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• “It’s Your Call!” Winter School Launched at ITMO University

  …t option. Yanina: I study Photonics, I have had a wonderful department head of the who taught me to love this field. Our company offers great opportunities for students who want to progress in science and advance the industry. In our work, we use optics to develop fiber-optic gyroscopes, more than 90% of which are purchased by the state and used in the defense ind…

  19.02.2019

• 4 Inspiring Startup Success Stories (And How They Did It)

  …g experiences, not just services: why not stay at someone’s house instead of a hotel and even save a bit? The main problem Airbnb’s developers faced was that many users who wanted to earn money with the service, didn’t fully grasp the idea that to sell something, you have to make it attractive to people. They uploaded bad-quality pictures and didn’t know how to ma…

  18.02.2019

• Ex-Executive Director of Nobel Foundation Michael Sohlman: How to Win the Nobel Prize

  … and France. As for the latter, I refer to the ability to shift your focus from one discipline to an adjacent one. Georg von Békésy, an American researcher and Nobel Laureate, wanted to go into psychology but ended up studying the human brain from another perspective, that of physiology. In the end, he won the Nobel Prize in Medicine for his research into the mechani…

  18.02.2019

• Internships at Huawei: ITMO Students Share

  …aining young specialists and offering them a platform for improving their skills," comments the company's representative. He adds that Huawei expects the students who want to try themselves at their company to have a good background in maths and programming. Another important requirement is not experience but flexibility in analyzing and solving problems. …

  15.02.2019

• Dmitri Mendeleev: Everything You Need to Know About the Inventor of Periodic Table

  …sburg, like Chernyshevsky, Dobrolyubov and others? The latter were the intellectuals who belonged to different social classes. They didn’t like the environment around them and wanted to change it, while the Decembrists were quite happy with their life in Tobolsk and did their best to further improve it: they established libraries, opened schools, organized concerts a…

  14.02.2019

• The Neuroscience of Love

  …ove. Before that, the only practical results were the ones related to the “faithful gene”, and so the first thing researchers did was follow the psychological maxim of “if you want to measure something, make a test”. It didn’t quite work, so they started to look in the brain and found the nucleus accumbens. Still, there is a direct correlation: the higher you score o…

  14.02.2019

• This Weekend in St. Petersburg: February 16-17

  …the international conference ‘India at the at the crossroads of cultures and traditions: science, education, art’. Admission is free. Old Istanbul photo exhibition Don’t want to go back to the wintry St. Petersburg just yet? For those out there like myself fed up with the cold and snow, the Rosphoto museum is hosting an exhibition of retro photos of Istanbul. T…

  13.02.2019

• Over 300 Students From 14 Universities Compete for Potanin Scholarship at ITMO

  …so involves a better academic mobility of students. By obliging them to spend the onsite round outside of their home university, sometimes even in another city, the organizers wanted to encourage the students to immerse themselves into an academic and organizational culture of a different educational institution, as well as to make new professional and personal acqua…

  12.02.2019

• Just Ask: How Does New Cancer Consultation Service Work

  …d for people who have been faced with a cancer diagnosis and are at loss as to where they should head to for help. The way the service operates is very straightforward. Anyone wanting to have their question answered submits their query via a special feedback form on the website. A coordinator then forwards this query to an oncologist of a relevant specialization. Amo…

  11.02.2019

• Date Like a Russian

  …ensils in an effort to put some on my plate. In his world, that was an attempt to “poukhazhivat” - as in, display his chivalry. In my world, it meant “he’s a control freak and wants to decide how much I should eat.” He was trying to be nice, and I had to stop myself from stopping him. What should you expect when it comes to dating and relationships in general? He…

  11.02.2019