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• This Weekend in St. Petersburg: November 7-8, 2020

  …r lives. And the Festival of Light is what will bring you to a mysterious world full of light, adventures, and magic. You’ll have the chance to stroll along the narrow streets inside the Peter and Paul Fortress, get acquainted with the history of our country's navy, experience Night of Museums, and take a virtual tour of the city’s exhibition halls. You will meet the…

  04.11.2020

• Food for Good: How To Join This Year’s Hult Prize and Help the World

  …food waste project foodsavestheworld. According to Vyacheslav, Hult Prize is an international movement that helps students rediscover their own abilities and capacities and inspires them to change society for the better – so that they don’t just make money, but bring positive change in the process, as well. “You should take part in our project not just for mo…

  03.11.2020

• ITMO Researchers Discover Material With Refractive Index Higher Than in Silicon

  …, in which light enters the sea surface with one angle and goes through it with a completely different one. Another popular way to demonstrate refraction is by placing a spoon inside a transparent glass filled with water – and see the spoon “break” at the interface of two media.  Any substance, be that water, air, glass, or a mineral, has a refractive coefficient.…

  03.11.2020

• TEDxStPetersburg Speakers on the Future of Education, Quantum Revolution, and Burnout Prevention

  …ven though the TEDxStPetersburg conference took place online, its format remained the same. A series of short lectures allowed each speaker to briefly share their thoughts and insights with the audience in accordance with TED’s slogan – “Ideas worth spreading.” TED (Technology, Entertainment, Design) events cover various topics: from personal efficiency to high te…

  03.11.2020

• ITMO’s Gennady Korotkevich Wins VK Cup

  …mic resulted in two postponements; in the end, the VK team decided to hold the event online. A live stream took place from a portable studio on the New Stage of the Alexandrinsky Theatre in St. Petersburg, where VK developers and heads of VK Cup’s tracks discussed the tasks of the final and preceding stages. Meanwhile, the participants defended their projects and …

  02.11.2020

• Collecting Sounds: ITMO Holds Workshop on Soundscapes and Environmental Acoustics

  …, any space has its own unique set of sounds and noises that all significantly influence a person’s psychological and emotional state – most often, however, this influence remains unnoticed.  This combination of sound and noises he called a soundscape, a term that can be applied to cities, countries, or natural sites, as well as to smaller spaces like apartments, …

  02.11.2020

• Ancient Art & Science, or What Killed the Medusa

  …was dedicated to these differences. “First of all, they [the ancient Greeks] only had geometrical optics; they had no wave optics and, naturally, no quantum optics,” explains Sergei Stafeev. “But even the geometrical optics of the ancient Greeks was, so to say, inverted. It wasn’t about light that gets into the eyes but about visual rays that come out of the eye…

  02.11.2020

• Painted Mammoths and Honey: the Rescued Wonders of Bashkortostan

  …-fluttering legend about its birth (it's probably worth another article to explain it all). Nature of Bashkortostan boasts breathtaking landscapes, formed by the Ural Mountains. In addition to incredible views of untouched nature and deposits of mineral resources, some places are of great historical value, capturing traces of ancient settlers. Unfortunately, these…

  02.11.2020

• ITMO University's Award for Achievement in Education

  …R/AR; artificial intelligence in education; big data. Involvement: active learning; gamification; project work; grading system. Online learning instructional videos; online courses; microlearning. To participate in the competition, you need to fill out a competition application no later than December 31, 2020, inclusively. …

  30.10.2020

• Bringing a Young Russian Startup to USA Step-by-Step: Advice & Lifehacks from Investor Mikhail Gavrilov

  …rmore, the US generally has a more developed startup and investment culture with an established community. Even large companies tend to invest in startups at early stages. For instance, Google acquires an average of one startup a week.  Despite all that, Russia is a good country to found a startup in. There are well-trained engineers, salaries that reach a global …

  30.10.2020