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• The Neuroscience of Love

  …Neurotransmitters and hormones The abundance of “Love is…” comic strips shows how little we know about love. The only scientifically correct caption for one of them would be “Love is… a dopaminergic goal-directed motivation for the establishment of pair bonds”. Dopamine is a neurotransmitter, or a substance used by brain neurons to communicate with each other. Wha…

  14.02.2019

• This Weekend in St. Petersburg: February 16-17

  … Indian school children and students of the Hindi School in St. Petersburg, as well as the international conference ‘India at the at the crossroads of cultures and traditions: science, education, art’. Admission is free. Old Istanbul photo exhibition Don’t want to go back to the wintry St. Petersburg just yet? For those out there like myself fed up with the col…

  13.02.2019

• Green Building: Putting Sustainable Development Into Practice

  …availability. BREEAM, or the BRE Environmental Assessment Method, was the first standard to step into these shoes. Developed by the Building Research Establishment, a building science research center from the UK, in 1990, this international green standard for the evaluation of the sustainability of buildings is the oldest such standard out there. Now it is widely use…

  13.02.2019

• 'All We Have to Do is Work Harder': Head of ITMO's Science and Technology Foresight on Bett-2019

  …s this your first time at Bett? Indeed it was, although I've been following the event for three years. Bett is interesting to me for professional reasons. At the Center for Science and Technology Foresight, where I work, we study the trends in modern education and so I expected to learn a lot from the exhibition. The event was a total success, its list of parti…

  13.02.2019

• Over 300 Students From 14 Universities Compete for Potanin Scholarship at ITMO

  …ied out in two rounds. In the first, online one, the students submit a written application consisting of a motivation letter, an essay taking on the topic of leadership, and a science-pop essay on the topic of their Master’s thesis. All applications undergo a preliminary technical examination that checks them for plagiarism, among other things. The second round is an…

  12.02.2019

• ITMO Open Science at Erarta: From MegaBattle to Open Talk

  …ITMO Open Science is a scientific conference whose main mission is to provide a platform for efficient communication and knowledge exchange between the University’s schools and faculties. Any ITMO University staff interested in research, be it a department head, a Master’s or a PhD student, could partake in the conference, share the …

  11.02.2019

• Mendeleev 150, MedChem 2019, and Marnikov Congress: the International Year of the Period Table in Russia

  …ts. On January 29, in Paris, the UNESCO headquarters hosted an opening ceremony to ring in the year. In Russia, the ceremony was timed to coincide with February 6, the Russian Science Day and the birthday of Dmitri Mendeleev, and was held at the headquarters of the Russian Academy of Sciences (RAS) in Moscow. Prime Minister Dmitry Medve…

  11.02.2019

• Date Like a Russian

  …u of spending time with other women if you’ve been going out together – even if you haven’t officially committed. Russian men may be a lot of things (including awesome scientists, genius IT guys, and ad-hoc mechanics), but very few of the ones I've met know how to cook (other than barbecue) and even fewer truly go 50/50 on taking care of children. Keep that i…

  11.02.2019

• 10 ITMO University Lecturers Will Intern at University of York in 2019

  …knowledge exchange in the field of education. Daria Denisova, a lecturer at ITMO’s Institute of International Development and Partnership, and the Deputy Director of ITMO’s Science Communication Office For me, this internship is an opportunity to hone my skills, broaden my horizons, establish useful connections, and even prevent professional burnout. As …

  07.02.2019

• ITMO Scientists Analyzed Gaming Behavior to Predict Players’ Gender

  …g data studies were carried out manually and on small sample groups of people. But only the analysis of large sets of data can result in statistically significant conclusions. Scientists from ITMO University and the University of Singapore were one of the first to use machine learning technologies to achieve this goal. Drawing on the data from the gaming platform Ste…

  07.02.2019