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Movie Chitter-Chatter: The Last Jedi
…rom blasters going ‘pew-pew-pew’ to Alien chestbursters.” Well, is there any pew-pew-pew in The Last Jedi? There is, big time. So much so that the warring camps in the fandom lay down their swords and unite in tentative consensus that TLJ plied us with some of the best fighting scenes we have ever been chanced to behold. And may you also rest assured in the kn…
03.05.2019
At the Intersection of Sciences: Bioinformatics Specialist Nikita Alexeev on Challenges of DNA Research
…hesis, I traveled a lot to Germany and worked there as a mathematician. In 2010, I returned to Russia. Back then I wasn’t studying bioinformatics; instead, I was working with random matrices and only at the end of my PhD studies I started getting interested in bioinformatics. At that point I was looking for places to work and the US seemed like a reasonable choice…
02.05.2019
Urban Change Week: Do Your Bit to Change the City for the Better
… St. Petersburg feel excited about green areas, spots near water and communication, agree about the roads and mud, are sad about ruins and emptiness, afraid of the crowd and abandoned areas, disgusted by rubbish, beer stands and beggars, and surprised by beautiful architecture, courtyards and Lakhta Center. Read more about the project here and here. Map of ver…
24.04.2019
The Magic of Russian May Holidays
ITMO Graduates Featured in Forbes' 30 Under 30 Ranking
… University. Specializing in theoretical and applied research in the field of quantum information science, the company’s offerings include quantum encryption systems, quantum random number generators and secure multichannel optical networks. The staff are regular participants at numerous Russian and international exhibitions such as “Photonics. World of Lasers and Op…
22.04.2019
Behavioral Economics: Why Humans Aren’t Made to Be Rational
… Early 21st-century studies posited that our behavior is affected by so-called anchors. Anchors are the experiments in which, for instance, a subject is shown an expressly random number and then asked how much something costs or how old Mahatma Gandhi was when he died. Such experiments showed that if the subject was shown, for instance, the number 60, then their s…
17.04.2019
I am a Professional: Gold Medal Winners Share Their Experience
…ng computers’ exhaust heat, which is, in essence, a continuation of my work for the UMNIK program. My choice to participate in the “Advertising and PR” track was not a random one: in the course of my work, I often saw how promising innovative projects failed as they weren’t presented to investors and the public in a proper way. I plan to study the issues of ma…
03.04.2019
Get to Know ITMO's Robotics and Control Specialists
…t, Faculty of Control Systems and Robotics Favorite spot in St. Petersburg? – The entirety of Obvodny Canal, because of how very different its surroundings are: from near-abandoned factories to modern business centers. What’s a song you can listen to forever? – “Origin (Concealing Fate, Pt. 6)”, by TesseracT. Mathematecally precise rhythmics and an enchanting m…
28.03.2019
How Sciences Falter: Historian on Dermatoglyphics and Phrenology
…bilities and traits. At that time, the idea was quite novel. Gall was no charlatan (as opposed to his followers), but he was wrong. He identified the correlation in a most random manner: by his experience of meeting various people. For example, he had a student who liked dissecting animals and eventually became a surgeon. When Gall examined his head, he found p…
27.03.2019
Russian Physicist Alexey Melnikov Awarded the Prestigious Cozzarelli Prize
…achine learning methods. The second is to develop systems for the recognition of time complexity and high-speed response of specific classes of physical algorithms of quantum random walk on graphs based on machine learning methods. This last question falls into the remit of Alexey Melnikov’s work. “The project will conclude this year, so the main results have mo…
25.03.2019