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• Mountaineers Name Peak After ITMO University

  …e “ITMO University Peak” project was conceived three years ago; it was then that you, as part of an expedition, went on a sort of a “reconnaissance trip” before the final ascension. In February of 2015, at mountaineering training session at the university’s climbing wall, I’d had a wild thought: why isn’t there a peak named after ITM…

  28.08.2017

• ITMO’s Higher School of Lighting Design Enters PLDC's Top-5 Best Universities

  …PLDC (Professional Lighting Design Convention) is a biennial gathering of specialists in the global market of lighting design. Lighting designers, architects, researchers, representatives of universities and the industry use PLDC as a platform for meetings where they learn about the latest inventions in the field of lighting design and discuss its future; as of now, …

  28.08.2017

• Bloomberg Experts: Semantic Tech to Improve Financial Operations

  …The conference discussion topics were sorted into five categories: eSociety, eCity, eHealth, eKnowledge и eScience. The latter included reports related to high-performance computations and Big Data. Richard Beatch, Inessa Collier and Yuri Lipuntsov presented the results of their work: how using the Financial Instrument Global Identifier, or FIGI, can be combined with…

  25.08.2017

• 3D Printers For Kids: A High-Tech Toy

  …. Also, it was really compact and silent. One could put it on a window sill, and it wouldn't make much noise when working. This is a great competitive advantage, as semi-professional 3D printers are very loud, and when they are working, noise becomes a real problem," comments Stanislav Pimenov. Stanislav Pimenov Yet, gradually the team dispersed, so Stanislav…

  25.08.2017

• 'Almost in St. Petersburg': The Annual All-Russian Student Sports Camp in Yagodnoe

  …sburg" camp is the best thing that ever happened to me!" states one of the seven hundreds posts in Instagram dedicated to the camp. This year, about 40 people, both professional athletes and amateurs, participated in the camp.The participants were split into three teams - Vympel ("pennant"), Cascade and Alpha; each team could choose to focus on either sports man…

  24.08.2017

• Student Life on the French Riviera: ITMO Exchange Experience

  …nt events. In the course of ITMO International Days in the summer of 2016, I spoke to representatives of various universities; this experience was the main influence on my decision about which foreign university I would go to for my long-term visit. In Montpellier, I met with some of my French acquaintances that I’d once met in St. Petersburg. What were the ma…

  24.08.2017

• Aleksandra Kalashnikova: We Need to Reconsider PhD Students’ Status

  … we participated in developing Russia's strategy on research and technology advancement; the Council made some important amendments that became part of the strategy's final version. And recently, we took part in introducing presidential decrees which allowed to organize several new contests aimed at supporting young scientists. Members of the Council were invited to …

  23.08.2017

• Relocation Tips: Using Public Transport in St. Petersburg

  … NB: An updated version of this article, published in September 2020, can be found here and includes the latest info on this subject as of its publication date. Please note that information contained in the article below may be out of date and no longer valid. “Podorozhnik” Card If you take public transport regularly, it’s a good idea to get a “podorozhn…

  22.08.2017

• TransformCity: The Amsterdam Approach to Urban Planning

  …er with some of them, we addressed the government and asked to solve the problem in such a way that though the government would still play its role in the process, but the decisions would come bottom-up - i.e. from the participants of our collaborative process. I hoped that together, we will be able to create some model that will allow us to influence the administrat…

  22.08.2017

• "In English, Please": De-Jargonizer Helps Make Science Accessible

  … words that are familiar to most people regardless of their knowledge of the subject, as well as various metaphors and jokes. “Since scientists are used to applying professional jargon in their work, it is hard for them to avoid these special terms in their speech. Intuitively, they understand that they need to use less scientific words when speaking to regular …

  21.08.2017