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WEEKLY OF THE SIBERIAN BRANCH OF THE RUSSIAN ACADEMY OF SCIENCES (SB RAS)

N 13 (2399) April 2003

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	THE SIBERIAN BRANCH OF THE RUSSIAN ACADEMY OF SCIENCE - THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF BYELORUSSIA From March, 30 to April, 2 delegation of the National Academy of Sciences of Byelorussia has been visiting the Novosibirsk Scientific Center.
	PRESENTING THE CANDIDATES FOR THE POSITIONS OF ACADEMICIANS ON THE VACANCIES FOR THE SIBERIAN BRANCH OF THE RAS Nominees for the positions of full members of the RAS in the fields of "Physics" and "Mechanics".
	PRESENTING THE CANDIDATES FOR THE POSITIONS OF ACADEMICIANS ON THE VACANCIES FOR THE SIBERIAN BRANCH OF THE RAS Nominees for the positions of full members of the RAS in the fields of "Physical and chemical biology ", "Electrophysics", "Geochemistry", "Physical chemistry of optical materials".
	THE LIST OF THE CANDIDATES for the positions of full members and corresponding members of the RAS on the vacancies for the specialized branches of the RAS nominated by the research institutions of the Siberian Branch of the RAS.
	OILMEN APPEAR ON THE SIBERIAN PLATFORM There is an information that the development of oilfields in the regions of Eastern Siberia has begun, and this big work is conducted by the well-known company "YUKOS". Is that really the case, do you know about this event? Such a question the "SiS" correspondent has asked to Academician Alexei Kontorovich, director of the Institute of Oil-and-gas Geology of the SB RAS.
	THE HOLIDAY WE HAVE DESERVED Within the last decades the estate of geologists who study rather essential part of the Eurasian continent, in the first serene days of April meet their professional holiday, congratulate each other on this occasion and accept congratulations from those who fancies the trade of geologist to be of complete and utter romanticism.
	FOUNDER OF THE SOLAR OBSERVATORIES OF SIBERIA On April, 10 the founder and organizer of the astrophysical researches in Siberia, founder of one of the leading Russian scientific schools, the Russian Government Prize-winner of the premium of the Government of Russia are executed in the field of science and engineering, chief scientific researcher of the Institute of Solar and Terrestrial Physics of the SB RAS, Doctor Sc. (Engineering), Professor Gennadi Smolkov will be 70 years old.
	NEW OPPORTUNITIES OF SCANNING RADIOGRAPHIC SYSTEMS Aggravation of criminogenic situation, increased activity of terrorists on a global scale have made the services of examination take more effectual measures for detection of dangerous objects, substances or weapon hidden on body and in clothes. Such an opportunity is given with the help of scanning low-doze digital radiography technique that is successfully developed in the Institute of Nuclear Physics of the SB RAS during the last twenty years.
	STANDING GUARD OVER THE RUSSIAN STATE Last week a meeting and press conference devoted to the preparation for celebrating of the 300th anniversary from the date of the Umreva Burg foundation have been held at the Institute of Archeology and Ethnography of the SB RAS.
	SCIENCE AND REGION: TO LIVEN UP THE INNOVATIONAL ACTIVITIES The Irkutsk Regional Administration undertakes much for the scientific potential of the Region to support and develop.
	DO THE STUDENTS CREDIT THEIR FUTURE WITH SCIENCE? Meeting of the students and employees with the Chairman of the Siberian Branch of the Russian Academy of Science Academician N.Dobretsov has been held at the NSU.
	THE TROUBLES OF SCIENCE The mass-media interest to the science is wavy: it rises together with the governmental attention display and falls down after large-scale events, say, the Presidential Council sessions on science and high technologies, Governmental prizes awarding, etc. However, the scientists’ appearances are proceeding on the topics of deep-laid processes in the domestic science development, of scientific problems, as well as the journalists’ ones are going on both about the achievements and problems of science, and about every possible "miracles".
	SCIENCE AND ENGINEERING NEWS
	PLAYBILL OF THE SB RAS HOUSE OF SCIENTISTS