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Winter Sports in Saint Petersburg
… sports complex (Sportivnaya subway station), the Ice Palace arena (Prospekt Bolshevikov), the Kirov Central Park on Elagin Island and near the Young Spectator's Theatre (Pushkinskaya subway station). Prices range from 150 to 500 rubles per hour, and about 200−400 rubles per hour for renting the skates. If you are looking for something really original — there’s ic…
06.01.2017
Tours of CERN, or What to See at the Largest Collider Ever
…t of CERN's equipment consumes as much energy in a month than half of a small town. Stephan has been working for the laboratory for a year and a half already. The ELENA installation is a coil for cooling and slowing antiprotons in CERN's Antiproton Decelerator. The experiment started in 2000 and ended only a couple months ago; its results allow to conduct prec…
06.01.2017
How Do Researchers Write Academic Papers?
…ore. Currently, researchers have to cite themselves when using previously written works. However, the question about how much an author can reuse his or her previous texts remains open. Among the issues covered during the sessions, there were genre awareness through reading, online writing tools, reading and reporting statistics in studies on second language writing…
05.01.2017
Junction Hackathon — New Solutions for VR Gear
…l to his headgear. This can be used to control a game: in VR, each blink causes a laser shot at meteors in cosmos, which earns points for the player. The game itself is to be installed on a smartphone, which is then connected to the headgear and the microcontroller. The team created all the electronic and other components for their project using a 3D printer and the…
05.01.2017
ITMO Fellowship Stories: 'Your Own Way Is not the Easiest One'
… That is why his lectures were devoted not only to theoretical aspects of MR, but also to its applications. He also talked about the Cuban MRI project. Due to USA’s embargo against Cuba, this country couldn’t make economic contacts with America. It affected allfields including medical equipment. Cuban researchers had to develop MRI from scratch. In such a strange …
04.01.2017
How to Survive Exams: The Russian Way
…aying "to hell with you, nothing will stop me from catching my prey". The second most important, and extremely absurd role of the family on the day of the exam, is to start insulting the student. You might hear some foul language, but apparently the more bad things you are told, the better your exam grade will be. Just make sure not to start Institute of Design and Urban Studies, explained that many participants of the school used photographs that they took in Kronstadt. "Our goal was to show the uniqueness of St. Petersburg, …
03.01.2017
A Research Student from China on Studying and Life in Russia
… Saint Petersburg? At first, I didn't know Russian. It wasn't a problem at the university, as everyone speaks English there, but Russian is essential for everything else. For instance, I couldn't talk to cashiers at supermarkets. So, I had no choice but to learn it by speaking to the locals. Also, I really wanted to join conversations between students, be a part of …
02.01.2017
Now You Can "Solve It!" at ITMO
…f them are divided into three groups — high school graduates, school and university teachers and graduates of technical universities who don’t work in their degree fields. For instance, such people as David Yan, head of the ABBYY, showman Ivan Urgant, opera singer Anna Netrebko, restaurant keeper Arkady Novikov, actress Chulpan Khamanova, Noble Prize winner Konstanti…
30.12.2016
Movie Guide: The Best Russian Festive Films to brighten up your New Year’s Eve
…memorable quotes. And of course, songs — it wouldn’t be a proper Soviet Christmas movie without a few ditties thrown in to leaven proceedings. Many of these songs have become instant Christmas classics — most notably "If you have no aunt" which Zhenya plays on the guitar and sings while sitting near the new year tree. In this song he ironically reflects on the idea …
30.12.2016