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• Learning Russian and Making Movies: a Finn's Exchange Semester at ITMO University

  … the professors often go into the fundamentals and theory. In Finland, we often work on projects, and the system encourages self-study; we seldom have direct answers and rigid instructions.  This approach has both advantages and disadvantages. For instance, if I couldn’t understand something, I may never get a chance to, and the traditi…

  09.04.2018

• 5 Science News Now

  …rsity and Climate Research Center, Goethe University and the University of Lund in Sweden have deciphered the complete genome of the blue whale and three other rorquals. These insights now allow tracking the evolutionary history of the worlds' largest animal and its relatives in unprecedented detail. Surprisingly, the genomes show that rorquals have been hybridizing …

  08.04.2018

• ITMO Celebrates 404 Day with Festival of Street Art

  …(Lyuba also creates music under the name DITA REDRUM), whose works can be seen on many of the city’s streets. In her drawing she depicted a young woman who, as the artist explains, is the soul of the internet. “My works are almost exclusively all portraits; most of the time, they are female, as I prefer to work with female beauty,” – she says. Lyuba isn…

  06.04.2018

• VR/AR Association & ITMO University Spring Kickoff: Trends and Philosophy of Virtual Reality

  …n employment, as the Association works with companies like Google, GoPro, Microsoft and others. Members also get access to major business publications such as Forbes, Business Insider and the like. You can participate in various affiliated events, too; the biggest among them is the global VR/AR summit which will take place in Vancouver in September,” – commented Mich…

  05.04.2018

• Wastebake Project: Smart Recycling

  … simply throw the leftovers away, which is even worse than turning them into animal feed. It would be way more efficient to reuse waste to create products with high profit margins. What is the issue with bakery waste in Russia? In Russia, a significant portion of produced bread is discarded as waste. Grocery stores order more bread than they can sell, it go…

  05.04.2018

• ITMO University Revamps its Master’s Program in Optoelectronics

  …d the same predicament: job-seekers do not understand the fundamental difference between laboratory work, scientific research -- for which they are trained in higher education institutions -- and industrial development, technologies of mass production." The solution The solution to this problem could lie not only in active employment of industry executives as…

  04.04.2018

• HEX Hackathon: 32 Hours to Make the World a Better Place

  … two backend developers, and a designer. “Having already participated in hackathons, we knew that we didn’t have enough time to develop something complex, and focused instead on making an application that would really work”, says Maxim. Results The team members say that participating in the Hackathon was a great opportunity to meet with the represent…

  04.04.2018

• Russian Easter: a Feast of Cheer

  …worship is much more beautiful, full of different symbols and hymns, and boasts the longest church celebration of all Orthodox service practices. So, if you want to get a full insight on how the Orthodox religious practice looks like, visiting an Easter service might be a good (and a very beautiful and heartwarming) experience.  The week leading up to Easter is call…

  03.04.2018

• Video Games vs. MBAs: How Gaming Makes You a Better Employee

  …rarian view of video games and claim that the “gamer generation” will make for very different kinds of employees and managers. Resilience and Determination “Gamers instinctively want to move forward. When you play video games, you acquire certain behavior patterns useful in real life. Gamers know that failure is survivable, because they have already faile…

  03.04.2018

• Funny Science: ITMO Hosts Its First-Ever Science Stand-Up Show "Quantum Potential"

  …First grant is like a first love Getting your first research grant is like experiencing all the pains and difficulties of a first love, as the guests were assured by the first performer, George Zograf, a PhD student at the Faculty of Physics and Engineering. How to present yourself to scientific foundations, how to get a response, how to interact with colleagues s…

  02.04.2018