2025

On 10 May 2025, Nikolai Demyanovich Dikusar, Leading Researcher of the Scientific Department of Computational Physics of the Meshcheryakov Laboratory of Information Technologies, Doctor of Physical and Mathematical Sciences, celebrated his 85th birthday.

N.D. Dikusar has been working at JINR since 1966. His scientific activity started with the development, creation and implementation of mathematical support systems for semi-automatic and scanning measuring devices. Using the software package he created, more than half a million photos from the JINR magnetic spark spectrometer were processed in automatic mode. Based on the data, a new resonance was discovered, and the double charge exchange of negative pions on nuclei at 40 GeV/c was investigated.

N.D. Dikusar proposed a new fundamental approach to the creation of effective methods for processing experimental data, which are robust to errors and have reduced computational complexity. He developed and applied in practice a new construction of a polynomial in the form of an expansion in basis elements, on top of which a new direction in the field of approximation and smoothing of complex dependencies was created. The efficiency of the method...

On 17 April 2025, another stage of the modernization of the JINR Multifunctional Information and Computing Complex (MICC) was completed at the Meshcheryakov Laboratory of Information Technologies. At this stage, the engineering equipment providing power supply and cooling, including climate control systems and power distribution modules, was updated. Module 2 was modernized, and the initial modernization of Module 1 was performed. These modules house the server equipment and the Tier2 computing cluster, which is the most productive in the Russian grid segment (Russian Data Intensive Grid, RDIG). The work was carried out by the MLIT team under the supervision of the Laboratory’s Chief Engineer Andrey Dolbilov and MICC Chief Engineer Alexey Vorontsov.

A module represents an air flow isolation system that connects two rows of free-standing equipment racks via a ceiling panel and a system of sliding doors, thereby providing cooling. Thus, an isolated cold corridor is formed inside the module; the heated air is discharged into the common space of the MICC hall.

In total, in the MLIT machine hall of the 2nd...

On 22 April 2025, the Days of the Joint Institute for Nuclear Research in Uzbekistan started in Tashkent. MLIT Director Sergei Shmatov and his Deputy Nikolay Voytishin participated in the solemn opening of the event at the Presidium of the Academy of Sciences of the Republic of Uzbekistan (AS RUz). JINR Days in Uzbekistan are dedicated to the 70th anniversary of JINR. The event is organized to strengthen partnership between JINR and the Republic of Uzbekistan and is intended to bring the cooperation to a qualitatively new level.

On the first day of the event, MLIT leaders held meetings and discussions with representatives of Romanovsky Institute of Mathematics and IT Park...

On 15–17 April, 2025, the XV Collaboration Meeting of the MPD experiment was held in a mixed format at the Veksler and Baldin Laboratory of High Energy Physics. Within the experiment’s collaboration, the Meshcheryakov Laboratory of Information Technologies is working on developing algorithms and the MpdRoot software shell for offline event reconstruction in the MPD (Multi-Purpose Detector) setup of the NICA megascience project. MLIT Lead Researcher Slavomir Hnatic, who is responsible for this direction from the Laboratory, presented the status of work on the implementation of the modern ACTS (A Common Tracking Software) framework for MPD.

Slavomir Hnatic’s talk focused on the integration and implementation of ACTS for particle track reconstruction in the TPC detector of the MPD experiment. The results of reconstructing modeled heavy nucleus collisions on the JINR “Govorun” supercomputer were considered. They indicate that the technologies of...

On 14 April, representatives of the Meshcheryakov Laboratory of Information Technologies spoke at the XXVI Khariton Scientific Talks “Artificial Intelligence and Big Data in Technical, Industrial, Natural and Social Systems”. The conference is held on 14–18 April 2025 at the Russian Federal Nuclear Center (RFNC-VNIITF) in Sarov.

MLIT Scientific Leader Vladimir Korenkov delivered a talk at the plenary section of the XXVI Khariton Talks “Artificial Intelligence and Big Data in Scientific Research”, which was chaired by Scientific Director of the National Center for Physics and Mathematics, RAS Academician Alexander Sergeev. His plenary report was devoted to methods and technologies for intelligent data processing and analysis in megascience projects. Vladimir Korenkov spoke about the structure and capabilities of the JINR Multifunctional Information and Computing Complex based on MLIT, paying special attention to the organization of distributed computing, data processing and storage...

On 10 April 2025, the JINR Spring School of Information Technologies concluded at the Meshcheryakov Laboratory of Information Technologies. Throughout two days, students from universities of the Russian Federation and the Republic of Belarus presented the results of their work performed on the topics of JINR research under the supervision of MLIT specialists.

Traditionally, the Spring IT School holds a kind of summing up of the results of the preceding autumn stage. The School’s founder, MLIT Scientific Leader Vladimir Korenkov, reported that 58 students from 11 Russian universities and over 30 lecturers from the JINR Laboratories and other scientific and educational organizations participated in the Autumn IT School, which took place in October 2024. Based on its results, scientific groups, including students, their supervisors from universities and the...

