Opening of the Exhibition of Watercolour and Graphic Works of Marina Mishchenko

Today, on 11 November 2021, at 19:00, the exhibition of art pieces of our designer Marina Mishchenko is going to be opened at the JINR Blokhintsev Universal Library. All those interested are invited! The exhibition will last till 4 December 2021. The entry is free.

2021 JINR Grants for Young Scientists: Ilya Vasilyev

The submission of applications for the 2022 JINR Grants for early-career scientists and specialists got underway. Meanwhile, the last-year winners are fulfilling their grant responsibilities. Ilya Vasilyev is among them. He is an assistant researcher of the Sector of Calorimetric and Hardware and Software Systems of Data Processing and Analysis of the DLNP Experimental Department of Multiple Hadronic Processes.

“Izvestia”: Invasion of the Planet– Scientists Found Out How to Start Colonizing Mars

What microorganisms, capable of making the soil and atmosphere composition suitable for life, can be settled and where   Scientists have spotted the areas on Mars where colonies of lichen and autotrophic bacteria (organisms capable of synthesizing organic matter from inorganic one) can be settled. Microorganisms will be protected from temperature differences, strong wind and hard ultraviolet radiation in the Valles Marineris and in the Hellas Planitia located near the equator. They can multiply there and transform Mars with time making it suitable for life and colonization. Experts believe that it is reasonable first to make the conditions on the neighbouring planet milder, and only then to settle microorganisms there in order to finally transform the appearance of Mars.

“Verblyud v Ogne” (Camel in Fire): Baikal-GVD Neutrino Telescope – Past, Present, Future

It’s August. “Nerpyonok” (little seal), a local train, is slowly moving along the Circum-Baikal Railway at the very edge of the lake shore. Stony slopes, wooden houses in the taiga are flickering behind train windows on one side, the endless glassy Lake Baikal surface is stretching out on the other. After an hour and a half, the train arrives at the Ivanovka station. Passengers scarcely manage to get out before it starts off, slowly turns round the hill and disappears.

“Popular Mechanics”: Ice Fishing – Baikal Neutrino Catch

Strings of giant’s beads are being carefully submerged into the dark water of the deepest lake on Earth. Pulled out, they cover a distance of more than a kilometre. Even the Ostankino TV Tower would seem to be a dwarf near these self-floating units. Thick cables reach the shore: the neutrino observatory hunts after the most elusive particles in the Universe born in distant space accelerators.

2021 JINR Grants for Young Scientists: Nadezhda Rumyantseva

The 2022 JINR Grant Competition for early-career scientists and specialists has been announced. Last year, 18 researchers from our Laboratory won the Competition. We continue the series of interviews with them. Nadezhda Rumyantseva, a researcher of the Sector of Weak Interactions of the DLNP Experimental Department of Nuclear Spectroscopy and Radiochemistry is talking about her grant topics, research interests and plans.  

2021 JINR Grants for Young Scientists: Mikhail Zarubin

We continue to tell you about the DLNP researchers who won the 2021 JINR Grant Competition for early-career scientists and specialists. Our interviewee is Mikhail Zarubin, a biophysicist, assistant researcher of the DLNP Sector of Molecular Genetics of the Cell. Molecular genetics of the Cell is a new research direction at JINR. The research results, obtained by the Sector staff working with physicists at the boundary of sciences, illustrate the huge potential of this direction.

Aleksandr Demidovich KONIN (02.11.1926 – 29.10.2012)

On 29 October 2021, Aleksandr Demidovich Konin passed away, one of the eldest JINR researchers, adviser to the Directorate of the Dzhelepov Laboratory of Nuclear Problems, researcher of the Experimental Department of Multiple Hadronic Processes. Aleksandr Demidovich was born on 2 November 1926 in the Dubrovka village of the Yurla region of the Komi-Permyak autonomous district. In January 1944, he was enlisted into the army and participated in combat operations in the Far East.  

About the 2022 JINR Grant Competition for Early-Career Scientists and Specialists

The JINR Association of Young Scientists and Specialists (AYSS) announces the 2022 JINR Grant Competition for Early-Career Scientists and Specialists. JINR young scientists and specialists, skilled workers of the JINR laboratories and budget subdivisions, aged 35 inclusive as of 31 December 2021, are invited. You can get more information about the competition procedure and terms in the JINR Grant Regulations on the AYSS website.  

2021 JINR Grants for Young Scientists: Ivan Gorodnov

We continue the series of interviews with the researchers from the Dzhelepov Laboratory of Nuclear Problems who won the grants of the 2021 JINR Competition for early-career scientists and specialists. Our interviewee is Ivan Gorodnov, a leading engineer of the DLNP Sector of Low Temperatures.

Congratulations to Dmitry Tsirkov on the Successful Defence of the Candidate Dissertation!

On 27 October 2021, at the session of the DLNP Dissertation Council, Dmitry Alekseevich Tsirkov defended the dissertation “The pp → {pp}s π0 and pp → {pp}s γ reactions with the production of the 1S0 diproton at intermediate energies of 0.35−0.8 GeV” for the degree of the Candidate of Physics and Mathematics in Specialty 01.04.16: nuclear and particle physics. Our congratulations to Dmitry on the successful defence of the candidate dissertation! We wish him further success and bright ideas, scientific achievements and right solutions!

How spaghetti is breaking

The book “How spaghetti is breaking and other problems of physics” authored by the senior researcher of the Dzhelepov Laboratory of Nuclear Problems Igor Ivanov is in print at the Alpina publishing house. The book is published in collaboration with the “Elementy”, an educational popular-science project. The book’s structure mirrors that of the “Problems” section of the “Elementy” website: “Problem Situation”, “Statement of a Problem”, “Prompting”, “Solution” and the most crucial point, the “Afterword”, where problem solving by scientists is given. For whom is this book? “I would like heartily to recommend everyone to dive into its marvelous atmosphere. To your surprise, you will find out that knowledge gained at school and native wit are quite enough to make out problems of contemporary science,” advises the Deputy Director of the Dzhelepov Laboratory of Nuclear Problems Dmitry Naumov.