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• University of Amsterdam Professor on the Importance of Crowd Behavior Research and Putting Minecraft to Good Use

  …ments and store spatial data, the researchers have created a game in which users have to study their setting in order to search for exit routes. A player is teleported in an abandoned castle with 11 other people imprisoned in different rooms scattered all over the building. The goal of the game is to free all the hostages, open the main doors of the castle, and run a…

  11.10.2018

• Movie Fridays: The Autumn Showdown

  …ous cure to all of their problems. But the experiment doesn’t quite go as planned, and they end up in a whirlwind of vivid hallucinations that transcend time, place, and even fandoms (let’s just say that Game of Thrones and Lord of the Rings make a lucy-in-the-sky-with-diamonds appearance). Maniac is a madcap pastiche of different genres that risks leaving you a b…

  05.10.2018

• THE World University Rankings-2019: More Russian Universities Join the Top List

  …omes from three sources: statistical information provided by participating universities, the Scopus database, and surveys of academic experts. Survey respondents are selected randomly from a number of researchers with a Scopus profile, with their geographical location and specialization factored in to make the survey pool diverse. Both this year’s and last year’s sur…

  26.09.2018

• Nobel Prize Laureate Andre Geim: ‘Science is a Lifelong Marathon, Not a 100-Meter Sprint’

  …ur terms of reference, but can we do something more? The idea of the two-dimensional nothingness of which I spoke earlier came to us completely out of left field. It was a random combination of different reasons, which we were only able to understand later, that led to the creation of this peculiar new system. That’s why we as researchers need to be like frogs con…

  19.09.2018

• This Weekend in St. Petersburg: September 15-16

  … adventure in itself) will host a concert by Fiori Musicali Orchestra featuring iconic classical music performed on antique instruments such as the clavichord and the baroque mandolin. But the most exciting part is that after the concert, guests will get a chance to learn more about these extraordinary instruments and even play them! The concert starts at 3pm. Ticket…

  12.09.2018

• ITMO University in Top 20 of Times Higher Education Eurasia Rankings

  …mes from three sources: statistical information provided by participating universities, the Scopus bibliometric database, and academic experts surveys. Survey respondents are randomly selected from a number of researchers with a Scopus profile. ITMO University ranks 10th among the Russian higher education institutions, showing its best result in the International …

  31.08.2018

• Do It Yourself: Citizen-Led City Planning

  … anyway, and now it is much easier to open a food court in Helsinki. Or there is another story about a group of skateboarders in Tampere who built a skateboard park on an abandoned industrial site in the outskirts of the city. This project was afterwards supported by the authorities and the park was turned into an open public place. Your ideas are welcome It…

  22.08.2018

• ITMO University Enters Academic Ranking of World Universities for the First Time

  … be used to predict changes in public opinion. On-chip generation of high-dimensional entangled quantum states and their coherent control (Nature), co-authored by Roberto Morandotti, a professor at the Department of Laser Systems and Technologies. Its authors developed an optical chip capable of generating and manipulating high-dimensional entangled photons, thus i…

  14.08.2018

• Going Digital: How Technologies Change Our World

  … reality is their natural environment. As predicted by futurists, this will be a whole new biological species without any ideal models of behavior. Millennials, too, have abandoned their parents’ ideal behavior patterns, but they've also managed to create their own. Ideal models of behavior are these trite precepts like ‘if you want to have a good life, you should…

  13.08.2018

• Vacation With a Purpose: Science Tourism and Citizen Science