On 8 April, representatives of the Revival party of the National Assembly (Parliament) of the Republic of Bulgaria, Yordan Hristov Todorov and Angel Vasilev Yanchev, visited the Meshcheryakov Laboratory of Information Technologies. The two-day visit to the Joint Institute for Nuclear Research was organized with the aim of getting acquainted with the JINR scientific infrastructure, as well as discussing the status and prospects for the development of cooperation between Bulgaria and JINR.

MLIT Director Sergei Shmatov and MLIT Scientific Leader Vladimir Korenkov welcomed the guests at MLIT. Accompanied by the Laboratory’s Directorate, the guests visited the JINR Multifunctional Information and Computing Complex and the...

Researchers at the Meshcheryakov Laboratory of Information Technologies are developing the MOSTLIT Web Service, a tool for automating the detection of ionising radiation-induced foci (IRIF) in cell nuclei and subsequent analysis of their parameters. The service is designed to optimise the processing of experimental data obtained during radiobiological studies, providing researchers with convenient and effective analysis tools.

«MOSTLIT» is partly an acronym consisting of the initial letters of the names of employees of the MLIT JINR Sector of Heterogeneous Computing and Quantum Information Science who are directly involved in the development of the service, the creation of algorithms, and functional testing: Maxim Zuev, Oksana Streltsova, Sara Shadmehri, and Tatevik Bezhanyan. The team is working in collaboration with colleagues from the Laboratory of Radiation Biology at JINRunder the guidance of Alla Boreyko, Dubna State University and ...

On 5 April, the winners of the prestigious scientific award, Breakthrough Prize 2025 in Fundamental Physics, were awarded at a ceremony in Los Angeles (USA). Four scientific collaborations of the experiments at the Large Hadron Collider at CERN, namely, ATLAS, CMS, ALICE, and LHCb, were honored for their achievements in fundamental physics. These collaborations, which comprise, among others, scientists from the Meshcheryakov Laboratory of Information Technologies, unite thousands of researchers from more than 70 countries. The Breakthrough Prize 2025 was awarded for the results of work performed on the basis of LHC RUN2 data up to July 2024.

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On April 9-10, 2025, the JINR Spring IT School on Information Technologies will be held in a mixed format in the MLIT conference hall.

The School program is available at the link — https://indico.jinr.ru/event/5240/timetable/#all.detailed
Link to the video broadcast (valid for both days) — https://jinr.mts-link.ru/j/28441625/1088626515

The working language of the School is Russian.

The Spring IT School of Information Technology is the second stage of the JINR IT School, where students demonstrate the results of their work using modern information technologies in solving problems in various fields of science within the framework of JINR projects.

The students completed their work in research groups, that were formed based on the results of...

MLIT Senior Researcher Konstantin Chizhov delivered a talk at the prestigious international conference “Mathematics of Artificial Intelligence 2025” (MathAI 2025), which was held on 24–28 March in Sochi on the Sirius Federal Territory.

The work presented at MathAI 2025 was devoted to the application of the random forest regression algorithm and the Shapley additive explanation to evaluate the effective dose rate in high-energy neutron fields based on Bonner spectrometer measurements. The co-authors of the work were two students of Dubna State University, Artem Beliy and Maria Starikovskaya.

The conference focuses on novel mathematical methods and approaches for artificial intelligence systems. The mission of the conference is to create a...

On 20 March 2025, MLIT Deputy Director Nikolay Voytishin participated in a regional scientific and educational seminar on physics experiments and the basics of project activities within the Physics subject, which was held in Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky. The participants of the seminar, organized by the JINR Information Center on the basis of Bering Kamchatka State University (KamSU) and the JINR University Center, were KamSU students and physics teachers from Kamchatka and the Primorsky region.

At the seminar, Nikolay Voytishin delivered a talk on the application of information technologies in solving scientific and applied tasks and on the importance of IT in the modern world. It was demonstrated how information technologies helped speed up and enhance the effectiveness of research. Such methods...

On 27 March 2025, Suren Davaa, Plenipotentiary Representative of the Government of Mongolia at JINR, Senior Officer of the Secretariat of the Nuclear Energy Commission of the Government of Mongolia, visited the Meshcheryakov Laboratory of Information Technologies. He was accompanied by Byambajav Munkhbat, Director of the Nuclear Physics Research Center of the National University of Mongolia, and Gurjav Ganbold, Head of the Mongolian National Group, JINR BLTP Lead Researcher. The visit was organized within the participation of the Mongolian delegation in a session of the JINR Committee of Plenipotentiaries.

At the MLIT Directorate, the guests were welcomed by MLIT Director.Sergei Shmatov, MLIT Scientific Leader Vladimir Korenkov, and MLIT Deputy Director Chuluunbaatar Ochbadrakh.

The fruitful...

On 26 March, a festive evening dedicated to the 69th anniversary of the Joint Institute for Nuclear Research took place in Dubna. As part of the celebration, JINR staff members who made a special contribution to the Institute’s development were awarded letters of gratitude and certificates of honor.

Head of the JINR MLIT Sector Oksana Streltsova, was awarded an honorary certificate of gratitude from the Head of the Dubna City District for significant achievements in the professional activity and longstanding hard work.

