List of courses

taken by Ivan Ivanov

at the Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology

Grading system:
Most of courses are graded using 4 grades system:
Grade excellent good satisfactory unsatisfactory
American equivalent A B C D
Unofficial Russian quality points 5 4 3 2
Quality points in US equivalent 4 3 2 1

Less important courses and some of courses longer then one term in an intermediate term are graded using 2
grades system: satisfactory (S) and unsatisfactory (U).

Duration of Terms:
Fall 16 - 17 weeks
Spring 16 - 18 weeks

Notes
In Russia BS degree is a not important intermediate degree awarded mainly for comparison with US system.
MS degree is much more important. So, I will not list undergraduate and graduate courses separately.
Undergraduate study is first 4 years of the education (Fall 1994 Spring 1998)

Some courses are normally taken in an academic institute dependent on the area of specialization. I have
taken these courses in Lebedev Physical Institute. They are marked with an LPI mark.

In MIPT most of the courses are based on the lectures, not on a particular textbook. We used normally
several textbooks. I list only some principal textbooks in each course. Blank space means that either this
course was based only on the lectures or we used many textbooks or we used only manuals and textbooks

laboratory worksNumber of hours of

prepared in MIPT.

1. General Physics
hoursTotal number of
weekNo. of hours per

Number of terms

Grade(s)
Principal textbook (s) used
No. Course title Term
(or description of work)

1. General Physics D.V. Sivukhin Course of general Fall 94 4 1 68 A

(Mechanics) Physics Vol. I
2. Laboratory Physics Fall 94 4 1 68 68 A
(Mechanics)
3. General physics D.V. Sivukhin Course of general Spring 95 4 1 68 A
(Thermodynamics and Physics Vol. II
Molecular physics)
4. Laboratory Physics Spring 95 4 1 68 68 A
(Thermodynamics and
Molecular Physics)
5. General physics D.V. Sivukhin Course of general Fall 95 6 1 102 A
(Electrodynamics) Physics Vol. III
6. Laboratory physics Fall 95 4 1 68 68 A
(Electrodynamics)
7. Theoretical Mechanics Ayzermann Classic Mechanics, Fall 95 5 2 154 A
N.A.Kilchevsky Course of Spring 96
Theoretical Mechanics
8. General physics (Optics) D.V. Sivukhin Course of general Spring 96 4 1 64 A
Physics Vol. IV
9. Laboratory Physics Spring 96 4 1 64 64 A
(Optics)
10. Theoretical Physics L.D.Landau, E.M.Livshits Spring 96 4 1 64 A
(Electromagnetic Field Theoretical Physics Vol. II
Theory)
11. General Physics (Atomic D.V. Sivukhin Course of general Fall 96 4 1 68 A
and Nuclear Physics) Physics Vol. V,
L.L.Goldin, G.I.Novikova
Introduction to Quantum
Physics
12. Laboratory Physics Fall 96 2 1 34 34 A
(Atomic and Nuclear
Physics)
13. Electronic Methods of Fall 96 6 2 204 144 A,
Physical Experiment Spring 97 A
14. Theoretical Physics L.D.Landau, E.M.Livshits Fall 96 4 2 142 A,
(Quantum Mechanics) Theoretical Physics Vol. III Spring 97 A
15. General Physics (Solid D.V. Sivuhin Course of general Spring 97 4 1 64 A
State and Radiation) Physics Vol. VI
16. Laboratory Physics (Solid Spring 97 2 1 32 32 A
State and Radiation)
17. Theoretical Physics L.D.Landau, E.M.Livshits Fall 97 3 2 102 A,
(Statistical Physics, Theoretical Physics Vol. V, IX, Spring 98 A
Physical Kinetics) XI

