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• SciComm in Russia: How Does It Work and What’s Its Future?

  …uring the second day, the speakers focused on real cases showing the recent state of science communication in Russia. Such experts as Elena Brandt, head of PR of the Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology and chief of operations officer of the Akson association, Irina Yakutenko, science journalist and founder of the "Russell's Teapot" agency, Ekaterina Tukel, …

  02.03.2017

• Daria Kozlova, ITMO’s Vice Rector for International Relations, Receives "Saint Petersburg’s Influential Women — 2017" Award

  …on, science and arts got the award. Among them were opera director Larisa Gergieva, sportswoman and Duma member Svetlana Zhurova, trainer Tatyana Moskvina, first dancer of Mariinsky Theater Julia Makhalina, CEO of Interfax North-West Lyudmila Fomicheva, board member of the Melon Fashion Group Galina Sintsova, member of Legislative Assembly Irina Ivanova, and others. …

  02.03.2017

• Startups from an Ice-Hole:

  …rtant events like Polar Bear Pitching in Oulu. Many call this region where many of Nokia's plants and laboratories are located the "Finnish Silicon Valley". Oulu University trains specialists in the field of IT — as of now, ITMO's student also study there on exchange programs. After Nokia, which was Oulu's backbone enterprise, stopped producing smartphones and foc…

  01.03.2017

• Like Doesn’t Cure Like: Homeopathy and Its Fake Medications

  …es, homoeopathists dissolve pathogenic agents (or something they consider such agent) in water. For this purpose they use spores of poisonous fungi, ammonia, arsenic, parts of insects or other creatures. However, the concentration of these components in homeopathic medications is very low and, in fact, they are almost absent — medications usually contain 10-60 kg …

  01.03.2017

• JavaScript, С, PHP and Python: ITMO’s Master’s Students on How to Create a Website in 45 Minutes

  …The project's origins Be it a website for a web-studio or a coffee shop, a resource on climbing Everest or diving — the "Website in 45 Minutes" project's own page already has 19 educational screencasts for it. In some 45 minutes, anyone can learn how to create a modern adaptive resource for different purposes, be it a non-profit organization or a site for a develo…

  28.02.2017

• VR for Medicine: from Placebo to Robotic Exoskeletons

  …adjust to changing conditions. Healthy people can do them easily without losing balance, while those with disorders lose orientation in space. According to the statistics, Parkinson's disease can appear at age of 30, but the patient doesn’t feel the first symptoms until 50. The new test system can help diagnose various neurodegenerative diseases in early stages. S…

  28.02.2017

• Co-creation Concept: How to Manage Creativity?

  …making efforts, one has to understand psychological and physiological processes in one’s brain. Just imagine that you still use a computer that you bought in the 90-ss. You install Windows 97, 98, 2000, 2007 one by one without deleting previous versions, and they work simultaneously. It is obvious that its running will be brought down. The brain works in a similar…

  28.02.2017

• Why Design Programs: Anatoliy Shalyto on Automata-Based Programming

  …Problem The problem is that programmers all over the world don't formalize their work in any way, explains Anatoliy Shalyto. The question is whether formalizing is even possible? Code is something that is written based on one's knowledge and experience. What's more, most non-programmers don't know much about programming languages, so what's the point? "Recent…

  27.02.2017

• Interactive Microscopy for Children by ITMO University

  …veral patents for the devices. The system is used not only by school students, but also by Bachelor’s, Master’s and PhD students of the university. The equipment has also been installed in two Italian universities in Rome and Padua. The developers of the NanoTutor will present the project in Sirius [an educational center for gifted children in Sochi -Ed.] and at t…

  27.02.2017

• 5 Surprising Facts about St. Petersburg

  … The Hermitage — probably the most famous museum in St Petersburg — is home to around 70 cats, which guard its treasures against rodents. The tradition dates back to a 1745 decree of Empress Elizabeth, the daughter of Peter the Great, founder of St. Petersburg. During WWII, Hitler planned to hold a huge celebratory banquet at Astoria Hotel once he'd conq…

  24.02.2017