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This Stay-at-Home Weekend in St. Petersburg: Online Opera Performances
…llent 2019 production of Mozart’s Don Giovanni, based on the adventures of the infamous fictional libertine Don Juan. Here’s what you can expect for the following weeks. Bon visionnage!…
25.03.2020
First ITMO Highpark Objects Successfully Pass Public Hearings
…iated by the ITMO Highpark JSC, which owns the rights to the site within the Kievskoe Shosse area on the territory of the satellite city Yuzhny. Public hearings on the provision of a conditionally authorized use license offer St. Petersburg residents an opportunity to express their opinion and propose their suggestions for the decision
25.03.2020
Crossing Single-Celled Organisms With AI: ITMO’s Art & Science Students On Interdisciplinary Art Experiments
…Hasbro’s Hungry Hippos game as a base and updated it with some light robotics. Normally, the winner is the hippo who managed to eat the greatest amount of balls, but in our version it’s impossible to track, because all the balls fall in the same basin. Thus, there’s no winner, there are only losers in this game, and the only way to win is not to play at all. It’s…
25.03.2020
A Tour of Testa Center, GE’s Biotech R&D Facility in Uppsala, Sweden
…ences in Uppsala, tells us how it all began. In 1959, researchers at Uppsala University (the oldest university in Scandinavia) had first produced sephadex, a three-dimensional polymer of dextran and a fine porous sorbent used to separate molecules using chromatography. Since then, it has been trademarked and entered into production by GE. After all these years…
24.03.2020
Machine Learning Hackathon by Botan Investments and AMZScout Takes Place at ITMO University
… is about improving the accent, making the voice more confident, and changing it to the voice of another person or a celebrity, while the “Sing like a Pro” task is about professional voice processing in music. For the “Non-Copyrighted Images” task, the participants had to come up with a way of creating pictures on a certain topic. The “Media Compression, the time they require grows as well - to the point that the solutions call for a great amount of time of supercomputers' operation.” Then again, today it is very important for scient…
24.03.2020
Swear like a Russian (not): Russian Mat
…Let me get this straight: I won’t be teaching you any mat words and expressions here. Why? Well, it’s not just because St. Petersburg is the cultural capital of Russia or it's something you can't really publish on a university's news site. I wouldn’t teach you mat even if we were close friends sitting in my kitchen, as there are much more serious reasons for you NOT …
23.03.2020
Everything You Wanted to Know About ITMO’s Master’s Programs in Biotechnology
…nd in biotechnological research,” says Nadezhda Barakova, head of the Master’s program in Food Biotechnology. “It has been proven that nutrition has an influence on gene expression. New personalized food products can help treat serious diseases, such as diabetes, cardiovascular diseases, and tumors. Functional food developers collaborate with health care specialists.…
23.03.2020
ITMO University’s Main Campus to Get a Smart Floor
…ruments Production Plant, which provided Smart Floor with smart meters and a LoRaWAN base station. It can survey several hundred thousand devices on low-frequency data transmission networks,” continues Dmitry Muromtsev. “The LoRaWAN itself is part of the broader notion of the Internet of Things,” comments Pavel Stepanov, a senior engineer at the company. “…
23.03.2020
Online Weekend Plans: Courses, Sports and Virtual Museums for Those Staying at Home
…pay attention to Robert Sapolsky: Who Are We? Genes, Our Body, Society, Michio Kaku: Hyperspace: A Scientific Odyssey through Parallel Worlds, Holes in Time and the Tenth Dimension and Mark Forsyth: A Short History of Drunkenness: How, Why, Where, and When Humankind Has Gotten Merry from the Stone Age to the Present. Bookmate provides free, unsubscribed access to …
20.03.2020