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• Places to See: Modern and Contemporary Art in St. Petersburg

  … artists in its collection, Erarta is one of Russia’s biggest modern art museums. Its extensive selection of works created between mid-20th century and today provides a unique insight into the Russian psyche. In addition to its permanent collection, Erarta hosts a number of temporary exhibitions on a wide range of topics: from fashion and industrial design to experim…

  19.04.2019

• Semantic Hub Founder Vitaly Nedelskiy: 90% of Startups Fail Because Nobody Needs Their Product

  …year. Industrial robotics, in the meantime, shows a growth of 12% annually. The latter began to develop much earlier, and there are some major buyers in that market, so it remains large in volume. The service robotics market, if you exclude robot vacuums, is much smaller. But it’s growing quickly. So if we’re talking about what to invest in, or where to develop a sta…

  19.04.2019

• ITMO University Hosts Final Round of NTI Competition for University Students

  …ent global environmental concerns the world is facing,” comments Amir Uteuov, an engineer at ITMO University’s National Center for Cognitive Technologies, a PhD student at the Institute of Design & Urban Studies, and one of the authors of the tasks. “What is also important is that the conditions the competition’s participants worked in were close to those that real r…

  19.04.2019

• Genome Analysis Shows Common Ancestry Among Pskov, Novgorod, Yakutia Populations

  …rance of various equilocal genes. Then, the software constructed a number of demographic histories to determine which one is the most likely based on the available data,” explains Ekaterina Noskova, a programmer from ITMO University’s Computer Technologies Laboratory. The researchers found that, for instance, in the past, the inhab…

  19.04.2019

• Assassin’s Creed Won’t Help: An Expert’s Opinion on Restoration of Notre Dame

  …ore the building. Some even suggested using the 2014 video game Assassin’s Creed Unity. Set in Paris during the French Revolution and following the story of the Order of Assassins, the game was praised by critics for its astonishing visuals and historical accuracy; Caroline Miousse, a level artist on Assassin’s Creed Unity, spent about two years perfecting the Notre …

  18.04.2019

• JOB.ITMO: How to Get a Job at ITMO University Without Fuss

  … work at ITMO University find a relevant job vacancy without wasting any time. As Julia Lutfullina, a marketing specialist at ITMO University's Recruitment Office, explains, the website has already proved useful and handy in finding candidates to fill niche research positions. "As for external candidates, I should say that we're always glad to see researc…

  18.04.2019

• Behavioral Economics: Why Humans Aren’t Made to Be Rational

  …ubproblems – a principle that works well in science, but not so well in decision making. If you don’t consider the big picture, you’re likely to make the wrong decision,” explains Maxim Korotkov. WYSIATI: why we don’t use our knowledge The letters WYSIATI stand for “What You See Is All There Is”. When examining a problem, people tend not to apply their earlie…

  17.04.2019

• This Weekend in St. Petersburg: April 20-21

  …nths, the Peter and Paul Cathedral will be hosting free concerts of carillon music. Comprised of a series of bells of different sizes, a carillon is one of the largest musical instruments in the world. The first carillon in Russia was purchased by Peter the Great and consisted of 35 bells. Today’s carillon is composed of 51 bells with the biggest one weighing over 3,…

  17.04.2019

• Director of RIKEN Nishina Center Hideto Enyo on Discovery of Nihonium

  …kes years to pick up the beam and target that can fuse into the nucleus of a new element. Several major research teams work on such tasks. Among them are those of the Joint Institute for Nuclear Research (Russia), Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (USA), Oak Ridge National Laboratory, ORNL (USA) and RIKEN (Japan). Since the beginning of the 2000s, these te…

  17.04.2019

• Master’s Degree ++: Leading Experts Discuss the Future of Master’s Programs

  … long been following ITMO’s rapid development and its experiments with different formats and trends. “Today, ITMO is one of the few universities in Russia that develop as institutions aimed at Master’s and PhD students. Every year, we enroll more Master’s students on a tuition-free basis than any other university, and we know that this development model helps us…

  17.04.2019