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• Founder of Surprise Me: Managing a Startup is Like Running in the Dark

  …ties, our time, our advice. If they manage to take it all in, we offer them to stay. One of our coworkers initially came to us as part of a two-week internship with no knowledge whatsoever: he began with reading textbooks. Now he is a skillful specialist responsible for assembling tours, and we’ve raised his salary twice in the past year. How to find an inv…

  28.09.2018

• Hot Air Balloons, Telescopes, and Sky Surfing: 2018 ‘Right Rudder!’ Youth Foresight Festival Takes Flight

  …await our present types of transportation. But it wasn’t only the future of air navigation the festival is focusing on; participants were also challenged to test their knowledge of its past. The festival first day’s spotlights included ‘Time Loop’, a history quest set in the Russian aviation’s birthplace, the Komendantsky aerodrome. The participants saw the new mo…

  27.09.2018

• Science Fest: Future is Here

  …eriencing. ITMO University professor and curator of the university's Museum of Optics Sergey Stafeev presented an optics exhibition and gave a talk on the synthesis of knowledge and faith.   “Both science and art stand to gain from their interaction, and that is why we should work on hosting more events similar to Science Fest. There is nothing strange about …

  25.09.2018

• Let Your Imagination Run Wild at this Tech Search-and-Rescue Solutions Contest

  … team should include at least one tech specialist to qualify. There will also be a special contest track for solo participants. If a contestant doesn’t have a team or a full-fledged solution to offer but still wants to take part, they can be accepted to the solo track by explaining to the jury the value of their ideas. Teams can take on solo participants should they …

  21.09.2018

• Young Scientists Share Experience from Sirius School in Sochi

  …ering. They are all young scientists and they spoke about relevant, current-day topics. University programs tend to be long-established, and thus provide you with overall knowledge, but little understanding of contemporary science. The hackathon was another valuable experience. I hadn’t participated in events of that kind before, but I liked how we had to come up …

  21.09.2018

• Codeforces Founder Will Teach Web Development at ITMO

  …hey offered me the web development teacher position. My course is an intensive one-semester practical introduction to web development, aimed at giving students some basic knowledge in the field, as well as the opportunity to understand if they like it or not. Have you got any other professional plans in St. Petersburg? Apart from teaching at ITMO, I would also …

  20.09.2018

• Nobel Prize Laureate Andre Geim: ‘Science is a Lifelong Marathon, Not a 100-Meter Sprint’

  … led to the creation of this peculiar new system. That’s why we as researchers need to be like frogs constantly leaping from one area to another, even if we lack in-depth knowledge of the subject and only have a suitable background instead. You can move to a new scientific field and from your specific vantage point observe what you can do there. And this is extremely…

  19.09.2018

• Master of Sports Anastasia Murzina: “Orienteering Helps Better Understand Multidimensional Space”

  … in an interdisciplinary field. Is having good programming skills enough for you, or do you have to learn the adjacent fields of science, as well? It’s important to be knowledgeable in the fields you’re working in, and to also be able to code all of that. Much as the machine that we are training, I have to understand which approaches won’t work, and the restrictio…

  18.09.2018

• Sochi Hosts METANANO 2018 International Conference

  … new collaborations and partnerships. “This conference serves as a platform for active science communication; it offers its participants the opportunity to share their knowledge and experience. The setting here is very informal: people can communicate with each other any time they like, discuss problems they are working on, establish new contacts. First of all, ou…

  18.09.2018

• Study in Europe, Asia, and Latin America with ITMO University Academic Exchange Contest

  … was fine. In Chile, there is almost no difference between the classes taught in English for Bachelor’s and Master’s students, so if you want to not only systematize your knowledge, but also learn something new, I advise you to go to Europe or China instead. Mikhail Novoselov, Beijing Institute of Technology, China I spent a whole year in China. I first visited…

  17.09.2018