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• Meduza Publisher on Living in the Era of Bad News

  On January 26, the Museum of Soviet Arcade Machines hosted another session of the international project Creative Mornings. This time the invited speaker was Ilya Krasilshchik, publisher of the popular online newspaper Meduza. As the January topic of Creative Mornings was “Anxiety”, the journalist spoke about the reasons why people read news - and why good news today tells us that people are stronger than their circumstances.

  01.02.2018

• "HOW should I trust?" - Thomas Leitch on Fake News

  Last year, fake news flooded the media; false information published on lurking websites was copied to Facebook where it gathered numerous likes and reposts. Apple's head Tim Cook sees fake news as a serious global threat, and Thomas Leitch, a renowned American sociologist, believes that we are now living during a real fake news epidemy. Why now, and what can help one discern fake news from real ones? The professor tried to answer these questions during an open lecture at ITMO University.

  29.09.2017

• Ecological Raids: International Ecocamp at Yagodnoe

  The international volunteer camp Ecological Raids was held at ITMO University’s health-and-sports center Yagodnoe. For two weeks students from 12 countries attended talks and workshops on social and ecological projects, came up with ideas for Ecohouses and got to know more about Russian culture. All of this happened on the shores of a beautiful lake in the Karelian isthmus. 

  15.08.2017

• ITMO University’s Scientists Receive Prestigious Ulrich Award

  The award for achievements in the field of sol-gel technology was granted to Vladimir Vinogradov, Head of ITMO University’s International Laboratory "Solution Сhemistry of Advanced Materials and Technologies" (SCAMT) and to Alexander Vinogradov, head of ITMO’s Biochemistry cluster. This prestigious international award has been given to young scientists from all over the world since 1991; 2017 marks the first time it goes to scientists from Russia.

  07.06.2017

• Young Scientists from ITMO University Receive Presidential Grants

  On May 30, during a special ceremony, 53 young scientists from St. Petersburg's universities and institutions of the Russian Academy of Sciences in St. Petersburg were given presidential grants. ITMO University was represented by five researchers who received grants in the Physics and Astronomy category. In an interview for ITMO.NEWS, the researchers shared about their research.

  05.06.2017

• Alexander Boukhanovsky Elected to Russian Science Foundation Review Board

  The head of ITMO University’s School of Translational Information Technologies has been elected as a member of the Russian Science Foundation’s review board. Together with the other members of the board, prof. Boukhanovsky will make decisions regarding funding for prospective scientific projects and review applications made to the foundation in the “Mathematics, computer science and systems science.” According to RSF materials, the review board is made up of esteemed, academically active and prolific scientists with a Sc.D.

  05.05.2017

• Researchers Develop Word-of-mouth Computer Simulation

  Russian researchers have created a computer simulation that works on the word-of-mouth principle to show how information spreads among mobile phone users. The model reconstructs call paths and estimates whether the news was transferred through them or not. The program makes its conclusions based on open-source cellular communication data. According to the researchers, there is currently not enough such data to adapt the project for real-life application. Data for follow-up studies can only be provided by mobile network carriers. The paper was published in the Journal of Computational Science.

  04.05.2017

• Video360Production Films Construction Sites In Crimea

  On April 20th, it was the opening of Yalta International Economic Forum (YIEF), which is one of the four major Russian economic forums alongside St. Petersburg Economic Forum, Eastern Economic Forum and the Russian Investment Forum in Sochi. As part of the event, Crimea's top officials checked the construction process of the projects that are now built on the shore of the Black Sea. The data on these projects was presented not as documents, but 360-degree videos filmed by Video360Production's team.  The videos depicted the construction of the Simferopol airport, two big residential complexes and one of the two conventional thermal power stations that will provide energy for the whole peninsula.  ITMO.NEWS learned about how the filming process, and what were the main difficulties Video360Production's team had to solve.

  04.05.2017

• Creative Mornings: Psychotherapist Andrey Kurpatov Explains How Our Brain Works

  On April 28th the Museum of Soviet Arcade Machines was the venue for a talk under the umbrella of international project Creative Mornings. The host was psychotherapist Andrey Kurpatov, whose best-selling works deal with psychology, methodology, philosophy and other fields of human knowledge.

  03.05.2017

• Awards Given to ITMO University’s Most Successful and Prolific Alumni

  From 27th to 29th of April the Alumni Week was held at ITMO University. During this time every alumni, student or an employee had the chance to listen to lectures, learn about bringing ideas to life with the university’s help, get acquainted with the equipment at FabLab Technopark and find out about the ITMO University Alumni Association and the features of its new format. The “First Alumni Awards” contest was held as part of the events. On April 29th, during the week’s closing concert, the names of winners in a number of categories of the ITMO University Alumni Association Awards were announced as per the results of an online poll. 

  02.05.2017