Researcher Daria Priakhina was awarded a letter of gratitude from the Director of the Institute for her services to JINR and fruitful work.

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Subsequent to the Decree of the President of the Russian Federation of 25 March 2025 No. 163 “On Presenting State Awards of the Russian Federation”, Deputy Scientific Leader of the JINR Meshcheryakov Laboratory of Information Technologies Tatiana Aleksandrovna Strizh was awarded the Medal of the Order “For Merit to the Fatherland”, 2nd class for her contribution to science development and longstanding hard work.

The Directorate and staff of MLIT JINR congratulate Tatiana Aleksandrovna on being conferred the high state award!

The Medal of the Order “For Merit to the Fatherland” is a state award of the Russian Federation. It was established on 2 March 1994 by Presidential Decree No.442. New Regulation for the medal was adopted by Presidential Decree No.554 on 1 June 1995.
The Medal of the Order “For Merit to the Fatherland” is awarded to...

On March 25, 2025, MLIT Director Sergey Shmatov and MLIT Scientific Leader Vladimir Korenkov took part in the ceremonial start of the first session at the NICA accelerator complex. The event was held in the presence of plenipotentiary representatives of the Member States, participating in the JINR CP session.

The run is to last for about six months and end with the collision of xenon (Xe) beams at their interaction point in the MPD Hall. The run will involve the KRION-6T Ion Source, linear accelerator, Booster, Nuclotron, BM@N Facility. Then, the cooling of magnets, adjustment of the transport and beam injection channels into the collider, and beam circulation will take place.

"For 19 years we have been working towards this historic moment. We are all waiting for the data from the first physics experiments, when we will see the colliding beams on the screens in the control room. I...

Applications for the 14th annual Alushta conference, organized by the Association of Young Scientists and Specialists of JINR (AYSS JINR), are invited. The event will take place from 8 to 15 June 2025 at the Dubna JINR Resort Hotel in Alushta. This year, the conference is dedicated to the research and infrastructure facilities of the Institute, which have been launched after technical maintenance, and which are planned to be put into operation: IBR-2 Reactor, NICA Collider, LINAC-200, MSC-230, and to the preparation of work at DC-280.

At the event, young JINR scientists and specialists will give oral presentations on their scientific research. In addition, it is...

Dear users,

Due to technical work some services (Tier-2 dCache, Tier-2 WN, Main EOS, cvmfs) of the JINR Multifunctional Information and Computing Complex (https://micc.jinr.ru/) may be unavailable from March 27 to March 31, 2025.

We apologize for the inconvenience.

On 26 March, a meeting of the MLIT Directorate with colleagues from the JINR Member States and partner countries was organized at the Meshcheryakov Laboratory of Information Technologies. Participants of the JINR CP session, President of the Academy of Sciences of the Republic of Uzbekistan Shavkat Ayupov, Researcher of the National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM) and MPD Institutional Board Chair Alejandro Ayala, Spokesperson of the international collaboration of the COMET experiment (Japan) Satoshi Mihara, visited the Laboratory. DLNP Director Evgeny Yakushev, FLNP Deputy Director Sergey Kulikov, and Head of the national group of Uzbekistan at JINR Anvar Inoyatov also took part in the meeting.

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On 24 March 2025, a delegation from the Republic of South Africa visited the Meshcheryakov Laboratory of Information Technologies. Angus Paterson, Deputy CEO of the National Research Foundation, and Rudolph Nchodu, Deputy Director of iThemba Labs, got acquainted with the Laboratory and met with the MLIT Directorate within their four-day visit to JINR.

The meeting at the MLIT Directorate was attended by MLIT Director Sergei Shmatov and his Deputy Nikolay Voytishin, MLIT Scientific Leader Vladimir Korenkov. The parties discussed possible directions of cooperation in the field of distributed computing and supercomputing in application to megascience projects. Sergei Shmatov told the guests about the Laboratory’s participation in the experiments at the Large Hadron Collider at CERN and about the experience of organizing Tier1 and Tier2 data centers. The areas of cooperation in high-energy physics in organizing a...

On 24 March 2025, Sayabek Sakhiev, Plenipotentiary Representative of the Government of the Republic of Kazakhstan at JINR, Director General of the Institute of Nuclear Physics (Almaty) visited the Meshcheryakov Laboratory of Information Technologies. At MLIT JINR, the guest was welcomed by MLIT Director Sergei Shmatov and his Deputy Nikolay Voytishin, MLIT Scientific Leader Vladimir Korenkov.

At the meeting there were discussed prospects for developing cooperation between the Republic of Kazakhstan and JINR, in particular, with MLIT, in light of the creation of the Nuclear Energy Agency under the President of the Republic of Kazakhstan.

Much attention at the meeting was paid to the training of highly qualified scientific personnel. Sayabek Sakhiev spoke about growing personnel needs due to the creation of an IT laboratory in Kazakhstan on the basis of the resources of Astana IT University and the Institute of Nuclear Physics to solve the...

