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• Physicists Design New Nanoresonators With Giant Nonlinear Response

• ITMO Graduates Participate in School of Science Journalism in Erice

  … study the approaches used by our more experienced colleagues and make use of them. Still, it’s important to remember that each country has its peculiarities: its scientific history, agenda, political regime, so even the most successful cases have to be adapted to particular circumstances,” comments Ksenia Zhirnova. The lectures at the school were divided in…

  20.07.2018

• Movie Fridays: Summer in the City

  …es. If you find yourself stuck at home with a wall of torrential rain outside of the window, why not watch Goodbye Christopher Robin, a biographical drama film showing the backstory of the Winnie-the-Pooh creator A. A. Milne and his bittersweet relationship with his son Christopher Robin. We know what you’re thinking: you left Winnie-the-Pooh stories in your childhoo…

  20.07.2018

• “Quantum Potential” Science Stand-Up Show Returns In Second Installment

  …ortant meeting. Luckily for us, the attendant stopped the train in Potsdam (30 kilometers from Berlin) where we spent the night before returning to Berlin. “Another fun story happened on our way to Asia. There was a stretch of the way that we had to travel on a train. I get on the train, find my train car and see that there’s only two people in there, sleeping…

  17.07.2018

• Vacations, Business Trips and Mushroom-Picking

  …plan ahead what books I’ll take; most of the time it’s either something work-related or something I didn’t have time for because of work. One time, I took a book called “The History of the Computer Technologies Department”. It’s about how our Rector and Prof. Parfenov came to our university, which was then called LITMO, and how they worked here. It was a gift from Vl…

  13.07.2018

• TEDxSZIU: Experts Share Their Vision of the Future

  … for Economic Policy and Strategic Planning of St. Petersburg, spoke about the reasons for living and working in St. Petersburg. The speaker began his presentation with a life story. More than a hundred years ago, his great-grandfather, son of a barge hauler who dreamed of mastering shoemaking, came to St. Petersburg. "I can't even comprehend how he succeede…

  12.07.2018

• Travel Tips: Incomplete and Subjective Guide to Summer in Tallinn

  …idewalk or curvy street and gather your own collection of hidden treasures. What to see Even if you are not a fan of museums, Tallinn has a few worth visiting. The history of Tallinn and the life of its inhabitants is shown in History Museum (in Great Guild Hall), Tallinn City Museum and Kiek in de Kök Tower. My love belongs t…

  10.07.2018

• Enjoy Summer Like a Russian

  …f their time in relatively close quarters, Russians will jump on the chance to spend a weekend – or a week – at their summer home “the dacha”. It may be a wooden barn or a two-story mansion with a pool, but it holds a promise of shashlik (Russian-style barbecue), forest mushrooms and berries, and soul-searching discussions deep into the night. If you’re lucky, there …

  09.07.2018

• Mustache of Hope: Russia Unites to Support Its Football Team

  …lly - Urgant pointedly named “The Mustache of Hope.” Everyone giggled. But then came the first victory, and then the second and the Russian team for the first time in its history gets into the playoffs. The nation is in awe. And then they win yet again and make it into the quarterfinals. The nation explodes. By July 6, the hashtag #усынадежды (#mustacheofhope) has…

  06.07.2018

• First Vice Rector Daria Kozlova on Campuses of the Future

  …inspiration. What we mean is love for one’s university, for research and work that’s done with joy and not out of obligation. We at Paperpaper.ru worked with JetBrains on a story about Project 5-100. We spoke to representatives of Russian universities, and many of them pointed out that it would be great to have some assessment of graduates’ competence as one of th…

  03.07.2018