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• ITMO Fellow Alena Kulakova on Merging Chemistry and Physics

  …quipment. Starting from my third year of studies there, I interned at the N. D. Zelinsky Institute of Organic Chemistry of the Russian Academy of Sciences, where I learned to plan reactions, produce new compounds, and write research papers.  You’ve also studied in France. Tell us a bit about that. It so happened that the A.N. Nesmeyanov Institute of Organoe…

  13.01.2025

• The Heat-Ray: How H.G. Wells Predicted Lasers

  …942), he received his PhD. In 1988, he found work as a teacher and started to publish his research papers. But it wasn’t until the age of 27 that he started in journalism and later fiction. “On the surface, his novels and The War of the Worlds in particular may seem as a fruit of his creative mind, but in fact, H.G. Wells didn’t make up the stories; he had an in…

  10.01.2025

• Unsolvable Problems and Human Computers: Physics and Fantasy in The Three-Body Problem

  …for this, we would need a lot of space to gather all the participating people. Next, we’d need some kind of flying device to monitor the calculations. This is where we face a contradiction: if the aliens have such a flying device, it means they understand mechanics and thus can create at least primitive computing devices. Even the simplest of them would be performing…

  09.01.2025

• This Holiday Season in St. Petersburg: Part 2

  …d since holiday decorations are still on, partly thanks to the Old New Year celebrated on January 14, now's a good time to walk along the city's main arteries and enjoy the main attractions in all their glory: Nevsky Pr., Moskovsky Pr., Voznesensky Pr., Bolshoy and Srednyi Pr. of Vasilyevsky Island, Kamennoostrovsky Pr.; Christmas trees: Vosstaniya Square, Go…

  08.01.2025

• Paws of Help: Getting to Know ITMO’s Kindest Student Club

  …one at +7-964-339-40-39 or 8-800-201-49-99 (free nationwide number). They don’t deal with birds, however; instead, you can contact the St. Petersburg committee for environmental protection (8-812-417-59-36) or the Leningrad oblast committee for protection of animals  (8-812-539-50-00). You can also find a detailed guide (in Russian) on …

  07.01.2025

• Everything Wrong With Arrakis: A Physicist’s Take on Dune

  … one part of the universe and exit in another, lightyears away, in a short amount of time. Such wormholes have actually been described by physicists and, in theory, could actually function just the way they were envisioned by Frank Herbert. Meteorological satellites. Another thing Herbert had predicted – nearly ten years before they were invented in reality – are …

  06.01.2025

• Must-Watch Russian Cartoons for Learners of Any Level

  …r: Winter's Tale) (1981) by Yuri Butyrin Cartoons about culture, history, and ethnography Северная сказка (Northern Tale) (1979) by Rasa Strautmane Science fiction Тайна третьей планеты (The Mystery of the Third Planet) (1981) by Roman Kachanov Where to watch Most of these and many other Russian cartoons can be watched o…

  06.01.2025

• Slavic Myths, Robots, and the Meaning of Life: Video Games To Play This Holiday Season

  …al questions and provides you with tasks. The Talos Principle is full of ruminations on the nature of consciousness, humanity, and free will. Visit a fantasy world  In the action-adventure game Ivana Kupala, you must take a deep dive into Slavic mythology while searching for the protagonist’s missing son. The game was developed by the students of ITMO’s Gam…

  04.01.2025

• Winter Holidays at ITMO’s Museum of Optics: Cool Events to Visit

  …e elderly are 300 rubles.  New year – new exhibits The new exhibition Angel of Peter and Paul Cathedral is dedicated to the 300th anniversary of one of the city’s main attractions. The main exhibit is a full-scale hologram of the angel’s head, recorded in 1995 when the cathedral’s weather vane was taken down for restoration. Also on display are photographs …

  03.01.2025

• Year of the Snake: Serpents in Slavic Folklore

  …o water the crops. It was almost impossible to survive without it. Snakes, in turn, also like rainy weather – that’s when they crawl out of hiding. Ancient people noticed the connection and represented it in art and mythology. For example, water vessels were oftentimes covered with spiral patterns associated with a crawling snake. So, this was a symbolic way to at…

  02.01.2025