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

N 13 (2598) March 2007

	NEWS
	AT THE GENERAL MEETING OF THE RAS March, 27 the annual General Meeting of the Russian Academy of Sciences has began in Moscow. The President of the RAS Academician Yuri Osipov has characterized the major scientific achievements obtained by the scientists of our country in 2006. The appreciable emphasis in the report was placed on the results of the Institutes of the Siberian Branch.

	AT THE GENERAL MEETING OF THE SB RAS March, 21 the annual General Meeting of the Siberian Branch of the RAS has been opened.
	On the project of the RAS program of fundamental scientific research for 2007- 2011. Chief scientific secretary of the SB RAS of Academician V.Fomin informing.
	TO FORMULATE THE TASKS PRECISELY From the speech of the Governor of the Novosibirsk Region V.Tolokonski.
	THERE ARE PROJECTS, THERE ARE NO MATERIAL RESOURCES From the speech of the Assistant Plenipotentiary of the President in the Siberian Federal District I.Prostiakov.
	TO RAISE THE EFFICIENCY OF SCIENTIFIC RESEARCH From the speech of Academician G.Kulipanov.
	THE PROBLEMS OF SCIENCE AND RELIGION: TROUBLING SITUATION An acute problem has been mentioned March, 21 at the General Meeting of the SB RAS by Academician Eduard Krugliakov. In his speech he has touched upon ethical aspects of mutual relations between religion and the State, between science and religion.
	ABOUT TAXES, YOUTH AND GENERAL OVERHAUL From the speech of Academician M.Kuzmin.
	TOWARDS THE 50th ANNIVERSARY OF THE SB RAS From the speech of Academician V.Molodin.
	NOT TO MISS OPPORTUNITIES From the speech of Academician V.Shumny.
	ON LIBRARIES AND PUBLISHING From the speech of B.Elepov, the Director of the State Public Scientific Technical Library of the SB RAS.
	GREETINGS TO THE PARTICIPANTS OF the GENERAL MEETING OF THE SB RAS from the Presidium of the National Academy of Sciences of Byelorussia.
	ELECTIONS: THE EXPECTED AND THE UNEXPECTED Within the first working day of the Meeting, March, 21, the procedure of elections of Directors of Institutes and Heads of Scientific Centers of the Branch has taken place.
	On the elections of Chairmen of the Presidiums of Scientific Centers, a member of the Presidium of Branch and Directors of Institutes of the SB RAS Resolution of the General Meeting of the SB RAS of March, 21, 2007.
	On the results of the Branch activities in 2006 and the primary goals in connection with the change of the Federal legislation Resolution of the General Meeting of the SB RAS of March, 22, 2007.

	SCIENTIFIC AND SCIENTIFIC-ORGANIZING ACTIONS OF THE SB RAS IN APRIL
	TOMSK CHOSEN AS THE PLACE OF THE MEETING Significant event has taken place in Tomsk from March, 19 to March, 20. More than thirty heads of Higher education institutions, the winners in the present year competition of innovation programs and six Rectors whose institutions have won in 2006 have gathered for a meeting in the city.
	CERN - INP: TEN YEARS OF COOPERATION Actually the G.I.Bukdker Institute of Nuclear Physics of the SB RAS cooperates with CERN, the European organization for nuclear research since old Soviet times. And in the beginning of 1990ths when the project of creation of the Large Hadron Collider LHC was developed in CERN, the INP took active part in it.
	WHEN WATER BECOMES MORE EXPENSIVE THEN OIL The future of Russia should be connected not with the export of oil and gas, but with the development of water-capacious industries and agriculture.
	THE IDEAS OF TRADE UNION - INTO LIFE! November, 23, 2006 the RF Government has taken a decision on extra rise for the scientific degrees of Candidate Sc - 3000 rubles and Doctor Sc. - 7000 rubles.
	THE ROUTE OF HALF A CENTURY IN LENGTH The 50th anniversary of a joint destiny of Zapivalovs’ married couple.
	YOUNG GEOLOGISTS: ON THE OCCASION OF THE DAY OF GEOLOGIST The next 33rd geological Olympiad of the schoolchildren of Ural and Siberia has taken place in Novosibirsk March, 24 to 25.
	HERE WE ARE! The students of the Novosibirsk State University have taken the fifth place in the 31st World student's team championship on programming АСМ International Collegiate Programming Contest that was held in Tokyo March, 15. Young programmers have won silver medals.
	ABOUT MICHAIL МАКАRENKO A tragic message has come from overseas: in the United States of America in the age of 75, the founder of the picture-gallery of the House of Scientists of the Novosibirsk Academgorodok Michail Makarenko was killed by a street hooligan.
	THE CALL OF UNKNOWN LATITUDES The crew of the inflatable catamaran crossed the waters of Indian Ocean is awarded with silver medals of the Kemerovo Region «For honour and courage».