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• Life-hacks for Studying Abroad: Students Share their Advices

  …ated according to a foreign standard (Transcript of records; note that in Russia it's called the addition to the diploma), my CV, a motivation letter, a recommendation from my scientific advisor and, obviously, a IELTS or a TOEFL certificate. All the above can be done quite fast, except for the English test. Be sure to get the certificate in advance. I applied for …

  08.08.2016

• 5 Things We Loved This Week

  …on (Beijing 2008), to sprawl of security (London 2012), to relationships between athletes and coaches, Olympics are a catalyst for research in a variety of fields, with social sciences, medicine and engineering taking the pedestal. Nature Quantum computer getting closer. Researchers at the University of Oxford have achieved a quantum logic gate with record-breakin…

  06.08.2016

• Exploring Innopolis: Russia's Silicon Valley

  …vice -  he's already been studying there for some time and told me that was a great experience. So, I sent in my application.  Then, I had to take two tests - one for Computer Science and one in English. I was also supposed to write a motivation letter, as well as send in some letters of recommendation, but I didn't do it, for I doubted if I indeed needed this progra…

  05.08.2016

• Big City Traffic Made Effective: from Paid Parking to Life-Hacks

  …ort simulations - what are they for? Mr. Yaroslav Smirnov, chief executive of LLC "Optimal Drive" What is the point of transport simulations within the context of social sciences? Transport is not always about engineering solutions. In a sense, it's an attempt to find an ideal method to solve society's problems. Expensive solutions are not necessarily the worki…

  05.08.2016

• Self-Driving Cars: Safe and Modern Solution or a Step towards "Rise of the Machines?"

  …The idea of cars that don’t need humans to drive them is an old dream of science-fiction writers. Such technological solutions first appeared many years ago. In 1950-s cruise control systems that control the speed automatically were developed. Currently engineers aims to make completely self-driving cars that can turn, change lines, park, stop and pick up speed as we…

  04.08.2016

• Bioinformatics Summer School: Where Tech and Biology Come Together

  …hboring countries attended the school where for five days they worked on research projects, presented at a special conference and enjoyed presentations by Russian and overseas scientific professionals. The school was organized by the Bioinformatics Institute and St. Petersburg Academic University of the Russian Academy of Sciences. Toda…

  03.08.2016

• Brain Fitness Games: Can Intelligence Really be Boosted?

  …One of the first scientists to ever study the effectiveness of games in developing human intelligence from a scientific point of view was Torkel Klingberg, a professor of cognitive neuroscience at the Karolinska Institutet in Stockholm. In 1999, he conducted an experiment during which children played compu…

  02.08.2016

• Researchers Are on the Way to Obtain First Chemically Synthesized Metamaterial

  …ant porosity, which provides numerous active centers inside the crystal for the implementation of catalysis, gas sorption, separation and transport of substances. However, the scientists proposed to look at such structures from a completely different perspective. “In our crystal, finest atomic strings formed by ions of metals with electron conductive properties …

  02.08.2016

• Game Theory: “Game Core” to Make People Play and Give Back

  …Starcraft will not disappear. Their developers will present new gameplays. Thus gamers will upgrade multitasking skills and imagination,” noted Alexey Bezgodov, researcher at eScience Research Institute and developer of IFMO/GameDev, the firs ITMO’s game developing studio. The expert sums up that computer Games are the new type of art along with theatre or cinem…

  02.08.2016

• A Student from Iraq: “Studying in Russia was my Dream”

  …udent community   I also love to study here because I can follow the program taught in English. It was a crucial point for me because English is a language of international science. Furthermore some of my friends had lived here for some time when I came to St. Petersburg. They helped me to adjust to new conditions. My classmates also helped me – and now we are lik…

  01.08.2016