Scientific Personnel Training

The Institute has a basic chair «Fundamental interactions and cosmology» in MIPT, teaches students of some faculties of the Moscow State University, collaborates with MEPhI, the Irkutsk and Kabardino- Balkarian Universities. Post-graduate students have their practice in the Institute. There is a Dissertation Board.

For the best coordination of continuous training of the young specialists at all stages - students, post-graduate students, young scientists - in the Institute for Nuclear Research of the Russian Academy of Sciences (INR RAS) a Scientific and Educational Center was created in 2000. During education in this center students (sometimes beginning from the first course) have the opportunity to combine the lections, seminars with work all scientific and research departments of INR RAS.

Head of the Scientific and Educational Center - Victor A. Matveev, Academician.

Scientific and Educational Center based on the such structures as

Chair "Fundamental interactions and cosmology" of Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology (State University) (MIPT), Faculty of Problems of Physics and Power Engineering; Chief of the Department - Victor A. Matveev, Academician;

Chair of Physics of Elementary Particles and Cosmology of the Lomonosov Moscow State University, Faculty of Physics (Deputy Chief of the Department - Valery A. Rubakov, Academician) and Department of Quantum Statistics and Field Theory (MSU).

Scientific and Educational Center of INR RAS also teaches students of some faculties of Lomonosov Moscow State University; in the framework of the Baksan Neutrino Observatory (BNO) of the Institute for Nuclear Research a scientific and educational Laboratory of astrophysics of elementary particles was organized in the collaboration with Southern Federal University (SFedU). The Scientific and Educational Center also co-operates with National Nuclear Research University "MEPhI", Irkutsk State University (ISU), Kabardino-Balkarian State University (KBSU).

Main areas of Scientific and Educational Center activities are fundamental and applied research in the research fields of top priority; training programs for Specialist's, Bachelor's and Master's degrees; creation of an environment for the academic mobility of students, faculty and research staff; active international cooperation with Russian and foreign research centers and universities, participation in international educational and research programs.

Chair "Fundamental interactions and cosmology" (based on the INR RAS) was founded on Academician Matveev's initiative in 1995; it's situated in Moscow in the premises of the INR RAS (60-letiya Oktyabrya prospect 7a, Moscow 117312, Russia). Students, bachelors and post-graduate students have their practice in INR RAS. The Chair has the opportunities for preparation of high qualified young specialists in the field of theoretical and applied physics in all directions of INR RAS activities, as it can be seen from the list of lections, offered to students in the base training cycle:

• Principles of the particle accelerator physics and technique
• Introduction to the particle physics
• Principles of the experimental particle physics
• Computer simulation of the nuclear physics processes
• Passage of the charged particles and light quanta through matter
• Neutron physics
• Neutrino physics
• HF electrodynamics
• Methods of the neutrino detection and neutrino astrophysics
• Quantum field theory
• Atomic nuclear structure
• Linear accelerators
• Experimental nuclear physics
• Neutron scattering in condensed matter physics
• Elementary particle physics and cosmology problems
• Some topics on the quantum field theory
• Nuclear reactions
• Physics of radiation effects in solids

In October 2009 MIPT received the rating of a National Research University. Accordingly, the Chair "Fundamental interactions and cosmology" opened an additional enrollment of bachelors for Master's degree students and students for post-graduate study.

Chair of Physics of Elementary Particles and Cosmology (based on the INR RAS) was founded on Academician Matveev's initiative in 2008. Science activities of the Chair are connected with problems arising in the meeting-points of theory of elementary particles, astrophysics and cosmology. Chair's core is formed by highly skilled scientists whose theoretical works are appreciated all over the world. The students are oriented to work side by side with the scientists from such research centers as SINP, JINR, LPI, ITEP et al. The Chair effectively collaborates with such foreign scientific organizations as CERN, EPFL (Switzerland), ULB (Belgium), ICRR (Japan), Boston U. (USA) also. Today we are offering to our students the following training cycle:

Post-graduate study of INR RAS teaches post-graduate students and fulfills an enrollment from MIPT, MSU, MEPhI, KBSU, SFedU; there is a Dissertation Board. The main topics for theses include field theory and cosmology, cosmic ray physics, neutrino astrophysics, gravitation, nuclear physics and elementary particle physics, particle accelerator physics and technique and takes into account other modern trends in science.

Our scientists are involved in the preparation for the publication of textbooks, tutorials, etc; they work hard to raise the bar of scientific potential of the Scientific and Educational Center. As a result, our graduate and post-graduate students define notably main features and scientific achievements of INR RAS subdivisions, where they are working.

We can say with confidence that the staff of the Scientific and Educational Center and INR RAS in a whole carries out the formation of a new type of educational standards. Strategic direction is to integrate the educational institutions of education and development of scientific-educational complex that could respond flexibly to labor market conditions, provide multi-layer, multi-level and continuity of content and technology education.