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• Fireworks and Palaces: New Years in St. Petersburg

  …Needless to say, the New Year’s celebrations are the most festive time in our country. A truly eclectic event, it entwines various traditional holidays into a single grand festival that goes on for weeks; celebrating the New Year is one of Russia’s most hallowed traditions and one you absolutely can’t miss out on. Though the story of…

  26.12.2017

• Scientists Launched a New Method for Microscopy of Nanoobjects

  …bove the sample without making contact with it. "After each measurement, we move the probe away from the surface, shift the sample slightly, and then lower the tip onto a new point," explains Arseny Kalinin, the lead author of the article and a member of the NT-MDT Spectrum Instruments team. "Instead of scratching the surface, we gently touch it so that small lo…

  26.12.2017

• ITMO Programmers’ Death Star Project Wins Hackathon Prize

  …on line will produce 10 parts at once, but will take longer to do so. “The plant’s production schedule had to be optimized to reduce the construction time and cost of the new Death Star. We only had a limited amount of funds – 10,000 galactic credits – and resources, e.g. work teams, production devices, etc. In addition, one third of our final evaluation grade d…

  26.12.2017

• ITMO’s Future Technologies Alumni Develop a 3D Printer And Win RSCI Grant

  …se steps and stride by your side. I believe that our project attracted great professionals and what’s most important we have build a very good team which is capable of setting new goals and not stopping at what has already been achieved. The real era of 3D technologies is just beginning - and no one can predict how they will change our life in 10 years. Whether we…

  26.12.2017

• Double Degree Programs in Iceland: Recent Participants Share

  …e condition of the overall structure is defined by the magnetization direction of each and every island. Extensive research of such systems has already led to the discovery of new physical phenomena, for example, magnetic monopoles, and can well contribute to increasing the efficiency of magnetic memory. Sergei Lyashko. Precise modeling and estimation of system…

  25.12.2017

• Seldon the Robot Takes Second Place at RoboCup Asia-Pacific 2017

  …uld’ve had an even better result”, commented Igor Lositsky. Next year, the school team from ITMO University will amaze the audiences of international championships with a new project; however, work on the beloved Seldon is still not over, and he still has some more victories in his future. Learn more about Seldon’s path to stardom here in our article. …

  23.12.2017

• Things to Do in St. Petersburg this Weekend: December 22-23

  …December 23 marks the beginning of New Year’s celebrations in St. Petersburg. At 17:00, the citizens and city officials will greet Ded Moroz (Russian counterpart to Santa Claus and Father Christmas) and participate in an immersive show at the city’s main Christmas Tree, or “Yolka”, on the Palace Square. A less official and a more fun event will take place prior to th…

  22.12.2017

• More than Beauty: Winners of Mister ITMO 2018 on What It Takes to Win

  …one that involved backup dancers, but I don’t think I would have been able to rehearse and pull that off perfectly in such a short amount of time. So I went with the option I knew I could handle. Egor Marinenkov's dance performance Picking a character wasn’t easy, too. I’d considered Neo from the Matrix movies and even Yuri Gagarin, whom Ilya later “stole” fr…

  22.12.2017

• Ilya Nikiforov, Founder Of TeachMePlease, On Blockchain in Education

  …able certificate. So, lots of questions emerge - like why education has begun to lose its value at some point? Even academic education, as students don’t clearly see how their new skills can be monetized. There are lots of examples when a person studied to be an economist and ended up working in construction and vice-versa. So, students don’t see the direct correlati…

  22.12.2017

• All-Russian NTI Engineering Competition: Young Engineers’ Budding Talent

  …for the world economy. The All-Russian NTI Young Engineers’ Competition is devoted to the acquisition and development of knowledge and skills that are in demand at the world’s new markets. This competition took place last year for the first time and now the organizers plan to conduct it annually. RVC (Russian Venture Company - Ed.) and the Agency for Strategic Ini…

  21.12.2017