On 27 October, 10 applicants received diplomas on awarding academic degrees in the big hall of the JINR Scientists’ Club. Valery Lebedev, Anatoly Sumbaev, Dmitry Namiot, Alina Volokhova, Dmitry Gremyachkin, Yahor Dydyshka, Vitaly Yermolchyk, Maxim Zakharov, Mikhail Podoinitsyn, and Zhomart Tyulemisov were among them. The event was traditionally held in a festive atmosphere with the participation of guests invited by the scientists who received diplomas.

It was the 12th diploma awarding since September 2019 when the Institute got the right to independently award academic degrees. Employees of VBLHEP, DLNP, BLTP, MLIT, FLNP including citizens of Russia, Belarus, and Kazakhstan, as well as representatives of Lomonosov Moscow State University and the Institute for Physics and Power Engineering named after A. I. Leypunsky received diplomas.

Presenting the documents, Chairman of the Qualification Commission of JINR Victor Matveev and Scientific Secretary of the Commission Oleg Belov highlighted the high number of qualification papers defended at the JINR Dissertation Councils this year and the importance of making more efforts to train the scientific staff with high qualifications such as candidates and doctors of sciences.

From the point of the Higher Attestation Commission (HAC), of which Victor Matveev is a member, the consistently high number of defended qualification papers is one of the key indicators of the scientific potential of organizations, at which dissertation councils are created. In this regard, JINR demonstrates a positive trend of the number of defences along with increased requirements for dissertations compared to the councils of HAC. To a large extent, ongoing improvement of the training and attestation system of the scientific staff at JINR contributes to this trend. Thus, at the beginning of 2022, the JINR Regulations concerning attestation of scientific staff were updated with the account of more than two years of experience in independent awarding of academic degrees. About half of the applicants, who received diplomas at the ceremony, defended their dissertations in accordance with new regulations. It indicates that innovations were successfully tested. In August 2022, the system of the JINR Dissertation Councils was shifted to a new nomenclature of scientific specialties, as well as the membership of the JINR Dissertation Councils was updated. To date, 6 dissertations prepared in the specialties from the updated list have already been accepted for consideration.

Valery A. Lebedev, a citizen of the Russian Federation, has received the academic degree of Doctor of Physics and Mathematics upon the results of the defence of the dissertation “Antiproton production and accumulation for at the Tevatron II collider” in the specialty 01.04.20 – Charged Particle Beam Physics, and Accelerator Technology. The defence took place in the Dissertation Council for Particle Physics at VBLHEP.

Anatoly P. Sumbaev, a citizen of the Russian Federation, has received the academic degree of Doctor of Technical Sciences upon the results of the defence of the dissertation “LUE-200 accelerator – generator of photoneutrons of the IREN pulsed neutron source” in the specialty 01.04.20 – Charged Particle Beam Physics, and Accelerator Technology. The defence took place in the Dissertation Council for Particle Physics at VBLHEP.

Dmitry E. Namiot, a citizen of the Russian Federation, has received the academic degree of Doctor of Technical Sciences upon the results of the defence of the dissertation “Spatial network proximity technologies: concept, models and algorithms, distributed systems, and services” in the specialty 05.13.11 – Mathematics and Software for Computing Systems, Complexes, and Computer Networks. The defence took place in the Dissertation Council for IT and Computational Physics at MLIT.

Alina V. Volokhova, a citizen of the Russian Federation, has received the academic degree of Candidate of Physics and Mathematics upon the results of the defence of the dissertation “Numerical study of the observed dynamic characteristics in models of electron hydration and gas condensate mixture filtration” in the specialty 05.13.18 – Mathematical Modelling, Numerical Methods, and Programming Complexes. The defence took place in the Dissertation Council for IT and Computational Physics at MLIT.

Dmitry E. Gremyachkin, a citizen of the Russian Federation, has received the academic degree of Candidate of Physics and Mathematics upon the results of the defence of the dissertation “Methods for measuring the characteristics of delayed neutrons and verifying nuclear data” in the specialty 01.04.01 – Instrumentation and Methods of Experimental Physics. The defence took place in the Dissertation Council for Condensed Matter Physics at FLNP.

Yahor V. Dydyshka, a citizen of the Republic of Belarus, has received the academic degree of Candidate of Physics and Mathematics upon the results of the defence of the dissertation “Polarization effects in the processes of e+e- annihilation at high energies” in the specialty 01.04.02 – Theoretical Physics. The defence took place in the Dissertation Council for Theoretical Physics at BLTP.

Vitaly L. Yermolchyk, a citizen of the Republic of Belarus, has received the academic degree of Candidate of Physics and Mathematics upon the results of the defence of the dissertation “Radiation corrections for experiments at lepton colliders with polarized beams” in the specialty 01.04.02 – Theoretical Physics. The defence took place in the Dissertation Council for Theoretical Physics at BLTP.

Maksim A. Zakharov, a citizen of the Russian Federation, has received the academic degree of Candidate of Physics and Mathematics upon the results of the defence of the dissertation “Numerical studies of nonstationary quantum phenomena in neutron optics” in the specialty 01.04.02 – Theoretical Physics. The defence took place in the Dissertation Council for Theoretical Physics at BLTP.

Mikhail A. Podoinitsyn, a citizen of the Russian Federation, has received the academic degree of Candidate of Physics and Mathematics upon the results of the defence of the dissertation “Spin projection operators in quantum field theory and Brauer algebra representations” in the specialty 01.04.02 – Theoretical Physics. The defence took place in the Dissertation Council for Theoretical Physics at BLTP.

Zhomart Zh. Tyulemisov, a citizen of the Republic of Kazakhstan, has received the academic degree of Candidate of Physics and Mathematics upon the results of the defence of the dissertation “Weak decays of doubly heavy baryons into covariant model of quarks” in the specialty 01.04.02 – Theoretical Physics. The defence took place in the Dissertation Council for Theoretical Physics at BLTP.