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

N 50 (2785) December 2010

	NEWS
	WITH THE COMING NEW YEAR! Congratulations from the SB RAS Presidium.
	AT THE GENERAL MEETING OF THE RAS Scientific Session of the General Meeting of the Russian Academy of Sciences entitled «Lasers: 50 Years in Science, Technologies and Medicine» has taken place at the Big Hall of the Russian Academy of Sciences on December 14 - 15, 2010.
	ABOUT THE COMPETITION ON AWARDING THE ACADEMICIAN V.A.KOPTYUG PRIZE FOR 2011 Decision of the SB RAS Presidium.
	THE LIST OF SCIENTIFIC EVENTS FOR JANUARY
	CORRESPONDING MEMBER OF THE RAS SAFRONOV A.F IS 70 Congratulations from the SB RAS Presidium.
	YAKUTSK GEOLOGIST’S BIRTH ANNIVERSARY Alexander Fedotovich Safronov – the Yakutsk-born resident.
	CORRESPONDING MEMBER OF THE RAS RATAKHIN N.A. IS 60 Congratulations from the SB RAS Presidium.
	TO LEARN THE NATURE, TO TRY THYSELF Nikolay Alexandrovich Ratakhin - Corresponding Member of the RAS, Doctor of Sciences (Physics and Mathematics), Director of the High Current Electronics Institute of the SB RAS, marks the 60th anniversary of his birth on December 24, 2010.
	DELEGATION OF THE AS OF MONGOLIA IN THE NOVOSIBIRSK SCIENTIFIC CENTRE At the invitation of the executive authorities of the Siberian Branch of the RAS, the delegation of the Academy of Sciences of Mongolia led by the ASM President has visited the Novosibirsk Scientific Centre on December 7 - 11.
	SIBERIA - TATARSTAN: PARTNERS IN SCIENCE Last week the governmental delegation of the Republic of Tatarstan has visited Novosibirsk.
	ABOUT THE SB RAS FINANCIAL INDICATORS FOR 2011
	11 BILLION ROUBLES WILL BE ALLOCATED TO THE SCIENTIFIC FOUNDATIONS IN 2011
	*At Scientific Session of the General Meeting of the SB RAS*
	LASERS: HISTORY AND PERSPECTIVES OF DEVELOPMENT Scientific Session of the General Meeting of the Siberian Branch, held on December 10 at the House of Scientists of the SB RAS, has been devoted to the 50th anniversary of invention of the first ever laser.
	LASERS ON FREE ELECTRONS: THE NEW STAGE OF DEVELOPMENT The unique source of coherent electromagnetic radiation - the laser on free electrons – has been developed at the Novosibirsk Scientific Centre.
	POWERFUL PULSE GAS LASERS AND THEIR APPLICATION The low-temperature plasma is used as an active medium of gas lasers. The more is the volume of plasma and the higher is the concentration of active particles in it, the higher energy level of laser radiation can be obtained.
	LASERS AND OPTICS OF THE ATMOSPHERE The «laser epoch» in atmospheric optics began to develop promptly since the invention of the first laser.
	FIBER LASERS: ACHIEVEMENTS AND PERSPECTIVES It is known, that the first fiber laser has already been demonstrated in 1961. Even then, advantages of the fiber laser active element if compared with the high-volume laser crystal, were obvious.
	POWERFUL LASERS: VAST FIELD FOR ACTIVITIES Laser installations for metal and other materials processing can be of great benefit to mankind.
	EXAWATT LASERS: THE HISTORY OF DEVELOPMENT
	ITEM-BY-ITEM PHOTONS Lasers with vertical resonators appear to be the most tiny, economic and high-speed lasers.
	LASER AND MEASUREMENT TECHNIQUES Laser is the revolutionary invention which in many ways has defined the process of science development in many areas. Especially it refers to optical measuring equipment.
	LASERS IN MEDICINE In medicine lasers have usually three basic applications: for diagnostics, therapy and surgery.

	THE RAS BEGINS WORKING IN THE FIELD OF FUNDAMENTAL MEDICINE At the December Assembly of the RAS the decision on setting up a new branch – the Branch of Physiology and Fundamental Medicine of the RAS has been taken. The comment given by Academician Vlasov V.V.
	ETHNOARCHEOLOGICAL RESEARCHES AND NATURAL SCIENCE DISCIPLINES The XIX International Scientific Symposium «Integration of Archeological, Ethnographic and Natural Science Researches», dedicated to all archeologists and ethnographers, leaving for the front during the Second World War will be held in Omsk from September 27 through September 30, 2011.
	VACANCIES

	ACADEMGORODOK OF M.A. LAVRENTIEV’S TIMES In the Winter Garden of the House of Scientists the exposition of color photos taken by Rashid Ibragimovich Akhmerov is being held, wherein the Novosibirsk Academgorodok in the first decade of its existence, or as follows from the name of photo-exhibition, Academgorodok of M.A.Lavrentiev’s times, has been shown.
	«...OUR SONGS, AS BIRDS OF GOOD LUCK» Meeting of participants of the Club of Bard’s Songs of the Irkutsk Scientific Center.
	THE NOVOSIBIRSK STATE DRAMA THEATRE «OLD HOUSE» INVITES Theater Bill for January.
	FLUFFY INVISIBLE BEING According to the Eastern calendar the new 2011 is considered to be the Year of the White Rabbit. However, simultaneously it is a Year of the White Cat, and the White Hare.
	IN MEMORIAM Anatoly Gerasimovich Trofimovich.