The first year master's students started their classes at the MSU branch office On September 9, a ceremonial event dedicated to the beginning of the new academic year was held in the academic building of the Dubna Branch of Moscow State University (MSU). Students and guests of the event learned about the history of the Dubna branch of MSU and got acquainted with the scientific infrastructure of the Joint Institute for Nuclear Research. In 2024, for the first time in its recent history, the Branch accepted master's students for the first year. The solemn event was opened by Alexander Olshevsky, Deputy Director of the MSU Dubna Branch. Congratulating students and faculty on the start of the academic year, he emphasized the importance of scientific and educational cooperation between MSU and the Joint Institute for Nuclear Research. “Initially MSU and JINR determined that, in addition to physics, other specialties should appear in the Branch, corresponding to a wide range of research areas of the Joint Institute. The MSU Branch in Dubna is called to reflect this multidisciplinarity by designing and developing new educational programs and increasing the number of new specialties” - said Alexander Olshevsky. The educational base of Moscow State University in Dubna was founded in 1960 by Academician Sergey Nikolaevich Vernov. It was a division of the MSU Research Institute of Nuclear Physics (SINP MSU) and two departments of the Physics Faculty headed by Dmitry Blokhintsev and Vladimir Veksler, the founding fathers of the Joint Institute for Nuclear Research. "Today, one of the main goals of the MSU Branch is to train highly qualified personnel in fundamental disciplines to work on projects of the Joint Institute for Nuclear Research. We are seeing how this world-famous scientific center continues to increase its influence. In order to achieve all the set goals, the Branch plans to expand in the near future by introducing new promising areas of training into the educational program,” - Eduard Boos outlined plans for the development of the MSU Branch in Dubna. The need to train highly qualified personnel in the field of mathematical modeling and data processing of megascience projects using Big Data analytics and artificial intelligence methods has led to the emergence of a new training area — "Applied Mathematics and Informatics". As reported by the Branch’s management, the MSU Academic Council has already approved the curricula for the new Master’s program "Methods and Technologies of Data Processing in Heterogeneous Computing Environments". In the coming years, it is also planned to implement such training areas as radiochemistry, applied mathematics, mathematical physics, and others. Grigory Trubnikov, JINR Director, Head of the Program “Fundamental and Applied Nuclear Physics” at the MSU Dubna Branch, Academician of the Russian Academy of Sciences, made a presentation devoted to the modern projects and research of JINR, as well as to the history of scientific and educational cooperation between Moscow University and the Joint Institute. He presented the main areas of the Institute's scientific program and spoke about the achievements of each of the seven laboratories. According to Grigory Trubnikov, a unique feature of studying at the Branch will be the students' introduction to work in a special professional environment of an international organization based on the world-class scientific infrastructure created at JINR. This includes the NICA accelerator complex, the Factory of superheavy elements (SHE Factory), based on the universal high-intensity cyclotron DC-280, the Baikal-GVD deep-water neutrino telescope, the IBR-2 research pulse reactor, Multifunctional Information and Computing Complex (MICC), etc. After the speeches, Grigory Trubnikov, Eduard Boos and Alexander Olshevsky held a ceremonial presentation of student cards to first-year students of the Branch. To get acquainted with the scientific infrastructure of the Joint Institute, an excursion to the JINR Laboratory of High Energy Physics was organized for all students and teachers, where they visited the area of the NICA accelerator complex. More...
