President of the Russian Academy of Sciences visited JINR On November 22, the President of the Russian Academy of Sciences Gennady Krasnikov visited the Joint Institute for Nuclear Research. The RAS delegation also included RAS Vice Presidents Vladislav Panchenko and Stepan Kalmykov. During the working visit, the Academy's management discussed with the Joint Institute Directorate issues of cooperation between RAS and JINR and visited two major JINR scientific infrastructure facilities: the NICA, accelerator complex, including the Synchrophasotron hall and the MPD detector pavilion at VBLHEP, and the Superheavy Element Factory at FLNR and familiarized themselves with plans for large-scale physics experiments at these facilities. At a meeting at the Institute's Directorate, JINR Director and RAS Academician Grigory Trubnikov told Gennady Krasnikov about the progress of JINR's mega-science projects - the NICA accelerator complex, the Baikal-GVD neutrino telescope, noting that "this is an infrastructure that should work around the clock" and urging him to "load us with more Academy tasks" During the visit, the possibility of creating a federal program in the future for studying the fundamental properties of matter and organizing a large IT infrastructure uniting various scientific centers, as well as issues of supporting and retaining scientific personnel, were discussed. The meeting at the Institute's Directorate was attended by JINR Scientific Director, Academician-Secretary of the Physical Sciences Division of the Russian Academy of Sciences Viktor Matveev, JINR Vice-Director, Corresponding Member of the Russian Academy of Sciences Владимир Vladimir Kekelidze, JINR Director's Special Representative for Cooperation with International and Russian Scientific Organizations, Academician of the Russian Academy of Sciences Boris Sharkov,, Director of the JINR Laboratory of Information Technologies Sergey Shmatov and Advisor to the Director of the Institute for International Cooperation Ирек Сулейманов . More...
