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• ITMO University Moves Up in QS BRICS Ranking

  …t. Petersburg State University (11th); right behind them are three universities of Project 5-100: Novosibirsk State University (12th), Tomsk State University (19th) and Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology (21st). The complete ranking can be seen here.…

  16.10.2018

• All St. Petersburg's a Stage: Must-Visit Unusual Theaters

  …«Theater of Rains» (Театр Дождей) One of the most atmospheric and cozy St. Petersburg theaters is not without reason named in honor of the most frequent, and most St. Petersburg-ish, atmospheric phenomenon. And the theater symbol, the white crow, speaks for itself. The theater shows about 20 performances in three venues: on its chamber stage (Fontanka Embankment, 13…

  16.10.2018

• PhD Vitaly Aksenov: Coding For Someone Other Than Myself Is Boring

  …ss and adds it prior to itself. There already a method for doing that by using the compare-and-swap (CAS) operation, which is applied in most processors. Still, a question remains: what if we were to use something even simpler? Different researchers have been working on this task for 20 years already, and there is still no result. What’s the point? By all acco…

  16.10.2018

• Open Innovations 2018: Higher Education in the Digital Age

  …ective: what does industry want from universities? According to Siemens Vice President Martin Gitsels, who talked about how companies worldwide collaborate with educational institutions, universities are responsible for training future generations of researchers and professionals, which is even more true for technical universities. The industry is, in turn, intere…

  16.10.2018

• Faculty of Physics and Engineering Staff to Republish Legendary Soviet Physicist’s Works

  …he Soviet Union had such scientific greats as him.” The Faculty of Physics and Engineering staff decided to bring Robert Silin’s monumental works back to the scientific mainstream. ‘Slow-Wave Circuits’ and ‘Periodic Waveguides’ have already been translated into English and are now waiting to be published by a foreign printing house. ‘The Unusual Laws of Refracti…

  15.10.2018

• The 2018 Nobel Prize in Economics: Any Lessons for Russia?

  …ir research led to a revolution in the traditional approach to macroeconomic analysis and planning and introduced new resource types that had previously been overlooked,” explains Elena Budrina. According to the Nobel Committee, Nordhaus and Romer’s contribution to science is methodological and gives the public a fundamental understanding of the causes and conse…

  15.10.2018

• International Olympiad in Informatics 2018 Winners: Even If You’re Tired, Don’t Lose Sight of Your Goals

  …ding talented and hard-working people, and they do their job. You have enrolled in ITMO University. Why did you choose to study in St. Petersburg and not in Moscow, for instance? Ramazan: Moscow is notorious for its hustle-and-bustle, I like St. Petersburg better in this respect. Apart from that, I couldn’t disregard the fact that ITMO University is a seven…

  15.10.2018

• Unexplored St. Petersburg: The Museum of Sound

  …phic notations by contemporary composers (and I have to note that in reality, it’s a lot more interesting than it sounds), it boasts a permanent exhibition of unique self-made instruments and custom musical interfaces which you are free to try out. To be honest, I never even imagined that there is such a thing as an “optomechanical synthesizer”, - and it’s still not …

  12.10.2018

• Rostelecom’s Project Leader Alisa Korzhenevskaya: We’re Slowly but Surely Digitizing the World Around Us

  …the course? Students who will go on to work as IT specialists in the public sector, have to understand what awaits them. That’s why my principal aim is to provide them with insight into our long-standing experience of serving as a public sector IT provider. No less important are the technical aspects of such operations, so the course will also cover the fundamenta…

  12.10.2018

• How to Write a Thesis on Marvel Comic Books: PhD Student Daniil Shirokov Explains

  …on, comic books have always reacted to the demand and changes coming from society. You can see it even by giving a couple of different-era editions a cursory look-through. For instance, a Cold War-era scientist isn’t portrayed as a human (or superhuman) being with its own unique character: they are first and foremost a tool for fighting the Soviets. All protagonists …

  12.10.2018