From 15 to 19 July 2024, the second international conference entitled “Modern Problems of Condensed Matter Theory” is taking place at the Bogoliubov Laboratory of Theoretical Physics. The scientific programme includes discussions of a wide range of important fundamental and applied issues of condensed matter theory. The participants will present reports at the conference; plenary and poster sessions and talks by invited speakers are scheduled.

The event brought together more than 90 participants, including employees of the Laboratory of Theoretical Physics, the Laboratory of Neutron Physics, and the Laboratory of Information Technologies at JINR, the Petersburg Nuclear Physics Institute of the NRC “Kurchatov Institute”, the Dukhov Automatics Research Institute, 11 physics and mathematics institutes of the Russian Academy of Sciences (RAS), institutes of Azerbaijan, Serbia, Uzbekistan, and Vietnam, representatives of Moscow State University, Saint Petersburg State University (SPbU), Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology, Skolkovo Institute of Science and Technology, ITMO University, as well as Brazilian, Egyptian, Indian, Serbian, and Slovak universities. Participants from leading universities of Vladivostok, Dubna, Yekaterinburg, Kazan, Samara, the Digital Technology Development Centre (Krasnogorsk, Russia), and the Russian Quantum Centre are also present.

The Laboratory of Theoretical Physics at JINR (BLTP JINR) organized the conference. The Programme Committee includes representatives of BLTP JINR, the Kurchatov Institute, the RAS Ioffe Institute, the Nikolaev Institute of Inorganic Chemistry of the RAS Siberian Branch, the RAS Institute of Theoretical and Applied Electrodynamics, SPbU, the MISIS National University of Science and Technology.

The conference will feature reports on the following topics: complex materials (high-temperature superconductors, superconducting hybrid structures, fractal structures, functional materials); nanostructures and nanomaterials; models of statistical physics of complex systems; methods of quantum field theory in complex systems; modern experimental research.

Opening the conference, Vladimir Osipov, Co-Chairperson of the Organizing Committee, Head of the Condensed Matter Theory Department, stressed that the event follows in the traditions of the prestigious International Dubna-Nano Conference. The Programme Committees of the event, which took place in 2008-2012, included world-renowned physicists such as Nobel laureate Konstantin Novoselov. The conference entitled “Modern Problems of Condensed Matter Theory” is being held for the second time; the first one took place in autumn 2022.

Vladimir Osipov underlined that the highlight of the event is its multidisciplinarity, which continues the tradition of Nikolay Bogolyubov‘s scientific school. The conference covers many areas, ranging from mechanics to field theory methods in condensed matter. Vladimir Osipov noted the education and training of young scientists as one of the goals of the conference.

“The conferences helped to expand and strengthen existing collaborations between scientific groups, especially those from Saint Petersburg and Novosibirsk. This cooperation has developed into specific joint works,” Co-Chairperson of the Organizing Committee, Head of the BLTP JINR Sector of Quantum Field Theory Methods in Complex Systems Michal Hnatič commented. He emphasised that the conference might be interesting not only for theoretical physicists, but also for experimenters, because a separate section is devoted to modern experimental research. A number of theoretical reports are aimed at possible applications.

Selected works of the conference will be published in Particles and Nuclei, Letters. The working languages are Russian and English.