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• This Week in St. Petersburg: August 1-7, 2024

  Even though the sky above St. Petersburg today might be gray, the week ahead is everything but: with exhibitions for all tastes, a fair, a concert, and a contemporary ballet performance. Get ready to fill up your calendar!

  31.07.2024

• How To: Running in St. Petersburg

  Are you on the lookout for a new hobby? Maybe you’d like to join a supportive community of like-minded people? Or maybe you’ve been looking for a fun way to stay active? We present to you our very own How-To guide on running, featuring top tips from experienced running experts. Let’s dive in!

  30.07.2024

• ITMO Welcomes Record Number of Academic Contest Winners

  In 2024, a whopping 681 winners of academic competitions have enrolled at ITMO without entrance exams. This is the highest number in St. Petersburg and one of the best results in the whole country.

  30.07.2024

• Realism of the Unseen: New Art & Science Exhibition of Works by ITMO Master’s Students

  What are digital immortality and xenotransplantation? Can we discover new means of communication between animals and humans? How – and why – can you try on some bacterial makeup? And do cats go to their own digital paradise? Find answers to these unexpected questions in the creations of ITMO Art & Science students, showcased at the exhibition Realism of the Unseen. The exhibition is on until August 11 at ITMO’s AIR space.

  30.07.2024

• Discovery of the Month: Portable Gaming, New Recipes, and More

  This July, we’ve been exploring all kinds of new avenues: time management tricks, cool summer recipes, exciting hobbies, and new ways to play our favorite games. Check out our discoveries in the story below.

  26.07.2024

• No More Counterfeiting – Thanks to Photon Crystals from ITMO

  Scientists from ITMO University have suggested a novel production method for anti-forgery protection tags that is cheaper and quicker than its analogs. The new method uses magnet-sensitive photon crystals for ink jet printing. The resulting tags are liquid systems with magnetic particles inside a solid shell; in response to a magnet, the particles assemble into a specific colored pattern. According to its authors, the new method will be more reliable than its counterparts. The study is described in a paper published in Advanced Optical Materials. 

  26.07.2024

• Teamwork and Business Communications: ITMO Researchers Name Most Wanted Soft Skills

  Researchers from ITMO have conducted a large-scale study on the demand for soft skills among employers. The authors have analyzed over 67,000 job listings and conducted surveys and in-depth interviews with employers and ITMO students. Among the most important competencies, representatives of businesses have named the ability to work in a team and to establish communications. Findings of the study have been published in Nature.

  24.07.2024

• Brains in Sync: What’s New in Brain Research

  As a PhD student in neuroscience, my completely unbiased opinion is that the human brain is one of science’s greatest mysteries. Today, to mark World Brain Day – celebrated on July 22 and aimed at promoting brain health and research – we'll see if science is getting any closer to solving it. What can neuroscientists do with the newest tech advances? What do the classic experiments in the field look like? And what is hyperscanning? Find answers to these questions and more in today’s ITMO.NEWS article.

  23.07.2024

• Best Again: ITMO Tops AI Alliance Ranking of Universities in AI

  Recently, AI Alliance has published its second ranking of Russian universities that provide training in the field of AI. Like last year, ITMO was placed among the leaders, alongside the Higher School of Economics (HSE) and Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology (MIPT). 

  22.07.2024

• The City of Superlatives: Oldest Sights in St. Petersburg

  We love to explore our city from the most unusual angles: earlier, we told you about St. Pete’s smallest sites, as well as the city’s firsts. Today, we are putting our historian hats on and turning our attention to the city’s oldest sites: from bookshops to trees and even a pyshki place, you are in for a fun time-travel roller-coaster. Hop on!

  19.07.2024