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• ITMO Launches the Nanophotonics and Metamaterials International Doctoral Summer School

  The event's program includes reports by leading Russian and foreign scientists - specialists from USA, Australia, Germany, Italy, Greece, Switzerland, Denmark and Finland,and is dedicated to the relevant fundamental and application problems of photonics and metamaterials.

  16.05.2017

• ITMO's FutureTechnologies Accelerator - New Projects

  The fourth selection round of startups for ITMO's FutureTechnologies accelerator ended in choosing 16 of the best IT, science-driven and hardware projects.  With each year, the accelerator’s range of projects widens. At first, there was a separate program for IT projects, and only hardware projects were included. Last year, all of the business accelerator's programs were united under the FutureTechnologies ITMO brand. Let's take a look at how the program changed and what startups were chosen this time.

  15.05.2017

• A Successful Start: ITMO's Schools, Academies and Centers for Schoolers

  At ITMO University, you can train for math and physics exams without a tutor, start learning programming languages, find out more about nanotechnologies, build your first robot and, what's most important, decide on your future profession - and all of that while you're still in school! During the recent ITMO.START festival, children and their parents could learn about such things as training for the entrance exams or one's first steps in serious science. Read more about ITMO's schools, academies and centers that aim to help school students decide on their future professions.

  15.05.2017

• “People Need You!” Contest: Social Entrepreneurship for Children

  Schoolchildren’s contest of social projects “People Need You!” was held for the second time in St. Petersburg, organized by ITMO University. For three months the children acquired skills in management, PR-communication, networking and partner scouting and other abilities that are necessary to successfully complete a project. This year the students turned their attention to the issues of ecology, information security, children’s street safety and addressed the issue of cultural and historical education of youth.

  12.05.2017

• Carving Your Niche

  Of Russian descent, raised in Israel, and after having spent her youth in Canada, Nelly, with a background in history and fine arts returned to us as a native English teacher at ITMO University.

  12.05.2017

• ITMO and Finland's XAMK University Strengthen Relationship

  Head of School of Translational Information Technologies and of ITMO University’s eScience Research Institute Alexander Boukhanovsky and the Rector of South-Eastern Finland University of Applied Sciences (XAMK) Heikki Saastamoinen have signed a Memorandum of Understanding. The first step of this new partnership will be the staging of an International Young Scientists Conference. This year the event that will gather the leading experts on high-performance computing and simulation will take place at XAMK’s campus in the town of Kotka.

  12.05.2017

• ITMO University and Kazan Quantum Center Launch the First Multinode Quantum Network in CIS

  A group of scientists from the Kazan Quantum Center and ITMO University successfully launched the first multinode quantum network in Russia and CIS. For the first time in national history, four nodes of the city's telecommunications infrastructure in different parts of Tatarstan's capital were united by quantum channels.

  11.05.2017

• Concurrency In Life - Practical Advice From Roman Elizarov

  Java Champion, expert on concurrency and financial mathematics, member of ACM ICPC contest finals executive committee, one of Devexperts founders - these are only some of the accomplishments of Roman Elizarov, one of the most renowned members of ITMO University and the Russian IT market. Yet, such intense professional activity doesn't make the champion's life one-sided - one can say that Mr. Elizarov has achieved remarkable balance in his personal, professional and social life. In an interview to ITMO.NEWS, Roman shared about how he succeeded in making most of his life, and gave valuable advice to those who only start their professional careers

  10.05.2017

• 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 here.  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 it’s only victory we need and how we’ll achieve it at any cost. And the cost was great.

  09.05.2017

• Vyborg: Scandinavia with the Russian Soul

  If you ever need a break from the magnificent streets, avenues and embankments of St. Petersburg - yeah, we know it's hard to believe - then there are some real gems, within easy reach and ripe for exploration, out there in the enchanting outlying countryside.  First and foremost among them is the ravishing, fairy-tale picturesque Vyborg a small outpost by the Finnish border, which has the atmosphere of a harmoniously embodied combination of the European and Russian spirit.

  08.05.2017