FACULTY OF MATHEMATICS AT THE NATIONAL RESEARCH UNIVERSITY HIGHER SCHOOL OF ECONOMICS SECOND REPORT TO THE INTERNATIONAL ADVISORY BOARD APRIL 7, 2016 Approved by the Faculty of Mathematics Council 2 The Faculty of Mathematics at the National Research University Higher School of Economics (HSE) has been established in 2008. In 2009, a roadmap for the development of the Faculty was developed. As a particular step of this roadmap, an International Advisory Board was created in 2012. Current members of the International Advisory Board, its mission statement and regulations are posted at the webpage https://math.hse.ru/en/experts. The same page contains the reports of the Faculty to the International Advisory Board as well as reports of the International Advisory Board to the university administration. According to its mission statement, the International Advisory Board conducts an expert evaluation of research and educational activities of the Faculty of Mathematics. An evaluation by the International Advisory Board addresses the following fields: 1) Curricula of educational programs offered by the Faculty. 2) Quality of the graduates (including the quality of the Bachelor, Master and PhD theses) 3) Research activity of the Faculty 4) Analysis of the hiring strategy of the Faculty 5) Analysis of the development plans of the Faculty and recommendations on making these plans The International Advisory Board reports to the HSE university government on the results of the Faculty attained in the reporting period. On November 28, 2012, we filed the first report to the International Advisory Board. This is the second report. It addresses the progress of the Faculty during the period of 2012-2015 in all fields indicated above. The following colleagues took part in compiling this report: Chris Brav Alexander Esterov Alexey Gorinov Yulij Ilyashenko Vera Kuznetsova Sergey Lando Ian Marshall Ekaterina Ostroverkhova Irina Paramonova (IUM, MiM) Lyudmila Sapchenko Vladlen Timorin 3 TABLE OF CONTENTS Issues indicated by the advisory board in 2013 .................................................................................................................... 5 Hiring ................................................................................................................................................................................. 5 Facilities ............................................................................................................................................................................ 6 Funding ............................................................................................................................................................................. 6 Research ........................................................................................................................................................................... 7 Undergraduate program ................................................................................................................................................... 8 Graduate programs ......................................................................................................................................................... 10 Global changes in the university ......................................................................................................................................... 11 The 5-100 program ......................................................................................................................................................... 11 Structural changes in the HSE, 2012-2015 ...................................................................................................................... 11 The name of the university. ........................................................................................................................................ 11 Aggregation of Faculties. ............................................................................................................................................ 12 Minors, MAGOLEGO and other elective courses. ....................................................................................................... 12 Online courses. ........................................................................................................................................................... 13 Doctoral schools ......................................................................................................................................................... 13 Faculty rotation, single contract and international recruitment. ............................................................................... 14 Academic bonus program ........................................................................................................................................... 16 Student evaluation ...................................................................................................................................................... 16 Faculty of Mathematics: current state ............................................................................................................................... 17 Principal challenges and goals ........................................................................................................................................ 17 Hiring ............................................................................................................................................................................... 18 Research ......................................................................................................................................................................... 19 Administration ................................................................................................................................................................ 22 Finances .......................................................................................................................................................................... 23 Teaching assistants ......................................................................................................................................................... 24 Major concerns ............................................................................................................................................................... 25 Bachelor of Science program in mathematics .................................................................................................................... 26 Structure of the Curriculum ............................................................................................................................................ 27 Graduates ....................................................................................................................................................................... 29 Admissions campaign ..................................................................................................................................................... 31 Collective letter of students ............................................................................................................................................ 34 Master of Science program «Mathematics» ...................................................................................................................... 38 Structure of the curriculum ............................................................................................................................................ 40 Admissions campaign ..................................................................................................................................................... 41 Master of Science program «Mathematics and Mathematical Physics» (former «Mathematical Physics») ..................... 42 4 Curriculum Outline .......................................................................................................................................................... 43 Admissions campaign ..................................................................................................................................................... 44 PhD program in Mathematics ............................................................................................................................................. 46 “Math in Moscow” program ............................................................................................................................................... 48 Moscow Mathematical Journal........................................................................................................................................... 49 Bachelor of Science program “Mathematics” in Nizhny Novgorod .................................................................................... 50 Appendix 1: honors and awards of the faculty members ................................................................................................... 51 Appendix 2: publications of PhD students .......................................................................................................................... 53 Appendix 3: Scientific events held by the Faculty of Mathematics and the associated laboratories ................................. 55 2013 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