Curriculum Evaluation Criteria Research Initiation Contest 2010

The criteria used to evaluate applicants curriculum are similar to those used in the Fair Competition. However, takes into account the youth of applicants.

More precisely, whether to get an X rating in the regular N required minimum good journal publications and a PhD candidate M years ago; the group considered sufficient to qualify as X have NM / 5 publications in good. Another important consideration is that very recent PhDs (1 or 2 years old), not published in journals asked MB to have a top rating if its productivity exhibited an upward trend in magazines that the group considered as good.

The classification of the journals and their categories are as follows:

Very Good (MB). Journal of high prestige in the specific area of ​​the candidate or mathematics / statistics in general.
Good (B). Magazine known in the area of ​​the candidate or math in general, reasonably high impact.
Regular(R). Magazine lesser known or relatively low impact, even when regular appearance and indexed scientific databases usual (Mathscinet y/o ISI)
Lower (I). Magazines little known, minor in the subject of the candidate or mathematics / statistics in general.

Benchmark criteria for scores is the following:

7.0: at least 3M / 5 publications MB or, 2M/5 MB y 2M/5 B.
6.0: at least 1 M / 5 MB and 2M / 5 B or, 4M/5 B.
5.0: at least 1 M / 5 MB or, 3M/5 B o, 2M/5 B y 1M/5 R.
4.0: at least 1 M / 5 B or, 3M/5 R.

Where:
M = years since obtaining the degree of Doctor.

Examples of journals by category are:
MB Annals of Statistics, Archiv for Racional Mechanics and Analysis, Communications in Mathematical Physics, Ergodic Theory and Dynamical Systems, Mathematical Programing, Mathematics of Computation, Journal of Algebra, Journal of Differential Equations, Journal of Functional Analysis, SIAM on Numerical Analysis of the, Probability Theory and Related Fields.
B Communications in Algebra, Communications in Statistics, Discrete and Continuous Dynamical Systems, Differential and Integral Equations, Electronic Communications in Probability, Journal of Mathematical Physics, Journal of Optimization Theory and Applications, Mathematical Models and Methods in Applied Sciences, Nonlinear Analysis.
R. Chaos, Solitons and Fractals.