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• ITMO.START — the Academic Festival for School Students at ITMO University

  …START Academic Festival "The Academy of Informatics and Programming" gives the fundamentals of programming, algorithms and data structures at a university level. It also trains its students for contests and the Unified State Exam in Informatics. The course is aimed at those most interested in IT. As for those who just started studying it, there is the "Youth Compu…

  05.12.2016

• 5 Things You Need to Know Now

  … including Hollywood actors Leonardo DiCaprio and Ashton Kutcher. Huge safety shield erected at Chernobyl. A massive radiation shield, dubbed New Safe Confinement, has been installed over the number four nuclear reactor in Chernobyl, Ukraine, the site of the catastrophic 1986 nuclear accident. The steel-and-concrete structure is 275 meters wide, 108 meters high an…

  04.12.2016

• Russian Scientists Develop New Metasurfaces for Deep UV-Imaging

  …Biological media can reflect, absorb, scatter and re-emit light waves. Each of these processes contains information about micro- and macrostructure of the media, as well as shape and motion of its components. In this regard, "deep" ultraviolet is a promising tool for biology and medicine. Its application includes laser diagnostics and control of fast processes in cel…

  02.12.2016

• The Ultimate Guide to the Russian Banya (Part 2)

  …It begins with one of the oldest and most infamous, the Yamskie Bani, once patronized by some of St. Petersburg’s most prominent political and cultural figures: "The walls of our Banya,' boasts the website, "remember Lenin, Dostoyevsky, Mussorgsky…' But these days there is very little hint of glitterati — or even gaiety of any kind — in what seems like a very sobe…

  02.12.2016

• ITMO’s Master Student Makes "Student of the Year-2016" Short-List

  …s, the participants got advanced training, met experts, took part in round tables and competed for awards in 13 nominations of the final round. Umidjon Pakhimov from ITMO's Institute of International Business and Law was one of the 12 students who competed in the "Foreign Student of the Year" category. The contest consisted of three rounds. The first was the re…

  01.12.2016

• Startups vs Venture Officials: Why You Should Just Do It Yourself

  …make about 1−3% profit. "It's only in the 2nd or 3rd year of work on a project that the fund needs to sell, but not all high-tech projects are able to get to that stage", explains Alexander Atrashenko. Some Russian companies, after receiving their grant from the Innovation Fund simply sell the products themselves. So if you are confident in your idea, then it’s bette…

  30.11.2016

• CodeХ’s Founder on Apps for the Next Generation of Media

  …What inspired you to organize the club? CodeX started out at the beginning of 2015. However the prototype of CodeX appeared five years ago when I was a third year student. Back then in cooperation with the Department of Engineering and Computer Graphics I initiated a web design studio where students made projects related to graphic and web design as well as web deve…

  30.11.2016

• Going Extreme — Active & Adventure Sports in Saint Petersburg

  …ildren about. There are many organizations where you can try parachuting; the average price for a jump is from 3000−4000 rubles if you jump alone or about 6000−7000 with an instructor. Most offer additional services like making a selfie in the sky or video-recording your jump. Note that before jumping, you will have to go through a briefing and basic training, so …

  29.11.2016

• Technology Brokers School Trains Specialists to Act as Mediators between Science and Industry

  …ol. To make a decision, the organizers evaluated motivation letters sent by students. Most applicants came to the school with their ideas and plans for commercialization. For instance, one of the participants develops a market place with extra options such as job market analysis and individual educational and career planning. One other student presented two projects…

  29.11.2016

• Formulas for Making Right Decisions

  …ormation and they already know how to hack all firewalls to gain access to a server with important data. Among other data protecting programs, information security experts can install a fake program which will "lead" hackers to a fake server. It makes "burglars" think that they are following the right way and nobody spies on them but specialists that can monitor what…

  28.11.2016