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• Fulbright Recipient Vasiliy Leonenko on His Research in US

  … arrive a month before the project starts and leave within a month after it ends. This additional time is not covered by the program’s funding. One can use it to settle at the new place or to travel across the country. My friends who followed my updates on social media got the impression that I traveled a lot. To say the truth, I indeed got to travel some; on week…

  25.07.2018

• Ice Cream Lover’s Guide to St. Petersburg

  … mushroom ice creams, some olives, roasted nuts, grilled cheese and papadum flatbread: certainly, a meal to remember. Expanding Your Horizons If you want to try not just new flavors, but also new forms of chilled desserts, start with ITMO University’s own Cryo Cream! This food truck serving cryogenic ice-cream has a flair for the …

  24.07.2018

• Rain Falling Upwards and “Critique of Pure Reason”: a Guide to “Gatchina Lightnights”

  …elves with the Other Voices project, created by Stas Svistunovich, the Breakthrough (Прорыв) and the Golden Mask prize winner, in collaboration with the Institut Français, the New Media Laboratory, the Show Consulting school of stage arts, and ITMO’s Department of Creative Lighting Design. Among other participants will be Alena Kogan, Vadim Gololobov and Sergei Karlo…

  24.07.2018

• Think Critically: ITMO University Student Creates Popular Science Podcast

  …ng topics, only uninteresting people. You just have to find a good way to approach the topic. What is your target audience? Our project is not for people who are totally new to science, but for those who are already interested in it, for those who think critically. We don’t have to explain what protons are to our listeners. Thanks to that, we can work with a wi…

  24.07.2018

• UniverSum Summer School: Competitive Hacking for School Students

  …familiarize themselves with the basics of computer security and CTF competitions and don’t get frightened off by complex tasks straight away. This autumn, SPbCTF launches a new season of workshops that will focus on a classic, Attack-Defence format of CTF, which means that participants interact with each other during the competition. Anyone can participate, regard…

  23.07.2018

• Sun, Sea, and Computational Science: YSC-2018 Participants Discuss Their Conference Experience

  …The University of Crete, ITMO’s new partner university, became the conference venue. Located in Heraklion, the university is the largest higher education institution on the island and home to more than 13,000 students, 2,000 of which are enrolled in postgraduate studies. The university has an extensive network of partner institutions from Europe and worldwide. As of …

  23.07.2018

• “I Am a Professional” Winners On How Competition Changed Their Lives

  …s. It was very well-organized, education and entertainment perfectly balanced each other. What I liked the most was the Semi-Hackathon, Andrey Sebrant’s lecture, and a trip to New Holland and the planetarium. The competition made me discover more about the winter school and ITMO University, and it greatly contributed to my decision to enter ITMO University as a Ph…

  20.07.2018

• ITMO Graduates Participate in School of Science Journalism in Erice

  …s been my first international experience. Yet again, I realized that science communication in Russia is rapidly developing, and is moving in the right direction, which is good news. If I were to compare Russia, Europe and the more faraway countries (there were participants from Brazil, India, Egypt, and Israel at the school), I would say that we are all similar and y…

  20.07.2018

• Movie Fridays: Summer in the City

  … terribly endearing restaurant owner monsieur Septime in The Big Restaurant. Already know all the Louis de Funès classics by heart and want to check out something (relatively) new? Try Knock on Wood; this movie, touted by some as ‘the second-funniest French comedy ever’ (that’s a huge claim!), follows a private detective Campana (Gérard Depardieu) and his walking fai…

  20.07.2018

• Decline of Antibiotics and Nanoparticle Drugs of the Future

  …om are working on a massive database with information on every citizen of the EU. Thanks to machine learning, we’ll be able to predict and diagnose diseases, as well as create new medicines. One of the project’s segments is called Nanomedicine; its goal is to create new drugs based on nanostructured materials. As its participant, I deve…

  19.07.2018