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• Five Ancient Russian Cities with Fascinating Legends

  …Veliky Novgorod First mentioned in 859 Two brothers – Slovene and Ruse – went to look for a “new fatherland” together with their entourage. Moving north, they reached a lake called Moysko, from which the river Mutnaya flowed. Divination helped them decide to stay there and they founded a city at the source of the river – Slovensk. They renamed lake Moysko after…

  08.11.2021

• Dune: Five Themes Not To Miss

• Student Spotlight: Caroline Bondu, France

  … used to live in a shared room with my classmates at boarding school. So, technically, this is not my first experience of living in a dormitory. But it is definitely something new for me to share my room with foreigners. My roommates are Russians and I get along really well with them. Do you like your dorm here? My dorm at Lensoveta St. 23 is a very nice and co…

  04.11.2021

• ITMO Launches Two New Labs for Young Researchers

  …Laboratory for Composite AI The new laboratory focuses on bringing together automated machine learning and classic modelling methods. The lab’s scientists come from three research groups of the National Center for Cognitive Research that develop technologies like the automated modeling and machine learning framework FEDOT, the partial differential equations discov…

  03.11.2021

• ITMO Students Win 2.5 Million Rubles at SberBank Hackathon

  … contestants throughout the whole contest.  “Alexandr and I learned about the contest a month before it ended. We went for the Activity category right away as we clearly knew what we needed to do. Yet we couldn’t do it on our own, so we invited Alexei and Vadim to join the team. At first, we thought that competition with such a big prize fund was mostly for well…

  03.11.2021

• This Stay-at-Home Weekend in St. Petersburg: Unleash Your Creativity with Journaling

• ITMO's 2030 Development Strategy: Open Call for Projects

  …Our university’s new Development Strategy introduced four strategic projects: ITMO.Impact, Scientific Breakthrough, Highly Personalized Value-Based Education, and Well-Being. The implementation of the strategy will focus on projects – and every staff member and student can propose their own. Projects will be categorized into four groups focused on: ITMO’s ke…

  02.11.2021

• Second Life: 5 Russian Upcycling Brands

  … the lack of recycling plants. But despair not, for there are successful cases, too! One of the most creative ones is upcycling – the practice of transforming by-products into new, high-quality, and valuable items.  99recycle Do you fancy a skateboard or a pin badge made from ground bottle caps? What about a spacy backpack that used to be a tent? The St. Peters…

  02.11.2021

• How Scientists Prove Vaccine Efficacy and Safety

  …irus. The question is, how low the risk is after the vaccination. Secondly, the results of a randomized trial can differ from the ones acquired in practice, especially because new variants of the virus appear. However, now there’s even information on the efficacy of the currently available vaccines against new variants of the virus. Eit…

  02.11.2021

• From Theory to Practice: How ITMO Scientists Created a Wireless Compact Device for Breast Screening

  … have made a series of discoveries and experiments and as a result, came up with MetaCoil – a wireless, ergonomic, compact (and aesthetic!) device for breast screening. In our new longread, we’ll discuss the path towards a device, as well as its efficiency and potential practical applications.  …

  01.11.2021