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• 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

• Novgorod State University Hosts ITMO.REGIONS Innovation Weekend

  … effective fundraising record. By sharing our experience with other universities, we inspire them to broaden their horizons and provide them with necessary support; after all, new roads seem much easier when you already know the bumps ahead. My main goal was to advise the NSU staff on the available opportunities for funding their joint projects with international par…

  11.10.2018

• University of Amsterdam Professor on the Importance of Crowd Behavior Research and Putting Minecraft to Good Use

  …ssor at the University of Amsterdam. Two years ago, he and his colleagues started to conduct experiments aimed at pinpointing how humans use memory to find their way in new surroundings. Their research revolves around complex systems that analyze behavior and responses of participants, or agents, placed in challenging conditions of an uncontrolled flow of peop…

  11.10.2018

• ITMO University Launches Digital Humanities Research Lab

  …Digital Humanities implies using digitized materials and combines the methods largely accepted in traditional liberal sciences with IT, thus offering instruments and providing new opportunities for collecting and visualizing data, as well as data retrieval, intellectual data analysis, and the use of mathematical statistics (you can read more about the development of …

  11.10.2018

• This Weekend in St. Petersburg: October 13-14

  …Looking for a chic brunch spot not far away from the city center? How about Vasilievsky Island’s Sevkabel Port, one of the city's newest public spaces? This weekend, Sevkabel will host Market by the Sea, where you will find a wide selection of handmade clothes, accessories, cosmetics, and ceramics, as well as books, fruits, honey, sweets, and lots of other foodstuffs…

  10.10.2018

• Short-Term Academic Mobility Programs: How to Get University’s Financial Support

  …Any student who’s taking their program on a tuition-free basis can get this kind of support. Apart from acquiring new knowledge and establishing useful contacts, as well as presenting their results at international conferences, the students who didn’t participate in semester-long exchanges get an additional bonus: taking part in short-term events at ITMO’s various pa…

  10.10.2018

• Dining with Laureates: ITMO PhD Student Shares His Experience of the Sixth Heidelberg Forum