On 18 March, on the birthday of Corresponding Member of the USSR Academy of Sciences N.N. Govorun, a memorial seminar dedicated to the 95th anniversary of the birth of the outstanding scientist was held at the Meshcheryakov Laboratory of Information Technologies. JINR Vice-Directors, the Laboratories’ Directors, MLIT staff members, N.N. Govorun’s colleagues from other scientific centers, and relatives gathered in the MLIT Conference Hall.

“Today is a truly remarkable day. We have gathered in this hall to celebrate a significant date in the life of our Laboratory, the Institute, and all of Russian and Soviet science, the 95th anniversary of the birth of Nikolay Nikolaevich Govorun,” MLIT Director S.V. Shmatov opened the seminar.

“He was a great scientist and a remarkable person who lived a short but bright life,” JINR Vice-Director V.D. Kekelidze began his opening speech. “At LCTA, established by Order No. 149 of JINR Director N.N. Bogolyubov, Nikolay Nikolaevich occupied the leading role of Deputy Director for Science together with the Laboratory’s Director...

On 20 March 2025, Vladimir Korenkov, Scientific Leader of the JINR Meshcheryakov Laboratory of Information Technologies, participated in the XIV International Scientific and Practical Conference named after A.I. Kitov “Information Technologies and Mathematical Methods in Economics and Management” (IT...

On 18 March, representatives of the Republic of Kazakhstan Askar Khikmetov, Rector of Astana IT University, and Nurzhan Saduyev, Deputy Director General for Scientific Work at the Institute of Nuclear Physics (INP) of the Ministry of Energy of the Republic of Kazakhstan, visited the JINR Meshcheryakov Laboratory of Information Technologies. The visit was organized to discuss opportunities for establishing cooperation with MLIT in the field of computing and IT personnel training.

As Askar Khikmetov said at a meeting with MLIT Director Sergei Shmatov, in light of the decision taken to create the Nuclear Energy Agency under the President of the Republic of Kazakhstan, the active development of the country’s energy sector will entail close attention...

On 13 March, Dubna State University hosted a round table entitled “Innovative Practices in Education: Experience of the University Community”, where representatives of JINR and a number of leading Russian universities discussed the accumulated experience, approaches and development of educational processes in training highly qualified specialists in various fields. Vladimir Korenkov, Scientific Leader of the JINR Meshcheryakov Laboratory of Information Technologies, took part in the event.

Acting Vice-Rector for Educational and Methodological Work Olga Anisimova welcomed the participants on behalf of Acting Rector of Dubna University Andrey Denikin. She spoke about the University’s current status, its structure, educational programs and development prospects, in particular, about the Dubna University campus project, i.e., the International Science and Technology Park, planned for implementation in the area of the left-bank site of the Dubna Special Economic Zone.

In his report, Vladimir Korenkov presented the experience of organizing high-level IT...

18 March marks the 95th anniversary of the birth of the outstanding scientist Nikolai Nikolaevich Govorun (1930–1989). In commemoration of this memorable date, on 18 March, the international intergovernmental organization Joint Institute for Nuclear Research is holding a memorial seminar at the Meshcheryakov Laboratory of Information Technologies.

Within the ceremonial event, a presentation of an album book about Nikolai Govorun entitled “Nikolai Nikolaevich Govorun. Portrait in the background of an epoch” will take place. The book, published by the RMP publishing house, is based on the recollections of family members, friends, and colleagues of N.N. Govorun and is dedicated to the famous scientist’s life and stages of the path in science. The publication embraces a multitude of previously unpublished photographs and documents from the JINR and MLIT archives, as well as from personal archives. The project manager is Mikhail Lukichev.

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Dear female employees of LIT!

Congratulations from the bottom of our hearts on International Women's Day — March 8th!

You are the shining light of our Laboratory. Your professionalism, talent and ability to find non-standard solutions to complex problems are admired. But that's not the only thing that makes you indispensable — your energy, friendliness, and ability to shine even on the darkest days make our work joyful and inspiring.

We wish you good health, success in your profession, new achievements and discoveries. May every day bring you joy and satisfaction. May your life be filled with happiness and love. May spring bring you vivid impressions, good mood and new opportunities!

Happy holidays, our dear women!

Directorate of the Meshcheryakov Laboratory of Information Technologies

Anna Ilina and Igor Pelevanyuk, researchers at the Meshcheryakov Laboratory of Information Technologies, made a decisive contribution to the development of a new JINR information resource “Map of Detector Technologies”.

In essence, this is a knowledge base designed to inventory and systematize information about detector systems being created at JINR, as well as to provide an opportunity for the contextual search for up-to-date information about detector technologies, competencies and equipment used at the Institute.

Work on the application started more than a year ago. The members of the JINR Association of Young Scientists and Specialists and the employees of the Meshcheryakov Laboratory of Information Technologies were involved in the work, and then the representatives of relevant scientific groups joined in.

“Weekly, we discussed the prototype of use, overview, architecture and principles of updating the system,” MLIT junior researcher Anna Ilina says. “It turned out that there was no database in this area at the Institute. It was necessary to find specialists in the Laboratories who would have the information needed. At present...

