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Five-Minute Fan Guide to FIFA World Cup 2018 in St. Petersburg
…ovsky Island. But even without a ticket, you can feel the rush at FIFA Fan Fest on Konyushennaya Square, a five-minute walk from Nevsky Prospect. It features large screens with live action, food, games, and concerts by local bands. If that’s too far to walk, head to the Fan House at Gostiny Dvor, a historic mall on Nevsky. Cheers are on tap at the 100 Yards gastro…
14.06.2018
This Weekend in St. Petersburg: June 16-17
…nd of fortress, without crowds of tourists. Entrance fee is 1,200 rub. If you’re looking for some cultural experience, make sure to check out the exhibition of high-quality reproductions of Bosch and Bruegel’s works at the Etagi creative space. The purpose of the exhibition is to get visitors acquainted with the artists’ style and techniques, as well as help them …
13.06.2018
Health Awareness and Making the Transition to Preventative Medicine
…care Obviously, to make such a healthcare system effective, you would have to create new algorithms and decision support systems that will analyse big data and use it to make predictions and recommendations. One major advantage of this system is that patients wouldn’t have to visit their doctors that often. After all, they can get all your data and give you a reco…
13.06.2018
It’s Time to Celebrate Russia Day
…Russian Radio polled a random selection of Russians about what their country is celebrating during this long weekend and got a variety of results. Very few know that on this day in 1991, also happened to be the day that Boris Yeltsin was elected the first Russian president. In 1994, this holiday was renamed “Day of adoption of the declaration of independence of RSFS…
12.06.2018
Exploring the St. Petersburg Metro
…3 pm on July 10. Did you know: the initial name for the Begovaya station was Savushkina Street, named after a Soviet ace pilot who fought in WWII. This was changed during construction, but the old name still remains there in spirit; the station’s interiors are clearly inspired by the aesthetics of early 20th-century aeronautics. Begovaya and Novokrestovslay…
11.06.2018
ITMO Researchers Create Optoclones of Unique Historical Treasures from the Russian Diamond Fund
…bition, a permanent fixture of the Moscow Kremlin. The Diamond Fund of the Russian Federation is a part of the State Fund of Precious Metals and Stones (Gokhran Russia) and is a collection of state regalia, unique precious metals, and jewelry of immense historical and artistic value. Gokhran Russia operates under the Russian Ministry of Finance. To celebrate the ann…
09.06.2018
ITMO has the Best Science Communicators in Russia
…f organizations and the norms of the global scientific community. And they often contradict each other. Do we have any independence in this case, or do we perform a purely service function in a scientific organization? Our community has yet to answer these questions. Another eternal topic for discussion is the interaction of scientific …
09.06.2018
ITMO University Wins Most SPIE Scholarships in 2018
…a very narrow beam. In 2014 the term “terajet” was coined for the same effect that occurs in the terahertz frequency band. We’re working on one of the methods of overcoming the diffraction limit in the terahertz frequency band: the width of a beam we were able to produce was much smaller than half a wavelength, depending on a structure’s size, as well as on its refra…
09.06.2018
Insights into Nanophotonics and Metamaterials from around the World
ITMO and Partners Present New Projects at 2nd Lasers&Photonics Congress
…he 5-100 Russian Academic Excellence Project and includes a number of events, among which are: the International Conference on Laser Optics (ICLO-2018), the conference “Days on Diffraction”, the 13th symposium on nanophotonics and metamaterials, a conference on nanostructures PCNSPA-2018 and more. The congress opened in St. Petersburg on June 4 with a plenary sess…
08.06.2018