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• Love is… Where to take your Valentine in St. Petersburg

  … and greasy happiness more than make up for that. Thinking more in terms of soft pillows and low lights? Tea House on Rubenshteina, 13 will welcome you with warm mugs you’d want to wrap your hands around and dessert tasting plates perfect for sharing. … being quiet together Sometimes we say it best when we say nothing at all. One place to be quiet and gaze a…

  13.02.2018

• New Materials, Genes, And Crowd Management: Science Slam in St. Petersburg

  …e crowd in order to be protected with a “meat shield”). Pigeons demonstrate similar behavior, for instance. We had a hypothesis on human behavior in emergencies that we wanted to test by simulation. We decided to test it against a real case: the Lame Horse fire in Perm where there were 156 casualties. We used our model, and got similar results, give or take so…

  13.02.2018

• The Dangers of Light Pollution

  …es. Light pollution is associated with artificial lighting only, and does not have any natural causes. Thus, in the field of lighting design there now exists such a term as “unwanted light”. “When we’re talking about urban lighting, balance is a must. We cannot leave the city in complete darkness, as we need to create the right conditions for safe traffic, so we…

  13.02.2018

• ITMO Prepares for ACM ICPC

  …PC finale. This is the select team from Tsinghua University, which includes Du Yuhao, one of the world’s top collegiate programmers. Their reasoning is that the team’s members want to spend more time getting ready for the next year’s competition. The Tsinghua select team is indeed very well-trained, and would have no trouble competing for this year’s champion cup,…

  13.02.2018

• Academic Mobility: Studying Biotechnology at Sup Biotech Paris

  …o come up with the idea of this product and prove its nutritive properties, but cook it, as well - this was the most challenging part. The result was to be a dish you’d really want to eat. So, we developed a dessert from high protein lentil for our project. For now, we’ve passed onto the second stage of the contest,” share the project’s participants. The contest…

  12.02.2018

• Chemist Ekaterina Skorb On International Work Experience And Prospects Of Infochemistry

  …By now, you’ve already worked in four different countries. You’ve always wanted to dedicate your life to science, haven’t you? I’ve always wanted to do chemistry, I liked this field of science, and I’ve been participating in different chemical contests since school years. So, when it came the time for me to choose a university, I cho…

  12.02.2018

• Russian Superstitions: Some Do’s and Don’ts

  …an’t shake hands while wearing gloves: it doesn’t matter what the temperature is, you have to take your glove off before you offer your hand out. Some more things you might want to consider once you’re at your dinner party: if you’re an unmarried woman, you may want to avoid sitting at the corner of the table; if you do, you won’t ge…

  09.02.2018

• How to Become Part of ITMO’s Academic Mobility Program

  … considered failed, and upon returning to St. Petersburg you will be expelled. This is why we remind our students – you must do this! Of course, sometimes a department doesn’t want their students to go away for a semester. There could be several reasons for that: maybe there are some important courses planned for this semester, or an industry internship, or the stude…

  09.02.2018

• If You Want to be the Best, Learn From the Best: ITMO University Collaborates with Alibaba Cloud University

  …computing, big data analysis, information security and cloud platform stability. Lecturers also offer classes on machine learning and artificial intelligence. “If you want to become stronger, you have to train with a strong partner. Alibaba Group is one of the world’s leaders, and its founder is the richest man in China. Supporting and servicing its industry…

  08.02.2018

• D Notation: New Startup Offers an Innovative Mobile Music Notebook

  …n school. I’ve been involved with music since I was a child. I took flute lessons, then I got into the acoustic guitar, learned to play the electric guitar and realized that I want to compose music. The idea of coming up with a specialized keyboard for notation writing first came to me in 2014: at that time, I had already studied music theory for three years with my …

  07.02.2018