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• Our Favorite Places to Experience Fall in St. Petersburg

  …e creative atmosphere of the time.  The surrounding park, which Repin designed himself, is almost as enchanting as the house itself, with its winding alleys and shady ponds inspired by the works of Manet. It’s a perfect place to experience one of those moments of quiet contemplation that once inspired one of Russia’s greatest artists…

  06.10.2020

• Epidemiologist Vasily Vlassov on Medical Problems Exposed by the Pandemic

  …ere clear. The course of the disease still isn’t fully understood. “Such an obvious, as it seems, symptom, as losing the sense of smell was described only in April,” explains Prof. Vlassov. “What were the doctors doing before? As it turns out, we all are limited when it comes to detecting new information. We detect what is known to us and don’t notice the rest. …

  06.10.2020

• You Can Fight the World and Win: ITMO Graduate Kirill Rivkin on DataArt, Studies in the US and His Startup

  …From physics to programming You studied at ITMO back in the ‘90s, when it was still called St. Petersburg Institute of Fine Mechanics and Optics. Why did you choose it?  When I enrolled at ITMO in 1994, I chose it mostly because both my father and my grandfather went there – and it was also really close to my home. That’s why it was very convenient to go or, in…

  05.10.2020

• KronBars Named Best Russian Student Sports Club for the Fourth Year in a Row

  …tracted the attention of the jury – thanks to partnership campaigns with the Zenit football club and the ZigZag sailing school, and the company for the production of popular skins for CS:GO CS Money, as well as the unprecedented Cyberphysical Culture project. This project allowed students to take a PE test playing CS:GO and Dota 2 and it was widely covered in the med…

  05.10.2020

• New Coworking Space Opens at ITMO’s Kronverksky Campus

  …s between lectures. Today, we want to make it so that students would come to ITMO to not just attend lectures but to also work on their own and in teams, do their homework, brainstorm, and rest. And this coworking space is a step towards creating an environment for generating new concepts at ITMO. What’s more, horizontal communications are important and so is a dialo…

  05.10.2020

• Comfort Foods to Try This Fall

  …together for a while. Strongly recommend – it (along with the Halloweentown screening) saved the day. Anna My absolute favorite for fall is witch fingers. It goes against every lyrical Russian food, against the warmth of harvest and the comfort of cinnamon teas, and the general concept that food is not a toy. It’s crude like a…

  02.10.2020

• Scientists Create New IR-Activated Coating for Local Drug Delivery

  …the influence of infrared radiation, the physicochemical properties of the hybrid coating will change and the substance will be released.” Thus, the substance trapped inside the pores will be released when physicians signal it to do so by shining infrared light on the material, invisible and harmless to the patient. The scientists have investigated in vit…

  02.10.2020

• Media Research Group’s Aleksandr Farseev On Advertising Algorithms and Social Network Monopolies

  …ected in the content we produce. This data can create a whole other image based on content analysis. Preferably, there should be various types of data available: videos, check-ins, text posts, and pictures. This can give us an idea of who the person actually is and what they care about. Going back to the Trump case, we analyzed both him and other presidential cand…

  01.10.2020

• New Historical Exposition Set to Open in Russia’s Oldest Science City

  …village of Koltushi. It was a place where researchers could live and work side by side, dealing with the most pressing issues of that time. This town was purpose-built for the Institute of Physiology, which was newly established at the initiative of the Nobel Prize laureate Ivan Pavlov. Now, this town is home to the Memorial Museum Estate of Academician I.P. Pavlo…

  01.10.2020

• Staff Spotlight: Mingzhao Song, China

  …ning of my career, there was a very small group of researchers, about 30 people in total, and now we’re a 500-person organization. I’m glad I’ve witnessed it become such a big institution through all the stages of creation and development. Considering my personal impact, back then I was the first international student at the lab and the English-speaking environmen…

  01.10.2020