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

N 48-49 (2384-2385) December 2002

	NEWS
	ON THE RESULTS OF THE LAVRENTIEV COMPETITION OF THE YOUTH PROJECTS The SB RAS Presidium resolution.
	ON THE HEADS OF THE UNITED INSTITUTES OF THE SB RAS The SB RAS Presidium resolution.
	SCHOLARS AND ADDRESSEES OF THE GRANTS DETERMINED in the Novosibirsk Regional Administration competitions.
	MATHEMATICAL PROGRAM OF THE CENTRAL EUROPEAN UNIVERSITY The Central European University (CEU) located in Budapest (Hungary) begins a new educational program "Mathematics and its applications" for senior students.
	SCIENTIFIC SCHOOLS OF THE ACADEMY OF SCIENCES as a tool of preservation and updating of scientific potential (considering the SB RAS as an example) Report of Academicians N.Dobretsov and V.Molodin at the working meeting "How to keep intellectual potential of Russia" (an account).
	THERE ARE TRADITIONALLY GOOD RELATIONS between Russian and Mongolian scientists, experts in the field of astronomy and geophysics.
	PROBLEMS OF CONSTRUCTION AND THE MINERALS MINING IN THE PERMAFROST CONDITIONS The fifth International symposium on the problems of the engineering geocryology has been held in Yakutsk.
	TECHNOLOGICAL FORUM IN IRKUTSK Technological forum has been held at the Irkutsk State Technical University; the questions about the development of scientific and technical communications between the enterprises and organizations of Irkutsk Region and their Japanese partners were discussed there.
	"FILTRATION TECHNOLOGIES IN FOOD-PROCESSING INDUSTRY" A seminar titled so has passed in Novosibirsk.
	VALUE OF SALTY LAKES The 8th International Conference on salty lakes has been held in the Zhemchuzhny settlement at the Shira lakeside (Republic Khakasia).
	A HISTORIAN AT HEART The International scientific conference dated for the 75th anniversary from the birthday of Corresponding Member of the RAS, outstanding historian of agriculture Leonid Michailovich Goriushkin (1927-1999) was held at the Institute of History of the SB RAS.
	ENVIRONMENTAL EFFECTS ON HEALTH From December 9 to December 11 at the conference hall of the Presidium of the SB RAMS the All-Russian scientific conference with International participation "Influence of the environment pollution upon men`s health" was held.
	SUCH A WAY THE POSITRONS ARE MADE One and a half years ago the accelerating complex VEPP-2М at the Institute of Nuclear Physics of the SB RAS has finished the research program with remarkable results. Today the Novosibirsk scientists aspire to make the next qualitative spurt. For this purpose in the INP a novel accelerator of elementary particles VEPP-2000 is mounted. VEPP (CEPB in English) is an abbreviation for the Colliding Electron-Positron Beams.
	RUSSIAN PATENT RECEIVED In October the work of the Institute of Semiconductor Physics of the SB RAS has won the Large Gold Medal of the All-Siberian Polytechnic Exhibition-2002 at the Siberian Fair.
	FLOATING AERODROME ON THE SCREEN Far from the seas and oceans, at the center of the continent, studies on the floating air stations and artificial islands are conducted. Laboratory of Fluid Elasticity of the Institute of Hydrodynamics of the SB RAS is engaged in these.
	THE CHANY LAKE, UNIQUE RESERVOIR OF WESTERN SIBERIA The lake is located in the central part of the Baraba lowland being a large inland basin of the Ob-Irtysh interfluvial land.
	SCIENCE AND BUSINESS ARE COMPATIBLE THINGS Last time there is an improvement of the investment climate in our country observed. Eventually, science begins to feel attention to itself from the part of domestic imperious and business structures. What could the scientists offer for industrialists? It turned out, that very much.
	"ABSOLUTE GEOMETRY" On the occasion of the bicentenary of one of the founders of non-Euclidean geometry, Hungarian mathematician Yanosz Bolyai.
	PERMANENT SECRETARY Olga Ragozina has come in the machinery of the Presidium of the Siberian Branch of the RAS in 1969 to work as a secretary of Vice-President of the SB RAS, and since 1975 she is being the permanent secretary of all the chairmen of the Siberian Branch.
	THE FRANKFURT BOOK FORUM In this year 6 375 exhibitors have gathered at the Frankfurt Book Fair: publishers, booksellers, literary agents, librarians from 110 countries of the world. 84 publishing houses represented Russia.
	DO NOT FORGET TO HAVE VACCINATION! Inhabitants of the Novosibirsk Academgorodok are invited to have vaccination against tick encephalitis.
	PLAYBILL OF THE NSC HOUSE OF SCIENTISTS
	NEW YEAR IN THE HOUSE OF SCIENTISTS!
	MAY THERE BE AN UDEGHEY FAIRY TALE LIVING December 20, 2002 the philologist Michail Simonov would be 55 years old. A time of summing up and of new plans...
	A MOMENT HAS STOPPED Boris Petrovich Malykh has passed away, remarkable photo-artist never parting with his camera, vigorous and not in the least an old man; December 2 he would be 66 years old.