At an extended meeting of the JINR Directorate
News, 26 May 2014
A regular extended meeting of the JINR Directorate was held on 22 May 2014. In his welcoming speech JINR Director Academician V.A.Matveev informed participants about a meeting of the working group of the RF President’s Council on Scientific and Technological Policy, where the status of six Russian scientific mega-projects was discussed. Special attention was paid to the NICA project in Dubna, as it is included in three priority projects whose timely implementation requires 8.6 billion rubles, in addition to the JINR budget which were planned within the frames of the project implementation.
JINR Vice-Director G.V. Trubnikov spoke about the meeting of the working group of the Committee of Plenipotentiaries of the JINR Member States on issues of elaboration of principles of the new methodology for calculating the scale of contributions of Member States to the Institute. The working group took note of approximate figures of the planned JINR budget for 2014-2019, taking into account the fact that the Russian Federation in this period of time will maintain the current portion of its contribution and form of participation in the formation of the JINR budget. The Directorate will send proposals on the major variant of the new methodology of calculation of the scale of contributions of JINR Member States to JINR Plenipotentiaries to provide comments and suggestions by 1 September 2014 for consideration at a regular meeting of the JINR Finance Committee and a session of the Committee of Plenipotentiaries of the JINR Member States in November.
N.A.Russakovich, N.K. Skobelev, O.V. Belov reported about preparation of summer sessiosn of the Programme Advisory Committees for Nuclear Physics, Particle Physics, and Condensed Matter Physics. A joint meeting of PACs for Particle Physics and Nuclear Physics which will be held to discuss a research programme on neutrino physics at JINR will be a feature of this session.
V.A.Matveev presented information about the Russian Science Foundation grant competition (5 million rubles) for exploratory scientific research by individual scientific groups. About 12 000 applications were received, 876 research projects received grants, including three from JINR. The following projects were the laureates in the Institute:
R. Lednický, R.V. Jolos, Yu. Ts. Oganessian, V.D. Kekelidze, V.A. Bednyakov, O. Kulikov and other participants of the meeting spoke in debates on all the issues.
JINR Vice-Director G.V. Trubnikov spoke about the meeting of the working group of the Committee of Plenipotentiaries of the JINR Member States on issues of elaboration of principles of the new methodology for calculating the scale of contributions of Member States to the Institute. The working group took note of approximate figures of the planned JINR budget for 2014-2019, taking into account the fact that the Russian Federation in this period of time will maintain the current portion of its contribution and form of participation in the formation of the JINR budget. The Directorate will send proposals on the major variant of the new methodology of calculation of the scale of contributions of JINR Member States to JINR Plenipotentiaries to provide comments and suggestions by 1 September 2014 for consideration at a regular meeting of the JINR Finance Committee and a session of the Committee of Plenipotentiaries of the JINR Member States in November.
N.A.Russakovich, N.K. Skobelev, O.V. Belov reported about preparation of summer sessiosn of the Programme Advisory Committees for Nuclear Physics, Particle Physics, and Condensed Matter Physics. A joint meeting of PACs for Particle Physics and Nuclear Physics which will be held to discuss a research programme on neutrino physics at JINR will be a feature of this session.
V.A.Matveev presented information about the Russian Science Foundation grant competition (5 million rubles) for exploratory scientific research by individual scientific groups. About 12 000 applications were received, 876 research projects received grants, including three from JINR. The following projects were the laureates in the Institute:
- «Real time – in situ neutron structural analysis of materials and processes in small-sized sources of electrical current» (Leader A.M. Balagurov);
- «Development of methods of small-angle neutron scattering and study of vesicles and nano-medicaments on neutron and synchrotron sources» (Leader М. А. Kisilev);
- «The experimental search for the coherent scattering of neutrinos on nuclei» (Leader V.B. Brudanin).
R. Lednický, R.V. Jolos, Yu. Ts. Oganessian, V.D. Kekelidze, V.A. Bednyakov, O. Kulikov and other participants of the meeting spoke in debates on all the issues.