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• St. Petersburg’s Architectural Gems: Art Nouveau

  …berty in Italy, etc.) there were features characteristic of all Art Nouveau designs: curving ‘whiplash’ lines, balanced asymmetry, subtle colors, and extensive use of arches, stained glass, mosaics and floral motifs inherent to Japanese art, which poured into the Western world after the resumption of trade with Japan in 1854 and greatly influenced the way artists vie…

  12.03.2019

• ITMO Alumni and ITMO Ambassadors: Staying in Touch After Graduation

  …n optical components designer at OPTIKOELECTRON, a major engineering plant in my home town of Panagyurishte (located 90 kilometers to the east of Sofia, in the Sredna Gora mountains). In 1998, my colleague and the plant’s CEO Ivan Cholakov (also an ITMO graduate) had been removed from his post, and in a couple of years I left to work at his private enterprise OPTICS …

  12.03.2019

• Young Scientists Awarded ITMO University’s First Own Academic Degree Diplomas

  …o defend your thesis as per the new rules? Andrey: I decided to defend my thesis before ITMO University’s own academic degree council because this was a council that pertained to my major, a council where all of the members were specialists in my field of research. Even if we look at the questions that were asked at the defense, what shines through is the fact…

  12.03.2019

• Software Engineering Program by ITMO and JetBrains: Students Share

  …ther we wanted to get more theoretical or practical knowledge. Personally, I chose the latter. Still, as for the program in general, I’d say that its organizers succeeded in attaining a particular balance. During the lectures, we get great knowledge and we can always clarify any issues we get interested in. As for the practical assignments, we also get enough of them…

  11.03.2019

• Datathon on Texts Annotation: How Programmers and Humanities Specialists Analyze Texts

  …at allude to one real entity. For one, while Pyotr Tchaikovsky may be referred to as “Pyotr Tchaikovsky”, “Pyotr” or “a great Russian composer”, all of these mentions still pertain to one person. Another example is zero anaphora. This linguistic term defines the situation where although there is a clearly understood entity, the sentence lacks a word or phrase that wo…

  11.03.2019

• Head of Leningrad Laser Systems on Specifics of Russian Optical Components Market

  …er to buy high-quality goods. For instance, Chinese manufacturers offer a wide range of products, and we fly to China three-four times a year to visit their factories and ascertain their quality. We also do regular visits to Europe. Buying a proper lens or crystal is no easy task, so many institutions seek the help of companies such as ours. Also, there are pr…

  11.03.2019

• Materials Scientist Alexandre Nominé on Challenges of his Field, Learning Russian, and Creativity at ITMO University

  …th metals for millennia, and we have acquired quite a lot of knowledge about the ways to manipulate metals and create alloys, and also to specifically create materials with certain properties. However, in the last decades, there has been a lot of interest towards going to the nanoscale, which introduces a lot of applications in electronics, medicine, and catalysis, w…

  07.03.2019

• 10 Summer Schools to Attend This Summer

  … Tallinn Summer School features a variety of courses accompanied by a diverse cultural program. At this summer school, fundamental education is successfully combined with entertainment, when students get a chance to familiarize themselves with the Estonian culture and the city. Among the most interesting courses are: Game Design (July 22-26, 2019, €200); E…

  07.03.2019

• Awardees of 2018-2019 Potanin Scholarship Reveal Their Winning Hacks

  …o see what I’m capable of, to try my hand at something completely new. My thesis is dedicated to environmental awareness building in Russia’s natural parks and reserves. Sustainable natural resource management and popularization of ecological knowledge is a matter of great urgency, and one that gets a lot of media coverage. The global climate changes; every day we…

  07.03.2019

• From Leucippus to Dmitri Mendeleev: History of Periodic Table

  … has consequently formed the basis for the modern atomic theory. In order to calculate relative atomic weights, Dalton created his first table of relative atomic weights containing six elements. In 1808, Dalton published his work A New System of Chemical Philosophy in which he stated his atomic theory and the concept of relative atomic weights. Dalton’s che…

  06.03.2019