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• Song of the Month: January 2020

  …ia K.  January is the middle of long, dark winter, and it’s already hard by itself, but atop of it, it’s the time when the whole world accelerates with the beginning of the new year and slow returning of daylight: new tasks, new difficulties, constant changes, crazy speeds and unexpected discoveries all…

  31.01.2020

• Social Sciences in the Era of Social Networks: Studying Selfies, Likes and Geotags

  …ologists set goals and tasks in their fields and big data specialists collect all the necessary information and help structure it.  It’s hard not to mention Lev Manovich, a new media theory specialist, when talking about big data. He is engaged in a brand new field of cultural research – using computer analysis and data-visualization…

  31.01.2020

• Smart Cities, Robot Bureaucrats: Japanese Digitalization Expert on Building the Right Kind of Society 5.0

  …ies, the internet and crowdfunding are in widespread use in society 4.0, but a large number of services that we can get aren’t interconnected, which has to be rectified at the new stage of development. However, as Mr. Zamma straightaway pointed out, the changes have to impact not only, and sometimes not so much, the field of technologies but the very attitude to peop…

  31.01.2020

• Yimer Getnet: Food Biotechnology is a Promising Field and I Want to Be Part of It

  …nating history and considerable influence on science and technology.  In my opinion, Russians are very educated people. This influenced me greatly. Before coming here, I also knew that it was home to many distinguished artists, philosophers and scientists and it was my dream to study in the same place as all those talented people. Besides, I wanted a little change in…

  30.01.2020

• Digital Humanities Week: Physicist and Mathematician Ivan Yamshchikov on the Use of Algorithms in Humanities Research

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

  …Samba De Janero, Vivaldi and Monteverdi arranged by Irina Vakulenko, a composer and pianist from St. Petersburg, will take you to a world of cat statues of St. Pete, Milan and New York that come alive and start speaking a mysterious language of their own.  Fashion Freak Show January 31 – February 2, 7pm Oktyabrsky Grand Concert Hall (BKZ) Tickets from 18…

  29.01.2020

• Soft Skills For Anyone: ITMO Stand Up Comedy

  …h course and an associate professor at the ChemBio Cluster, got to the bottom of the concept at his recent stand-up performance by conducting a tongue-in-cheek analysis of the new term and discussing the difficulties of translating it into Russian.  Both Bachelor’s and Master’s students attended the performance, which started with a bang as Mikhail appeared on…

  29.01.2020

• Students and Their Mentors Awarded St. Tatiana Badges of Honor in St. Petersburg

  …Public Chamber.  “I would like to remember our mentors. I believe that today, the concern of the older generation consists in bringing up a morally and physically healthy new generation, for us to channel the collective memory revered by us, our parents and our grandparents. Of course, we often express our view that the young generation is losing moral ideals, t…

  29.01.2020

• A Tour Around ITMO University's “Functional Materials and Devices of Optoelectronics” Lab

  …oxides in a nanostructured state, with the goal of using them in optoelectronics. Students and employees of the laboratory study the properties of nanostructures and create new semiconductor devices for micro- and optoelectronics. The R&D find application in the field of energy-efficient LED lighting and will be in demand in the near future in high-voltage electro…

  28.01.2020

• Besting Elon Musk at Memristors and Making a Vascular System Model to End Animal Testing: Results of SCAMT Workshop Week

  … year, the event brought together 41 participants from different Russian cities: from Vladivostok and Kaliningrad to Krasnodar and St. Petersburg.  SCAMT Workshop Week is a new format of week-long workshops that allows young scientists from all over Russia to try their hand at working on topical research problems using cutting-edge equipment. At the end of last ye…

  28.01.2020