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

N 27 (2712) July 2009

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	SCIENCE OF THE SOC COUNTRIES: THE CORE OF INNOVATION COOPERATION July, 4 to 5 at the Novosibirsk Academgorodok the Forum of the State scientific institutions of the countries of the Shanghai Organization for Cooperation took place. Outstanding scientific figures of China, Kazakhstan of Kirghyzstan, Tadjikistan took part in it. Russia was represented by the Siberian Branch of the RAS, the organizer of the Forum.
	TOWARD A NEW QUALITY OF SCIENTIFIC COOPERATION On the fifth of July a working session of the 2nd the Forum of the State scientific institutions of the countries of the Shanghai Organization for Cooperation took place.
	THE APPEAL of the highest-level Forum of the State scientific institutions of the countries of the Shanghai Organization for Cooperation (SOC) to the Governments of the SOC countries.
	FOR THE CONSTRUCTIVE DIALOGUE One of the principal events in the program of 2nd Forum of the scientific institutions of the countries of the Shanghai Organization for Cooperation was an official opening of the Confucius Class at the Novosibirsk State University.
	SCIENTIFIC YOUTH OF THE RADIOCARBON METHOD At the end of May - the beginning of June, 2009 the 20th International Radiocarbon Conference held every three years has taken place near the city of Kona (the Hawaii Island and State, the USA). It is the largest scientific forum where the freshest data are represented in the field the radiocarbon method application.
	SILICON - 2009 July, 7 the 6th International conference in the field of urgent problems of physics, material science, technology and diagnostics of silicon, nanometer- sized structures and devices has been opened at the Novosibirsk Scientific Center, in the Large Hall of the House of Scientists of the SB RAS.
	WHEN A DISASTER COMES FROM THE OCEAN Next week the 24th International symposium on the problem of tsunami to be opened at the Academgorodok. Novosibirsk for the second time becomes the place of such an action to be held, organized biannually by the Commission for Tsunami of the International Geodesic and Geophysical Union (IGGU)). On the eve of the symposium our correspondent has met with the chairman of the organizing committee, the head of the Laboratory of Tsunami of the Institute of Computational Mathematics and Mathematical Geophysics of the SB RAS, Doctor Sc. (Physics and Mathematics) Viacheslav Konstantinovich Gusiakov.
	ACCELERATORS FOR ONCOLOGICAL CLINICS-2 The known methods currently in force are insufficient for the treatment of oncological diseases. Basing on the accelerating equipment the new ones are being developed such as proton and ion as well as the requiring to be studied neutron beam method. To put it more precisely, the method of neutron capture cancer.
	INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY: THE WEIGHTY CAPITAL OF THE COUNTRY This topic became a point of issue at the meeting of the Presidium of the IrSC of the SB RAS.
	VACANCIES
	ABOUT THE TIME, DIFFICULT AND CREATIVE One more talented book by Academician M.V.Kurlenia has been issued: "The sides of my destiny". The book is written in good Russian, complicated phenomena and processes are explained simply and clearly to be understood even by non- specialists.
	ETHNIC ECOLOGY IN SIBERIA For the first time in Russia a monograph is published devoted to the studies on traditional household and nature-environmental culture of the peoples of Siberia and its place in ethnology and ethnic ecology.
	"… MY SIBERIAN RICHES" On the occasion of the 150th anniversary from the birth date of A.P.Chekhov.
	SIBERIAN BONSAI 2009 marks 20th anniversary from the first exhibition of bonsai almost annually organized at the showroom of the House of Scientists by the Central Siberian Botanical Garden.
	ABOUT DUMB ANIMALS Recently the editors consulted and have thought up, how to fill up our traditional heading "Not the science only" in which we write with a great pleasure about various hobbies of scientists.