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• Participants and Organizers on New Russian-German Exchange Program

  … German students visited the Regensburg Cathedral, the Schleissheim Palace, as well as many other museums and galleries dedicated to contemporary art, aviation and Germany’s history. What’s more, they also visited a natural reserve on the border between Bavaria and the Czech Republic. There, the Russian students noted the presence of well-lit asphalt paths in the thi…

  04.06.2019

• Konstantin Zaytsev, One of Top-5 Young Russian Scientists in Systems Biology, on Systems Biology in Russia

  …ustrial programming but got interested in science, namely systems biology? I think my main motivation is the opportunity to generate new knowledge. Actually, I have quite a story with biology. I graduated from a lyceum with a focus on physics and mathematics, and I didn’t have a teacher who would’ve shown me that biology is indeed an interesting science. I believe…

  31.05.2019

• InnoCamp: How Russian and Finnish Students Reinvent Old Spaces

  …c. During the first stage we were given a thinking model and vector that would lead us to the right solution. I used to divide mentors into two types: those who share their story of success and try to teach people from their own experience, and those who tell you how to do things right. In fact, both are wrong, because any one person’s stor…

  31.05.2019

• ITMO University Teams Take the Crown at Yauza CTF-2019, RealCTF and FaustCTF Cybersecurity Competitions

  …ulnerable software services. The players try to secure a victory by hacking their competitors’ servers and protecting their own. YauzaCTF For the first time in its history, this year’s international student competition YauzaCTF was organized by the CTF team of Bauman Moscow State Technical University, which also became the venue for the finals attended by 1…

  30.05.2019

• This Weekend in St. Petersburg: June 1-2

  …d maturity who volunteered to sell some of their stuff, including the handmade kind, to spread the important message of charity and cherishing old, well-loved things full of history and heritage. The program also includes performances by family bands, workshops and a food court. Half of the proceedings will go on to supporting Upsala-Circus social projects. Music …

  29.05.2019

• St. Petersburg European University’s Nikolay Rudenko on Fixing the Divide Between Tech and Humanities

  …he political spectrum. In Snow’s opinion, this separation is a result of education. While some are taught math and engineering sciences, others read literature and study the history of thought. The British historian Raymond Williams had a different answer: these differences, he claimed, stemmed from the industrial revolution. In his opinion, the humanities wer…

  28.05.2019

• Useful (and Not) Apps for Exploring St. Petersburg

• ITMO Scientists Make First-Ever Measurement of Nonlinearity in Terahertz Frequency Range

  …s how it transmits radiation from other ranges. Researchers call such effects nonlinearities and study them to create devices for controlling light. For the first time in history, scientists from ITMO University were able to directly measure the nonlinear refractive index of matter in the terahertz range. They adapted the previously known Z-scan method to obtain e…

  27.05.2019

• Get to Know ITMO’s Soft Skills Lecturers

  …portunity to develop soft skills as part of their studies. Favorite spot in St. Petersburg? Olgin Pond, Peterhof. The book everyone should read? Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind by Yuval Noah Harari. Your most essential travel tip? Don’t forget your phone, credit card, passport and good company. All the rest doesn’t really matter. Dream trav…

  23.05.2019

• ITMO Master’s Student On Explaining Art By Means Of Multimedia

  … the idea, because at ITMO I study the ways of popularizing art by means of multimedia technologies. Sure enough, the Siege of Leningrad is not an arts topic, but it’s about history and cultural memory that is now being reflected in art. I am interested in such things, so I decided to give it a go. What is your project’s idea? We based it on a poem by Andrey Gu…

  23.05.2019