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• Good Business: How Business Simulations Help Create Social Initiatives

  …in the recent months, we’ve held two events in Moscow, one in Kazan, and one in St. Petersburg. The events are all quite similar, but the examples and ideas are different. For instance, the examples given in the first part of the game are picked to be relevant to our participants. Each team rolls the dice to see which social issue they will be trying to solve, and th…

  06.06.2019

• ITMO University’s UniFEL Center Staff to Conduct New Research at European XFEL

  …ducted under the aegis of the national scientific and educational association “Mega-Scale Research Facilities”, which is coordinated by the National Research Center “Kurchatov Institute”. ITMO University forms part of the association, which aims to develop projects to be implemented on XFEL and other mega-scale research facilities. But this isn’t ITMO University’s…

  06.06.2019

• ITMO Students Win Competition of 2019 International Conference on Robotics and Automation

  …wn as successfully and smoothly as possible, transporting rubber ducks, the citizens of Duckietown. Duckietown was initially created in 2016 by specialists at Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) as a platform for research in the field of algorithms for self-driving cars. You can see the first edition of the platform in action in The Duckumentary. An…

  05.06.2019

• Education For Everyone: Global Experts Discuss Future of Open Education

  …actices used by the member states, as well as supporting the development of national OER policies. UNESCO’s goal is to encourage decision makers in governments and educational institutions to invest in the systemic production, use, and promotion of open educational resources. As the organization notes, the use of such resources in higher education improves the qualit…

  05.06.2019

• Study Abroad Tips: Packing for Your Trip

  …eeded to take with me. I brought lots of chocolate, buckwheat, oats, and coffee because this is not something you can easily find in a shop in China. I also took a fork to use instead of chopsticks, a kitchen knife, and some sunscreen. Daria Kelina, spent a year studying in Beijing, China Some common products might be very hard to find in Asian countries or can…

  04.06.2019

• How Cerevrum Inc Uses VR to Boost Social Skills

  …as after this that we spent two years developing as a B2C team. For the Russian market, we decided to test our hypotheses and keep an eye on the market conformance review. For instance, we’ve already learned that our product works well with retail. Training has never been cheaper; to our clients, it now amounts to 200 rubles per employee per month. That’s how cheap V…

  04.06.2019

• ITMO Is Placed Third in National IT Ranking

  …nal and interregional partnerships, innovation and branding. The resulting list of top-10 Russian universities this year is mostly similar to the 2018 one; ITMO University retains its ninth position to which it rose last year. To compile the annual ranking, analysts from Interfax use various public data on the universities’ activities, scientific performance and t…

  04.06.2019

• Speak like a Russian: Speaking of Rain

  …ght still have the chance to enjoy some sunshine! Still, it is not the storms that can really get to you in St. Petersburg: perpetual “моросящий” (morosyashiy, drizzling) rains are what usually makes everyone want to leave the city for the summer. In this case, the rain can go on for days without stopping (in case of a “затяжной” (zatyajnoy), a lingering rain), or…

  03.06.2019

• Smoke and Mirrors: ITMO’s Lighting Designers to Present Projects at Light Nights in Gatchina Festival

  …managed to defend their theses, begin their career as lighting designers and even win the festival along the way.  For example, the main award in last year’s festival’s “Light Installations” nomination went to Esc, a work by a Lighting Design grad Maria Kobyakova and a creative collective of young architects, artists and lighting designers Haptic Team. They spent …

  03.06.2019

• ITMO Researchers Develop Alternative Liquid-Based THz Radiation Source

  …ation energy can generate a much larger number of electrons, thus amplifying the terahertz radiation. The difference between the required binding energies in gas and liquid is insignificant. Compared to solid-state sources, liquids, too, have a number of advantages. First off, they can sustain a higher amount of excitation energy, resulting in a stronger energy ou…

  03.06.2019