On 26 February, Alexander Uzhinskiy, Senior Researcher of the Distributed Systems Sector of the Meshcheryakov Laboratory of Information Technologies, delivered a talk at the University of Havana (Republic of Cuba) within a scientific seminar on the key research areas of the Joint Institute for Nuclear Research. Alexander Uzhinskiy’s report covered the current status and prospects of the MLIT scientific program.

The seminar was one of the main parts of the official visit of JINR representatives to the University of Havana, organized on the penultimate day of the second NUMAR-2025 International School on the application of nuclear methods and applied research in the field of ecology, materials science and life sciences. During the meeting with the management and research staff of the university, the prospects for developing joint research projects, as well as issues of training young specialists, were discussed. The result of the visit was the renewal of the General Cooperation Agreement with the university, which is aimed at expanding Cuba’s participation in JINR projects. More details...

On 17 – 24 February 2025, the Presidium of the Russian Academy of Sciences in Moscow hosted the "Physics of Fundamental Interactions" session-conference dedicated to the 70th anniversary of the birth of the outstanding Russian theoretical physicist, Academician Valery Rubakov. The event was organized by the Russian Academy of Sciences, the National Research Nuclear University MEPhI, and the RAS Institute for Nuclear Research.

The program of the Physics of Fundamental Interactions conference was designed for five days and embraced eight sections devoted to the main theoretical and experimental issues of fundamental interactions physics, from particle astrophysics and cosmic rays, gravity and cosmology to neutrino physics and fundamental nuclear physics. In total, over 50 reports out of 330 presented at the conference were delivered by JINR representatives.

One of the moderators of the Physics beyond the Standard Model section was Director of the JINR Meshcheryakov Laboratory of Information Technologies Sergei Shmatov.

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Registration for the 11^th International Conference “Distributed Computing and Grid Technologies in Science and Education” (GRID’2025) is open from 24 February 2025. The Joint Institute for Nuclear Research will hold GRID’2025 on 7 – 11 July 2025 in Dubna, at the Meshcheryakov Laboratory of Information Technologies.

The GRID’2025 conference aims to bring together international experts at JINR for discussing the current status and future role of grid technologies, distributed and high performance computing, Big Data, etc. The event will embrace round tables and workshops. GRID’2025 will provide specialists with a platform for talking over recent results, establishing new contacts and closer cooperation. It is a unique thematic scientific event in Russia.

Conference topics

1. Distributed computing systems, grid and cloud technologies, data storage systems: architecture, operation, middleware and services
2. High performance computing
3. Application...

On 21 February 2025, students from Patrice Lumumba Peoples’ Friendship University of Russia (RUDN University) completed an internship at the Meshcheryakov Laboratory of Information Technologies. Throughout two weeks, 3-5-year students in the Fundamental Informatics and Applied Informatics majors took training courses on parallel programming on the HybriLIT platform and completed projects under the supervision of MLIT leading specialists, namely, Gennady Ososkov, Konstantin Lukyanov, Evgeny Perepelkin, and Yauheni Talochka.

In addition to studying and completing projects during the internship, the students got acquainted with MLIT’s scientific directions, about which MLIT Scientific Secretary Olga Derenovskaia told them, and visited the MLIT Multifunctional Information and Computing Complex and the NICA accelerator complex at the JINR Veksler and Baldin Laboratory of High Energy Physics. The internship completed at the Joint...

On 20 February 2025, a meeting with leading specialists from the National Research University "Higher School of Economics" (HSE University) was held at the Meshcheryakov Laboratory of Information Technologies. The visit was organized to discuss opportunities for developing cooperation. In addition to the meeting at MLIT, the guests, accompanied by VBLHEP Scientific Secretary Alexander Cheplakov, visited the NICA accelerator complex, where they got acquainted with the progress of the megascience project implementation.

Lev Shchur, Head of the HSE Laboratory of Computational Physics, Denis Dergach, Head of the HSE Research and Educational Laboratory of Big Data Analysis Methods, and Fedor Ratnikov, Leading Researcher of the same Laboratory, visited MLIT. MLIT was represented by Scientific Leader Vladimir Korenkov and his Deputy Tatyana Strizh, Petr Zrelov, Head of the Scientific and Technical Department of Software and Information Support, Oksana Streltsova,...

On 18 February 2025, a seminar “Research Activities of JINR” organized for the Faculty of Computational Mathematics and Cybernetics (CMC) of Lomonosov Moscow State University (MSU) took place at the Meshcheryakov Laboratory of Information Technologies. Third-year students and first-year postgraduates of the Department of Automated Systems for Computing Complexes (ASCC) of CMC MSU, who were accompanied by Head of the Department Ruslan Smelyansky, came to Dubna to participate in the event.

MLIT Scientific Leader MLIT Scientific Leader Vladimir Korenkov welcomed the seminar participants and presented an overview of the Laboratory’s scientific activities. MLIT Researcher Maxim Zuev told the students about tasks solved on the “Govorun” supercomputer. A questions-and-answers session concluded the lecture part of the seminar, which RUDN students who were currently undergoing an internship at MLIT also joined. Later, the MSU CMC students went on an excursion to the JINR...

