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How to Become Successful: Tips From Boris Solopov, CEO of Opticom St. Petersburg
…you can't make it. You can often face "advisors" who will tell you that what you want to do is impossible. We recently had such an incident at our company. We were launching a new project, and our technologist told me that we wouldn't succeed with the technology we planned for it. I told him: "Okay, do what you want." Still, in three weeks, the technologist told me t…
14.06.2018
Five-Minute Fan Guide to FIFA World Cup 2018 in St. Petersburg
…Where to watch Lucky ticket holders will get their adrenaline pumping at the new Saint Petersburg Stadium that looks like a spacecraft has landed on Krestovsky Island. But even without a ticket, you can feel the rush at FIFA Fan Fest on Konyushennaya Square, a five-minute walk from Nevsky Prospect. It features large screens with live action, food, games, and conce…
14.06.2018
This Weekend in St. Petersburg: June 16-17
…s. Almost every painting has a detailed description in Russian and English. Entrance fee is 200 rub. Several cinemas in St. Petersburg screen recordings of stage plays from New York’s Metropolitan Opera, the London National Theatre, and many other renowned venues. This is a unique opportunity to see all-time classics on the big screen. Among this week’s highlights…
13.06.2018
What to Expect from a Master’s Program at the Faculty of Physics and Engineering
…ears before I applied for my Master’s, I was working at the lab and doing microwave research in an anechoic chamber. My scientific supervisor, Pavel Belov, told me there was a new Master’s program that would let me fill the gaps in my knowledge and combine research with course work. This program is great for anyone who is into science; there’s a lot of subjects, m…
13.06.2018
Health Awareness and Making the Transition to Preventative Medicine
…h by first obtaining big data on the patients’ wellbeing. Big data analysis in healthcare Obviously, to make such a healthcare system effective, you would have to create new algorithms and decision support systems that will analyse big data and use it to make predictions and recommendations. One major advantage of this system is that patients wouldn’t have to v…
13.06.2018
It’s Time to Celebrate Russia Day
Exploring the St. Petersburg Metro
…ame still remains there in spirit; the station’s interiors are clearly inspired by the aesthetics of early 20th-century aeronautics. Begovaya and Novokrestovslaya provide new transportation routes for inhabitants of the city’s Primorsky district, as well as easy access to the Saint-Petersburg Stadium, also known as Zenit Arena. At ground level, Novokrestovskaya …
11.06.2018
ITMO has the Best Science Communicators in Russia
…, attract the applicants with an average USE (Unified State Examination) score of 90.3 (out of 100). “The goal of communications departments is to constantly look for new formats, to surprise the audience and to present information from various angles. After all, our global goal is to find and attract like-minded people. The more such people we attract the s…
09.06.2018
ITMO University Wins Most SPIE Scholarships in 2018
… Alexandr Grebenchukov, third-year PhD student, Department of Photonics and Optical Information Technologies, Terahertz Biomedicine Laboratory My research deals with new two-dimensional materials in the terahertz frequency band. The most common 2D-material is graphene, but today it’s just not meeting the expectations that people had for it, and scientists a…
09.06.2018
Insights into Nanophotonics and Metamaterials from around the World
…n National University, Australia), Konstantin Simovski (AALTO UNIVERSITY, Finland), Andrei Lavrinenko (Technical University of Denmark, Denmark) and others, but there are many new lectures every year as well. This year, there were participants from Germany, France, South Korea, Russia, Saudi Arabia, the USA, Italy, Croatia, Japan and Denmark. According to the organiz…
08.06.2018