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Entrepreneurial Culture: A Look Into the New General Course at ITMO
… for Master’s students, so there have been a few hidden hazards and elements that we’ll improve in the next semester. I mostly dealt with Russian-speaking students studying food production, ecology, and science communication; I also had individual one-on-one classes with a Nigerian student who turned out to be the only applicant in his group. For our practical classe…
26.12.2018
HAKORA: Building a Business in the Field of AR
… great results. Which project was your first serious undertaking that turned your startup into a company? Roman Shiplyakov: In June, we worked on a case for the DV group construction company that performs the reconstruction of the PIK shopping and entertainment center. Everyone was interested in how the reconstructed building woul…
26.12.2018
ITMO University Awards Its First Academic Degrees
…awarding a Candidate of Sciences degree and 11 for awarding a Doctor of Science degree. Still, the requirements to thesis board members have become stricter. The essential selection criteria here is the candidate’s scientific results for the past five years. They have to have no less than five publications in the Supreme Certification Commission's journals in …
25.12.2018
Head of ITMO's Femtomedicine Lab Olga Smolyanskaya on Applications of Terahertz Radiation in Medicine and Biology
…bject. Water was our main focus because it plays a key role in the formation and stabilization of biosystems, and can be seen as a universal indicator of their state and way of functioning. The dielectric properties of water are at the core of diagnostic methods, so we started our overview with the analysis of physical models that describe the complex dielectric c…
25.12.2018
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How to Survive the Holidays If You’re a Grinch
…wrapping is the key to gift-giving. The more bows and ribbons and washi tape there are, the better. It wins you some time to run away from the person you’re gifting to avoid their reaction. You’ve done your bit, and the rest just isn’t your problemo. Situation 3: Going home for Christmas You’ve made it through the office party, you’ve bought the presents, and n…
21.12.2018
Mind Maps, Open Spaces, and Cooking Contests: ITMO Staff Visit UK’s Oxford Brookes University
…y can grab a laptop, as well as rest areas where they can work on their studies. The key principles of the educational environment at Oxford Brookes are creativity, freedom, interaction, flexibility, safety, and aesthetics. “When you’re at Oxford Brookes, you can intuitively feel the convergence of the private and the public in the way that space is organ…
21.12.2018
ITMO Students' Facial Recognition System Wins 'Best Creative Solution' at Fintech Cup
… made up of students from the Faculty of Infocommunication Technologies Valeria Stromtsova, Artemiy Magarin, and Petr Revyakin. They came up with the Interface project, a money transaction system based on facial recognition technologies. All you have to do is to direct a camera to a cardholder’s face, then the application recognizes it and transmits the data to the s…
21.12.2018
From Sunshine to Freezing Cold: An Ecuadorian’s Experience of Russia
…eat St. Petersburg Polytechnic University. Why Russian? Compared to Spanish, Russian is much more difficult; it has many peculiarities, such as cases, for example, or vowel reduction when O is pronounced like A. It’s such a challenge for me, and I like it. What is your first impression of St. Petersburg? I vividly remember how I came out of the airpor…
20.12.2018
ITMO Launches New Master’s Program ‘Bioeconomics and Resource Management’
…pment (OECD), “green” technologies fulfill the following tasks: general environmental management (waste management, water, and air purification, land reclamation, etc.); production of energy from renewable sources (solar energy, biofuel, etc.); mitigation of climate change; the reduction of harmful emissions; the increase …
20.12.2018