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• Winter Fairs in St. Petersburg

  …e’s also an ice rink where you can rent a pair of skates and a fun fair where you can compete for prizes, or even meet the Russian Santa Claus, Old Man Frost, at his cabin. New Year at Dom Kultury (December 15-16, 3-8 PM) Before you go and stuff yourself, how about taking a trip to the past? A Soviet-style “yolka” - a holiday celebration - is going to be held a…

  04.12.2018

• Head of the .NET-Development Department at JetBrains Sergey Kux: Don’t Build a Process Just for the Sake of It

  …hold such meetings daily, just, say, once a week. But even if you’re dealing with a simple, no-frills stand-up, you need to understand the reasons behind it. When we introduce new processes, it impedes people in their work, especially if this work is already well-organized. For this to be effective, we need to make it so everyone is interested in what it is that they…

  04.12.2018

• New York University Professor Kimon Keramidas on Digitalization and Digital Humanities

  …ing this term in relation to cultural studies. In 1993, the Wired magazine appeared. This title became a forum for people who were involved in the digital industry and knew how to make the most of such technologies. Another important step was the book Being Digital (1995) by Nicholas Negroponte, founder of MIT's Media Lab. His goal was to bring the topic beyon…

  03.12.2018

• Six ITMO University Lecturers Awarded Prize by Government of St. Petersburg

  …um, I can attest to the fact that seeing your work being recognized as useful for the society at large is a very good source of motivation to develop further and keep reaching new heights. Galina Demidova, a lecturer at the Faculty of Control Systems and Robotics As a member of the R&D center ‘Precision Electromechanics’, which focuses on the production of high…

  03.12.2018

• Chemists From ITMO University Created New Diagnostic Method for Difficult Climate Conditions

  …ork in difficult climatic conditions or in mobile laboratories. Chemists from ITMO University suggest solving this problem by means of an alternative diagnostic method. The new method is based on a polymerization reaction, in which the liquid substance, acrylamide, turns into a gel in the presence of a detectable substance such as viral RNA. The polymerization is …

  30.11.2018

• Movie Fridays: New Releases

  …astic Beasts. Even though I didn’t fully embrace the first part, I have to admit that it was charming. It told us a fish out of water story about shy but lovable magizoologist Newt Scamander and the little world of magical creatures built around him. But this time, it’s not about him anymore, which is clear from the sequel’s title. Now, thinking hard about why I w…

  30.11.2018

• ITMO Scientist’s Thesis Named Best at the Australian National University

  …y-ANU PhD program, which resulted in him getting two, Russian and international, PhD degrees. Alexey wrote his thesis, which was dedicated to metamaterials (synthetically-made new materials with unique properties) and their applications, following his extensive research work at ITMO’s International Research Center for Nanophotonics and Metamaterials, the Australian N…

  30.11.2018

• ITMO’s Digital Humanities Lab Wins Microsoft Prize for Project on History of Gulag

• ITMO University Tops List of Russian Universities in THE Computer Science Subject Ranking

• ITMO University and VR/AR Association Host Japan VR/AR Day in St. Petersburg

  …. You can also use it to showcase products. For instance, the technology is used by car dealers. Another possible application is for analysis and testing of designs for new products, or in training staff before sending them to the assembly line. Finally, you can test out various equipment placement layouts in production spaces. We get a lot of feedback from cl…

  29.11.2018