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• This Weekend in St. Petersburg: December 1-2

  …, Wasted: The story of food waste, the documentary aimed at changing how people buy, cook and eat food, both screened on December 1, and on December 2, Into the Okavango, a passionate conservation biologist’s epic four-month expedition along the Okavango Delta, In the Same Boat, an artistic analysis of the effects of globalisation, which presents an optimistic argume…

  28.11.2018

• Professor Sergei Tihodeev on Soviet Science and Collaboration with ITMO University

  …se worth all this trouble? I suppose so. The students who attended the course were really motivated. Sure, we couldn't try the most advanced approaches during our practice sessions, but the students have at least made their first steps and got valuable experience. And what is your opinion about the Faculty's research? In this field, you might well hold le…

  28.11.2018

• Getting to Know Russian Literature: Part 1

  …ome great novelists, as well. Among the notable writers of this period are Ivan Bunin, the first Russian author to win a Nobel Prize for Literature, Leonid Andreyev (Russian visionary of expressionism, stories like The Seven Who Were Hanged and Red Laugh are quite characteristic of his work), and Aleksandr Kuprin (personally, I’d recomm…

  27.11.2018

• 2018 Student of the Year Winners on Students’ Unions, Science, and Buddy Program

  …your research about and how can it be applied? I study the interaction between transition metal dichalcogenides and dielectric nanoantennas. This is a class of two-dimensional semiconductors like graphene. This field has many possible applications, for one, in polariton lasers, which may serve as a platform for photon sources in quantum and optical computers. …

  27.11.2018

• Pop-Science Cinema at ITMO University

  …e an insight into contemporary non-fiction movies, as well as involve students in the conversation about the importance of research. After the screenings, there was a discussion with an invited expert on the film’s topic. This year, the discussion was moderated by Pavel Gulyaev, a programmer from the Computer Technologies internation…

  26.11.2018

• Russian Developers Created a Platform for Interactive Analysis of Metagenomic Data

  …cteria living in a given body site. By looking at one’s metagenome, scientists and doctors can characterize the composition and balance of intestinal microflora and draw conclusions about its contribution to health of cohorts. Moreover, this method can be used to find out what effect a particular drug or type of food has on microbiota. Hundreds and thousands of metag…

  26.11.2018

• Andrey Breslav on Kotlin, Time-Management, and Being a Programmer

  …On choosing a career path When I got into programming as a child, I didn’t realize that it was me choosing a profession, it just was something I liked to do. Back then, I had a prehistoric computer that wasn’t even suitable for programming because it didn’t have a compiler, just a DOS that allowed for writing simple commands, which I did obsessively until a friend…

  26.11.2018

• I am a Professional: Qualification Round Starts with Over Half a Million Participants in the Game

  …od that was taking place from September 26 to November 22, 523,612 Russian students and graduates put in their applications for the national academic competition ‘I am a Professional’. According to the data provided by the competition organizers, 302,929 (58%) applications came from females, while 220,683 (42%) were submitted by males, a minor change from last year w…

  23.11.2018

• The Magic of St. Petersburg Philharmonia

  …o keep my tights clean?” “You’re going to wear ski pants over them before we get there,” said grandma. She put on her herringbone wool suit that she kept for special occasions, gave her freshly curled hair a gentle brush and put on the diamond earrings she’d inherited from her mom. My grandma had been going to the Leningrad Philharmonia (now called the St. P…

  23.11.2018

• KonFest 2018: Experts on Development of K2B Market

  …of all, it is a "live" conference, i.e. the participants can first listen to lectures by the invited speakers and then meet them and their colleagues to have an informal discussion. Secondly, KonFest is also a festival: apart from lectures, it also features "brain rings", discussions styled after boxing matches where opponents defend tw…

  23.11.2018