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• Movie Fridays: Anime's Unsung Heroes

  …that mixes time-hopping with the growing pains of adolescence. An ordinary Japanese schoolgirl Makoto Konno stumbles upon a strange object that helps her leap through time, a discovery that turns her life upside down. Apart from using her newfound talent on doctoring her exam papers, heisting cakes, and free-riding at numerous karaoke sessions (as any normal person w…

  19.10.2018

• Laeneco Founder Ilya Skorobogatov: How to Take the Japanese Market by Storm

  …re your plans for the long haul? In January of next year, we’ll be unveiling a new generation of our devices. Before selling our first big batch, we’ve run some checks and discovered some glitches in sound recording. Apart from addressing this problem, the new version of our product will come with a smart detector which will give users a heads-up if they aren’t us…

  18.10.2018

• Faculty of Physics and Engineering Staff to Republish Legendary Soviet Physicist’s Works

  …he was one of the leading researchers of his time: it was he who penned the pioneering works on lens with negative refraction. Contemporary scientists are convinced that this discovery was made by Sir John Pendry in 2001, but in reality, Prof. Silin worked on it as far back as the 1970’s. His groundbreaking research is worthy of a Nobel Prize. His books on slow-wave …

  15.10.2018

• How to Write a Thesis on Marvel Comic Books: PhD Student Daniil Shirokov Explains

  …ocess influenced by societal changes, and what do we have now. The practical part was divided in two stages: conditionally statistical treatment of a characters’ database and discourse analysis, for which I enlisted the help of young artists who drew show comics about scientists. Acсording to my main hypothesis which runs through the whole narration, comic books h…

  12.10.2018

• Motasem Awaja’s Journey: A 2018 Open Doors Scholarship Winner

  …sem. Looking into the scholarship project, he found out that ITMO University was one of the principle organizers. After doing some research online, especially on Quora, he discovered that it has a great reputation in the international programming community, which decided his choice to go for ITMO. In May of this year, he got the long-awaited news that he was ac…

  11.10.2018

• Civilization Historian, Cyber Security Ace, Filmmaker: Who’s Who at ITMO’s New Art&Science Program

  …ic Technologies. Having worked in design for the past three years, I decided to broaden my knowledge and do a Master’s program: my first choice was Lighting Design, but after discovering the Art&Science program, I immediately changed my plan. It’s hard for me to decide whether I’m more of a techie or a humanities kind of person: I studied in a class that specialized …

  08.10.2018

• Get Skinny Like a Russian

  …imately size zero. Walk along a busy street in St. Petersburg and you’ll notice women oftentimes look like they’re fit for a runway. Try buying clothes at a mass retailer and discover first hand that the size you thought you were has miraculously shrunk. So how to do they stay skinny? A healthy way of life is, of course, all the rage, and everyone will tell you ab…

  08.10.2018

• Movie Fridays: The Autumn Showdown

  … producer, we’re right to expect miracles. The show draws on le Carré’s emblem motif of a layman (laywoman, in this case) embroiled in an explosive spy affair. Following a discovery that her holiday romance Becker (Alexander Skarsgård) is in reality an Israeli intelligence officer, a left-leaning acting debutante Charlie (Florence Pugh) herself becomes a double ag…

  05.10.2018

• The Nobel Prize in Physics 2018: World-Changing Inventions

  …sity (the USA), Rodney Ruoff from Ulsan National Institute of Science and Technology (South Korea), and Patrice Simon from Université Paul Sabatier Toulouse III (France), for discoveries advancing the understanding and development of carbon-based materials. The names of the Nobel laureates in Physics were announced in Stockholm on October 2, 2018. Among this year’…

  05.10.2018

• Pension Reform and Inclusion of the Elderly: Changing Social Policy in Today’s Russia

  …nd common fields of interest. However, the elderly rarely have common professional interests, which is why the bonds formed at recreational centers are quite weak. We also discovered that learning information and communication technologies has become quite a popular pastime among pensioners. Still, they find it hard to engage in the modern information-driven socie…

  03.10.2018