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• ITMO Accelerator Winners on Their Virtual Dressing Room Project

  …f the models. There are some requirements user-side, too: we can’t use photos of them at half-turn or in twisted poses. That, too, is a focus of our current R&D. Origins and the team How did you come up with the idea for the project? The project originated last year at a hackathon. Our team came together by accident and we matched each other quite wel…

  08.09.2021

• Pending Futures Exhibition: ITMO Art & Science Students Reflect Upon Isolation and Secret Life of Plants

  …esponds to changing technologies, art practices, and our everyday reality. “Today’s artists make much use of digital technologies, but how is this tendency reflected, for instance, in the educational programs of top-ranked art schools? Over the last decades, the Russian and Dutch systems were built on different approaches. While the first one focused largely on …

  08.09.2021

• This Weekend in St. Petersburg: September 11-12, 2021

  …eative habits, as you experience the exhibition. And don’t forget to also check out part of the Zero Waste Bistro project that was originally initiated by the Finnish Cultural Institute in New York in 2018 to experience a concept of a circular-economy restaurant built with sustainable materials. Who says recycling can’t be fashionable?…

  08.09.2021

• Scientists Develop Compact Nanolaser with Unique Properties

  … photons – quants of light – appear and proceed to induce the appearance of other photons in a cascading manner. The longer the initial quants exist and the longer they remain inside the resonator, the more new photons they can create. The resonator developed by the researchers allows them to produce laser radiation using a small number of photons. “There’s a…

  08.09.2021

• ITMO’s Digital Healthcare Lab On Decision Support, Medical Records, and Agent-Based Modeling

  …ta. According to Sergey Kovalchuk, there is a wide range of possible tasks for research: from choosing a strategy for treatment to organizing various processes in a medical institution or the entire healthcare system. The lab’s staff members not only do research but also share their experience: in June, they organized the second workshop as part of the Internat…

  07.09.2021

• Saving The Past: Volunteering in Historical Restoration Projects

  …cemetery, tidying up tiled archways, and that’s not even a full list. Recently, the team moved forward and held their first event in Moscow. For some people, these are just insignificant details easily lost in the interiors of сommon areas, but the love and affection of the community to what this team does definitely pays off. The local news portals keep a close e…

  07.09.2021

• International AR & VR Conference Wrap Up: Virtual Museums and Remakes of Soviet Games

  …nt of HTW Berlin, held a workshop on how VR/AR technologies can help to preserve and promote cultural heritage. Selena Volkonskaya, deputy head of the New Stage of the Alexandrinsky Theatre, founder and curator at the New Media Laboratory, demonstrated the theater’s VR/AR-related projects. Sergey Zakharov, creative producer of the Super8 studio, shared his experience…

  07.09.2021

• ITMO_ENTER: ITMO University Welcomes First-Year Students

  …tudents could create their own schedules for visiting the stations – the main requirement was to cover all eight of them.  “Before applying to university, I compared many institutions and programs and decided on ITMO. I entered the Bioengineering program without entrance exams because I won a contest. Today I managed to get to four stations – I already have some…

  06.09.2021

• ITMO at Eastern Economic Forum: Education of the Future and New Challenges

  …economic development of the Russian Far East and international collaboration in the Asia-Pacific region. Over the years, thousands of participants have visited the forum – for instance, in 2019, their number reached 8,500, including media representatives and organizers from over 60 countries and regions.  This year the forum was held in a blended format with the c…

  06.09.2021

• Eiffel Towers of St. Petersburg: Controversial Landmarks of the Early 21st Century

  …its immense height and futuristic style, Lakhta Center, the brainchild of Gazprom Neft, became the number-one trending controversy at the time of its announcement and even remains so to this day. The initial project, called Okhta Center (both versions named after nearby locales), was supposed to be a 396-meter high skyscraper right in the heart of St. Petersburg.  …

  06.09.2021