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• Making the Most of Your Student Life

• Geography for All: Why Science Popularization Matters

  …o dozens of different scientific fields. Geographers work in airports, contribute to pipe routing, research climate change, and explore glaciers; geography plays a significant role in many areas of our daily life, but few people know that. We work on breaking away from this limited understanding of geography and making the general public interested in our science. Th…

  28.08.2018

• What’s the Commotion? ITMO Scientists Discover How Obstacles Change Crowd Dynamics

  … the scientists opted for the multiagent modelling method. It depicts the crowd behavior in terms of general human flow trajectory and velocities of individual agents, who control their own behavior but are also influenced by external factors such as the location of other agents and obstacles they encounter on their way. Multiagent modelling addresses the task of …

  27.08.2018

• Movie Fridays: Time of Your Life

• ITMO University Launches SumIT International StartUp School

  …rtup more commercially viable. Elena Dymova, Syktyvkar, Russia I am an English teacher and founder of a Busy Lizzie the Bee English learning school for children. I enrolled to SumIT together with Alexander Nekrasov, who heads the Pitirim Sorokin Syktyvkar State University laboratory. We wanted to present a social media data analysis project but then deci…

  24.08.2018

• Sport, Recreation, Intellectual Hobby: What is Birdwatching and How it Helps Scientists

  …r whom is it best suited? Birdwatching is a universal pastime that works both as a family activity and as a sporting hobby. Whether you're a mom, walking every day with a stroller in the park, or hardcore hiker - bird watching can be a great addition to walking for anyone observant and curious. It’s also an intellectual hobby - you need to master certain skills an…

  24.08.2018

• Roger Roger: How to Make Websites Understand Their Users

  … interaction interface which will provide for more effective user-website voice communication. We’re also working on making the interface more accessible, and we have full control on how it looks and can read it in different ways. We’ve also developed an alternative option which allows us to take a peek into the future when SpeechRecognition will spread to all the pl…

  23.08.2018

• ITMO Student on Management, Branding, and Working with Gucci

  …s. About social media Everyone knows that Instagram has helped many people to become popular, get a job, and establish useful connections. It played a very important role in shaping my career, too, as it was there where Gucci designer David Renee noticed my pictures and invited me to Milan. But usually it is my agency that is responsible for finding work fo…

  23.08.2018

• This Weekend in St. Petersburg: August 25-26

  …Roller skating marathon This Saturday August 25, St. Petersburg will become one giant roller rink. Kicking off at 3pm on the Palace Square, the much-loved annual roller skating marathon will bring together thousands of city dwellers joyously skating through the main streets of St. Petersburg. Making …

  22.08.2018

• Foodtech: Functional Nutrition Trends in Russia

  …n soon get a boost. For now, it amounts to just 60 billion rubles, which means that this niche has only started to develop.  There are several players who will play a decisive role in whether this market will be a hit: doctors, major food companies, and the consumers themselves. “Speaking about manufacturers, they have increased the product range, and new players …

  22.08.2018