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• Cakes vs. Tortes: Do Carbs Like a Russian

  …ctual whipped cream and sprinkled with powdered sugar. It’s a miracle I still fit through most doors. Whatever your favorite Russian carb fix, there’s still a long way till summer.…

  10.12.2018

• The Hermitage: Getting the Full Picture

  …s well as on weekends and national holidays. It’s always more crowded in the high season, but the shortcut here is that these organized tourist packs that fill the museum come summer are usually bound to their lunch at midday, and so flock to the venue before or after that. You can outfox them by coming 20 minutes before the admission starts, or, as noted previously,…

  07.12.2018

• Winter Fairs in St. Petersburg

  …and money), while the famous ETAGI roof is a great place to take in the view of central St. Petersburg from above. O Da! Eda! Food Festival (December 22-23, 12-9 PM) The summer’s biggest food event is coming back early for two days of festive gluttony in December at the newly-reopened courtyard of the Gostiny Dvor on Nevsky Prospect! The list of participants ha…

  04.12.2018

• Six ITMO University Lecturers Awarded Prize by Government of St. Petersburg

  … Our Faculty of Control Systems and Robotics has its own grant support system available for promising projects of our Master’s and PhD students, and hosts annual international summer schools, encouraging PhD students to participate as assistant teachers. There are no obstacles if you’re truly determined on achieving something in this sphere. You just need to stop laz…

  03.12.2018

• ITMO Scientist’s Thesis Named Best at the Australian National University

• 2018 Student of the Year Winners on Students’ Unions, Science, and Buddy Program

  …students took part in the program. This year, the number of students doubled: a total of 91 international students came to study at ITMO, 41 for the autumn semester and 50 for summer schools. Our task is to help them adapt to new conditions and establish international collaboration. How does the program work? Our partner-universities send us information abo…

  27.11.2018

• Pop-Science Cinema at ITMO University

  … becoming smarter and smarter,” shares Mr. Gulyaev. “About a year and a half ago, an artificial intelligence computer program (Libratus) beat four human poker pros, while this summer, OpenAI Five almost defeated humans in Dota 2. I think that among the most interesting latest developments in this field is the AI created by UC Berkeley. Their bot gets a reward for eve…

  26.11.2018

• WUD@ITMO: Ending the Dispute Between Developers and Designers

  …15, ITMO University’s Center of Usability and Mixed Reality (previously known as Design and Multimedia Center) joined forces with Tallinn University to host the first WUD@ITMO summit. Since that time, the event has grown both in scale and popularity, starting to attract top experts from universities and large companies alike. This year’s ranks of conference participa…

  20.11.2018

• Feel Local in Russia (and Anywhere)

  …ake an education decision about your fashion choices,” they said. That holds true in Russia, where people like to dress up for all sorts of occasions, or even without. Last summer I bought four shirts in Saint Petersburg to wear to the office because the ones I had made me look like “a moose from space”. Granted, I still paired them with shorts – because blending …

  19.11.2018

• Physicists Discover New Way of Resonance Tuning for Nonlinear Optics

  …at ITMO University’s International Research Center for Nanophotonics and Metamaterials. “The most important result of our work is that we were able to aggregate and summarize the results of a large number of works from various fields of photonics and radiophysics, all of which only have two things in common: the structure, which is an asymmetric metasurfac…

  14.11.2018