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

N 8 (2593) February 2007

	NEWS
	THE SB RAS PRESIDIUM MEETING
	THE PROJECT OF THE RAS CHARTER PREPARED
	ON THE REGISTRATION OF THE NOMINEES FOR THE POSITIONS OF THE DIRECTORS OF SCIENTIFIC INSTITUTIONS OF THE BRANCH Resolution of the SB RAS Presidium.
	A UNIQUE DOMESTIC TELESCOPE CREATED AT THE SAYAN OBSERVATORY
	DEVOTED TO BAIKAL The experts of many regions know well the activities of the family of outstanding researchers of Baikal; they were Doctor Sc.(Geography) Konstantin Konstantinovich Votintsev and Doctor Sc. (Biology) Galina Fedotovna Mazepova.
	THE AGENDA IN THE MINING… Ceremonial meeting of the Academic council devoted to the Day of Russian science has taken place February, 8 at the conference hall of the Institute of Mining of the SB RAS.
	THE DAY OF SCIENCE AT THE INSTITUTE OF CYTOLOGY AND GENETICS OF THE SB RAS
	THE DOORS INTO THE WORLD OF BIOLOGICAL VARIETY The Open Day at the Institute of Systematics and Ecology of Animals was by tradition combined a small conference, this time titled «Animals and We. Organization of scientific research at the Institute».
	THE GUESTS REMAINED PLEASED Within two days, February 8 and 9, the Novosibirsk Institute of Organic Chemistry received guests.
	MIRACLES … NOT IN A SIEVE February, 8 at the Institute of Solid State Chemistry and Mechanochemistry an Open Day has been held.
	FOR THE GENERATION THINKING RATIONALLY… February, 9 an Open Day was held at the Institute of Economics and Industrial Engineering on the occasion of the Day of Science.
	THE INSTITUTE OF PHILOSOPHY AND LAW: «ABOUT THE TIMES AND ABOUT ITSELF» Within the framework of the celebration of the Day of Russian science - 2007 a number of interesting actions have been held at the Institute of Philosophy and Law of the SB RAS.
	THE DAYS OF SCIENCE AT THE STATE PUBLIC SCIENTIFIC TECHNICAL LIBRARY
	AT THE EXHIBITION CENTER OF THE SB RAS By the experience of the years past we knew that during one day, February, 8, we could not receive everybody who wishes to visit the Exhibition Center. Thus we have announced in mass-media, that on the occasion of theDay of Science we receive visitors from February, 7 to February, 9.
	SCIENTIFIC MUSEUM IN the 21st CENTURY Last year the Dmitri Zimin "Dynasty" Foundation announced the first grant competition « Scientific museum in the 21st century».
	THE EXCURSIONS TO THE MUSEUM OF THE SB RAS
	THE STELE TO THE FATHER-FOUNDER… In Day of Science a solemn presentation of the premiums to the winners of the competition of the projects of memorial stele for the square named after the founder of the Tomsk Academgorodok Academician Vladimir Evseevich Zuev has taken place.
	THE MOST POWERFUL IN THE CIS and in the countries of the East Europe supercomputer cluster has been put into operation at the Tomsk State University.
	GIANT RAMAN SCATTERING OF LIGHT During light scattering on vibrating molecules a very little part of the photons scattered is re-emitted with the frequency shifted by frequency of the molecule vibration. The frequency shift can be used to identify the molecule.
	SHINING HOUR In the last year 2006 a book was issued in Yakutsk «Kamenski Rostislav Michailovich: the life in science». The book is kind, refined and lofty.
	THE CHANGE OF STRATIGRAPHIC PARADIGM A monograph by Doctor Sc. (Geology and Mineralogy) Yuri Karogodin «The system model of the stratigraphy of Eurasian oil-and-gas bearing basins» has been published.
	IN WHAT THE ACTIVITIES A SCIENTIFIC WORKER SHOULD BE ENGAGED? This question should be asked under the analysis of the matter of the order of the RF Ministry of Education and Science of the Russian Federation, Ministry of Health and Social Development and the Russian Academy of Sciences of November, 3, 2006 «On the stimulating payments providing the increase in the productivity of activities of science workers…».
	SCHOLARSHIPS FOR LEADERS From February, 15 to February, 17 a competition for the scholarships of the Vladimir Potanin Charity Foundation was held at the Novosibirsk State University.
	«ONLY IDIOTS ARE STUDYING IN THE NSU» Academician I.Zhimulev is thinking so.
	NEW APPEARANCE FOR THE HOUSE OF CULTURE "ACADEMIA" For many years in a Novosibirsk Academgorodok it is said about the renewal of the "Academia" House of Culture. It should be noted that the major overhaul of the building was not made for all the 45 years of its existence. Now it is representing a sad shabby structure that spoils not only the Academgorodok appearance, but also discredits the rank of the House of Culture itself.
	THE SECRETS OF SKILL An amazing man is working in the Krasnoyarsk Institute of Chemistry and Chemical Technology, William Aleksandrovich Sokolenko.) For ten years of his serious work and creative experiments the photography has become for him not only a hobby, but the second trade, a part of him.
	LET'S STRIKE IMPASSABILITY BY CYCLE RACE! In the beginning of March a cycling Marathon race will start on the Baikal Lake ice; the race participants and organizers are devoting this action to the 50th anniversary of the Siberian Branch of the RAS.
	IN MEMORIAM Academician Anatoli Semenovich Alekseev.