The Mathematics and the Physics Faculties

The Mathematics and Physics Faculties were opened in 1976 after the division of the Physics and Mathematics Faculty.

The Mathematics Faculty trains bachelors and masters in the following directions: Applied Mathematics and Information Science, Mathematics and Computer Sciences and specialists in a specialism Computer Security. A high quality of graduates’ education is guaranteed by a high qualification of teachers and scientists. They are known for their achievements not only in Russia, but also abroad. The faculty’s departments do research on fundamental problems of mathematics, such as finite groups; elliptic systems of differential equations; variation inequalities; self-oscillation processes. Scientific and research conferences are regularly held. International cooperation is realized in the form of teaching single students and post-graduate students and teaching and research work of teachers abroad. Pavel Nikolaevich Nesterov is the dean of the faculty.

The Physics Faculty trains bachelors and masters in the following directions: Physics, Radiophysics, Electronics and Nanoelectronics, Information and Communication Technologies and Systems, Radio Engineering. The faculty trains candidates and doctors of science in several specialties. The faculty’s graduates get a multi-discipline education and have good job opportunities because they have the ability to do interesting creative tasks and the skills of working in the team. The graduates can work at the plants, in organizations and companies in the areas of radiophysics, electronics and nanoelectronics, engineering in medical and biological practice, information technologies and in other areas. Traditionally the Physics Faculty successfully develops both fundamental and applied researches of the international level. Every year the number of articles in foreign and national magazines and journals increases. The faculty's departments specialize in the research area of high-energy physics, elementary particles theory, quantum field theory, astrophysics, solid-state theory. A wide range of research is provided by close creative cooperation with a number of leading research institutes and higher education institutions. Professor Sergey Borisovich Moskovsky is the dean of the faculty.

Consult the dictionary: make the verbs of the following nouns. Translate them.

achievements

cooperation

research

organizations

oscillation

qualification

Answer the questions on the text.

1. What do you know about the traditions of the Physics and Mathematics faculties? (ask your curator); (freshman party, student's spring, physicist's day, the Club for the Lighthearted and Quick-witted).

2. Which directions and specialisms do the Physics and Mathematics faculties prepare students in?

3. Who are the deans of the Physics and Mathematics faculties?

4. What areas do the students and the workers of the Physics and Mathematics faculties do research in?

Grammar note

Possessive Case (притяжательный падеж)

1. Притяжательный падеж обозначает принадлежность одного предмета к другому.

2. В большинстве случаев притяжательный падеж употребляется с одушевленными существительными (но также может употребляться с неодушевленными существительными, если это

- названия общественных организаций, фирм, учреждений: government’s decision;

- географические или территориальные единицы: London’s theatres;

- конкретный период времени: the last year’s journey; two weeks’ holiday).

3. Существительные образует притяжательный падеж при помощи окончания -s, перед которым ставится апостроф (‘ s): the girl’s voice (голос девочки).

4. Окончание притяжательного падежа читается как [s] после глухих согласных звуков, как [z] после звонких согласных и гласных и как [iz] после s, ss, sh, ch, tch, x: cat's [kæts], dog’s [dogz], actress’s ['æktrisiz].

5. Существительные во множественном числе с окончанием –s требуют только апострофа:

the Andersons’ house.

6. К существительным-исключениям во множественном числе прибавляется –‘s: women’s beauty secrets.

7. В случае словосочетания или группы существительных –‘s употребляется с последним словом: Sue and Tom’s car (но Shelly’s and Byron’s poems, так как нет общего определителя), my elder brother’s son.