Tobacco was brought to Europe by Christopher Columbus. At the beginning tobacco was attributed with healing properties but in Turkey, Britain and Russia in the XVII century was accepted the law providing strict punishmentv for people who smoke tobacco.

If to talk about the present time, in the United States and in the coutries of Western Europe and America observed a sharp tendency toward smoking restrictions. In Ukraine there is a low which prohibit smoking in public places. It is not allowed to smoke in elevator, in payphones, in institutions of healthy care, in educational and correctional institutions,at the playgrounds, in the entrance of residential houses and in public transport including trains.

President of Canadian international bureau of edecuation Karen McBride visited NTU “KPI” on 28th of May. CIBE is a national, bilingual, unprofitable organization which represents Canada in international cooperation in educational sphere.

President McBride had a meeting with the rector of NTU “KPI” and academician of Ukrainian NAS Mikhailo Zgyrovsky, vice-rector of inernational relations and associate of Ukrainian NAS Sergiy Sydorenko, deputy manager of the Department of international cooperation Eugene Polischuk and others.

The XV International Science and Technology Conference "System Analysis and Information Technologies" (SAIT 2013) opened in the NTUU "KPI" on 28 May.

On October 27, 2013, a tournament on mini-football the Cup of Trade Unions, dedicated to the 110th anniversary of the trade union organization of the KPI was held on the green field of the Center of Physical Education and Sports NTUU "KPI".

May,24 in NTU "KPI" the international seminar of the project «PICTURE» of 7th Framework Programme of the European Union in the field of information and communication technologies was held. Its participants were experts and representatives of non-governmental organizations, universities, research institutions and companies in Ukraine, Russia, Turkmenistan, Azerbaijan, Georgia, Armenia, Moldova, Belarus, Greece and France.

The aim of the project «PICTURE» - strengthening cooperation between the European Union and the countries of Eastern Europe and Central Asia in the field of information and communication technologies. Therefore the theme of the seminar dealt with the specific directions and methods of such cooperation in the framework of «HORIZON 2020", which sets the main objectives and priorities of the European Commission in the field of research and innovation for the period up to 2020. The slogan of the "Strategy for growth and work" and the main direction of the strategy - "Excellent science", "modern industry" and "Best Company" succinctly describes its ideology and direction.

The seminar "The Synergy of IT- Education and IT- Industry" was held on May, 24 at the premises of NTUU "KPI". The participants discussed the preparation of specialists for the sphere of information technologies and the harmonization of curricula to the requirements and needs of the market .

The staff of the Department of Mathematical Analysis and Probability Theory for many years has been successfully engaged in the organization of mathematical competition in our university and training of talented students to math competitions at various levels.

On April 18, 2013 the Readings in Memory of Honored Scientist of Ukraine Doctor of Technical Sciences Professor Arthur Veniamynovych Prakhovnik were held at the Institute for Energy Saving and Energy.