2. Optics

18. Introduction to Speciality Landsderg Optics Fall 95 2 2 66 A,

(Geometrical Optics) Spring 96 A
19. Physical Optics Fall 96- 4 2 138 S, A
Spring 97
20. Experimental methods of Fall 96 2 3 106 A,
Quantum Radiophysics Fall 97 A,
(lectures) A
21. Experimental methods of Fall 96 6 3 300 300 A,
Quantum Radiophysics Fall 97 A,
(labs) A
22. Physics of Lasers (LPI) Fall 97 4 1 68 A
23. Linear and Nonlinear Fall 97 2 2 68 S, A
Optics Spring 98
24. Molecular Spectroscopy V.A.Kizel Spectroscopy of Fall 97 4 2 144 S, A
(LPI) Atoms and Molecules Spring 98
25. Atomic Spectroscopy Fall 97 4 2 144 S, A
(LPI) Spring 98
26. Physical Optics Fall 97 2 2 68 S, A
(Advanced, LPI) Spring 98
27. Plasma Spectroscopy (LPI) Fall 98 4 2 144 S, A
Spring 99
28. Compressed States of Fall 98 4 1 68 A
Light
29. Quantum Optics (LPI) Fall 98 4 1 68 A

3. Mathematics
30. Calculus A.M. Ter-Krikorov, M.I. Fall 94 6 4 400 A,
Shabunin Course of Spring 96 A,
Mathematical Analysis A,
A
31. Analytical Geometry D.V.Beklemishev Course of Fall 94 4 1 72 A
Analytical Geometry and Linear
Algebra
32. Linear Algebra D.V.Beklemishev Course of Spring 95 4 1 64 A
Analytical Geometry and Linear
Algebra
33. Differential Equations L.S.Pontryagin Ordinary Fall 95 4 2 144 S, A
Differential Equations, Spring 96
V.V.Fedoryuk Ordinary
Differential Equations
34. Probability Theory Chistyakov Probability theory, Spring 95 2 1 34 A
A.A.Borovkov Probability
Theory
35. Theory Functions of M.A.Lavrentev, B.V.Shabat Fall 96 5 1 85 A
Complex Variables Methods of Theory of Functions
of Complex Variable
Y.V.Sidorov, M.V.Fedoryuk,
M.I.Shabunin Lectures on
Theory of Functions of Complex
Variable
36. Mathematical Physics V.S.Vladimirov Partial Fall 96 4 2 149 A,
Differential Equations A
37. Stochastic Processes A.A.Natan Stochastic Spring 1998 4 1 68 S
Processes

4. Computational Physics and Computer Science

38. Computational practice Fundamentals of main computer Fall 1994 4 2 136 68 A,
languages (Pascal, C) Spring 1995 A
39. Fundamentals of Programs for solving equations Fall 1995 8 2 240 172 A,
Computational Physics (WR Mathematica, MathLab) Spring 1996 A
40. Computational V.S.Ryabenky Introduction to Fall 1996 3 1 51 34 A
Mathematics Computational Mathematics,
R.P.Fedorenko Introduction to
Computational Physics

5. Modern Languages
41. English Various books prepared by the Fall 1994 4 6 416 S,S,
Department of Foreign Spring 1997 S,A,
Languages. S,A
42. German Fall 1994 2 8 264 S,S,
Spring 1996 S,A
Fall 1997 S,A
Spring 1999 S,A
43. French Fall 1998 2 2 68 S,A
Spring 1999

6. Humanities
44. History of Ancient Greece Fall 1994 2 1 36 S
45. History of Culture (History Fall 1994 4 2 72 S, A
of Cinema) Spring 1995
46. History of Ancient Rome Spring 1995 2 1 36 A
47. Domestic History (History Fall 1995 5 1 84 S, A
of the USSR) Spring 1996
48. History of Philosophy Fall 1997 4 2 136 S, A
Spring 1998
49. Philosophy Fall 1998 3 2 108 S, A
Spring 1999

7. Other courses

50. Introduction to Ecology Fall 1994 2 1 36 A

51. Chemistry Fall 1994 6 1 72 36 A
52. Economics Fall 1997 1 2 34 S, A
Spring 1998
53. Fundamentals of Life Spring 1998 2 1 34 A
Security
54. Molecular biology Fall 1998 2 1 34 A
55. Physical Training Fall 1994 3 7 340 A,A
Fall 1997 A,A
S,A
A

GPA 4.00 out of 4 (All the grades are maximum, A or S)