In autumn 2026, the European University at St. Petersburg is launching a new continuing professional education program on the architecture of complex systems, "Philosophy, Mathematics, and Computer Science."
This new postgraduate program will teach participants to think about complex systems with mathematical rigor, philosophical depth, and engineering responsibility. It offers a language for working with problems that have not yet been formulated, in conditions where intuition is no longer sufficient and existing paradigms describe an outdated world.
The program will be valuable to entrepreneurs, engineers, developers, researchers, analysts, systems architects, specialists working at the intersection of IT and the humanities, and anyone who wishes to understand the structure of sociotechnical and distributed systems at a fundamental level, rather than settling for memorizing yet another set of tool-specific solutions.
The program consists of online sessions held in the evenings, complemented by three intensive two-day in-person sessions in St. Petersburg. It begins on 11 September 2026 and lasts nine months.
Upon completing the program, participants will:
Academic Directors of the program:
Further information about the program is available on the program website.
This new postgraduate program will teach participants to think about complex systems with mathematical rigor, philosophical depth, and engineering responsibility. It offers a language for working with problems that have not yet been formulated, in conditions where intuition is no longer sufficient and existing paradigms describe an outdated world.
The program will be valuable to entrepreneurs, engineers, developers, researchers, analysts, systems architects, specialists working at the intersection of IT and the humanities, and anyone who wishes to understand the structure of sociotechnical and distributed systems at a fundamental level, rather than settling for memorizing yet another set of tool-specific solutions.
The program consists of online sessions held in the evenings, complemented by three intensive two-day in-person sessions in St. Petersburg. It begins on 11 September 2026 and lasts nine months.
Upon completing the program, participants will:
- begin to see a distributed system as a whole, with emergent properties, a lifecycle, causality, and data flows;
- learn to describe system architecture using philosophical concepts and mathematical methods, and to translate it into reliable engineering solutions;
- be able to analyze multi-agent systems in which participants have different levels of information and different goals, and to design solutions in which knowledge is asymmetrically distributed.
Academic Directors of the program:
- Ilya Egorychev, Doctor of Sciences in Philosophy, mathematician, philosopher, and logician.
- Andrey Rodin, Doctor of Sciences in Philosophy, specialist in the philosophy of science, the philosophy of mathematics, and the epistemology of computational knowledge representation; Associate Researcher at Université Paris Cité (France).
- Vyacheslav Shirikov, Co-founder and Chief Technology Officer of Lartech Group.
Further information about the program is available on the program website.