, authors of popular student books in chemistry but also young researchers. According to Mikhail Kurushkin, the program of the conference and the topics of presentations go in l…

  29.07.2019