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Mountaineers Name Peak After ITMO University
…conceived three years ago; it was then that you, as part of an expedition, went on a sort of a “reconnaissance trip” before the final ascension. In February of 2015, at mountaineering training session at the university’s climbing wall, I’d had a wild thought: why isn’t there a peak named after ITMO University? Why don’t we find one? I shared my thoughts with Alexe…
28.08.2017
ITMO’s Higher School of Lighting Design Enters PLDC's Top-5 Best Universities
…such renowned professionals in the field of lighting design as Berry van Egten from the Netherlands, Karolina M. Zielinska-Dabkowska from Poland and Stuart Green from Great Britain. The reason for ITMO’s inclusion was the “pioneering work conducted by the university in the field of lighting design”. The winner will be announced at the PLDC-2017 conference in Paris. …
28.08.2017
Bloomberg Experts: Semantic Tech to Improve Financial Operations
…who will benefit from it? First, let’s define what these identifiers are. When two market players enter a trade (for instance, one bank sells stock to another), they use certain codification for these securities. They need this in order to be totally sure what kind of deal it is and what it’s about. For international financial instruments, there are ISIN codes ass…
25.08.2017
Student Life on the French Riviera: ITMO Exchange Experience
…d you encounter that too? Here, I have to credit the great work of ITMO University’s International Office. When the relationship with the partner university is properly maintained, the students don’t have to worry about much. The initial organizational tasks (up until the point when a student’s application is approved by the foreign university) are the responsibil…
24.08.2017
Aleksandra Kalashnikova: We Need to Reconsider PhD Students’ Status
…en scientists and business. We need companies that are ready to finance long-term projects. Developing new technologies is expensive; universities can bring a research to a certain level, yet introducing a technology implies large investments. Only major companies can afford that, and do we have such companies in Russia? Well, we might have some demand on research in…
23.08.2017
Relocation Tips: Using Public Transport in St. Petersburg
…ersion of this article, published in September 2020, can be found here and includes the latest info on this subject as of its publication date. Please note that information contained in the article below may be out of date and no longer valid. “Podorozhnik” Card If you take public transport regularly, it’s a good idea to get a “podorozhnik” transportation…
22.08.2017
TransformCity: The Amsterdam Approach to Urban Planning
Nanoparticle Ink Lets Regular Inkjet Printers Produce Glowing Holograms
…hers all over the world for decades. However, our research is novel in that it uses the material to protect the surface of rainbow holograms. To this end, we had to achieve certain features in the material. In particular, the nanoparticles contained in the ink must be close to identical in size. Strict requirements are also imposed by r…
22.08.2017
"In English, Please": De-Jargonizer Helps Make Science Accessible
…us journals. For their research, the scientists used abstracts and summaries that are usually intended for a wider audience. Results show that abstracts of biology articles contain up to 10 percent of rare words, while the summaries have about 8 percent. Earlier research showed that, to understand the text properly, the readers must be familiar with at least 98% of t…
21.08.2017
Dave Vasquez: We Need To Start Teaching Entrepreneurship Back In School
… own mistakes and gained lots of valuable experience, which helped me to quickly check different assumptions and understand what will work and what won't, how can I improve certain ideas and the like. Soon, I started to receive propositions to work with other startups. I started to help novice entrepreneurs from Latin America, and work more with the corresponding com…
17.08.2017