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Whatever your flavor of Geek is – graphic novels, TV shows, board and video games, or science – St. Petersburg, believe it or not, has something up your alley. Embrace your inner nerd and meet like-minded people at the city’s finest spots…

Although panel buildings are a French invention, it is Russia that bears the title of the country of panels. How did it happen? In the late 1950s Nikita Khrushchev, the leader of the Soviet Union at the time, set a challenging task of…

The contest is part of the university’s award for achievement in higher education. The is meant to identify and support original educational projects, new tools and formats of teacher-student interaction. Each winner will receive 250,000…

Despite the constant study of human biology, many processes of our bodies remain under-researched. In particular, it’s still not entirely clear how different amino acids and other substances influence the growth and healing of…

Digital natives can hardly imagine, but some 15 years ago (still the 21st century!) people couldn’t reach each other so easily, as cell phones were as multifunctional as bricks and social networks were virtually nonexistent. Luckily for…

Computers can outperform people in many fields – but, it seemed, not in the art of making jokes. ITMO University researchers decided to try and dispute this claim. This year, to celebrate April Fools’ Day they taught GPT-3, the world’s…

Last fall, ITMO University a unique educational project at the intersection of history, art, tech and natural sciences. TECHNOHISTORY was developed by the staff of ITMO’s Center of Social and Humanities Knowledge to popularize…

Alexandra Kalashnikova, head of the Ferroics Physics Laboratory at the Ioffe Institute and an associate professor at ITMO, has given a public talk at the Open Lectorium at New Holland Island. In an hour, she explained why we still use…

Developed at ITMO, can paint simple drawings, hieroglyphs, and logos. In order to accomplish this, the robot first receives a pregenerated PNG or JPG picture that is then divided into separate lines by a special algorithm. These lines…

ITMO University marked its 121st anniversary with a five-day celebration on March 22-26. The events took place at campuses on Kronverksky Pr. 49 and Lomonosova St. 9, as well as on ITMO’s official VK and Facebook pages.On this occasion,…