Application procedure

Applicants must submit the following documents:

1. A formal application addressed to the Rector of TSPU (standard form).
2. A documented report of the interview conducted by a prospective academic supervisor. The in terview is aimed at testing the applicant's knowledge and his ability to enter the program during the current academic year (standard form).
3. A personal data sheet certified by the Personnel Department at the applicant's workplace. A photo 4x6 must be attached.
4. A certified copy of the applicant's diploma. For international students, including citizens of the Commonwealth of Independent States, a copy of the diploma or other document of education issued by their state, and a copy of the certificate of its equivalence to the diploma of higher professional education of Russian Federation , issued by the 
   Federal Agency of Russian Federation, must be presented. If the diploma is issued in a name other than the present name of the applicant, a document certifying the change of the name must be produced.
5. A certified copy of a supplement to the diploma presenting the applicant's academic records.
6. A list of publications officially certified (signed and stamped) or scientific essay (no less than 24 pp.) related to the topic of the dissertation.
7. Review of the academic supervisor on the essay (according to five-mark system) or scientific articles related to the topic of the dissertation.

The applicant must show his passport and diploma in person.

Applications and other documents are submitted to Postgraduate Study Department from June 1 till September 10.

Postgraduate entrance exams in a selected specialty, philosophy and a foreign language are held during the period from September 20 till October 20. Entrance exams can be taken only once. Their results are valid until the end of the calendar year. The candidates who passed the examina­tions required for the degree of Ph.D. do not have to take entrance examinations.

Duration

The length of a postgraduate study program is three years, for extra-mural students - four years.

Tuition

The average tuition is $2,000 - $2,500 per year.

Thesis Defense/Presentation

PhD thesis defense is possible without taking postgraduate course, if the candidate has executed certain amount of research and his dissertation meets the requirements of the Higher Attestation Commission of the Russian Ministry of Education and Science.
TSPU Dissertation Councils are licensed to award the PhD degree in the following fields of science:

• Theoretical Physics
• Philosophy of Science and Technology
• Religious Studies, Philosophical Anthropology and Philosophy of Culture
• Languages of the Russian Federation Peoples (Nganasan, Selkup, Tatar, Ket, Khanty)
• Historical, Typological and Comparative Linguistics
• General Pedagogy, History of Pedagogy and Education
• Theory and Methods of Education (in Physics, level of general and higher professional education)
• Theory and Methods of Professional Education

A Council takes an application (standard form) of PhD candidate into consideration if the following documents written in Russian are submitted:

•  Curriculum Vitae. A photo 4x6 must be attached;
• a certified copy of the applicant's diploma. For foreign students, including citizens of the Commonwealth of Independent States, a copy of the diploma or other document of education issued by their state, and a copy of the certificate of its equivalence to the diploma of higher professional education of Russian Federation , issued by the Federal Agency of Russian Federation, must be presented*. If the diploma is issued in a name other than the present name of the applicant, a document certifying the change of the name must be produced;
• certification of passing PhD exams on History and Philosophy of Science, one of the foreign languages and a special discipline in the field of research;
• thesis in Russian or English;
• an abstract of the thesis (up to 10 pages);
• conclusions of the supervising organization.

The procedure of thesis defense allows the use of English with consequent interpretation to Russian. The dissertation file is processed in Russian. Upon the completion of thesis defense by the candidate the Academic Council immediately makes its own decision whether to reward the candidate with PhD degree or not. In positive case the decision is subject to be approved by the Higher Attestation Commission (HAC). After that a foreign citizen will be conferred a diploma of state standard in English or Russian issued by HAC.

*Application for recognition can be made either by candidate or by TSPU according to the rules described in:
http://en.russia.edu.ru/edu/inostr/prizn/

Indigenous Languages of Siberia

Khants ethnography

Modern methods of teaching mathematics

Theoretical Physics

Research areas

Postgraduate degree programs

Doctoral programs

Research areas:

1. General Relativity and Cosmology
2. Higher Spin Theory
3. Quantum Field Theory
4. Radiation Theory
5. Supersymmetry

Current grants and projects

1. RFBR 06-01-00609-a «Classification of uniform Stackel spaces as method of integration of field equations in modified gravity theories». 
   Team leader: Valery V. Obukhov
2. «DFG». 
   Team leader: Joseph L. Buchbinder
3. RFBR 06-02-16346-a «Effective action in supersymmetric quantum field theory, noncommutativity and higher spin fields». 
   Team leader: Joseph L. Buchbinder
4. «INTAS». 
   Team leader: Joseph L. Buchbinder
5. RF President grant No 3558.2010.2 «Leading Russian Scientific Schools». 
   Team leader: Joseph L. Buchbinder
6. Spain «MEC». 
   Team leader: S. D. Odintsov
7. Federal Agency on Education RF, No 1.1.06 «Quantum field theory with extended supersymmetry, higher spin fields». 
   Team leader: Joseph L. Buchbinder
8. «RFBR-DFG». 
   Team leader: Joseph L. Buchbinder
9. INTAS 03-51-6346 «Strings, branes and higher-spin gauge fields». 
   Team leader: Joseph L. Buchbinder