The decision on awarding annual JINR prizes for the best papers in the fields of theoretical research, experimental research, methodological and technical research, and applied research in 2024 was announced at the 137th session of the JINR Scientific Council. The staff members of the Meshcheryakov Laboratory of Information Technologies were awarded four prizes in two sections.

The first prize for applied research and technology papers was awarded to a series of works titled “Deep learning methods for various problems in agriculture”. Authors: A. Uzhinskiy, G. Ososkov, A. Nechaevskiy.

The second prize for methodology, research and technology papers was awarded to a team of authors, which included MLIT employees:
E. Alexandrov, I. Alexandrov, N. Balashov, A. Chebotov, I. Filozova, K. Gertsenberger, P. Klimai, A. Moshkin, I. Pelevanyuk, G. Shestakova, for a series of works titled “Development of a software complex for the implementation...

On 19 February 2025, at 4:00 PM, the Association of Young Scientists and Specialists (AYSS) at JINR invites everyone interested to the next seminar that will take place in the Big Hall of the JINR Scientists’ Club (6 Joliot-Curie St, left side).

A first category MLIT software engineer Tatiana Zaikina will deliver a presentation titled “How to navigate in the vast world of scientific publications”.

How and where to look for information? Why use identifiers and indicators? The speaker will discuss the basic ideas of scientometrics and open access concepts. The main functions and features of the JINR Repository of Scientific Publications will be presented.

To join the event on 19 February, please fill in the form via the link.

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On 12 February, Director of the Vinča Institute of Nuclear Sciences (Serbia) Slavko Dimović and Head of the Planning and Optimization Department Milan Ljušić visited the Meshcheryakov Laboratory of Information Technologies. The delegation arrived in Dubna to get acquainted with the Joint Institute for Nuclear Research from 10 to 14 February.

At MLIT, the representatives of the Vinča Institute of Nuclear Sciences visited the Multifunctional Information and Computing Complex, where they became familiar with its architecture and the policy of providing data and resources. Slavko Dimović and Milan Ljušić also met with the Laboratory’s Directorate to discuss opportunities for establishing cooperation.

MLIT Director Sergei Shmatov and his Deputy Dmitry Podgainy...

On 11 February, a meeting for discussing the JINR Directorate’s initiative to select applications for the implementation of applied research and developments in the direction of applied and innovative activities (R...

1. We are pleased to inform you about the launch of the Telegram channel of the M. G. Meshcheryakov Laboratory of Information Technologies! On the channel you will find news about the scientific and educational activities of MLIT, as well as announcements of seminars and events of the Laboratory, learn about interesting projects within JINR and beyond.

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2. Mathematical Modeling of Radiation-Induced Effects in Central Nervous System Structures Following Exposure to Heavy Accelerated Charged Particles

Colleagues from the Laboratory of Radiation Biology (LRB) of JINR conducted a research that used the capacities of the heterogeneous computing platform HybriLIT (MICC JINR). Mathematical modeling of radiation-induced effects in the structures of the central nervous system under the action of heavy accelerated charged particles was carried out. The...

On February 12, 2025, Valeriy Borisovskiy, head of the Automated control Systems group at the Meshcheryakov Laboratory of Information Technology, died after a serious long illness.

Borisovsky V.F. was born on September 29, 1942 in the city of Kushka, Turkmen SSR. He graduated from the Moscow Institute of Engineering and Physics in 1967 with a degree in Electronics and Automation of Physical Installations and was assigned to JINR's LCTA (LIT).

In 1971, he was sent on a business trip to the GDR, where he worked as a senior engineer, head of department, deputy head of the information and computing center. After returning from a business trip in 1978, V.F. Borisovsky was appointed head of the Automated control System implementation and operation group, and since 1982 - head of the Scientific and Technical Department of the Automated Control System.

Under the leadership of V.F. Borisovsky, the following were developed: an industry-standard EC computer-based design solution for accounting for material assets, a number of large automated control systems in the field of personnel, accounting and production accounting, international scientific and technical cooperation and...

In January, the 25th meeting of the international collaboration of the JUNO (Jiangmen Underground Neutrino Observatory) experiment took place in Kaiping (Guangdong Province, China). JINR has been actively involved in this project since its foundation. Nikita Balashov, a first-category software engineer of the Meshcheryakov Laboratory of Information Technologies, participated in the meeting.

The main goal of the JUNO experiment is to determine the neutrino mass hierarchy. Thanks to the huge volume of the scintillation detector and the high accuracy of energy measurements, the project opens up wide opportunities for fundamental research: from the precision determination of mixing parameters in the lepton sector of the Standard Model and the detection of geoneutrinos and solar neutrinos to the observation of neutrinos from supernovae and the search for new physics, including proton decay.

JINR specialists are involved in various...

On 5 February, MLIT Scientific Leader, Doctor of Technical Sciences Vladimir Korenkov delivered a talk and moderated the session “Information Technologies in Mining” within the International Scientific Symposium “Miner’s Week-2025”. The event is held on 3-7 February at the National University of Science and Technology (NUST) MISIS in Moscow.

