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Getting to Know Russian Literature: Soviet Sci-Fi, Part 2
Participate in Multimedia Challenge Competition and Learn to Create the Best Digital Content
… don’t divide people into techies and humanities scholars, and this division is even more subtle in the field of media. The specialists who create content have to both have certain technical skills and understand the principles of storytelling. High-quality multimedia content is made of two basic elements: matter and format. There are lots of very good stories that a…
24.09.2019
ITMO Laboratory Head Irina Livshitz on a Secret Advantage of Russian Optics, VR and Differences Between Russian and International Students
…arge number of programs that enable the design of optical systems, but this exact problem, determining the starting point, remains unsolved. You can plan a system that will contain ten lenses, or you can make a single one, the whole scheme will be better, but the lens will be so unusual that it may be necessary to create a new technology specifically for its manufact…
24.09.2019
Recycle Like a Russian
…as a challenge for me, considering a tram ride and a long walk, but competition and peer pressure are great motivators. These days Russia may not be on the forefront of sustainability, but times are changing here too. St. Petersburg has committed to recycling up to 70% of its garbage by 2025. In the meantime, activists and organizations are creating ways to recyc…
23.09.2019
ITMO Partner Day: Discussions and Collaborations
… of education and research. A number of apposite national projects are currently being implemented in Russia, and I think that now you really can see the results that can be obtained thanks to such initiatives. But I also see this trend as one that is characteristic not only for Russia but for the world in general. We in Norway also place special emphasis on the inte…
23.09.2019
ITMO University Professor Awarded the French Republic’s Order of Academic Palms
… to analyze their data, their achievements, and to work alongside them. How do you pick the Master’s and PhD students for your laboratory? We give lectures. There’s a certain number of students who start to show interest. We involve those who study better and understand the subject well in our work; first, we help them, then they start doing things on their own…
20.09.2019
ITMO.STARS 2019 Winners: Who They Are and Why They Chose ITMO
…Sofia Liberman (St. Petersburg) Sofia Liberman is a participant of the FIRST Tech Challenge contest and team captain at numerous robotics competitions. Sofia also has the experience of working at one of Skolkovo’s resident companies, Motorika. She enrolled in the Robotics program. I hope that my future career will be related to biotechnology. Especially to b…
19.09.2019
ITMO Scientists’ Research Featured by Nature Photonics
…talking to my PhD student when an idea popped into my head. I told him “I have an idea. Let’s go and see if it works”. We exposed a flat stream of water to the radiation and obtained experimental data, which we then used to calculate the nonlinear refractive index. It turns out that water, the most abundant material on the planet, is really good at absorbing THz radi…
19.09.2019
This Weekend in St. Petersburg: September 21-22, 2019
…t of origami in cinema and advertising, a workshop on Kusudama flower making, and a workshop on Japanese sweets. The full program is available here (in Russian). Autumn Fountain Show in Peterhof September 20-21, from 9pm Peterhof Garden Tickets: 1,000 rubles This year’s autumn fountain show, which traditionally closes …
18.09.2019
Researchers Propose New Model For Catalytic Reactions For Oil Industry
…n the 1970s,” notes Evgeny Pidko. “And in 2017, Americans rediscovered it with the use of modern quantum chemistry methods and substantiated it further.” Nevertheless, certain deviations in the data obtained in the course of these studies make it hard to predict the behavior of a particular catalyst in the reaction without conducti…
17.09.2019