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• 10 Things to Do at St. Petersburg’s Botanical Garden

  …ember and the beginning of January. 9. Catch a cool exhibition Every month, the Botanical Garden organizes exhibitions on various topics, from the Japanese art and the history of the Garden during WWII to the flora of the Arctic and tea drinks from different countries. The upcoming events include Poetry of Nature (April 2-14), an exhibition of botanical art, an…

  22.03.2019

• Love, Death & Robots: Deadpool Director’s Love Letter to Nerds

  …y Metal film (a 1981 adult animated sci-fi-fantasy directed by Gerald Potterton – Ed. note) for a long time. I’ve always loved anthology, which is why we’re kind of doing this story in the first place, because I’ve read so many short stories over the years, I had a ready library. “So when I met David, I don’t know, 15 years ago or so, I showed him a bunch of proje…

  21.03.2019

• This Weekend in St. Petersburg: March 23-24

  …r, is now open in the Fabergé Museum! The first exhibition of the artists’ works of such scale in Russia, it features over 100 paintings, drawings and lithographs, telling the story of Frida Kahlo’s life and art, and the complex relationship between the two iconic Mexican artists. At the core of the exhibition are the most famous Frida Kahlo’s pieces: The Broken Colu…

  20.03.2019

• Movie Fridays: Irish Cinema

  … you drown it in Guinness, or all of the above. The Secret of Kells Tomm Moore’s peculiar fantasy animation set in 9th-century Ireland, The Secret of Kells tells the story of the Abbey of Kells, where the famous Book of Kells was created. The plot revolves around a young and curious boy named Brendan living under the strict eye of his stern uncle, Abbot Cel…

  15.03.2019

• ITMO Launches New Specialization in Science Communication in Medicine and Biotechnology

  …I was invited to give a lecture to ITMO students a year and a half ago, I didn’t even think that this would be the start of, arguably, the most successful cooperation in the history of our foundation,” recalls Ilya Fomintsev. In the words of Daria Denisova, the Science Communication program’s experience makes it clear that the collaboration with experts and the …

  15.03.2019

• St. Petersburg’s Architectural Gems: Art Nouveau

  …st that’s what the legend says), but as the St. Petersburg building code did not allow structures taller than the Winter Palace, the architect found an elegant solution: a six-story Art Nouveau building, crowned with a glass tower, which in turn is topped by a glass globe sculpture created by Estonian artist Amandus Adamson. However, one of my favorite examples of…

  12.03.2019

• ITMO Alumni and ITMO Ambassadors: Staying in Touch After Graduation

  …education and joining the educational program I had been looking for. I was set on studying information security, and ITMO University is among the leaders in this field. Its history, accomplishments and reputation all speak in favor of this. I follow a program at ITMO’s Faculty of Secure Information Technologies. It is pretty much a double-degree program, as I…

  12.03.2019

• Datathon on Texts Annotation: How Programmers and Humanities Specialists Analyze Texts

  …rsity’s DHLab, what made the datathon special was that it brought together not only programmers but also specialists from such humanities fields as linguistics, culturology, history, fine arts and others. “The main goal of the datathon was to solve the problem that we encounter as part of our large interdisciplinary project on the creation of an interactive map …

  11.03.2019

• Head of Leningrad Laser Systems on Specifics of Russian Optical Components Market

  …What is the story behind Leningrad Laser Systems, and why you decided to collaborate with ITMO University? Our company was founded in 2016; it grew from a team of developers who focused on minor projects into a major distribution company. One of our key areas of focus is supplying various laboratories and enterprises with equipment and optical components, from opt…

  11.03.2019

• Women in Science 2018

  …d the Linus Pauling Professor of Chemical Engineering, Bioengineering and Biochemistry at the California Institute of Technology (Caltech), who has become the fifth woman in history to receive this prestigious award. Frances Arnold was honored for her work on the directed evolution of enzymes. She came up with a technology which allows for the modification of DNA …

  08.03.2019