The Faculty of Mathematics (FM) at the National Research University Higher School of Economics (Russian: факультет математики Национального Исследовательского университета «Высшая Школа Экономики») was founded in 2008 jointly by the Higher School of Economics (HSE) and the Independent University of Moscow (IUM).
The faculty also plays a key role in the HSE Graduate School of Mathematics (open to domestic and international students).
Since the creation of the FM, new faculty members were hired at the international market,[2] and researchers from the USA, Japan, Canada, France, the UK, etc., joined the team.
Jointly with Moscow Center for Pedagogical Mastership, the FM announced[3] two new programs in 2017: one at the Bachelor and one at the Master level.
Three chairs (Algebra, Geometry and Topology, and Discrete Mathematics) had existed[17] from the first day of the Faculty, but were disbanded in 2011, making the administrative structure single level rather than a two-level one.
The main objectives of the Board include evaluating the academic performance of the Faculty as well as its educational and research policies.
[24] Overall, the evaluation was positive: Within 5 years of its creation, the HSE has become the leading Russian institution of higher learning in pure mathematics.
It currently attracts the strongest pool of mathematics students in Russia, offering them a challenging and thoughtfully designed curriculum.However, some important critical remarks were made.
Yulij Ilyashenko (Head of the Academic Council, Master of Science program in Mathematics), rector of the Independent University of Moscow, the author of the finiteness result for the number of limit cycles of a polynomial vector field in the plane.
Andrei Okounkov (Head of the HSE International Laboratory of Representation Theory and Mathematical Physics), 2006 Fields Medal recipient,[26] honorary member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.