Alexandra Skripchenko, student of the Faculty of Mathematics, received Metchnikov Scholarship from the Embassy of France in Moscow. Congratulations!
In the whole history of mathematics just 8 winners of the highest award - the Field Prize - have come from Russia. One of them is Andrey Okunkov, Academic Supervisor at the International Laboratory of Representation Theory and Mathematical Physics HSE. On Hamburg Reckoning, a weekly programme which broadcasts interviews with major academics on current Russian issues on the OTR TV channel, he talked about his journey from economics to mathematics, about the Faculty of Mathematics at HSE and what makes mathematicians happy.
The HSE Look welcomes aboard Postdoctoral Fellow at the Faculty of Mathematics, Alexandra Skripchenko.
In September 2014, new international professors and postdocs joined the Faculty of Mathematics. January issue of The HSE LooK welcomes aboard Assistant Professor Satoshi Kondo.
The first issue of The HSE Look in 2015 brings the Faculty of Mathematics into the spotlight. The Dean of the faculty, Professor Sergei Lando, talks about the life of the collective that he heads and about mathematical education in Russia then and now.
This year winner of the respected Fields medal Andrey Okunkov became the new head of HSE’s InternationalLaboratory of Representation Theory and Mathematical Physics. In an interview for the HSE News website, he talked about what is a good mathematical education, why mathematicians are more free than other academics and what to tell people who find figures difficult.
An international summer school in Modern Mathematics took place from August 20th to 29th 2014, in Lyon, France. It was organized by Universite de Lyon, ENS de Lyon, Plaisir Maths, and Jacobs University, and was hosted by Ecole Normale superiuere de Lyon. Daria Alexeeva, student of the HSE Faculty of Mathematics, shared her impressions of the event.
The Faculty of Mathematics congratulates Lev Sukhanov, second-year master’s student, on winning first prize in the August Möbius Contest 2014 in the ‘Undergraduates and Graduates’ category, and Artur Tomberg on first prize in the ‘Undergraduates’ category.
Dr. Chris Brav, an Assistant Professor in the Faculty of Mathematics has joined the HSE this year. He shared with the HSE news service his background, first impressions on living and working in Moscow and plans for future.
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