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Polytechnic Museum’s Curator Alexey Semikhatov: Logic and Math Help Us Predict the Unknown
…ectures for the students of Master’s program in Science Communication. As part of the course “Curatorship in Science Museums and Science Popularization Centers”, he shares his insight into the work and renovation of the Moscow Polytechnical Museum. The course is developed and supervised by Irina Aktuganova, an art and museum expert and associate professor at ITMO’s <…
30.04.2019
Talented School Students Awarded at ITMO University
…he Russian Federation, but in the future, it plans to combine them with competitions for university students, PhD students, and young scientists. In the autumn of 2018, the Institute of Cryptography, Telecommunications and Computer Science hosted a series of competitions for school students in St. Petersburg. The competitions were held at ITMO University, Peter th…
29.04.2019
International Academic Mobility Opportunities at ITMO University
…ParisTech The biggest segment of partner universities was represented by the ParisTech company, which unites ten higher education institutions that work together on educational, research, and innovative projects in the fields of science, technology, and management. Its member universities are the Paris-based AgroParisTech, Arts et Métiers ParisTech, Chimie ParisTe…
29.04.2019
Master’s Degree ++ Conference: The Plenary Session in Review
…y in St. Petersburg, Peter Sloot, a professor of the University of Amsterdam, Andrey Ivanov, the head of Department for Investment, Research and Education of the company JetBrains, Dmitry Ozerkov, the head of the Contemporary Art Department at the State Hermitage Museum, and Vasily Tretyakov, the CEO of the University of National Technology Initiative 20.35. P…
29.04.2019
Short Trips From St. Petersburg
Song of the Month: April 2019
…erbivorous animals and zero people except for maybe a someone to ward off yucky jellyfish, plus a couple of tacos chefs, all living on the other end of said island; And Instantané, which I imagine what Adrien from François Ozon’s Frantz would be listening to if he lived in the present day. (Honorable mention also goes to Paradis’s Recto Verso, but with three s…
26.04.2019
How to Catch a Particle: Physicists Found a Way to Make Ion Traps More Efficient
…sed to observe quantum phenomena with the naked eye. There are different types of radio-frequency traps, which vary in terms of the frequency and configuration of the field inside them. More convenient optical traps are used for cooling uncharged particles. As for charged particles, radio-frequency traps are used, as they allow to cool these particles to lower tem…
26.04.2019
Dragon Anatomy and Folk Tales: Physicist and Anthropologist Discuss Game of Thrones
…nd has plenty of interesting notes on its universe. In the Russian section of the internet, there is plenty of good discourse to be found on the pop-science portal N+1. For instance, they have looked at the feasibility of dragons being able to fly, which appears to be one of the most common questions. As it turns out, they kind of can, but kind of can’t. They’d ne…
26.04.2019
English Teachers Unite at NATE Convention
… group presentations and workshops focused on such topics as applied linguistics, soft skills, Russian as foreign language, English for specific purposes, English as medium of instruction and English language teaching. “One of my biggest takeaways from the NATE conference was on a topic I thought I knew about: action research. I attended Svetlana Suchkova’s pres…
25.04.2019
Green Campuses and Recycling: Sustainable Development by Youth International Forum at ITMO
…oseph Lewis Center for Environmental Studies at Oberlin College. Launched in 1995, the project of the Center was supported by the US Green Building Council and American Institute, which makes it a vivid example of collaboration between a city and a university. The main goal of the project was to promote the development of the SDGs, transform the area, achie…
25.04.2019