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• Making the Most of Your Student Life

  …accomplishment. The beginning of an academic year is a perfect time for everyone – students and teachers, faculty and staff – to realize that we all want to be a first-rate version of ourselves rather than a second-rate version of somebody else. So go ahead and enjoy! Test your limits Polina Petrusha, Head of Internationalizat…

  28.08.2018

• Geography for All: Why Science Popularization Matters

  …ance. Co-hosting the summer school with our Russian Geographical Society colleagues was a really exciting prospect for us at ITMO University. Our Master’s students are very passionate about promoting geography to the wider public; you could see it in their innovative projects in the fields of citizen science, ecology, popularization of national parks and reserves, an…

  28.08.2018

• ITMO and Rostelecom Support Technological Startups

  …echnologies, information security, industrial Internet technologies, machine learning, artificial intelligence, spatial data, distributed registry technologies, and computer vision. “Apart from conducting an external search for projects, solutions, and teams, Rostelecom aims to develop the company’s internal innovations and businesses as the development’s drivin…

  28.08.2018

• Science Comics: New Format of Science Communication

  … so it’s a good opportunity to get noticed.   Format-wise, science comics is a hybrid of the elitist culture of popular science articles and books that are written by professional scientists and journalists, and the mainstream comics culture. Despite the rapid development of this format, it is still often shunned by the scientific community. The editorial of “S…

  27.08.2018

• What’s the Commotion? ITMO Scientists Discover How Obstacles Change Crowd Dynamics

  …, columns and barriers not only contribute to narrowing confined spaces and intensifying the flow of pedestrians in corners and constrictions, but also minimize potential collisions and interactions between individual agents. All this streamlines the human flows, reducing their density and optimizing pedestrian movements. Some types of obstacles cause changes …

  27.08.2018

• Dealing with Culture Shock in Russia

  … let your studies go. When it feels like you just can’t do it, take a tiny step, such as read just one page or do an easy assignment. Text your classmate and set up a study session. Small victories will grow into larger accomplishments as you gain your momentum back. - Remember the list you made in your Honeymoon stage? Go back to it and see if you can cross off a…

  27.08.2018

• ITMO University Launches SumIT International StartUp School

  …dor program which will focus on training young people who will then go on to work with farmers. Their task will be to gather reliable data that will help us make the right decisions when offering and managing credits. Subscription fees and credit interests will be our primary sources of revenue. After creating a solid farming community, we plan on expanding our platf…

  24.08.2018

• Sport, Recreation, Intellectual Hobby: What is Birdwatching and How it Helps Scientists

  … to learn to identify birds without any help - it's best to begin acquaintance with them in the company of an experienced ornithologist, for example, on an ornithological excursion that take place in many cities around Russia. In St. Petersburg they are conducted by Sergey Petrov with the Zoological Institute of the Russian Academy of Sciences. Birdwatching is ver…

  24.08.2018

• Roger Roger: How to Make Websites Understand Their Users

  …ificant changes to attributes and specification. The other issue is that accessibility does not yield profits, which makes it less of a priority in the eyes of people commissioning the websites. But Alexey Okhrimenko states that there is a way to address this problem. Voice interaction will not only improve websites accessibility, but also make the interaction muc…

  23.08.2018

• This Weekend in St. Petersburg: August 25-26

  …th a music concert featuring a mishmash of jazz, rock, and pop tunes and starring St. Petersburg’s budding performers ART-Jazz Band, The Vicious Seeds, Soul-K, and Surfa. Admission is free and everyone is welcome to join in the fun. And just in case you’ve always wanted to put on a superhero leotard and slide around the city, this will be your moment to shine as craz…

  22.08.2018