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• Daria Kozlova, ITMO’s Vice Rector for International Relations, Receives "Saint Petersburg’s Influential Women — 2017" Award

  …dred women who work in different sectors of economy, education, science and arts got the award. Among them were opera director Larisa Gergieva, sportswoman and Duma member Svetlana Zhurova, trainer Tatyana Moskvina, first dancer of Mariinsky Theater Julia Makhalina, CEO of Interfax North-West Lyudmila Fomicheva, board member of the Melon Fashion Group Galina Sintsova…

  02.03.2017

• Like Doesn’t Cure Like: Homeopathy and Its Fake Medications

  …doesn’t contain even a molecule of the agent. Credit: depositphotos.com But how does it work? Homoeopathists claim that water has "memory". One can find different explanations of this phenomenon in various sources. Some say that molecules of water have quantum energy. Others believe that there are magnetic fields "stay" in water and then interact with those…

  01.03.2017

• JavaScript, С, PHP and Python: ITMO’s Master’s Students on How to Create a Website in 45 Minutes

  …rm which united everything the students created. The project's main ideas are the popularization of web technologies, structuring of fragmented knowledge and comprehensible explanation of technology, even for those who are new to web development. "At first, when one is new to creating websites, he does not even know what to start with, and how the whole process …

  28.02.2017

• Getting Your Dream Job: Lifehacks from the Expert

  …ay, Physcareer.ru) and fill in their application forms. Give clear information about your employment history, desired position and salary, soft and hard skills. Avoid vague explanations — don’t use such words as "manager" and "trainee" in general sense. The CV is not an essay where you put all of your soaring thoughts. You are too creative to be limited by strict ru…

  16.02.2017

• Amusement or Science: The Role of Modern Museums

  …rch divisions, they organize conferences, and so on. Yet, we can also call museums "scientific" when they promote science by not just showing exhibits, but giving competent explanations to scientific phenomena and mechanisms", comments ArtemSmolin, head of ITMO's Department of Engineering and Computer Graphics. What's more, many museums actively use modern technolo…

  31.01.2017

• St. Tatiana Badge of Honor Conferral at the Smolny Cathedral

  …yev, presented the St. Tatiana Badge's of Honor to students and citizens who've greatly contributed to the city's social development and outreach. Among other honorees was Svetlana Ushakova, a master's student at ITMO's Faculty of Technological Management and Innovations and manager of the Social Design and Entrepreneurship Center and Philipp Kazin, Dean of the Facul…

  26.01.2017

• Studying From the Comfort of Your Own Couch

  …h from one thing to another, especially if the content is boring. This is why, in my opinion, lectures in online courses must be balanced. They shouldn’t belong, monotonous explanations of theory, and then a swift transition to practice. Also students need to give time to focusing on what is being shown on the screen. Otherwise their attention will be scattered and t…

  13.01.2017

• Movie Guide: The Best Russian Festive Films to brighten up your New Year’s Eve

  …his machine, they are forced to adopt completely different lifestyles. The movie has since become a source of sarcastic and ironic idioms and jokes. Some of them require explanation, as today they are used in a completely different context. For instance, Ivan shouts "Everybody dance!" at a ball when pretending to be the Tsar. Today you will often hear this stateme…

  30.12.2016

• FoodTech-2050: Introducing Technologies to Food Industry

  …imes students and staff from universities cooperate with an establishment on some project, but the results are not introduced due to their interest diminishing", commented Svetlana Davidenko, leading biochemist of the Baltica Breweries. "For dairy manufacturers, especially those that use natural products, introducing scientific inventions is not a pressing probl…

  27.10.2016

• Relativity Theory in Layman’s Terms: a New Lecture at the «Gutenberg's Lounge»

  …ere also lectures on literature and philosophy, psychology, physics, chemistry, economics — and none on mathematics. Why does that happen? Mathematics is too abstract. The explanation of one of the simplest concepts of mathematical analysis, the limit of functions, looks really complex in formal language — though we've all got in school when it was explained to us i…

  05.10.2016