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• ITMO Student Shares About her Summer School Abroad: “Awesome, Gripping and Truly International”

  … The intensive program made students keep to a particular schedule and become better at time management as well.  “It is necessary to try study abroad! This Summer School inspired me to plan my future studies. I am going to apply to a double degree ora semester exchange program in the future,” said Natalia Gorokhova. Now she is looking for an interesting en…

  26.08.2016

• Education in Your Pocket: Ten Telegram Bots To Help You Study

• Summer School in Photonics and Nanotechnologies: Students from Moscow's Institute of Electronics and Mathematics Come to Learn at ITMO

  … "This is the first time we are holding a Summer School with ITMO University. We were inspired by the Magic of Light exhibition that was in Moscow this winter. We closely cooperated with its curators, and many of the students that took part in the summer school worked as volunteers at the exhibition. Having worked at such an interesting event, they had a unique expe…

  25.08.2016

• Anything that Can Go Wrong… Is to Be Equipped With a Failsafe System

  …uration effect can be erased if control activities are well-regulated. Adjusting algorithms are necessary for improving a system so that it continues to operate even if it obtains incorrect or incomplete information. Thanks to this, the system will manage to adjust to external conditions – like a living organism would. “However, nothing comes without a price. Comp…

  24.08.2016

• Silicon Nanoparticles Trained to Juggle Light

• Kronstadt — the "Hub of the Universe" and the Might-Have-Been Capital of Russia

  …ry, much as the history of St. Petersburg, is closely intertwined with Russian Navy and Russia’s naval victories. Until 1959, Kronstadt was a separate town, so it still retains its own coat of arms, which local residents often hang in their apartments. How to get there Getting to Kronstadt is easy: by bus #101 from the Staraya Derevnya metro station, or by m…

  23.08.2016

• Bringing the Aquabus Back: St. Petersburg Water Taxi Can Be in Demand Aain

  …Why aquabuses are no longer? Saint Petersburg’s aquabus lines stopped functioning in 2015, due to their low popularity among the citizens. Instead of easing the workload of surface transport and the subway, they were more of a tourist attraction. What’s more, the city had to subsidize 480 rubles per person each trip, with the fare being 200-380 rubles. As a result…

  23.08.2016

• Bringing Rock Stars Back to Life: Demystified

  …t as a hologram on their website without even explaining what technology was used to create the image. Alexander Toropov from the Faculty of Photonics and Optoinformatics explains that the illusion was based on a combination of images from live recordings projected onto transparent foil or Mylar. The foil would have been mounted at an angle of 45 degrees to the stage…

  22.08.2016

• 5 Things We Loved This Week

  …org Surface engineers prefer whisky over coffee As a whisky drop dries, a combination of molecules in the liquid ensures a spatially uniform deposition—a finding that could inspire coating technologies. nytimes.com Happy traveler: What does it mean? Here are some tips by an experienced life coach to cultivate joy during your next trip—and long after returning h…

  21.08.2016

• Evgeny Pidko: Chemistry is a Catalyst for Success

  … chemicals towards some desirable products. The basics of this principle resemble the life of highlanders. Imagine that chemical substances live in valleys surrounded by mountains.  To change from one state to another, i.e. to get from one valley to the next one, substances have to pass over the mountains.  In classical chemistry wit…

  18.08.2016