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

  …еатр Поколений) This unique project is located in a loft on Petrogradsky island, created in a former production building. The theater tries to meet the latest trends, accepts new life and aesthetic challenges and stages many unusual and inspiring plays. You can find the spirit of this wonderful place even in the multiple interpretations of the image of the rooster, …

  16.10.2018

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

  …structures. What is the point of doing that? Adding information to a data structure in a concurrent manner can lead to many mistakes. For instance, operations can overlap, and new data will be written over the recently added one. This is why you need to synchronize the processes, so that they would wait if necessary. I searched for ways to bring this synchronization …

  16.10.2018

• Open Innovations 2018: Higher Education in the Digital Age

  …The first day’s theme was the development of modern forms of education and new training strategies. The forum brought together the world’s leading professors, international business representatives, and government officials willing to discuss the most efficient training methods and approaches.   One of the main highlights was the discussion “Education 4.0. From un…

  16.10.2018

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

  …terials with reverse-traveling waves and a short history of years of research on the unusual laws of refraction and reflection. Adapted by the legendary author himself, the new reprint features sweeping changes of the chapters on reverse-traveling waves with a short summary on the history of their research, as well as some new additi…

  15.10.2018

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

  …use gases, although I would disagree; most of it comes from the countries that are heavily involved in manufacturing,” notes Elena Budrina. Paul Romer, a professor of the New York University, served as the World Bank’s Chief Economist between 2016 and 2018. Like Nordhaus, he was featured on the Nobel Prize’s list of potential laureates numerous times, which is w…

  15.10.2018

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

  …y specific fields. But this is only a minor part of the whole experience. What really matters is that programming competitions make you a valued specialist who is receptive to new knowledge, quickly adapts to new tasks and environments, and can see to the core and come up with a fresh solution. It is these skills you acquire as a result…

  15.10.2018

• Unexplored St. Petersburg: The Museum of Sound

  …her than a museum. This being said, I have to admit that I really can’t help returning to the Museum of Sound over and over again, as every time I do, I get to learn something new and explore unexpected sides of my own self. So, what exactly is so great about this place? Quite tellingly, most of the Museum’s activities have to do with sound, and music in particula…

  12.10.2018

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

  … the most significant? One of the most important results for me personally was that we contributed to a shift in people’s perceptions. The introduction of SIEI ushered in a new era of fuss-free e-services, where you no longer have to take a day off work and stand in kilometer-long lines to try and wade through the record-breaking amounts of red tape and get an off…

  12.10.2018

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

  …ion, embodies the masculinity crisis that characterizes the society of the time. Although he is the main protagonist, he doesn’t tie in with the classic superhero image of a sinewy macho. When Bruce transforms into Hulk, he is, in essence, governed by a woman: only Betty Ross can calm him down and return him to normality, so she’s the real boss in the story. But t…

  12.10.2018

• Motasem Awaja’s Journey: A 2018 Open Doors Scholarship Winner

  … discovered that it has a great reputation in the international programming community, which decided his choice to go for ITMO. In May of this year, he got the long-awaited news that he was accepted to the program, which was all the more exciting given that at the time the border between Gaza and Egypt was open. Overjoyed, Motasem quickly packed his bags and prepa…

  11.10.2018