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• 7 Tips for Fighting Stage Fright

  … earlier in order to get used to the environment in the room, you’ll be doing yourself a great service. This helps fight one of fear’s main triggers: the unknown.  Don’t be a perfectionist Aiming for highest quality work is definitely a plus and a sign of expertise, but worrying yourself sick because of that is just stupid. A public presentation is a live proce…

  06.05.2020

• This Stay-at-Home Weekend in St. Petersburg: Self-Care

  …Introduction to Zen meditation You’ve definitely heard of the wonders offered by regular meditation: from internal peace and calmness to longer attention span and a better ability to concentrate. Even in the best of times, it might be useful to switch on your awareness internally and spend a couple of quiet minutes following your breath as it goes in and out of th…

  06.05.2020

• U.S. Fulbright Scholar Victoria Alexander on St. Petersburg, Isolation and Nabokov’s Connection to Evolution

  …uantitative methods?”. Generally speaking, I believe that people, regardless of their occupations, should be interested in what is happening in the sciences. I think the distinction between quantitative and qualitative approaches is somewhat of a false distinction.  In class we have been talking about the way complex systems scie…

  05.05.2020

• Founder of CritMouse Podcast Aleksandr Golovin On What’s Wrong With Popular Science Podcasts in Russia

  …r use their fantasy, thus making the experience more personal.  Podcasts have several genres, the most widespread being an interview. It might well be the simplest genre, production-wise, where the anchorperson just talks to one or several invited guests. Solo podcasts are fewer in number, as it turns out that talking alone with a microphone is a lot harder ps…

  04.05.2020

• Optical “Nanomixer”: Scientists Propose New Method for Mixing Liquids

  …s Clerk Maxwell made the assumption that light can exert pressure on physical objects. Before long, Russian scientist Pyotr Lebedev proved it possible. Still, the force of such interaction is very small, and at that time, no one found a use for it. Nowadays, there’s a whole field of science called optomechanics that focuses on this phenomenon, and in 2018, professor …

  04.05.2020

• ITMO University Holds Closing Ceremony of 9th Congress of Young Scientists in Minecraft

  … Konstantin Chukharev and others. In total, more than one hundred people explored the virtual building, walking along its corridors and communicating in the game's chat during construction. "We started making a virtual copy of ITMO in August 2019. First- and second-year students from the Information Technologies and Programming Faculty wanted to build their own …

  02.05.2020

• ITMO University's Work Schedule for May 1-11, 2020

  …ly must confirm their agreement to extend the remote operation mode until May 11 by clicking the corresponding button in the application. An announcement will be posted in the News section of ISU as soon as the service is updated.  On-site work mode remains in place only for those employees whose presence at their workplace at ITMO University is critical to ensure…

  01.05.2020

• Herzen University and ITMO Specialists Develop a Bot that Helps Prepare for the Unified State Exam in Chemistry

  …ool curriculum materials in a new way. “I write tasks for the Chemistry Bot. Of course, they’re based on the USE patterns because each task is supposed to fit one specific section of the exam. However, at the same time, we avoid monotonous examples and wordings in order to activate school students’ logic, so that they wouldn’t be solving the tasks automatica…

  30.04.2020

• Everything You Need to Know About ITMO University’s Admission Campaign 2020

  …ear, the university accepts students on full-time positions only. The university also offers fee-based education. You can find the relevant information on fees in the corresponding section of the 2020 admissions website (in Russian). How to apply ITMO University began to accept applications from potential Bachelor’s and Master’s students in February, 2020. Sinc…

  30.04.2020

• Is Fully Hack-Proof Code Possible?

  …d into two big groups: symmetric and asymmetric. In symmetric systems, both users’ computers know the key that turns a set of symbols into an emoji, a “hi” or a code for a bank transaction. This is the most reliable way. However, there is one problem: how to transmit the key to the sender and the receiver – by mail or courier? Asymmetric systems use two keys, a pu…

  30.04.2020