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• "Death and Life of Catalysts": Evgeny Pidko on Getting the ERC Grant and his Research Plans

  On December 13th, European Research Council published the list of researchers who got one of the most prestigious European grants — the ERC Consolidator Grants. Among them is Dr. Evgeny Pidko, professor at Eindhoven University of Technology (Netherlands), participant of ITMO Professorship program and member of the SCAMT International Laboratory. We've asked him to share about the grant and his current research plans and achievements.

  20.12.2016

• 5 Things You Need to Know Now

  18.12.2016

• Rossiya Segodnya: ITMO is Among Russia’s Top Engineering Schools

  On December 15th, the Rossiya Segodnya news agency presented the national rankings of Russia's universities with regard to the demands of Russian economy. There were 446 universities included in the study and divided into several groups by their profile. ITMO University came second among engineering schools all over Russia.

  16.12.2016

• HackerRank Platform: ITMO has the World’s Best Programmers

  The HackerRank technological company has presented its rankings of leading universities in programming. ITMO University, the university of six-time champions of the world's biggest contest in sports programming ACM ICPC, was named best out of the top-50 universities in the world. Saint Petersburg State University, whose team won the ACM ICPC contest this year, was also included in the list, taking 6th place.

  15.12.2016

• Aiming High: World’s Leading Experts on Modern Sports Programming

  Following the results of the regional semi-finals of ACM ICPC, the results of the All-Russian School Programming Contest in Programming came in. Schoolers from Almaty, Astana and Moscow got the gold here; participants from St. Petersburg shared the silver medals with their peers from Tbilisi, and the school kids from Ekaterinburg, Izhevsk, Kremenchuk and Vitebsk took home the bronze. At a round table dedicated to sports programming, such people as Andrei Lopatin and Andrei Stankevich, coaches for the St. Petersburg teams, Lidya Perovskaya, tutor at the Computer Technology Department, Vladimir Parfenov, Dean of the Information Technologies and Programming Faculty, and the world champions in programming discussed why kids from the CIS have been beating all records for the past 15 years.

  13.12.2016

• Hermitage’s Head Clocksmith on his Work, Laboratory and the Importance of Restoring Technological Marvels

  Antique timepieces and clockworks are definitely great monuments to human mind and fantasy, especially those like the ones you can see at the State Hermitage Museum. Grand and miniature, shaped into the dome of heaven or a small bird, with six clock hands or a mechanical orchestra inside — each of them is unique and reflects the history of both the technological progress and the human strive for beauty. Mikhail Guriev, Hermitage's leading clocksmith and head of the Laboratory for Scientific Restoration of Timepieces and Musical Mechanisms shared on different clock's wondrous features, on their clock collection's history and on who might be interested in tours on clockworks.

  07.12.2016

• Reaching the Finals! ITMO’s Teams Do It Again at the ACM ICPC

  Plenty of students divided into groups of 3 people sit in front of computers deeply absorbed in thoughts, trying to solve difficult tasks with rare breaks to have a rest. Here is what you may see when attending the ACM ICPC contest.

  05.12.2016

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

  ITMO University opened its research laboratories and student workshops for school students. The children participated in science shows and learned of the opportunities the university offers. Many decided to join courses at ITMO after the festival.

  05.12.2016

• ITMO University Enters Times Higher Education BRICS & Emerging Economies Rankings

  For the first time, ITMO University placed in Times Higher Education (THE) BRICS & Emerging Economies Rankings, taking 27th position worldwide and 4th in Russia.

  01.12.2016

• Vladimir Vasilyev — Rector of the Year

  For the last 13 years, the "Business Petersburg" newspaper conducts an annual award ceremony for Saint Petersburg’s best top managers — the "Top-100". For his achievements in developing modern solutions and elaborating relevant goals in the field of photonics, bioengineering and biotechnology, the newspaper’s editorial office named Vladimir Vasilyev "the Rector of the Year".

  28.11.2016