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• Fulbright Recipient Vasiliy Leonenko on His Research in US

  …ut the Fulbright program. Tell us more about your research. I work with influenza propagation models. Georgiy Bobashev also collaborated with the St. Petersburg Research Institute of Influenza on this topic some ten years ago, but it was brought to a halt. We decided that ITMO University can become an important link between the Research …

  25.07.2018

• Ice Cream Lover’s Guide to St. Petersburg

• Rain Falling Upwards and “Critique of Pure Reason”: a Guide to “Gatchina Lightnights”

  …ty to familiarize themselves with the Other Voices project, created by Stas Svistunovich, the Breakthrough (Прорыв) and the Golden Mask prize winner, in collaboration with the Institut Français, the New Media Laboratory, the Show Consulting school of stage arts, and ITMO’s Department of Creative Lighting Design. Among other participants will be Alena Kogan, Vadim Gol…

  24.07.2018

• Think Critically: ITMO University Student Creates Popular Science Podcast

  …  Why did you choose to popularize science instead of working as a doctor, which is your first education? When I was studying at a university, I never thought that I wanted to popularize science. At that time, I was dating a girl who believed in astrology. I tried to dissuade her, but she never listened to any logical arguments. Then I started to ask my peers w…

  24.07.2018

• Sun, Sea, and Computational Science: YSC-2018 Participants Discuss Their Conference Experience

  …The University of Crete, ITMO’s new partner university, became the conference venue. Located in Heraklion, the university is the largest higher education institution on the island and home to more than 13,000 students, 2,000 of which are enrolled in postgraduate studies. The university has an extensive network of partner institutions fr…

  23.07.2018

• Drink (Mineral) Water like a Russian

  …, I walked into a grocery store to get some cold sparkling water and was faced with an impossible choice. I was looking at a wall of plastic and glass bottles, some with mountains on their labels, some with numbers, and even one with a deer. None of them looked cold. All looked like an adventure. To many Russians, buying water means buying “mineral” water. It goes…

  22.07.2018

• “I Am a Professional” Winners On How Competition Changed Their Lives

  …er of “I am a Professional” Photonics track I’ve always liked participating in competitions; that’s why when a friend told me about the “I am a Professional” competition, I instantly decided to take part. My experience of participating in different academic contests really helped me to succeed. I’m interested in Physics, Maths and Programming, so I enlisted for fo…

  20.07.2018

• ITMO Graduates Participate in School of Science Journalism in Erice

  … School of Science Journalism in Erice is a summer school organized by Ettore Majorana Foundation and Centre for Scientific Culture (EMFCSC) with support from the Centro Fermi Institute of Nuclear Physics and Le Scienze science magazine. Each year, the school offers 35 scholarships to young journalists and science communicators. This year, the school’s theme was "Wha…

  20.07.2018

• Movie Fridays: Summer in the City

  …ou left Winnie-the-Pooh stories in your childhood where they rightly belong. Fair enough; but it’s far from a kids’ story, with some critics praising it for giving ‘a valuable insight into the darkness shadowing the creation of a classic children's tale’. Give it a go; its beautiful, sunlit, dreamlike cinematography and atmospheric storytelling makes it a perfect rai…

  20.07.2018

• Decline of Antibiotics and Nanoparticle Drugs of the Future

  …ab, study their properties and how well they perform. At Science Slam, I presented on a completely different topic: a European Union initiative on the creation of digital twins. It’s a large project that involves more than 200 researchers from 32 countries, all of whom are working on a massive database with information on every citizen of the EU. Thanks to machine…

  19.07.2018