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Do It Yourself: Citizen-Led City Planning
…rganized a restaurant day: people installed small coffee shops, mobile food courts, and tables with homemade goods. The event coordinators asked the city authorities for permission, but their project wasn’t supported. But people organized the event anyway, and now it is much easier to open a food court in Helsinki. Or there is another story about a group of skateb…
22.08.2018
Culture Calling: Where to Enjoy Classical Music in St. Petersburg
… to attend a series of concerts which are often prefaced with lectures by top classical music experts. Psst: a St. Petersburg Phil season ticket is a great present for any occasion, which is probably why they sell faster than hotcakes, so we recommend you to be on the look-out when the sales open. The St. Petersburg Court Chapel Dating back to a 15th century ch…
21.08.2018
CEO of TuSion on Participating in Startup Festivals
…ce the number of code strings written in an hour - that would be objective data. Whereas if we talk about subjective data, then we would need to consider the executives’ impression of how focused their employees are. Our product combines both approaches. We’ve come to understand that there are different levels and stages of stress. There’s emotional burnout, weake…
21.08.2018
St. Petersburg, Amsterdam, Singapore: ITMO Graduate on Improving City Infrastructure
…the Amsterdam blackout, we plan on making our model universal, you’ll just need to fill in the city-specific data. These simulations can help city authorities make correct decisions on city planning. Our model is a great example of how researchers could use data drawn from real-life situations to improve urban environments,” comments Valentin Melnikov. Creat…
21.08.2018
Results of the 2018 Admissions Campaign at ITMO University
Mentorship Program: Find a Mentor and Land Your Dream Job
…Mentorship programs are becoming more and more popular, both in Russia and abroad. Such programs allow university graduates to become mentors and share their professional experience with students who, in turn, get an opportunity to talk to a specialist in a field they are interested in. Mentors can provide students with invaluable advice on how to apply for a Master’…
20.08.2018
5 Weird (and Delicious) Foods to Try in Russia
…ect okroshka, cut up cold boiled potatoes, eggs, ham, cucumbers and green onions and cover with a bubbly drink straight from the bottle. Pickled Sea Cabbage A Russian version of Korean kimchi, it’s actually a type of kelp seaweed cut up in thin slices and brined with carrots. On the store shelves it hangs out next to its friends brined actual cabbage and pickle…
20.08.2018
Scientists Create Antilaser for Bose-Einstein Condensate of Ultracold Atoms
…at provide coherent perfect absorption of a wave with given parameters are called antilasers. They have been used for several years in optics, for example, to create high-precision filters or sensors. The work of standard antilasers is based on the destructive interference of waves incident on the absorber. If the parameters of the incident waves are matched in a cer…
20.08.2018
KronBars and ASSC Hold St. Petersburg Regional Forum of Student Sport Clubs
…nuing to work as before. This happens in any major corporation or organization that focuses on stimulating their employees with money. 4. Communicate your values and mission Student clubs are created by like-minded people - friends or those who share common ideas. In their development, almost every club faces the situation when its activities don’t get enou…
17.08.2018
Physicists Propose Reversible Adjustment of Nanoparticles Color
…omine anions, and during the adjustment we succeeded in changing the bromine atoms to the chlorine atoms through a reversible reaction. This makes it possible to shift the emission spectrum of particles to 100 nm in the range of 420-520 nm. Organo-inorganic nanoparticles proved to be unsuitable for a similar adjustment of photophysical properties due to the presence …
17.08.2018