Please enjoy a congratulatory note from JINR Director, Academician of the Russian Academy of Sciences Grigory Trubnikov. Thank you for being with the Joint Institute for Nuclear Research in 2026, and Happy New Year!

The title was given to Deputy Director of the Laboratory of Nuclear Reactions at JINR Alexander Karpov. It is awarded to doctors of sciences whose national or international achievements were recognised by the scientific community and who participate in the Academy’s main tasks and activities.

On 24 December, members of the Science and Technology Council heard a talk by JINR Director Grigory Trubnikov on the Institute’s key achievements in 2025. In addition, employees of the Joint Institute received awards.

The international Natural Science Review journal has published the fifth issue (October – December 2025). It features papers on mathematical, accelerator, and condensed matter physics.

JINR hosted another session of the programme, which has been supporting young scientists in the early stages of their careers for 12 years. The list of participants for the 2026 Winter Session was published. Registration for the Summer Session will last from 1 February to 3 March.

A leading researcher of the Laboratory of Information Technologies Alexander Gusev was given an Honoured Scientist of Mongolia medal. An MLIT software engineer Mikhail Matveev received an Honorary Diploma of the Mongolian Academy of Sciences. Congratulations!

The table features the most common situations the Institute’s employees face in anticipation of the holidays. Like the post in the JINR Telegram channel if you have a bingo!

The New Year giveaway of branded JINR T-shirts finished. Please check the JINR Telegram channel to see the results.

The collaboration of the Jiangmen Underground Neutrino Observatory shared a video about the creation of the world’s largest liquid scintillator detector. The video is in Russian.

At the Laboratory of Radiation Biology¹, the Laboratory of High Energy Physics², the Laboratory of Information Technologies³, and the Laboratory of Neutron Physics⁴, seminars took place to discuss the 2025 achievements and award the recipients of scholarships and prizes.

The JINR Telegram channel shared another archival photo of the Institute. Take a look at the JINR International Conference Centre in December 2005 and December 2025. The photos were taken by Yuri Tumanov and Olesya Chepurchenko.

AYSS has published the event digest for December with details about young scientists who received awards and scholarships, the Association’s participation in the International Congress of Young Scientists of Kazakhstan, International Conference on Cooperation in Science and Technology, and much more.

A new issue of the Weekly JINR Newspaper, #50, has been published. Please note that you can read an English version on the JINR Newspaper’s website.

Culture

• 11 December – 11 January. Daily from 1:00 to 7:00 PM (except Monday). JINR Mir Cultural Centre. Painting and handicraft exhibition
• 4 January. 6:00 PM. JINR Mir Cultural Centre. Estrada concert
• 5 January. 6:00 PM. JINR Mir Cultural Centre. Nutcracker ballet
• 6 January. 6:00 PM. JINR Mir Cultural Centre. Musical and poetic solo performance
• 9 January. 5:00 PM. JINR Mir Cultural Centre. Christmas concert of the centre’s creative teams