Independent University of Moscow
The Moscow Independent University (Independent University of Moscow, IUM, Russian Независимый Московский Университет, НМУ ) is a private, university, founded in 1991 in Moscow for training in higher mathematics and also a mathematical research institute. It was founded by leading mathematicians in Moscow, who were of the view that after 20 years of negative political influence, the once highly respected " Mech -Math " Faculty of the Moscow State University was not reformable. The University is located in central Moscow, close to the Arbat ( Bolshoi Wlassjewski pereulok 11).
The initiative for the establishment went from Nikolai Konstantinov, a well-known Moscow unofficial organizer of mathematical competitions ( Olympiads ) and math circles. Among the founders were among the academicians Vladimir Arnold (who was long the Steering Committee of University initiated ), Faddejew, Sergei Novikov, Victor Vasiliev, Sinai, and Professors Alexander Beilinson, Dobrushin, Dubrovin, Alexander Kirillov, Alexei Nikolayevich Rudakov (* 1947), Vladimir Mikhailovich Tikhomirov, Askold Georgijewitsch Chowanski, Mikhail Aleksandrovich Shubin ( Shubin ). Also involved are the Russian mathematician Alexey Sossinski and from abroad Pierre Deligne and Robert MacPherson. The organization standing behind the university is the MCCME (Moscow Center for Continuous Mathematical Education).
The IMU is understood as an elite university and research center, and has strict admission criteria. Your student number is 40 to 50 undergraduate Andes and 10 to 15 undergraduates and graduates annually 4-5. The students who have the recording made ( three tests), do not pay tuition fees but receive a scholarship. Most students also study even at a state university as the Moscow State University, which is why the teaching is done in the evening. The diploma is not officially recognized in Russia, is of doctoral programs at leading universities and institutes such as the Steklov Institute, the Weizmann Institute and Harvard University but accepted.
The first (eight) degrees were awarded in 1996, but the university is also a continuing education provider for already trained mathematician. You value contacts abroad, for example, a Math in Moscow ( MIM) study program for North American students or in cooperation with France, especially with the École normale supérieure (which was an elite university one of the models of the founders ) and with a Poncelet - laboratory (named after Jean -Victor Poncelet developed projective geometry as a Napoleonic officer in Russian captivity ).
The teachers are ( permanently or temporarily) in addition to the already mentioned Sossinski and Vasilyev: Boris Feigin, Sabir Gusein - Zade, July Iljaschenko ( Yulij Ilyashenko ), Mikhail Zfasman, Sergei Lando, Igor Kritschewer, Stefan Nemirowski Victor Prasolow, Alexander 's, EB Vinberg, Dmitri Anossow, Maxim Kasarjan, Sergei Natanzon, Alexander Kuznetsov, Alexander Belawin.
Publish book series and the presentations of their general seminar (Globus Seminar), enter since 2001, the Moscow Mathematics Journal out ( in English) and organize competitions for young mathematicians ( Deligne, Möbius, Dynasty and Dobrushin competitions).
The IMU also cooperates with the Higher School of Economics (HSE ) in Moscow, where with professors of the IMU, a math faculty was established.