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• From Russia with Gifts: Celebrate the Holidays

  What to get for your friends and family at home?  The holiday shopping frenzy is not for the faint of heart, especially if you’re trying to get something with St. Petersburg or Russian flavor. Here’s my totally subjective top six list.

  09.12.2019

• ITMO University Graduate Alexandra Bystrova: You Can Always Find Your Identity in a New Field, City or University

  Alexandra Bystrova graduated from ITMO first with a Bachelor’s degree in “Informatics and Computer Hardware and Software” and then a Master’s degree in “Technological Entrepreneurship and Innovation Economics”. She now lives in Moscow. Over the last couple of years, she went from a student just out of university to a product manager position in MTS, one of the largest Russian telecommunication companies. ITMO.NEWS asked Alexandra how she became part of the MTS team, what was the reason for her relocation to Moscow, what forms of sexism a young woman should expect to encounter in IT and why you should never give up after yet another failure.

  09.12.2019

• New Laboratory to Appear at ITMO University as Part of a Russian Government Megagrant

  ITMO University’s international SCAMT (Solution Chemistry of Advanced Materials and Technologies) Laboratory has received a megagrant from the Russian government. ITMO.NEWS spoke to the staff to find out what kinds of new specialists will be needed at the laboratory, what developments within the framework of the megagrant are in the pipeline, and how this work will help to pave the way for a technological revolution in entire industrial fields. 

  09.12.2019

• We Were Born In the Stars: An Astrophysicist’s Lecture at ITMO

  Alexander Ivanchik, an astrophysicist with a PhD in Physics and Mathematics and a researcher at the Ioffe Institute, gave a lecture on the Open Day of ITMO’s Faculty of Physics and Engineering. Read on to learn about the history of cosmology and the stories of Nobel Prize Laureates who studied space. 

  06.12.2019

• Movie Fridays: New Releases

  Well the weather outside is frightful – so why don’t you seek solace in a cozy cinema theater, or, blessed be the streaming services, your home instead? Here’s our specially curated selection of the latest, or up-and-coming, movie and TV releases to help you decide what to watch this holiday season. (PS: and here is our last year’s Christmassy films best-of should you feel you wanna get the festive movie party going!)

  06.12.2019

• My Unforgettable Experience at This Year’s Megabattle

  Fiery songs, vibrant dances, inspiring creativity and endless energy make ITMO.Megabattle an incredible experience for teams and spectators, and bring one School (“Megafaculty”) the coveted prize.

  05.12.2019

• This Weekend in St. Petersburg: December 7-8, 2019

  Free entry to the Hermitage, Italian cinema, a photo exhibition of 19th-century St. Petersburg and a holiday fair: a culture-heavy and diverse weekend awaits!

  04.12.2019

• Three ITMO University Professors Receive Government of St. Petersburg Award

  This December started with the announcement of the results of the Government of St. Petersburg Award Competition for academic staff. ITMO University lecturers Ekaterina Sokolova, Anastasia Pavlova and Alexander Vasiliev are among the winners. ITMO.NEWS attended the ceremony to ask the award-winning lecturers how they got into teaching, how to create a modern lecture course and what are the secrets of filing an award application. 

  04.12.2019

• ICPC-2020 World Finals Participants Announced in St. Petersburg

  The results of the ICPC (International Collegiate Programming Contest) semifinals were announced on December 1. Over 100 student teams from the European part of Russia, the Ural region, Belarus and the Baltic states solved problems competing for the right to take part in the finals of the biggest programming contest in the world, which will take place in Moscow on June 26, 2020. The team from St. Petersburg State University was the absolute winner of the semifinals, with ITMO University’s team also coming away with gold medals. 

  02.12.2019

• Song of the Month: November 2019

  Winter is coming, so brace yourselves with this ice-cool playlist of our music favorites from the month of November!

  29.11.2019