Jointly with Vladimir Korenkov, the session “Information Technologies in Mining” was moderated by Doctor of Technical Sciences Igor Temkin, Head of the Department of Automated Control Systems at NUST MISIS.

The session was devoted to artificial intelligence methods in the mining industry, using computer vision and neural networks as examples. There were considered the issues of modeling processes and enhancing the operation efficiency of electrical equipment on the basis of digital technologies, as well as the experience of developing, integrating and using specialized software and mining-geological information systems.

In his talk, Vladimir Korenkov...

On February 6, 2025, the international scientific and practical conference "The mission of a modern university in the challenges of transformation in a multipolar world" started at the Patrice Lumumba Peoples' Friendship University of Russia (RUDN) in Moscow. The conference is dedicated to the 65th anniversary of the founding of the Patrice Lumumba Peoples' Friendship University of Russia and will be held over two days - February 6-7.

On the first day of the conference, February 6, the Director of the Joint Institute for Nuclear Research, Academician of the Russian Academy of Sciences Grigory Trubnikov will deliver a report on the topic "The NICA Collider: a project of the JINR an international scientific center". The JINR Director’s talk will be part of the second thematic block of the plenary session “Modern models of education: revolution or evolution?”.

On 7 February, 16 scientific round tables will be held in the educational departments of the RUDN University, in which representatives of the Joint Institute...

From 13 to 17 January 2025, the 25th meeting of the international collaboration of the JUNO (Jiangmen Underground Neutrino Observatory) Experiment took place in Kaiping (Guangdong Province, China).

Ten JINR employees took part in the meeting: Dmitry Naumov, Yuri Gornushkin, Tatiana Antoshkina, Nikolay Anfimov, Nikita Bessonov, Maxim Gonchar, Dmitrii Dolzhikov, Denis Korablev, Artem Chukanov from DLNP and a MLIT employee Nikita Balashov.

The key topic of discussion was the preparation for the experiment’s start. A preliminary plan for processing the data collected during this period was presented as well.

JINR specialists are involved in various tasks in the JUNO Project, from detector assembly to data analysis. Their responsibilities include installing JUNO’s central detector, assembling the Top Tracker muon veto system, developing software for collecting data from it, and participating in the creation and subsequent commissioning of the TAO Satellite Detector. In addition, JINR employees develop muon track reconstruction algorithms and calibration methods for...

On January 27, 2025, the 60th meeting of the JINR Programme Advisory Committee for Condensed Matter Physics (PAC CMP) was held at the JINR International Conference Hall, where poster presentations by young scientists took place.

One of the poster presentation winners was Dina Badreeva, a junior research at the МLIT. Her report "The influence of phospholipid composition on the interaction of the membrane with beta-amyloid peptide in the framework of molecular dynamics modeling" took second place in the presentation competition.

Congratulations to Dina Badreeva and wish her new successes!

On 30 January, Director of the Ivannikov Institute for System Programming (ISP) of the Russian Academy of Sciences (RAS), Academician Arutyun Avetisyan visited the Meshcheryakov Laboratory of Information Technologies during his visit to the Joint Institute for Nuclear Research.

Arutyun Avetisyan met with the MLIT Directorate represented by Director Sergei Shmatov, Scientific Leader Vladimir Korenkov and his Deputy Tatyana Strizh. JINR Director’s Special Representative for Educational Policy Samvel Harutyunyan took part in the meeting. The participants discussed the existing scientific cooperation in the field of information technologies and the possibilities for its development. In particular, the issues of creating a joint cloud infrastructure, as well as an open repository of trusted software and datasets, were considered.

On the same day, the JINR Bogoliubov Laboratory of Theoretical Physics hosted a joint institute seminar by Arutyun Avetisyan. The topic was challenges that face modern society in the field of cybersecurity as a result of the widespread introduction of...

The START (STudent Advanced Research Training) Programme invites students and postgraduates to join research conducted at JINR supervised by leading scientists and engineers. Applications for the 2025 Summer Session are accepted at start.jinr.ru until March 2025.

One of the features of the Programme is competitive selection of participants carried out by project supervisors based on the application forms submitted. The Programme is aimed at students having finished the 3rd year of the Bachelor’s course, Master’s students, and PhD students of the 1st year of study. Selected participants will be able to come to JINR for 6-8 weeks from July until November 2025.

JINR researchers are invited to participate in START as student supervisors. To do this, please register at start.jinr.ru and post a description of your project in the corresponding section of your profile.

If you have any questions, please contact the START Team by +7 (496) 216-49-42 or write to email.

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We kindly invite you to attend the first JINR general seminar in 2025. The Seminar will be held on 30 January (Thursday) at 4 pm in the Conference Hall of the JINR Bogoliubov Laboratory of Theoretical Physics (BLTP)

Speaker: Arutyun Avetisyan (Director of ISP RAS, Academician of RAS)

Title:System programming and technologies for creating trusted systems (including artificial intelligence)

Abstract:

The widespread adoption of information technologies (including artificial intelligence) is accompanied by a growing number of challenges in the field of cybersecurity. To respond to them, it is necessary to develop appropriate methods and technologies of system programming. The report examines emerging threats and emphasizes the need to create end-to-end technologies that ensure the entire life cycle of development and operation of systems with a given level of trust. Attention is also paid to organizational models...

