JINR visited Vietnam: personnel for future scientific projects
News, 23 May 2025
On 10–16 May 2025, in Hanoi, representatives of the Laboratory of High Energy Physics, the Laboratory of Neutron Physics, the Laboratory of Nuclear Reactions, the Laboratory of Information Technologies, and the University Centre of the Joint Institute participated in a number of meetings on education and personnel training with universities and scientific centres of Vietnam.
The delegation of the Joint Institute visited a number of universities: the Hanoi University of Science (VNU-HUS), the University of Science and Technology of Hanoi (USTH), the Hanoi University of Science and Technology (HUST), the Hanoi National University of Education (HNUE), and the Nuclear Training Centre at VINATOM. Round tables on JINR’s scientific and educational opportunities, meetings with the administration, teachers, and young scientists of relevant students of specialised faculties were held.
In addition, the soft opening of a JINR Information Centre took place in the format of a seminar at the Institute of Physics of the Vietnam Academy of Science and Technology (VAST). It was attended by Vietnam’s Plenipotentiary Representative at JINR and VAST Vice President, Professor Tran Tuan Anh, employees of the VAST Department of International Cooperation, researchers and Director of the Institute of Physics Dinh Van Trung, along with specialists and representatives of the VAST and VINATOM research and university centres.
JINR representatives made presentations and answered questions at the seminar. The audience showed keen interest in such topics as the opportunities for accessing the MLIT computing infrastructure, the conditions for joining the collaborations of the NICA Project (MPD, SPD, ARIADNA), accelerators and accelerator technologies. The Director of the Institute of Physics discussed promising areas of work of the Information Centre and noted that its official opening ceremony is planned to take place in 2026 as part of the celebration of the 70th JINR anniversary and the 70th anniversary of Vietnam’s membership in the Joint Institute.