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ITMO.GO: Thousands of First-Year Students Join ITMO University
…ity’s Rector. The square in front of the Baltic House theater became a huge entertainment area allowing participants to mark the occasion by being photographed on the winners' podium, get in the rockstars' shoes by playing Guitar Hero, and have a blast from the past playing retro arcade games and the well-loved Sega, Sony PlayStation, and Nintendo Entertainm…
03.09.2018
ITMO University Topped GoTech Ranking
…ersity and Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology took fourth and fifth place, respectively. It is important to note that several ITMO students and graduates became the winners of GoTech 2017. For example, ITMO Technopark’s resident Optimal Drive won in the Finlanding category and got the opportunity to participate in the NewGo acceleration program in Helsinki…
30.08.2018
Results of the 2018 Admissions Campaign at ITMO University
…tudents were admitted for tuition-free positions; their average USE score is 90.3. There were 326 prospective students admitted without entrance exams, as they were successful winners of national competitions in various subjects. This year’s highest minimum required USE scores for acceptance were for the programs “Information Systems and Technologies” (291 out of 310…
20.08.2018
Schrödinger’s Paradox and Doctor Faustus’ Lab: the Many Faces of “Gatchina Light Nights”
…ng designers’ community was represented by the LUX Helsinki light festival artistic director and curator Ikka Paloniemi. The experts have already chosen the competition winner, who will be awarded a 100,000 RUB prize at a special ceremony which will take place on an Alexandrinsky theater’s New Stage in September.…
15.08.2018
ITMO University Enters Academic Ranking of World Universities for the First Time
…is also included on the list of ARWU World Top 500 Candidates. The ARWU ranking includes four key criteria: Quality of Education, defined by the number of Nobel- and Fields-winning alumni; Quality of Faculty, determined by the number of Nobel- and Fields-winning staff and the number of highly-cited researchers; Research Output, deter…
14.08.2018
ITMO Student Wins VK Cup-2018
…llaboration with prominent programmers community Codeforces. The 2018 VK Cup qualification round tasks can be found here. The 120 Minutes Adventure team became the absolute winner of the 2018 competition and was awarded a 1,048,576 RUB prize. Last year’s champion Aidar Sayranov from St. Petersburg State University took the second place, while Lomonosov Moscow Stat…
14.08.2018
Gennady Korotkevich Wins Google Code Jam For The Fifth Time
…ake place at a different place. For instance, 2017’s Google Code Jam took place in Dublin, Ireland, and this time, the competition ended in Toronto, Canada. The cash prize for winning the competition is 15,000 dollars. Rules Participants of Google Code Jam have to solve three algorithmic tasks in a set amount of time. This year, the competition’s system ha…
14.08.2018
How to Train for Competitions and Why do it Now
…t such competitions? Some forty years ago, I was runner-up of several regional competitions in physics, chemistry and mathematics for school students, and once even a prize winner of a national competition in physics. Per my experience, the most important aspect of training for a competition is learning to think originally. This may seem hard, but it’s possible. S…
14.08.2018
ITMO Team Wins at RobotChallenge-2018 in Beijing
…interesting premise, a complex structure and stable performance – those are the things that, in my opinion, helped us win” ITMO University’s school teams often become winners of Russian and international robotics competitions. Recently, a team representing the university won first place in the Senior group of the Open category at the All-Russian Olympiad in …
13.08.2018
Results of ITMO’s Bachelor Admissions Campaign 2018
…than 1,000 students were admitted for tuition-free positions; their average USE score is 90.3. There were 326 entrants admitted without entrance exams, as they were successful winners of national competitions in various subjects. As usual, a majority (69%) of the freshmen are not from St. Petersburg; this year’s students come from 85 regions of Russia. This year’s…
09.08.2018