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21 years ago

No. 26 (3664) 27 June, 2003

JINR Directorate hosted a meeting with the Vice-President of the Academy of Sciences of the Republic of Korea, Professor of Seoul National University Dong-Pil Min. Issues of cooperation between JINR and Scientific Centres of the Republic of Korea were discussed. The guest was received by JINR Vice-Director Professor A.N.Sisakyan and N.I.Kochelev (BLTP), one of the active participants in the cooperation, took part in the meeting. Dong-Pil Min said, "We discussed and signed an agreement that provides for cooperation on a number of issues: scientific and student exchanges, joint research, development of joint scientific groups. We are interested in our ties strengthening and developing, since JINR is a world-class centre, your scientists work at the most advanced positions in science."

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JINR Director Academician V.G.Kadyshevsky and Vice-Director Professor A.N.Sisakyan have been elected Honorary Members of the International Solvay Institutes for Physics and Chemistry. This decision of the ISI Administrative Committee was unanimously approved in March in Brussels. The International Solvay Institutes were founded in 1910 by Ernest Solvay, the founder of the Solvay company.

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Two developments by scientists and specialists from Dubna have become winners of the project competition under the technical assistance programme for organizations and institutes working in the field of scientific and social development, organized by the Eurasia Foundation and the Dynasty Non-Commercial Programmes Fund. Grants have been allocated for their implementation. The Eurasia Foundation grant was awarded by the project "Dialogue system for providing the population and administration of the science city of Dubna with ecological and analytical information", presented by the International University of Nature, Society and Man "Dubna".

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Six students of the Department of High-Energy Particle Interaction Physics of the JINR University Centre successfully defended their master's theses. This Dubna Department is the base department of the Faculty of General and Applied Physics of MIPT. The young people were congratulated on the successful defense of their theses by JINR Vice-Director and Scientific Leader of the Department A.N.Sisakyan, Head of the Department Professor G.A.Shelkov (DLNP), the current and newly elected Directors of DLNP N.A.Rusakovich and A.G.Olshevsky, Deputy Director of LPP Yu.K.Potrebenikov, Director of the UC S.P.Ivanova. It is no coincidence and quite symbolic that the defense of their theses coincided with the conference held at LPP dedicated to the 95th anniversary of the birth of D.I.Blokhintsev that deveoted many years of his life to teaching and training scientific personnel.

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The participants of the 94th session of the Scientific Council highly appreciated the progress of work on the scientific Programme for the Development of JINR in 2003-2009. Preparations started in 2001. The powerful scientific, technological and educational base of JINR, a certain stabilization of the financial and economic situation of the Institute in recent years, as well as the implementation of the reforms scheduled by JINR Directorate five years ago - all this served as significant prerequisites for the beginning of the preparation of the Seven-Year Programme. The basic document on the long-term development of JINR was approved and adopted. It happened after a 12-year break and testifies to the interest of the Institute's Member States and other JINR partners in determining the strategy for the further development of the Institute.

Professor A.Wagner (Germany): The adoption of the Seven-Year Plan is very important for the Institute. I believe it is essential to increase the role of the Programme Advisory Committees and the Scientific Council, to make the ratio of "home" and away experiments as transparent as possible, to monitor the progress of the Seven-Year Plan annually and to adjust it if necessary.

Professor D.Nagy (Hungary): An important point of the programme is the modernization of the IBR-2 reactor. This is one of the world's leading basic facilities of JINR, for which the Institute has broad international obligations. It is very important to provide for the modernization of this machine, development and maintenance of spectrometers and to take into account the professional interests of users during the implementation of the Seven-Year Plan.

Academician R.Sosnowski (Poland): We are talking about a document that should be a guide to action and change in accordance with the real situation. It is necessary to clearly imagine the course of development of long-term projects and programmes. The concept of the Institute's development should convince us that our own basic facilities will operate at the highest level and set priorities for the development of JINR's own research base. The role of this document is extremely high!

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On 23 June, the first Head of the Section of the Technical Communications at JINR Vsevolod Ktitarev turned 75. Here are two entries from his work record book: "On 15 January, 1953, he worked as a junior researcher at the Lebedev Physical Institute of the USSR Academy of Sciences", "On 1 March, 1953, he was transferred from the Lebedev Physical Institute to the Technical Directorate of facility No. 533 of the USSR Academy of Sciences based on the Order of the Presidium of the USSR Academy of Sciences". Thus, the young specialist that had just graduated from MTUCI, forever tied his life to the Institute. "There were many interesting things in our work. For example, for the first major international conference held in the Cultural Centre, not only did we build the so-called New Road and the Dubna Hotel, but we also added a large auditorium to the Cultural Centre. We, together with Moscow specialists in organizing simultaneous translation, provided him with sound - each seat in the hall was equipped with special headphones" ...
 

The 5th International Conference on Non-Accelerator New Physics (NANP-03) is held in the JINR Conference Centre. It has brought together 150 Russian and foreign scientists from 20 countries in Dubna. Leading scientists spoke about such experiments as KamLAND, SAGE, GEMMA, NOMAD, CAMEO, ICARUS, KAMIOKANDE and others, carried out and scheduled by large international collaborations.

Lead columnist Irina LEONOVICH,
photo by Elena PUZYNINA