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

N 26 (2711) July 2009

	NEWS
	THE PRIZE-WINNERS OF THE SCIENTIFIC UNION OF SIBERIA AND BYELORUSSIA At the joint session of the Presidiums of the Siberian Branch of the RAS and the National Academy of Sciences of Byelorussia a delivery took place of the medals and diplomas of the Koptiug Prize-2009.
	TO JOIN THE POTENTIALS June, 29 a joint meeting of the Presidiums of the Siberian Branch of the RAS and the National Academy of Sciences of Byelorussia has taken place. It was broadcast to all the scientific centers through a video conferencing system.
	THE FORUM OF THE ACADEMIES OF SCIENCES OF THE COUNTRIES OF THE SHANGHAI ORGANIZATION FOR COOPERATION IN NOVOSIBIRSK From July, 3 to July, 5 at the Novosibirsk Scientific Center of the SB RAS the Forum of scientific and technical cooperation of the State scientific institutions of the SOC countries with the participation of the delegations of the Academies of Sciences of Kazakhstan, Chinese People's Republic, Kirghyzstan, Mongolia, Tajikistan, Uzbekistan takes place.
	THE DELEGATION OF THE JILIN PROVINCE AT THE ACADEMGORODOK June, 29 a delegation of the province of Jilin (Chinese People's Republic) has arrived to Novosibirsk according to the invitation of the Regional Administration.
	THE MAIL FROM DENVER Academician A.E.Kontorovich has received a special AAPG Prize which the experts who significantly contributed to oil-and-gas geology are honored with (AAPG the American association of geologists – oilmen, the largest professional association of geologists in the world).
	SCIENCE WITHOUT BORDERS Not everyone knows that the third "Global Energy" Prize –winner of 2009, outstanding British scientist, the Royal Society member since 1983 Professor Dudley Bryan Spaulding is closely connected with Russia and the Siberian Branch.
	EXPERTS IN THE FIELD OF TSUNAMI TO MEET IN NOVOSIBIRSK In the middle of July the Novosibirsk Academgorodok becomes the place of a meeting of scientists and experts in the field of tsunami: the 24th International symposium on tsunami, organized each two years by the Commission on tsunami of the International Union of Geodesy and Geophysics to be held there.
	EVERYTHING BEGINS WITH MATERIALS Already for several years running the Russian and Chinese experts gather to discuss the state of the art in the field of advanced semiconductor materials and devices.
	ACCELERATORS FOR ONCOLOGICAL CLINICS - 1 At the Budker Institute of Nuclear Physics of the SB RAS is created an accelerator system is designed for cancer therapy by means of proton and ion beams. And it is not a single development of the Institute for medical purposes.
	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 where the director of the Republican Scientific Research Institute of Intellectual Property Doctor Sc.(jurisprudence) V.N.Lopatin reported. He has told about the huge role in the economy of each country the market of the intellectual property is plaing, so the rights for it.
	HIS TRACES DEEP IN HUMAN MEMORY The story about a heaven-born mechanician, the leader of Russian geomechanicians Academician Evgenii Ivanovich Shemiakin whose death in February of this year became an irreplaceable loss of all scientific community.
	HIGH TECHNOLOGIES FOR MEDICINE At the Kuzbass Cardiologic Center located in Kemerovo, a laboratory is founded for the studies of stem cells and the creation of medicines on the basis of nanotechnologies.
	VACANCIES
	ABOUT NOVEL BOOKS ON THE HISTORY OF THE NOVOSIBIRSK ACADEMGORODOK Now the history of the Siberian Branch of the RAS and the Novosibirsk Academgorodok generates an increasing scientific and practical interest.
	WHO READS "THE SCIENCE IN SIBERIA" ON THE WEB? On the eve of the 48th anniversary of the "SiS", July, 4, 2009 we decided to slightly open the newspaper information and to tell our readers who and when reads the "Science in Siberia" using the Internet where the newspaper is present as an electronic edition since December, 1997.
	"… MY SIBERIAN RICHES" On the occasion of the 150th anniversary from the birth date of A.P.Chekhov.
	WILL SCHOOLCHILDREN STUDY THE BASES OF THE ORTHODOXY CULTURE? The possible introduction in the school program of "The bases of the orthodoxy culture" causes an ambiguous reaction in the society. Some people are inclined to see in this the attempts of the Orthodox Church to take root into schools strengthening its influence through the subject in which sceptics see the lessons of God’s Law familiar to us from the literature, where the life of gymnasia pupils before revolution is described, rather than a historical and cultural course.
	TIME OF THE YOUNG June, 26, on the eve of Day of Youth, at the Administration building of the Soviet District of Novosibirsk a solemn reception has taken place in honor of the winners of the "Time of the young" grant competition, carried out by the regional branch of the "United Russia" party.
	FASTER THAN WIND The sports and athletics games of the IrSC of the SB RAS is becoming more and more popular. The number of teams taking part in the sports fights is increasing.
	IN MEMORIAM Doctor Sc. (Physics and Mathematics) Vladimir Georgievich Gubanov.