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• This Weekend in St. Petersburg: January 19-20

  …at you have to pay 200 rubles extra and register in advance if you want to participate. Scary Tales by Bosch and Bruegel at Lumiere Hall In case you want to get a deeper insight into the world of art (way too deep, to my taste) and don’t mind some creepiness (a lot of creepiness, actually), consider visiting an exhibition featuring Dutch Renaissance painters Hi…

  16.01.2019

• School Students Launching Sputniks Into Space? No Big Deal Today, Says This Educator

  …USSR aimed to challenge the resounding success of Space Shuttles by launching the Energia Buran space program in 1974. It was headed by an accomplished engineer Gleb Lozino-Lozinskiy, who also was the one to oversee the aforementioned Spiral project. He decided to fight the enemy with their own weapon, producing a huge reusable ship with the same payload capacity but…

  16.01.2019

• Eight-Hour Experiments and a Football Match: Chinese Scientists on Internship at ITMO University

  …nd Technology we are part of conducts research in optics and biology, but without linking these fields with one another. This course gave us a valuable opportunity to gain new insight into multidisciplinary approaches, also allowing us to gain crucial subject-specific knowledge and hone the skills necessary for research in this field. Understanding the importa…

  16.01.2019

• ITMO University Rises Higher in THE Emerging Economies University Rankings

  …results of the rankings, Russia’s performance is mixed: while several universities have declined, there are also some significant risers and prominent newcomers. Russia has 35 institutions included, up from 27 last year, overtaking Taiwan as the fourth most-represented country. Overall, 442 universities from 43 countries are featured in the rankings. China rema

  16.01.2019

• The Best of CES 2019: Highlights and Trends

  … every sphere, from self-driving vehicles and technologies of smart cities to smart gadgets and super high-resolution TVs,” shares Andrey Korsakov, a senior lecturer at ITMO’s Institute of Design and Urban Studies. VR technologies are also very popular. “Virtual reality technologies can come in handy when it comes to organizing exhibitions,” says Andrey Kor…

  15.01.2019

• ITMO Scientists’ Research at Sino-Russian Symposium at Harbin Institute of Technology

  …fir tree essence, created by scientists from the International Research Center “Biotechnologies of the Third Millennium”. The essence is claimed to have a protective effect against cancer and other diseases. Combined with another nonconventional plant product called meadowsweet,  the essence can be used to create special foods with cancer-preventing properties (to le…

  14.01.2019

• Unexplored St. Petersburg: Icebreaker Krassin

  … solemn, impersonal beauty. Still, missing out on Krassin would be a total waste. Though her outer appearance is maybe not as impressive as that of military ships, it’s the insides that matter. Having participated in several polar expeditions and rescue missions, as well as convoys of the Second World War, the ship has many stories to tell. Apart from temporary…

  11.01.2019

• Project Management Institute: Helping Project Managers Develop

  …Ekaterina Nedelina, Vice President for marketing at the St. Petersburg chapter of the Project Management Institute, on the organization and its local chapter’s activities Project Management Institute (PMI) is a global non-governmental organization advocating for the development of professionals in the field of project management. Fou…

  11.01.2019

• It All Depends on Effort You Put In: ITMO Master’s Student on Internship at Gazprom and How to Win It

  …rtain petrol station or how to form a shop’s stocks based on its customer profile. What do you do personally? My job can be decomposed to a range of small tasks. For instance, I start by processing data: I filter it, and if some figures I need are lacking, I take them from various Internet sources. Once all the information has been sorted out, I proceed to …

  11.01.2019

• Poznan University of Technology’s Agnieszka Barczyk on Collaboration with ITMO

  …d, you can’t, for example, participate in private projects coordinated by other organizations. You are always a part of your university, you work according to the rules of the institution and share all your ideas. At ITMO University, staff and researchers have more choice. During my exchange, I visited the FabLab of ITMO University’s Technopark. I was struck b…

  10.01.2019