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• Getting to Know Russian Literature: Part 1

  …, the first “serious” authors that Russian schoolchildren get to read are Alexander Pushkin, Mikhail Lermontov and Nikolai Gogol. The former two are most famous as poets, but their fiction has greatly contributed to the development of Russian literature. The latter, a truly diverse novelist, has both fathered a whole tradition in Russian realist fiction of the light source. At the same time, metamaterials have a number of other advantages compared with alternative methods of obtaining the tractor beam. Therefore, metasurfaces are …

  27.11.2018

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

  … you can make a good portfolio and go abroad, and then come back. Besides, if you work hard, science can be quite a profitable business. I study photonics, and particularly the interaction of light with nanostructures. What is your research about and how can it be applied? I study the interaction between transition metal dicha…

  27.11.2018

• Pop-Science Cinema at ITMO University

  …tion of whether we need alternative energy and what can be done to protect the environment. The festival’s main goal is to give the audience 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…

  26.11.2018

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

  …Metagenomic analysis has become a very popular research method in such fields as biology, medicine, and food biotechnology. A metagenome is a collection of genetic material of all bacteria 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…

  26.11.2018

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

  …8. Naturally, we want to make it one of the world’s most popular languages. I think that our making it to the top-five is more than possible, and we’re doing lots of work in this direction. On Alter Alter is a service that helps users find a personal psychotherapist based on a special searching algorithm that was developed in close collaboration with experts fr…

  26.11.2018

• KonFest 2018: Experts on Development of K2B Market

  … hammer, not vice-versa. When using machine learning, the machine can have more power than I do: it has more data and better efficiency. Therefore, when designing human-machine interactions, you have to make it so that the power balance is in favor of humans. Nina Yanikina: How sharing services will affect the K2B market We can well call the K2B market a market…

  23.11.2018

• VK Hackathon 2018 Winners Make Donating Blood Easier

  …lutions in this area. Besides, the task was pretty clear, and we knew that we could do it. And last but not least, Lena and Grisha are donors themselves and they had some useful connections that might have come in handy. Elena Selivanova: The other guys took on a more technical approach to choosing the track, but I wanted to do the DonorSearch case from the moment…

  23.11.2018

• ITMO Master’s Students Win National Lighting Design Competition

  …colorful stained glass above the stairways; during the night, or on overcast days, automated sensors provide artificial lighting. Lighted signs are affixed to walls, pointing the direction towards various exits. The students also came up with a solution for the two lengthy tunnels used by workers. Each of the tunnels has a different color temperature. The right tu…

  22.11.2018

• Voting Begins as ITMO Highpark Exhibition Opens in St. Petersburg

  …e developed by top design agencies from the UK, the Netherlands, Austria, and Russia. These are: MVRDV (the Netherlands) MVRDV has previously worked on a number of major construction projects in the Netherlands, France, China, India, and other countries. Among their current projects are large-scale urban development projects for Bordeaux and Cannes (France) and…

  22.11.2018