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• Anvar Zakhidov On His Collaboration With ITMO and METANANO Conference

  … we apply to the sample, then heat it or apply pressure, thus imprinting the picture. Such pictures can be the size of tens or hundreds of nanometers, less than a micron. I want to bring this technology to St. Petersburg, as well. At the Metamaterials laboratory, they create nanoparticles, and we can provide them with perovskite nanofilms with patterns so that the…

  05.10.2017

• TADHack 2017: ITMO Students Finish Third with Tourism App

  …ion for tourists. The students decided to address an issue most tourists encounter in an unfamiliar city: in these new places, it may be hard for them to find company. If they want to find someone to go to the movies or an art gallery with, they are unlikely to find someone in a short amount of time. Using the application, registered users can easily find a companion…

  04.10.2017

• Urbanist Dhiru Thadani: to Improve Cities, We Must Focus on People

  …ee Russia, but I believe that parking spaces are lacking in Russian cities. Parking spots are expensive because they’re costly to maintain. At the same time, most people don’t want to pay for parking, which is a problem, as well. I myself think that cities shouldn’t have free parking altogether. It is not a popular solution, but it is the only way of controlling the …

  03.10.2017

• Urban Evolution: Artists, Journalists and CEOs Discuss Future of St. Petersburg

  …k is the number one bestseller in St. Petersburg – the city which can surely become the cultural capital of not just Europe, but perhaps the entire world. If we decide that we want that to happen, then our city’s environment will become that very museum that is not a mothballed warehouse, but a place of creativity,” – said Kotov. The way to achieve that, he expl…

  02.10.2017

• Blogger Boris Tsatsulin on Science Writing, Kamchatka and Memes

  …You started your blog in 2013; how did it all begin? Back in school, I paid much attention to chemistry and biology; I wanted to enrol at the Department of Biology of St. Petersburg State University. I got in, but didn't like it much, so I decided to try medical sciences. It didn't go well, too, so I understood that it's not my thing. So, I entered an economic uni…

  02.10.2017

• "HOW should I trust?" - Thomas Leitch on Fake News

  …your umbrella at home? Some would. Yet, I doubt you would've accused the weathermen of leaving the choice to you. Believing the figures of authority is not enough If you want to read news while adhering to the principles of critical thinking, just looking at the evidence and believing the figures of authority is not enough. You will also have to constantly ask …

  29.09.2017

• Japanese Exchange Students Share Impressions of Russia

  …age course. I was interested in it, as it is very different from other languages in how it is spelled, the way the letters look, the grammar, and so I continued to study it. I want to learn a unique language. When I found out about the student exchange program, I saw it as an opportunity to learn about Russia not from books or the internet, but with my own eyes. …

  27.09.2017

• Baltic International Summer School 2017: How to Transform a City in Nine days

  … iconic places (fragments of a bridge, towers, buildings, etc.) that we had to find in the city. We looked for them in groups, and this helped make clear what each participant wanted to work on as part of the summer school.", - shared Ekaterina Ilina, one of the participants of the Summer school from ITMO U. All participants of the program had to work on one…

  22.09.2017

• The Evolution and Future of Public Lighting

  …at home, behind a computer, and now such possibilities are available anywhere in the city environment,” – he notes. But how do we understand what the users themselves want to see their environment look like, and is it possible to predict which solutions would succeed and which would fail? The field of lighting design is gradually becoming a platform for coll…

  22.09.2017

• Youth Foresight Festival Tackles Future of Transportation

  …ent will move to a much higher intellectual level.  “Perhaps we will have teleportation, too, but I hope, for technical purposes only, because in general life, I wouldn’t want to teleport, I want to drive on our wonderful roads and walk on our beautiful bridges,” said Yuri Mogilyuk. Both speakers agreed on the opinion that the…

  21.09.2017