On 5 June, the JINR Scientists’ Club hosted the awarding of diplomas on conferring degrees. Four doctors of sciences and five candidates of sciences who defended their works in the JINR Dissertation Councils received diplomas. Representatives of the JINR Qualification Committee, scientific secretaries of the Dissertation Councils and their assistants, and guests invited by the degree holders congratulated the awardees.

JINR Qualification Committee Chair, JINR Scientific Leader Victor Matveev delivered a welcome speech. He stressed that JINR had not only created a well-functioning system for the independent awarding of academic degrees, but also set high standards for dissertations.

JINR Qualification Committee Scientific Secretary Oleg Belov noted an increase in the number of doctors who defended this year. Since September 2019, 124 dissertations were defended in the JINR dissertation councils, including 28 doctoral dissertations and 96 candidate’s dissertations.

Gizo D. Bokuchava, a Russian Federation citizen, was awarded the academic degree of Doctor of Physics and Mathematics based on the results of defending his thesis in the new JINR Dissertation Councils. Dissertation on the topic “Correlation Fourier diffractometry at a pulsed neutron source as a method of non-destructive testing of residual stresses in materials and products” in the specialty 1.3.2: Instruments and Methods of Experimental Physics was defended in the FLNP Dissertation Council on Condensed Matter Physics.

Roman G. Burkovsky, a Russian Federation citizen, was awarded the academic degree of Doctor of Physics and Mathematics based on the results of defending his thesis on the topic “Trigger incommensurate transitions and related phenomena in bulk and thin-film antisegnetoelectrics” in the speciality 1.3.8: Condensed Matter Physics. The defence took place in the FLNP Dissertation Council on Condensed Matter Physics.

Alexey P. Severyukhin, a Russian Federation citizen, was awarded the academic degree of Doctor of Physics and Mathematics based on the results of defending his thesis on the topic “Effects of phonon-phonon coupling on low-lying states in neutron-rich Sn isotopes” in the specialty 1.3.15: Physics of Atomic Nuclei and Elementary Particles, High Energy Physics. The defence took place in the BLTP Dissertation Council on Theoretical Physics.

Oleg Y. Smirnov, a Russian Federation citizen, was awarded the academic degree of Doctor of Physics and Mathematics based on the results of defending his thesis on the topic “Direct measurement of solar pp-neutrino flux in the Borexino experiment” in the specialty 1.3.15: Physics of Atomic Nuclei and Elementary Particles, High Energy Physics. The defence took place in the DLNP Dissertation Council on Nuclear Physics.

Sergey D. Belov, a Russian Federation citizen, was awarded the academic degree of Doctor of Physics and Mathematics based on the results of defending his thesis on the topic “Big Data methods and technologies for solving high energy physics problems in in a distributed computing environment” in the specialty 2.3.5: Mathematics and Software for Computing Systems, Complexes, and Computer Networks. The defence took place in the MLIT Dissertation Council on IT and Computational Physics.

Alexandra S. Budekhina, a Russian Federation citizen, was awarded the academic degree of Doctor of Physics and Mathematics based on the results of defending his thesis on the topic “Study of the quantum structure of supersymmetric gauge theories in four and six dimensions” in the specialty 1.3.3: Theoretical Physics. The defence took place in the BLTP Dissertation Council on Theoretical Physics.

Vasilisa V. Lenivenko, a Russian Federation citizen, was awarded the academic degree of Doctor of Physics and Mathematics based on the results of defending his thesis on the topic “Software-algorithmic complex for the reconstruction of charged particle trajectories and ion identification in the SRC at the BM@N Experiment” in the specialty 1.2.2: mathematical modelling, numerical methods, and programming complexes. The defence took place in the MLIT Dissertation Council on IT and Computational Physics.

Dmitry O. Ponkin, a Russian Federation citizen, was awarded the academic degree of Doctor of Physics and Mathematics based on the results of defending his thesis on the topic “Beam control and diagnostics systems for the KRION Highly Charged Ion Source” in the specialty 1.3.18: Physics of Charged Particle Beams and Accelerator Equipment. The defence took place in the VBLHEP Dissertation Council on Particle Physics.

Maksim N. Sorokovikov, a Russian Federation citizen, was awarded the academic degree of Doctor of Physics and Mathematics based on the results of defending his thesis on the topic “Production of charmed particles in hadron-nuclear interactions at high energies in the phenomenological model of quark-gluon strings and estimate of the flux of atmospheric muon and neutrino” in the specialty 1.3.15: Physics of Atomic Nuclei and Elementary Particles, High Energy Physics. The defence took place in the DLNP Dissertation Council on Nuclear Physics.