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• This Weekend in St. Petersburg: November 17-18

  …Such Christmas cheer is to last all the way to March 17 thanks to the cutting-edge cooling system keeping the ice in good nick even in above-zero temperatures. An hour of ice frolics will cost you from 150 to 450 roubles depending on the time of the day you decide to swing by the New Holland island for some glidin’ around. Note that the tickets tend to sell out prett…

  14.11.2018

• That Blockchain Life: Cryptocurrency Experts on Field’s Challenges and Opportunities

  …ect ourselves as parties to the so-called smart contracts. If Russia shows that there are legal routes of doing this by signing these contracts, we’ll set the regulation trend rolling and attract huge investments while at it. What we have today is a situation where the largest international and Russian companies are ready to introduce blockchain technologies and s…

  14.11.2018

• ITMO Student Picked as Torchbearer of 2019 Winter Universiade

  …0,000 rubles. Hard to say if it looks the price. It’s white, with a logo of the Universiade and the words “Krasnoyarsk 2019” on it. Extremely minimalist. Did you enjoy your role as a torchbearer? It was all very well organized, so I don’t regret it in the slightest. There were another 39 runners there, including Olympic athletes, politicians, and other students…

  14.11.2018

• Physicists Discover New Way of Resonance Tuning for Nonlinear Optics

• Studying Russian in Russia

  …The only benefit that I see to these cases is that, unlike in English, word order is not that important in the Russian language, as thanks to the cases, you can understand the role of each word no matter what the order. I think it is impossible for me to master all the endings of all the words every single time. So I’ve just accepted this and usually stick to English…

  13.11.2018

• New York University Professor’s Take on Future of Digital Cities

  …ning in order to make modern cities as comfortable to live in as possible. Because city systems are extremely vulnerable and complex, modern technologies play a very important role in the field of urban science. Digital cities The concept of digital cities implies the use of analytical approaches aimed at making people’s lives safer and more comfortable. Di…

  13.11.2018

• When VR met AR: ITMO University Students Created a SMARRt Robot with Lots of Potential

  …mobile robotic platform for facilitating remote presence of humans. The robot’s defining feature is that it functions on a combination of VR and AR technologies. Users can control the system with virtual reality glasses Oculus Rift. The video stream that comes from the fitted-in camera is enhanced with augmented reality, which the computer layers on special markers l…

  13.11.2018

• Do Smart Traffic Lights Dream of Self-Driving Cars? Traffic Expert Nil Podozerov Thinks So

  …e a Bane of Russian Drivers’ Existence’, ‘A Smart Traffic Light Is Good but a Reliable Police Officer Is Better’, and ‘Russian Inventors Come Up with a Smart Traffic Light Controlled from iPhone’ to name but a few. All these headings attest to quite a vague interpretation of the term. And that is often abused with the aim of attracting collective attention and pro…

  12.11.2018

• Pick a Dream Apartment Like a Russian

• ITMO Scientists Win Scopus Award Russia 2018

  … develop this project further. By then we had already won the megagrant and began to establish our pride and joy, the Laboratory of Hybrid Nanophotonics and Optoelectronics (PeroLab) at ITMO University. Within a year or so, the combined forces of ITMO staff and Yuri Kivshar and his team studied a whole series of nanophotonics effects in nanoimprinted perovskit…

  09.11.2018