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• Founder of MEL Science Vasily Filippov: Only Those Who Work Hard Are Successful

  …eriments, they can use VR to touch electrons and atoms and see how the chemical reaction they’ve just performed progresses step-by-step. Apart from offering a comprehensive explanation of a process, this insider-glance approach also manages to show the scientific logic behind it. Why did you choose chemistry? There are lots of things in, for example, biology and p…

  18.10.2018

• Faculty of Physics and Engineering Staff to Republish Legendary Soviet Physicist’s Works

  …‘The Unusual Laws of Refraction and Reflection’ narrates its story in the form of a lively dialog between the physicist father and his high-schooler son. The explanatory monologs are punctuated with to-the-point remarks and comparisons with physics theory from the school curricula. The narrator often draws analogies between the theory and the real-world phenomena suc…

  15.10.2018

• Novgorod State University Hosts ITMO.REGIONS Innovation Weekend

  …nership Center, filled participants in on the specifics of interacting with business partners. The Department of National Programs and Projects was represented by its head Svetlana Bazueva and senior analyst Nikolay Bovtunov, who spoke about effective strategies for fundraising on a national and international level. Last but not least, advisor to the rector Oleg Mals…

  11.10.2018

• Short-Term Academic Mobility Programs: How to Get University’s Financial Support

  …ent head, and got the approval of the international educational programs department in some week’s time. As the result, the university covered about 70% of my expenses. Svetlana Shusharina, 2nd year Master’s student, Faculty of Technological Management and Innovations, participant of “Promising development trends of national IT” conference at Sevastopol National T…

  10.10.2018

• St. Petersburg’s Architectural Gems: Baroque

  …t he preferred the modest Dutch architecture to the flamboyant French and Italian. The Petrine Baroque style is characterized by simple forms, moderate decoration, and planar two-colored façades. Apart from the Summer Palace of Peter the Great which his entourage believed to be far too small and modest for a monarch, and a few other buildings and churches, the…

  09.10.2018

• Civilization Historian, Cyber Security Ace, Filmmaker: Who’s Who at ITMO’s New Art&Science Program

  …sue art and design instead. It was this realization that brought me to the Art&Science program; I hope that my tech skills will help me in my future artistic endeavors. Svetlana Sidorova, oil and gas engineer My initial education background was in oil and gas engineering: that was my major at the St. Petersburg Mining University. But a year of studying in a…

  08.10.2018

• Want to Be Successful in Business? Learn to Communicate

  …, asked me to keep a tighter grip on them. If I gave them five minutes to work on a task, they’d ask me to remind them about the time every once in a while. What is your explanation for why a leader must not only control their team but also maintain communication between the members? Control is necessary, but only at first. Once a team has matured, new conflict…

  28.09.2018

• ITMO University’s National Center for Cognitive Technologies Holds its First Session

  … will be made virtual: it would be much easier to test a product not with a focus group, but with a model of one. Finally, people will desire to see proven, substantialized explanations of actions that had once been made based on gut feeling and experience. “In essence, we’re talking about a sub-technology called systematic artificial intelligence. It would …

  14.09.2018

• Disability and Accessible Environment: Participants of Exchange Program on Japan’s Best Practices

  …they explained to us more about what makes someone handicapped. First of all, they asked us to describe what we think they are, and after the seminar, we had to write a new explanation. The difference was huge. During the seminar, we answered leading questions, and then watched a video about a healthy person who lives in the world of handicapped people. This person f…

  07.09.2018

• MELScience Founder Gives Lecture on VR in Education

  …k at what seems to be a motionless wall, but your vestibular system senses movement. This makes your body mad, as it knows that under normal circumstances, there’s only one explanation to it: you’ve been poisoned. So it hurries to clean your stomach, and you get sick. The same happens when you’re using VR: you turn, but your headset doesn’t show it, or the timing …

  03.09.2018