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This Weekend in St. Petersburg: November 7-8, 2020
…hts November 7-8, 7-9 pm Peter and Paul Fortress Free entrance We all need a little magic in our lives. And the Festival of Light is what will bring you to a mysterious world full of light, adventures, and magic. You’ll have the chance to stroll along the narrow streets inside the Peter and Paul Fortress, get acquainted with the history of our country'…
04.11.2020
Food for Good: How To Join This Year’s Hult Prize and Help the World
…ersity-level stages around the world. We compete to see who will be most successful in motivating students to create social-action business projects. We were given specific criteria by the global team: we need to bring together at least 10 teams, more than three judges – the more well-known and recognized they are, the better – and publish our material With Refractive Index Higher Than in Silicon
…ficient. It tells us how much slower a wave travels in them compared to its velocity in vacuum. So when the coefficient equals 2, it means that the wave’s velocity in such a material is two times slower. The catch is that it’s not just the material that determines the coefficient but also the wavelength. High-frequency X-rays pass throu…
03.11.2020
TEDxStPetersburg Speakers on the Future of Education, Quantum Revolution, and Burnout Prevention
…w things – new products, services, projects, and perhaps even new markets,” says the expert. For example, digital assistants will be able to pick and verify reading materials, arrange the schedule, and structurize the working process. “I love it when the students confidently and proudly associate themselves with the university by saying something like “…
03.11.2020
Collecting Sounds: ITMO Holds Workshop on Soundscapes and Environmental Acoustics
…ou can also “hear” a picture or video that has no sound – we have a whole library of them in our head anyway. In one of his exercises, Schafer suggests imagining a spade entering soil, snow, or sand – every one of us will instantaneously “hear” the accompanying sound in their head. Soundscapes as seen in urban studies The World Soundscape Project founded …
02.11.2020
ITMO University’s Alumni Entrepreneur Club
…O University. Their first task was networking bingo. Its main purpose was to help participants get to know each other. Each had to find out which of the proposed options characterizes their interlocutor. The person who was the first to fill in all the characteristics and names of their new acquaintances received a prize. However, the…
02.11.2020
Painted Mammoths and Honey: the Rescued Wonders of Bashkortostan
…y could surpass the British in tea-drinking, their national hero is not only a warrior but a poet, and every mountain, river or cave of this region is fraught with a heart-fluttering legend about its birth (it's probably worth another article to explain it all). Nature of Bashkortostan boasts breathtaking landscapes, formed by the Ural Mountains. In addition to in…
02.11.2020
ITMO University's Award for Achievement in Education
…ober - December 2020: Application period (you can register by following this link – in Russian) January - February 2021: Application evaluations based on the established criteria March 2021: Project presentations to an expert committee April 2021: Review of competition results May 2021: Award ceremony For more information about the award, visit this we…
30.10.2020
Bringing a Young Russian Startup to USA Step-by-Step: Advice & Lifehacks from Investor Mikhail Gavrilov
…Compared to Russia, the US has a bigger venture capital and thus more opportunities to invest. Moreover, entering the American market is the first step towards international success. Those were the reasons for entering the American market suggested by the audience – and Mikhail Gavrilov deemed them absolutely correct. Furthermore, the U…
30.10.2020
Student Spotlight: Rigel Olvera, Mexico
…of universities to apply to, I selected it as my first option without hesitation. Can you describe your current research topic? My research is the development of novel material that can be implemented in bionics. I’m focusing on the development of a material that can mimic the motion of a biological muscle; in other words, an arti…
29.10.2020