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This Weekend in St. Petersburg: September 22-23
… urbanists from all over the globe join their creative forces to muse about this year’s piquant theme, ‘Food for Thought’. The Posadsky municipal district’s walls will be adorned with sundry artistic takes on the idea of the centrality of food in our daily lives. Festival organizers want to prove that our pain quotidien is not only a material object, but also a si…
19.09.2018
What’s the Commotion? ITMO Scientists Discover How Obstacles Change Crowd Dynamics
…individual agents. According to one key research finding, columns and barriers not only contribute to narrowing confined spaces and intensifying the flow of pedestrians in corners and constrictions, but also minimize potential collisions and interactions between individual agents. All this streamlines the human flows, reducing their density and optimizing pedestri…
27.08.2018
Sport, Recreation, Intellectual Hobby: What is Birdwatching and How it Helps Scientists
…ee a specific individual that may differ from other representatives of its species. There’re now also mobile applications for identifying birds, with the best being Merlin by CornellLab. How popular is it around the world? According to some estimates, it involves about 90-100 million people, including photographers and artists who take photos and draw the b…
24.08.2018
Mentorship Program: Find a Mentor and Land Your Dream Job
Urban Scientist Steve Kuddins on Overfencing in St. Petersburg: Causes and Solutions
…s' opinions and see them as robots of some kind. For instance, they assume that pedestrians are comfortable with 90-degree turns, though it is obvious that most prefer to cut corners, which is often dealt with by placing even more fences. How do pedestrians feel about fences? Many citizens are content with using fences to prevent people from walking on lawn…
13.07.2018
Travel Tips: Incomplete and Subjective Guide to Summer in Tallinn
…market. There you can find a variety of traditional woolen and linen knitted crafts; it is just impossible to leave without a colorful warm beanie, a scarf or a pair of deer-adorned socks. Near the market, take the stairs onto the City Walls for a picture-perfect view of the Gothic streets and red-tiled roofs. If you turn left from the Fat Margaret and go through D…
10.07.2018
This Weekend in St. Petersburg: May 26-27
…The sun is shining, cherry trees, tulips and lilacs are in full bloom, and summer is just around the corner! The May Tree medieval folk festival, which will take place in the Vyborg Castle on May 26, is just the event to celebrate these warm sunny days. Tournaments, an archery contest, folk songs and dancing, and many other activities are planned. Entrance is free, b…
23.05.2018
BigXP: Unique Service, Unique Opportunities
…ge so that others can become more professional in their fields. On our platform, we have representatives of such companies as Yandex, Facebook, SKB Kontur, and others. Dmitry Kornev from Yandex, for instance, is a highly qualified specialist in the field of machine learning and deep learning. His motivation is that he wants to share the advanced knowledge that he sel…
23.05.2018
Russian and Finnish Students Learn About Business Together with FIRST+
…are their visions and establish relationships. This kind of communication, the need to find a common ground and work together is yet another challenge, but one that is also a cornerstone of this program.” Future prospects In addition to FIRST+, ITMO University works with Finnish partners as part of Erasmus+, the European Union’s biggest educational mobility p…
22.03.2018
Stephen Hawking: Life in Books
…re the sensor was placed. That’s how he communicated with others. The Nature of Space and Time Hawking liked to debate. The most heated debate was the one with Kip Thorne, an American theoretical physicist, about the nature of Cygnus X-1. Thorne believed it to be a black hole, while Hawking denied it but his calculations prove…
19.03.2018