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• This Weekend in St. Petersburg: May 26-27

  This Sunday St. Petersburg celebrates its 315th birthday, which means there is no shortage of great events for you to attend. Here is our list of what we feel are some of the best things to do in St. Petersburg on this special weekend!

  23.05.2018

• ITMO University Invites Young Scientists to Study Graphene-Type 2D Materials

  ITMO University’s Laboratory of Light-Matter Coupling in Nanostructures has begun active research into the optical and electrical properties of two-dimensional materials. Two-dimensional materials are atom-thin structures, graphene being the most well-known example. The laboratory was recently joined by Ekaterina Khestanova, an experimental physicist with a PhD from the University of Manchester, where she studied two-dimensional materials. In an interview with ITMO.NEWS, she talks about her past research and her plans at the laboratory.

  22.05.2018

• Diving into Internationalization: ITMO’s English Upgrade

  The word “robot” was first introduced to the English language in 1921 by the Czech playwright Karel Čapek. His play, Rossum’s Universal Robots (RUR), explored the dark reality of humanity’s future if we build robots to do our bidding. Last Friday’s performance of RUR by ITMO students is one of the many projects and developments advanced by the Foreign Language Training Center, established just over three and half years ago.

  22.05.2018

• Gennady Korotkevich Wins Yandex.Algorithm for Fifth Time

  Gennady Korotkevich, a Master's student from the Department of Computer Technologies at ITMO University and a two-time champion of ACM ICPC, has won the competition Yandex.Algorithm for the fifth time. He was also the only participant to complete all the tasks of the competition. 

  22.05.2018

• Annual Report 2017: ITMO Code

  ITMO University has compiled its annual report for 2017 which includes all of the university’s key achievements and lays the path for its future development. The ITMO team continues to write its unique programming code at the core of which is love. 

  21.05.2018

• This Weekend in St. Petersburg: May 19-20

  Looking for something fun to do in St. Petersburg? This weekend is packed with a whole bunch of amazing events and activities, from the Night of Museums to the Peterhof Fountains Opening Ceremony and Tulip Festival. Don’t miss out the fun!

  16.05.2018

• St. Petersburg Prepares for World Cup 2018

  In just a month, Russia will host its first-ever FIFA World Cup football tournament. St. Petersburg will host seven of the tournament’s 64 games, including the one that will decide the third place winner. An estimated million football fans will come to St. Petersburg for the events. The city has changed greatly in preparation for the cup - here’s what you need to know about this summer in St. Petersburg.

  15.05.2018

• Physicist Yuri Kivshar on Russian Science, Career Management and Metaoptics

  Seven years ago, ITMO University launched the Metamaterials Laboratory. It all began with a grant won by Yuri Kivshar, a world-class scientist and one of Russia’s top physicists. Since then, the university has also launched the Department, and later, the International Research Center of Nanophotonics and Metamaterials. Under Yuri Kivshar’s leadership, the center’s researchers were the first in the world to venture into a completely new field: dielectric nanophotonics, or, as the scientist calls it, “metaoptics”. ITMO.NEWS met with Yuri Kivshar during his latest visit to St. Petersburg to discuss his current work, the future of the most unorthodox field of nanophotonics, and why a scientist shouldn’t stick with the same field of study for their entire life.

  11.05.2018

• Today We Celebrate Victory Day

  There’s probably not a single Russian family that wasn’t touched by the Second World War, or the Great Patriotic War as it is called in Russia and many former Soviet republics. The years 1941 – 1945 are engraved in all of us, even generations removed from the actual war, as the years of sacrifice, suffering, and faith in victory. It’s what we think about in times of hardship even now – the songs that we sang as kids at school about how victory is to be achieved it at any cost. And the cost was great.

  09.05.2018

• This Weekend in St. Petersburg: May 12-13

  Finding things to do in St. Petersburg can be quite a drag. But with our handy guide to the best events this weekend that will be a little bit easier!

  08.05.2018