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• ITMO Rowing Club: Healthy Lifestyle and International Competitions

  …ssional rowers cover in less than six minutes. In this short amount of time, they spend heaps of energy. Such workload does not just strengthen one’s core muscles, but also trains endurance, willpower, character. Rowing is also an ideal cardio, much better than running or cycling, and it’s less traumatizing, to boot. Which competitions does ITMO rowing team pa…

  15.08.2018

• Schrödinger’s Paradox and Doctor Faustus’ Lab: the Many Faces of “Gatchina Light Nights”

  …For the first time round, the 2018 “Gatchina Light Nights” was a whopping two-day event instead of one. Organizers say that they want to continue increasing the festival’s duration to bring it in line with its European counterparts: for example, light festivals in the Netherlands and Finland span from five days to a whole month, attracting millions of tourists from a…

  15.08.2018

• ITMO University Enters Academic Ranking of World Universities for the First Time

  …by Ekaterina Esaulova, a programmer at the Information Technologies and Programming Faculty. The research demonstrated how intestinal microbiota affects the immune response against influenza. Multipotent peripheral glial cells generate neuroendocrine cells of the adrenal medulla (Science), published in Science, co-authored by Vyacheslav Dyachuk, a junior research f…

  14.08.2018

• ITMO Student Wins VK Cup-2018

• Gennady Korotkevich Wins Google Code Jam For The Fifth Time

  … each. After the second round, 500 participants remain, and only 25 of them make it to Google Code Jam’s finals. Every year, the finals take place at a different place. For instance, 2017’s Google Code Jam took place in Dublin, Ireland, and this time, the competition ended in Toronto, Canada. The cash prize for winning the competition is 15,000 dollars. Rul…

  14.08.2018

• How to Train for Competitions and Why do it Now

  …g for a competition by learning participation requirements and the benefits it gives when entering a university. In case of ITMO, we have a list of competitions that also contains information about which results give students an advantage when entering ITMO on a particular program. There are also different online preparatory schools. The problem with those is that…

  14.08.2018

• ITMO Team Wins at RobotChallenge-2018 in Beijing

  … pressed “pancakes” are easier to store and transport back to the mainland. Clean Arctic includes a surveillance system that identifies the empty tanks from above – for instance, from an unmanned drone. It dispatches robots to the location of the tanks, which collect them into a special cargo compartment. As coach Igor Lositsky notes, the project has been v…

  13.08.2018

• Going Digital: How Technologies Change Our World

  …ponsible for something that has nothing to do with you. False temporality. People may find it hard to distinguish between modern events and the distant past. Take, for instance, this new Russian movie, Matilda. Who cares what happened between the Emperor and a ballerina 100 years ago? Joyless economy. Having things like a new smartphone or good clothe…

  13.08.2018

• Movie Fridays: New Kids Rule The School

  …any, the now-retired anime colossus Hayao Miyazaki chose to dedicate his swansong to one of his favorite children books: When Marnie Was There by the British author Joan G. Robinson. Another weird and wonderful Studio Ghibli experiment, Omoide no Mānī mixes a poetic coming-of-age story with a mysterious atmosphere of a good-quality ‘whodunit’ and weighty hamletian th…

  10.08.2018

• PyLadies: Python for Women

  …omen being bad at programming. “Previously, there were more women in IT, but then they were pushed out by men. It’s hard to say for sure why it happened, but the fact remains that now there are very few women in tech. What is more, women often find it hard to work among men, especially in the very beginning, when they just start their career. But to become a pro…

  10.08.2018