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• ITMO Students Take First Place in Physics Competition

  …different kinds of tasks from various fields of physics. The only thing I didn’t like was that there were too many students in the room. What is your advice to students who want to try their hand at such competitions? Denis: Start with the simplest tasks, and once you’re done with them, move on to the rest of your list. For example, you see a task but you’re no…

  15.11.2018

• This Weekend in St. Petersburg: November 17-18

  … for your big escape to Paris. That’s a weekend well-spent right there! The entrance to the Sunday market is free, but you’ll need to cash in (and register here) should you want to attend all the Saturday lectures and whatnot: the tickets cost 300 roubles if bought in advance and 500 roubles on the day. Amusez-vous bien (duh, of course you will). Cinema nights …

  14.11.2018

• That Blockchain Life: Cryptocurrency Experts on Field’s Challenges and Opportunities

  …ion available. We have to understand that the digital world, the field of blockchain especially, is fraught with many risks and uncertainties the state lawyers don’t really want to open their eyes to yet. Cyber attacks, money laundering, the use of cryptocurrencies on the dark web; all these problems are real whether we like it or not, but at the same time, ICOs a…

  14.11.2018

• ITMO Student Picked as Torchbearer of 2019 Winter Universiade

  …long time preparing for the test and interview in English, which I passed, and was invited by a foreign university. I’m satisfied because I still achieved my goal. I really want to become fluent in English. I’ve loved languages since childhood and in my free time, I watch movies and TV shows in English, even study online. Learning languages improves memory. And se…

  14.11.2018

• Studying Russian in Russia

  …ch dramatically. I was curious if my take on learning Russian was similar to that of the international students at ITMO Foundation Program, which is mandatory for those who want to study in a Bachelor's or Master's program taught in Russian. Turns out that coming from a variety of backgrounds, ranging from Persian, Mongolian, and Arabic to French, Chinese, Serbian…

  13.11.2018

• Do Smart Traffic Lights Dream of Self-Driving Cars? Traffic Expert Nil Podozerov Thinks So

  …s for a much more effective use of a junction’s traffic capacity. While cars continue to drive on one of the movement maneuvers, they get the green light. If there are no cars wanting to turn to the left during the red-light halt, then why on earth do we need to activate the turning pointer? It’s better to just drop this trajectory out of this cycle altogether if the…

  12.11.2018

• Neural Network-Generated Illustrations and Food Delivery App for the Visually Impaired: Teens in Tech School at ITMO

  …ch our students: how the market functions, how to present your project, how to make a business model. It’s not only technical skills and theoretical knowledge what matters; we want our participants to understand that they can achieve everything if they try hard enough. I see it in their eyes that they’re ready to learn something new. And they’ll be rewarded. I hope t…

  12.11.2018

• How to Make Cities More Livable: Norwegian Expert Knows the Answer

  …n Murmansk. We planted trees and established some places where people could park their cars. So the roads became eight meters wide. People didn’t like it at first; they didn’t want anything changed. Fortunately, the mayor and the city administration didn’t give up, and after a while, people got used to these innovations,” shares Mr. Furu. Here is Gunnar Furu…

  09.11.2018

• ITMO Scientists Win Scopus Award Russia 2018

  …l devices. It turns out that solar panels have the capacity to transform such devices into light diodes. Perovskites can enable such functions, and that’s why in the future we want to use them to create multi-functional devices. We’re working with the company Hevel to create solar panels coated with thin layers of perovskites. These panels will be able to not only…

  09.11.2018

• Go with the Flow, Ask Questions, and Shoot for the Stars: Lessons from a Gamedev Meetup

  … in the online shop Steam. At first, I didn’t have a clue on how to actually make games. Though the Unreal Engine seemed a child’s play that would allow me to do whatever I wanted with my world as if I were some kind of an all-powerful magician. But it wasn’t as easy as I expected: I had to do a lot of faking. I thought that I’d become a magician, but in reality i…

  09.11.2018