The club celebrated its first anniversary. The guests of the event at the Scientists’ Club got acquainted with the activities of the association and listened to presentations by the Institutes’s young employees.

Among the winners of the annual grant competition of the Joint Institute for Nuclear Research are 14 schoolteachers and teachers of additional education of Dubna. The competition aims to promote professional development and stimulate teachers’ creative and educational activity.

Ten Far Eastern Federal University students took part in an internship at JINR as part of the bachelor’s programme implemented jointly with JINR and the MEPhI University. The organizer on behalf of the university was the JINR Information Centre at FEFU.

Mikhail Shvydkoy, Grigory Trubnikov, Francisco Infante, and other representatives of science and art discussed the common grounds of these seemingly different worlds.

This episode’s guest is VBLHEP JINR Injection Complex Chief Engineer Artem Galimov. He shares why he chose Dubna over a large industrial city and why scientists decided to build the collider bigger than originally planned.

The performance about the creation of the synchrocyclotron, dedicated to the 70th JINR anniversary, will take place at the Mir Cultural Centre, on 29 March, at 5:00 PM.

From 23 to 27 March, watch films about the Institute’s foundation and outstanding scientists on the Russia-K TV channel or online on the Smotrim streaming service.

Deputy Director of the Laboratory of Nuclear Problems Dmitry Naumov is the guest of new episode of the Schrödinger’s Cat podcast. In the video, you will learn who was the first to discover neutrinos, how these particles are born, and why they are sought under water and ice.

The Institute’s employees delivered lectures and held master classes at the Big Science sci-comm festival organized by the JINR University Centre and the JINR Information Centre at North Ossetian State University.

The JINR Telegram Channel shared another word that scientists use. This week’s term is the number π, found in a wide variety of scientific fields – from cosmology and quantum field theory to engineering and coding theory.

The JINR Telegram channel shared archival photos of the Institute. Take a look at the JINR Synchrophasotron accelerator complex control room.

We invite you to watch recordings of the seminars “Hydride Model of Earth open discussion”¹, “Pilot module of straw tracker of COMET Project”² by Petr Evtoukhovitch, “Simulating main SS-18P systems”³ by Kirill Smirnov, and “Strongly interacting matter in collisions at RHIC energies”⁴ by Arkady Taranenko.

A new issue of the Weekly JINR Newspaper, #11, has been published. Please note that you can read an English version on the JINR Newspaper’s website.

27th JINR Sports Games. Archery and darts

The competitions took place as part of this year’s sports games dedicated to the Institute’s 70th anniversary. Congratulations to all participants!

The Four Crowns Cup took place on 14 March. Among JINR representatives were Artem Svintsitsky, who took third place in the 10 km event in his group, and Maria Alikina, who came first in the 5 km race. Congratulations on the successful performances!

The team of the Joint Institute took second place in a chess competition of the Dubna Spartakiad. Congratulations on the excellent result!

Governing Bodies

• 24 March. JINR Finance Committee meeting. JINR, Dubna
• 25 March. Session of Committee of Plenipotentiaries of Governments of JINR Member States. JINR, Dubna

Workshops

• 24 March. Spin Physics Ahead of NICA SPD workshop. Online

Seminars

• 19 March. 2:30 PM. BLTP. “Method of quantisation of gauge theories with dependent generators” by Ioseph Buchbinder
• 19 March. 3:00 PM. FLNP. “Equivalence principle and acceleration effect in optics” by Alexander Frank
• 20 March. 11:30 AM. VBLHEP. “Gravity and dark matter” by Ivanhoe Pestov

Culture

• 9 March – 11 April. JINR Universal Public Library. Kaleidoscope of My Fantasies exhibition
• 19 March. 6:00 PM. JINR Universal Public Library. English speaking club
• 20 March. 6:00 PM. JINR Universal Public Library. JINR Cinema Club
• 21 March. 5:00 PM. JINR Universal Public Library. Lecture about Valeria Tsvetaeva

Sports

• 22 March. 2:00 PM. 27th JINR Sports Games. Basketball
• 23 March. 11:00 AM. 27th JINR Sports Games. Chess