One scholarship will be awarded in the fall competition: deadline September 30
Two scholarships will be awarded in the spring competition: deadline April 15
The first competition will be held in September 2002.
http://www.smc.math.ca/bulletins/Moscow_appl.pdf
We would be very grateful if you could post this information to your students. All details can be found at:
http://www.smc.math.ca/bulletins/Moscow_web.html
A poster on the program will be mailed in the Canadian departments in August.
Christiane Rousseau, CMS President-elect
P.S. A few details on the program appear below.
The Independent University of Moscow (IUM) is a small, elite institution of higher learning focusing primarily on mathematics. It was founded in 1991 at the initiative of a group of well known Russian research mathematicians, who now comprise the Academic Council of the University. Professors Pierre Deligne and Robert McPherson, both permanent members of the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton, also played crucial roles in founding the Independent University. The American Mathematical Society has had a special (although not official) relationship with the institution as well, arranging for help in obtaining publications and helping financially during one especially difficult period.
Recently, the Independent University of Moscow created a new program, MATH in MOSCOW, offering foreign students (undergraduate or beginning graduate students specializing in mathematics and/or computer science) the chance to spend a semester in Moscow studying within its MATH in MOSCOW program:
http://www.mccme.ru/mathinmoscow
The courses are taught in English. Besides mathematics courses, a Russian language course and a course in the history of Moscow (in English) will be proposed. For those who know enough Russian, courses in Russian literature and history (in Russian) are also be available. The list of math courses mentioned above includes two courses in theoretical computer science.
The MATH in MOSCOW program provides a fifteen-week-long research experience for students, not only with other mathematically talented and highly motivated undergraduates but also with some of the world's leading mathematicians.. Students will be learning mathematics in an environment similar in spirit to that of an NSERC summer scholarship, but with much broader representation from a world-class international community. There are few better ways to prepare our most talented undergraduates for further work in mathematics.