MLIT Scientific Leader Vladimir Korenkov delivered a speech at the opening of the XXXII International Conference “Mathematics. Computer. Education” (MCE-2025). The conference is being held in a hybrid format on 27-31 January at the Pushchino Scientific Center for Biological Research of the Russian Academy of Sciences (RAS). The Joint Institute for Nuclear Research is one of the organizers of the event.

The key feature of the conference “Mathematics. Computer. Education” is its interdisciplinary nature. This event, which has already become traditional, focuses on consolidating the efforts of scientists and higher education workers, preserving the traditions of Russian science and education, enhancing the qualifications of the scientific and teaching staff in mathematical modeling and information technology, and attracting young people to the field of science and education.

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Speaking at the MCE-2025 opening, Vladimir Korenkov, a representative of the conference organizing committee, who once stood at the origins of...

On 20 January, the JINR-based Dubna branch of Lomonosov Moscow State University (MSU) announced the opening of enrolment for a new master’s course entitled “Data Processing Methods and Technologies in Heterogeneous Computing Environments”. Document submission will open in June 2025. Pre-registration for the enrolment is available on the branch’s website. There are 10 state-funded and 10 fee-based quotas.

The head of the program is MLIT Scientific Leader Vladimir Korenkov. The teachers will be not only leading scientists and specialists from the Joint Institute for Nuclear Research, but also teachers from MSU and other specialized universities and scientific and educational organizations.

The course “Data Processing Methods and Technologies in Heterogeneous Computing Environments” focuses on training specialists who have mastered the methodology of organizing computing for large-scale scientific projects. The new program will pay special attention to megascience projects...

On 20 December, Sergey Belov successfully defended his thesis for the degree of Candidate of Technical Sciences at the Meshcheryakov Laboratory of Information Technologies. The topic of the thesis was Big Data methods and technologies for solving high-energy physics tasks in a distributed computing environment. MLIT Scientific Leader, Doctor of Technical Sciences Vladimir Korenkov was the scientific supervisor of the work. Doctor of Physical and Mathematical Sciences Lev Dudko, Head of the Laboratory of Electroweak and New Interactions of the Department of Experimental High Energy Physics of SINP MSU, became the scientific consultant of the thesis. Alexander Afanasyev, Head of the Distributed Computing Center of IITP RAS, Doctor of Physical and Mathematical Sciences, and Andrey Tsaregorodtsev, a highly qualified research engineer of the Marseille Center for Particle Physics of the Institute of Nuclear Physics and Particle Physics of the National Center...

On 5 December 2024, Daria Priakhina, a researcher at the Meshcheryakov Laboratory of Information Technologies, successfully defended her thesis for the degree of Candidate of Technical Sciences at Saint Petersburg State University (SPbSU). The topic of the thesis was digital twins for solving management and development tasks of distributed data acquisition, storage and processing centers. The work was completed in specialty 2.3.1. System Analysis, Information Management and Processing, Statistics. MLIT Scientific Leader Vladimir Korenkov was the scientific supervisor of the thesis. SPbSU Professor, Doctor of Physical and Mathematical Sciences Alexander Bogdanov headed the Dissertation Council. National Research Nuclear University MEPhI was appointed the leading organization.

At present, as a result of experiments not only in the field of physics, but also in many other fields of science, a huge amount of data is generated. To...

The JINR University Centre informs that the Wave 12 of the INTEREST online student programme will take place from March 3 to April 20, 2025.

Projects are being collected until January 31, 2025 on the programme website

You will find detailed information on how to register as a scientific supervisor and post your project within the 11th wave in the addition.

If you have any questions, write or call the INTEREST team members:
Anna Zubova (+79260544509)
Elena Karpova (+79260544509)
Phone number: (496) 216-49-42
interest@jinr.ru

INTEREST – International Remote Student Training – is an online programme organized by the UC JINR for students studying science, engineering, IT (starting from the 2nd grade), as well as for postgraduates from all over the world.

On 27 December, a solemn meeting of MLIT staff members was held at the Meshcheryakov Laboratory of Information Technologies with the participation of the JINR Directorate. At the meeting, MLIT Director Sergei Shmatov and MLIT Scientific Leader Vladimir Korenkov presented the main results of the Laboratory’s activities for 2024 and plans for the coming year. The winners of youth grants and prizes were announced.

JINR Director Grigory Trubnikov welcomed the audience: “I believe that the currency of this decade is data and information. In this sense, it is symbolic that today we have met in our Laboratory of Information Technologies. You are our major information platform. You promote and support science thanks to the telecommunication channels created, as well as absolutely fantastic opportunities for data analysis, storage and transfer. Through data, through Digital JINR, you bring us closer together. I congratulate you all on the upcoming New Year. I am grateful to you for the past year, for the results, for your work, for your talents. I wish the Laboratory to grow steadily, gain specialists from the Member States and be at the...