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• Text Like a Russian

  …m in a crowded metro. Voice messages are especially frowned upon in group chats. Besides, you look like Agent Cooper in Twin Peaks when you record them. Emoji. There’s a certain art to emojis - describing emotions with pictograms. Experts suggest not to use emojis in conversations with business associates until they do it first, and then limit their use to tastefu…

  25.03.2019

• Russian Physicist Alexey Melnikov Awarded the Prestigious Cozzarelli Prize

  …e previous approaches focused on finding a working solution, our approach is designed to find the simplest solution possible. Why is this important? Imagine that to solve a certain task you need a large optical table with lots of complex elements, which may result in a decrease in quality. Now imagine that you can solve the same task using a much smaller table, and y…

  25.03.2019

• ITMO University and Siemens Launch Joint Research Lab

  …. We have an understanding where we’d like to end up, but we’ll decide on tools, ideas, and methods in the course of working together; this should help us remain flexible in attaining our goals. Of course, such a format implies a great degree of involvement on our side, but we’re ready for that,” said Alexander Loginov, the director of research at Siemens Russia. …

  22.03.2019

• University of Pretoria Scientists on Applications of Metabolic Analysis

  …complex samples and large numbers of components. Oftentimes, they have no need for measuring the concentration of different components, and sometimes this proves downright unattainable. Metabolomics methods make it possible to compare concentration profiles of different samples and break them into different groups. For example, safe and unsafe ones,” explains Jacobus…

  22.03.2019

• 10 Things to Do at St. Petersburg’s Botanical Garden

  … peeping through the snow. 3. Attend an exhibition of cacti and succulents in April Exhibiting a wide range of sizes, shapes and leaf colors, cacti and succulents are certainly in vogue right now. They seem to be turning up everywhere, from fashion and decor to stationary and accessories design. To help you familiarize yourself with these extraterrestrial creat…

  22.03.2019

• Augmented Reality Course at Oxford Brookes: Participants Share

  …Formal European University Education (AR-FOR-EU) consortium that brings together specialists from five European universities: Oxford Brookеs and Ravensbourne College (Great Britain), Molde University College (Norway), RWTH Aachen University (Germany), and ITMO University (Russia). The organizers call the course “The First School of Augmented Reality”. It invol…

  21.03.2019

• ITMO Scientists Determine Impact of Probiotics on Human Gut Microbiome

  …anges themselves were invariably positive. “Each person’s microbiota has a range of unique features, which explains the difference in responses to a changed diet we obtained. Nevertheless, the analysis of the baseline state of a particular microbiome can enable us to predict whether it would respond to the diet or not. These findings can be applied when deve…

  20.03.2019

• Six Tips to Help You Navigate in Russia

  …encouraging. If they speak English, they’ll probably respond to you in English but don’t be discouraged, the next guy will respond to you in Russian. You might find there’s certain phrases that will come in handy. For example the phrase, “kto posledni” is useful in many situations. These days in many banks, post offices and at the doctors, you can pick a number and y…

  20.03.2019

• Gold Nanoparticles and Canadian Science: ITMO Student’s Internship at University of Waterloo

  …istry and biology. We published our research in Nanoscale. The project we worked on was conducted in two stages. First, we synthesized nanoparticles and then carried out certain experiments to test their possible applications. We are really grateful to our research advisor Elena Krivoshapkina, who came from Russia to support us. We are also grateful to our Canadia…

  19.03.2019

• Winter Universiade Participant Vadim Shvedov on Maths and Curling

  …vised me to try curling. I gave it a try, and liked it. Curling is often called chess on ice. Is it really so? Yes, it's a catch phrase. In a curling team, you have a captain (called skip or skipper) who stands in the house (target area) and decides on the team’s tactics. Other players also follow  the game’s development, and give advice to the skip (all in all…

  19.03.2019