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• Saint Petersburg Hidden Gems: Annenkirche

  …h of Ingria, a fire ravaged the building, which was then left unattended until the beginning of its reconstruction in 2010. Therefore, its unique interior has a most simple explanation. What is more interesting is that being an operating church, it regularly hosts different cultural events like concerts, plays, and art exhibitions. While a church hosting cultural …

  31.08.2018

• Science Comics: New Format of Science Communication

  … understand that there are things one can joke about and those that have to be communicated to the reader in a clear and authentic manner. Drawings can come with additional explanations: schematics, diagrams or maps of things the scientist tells about. Complex phenomena should be depicted in a most comprehensive manner, much like explana

  27.08.2018

• PyLadies: Python for Women

  …ed by Guido van Rossum, the author of the Python programming language. The idea of the first PyLadies meetup was welcomed by many St. Petersburg IT companies. According to Svetlana Dyakova, a web project manager at Veeam Software, only 20% of programmers at big IT companies such as Google, Facebook and Twitter are women. There are also many misconceptions about women…

  10.08.2018

• ITMO Researchers Publish Review on Perovskite Research

  …e cheapest technology of nanoimprint lithography which is widely used in the polymer industry. For instance, one can use it to produce photonic crystals or metasurfaces, i.e. planar structures with optical resonances. These are already being used for creating lasers with distributed feedback that are most promising due to their low production costs and simplicity of …

  10.08.2018

• Blood Nanofilters and Graphene Gas Sensors: “Big Challenges” Summer Camp

  …s, students learned to make their research findings understandable and appealing to investors and company directors. “In the beginning, students were given a brief explanation of the problem area and the related task which they would need to solve as part of their summer camp experience. As some students understandably weren’t very familiar with lithography …

  08.08.2018

• Sliding Trams, Sea Breeze, and Art Nouveau: Exploring Helsinki

  … enough, but in Helsinki, it is definitely greener. More than two dozens of parks and gardens make Helsinki one of the greenest cities in Europe. Among my favorites are the Esplanadi Park, colloquially known as Espa, a relatively short alley situated right in the city center near the Market Square; Kaivopuisto, a big, sprawling park  that offers a great view over the…

  31.07.2018

• Computer Simulation Technologies: New Master’s Program at ITMO

  …kovskaya, Candidate of Technical Sciences, Ivan Perl, Candidate of Technical Sciences, one of the coordinators of the program and a staff member of the Oracle Corporation, Svetlana Dmitrieva, Candidate of Technical Sciences, and PhD students Olga Kalenova and Ilya Isaev. Several IT specialists will also be invited to take part in the program as tutors. To join the…

  17.07.2018

• Campus Festival: How Studying Emotions Helps Urban Developers

  …more inclined to mark such emotions as happiness than those of sorrow, fear, and anger. We assume that it is easier for them to share happiness, though there might be other explanations which we are currently looking into. St. Petersburg’s citizens feel the most happiness in the central parts of the city, the historical districts. For the most part, that would be the…

  11.07.2018

• How Blockchain Technologies Are Changing Everyday Professions

  …ckchain team. Their role is to create One Pagers (single pages explaining a project's goal, plans, and methods of completing them) and White Papers (more detailed, stepwise explanations), which have become the most common methods of communication with the target audience. Community manager, PR After a startup enters the market, it needs a community manager.…

  10.07.2018

• ITMO Volunteers Get Training in Germany

  … of awareness in Germany is also higher than in Russia. This is why raising the ecological awareness of the population is a global task of our Eco Raids project. One of the explanations for this high level of awareness is that the German government spends a lot of resources on ecology. This reminds me of one of my childhood experiences: when I was 10, it was the firs…

  21.06.2018