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• What’s Behind the So-Called "Vitamin Deficiency" And How To Cope With It?

  ​Most of those who've lived in St. Petersburg know well that the beginning of spring doesn't always mean the end of one's winter doldrums. Surely, one gets used to the city's strange climate, yet in the beginning of spring you just can't escape the feeling of overwhelming tiredness. Most blame the springtime "vitamin deficiency"… Yet, is that really the case? Alexander Ishevskiy, head of ITMO's Department of Meat and Fish Processing and Refrigeration, shared about the topic.

  16.03.2017

• New Material Makes it Possible to Record Data with Light

  Russian physicists with their colleagues from Europe through changing the light parameters, learned to generate quasiparticles — excitons, which were fully controllable and also helped to record information at room temperature. These particles act as a transitional form between photons and electrons so the researchers believe that with excitons, they will be able to create compact optoelectronic devices for rapid recording and processing an optical signal. The proposed method is based on the use of a special class of materials called metal-organic frameworks. The study appeared in Advanced Materials.

  10.03.2017

• Those Who Code: Female Programmers on Gender Issues in IT

  When one talks about programmers, the first image that comes to mind is a bearded man with a cat, some geek in hipster glasses, or a nerd that doesn't see behind his monitor… Anything but a woman. There is still a stereotype that coding is not for women, which is being gradually destroyed by those girls who become interested in IT and study it. ITMO.NEWS interviewed those who fight this stereotype daily. Female IT students from different Russian universities shared about why working in IT is on-trend, how they feel among their male colleagues and whether they ever faced gender inequality problems in their professional lives.

  08.03.2017

• It’s Hard to Be a Superhero: Rector Vladimir Vasilyev Shares Some Life Tips

  ITMO University’s Career Service Centre launched the ITMO.SuperHeroes project, the first meeting was held on 3 March. The special guest speaker, Vladimir Vasilyev, ITMO’s Rector, talked about his own super villain, the dream team and the first non-classical university.

  07.03.2017

• Social Media Algorithm Says Trump "Tweets Like a Bachelor"

  Mathematicians from ITMO University in Saint Petersburg, Russia, and National University of Singapore created an algorithm that predicts user marital status with 86% precision using data from three social networks (Twitter, Foursquare and Instagram) instead of one.

  06.03.2017

• City of the Stolovaya — a Culinary Journey Through St. Petersburg’s Greatest Dining Phenomenon

  One of my earliest dining experiences in Russia came during my first trip to Moscow, over twenty years ago. After a gruelling day tramping through the city — then still in the midst of chaotic transformation — my guide decided to treat me to a blast from the communist past that she said would certainly soon be consigned to the dustbin of culinary history: the stolovaya

  03.03.2017

• SciComm in Russia: How Does It Work and What’s Its Future?

  If you think that everyone knows that the Earth revolves around the Sun — well, you'd be disappointed. According to data gathered by the Higher School of Economics three years ago, 8% of respondents in Russia still believed it's vice versa. So, what does this mean? At the very least, it means that science writers, communicators and journalists still have a lot to do! During the recent course "Theory and Practice of Science Communication", its participants learned how to speak about complex things to a wide audience, why business needs science communication, and what will be popular science's future.

  02.03.2017

• Startups from an Ice-Hole:

  Oulu, a small town in the north of Finland, recently hosted the Polar Bear Pitching contest for innovative startups. The contest's main feature is its original format: all the developers present their projects while standing waist-deep in an ice-hole. This was the fourth time that the contest was held in Oulu; it has already attracted the attention of foreign startupers, so the project's geography constantly grows. This year, participants from ITMO University participated in the contest, as well.

  01.03.2017

• JavaScript, С, PHP and Python: ITMO’s Master’s Students on How to Create a Website in 45 Minutes

  Which programming languages one should learn to create a full-fledged website? How to do the design layout justice? And how to combine all that in such a way, that the website will look great on both a PC and a mobile device? Master's students from ITMO's Department of Computer Engineering and Design can do all the graphics and coding in just 45 minutes, and can well explain a novice web-developer how to create a modern adaptive website from scratch. What can one learn in a short time, and how to choose "your" programming language — read this and more in our article!

  28.02.2017

• Russian Men’s Day, Women’s Day and the Danger of the Frying Pan

  If Russians have two New Years (read more about it in our Idiot’s Guide to the Russian New Year), what can stop them to have two Valentine’s Days? Nothing! Russians do things in a big way, so they have Men’s Day and Women’s Day, and celebrate them within days of each other so no-one gets left out. Being among Russia’s "sacred" holidays, they involve any man or woman, regardless of their relationship status. Born out of violent causes of war and suffrage, they’ve turned into a celebration of love and appreciation.

  23.02.2017