On 26 March, the Joint Institute for Nuclear Research celebrated Foundation Day. Please enjoy the Director’s address on the Institute’s 70th anniversary.

On 26 March, representatives of the Member Partner States congratulated JINR on its anniversary, and awards were presented to employees. Please note that you can watch the ceremony’s recording online.

The Joint Institute for Nuclear Research was founded by a decision of 11 states on 26 March 1956. Peaceful studies in nuclear and high-energy physics were set as JINR’s primary task. Learn about the seven decades of the Institute’s progress and discoveries in the article.

From 27 March to 1 June, the Mir Cultural Centre is hosting the exhibition dedicated to the history of the Institute’s creation in 1954-1956. It presents materials from archives, film and photo chronicles, rare audio recordings, and much more.

In honour of the 70th JINR anniversary, plant breeders of the Nikitsky Botanical Garden created two new cultivars of ornamental plants named after the science city at the Volga and the accelerator complex at VBLHEP: Dubna large-flowered chrysanthemum and NICA garden rose.

The JINR Telegram channel has published a quiz marking the Institute’s anniversary. It includes questions about the first JINR facilities, outstanding scientists, laboratories, and key development stages. Follow the link to participate.

For the Institute’s 70th anniversary, JINR employees and their families from 20 different countries performed the Moscow Nights song together. It was chosen since JINR is located in Dubna, Moscow Region, where ideas are born that bring nations together.

The exhibition is running until 10 April. Visitors can find over 200 publications on the history and prospects of JINR’s development, books about the founders and employees of the Institute, and diaries of scientists about their work at JINR.

From 24 to 25 March, a meeting of the JINR Finance Committee and a session of the Committee of Plenipotentiaries took place. More details are available in the article on the Institute’s website.

On 18 March, a meeting of the JINR Science and Technology Council took place at the JINR International Conference Centre. The STC members discussed the Institute’s new initiatives and improvement of the Dubna science city.

The 41st Fortov International Conference on Equations of State for Matter took place in Terskol Village. The topics covered a wide range of phenomena occurring at high-energy densities, along with the physical properties of matter under extreme conditions. The programme included 65 talks and 62 poster presentations.

The publication provides information on the latest scientific results obtained at the JINR laboratories, updates on large-scale experiments, construction of new facilities, discoveries, inventions, etc. JINR’s social life is presented extensively.

The event will take place from 29 June to 3 July in Dubna. The programme covers direct measurements and theory, ground measurements, muons and neutrinos, solar cosmic rays, modulations of galactic cosmic rays, and geophysical effects of cosmic rays. Registration is available via the link until 1 May.

This episode is the finale of the People at JINR series about the NICA Collider. The guests are VBLHEP employees Victor Baryshnikov and Rivu Adhikary. Step by step, they bring MPD’s electromagnetic calorimeter to life: develop parts, test modules, and assemble future sectors of the facility.

Deputy Director of the School of Philosophy and Cultural Studies of the Faculty of Humanities at the Higher School of Economics, Alexander Suvalko, analysed JINR’s advantages as a workplace and the challenges facing science cities, with an emphasis on creating comfortable urban environments.

On 4 April, Theatre Project 27 from Saint Petersburg will present a play about science, coming of age, and search for answers to fateful questions. The main characters are four teenagers who find themselves in a physics classroom beyond time. Admission is free.

The JINR Telegram channel launched a new post series dedicated to important dates in the history of the Institute. March marks many significant events that took place at JINR, and you can learn more about each event by opening the photos.

The Telegram channel of the Laboratory of Information Technologies at JINR has been posting archival pictures taken throughout the years in March. The photos feature the laboratory’s employees and facilities.

We invite you to watch a recording of the seminar “Gravity and dark matter” by Ivanhoe Pestov.

New issues of the Weekly JINR Newspaper, #12 and #13, have been published. Please note that you can read an English version on the JINR Newspaper’s website.

On the day of the Institute’s foundation, the JINR Spartakiad winners were awarded in several key disciplines: football, volleyball, kettlebell lifting, rifle shooting, and cross-country skiing. We congratulate the athletes and wish them new achievements!

JINR table tennis, chess, and basketball tournaments

The competitions took place on 22 and 23 March at the JINR Nauka Stadium as part of the 27th Sports Games dedicated to the 70th anniversary of the founding of JINR. Congratulations to the athletes!

Workshops

• 31 March. Second physics workshop of first stage of SPD. JINR, Dubna

Seminars

• 30 March. 12:00 PM. LRB. “MicroRNA studies in Vietnamese breast cancer and the need for efficient miRNA detection and delivery systems” by Nguyen Thi Hue
• 31 March. 11:00 AM. MLIT. “Development of methods, software tools, and infrastructure solutions for the implementation of Federated data storage systems” by Andrey Kiryanov
• 31 March. 11:00 AM. Meeting of DLNP Dissertation Council. “Development and experimental study of the characteristics of a high spatial resolution SPECT system based on a Timepix coding aperture detector” by Vladislav Rozhkov
• 1 April. 10:30 AM. VBLHEP. Aleksandr Malakhov anniversary seminar
• 1 April. 11:00 AM. DLNP. “Generator of directed monochromatic positron beams for positron spectroscopy” by Alexey Sidorin
• 1 April. 3:00 PM. DLNP. “Radiative corrections to the production of direct photons at low energies” by Aleksei Kampf

Culture

• 9 March – 11 April. JINR Universal Public Library. Kaleidoscope of My Fantasies exhibition
• 28 March. 6:00 PM. JINR Universal Public Library. Guttenberg’s Smoking Room meeting
• 29 March. 5:00 PM. JINR Mir Cultural Centre. Object M performance
• 31 March. 6:00 PM. JINR Scientists’ Club. JINR Film Union