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• Fulbright Recipient Vasiliy Leonenko on His Research in US

  …overed by the program’s funding. One can use it to settle at the new place or to travel across the country. My friends who followed my updates on social media got the impression that I traveled a lot. To say the truth, I indeed got to travel some; on weekends and holidays, that is. I spent the rest of my time in North Carolina, working on the project. Most of it w…

  25.07.2018

• Rain Falling Upwards and “Critique of Pure Reason”: a Guide to “Gatchina Lightnights”

  …an last year, from artists from 27 cities all over the world,” comments Olga Arshanskaia, the festival’s organizer. "This year’s topic is “Paradox”. The St. Petersburg version of the Lantern Park project displayed at the Lux Helsinki festival will be presented in Gatchina. To make this idea come true, St. Petersburg and Gatchina residents attended a series of wo…

  24.07.2018

• Think Critically: ITMO University Student Creates Popular Science Podcast

  …ed it as a business project. I wrote a business model, where I put down the general idea, the methods I planned to use, and the possible problems. I now have access to a professional recording studio, as well. I’ve also changed my approach to editing, and continue working on the format: the first and the most recent episodes of Critmysh are very different. Also, I ha…

  24.07.2018

• Sun, Sea, and Computational Science: YSC-2018 Participants Discuss Their Conference Experience

  …operation with the industry. Hosted by four leading universities from Russia, Greece, the Netherlands, and Singapore, this year’s YSC conference included high-profile discussions on performance computing, large scale simulation of complex systems, and big data. Modeling of complex systems, urban  science and sustainable development, computational biomedicine, VR &…

  23.07.2018

• “I Am a Professional” Winners On How Competition Changed Their Lives

  …ted because I’d been dreaming of doing my Master’s at ITMO since my second year of university studies, so I immediately decided to participate. I took part in “I am a Professional” through the Computer Science track. I’m majoring in Software Engineering, so I expected that the tasks would resemble some sort of a hackathon, but I was wrong. After the first round, i…

  20.07.2018

• ITMO Graduates Participate in School of Science Journalism in Erice

  …t scientist and have no idea which fields of research are being developed in their country. In Portugal, science communication appeared 20 years ago, but they still have discussions concerning what it really is and why scientists need it. On the other hand, many topics that are currently relevant in Europe seem far-fetched to us: the current state of science communic…

  20.07.2018

• Emotional AI Helps Enhance Productivity and Fight Stress

  … and comfortable. You have already given an example about the moderator of a meeting seeing that a person’s concentration level is very low and removing them from the discussion. Is it fair? Doesn’t that mean depriving people of their privacy? I was talking about work, that's all. If the moderator of a discussion sees that som…

  19.07.2018

• Gaining Insights into Better Learning at Cambridge University

  …nference relate to your work at ITMO University? Quite directly. The conference is all about how to make teaching English better, and that is completely in tune with the mission of our Foreign Language Training Center. What are some of the main aspects of the conference that you found helpful? There was a fantastic talk from Lucy Crehan that looked at whethe…

  19.07.2018

• ITMO Student on Using IT to Help People With Dementia

  …articular places and adding the necessary notes. The main idea was to create a program which resembles a board game, executed as a physical format with cards, and a digital version. When working on these two projects, Daniil was both an IT specialist and a designer: his tasks included not only programming but also development and design of interfaces. “By the ti…

  18.07.2018

• Innovative Method for Microcirculation Diagnosis Gives New Insights into Migraines

  …ines had an irregular response to capsaicin. This can attest to malfunctions in molecular mechanisms of the blood flow regulation. Nevertheless, before we draw any final conclusions, further investigations are necessary. Now we have an effective tool that will undoubtedly bring us closer to the solution. New optic discoveries allow us to simultaneously evaluate a lar…

  18.07.2018