Research areas:

1. Developing teaching methods of mathematics in secondary schools

Current grants and projects

Peoples

Research areas:

1. Field research of the Khants inhabitation in Western Siberia

Current grants and projects

1. International project «Encyclopedia of Ural mythologies». The source and amount of financing: Makartur Foundation,.

Peoples

Research areas:

1. Documentation and investigation of the languages and cultures of indigenous communities local to Siberia, including Kets, Selkups, Khanty, Chulym-Turkic, Nganasan, Dolgan, Shor, Evenki

Current grants and projects

1. The Grant of the Endangered Languages Fund Yale University, USA (2003) «». The source and amount of financing: Yale University,$2,500. The significance: The first Russian project in the history of this program, offering technical facilities for documentation, archiving and analysis of East-Khanty language. This language is under the threat of extinction and of typological value 
2. The collaborative project of Max Plank Institute, Leipzig and the Department of Indigenous Languages of Siberia (Tomsk State Pedagogical University) (2000-2006) «devoted to the creation of the full contextual dictionary of Ket language». The source and amount of financing: Max Plank Institute, Leipzig,?10,000. The significance: In the context of full international cooperation the realization of the world’s leading theories, methods and technologies of language documentation, linguistic material analysis and the creation of the Ket language unique dictionary. Ket language is the unique language, which is under the threat of extinction. It is of great interest in the context of world current typological investigation 
3. The Grant of the National Endowment for Humanities & National Science Foundation, USA (2005) «Documentation of Moribund Languages». The source and amount of financing: the National Humanitarian and the National Scientific Fund, USA,$12,000. The significance: The first Russian project in the history of this program, offering technical facilities for documentation, archiving and analysis of East-Khanty language. This language is under the threat of extinction and of world linguistic and anthropological value 
4. Fieldwork Grant of Rice University, USA (2000-2004) «On the documentation and description of Eastern Khanty language». The source and amount of financing: Rice University,$8,000. The significance: Documentation and linguistic material analysis of the East-Khanty language (that is under the threat of extinction) facilitated by the world advanced methods and technologies. The involving of the materials which are of overall typological value into scientific research 
5. The Grant of the Federal Agency of Education № НИР 01.01.05 (year 2005) «Research into typological characteristics of the languages and cultures of the indigenous minorities of Siberia». The source and amount of financing: The Federal Agency of Education,R100, 000. The significance: Development and implementation of the innovative methodologies of documentation and analysis in the framework of the complex program of investigation of the Siberian indigenous languages in the context of modern general typological conventions 
6. Open The Society Institute (years 2001-2003) «The Education Development in Russia (the secondary education)” “The Advanced Training of the Teachers in Indigenous Languages and Siberia at Tomsk Region” within the framework of the regional project “Forming the controlling mechanisms of the open educational environment in the region». The source and amount of financing: The "Open Society" Institute,R150,000. The significance: The promotion of teachers in Siberian indigenous languages and Siberia Studies along with advanced training activities have been developed and applied according to the priorities of open society and the language and cultural diversity preservation declared by the UN and the Government of the Russian Federation 
7. The research project of the Ministry of General and Vocational Education of the Russian Federation (years 2000-2004) «The research into the development of the Siberian indigenous languages in the context of national schools». The source and amount of financing: The Ministry of General and Vocational Education of the Russian Federation,R175,000. The significance: Studying the prerequisites for the successful operation within the framework of the priorities declared by the UN Organization and the Russian Federation Government concerning the preservation of linguistic and cultural diversity by facilitation the study of the national language and culture in school 
8. The Grant of the Federal Agency of Education № НИР 3.3.52816 (year 2005) «The Systematization and Computerization of field data on the indigenous languages of Siberia». The source and amount of financing: The Federal Agency of Education,R100, 000. The significance: Comparative analysis, adaptation, testing and introduction of the world’s advanced technologies and methods of documenting, archiving and computer processing of the data on the indigenous languages and cultures of Siberia 

Peoples