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• 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

• ITMO "Raps the Scrap" at the World Robot Olympiad

  The last round of the World Robot Olympiad has ended in New Delhi; amongst the four teams representing Russia, two were from ITMO University, and both had great results: the team that worked on the Nuclear Waste Taker project got silver in the Senior High group, and the Arctic Cleaner team got fourth among Junior High.

  28.11.2016

• ITMO U Website Wins Bronze at QS-APPLE

  ITMO University won bronze at QS-APPLE Creative Awards for Best International Website Page at the 12 th QS-APPLE higher education conference that’s taking place in Malaysia right now. It was the only Russian university to be recognized in any nomination. We’re thrilled to receive such a prestigious honor!

  22.11.2016

• ITMO University Launches New Chemical-Biological Center

  Last Friday, the combined Chemical-Biological Center started working at ITMO University. Rector Vladimir Vasilyev and Professor David Avnir, co-head of the SCAMT International Laboratory participated in the ribbon-cutting ceremony. During the event, Vladimir and Alexandr Vinogradovs made a tour of the new center on Lomonosova str., 9.

  22.11.2016

• Study in the Country of Icecream Palaces and Borsch

  It’s not every day you see a Frenchman walking the halls of ITMO, casually speaking Russian with his classmates. Nicolas Charlon isn’t just any Frenchman though, he speaks four languages fluently, French, Polish, Russian and English. When he views Russia he perceives opportunity, a potential future and a chance to grow. He appreciates the wonderful people and the fact that Russia isn’t quite Europe. After an exchange trip during high school to a small town south of Moscow, he knew he wanted to come back for something more.

  14.11.2016