Come drizzle or downpour, there will be something to do in St. Pete 🌩

Here’s your agenda for the days ahead:

🎥 32 Sounds

A hit from last year’s Sundance Film Festival is on display at Angleterre cinema. The movie explores the sound’s effect on humans and its ability to make us feel, imagine, or remember.
• Oct 5 | 7 pm | 350 rubles

🎷 Golden Melodies of Jazz

The sounds of the world’s classic jazz hits intermingled with contemporary variations, performed intimately in the St. Petersburg Philharmonia.
• Oct 6 | 7 pm | from 500 rubles

💎 Mineralfest

A festival devoted entirely to minerals. Visitors will get to see and touch unusual minerals, and fossils, as well as peruse the items made from them.
• Oct 7 | 12-8 pm | Free

🧪 Audiovisual performances at Art & Science Center

As part of the festival Friends of St. Petersburg, the center hosts three performances created by the program’s students and graduates.
• Oct 8 | 6-8 pm | Free

Check out our guide for more events to attend next week.
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October 5 is World Teacher’s Day 👩‍🏫

On this special day, let us take a moment to appreciate all the teachers who have made a positive impact on our lives. Thank you for your hard work of sharing knowledge, navigating us through challenges, and radiating with energy even during the earliest class on the schedule 😴

Happy Teachers’ Day!

The Nobel Prize 2023 winners have been announced! And we obsessed! Let’s try to understand the projects that won this highly prestigious award 🌟

🌌 Physics
Congratulations to Pierre Agostini, Ferenc Krausz, and Anne L’Huillier for producing short pulses of light that make it possible to see inside atoms and molecules. Dmitry Karlovets, a senior researcher at ITMO’s School of Physics and Engineering, explains what it is all about.

🔬 Chemistry
Huge shoutout to Moungi Bawendi, Louis Brus, and Alexei Ekimov who won the Nobel Prize in Chemistry for their discovery and study of quantum dots. We turned to the chemistry researchers at ITMO for explanations.

💉 Physiology/Medicine
A big round of applause to Katalin Karikó and Drew Weissman for their research that paved the way to mRNA vaccines against COVID-19. Ekaterina Skorb, the head of ITMO’s Infochemistry Scientific Center, sheds light on their work.

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This year’s Indian summer is nearing its end 💔🍁

To make this short, colorful period last, you can assemble a herbarium by collecting and drying leaves and plants that will add color to the upcoming dreary winter days. Here’s our tutorial on how to make your collection.

Where to hunt for the perfect specimens? Pause the video randomly to pick one of 16 locations!

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In Russian, the word “window” has a second meaning familiar to any student – “a lengthy gap between classes” 🚶🏻‍♀️

Put this extra time to good use with our special Steps Away series.

In the newest installment, we arrive to Vasilyevsky Island to explore locations within walking distance from the Birzhevaya Liniya campus. Join us for:

🌊 an apartment-museum in the attic
🏛 the city’s most fascinating architectural ensemble
👓 a public space in the former Optical Institute
🌳 a hidden botanical garden
🦴 a museum with a blue whale skeleton

#studentlife

Meet Pham Dang Trung Nghia from Vietnam, a first-year Bachelor’s student of software engineering at ITMO. In this interview, he shares a lot about his country, Vietnam, and its beautiful culture.

When asked about the reason why he decided to pursue IT, he said: “It is considered a pillar of the digital economy. IT plays an important role in driving technological advancement and the way we work, communicate, and solve problems.”

Read on to learn more about Nghia’s academic pursuits, hobbies, and plans for the future.

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One aspect of adapting to a new culture is learning how to navigate local names. How well do you know Russian ones? Take our quiz to find out 📇

We miss you, cafeteria on Lomonosova 🥺

We adore all those disciplined enough to bring their own lunch to classes, but also understand that it may not be feasible or enjoyable for everyone. That’s why we wandered around the campus to find out where our students have lunch these days. Watch these first-hand recommendations.

React with ⚡️ for the cafeteria to open a bit earlier!

What does your perfect week look like? For us, it’s filled with exciting activities such as the ones listed below!

🗿 Russian Sculpture of the 20th Century
• Oct 12 | 12-9 pm | 350 rubles

The exhibition merges sculpture and film with a selection of artworks created throughout the 20th century from all across Russia.

🖼 Pavel Kuznetsov exhibition
• Oct 13 | 10 am - 6 pm | 350 rubles

For the first time in 30 years, the Russian State Museum presents an exhibition of works by the prominent 20th-century Russian painter and an avid follower of symbolism.

🥐 French festival
• Oct 14 | 10 am - 10 pm | Free entrance

The celebration at Kirov Palace of Culture will be filled with essential French foods, insightful talks on culture, and workshops on dancing.

🌊 Market by the Sea
• Oct 15 | 12-9 pm | Free entrance

The traditional Sevkabel Port event, with more than 150 stalls packed with local goods ranging from ceramics and home decor to clothing.

Read the full guide to plan your next week.

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Would you like to be a voice for ITMO in your home country? 🌍

Our new competition gives you the chance to share your unique experience with the world and help future students make their educational choice.

Here’s how to take part:

✔️ Record a short video (max. 1 minute) in English or in Russian, telling your story: why you chose to study at ITMO, in Russia, or at your program in particular. Feel free to share personal experience!
✔️ Please stick to landscape format and remember to use a quiet location – for example, your room or one of ITMO’s coworking spaces 😉
✔️ Send your work to int.news@itmo.ru by October 23.

What do you get?

🥇 A chance to get your video showcased at an educational fair + a certificate to ITMO/STORE
🥈 An ITMO mug + ITMO passport case
🥉 An ITMO passport case + ID wristband

We’ll choose three lucky winners on October 25. Stay tuned!

Beware! It’s not just any Friday, it’s the spookiest day of the month - Friday the 13th! But don’t worry. Our news digest will not scare you 😈

😺 ITMO student Eva Avocado won the ArtMasters Championship with her simulator game about Hermitage cats and walked away with a cash prize of 500,000 RUB.

💊 Chemists at ITMO have designed an AI-based platform that identifies nanoparticles with selective cytotoxicity to cancer cells. Their work was published in the journal Small.

🔋 Dmitry Pobedinsky, the host of the Physics by Pobedinsky YouTube channel, shares with us his top 6 world-changing breakthroughs in modern physics.

🥣 Porridge, or kasha, is a very popular type of dish in Russia. Have you ever tried it? If you are looking for recipes, here are a few innovative ways to make a kasha.

📱 All of ITMO in a single app! Learn more about my.itmo, the all-in-one app developed by ITMO students and graduates using Yandex Cloud technologies.

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