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• This Week in St. Petersburg: May 30 - June 5, 2024

  …burg Philharmonia 500-1,300 rubles – tickets here On the hunt for some start-of-the-week ideas? Take it slow and indulge in all things movies, music, and everything in between at St. Petersburg Philharmonia. This Monday, we’re treating ourselves to wonderful renditions of songs from Soviet movies performed by a symphony orchestra from Leningrad Oblast. …

  29.05.2024

• Bioinformatics Studies at ITMO’s Advanced Engineering School: Behind the Scenes

  …ble to deal with unpredictability. On the other hand, graduates are often not as well-equipped, and that shows in their work. At ITMO, we’ve been able to find a compromise between the two approaches. You could say we’re working according to Nassim Nicholas Taleb’s Antifragile concept, maintaining a balance between fundamental, univer…

  28.05.2024

• St. Petersburg’s New Water Taxi: Should You Try It?

  …What’s a water taxi?  Small boats with capacity of around 10 people are now coursing along two routes: one between the Peter and Paul Fortress and the Admiralty (the city’s most tourist-y areas); and another between Krestovsky Island and the Begovaya metro station.  The boats depart every 20 minutes betw

  24.05.2024

• Cyber-Karate and Fitness Trackers: New Phygital Technologies for Sports

  …resented a tech project that secured second place in Innovations in Phygital and Technological Sports. The students came up with the idea of using LPWAN (low-power, wide-area network) technology in phygital games, particularly laser tag. The game is reminiscent of paintball, but has the players shoot at each other with laser beams that can be detected by special wear…

  23.05.2024

• This Week in St. Petersburg: May 23-29, 2024

  …ll be a unique concert that’s not entirely City Day-related but is dedicated to St. Petersburg. What's the occasion, you may ask? The 75th anniversary of diplomatic relations between China and Russia. The Russian-Chinese Symphony Orchestra and Chorus will perform pieces by Chinese and Russian composers, including well-loved classics like The Nutcracker. Get your cros…

  22.05.2024

• 4 Things To Do on Your Birthday in St. Petersburg

  …ctivities to try in addition to rope tracks. At Energiya Vysoty, for instance, you can do some climbing and bouldering, jump on trampolines, and have a “meal of champions” in-between or after – basically, it has everything you need to keep the action and laughter going. And as a nice bonus, you will get a 50% discount on your special day. – Marina Have fun with go…

  21.05.2024

• ITMO’s Monday Science Roundup #55

  …elds thought to be too full of unpredictable factors. Read more: Teaching AI to Discover New Laws of Nature *** In the already highly competitive world of generative networks, another up-and-comer has emerged. Its name? YandexGPT. In her recent post on our Blogs section, Arina Zhizhileva, a Master’s student of the program Intelligent Systems in Humanities, t…

  20.05.2024

• Learn to Grow Your Business While Caring for the Planet at ITMO

  … “The existing approach to training sustainability experts doesn’t meet the demands of governments and businesses; the educational programs in the field lack the balance between technology and governance, there is usually a preference for one or the other. Companies, on the other hand, are looking for experts who can evaluate greenhouse emissions, as well as ana…

  17.05.2024

• Student Spotlight: Jawed Bahshari, Afghanistan

  …omponent of every country. I really like borscht with smetana, pelmeni, and blini.  Do you have a favorite restaurant in St. Petersburg? There’s one place on the way in between ITMO and my dormitory where I enjoy eating a lot. It is called Rostic’s (A Russian fast food chain specializing in fried chicken – Ed.)  Which dormitory are you living in? I live i…

  16.05.2024

• Technologies and Humans in Conversation: Yandex Museum & ITMO Partner Up for Contemporary Art Exhibition

  …help uncover new ways to interact with smart devices, expanding our preconceptions about an individual's place in the digital reality. “We saw humans as the common point between the projects of the Art & Science Center and Yandex Museum. Our bodies, according to the exhibition’s main concept, are tools for collecting information about the world; information that…

  14.05.2024