On December 15-23, Math Week took place in Maykop. The program of this week included various events for school children, math teachers, undergraduate and graduate students, professors, researchers, and all Maykop residents.

The first event of the week was the quest “Mathematics in the City” where participants scanned QR-codes with math problems posted everywhere around the city. The winners of the quest were Anastasia Mentesashvili, Yegor Kalashnikov, Roman Kuznetsov, Dzhaneta Bedanokova, and Anastasia Arutyunova.

On December 19, the workshop “Integrable Systems” with Dr.A.B.Shabat took place.

On December 18-22, the conference “Mathematical Talent and Mathematical Education” took place. It was organized by the Caucasus Mathematical Center at Adyghe State University, Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology, and Regional School of Natural Sciences and Mathematics.

On December 19-23, the conference “Extremal Combinatorics and Discrete Geometry” took place. It was organized by the Caucasus Mathematical Center at Adyghe State University and Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology.

On December 19-22, math teachers attended lectures and round tables led by leading A.Semenov, specialist of the Federal Institute of Pedagogical Research; D.Kuznetsov, associate professor of the Higher School of Economics in Nizhny Novgorod; E.Shiryaev from the laboratory of Mathematics at the Polytechnic Museum; N.Andreev, head of the laboratory for the popularization and propaganda of mathematics at the Institute of Mathematics named after V.Steklov; S.Dorichenko, the head of the Central Jury of the International Mathematical City Tournament, chief editor of the journal “Quantik,” head of the Mathematics Department “Quant”; V. Dubrovsky, associate professor of the Mathematics Department at Special Educational and Scientific Centre of Moscow State University.

On December 21, the Regional School of Natural Sciences and Mathematics hosted an online tournament for families from Adygea and Yaroslavl “Mathematics from A to Y.” Ten family teams (6 from Yaroslavl region and 4 families from Adygea) participated in this tournament. The Chumakovs family showed the best results among families from Adygea.

On October 20, the Regional School of Natural Sciences and Mathematics hosted the concert “20 Year Anniversary” dedicated to the 20^th year of the school functioning. Among the honored guests who came to congratulate the school on this milestone were Anzaur Kerashev, Minister of Education and Science of the Republic of Adygea; Rashid Khunagov, Rector of ASU; Nazar Agahanov, Associate Professor of the Department of Higher Mathematics of the Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology, Head of the central subject-specific methods of teaching committee for the Russian Mathematical Olympiad for secondary school students; Andrei Raygorodsky, Federal Professor, Professor of Moscow State University, Head of the Department of Discrete Mathematics at the Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology, Head of the Department of Theoretical and Applied Research at Yandex, Head of CMC; Alexey Savvateev, research supervisor of CMC, Russian popularizer of mathematics, rector of the University of Dmitry Pozharsky. Rising stars of Adygea (saxophonist Sergey Posobilov, singers Diana Strikovskaya and Sergey Trutnev), various dancing and singing groups from Maykop (Dance Ville, Nart, Art-Riton) and Krasnodar (Dance Code) performed at the concert.

On December 21, the Regional School of Natural Sciences and Mathematics hosted the alumni conference “Stories of Success” during which the school alumni shared their stories after graduation: where they studied and worked, and how their education helped them in their success.

On December 21, Alexey Savvateev, research supervisor of the CMC, presented his book “Mathematics for Humanities People” in the “Chitai-Gorod” bookstore.

On December 22, the Festival of Mathematics took place in the Adyghe State University. It included mini-presentations of well-known popularizers of mathematics and recent graduates of the Regional School of Natural Sciences and Mathematics. The participants could also visit interactive stations where they could listen to popular science lectures, solve puzzles, put together a non-periodic parquet, wander through the maze, turning only to the right, build a self-supporting structure, test their knowledge of topology, participate in mathematical battles and the game “Conquest.”

On December 22, a tournament between alumni of different generations took place in Adyghe State University. Four teams of 4 generations (1990s, 2000s, 2010s and Next generation – 2018) fought for the victory, but the team “Maykop Mathematical Circles of 1993-99” scored most points.

The Math Week ended with a concert by the NTR (“Scientific and Technical Rap”) band from St. Petersburg.

Photo courtesy of ASU media center.