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This Weekend in St. Petersburg: May 18-19
…vents to list – just go ahead and check out the full program. The Annual Spring Fountain Show in Peterhof This year’s spring fountain show, which traditionally opens the summer season at Peterhof, will be titled “The Genius and the Locus” and dedicated to the 220th anniversary of the birth of famed Russian poet Alexander Pushkin, who frequently came to Peterhof…
15.05.2019
FAQ on Life in Russia
…here’s a difference between sunshine and warmth. The sunnier it gets in the winter, the colder it is. Russians have organized their entire lifestyle around the seasons, and summer is exclusively reserved for rest and leisure (or at least a change of scenery). It can get really hot in some places. Everyone makes a concerted effort to travel. Depending on their fina…
14.05.2019
Self-Driving Cars and Rovers: ITMO Students’ Projects at Skolkovo and Innopolis
…ur pass and, if the classroom is vacant, work there. Even if the classroom is very spacious, it may still happen that you’ll work there completely alone. The organizers of the summer school didn’t book any classrooms particularly for the event, and we could work in any room we liked,” continues Valery Chernov. Onsite round of the NTI contest in the track “Ae…
14.05.2019
Grandma Instagrammers: How ITMO Volunteers Help Seniors Master Modern Social Media
…n cities. Together, they partake in social, sports, ecological and cultural events both around the country and internationally: Silver Volunteers even helped organize the 2012 Summer Olympics in London. They also contributed to the organization and conduct of the 2014 Olympic and Paralympic Games in Sochi. It was the goal of educating the Silver Years voluntee…
08.05.2019
This Weekend in St. Petersburg: May 9-12
…icas of bombed out houses, an actress’s flat circa the Siege of Leningrad, huge missiles, a collection of wartime cars and machinery, as well as authentic cultural objects. Summer in the City festival May 10-12 Primorsky Victory Park on Krestovsky Island Free admission On May 10-12, come round to Primorsky Victory Park to participate in dancing and …
08.05.2019
Gennady Korotkevich Wins Sobaka.Ru Magazine Award
…s). Apart from that, Korotkevich scored first in last year’s Topcoder Open Marathon competition and the annual Yandex.Algorithm competition. In addition to that, in the summer of 2018, he was named one of St. Petersburg’s best students and was awarded the certificate of gratitude signed by the Governor of St. Petersburg, as well as the symbol St. Petersburg’s …
06.05.2019
Summer Bridge Scholarship by ITMO’s Russian-French Lab: Join an Interdisciplinary Project and Get Your First Scientific Paper Published
…gineering, and Alexandre Nominé, a participant of the ITMO Fellowship program representing Institut Jean Lamour in Nancy, France, who initiated the launch of the international Summer Bridge Scholarship program at the recently-created Laboratory of Hybrid Crystal Nanophotonics. As of now, the laboratory staff includes ITMO engineers and PhD researchers, who solve inte…
06.05.2019
Vantage Point: Different Ways to Explore St. Petersburg
…e and bustle of the city. One of my favorite routes is the #3. It goes from Finlyandsky Railway Station, past the Peter and Paul Fortress, across Troitsky Bridge, past the Summer Gardens, Nevsky Prospect and past beautiful churches and originary living quarters of the downtown. In essence, it’s a sightseeing tour but for only 40 roubles. It’s even better with an …
01.05.2019
Academic Freedom and Focus on Interdisciplinarity: Leading Experts on Key Trends in Master’s Studies
…t are Master’s studies present them with a wide range of opportunities to gain international experience at partner universities all over the globe. These opportunities include summer schools, internships, exchange semesters, courses and many other formats. How to assemble interdisciplinary teams and ensure academic freedom and individual learning trajectories A…
30.04.2019
Polytechnic Museum’s Curator Alexey Semikhatov: Logic and Math Help Us Predict the Unknown
…quations. “Schwarzschild’s formula is our fullest understanding of black holes. What is a black hole? It is a solution, provided by Schwarzschild and a few others who summarized his findings. We know nothing else about black holes. They cannot be observed, as they are areas where matter has lost to gravity to such a degree that gravity no longer lets even li…
30.04.2019