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• The Many Kremlins of Russia

  …at its location has been inhabited since the Bronze Age, while the first large fortifications appeared there as early as the 12th century. Over the years, it suffered many invasions and was destroyed and rebuilt several times. During Dmitry Donskoy’s reign, the Moscow Kremlin looked nothing like today – it was actually made of local white stone. A century later, w…

  22.08.2022

• Study and Teach: How to Become a Top-Notch Lecturer with ITMO.Mentors

  …elped lecturers review assignments, prepare for classes, and conduct practical and laboratory projects. At the end of the course, all the graduates were presented with a professional training certificate. The program annually welcomes around 300 students, 80% of whom successfully complete the course. Some graduates then stay at the university to teach or assist le…

  22.08.2022

• Urban Beauty: Where to Find Street Art in St. Petersburg

• Traveling at the Speed of Light: What Is Special Relativity?

  …dron Collider. However, the researchers are interested not in the speed accumulated by particles, but their energy, as it’s the reason why new particles are born from the collisions of the already studied protons, electrons, and positrons. These new particles, such as the Higgs boson discovered in 2012, broaden our understanding of the elementary particle family. …

  18.08.2022

• ITMO Student Makes App to Play Music With Emotions

  …st and most common datasets that consists of 35,887 images. The app works as follows: while a person plays a musical instrument in front of a webcam, their facial expressions are monitored by a detector that preprocesses the data and identifies a person’s face. After that, the neural network defines the user’s emotions, converts the result into a MIDI file, an…

  17.08.2022

• This Weekend in St. Petersburg: August 20-21, 2022

  … presented with visual mysteries created by Unus Safardiar, a Samarkand-born artist known for his captivating sculptures. Unus experiments with the forms of his artistic expression, and in his works exhibited this time, he also presents his own view on spacetime, as well as the juxtaposition of the inner and outer worlds. Pay close attention to what you see in his in…

  17.08.2022

• ITMO Scientists Find a New Way to Control Topological States

  …lly. “I was offered to join this project a year ago as part of my Bachelor’s thesis. We’ve done some modeling, but experiments in such structures require a very high precision. We needed to set up the resonance between particles in such a manner that it would differ for no more than one megahertz, and we managed to achieve it. We’ve conducted the experiment f…

  16.08.2022

• Making Sense of the Russian Grading System

  …a reason to rejoice: here, a reverse five-point system is in use.  Unlike in some other countries, getting the highest grades in all classes at a Russian school is not a mission impossible, but still a very respectable affair. Such gifted students are called отличники (otlichniki) and are associated with the image of responsible, focused, and often shy kids. And t…

  16.08.2022

• ITMO’s Monday Science Roundup #12

  …g in relevant fields. What’s more, any ITMO student or staff member can submit an application to launch their own online course. The team of the Center for Continuing Professional Education will provide aspiring educators with comprehensive support on all aspects of the course – from development to promotion. Read more ITMO and the Russian battery manufa…

  15.08.2022

• ITMO Physicists Create Unclonable Anti-Counterfeiting Silicon Labels

  … need to take a picture using a zoom lens or a microscope and upload it into a special program, which clusters and simplifies the picture using machine learning and computer vision so that it starts to look kind of like a coloring book where every digit stands for a color. Then it’s compared to the information from the database. If all the parameters correspond to ea…

  15.08.2022