Reviewer: Wang Ying Author: Gao Yang

On September 22, 2022, BIT-MIPT Joint International Symposium on Superconductivity and 2D Materials was successfully held online. Wang Ying, Director of International Exchange and Cooperation Department and Director of International Student Center, BIT, Brovinko Dmitri, Director of International Department, MIPT, Li Jiafang, Vice President of School of Physics, BIT, and Andrey Rogachev, Dean of Landau School of Physics, MIPT attended the opening ceremony and delivered speeches.

With utmost bilateral support, the symposium was hosted by the School of Physics, BIT and the Landau School of Physics, MIPT. Ten leading experts, including Wang Yeliang, Dean of the School of Integrated Circuits and Electronics, BIT, Yang Fan, Head of the Department of Theoretical Physics of the School of Physics, Golubov Alexander, Director of the Laboratory of Topological Quantum Phenomena in Superconducting Systems, MIPT, and Stolyarov Vasily, Director of the Center for Advanced Mesoscopic Science and Nanotechnology, focused on experimental and theoretical aspects of the Josephson effect in superconductivity, mesoscopic quantum phenomena in superconducting systems, superconductivity in quasicrystals phenomena, superconducting states in quasicrystals, growth and quantum properties of novel 2D materials, synthesis of novel two- or quasi-one-dimensional superconducting and topological materials, quantum physics of nano-constrained water, quantum sensors, and superconducting chips, and other issues. They delivered outstanding presentations that sparked lively discussions among the participants.

MIPT, a state research university, was founded in 1951, whose predecessor was the Department of Physics and Technology of Moscow State University, which is a scientific and technical state university specialized in theoretical physics, applied physics and applied mathematics. The university is ranked 267th in terms of overall strength and 64th in natural sciences (41st in physics and astronomy and 89th in mathematics) in the latest QS World University Rankings. The university has many world-renowned scholars, eight professors have been awarded the Nobel Prize and more than 80 fellows of the Russian Academy of Sciences and correspondent fellows have taught here during the school's more than 70-year history. Meanwhile, the university has produced the largest number of academicians in Russia, and 150 alumni have become academicians and correspondent members of the Russian Academy of Sciences.

In addition, among the MIPT graduates are 2 Nobel laureates, 1 President of the Russian Academy of Sciences, 3 cosmonauts and 3 ministers of Science and Technology. On October 1, 2021, Nobel laureate 2010 Andrei Heim founded the Center for Advanced Mesoscopic Science and Nanotechnology, MIPT. The center focuses on mesoscopic physics issues, i.e. the science of studying the manifestation of quantum mechanical effects in macroscopic systems, including quantum low-dimensional materials.