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Matryoshka: A Modern Icon?
…e. So what’s it like in actual Russia? Granted, you can find all sorts of matryoshkas in souvenir stores as well as little stalls around downtown. They’re also working hard promoting everything from coffee shops to grocery stores to high fashion. Truly, a doll of many meanings. A wide selection by Nevsky Prospect metro station. Matryoshkas + Starbucks = gl…
17.06.2019
8 International Summer Schools to Attend This Summer
…culture, food production, and plant breeding (green genetics). Plant breeding focuses on the production of new varieties in crop plants with improved traits like taste, health-promoting ingredients, yield, resistance to diseases and stress conditions, etc. These varieties are the basis for sustainable production of healthy food, food ingredients, and non-food product…
14.06.2019
International Research Summer Camp in Photonics at ITMO University
… Tampere University of Technology in Finland, which is one of ITMO University’s partners. This is how I learned about this summer school and decided to give it a go. What also prompted me to choose ITMO over other universities was the opportunity to work with a digital micromirror device. The knowledge I gained here at ITMO will definitely come in handy in my future …
14.06.2019
ITMO Signs Collaboration Agreement With Dassault Systemes
… as Boeing, Airbus, Renault-Nissan, and ExxonMobil. What’s more, Dassault Systemes does not only sell patents and organize services but also offers support to universities and promising startups. For one, young entrepreneurs can participate in the Dassault Systemes Incubator Collaboration Program. Florence Verzelen, the company’s executive vice-president, expanded…
13.06.2019
Perfect Day in St. Petersburg
… one of my favorite things to do is to take a Meteor hydrofoil from downtown to Peterhof. It departs from the Palace Embankment and takes you through the city, past the new Gazprom Arena stadium built for the 2018 World Cup, past Lakhta Center, the tallest skyscraper in Europe, into the Gulf of Finland and plops your right into the famous postcard view of the Grand C…
12.06.2019
Crash Course in Photonics: Part 1
Quantum Computing: Challenges, Prospects, and Current Developments
…umber of which has grown significantly over the recent years. One such startup is Rigetti Computing, founded four years ago and now employing some 100 staff. Rigetti Computing promises to create 128 qubits before the end of 2019. There are many other, smaller companies that also have great ambitions. The ecosystem is growing rapidly. And if we want to create a quantu…
10.06.2019
“Innovative Entrepreneurship” Master’s Program: Starting Your Business at ITMO University
…ency, as well as entrepreneurial attitude and competencies, that become highly relevant. Enterprises start looking for people who possess these qualities; also, such qualities prompt people to feel more confident about starting their own business. Anyway, the best time to launch your business is in a period of growth. And now is the right moment to get a systemic …
07.06.2019
Fleabag Season Two: Unbreak My Heart, Dammit
… Andrew Scott’s character is christened in the mostly nameless world of Fleabag, and, well, the “hubba hubba” beyond). But, but, but, one cannot help but dig deeper. Could the promised love story come in the form of Fleabag finally burying the hatchet with her always-on-edge sister? Or could it be her making peace with her own troubled self? Or is it all of these thi…
07.06.2019
ITMO University Partners Up With Rostelecom to Develop Unique Quantum-Encrypted Data Network
…ated at network nodes. Should an attacker attempt to intercept a photon on the way from one node to another, the photon will, due to its physical properties, change its state, prompting the key generation algorithm to report the problem and the exchange of reliable key information between the nodes will be stopped. “It is with great pleasure that ITMO Univer…
07.06.2019