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• William Ngona Mulenga: ITMO Opened Up a Whole New World of Opportunities For Me

  …e from? I get different responses, but most people are amazed and say that they would like to visit Zambia just to see the Victoria Falls. Others are so intrigued that they want to find out if I keep a lion as a pet back home or whether wild animals just walk around the streets. I find it funny because I, too, had similar expectations of seeing a bear in Russia, b…

  09.04.2020

• ITMO University PhD Student Evgeniy Odlyanitskiy on Creating a Laser Facility During Isolation

  … of experience and I feel much more confident in assembling complex optical systems. What kind of research are you planning to conduct in the future? In my thesis, I want to prove the possibility of getting pictures of cancer cells in the terahertz frequency range with a high spatial and longitudinal resolution. Physical and mathematical models of the inter…

  09.04.2020

• Window to the World: ITMO Programmers’ New App Helps Combat Self-Isolation Loneliness

  …on TV shows, and others learn to cross-stitch. But for a majority, none of these things help to cope with a sense of isolation and a severe lack of human contact. Everybody wants to know they’re not alone and that someone out there feels the same. To help others find these kindred spirits, programmers from ITMO University have developed a new app called HowWeSurvi…

  08.04.2020

• Life During a Pandemic: Experiences, Changes, Silver Linings

  …attered all over Europe and several family members especially at risk, I can’t say it’s been going swimmingly – my brain’s been a blurry, panic-stricken mess and all I’ve been wanting to do is to sleep, tenderly hugging my box wine (which is basically quarantine juice at this point isn’t it) at my side. Knowing that it isn’t going to stop anytime soon doesn’t help. T…

  07.04.2020

• Entrepreneur Vaagn Ogannisian: Businesses Must Make Friends With Universities

  …came genuinely interested in this profession and fell in love with it, so I never regretted that choice. So it wasn’t your parents’ choice? Yes, it was my own. They only wanted to help, such as with choosing a university. Do you feel a higher degree of responsibility because of having the same job as they do? Of course, you feel a special sense of respons…

  03.04.2020

• At-Home Sports: How to Stay Active While Self-Isolating

  …existing content is enough to boost your fitness level. Conveniently, the channel’s playlists represent fully fledged workout plans for one month or more. Should you, however, want more BeFiT in your life, fear not – there is a 90-day marathon BeFitin90, which will have you do a 10-minute exercise set every day, starting from simple and working up to complex. …

  03.04.2020

• How Statistics Can Skew Facts – and How We Can Learn to Trust It Again

  …esearch article, we’ll always find at least some empirical research accompanied by mathematical analysis. Let’s say some scientists, like biologists or medical researchers, want to test a hypothesis: they have ten patients who they’d like to study and, based on that small sample group, to put forth a scientific assertion about the general population. First, they m…

  03.04.2020

• Safe and Social: Video Games to Play in Self-Isolation

  …An anonymous helping hand Sometimes, we don’t want to talk, but rather crave spending a few minutes in silence with our friends – either united by a common project or simply sharing our space. If that’s your case, then we would advise you to look into asynchronous multiplayer games, which let you interact with other players in this light and unobtrusive way: you m…

  03.04.2020

• This Stay-At-Home Weekend in St. Petersburg: April 4-5

  …Jax Code Academy Online Coding Bootcamp April 4, 1pm to 6pm EDT (UTC-4) If you ever wanted to try your hand at being a web developer, now’s your perfect chance, and this one-day mini bootcamp promises to equip you with all the basic skills you might need to further develop in this field over the stay-at-home weeks to come. Grab your keyboard and, who knows…

  01.04.2020

• Don’t Panic: How to Keep It Together During a Pandemic

  …with COVID-19. Eventually, it will adapt to the human body in order to better co-exist with it. Viruses aren’t really interested in killing their hosts; quite contrarily, they want humans to live and keep spreading the virus lest it becomes extinct. If the weather forecasts are correct, the upcoming dry, hot summer should suppress the epidemic, but it may return in t…

  31.03.2020