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Fleabag Season Two: Unbreak My Heart, Dammit
…ittle ways, tries to cope with a personal tragedy but sort of implodes creating a supermassive black hole in her wake. Say what you will about black holes, but one thing is certain: they are mesmerising, the way that a snake hypnotizing its prey is mesmerising, and you can’t help being sucked into them should you be so unfortunate as to get in their way. Personally, …
07.06.2019
ITMO University Partners Up With Rostelecom to Develop Unique Quantum-Encrypted Data Network
…t the data transmitted from one point to another. Keys are the element integral to this process. The problem with keys, though, is that there are a multitude of ways one can obtain them illegally, be it stealing, buying or overhearing. That is why the tenacity of the encryption system based on that specific key is often put at risk. Quantum encryption provides a solu…
07.06.2019
Gennady ‘Tourist’ Korotkevich: My First Defeat Only Made Me Want to Win More
…of five. When I was in school, I played table tennis but never took it up professionally as I already became heavily involved in programming. I still play for pure entertainment, like during the ITMO University championship. I even played for the university’s select team several times. Our University hosts an open championship several times per year, and the l…
06.06.2019
Good Business: How Business Simulations Help Create Social Initiatives
…ith the support of the American Councils for International Education. The goal of this game is to show social entrepreneurs and NGOs new kinds of approaches to financial sustainability. Businesspeople can learn how to integrate social contribution into their business models, while those in search of ideas may discover them during discussions and group work. Fir…
06.06.2019
ITMO University’s UniFEL Center Staff to Conduct New Research at European XFEL
…ther research project at European XFEL. The new research will be conducted in the field of ultrafast demagnetization and all-optical switching of magnetization in materials containing thin cobalt films. Cobalt is different from other materials in that it has domains, which are magnetic structures capable of changing their magnetic state through domain wall movement. …
06.06.2019
Education For Everyone: Global Experts Discuss Future of Open Education
… develop stimulating national policies aimed at the development of OER; provide effective, inclusive, and fair access to high-quality OER; assist in the creation of OER sustainability models; assist international collaboration. All of these goals coincide with UNESCO’s Sustainable Development Goal 4, which calls for the i…
05.06.2019
How Cerevrum Inc Uses VR to Boost Social Skills
…s how cheap VR has become thanks to scaling. What has made customers realize that VR training is viable? Aside from the low cost. People are used to seeing VR as an entertainment tool, but it actually gives us these anchors that make training faster. Research already shows that 80% of information acquired through VR training is retain
04.06.2019
ITMO Is Placed Third in National IT Ranking
…ional and interregional partnerships, innovation and branding. The resulting list of top-10 Russian universities this year is mostly similar to the 2018 one; ITMO University retains its ninth position to which it rose last year. To compile the annual ranking, analysts from Interfax use various public data on the universities’ activities, scientific performance and…
04.06.2019
Participants and Organizers on New Russian-German Exchange Program
…nts’ horizons, to acquire new knowledge and meet new people. “The other side of culture” offers its students an opportunity to look at the world from a different standpoint, attain a better level of understanding and open-mindedness, foster their interest in other cultures and develop their communication skills. “We were really interested in seeing how young peo…
04.06.2019
Smoke and Mirrors: ITMO’s Lighting Designers to Present Projects at Light Nights in Gatchina Festival
…eaks the mold of the usual human-object interaction, engaging interactions between people that participate in the art performance. Each participant has a choice: either to maintain the overarching order or plunge it into chaos. “What’s important for me are the idea, the image and the artistic language. I don’t really use technologies in my work that much. That i…
03.06.2019