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• St. Petersburg Prepares for World Cup 2018

  …The centerpiece of the World Cup in St. Petersburg is, of course, the new Krestovsky Stadium, aka the Zenit Arena, on Krestovsky Island. With seating for 67,000 people, it takes over from the 1920s-built Petrovsky Stadium as the city’s flagship arena. In preparation for the games, St. Petersburg’s public transit system has undergone a massive rehaul. Two

  15.05.2018

• ITMO Graduates Reflect on True Value of Education

  …ment, Sergei Kozlov (who was recently awarded the title "Honored Science Worker of the Russian Federation" -- Ed.), and told him that we want to do science. At that point, we knew nothing about science and how it’s done. Still, Sergei Arkadyevich was quite favorable to us, and we started to cooperate with the department and the Vavilov State Optical Institute, where …

  15.05.2018

• Computer Simulation to Make Cities Cleaner

  …way: an official paved path has the highest attractiveness, a lawn has the lowest attractiveness, and a desire path is somewhere in between. Pedestrians change the map forming new desire paths which in turn affect the pedestrians’ behaviour. Then we have to decide how to process this information about new paths. Sometimes these

  14.05.2018

• Motion Capture, VR and Video 360: New Technologies Enter Classical Art

  …ct, we’ll be combining it all: we’ll have a real dance, but the actor will be replaced by different graphic elements. Which projects have you already worked on that use new technologies? When 360 degree video appeared, we tried many things with it. Back then, I was still studying at ITMO University. As of now, we are planning to conduct an experiment with a…

  14.05.2018

• Physicist Yuri Kivshar on Russian Science, Career Management and Metaoptics

  …anophotonics and Metamaterials. As for research, I believe that we managed to pick the right topic. Before that, there was old, classic science, but we gave it a completely new twist. How do you mean? There is a science called nanophotonics that studies the physical processes that happen when photons interact with nanoscale objects. For a long time, nano…

  11.05.2018

• How Citizen Science Helps in “True” Research

  …aturalists who collected plants and insects back then. Although they were not professional scientists, but their knowledge was enough to communicate with them, be published in newspapers and magazines and contribute to various research activities. Citizen science is not new, but it has received a new im…

  11.05.2018

• Electronic Checklists for ITMO Graduating Students

  …to go. We started working on this project in September 2017. First of all, we analyzed all the paper checklist and eliminated some unnecessary segments of it. Then we formed a new list and started working on the new electronic system”, shared Ekaterina Kalkina. The new electronic checklist consist…

  11.05.2018

• Island 10-21 Welcomes Future Technological Leaders

  …not suffice. Some of those areas are big data, end-to-end technologies (computer analysis and modelling), blockchain technologies, AI, IoT. It requires an understanding of the new tasks that arise at the intersection of technology, the humanities and natural sciences. Traditional training provides interesting but sad results. According to our forecasts, developing an…

  10.05.2018

• Work on the Plot, Not the Graphics: Making VR-Gaming Mainstream

  … to the game, so that you don’t just earn points, but also become a character in a certain narrative. Reaching the final stage becomes so important that you are ready to build new communications and fight for rewards. It turns out that virtual reality is identical to our actual one: your last step determines your next, the future depends on the past. You move forward…

  10.05.2018

• A Look at Russia’s First Master’s Program on LED Technologies