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• Top Five: Podcasts Against Boredom

  …hosts will never stop, err, podcasting themselves. ‎Imaginary Worlds Strap in for a sci-fi and fantasy galore with this bi-weekly gem of a podcast, in which host Eric Molinsky talks with novelists, screenwriters, comic book artists, filmmakers, and game designers about the craft of creating fictional worlds. Each episode dissects one popular trope – from time t…

  19.06.2020

• ITMO Researchers Develop New Terahertz Pulse-Based Data Encoding Method

  …th measured in tens of nanometers. In the terahertz range, the bandwidth of such pulses would be much larger. “It would be within the range of 300 to 3,000 microns,” explains Egor Oparin. “We would be able to insert a lot more data channels at the same time – provided we have the necessary technical solutions, of course.” The …

  19.06.2020

• Results of the Open Call for ITMO University’s Art & Science Residency

  …lsh has presented her works in Australia, the USA, and Germany, and was published in many international journals, such as X-Press, KALTBLUT, The Massing Lab, Studio XX, Goethe-Institut, CLOT Magazine, and Unbore Collective. Currently she works at the residency of the Department of Experimental Biophysics, Humboldt University of Berlin.  Laura Ige is an Argentinian…

  18.06.2020

• Farshid Amini: When I Look at the Sky, I Imagine a Bigger World

  …f different ethnic groups so we have to learn how to live together. Something very curious is that in Iran we do not use the Gregorian calendar but our own. Our New Year begins on the first day of spring. The official language of Iran is Persian (Farsi), and the country has a population of about 85 million. But in Tehran, my hometown, there are about 14 million pe…

  18.06.2020

• Scientists Grow Optical Chips in a Petri Dish

  …ld travel sufficiently far through it.” Earlier, attempts were made to replace silicon waveguides with silver ones, but the transmission distance in such systems was also insufficient. Optical chip in a Petri dish In the end, a team of scientists that included specialists from ITMO University, St. Petersburg Academic University, and Université de Lorraine …

  18.06.2020

• Coffee Map Project: Coffee to Go Without Waiting and Queues

  … the latter are only interested in increasing the client flow. Plus, Telegram bots have appeared not long ago – for example, one has been launched by the coffee shop chain Baggins Coffee. Our app, of course, beats their bot both in terms of convenience and functionality: there, you can only order coffee in ten minutes before you arrive. We don’t have these limitation…

  17.06.2020

• This Stay-At-Home Weekend in St. Petersburg: Mastering Communication

  …First of all, a little disclaimer: originally, this little guide was inspired by a podcast (sadly, only in Russian) that delves deep into the philosophy of Syrian Christian mystics trying to find answers to highly relevant questions of today – like how to avoid burnout, or how to manage anger. If you’re up for a challenge of practicing your Russian in this rather rad…

  17.06.2020

• Scientists Create Program That Finds Synteny Blocks in Different Animals

  …at just aren’t capable of  dealing with today’s tasks.  “Genomics is a constantly developing science, and the quality of genome assemblies is constantly increasing,” explains Ksenia Krasheninnikova. “Some old trustworthy programs just can’t work with the vast amounts of data that we get nowadays. They simply weren’t designed for this much data.” For thi…

  17.06.2020

• ITMO University Graduates Among the Highest Paid in Russia According to SuperJob

  …he average net income of IT specialists who graduated between 2014 and 2019. For the first time, ITMO University made it to the top five. The first place went to the Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology (MIPT). The average income of MIPT graduates is about 180,000 rubles. ITMO University and Bauman Moscow State Technical University share the second place wit…

  16.06.2020

• StoryCorps: History Through Stories

  … too hard to understand, you can always take a look at the transcript of a podcast. Analyze data The massive amount of recordings can also be used as a source of data or inspiration for research in such fields like (oral) history, folklore studies, digital humanities, and so on. This unique source provides us with stories that would be hard to access elsewise. …

  16.06.2020