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Anniversary seminar of Tatiana Strizh: “Soul of our Laboratory”

On 2 March 2026, a seminar to mark the anniversary of MLIT Deputy Scientific Leader Tatiana Strizh took place at the JINR Meshcheryakov Laboratory of Information Technologies. A multitude of congratulations and warm words addressed to Tatiana Strizh acknowledged her contribution to the Laboratory’s development, the implementation of novel technologies, the organization of scientific work, and the strengthening of international scientific and technological cooperation.

Сolleagues gathered in the MLIT Conference Hall thanked Tatiana Strizh for sharing her valuable experience, supporting them in work processes, and delivering constructive criticism in a way that was truly heard. The speakers highlighted her ability to never rest on her research achievements and her active participation in the Institute’s public activities as a member of the JINR Science and Technology Council and the JINR Women’s Committee. Particular attention was paid to the personal qualities of Tatiana Strizh, namely, her capacity to unite people around common objectives, her ability to inspire the staff, her energy, and her worldly wisdom.

JINR Director Grigory Trubnikov emphasized that every person encountered numerous teachers throughout their life, both in the area of professional knowledge and in everyday life, influencing their worldview. Grigory Trubnikov admitted that Tatiana Strizh had become one of those mentors for him and warmly congratulated her on her anniversary.

JINR Vice Director Vladimir Kekelidze expressed the opinion that as long as the Laboratory had confident professionals and energetic organizers like Tatiana Strizh, any task became within grasp, meaning that the Laboratory still has many glorious achievements ahead. “MLIT is the bonding cornerstone that unites not only all the Institute’s Laboratories but also all scientists working in high-energy physics and nuclear physics. Without data processing and analysis, no experimental task can be handled. And it is highly difficult to organize this process at a modern level, as it is done at MLIT,” Vladimir Kekelidze stated.

«We all meet people in our lives who are always a joy to see. They radiate kindness, enthusiasm, and wisdom. When you are around them, you feel energized and filled with the desire to do something good and valuable. Tatiana Strizh is one of those people. I am grateful to fate for the opportunity to work with her,” the Institute’s Vice Director Latchesar Kostov underlined.

MLIT Director Sergei Shmatov expressed confidence that Tatiana Strizh had left a positive mark on the lives of all participants of the seminar. “Tatiana Strizh is distinguished by her exceptional friendliness and attentiveness to all staff members, whom she views not as colleagues, but as family. She always has a kind word or advice for everyone,” Sergei Shmatov said. He pointed out that, as a scientist, Tatiana Strizh found the energy to be actively involved in all the Laboratory’s major tasks.

Acting Director of the JINR Veksler and Baldin Laboratory of High Energy Physics Andrey Butenko shared his memories of his first meeting with both Tatiana Strizh and the Joint Institute for Nuclear Research, which took place in his childhood during a tour of the Laboratory of Computing Techniques and Automation (LCTA), where Tatiana Strizh always welcomed school groups. Largely thanks to her influence, those students who chose a career in physics remained in fundamental science, coming to work at the JINR Laboratories and other research organizations.

Director of the JINR University Center Dmitry Kamanin pointed out that Tatiana Strizh largely shaped UC’s image. From 1998 to 2005, she concurrently worked as the Center’s Deputy Director for Scientific Work and, together with UC First Director Svetlana Ivanova , was involved in organizing its activity and gave lectures to many young specialists who have now become renowned scientists.

“It is a great joy and honor for us to work with you and the Laboratory. You are its heart. Your clear mind and strong character drive everything forward,” Alexander Moskovsky, CEO of RSC Technologies, the manufacturer of the “Govorun” supercomputer, congratulated Tatiana Strizh.

Two talks were delivered at the seminar. Tatiana Strizh spoke about the Laboratory’s many years of experience in hosting large-scale conferences on distributed computing, mathematical modeling, computational physics, and other fields, as well as about preserving MLIT’s scientific legacy by preparing album books dedicated to the memory of the Laboratory’s founders and its 60-year history. MLIT Scientific Leader Vladimir Korenkov presented a report entitled “Honor Traditions and Move Forward”about the major milestones in the life of Tatiana Strizh.

Being a postgraduate student at the MSU Faculty of Physics, Tatiana Strizh worked at the JINR Dzhelepov Laboratory of Nuclear Problems. In 1973, after completing her studies, Tatiana Strizh joined LCTA JINR, where she conducted an important series of works on the elaboration of software packages for processing data from film detectors. In 1989, she received a Ph.D. in physics and mathematics. From 1997 to 2013, Tatiana Strizh held the position of the Laboratory’s Scientific Secretary. In the next ten years, she was the Laboratory’s Deputy Director for Scientific Work, and since 2023, she has been working as MLIT Deputy Scientific Leader. She is also Deputy Leader of JINR’s large research infrastructure project entitled “Multifunctional Information and Computing Complex (MICC)” , which processes, analyzes, and stores data from theoretical research and experiments in a wide range of fields, from high-energy physics to solving applied tasks in life sciences.

Vladimir Korenkov underlined that in the 1990s, Tatiana Strizh took an active part in the large-scale restructuring of LCTA. Previously, the Laboratory had computers, each serviced by a large team of engineers and operators, but with the development of information technology, employees had to master new areas of activity. Such areas were found. At that time, a project for an optical communication channel between Moscow and Dubna was implemented. In 1996, there began BAFIZ, a project to integrate Russia’s nuclear physics centers into a unified information environment using databases and web technologies, where JINR acted as the lead organization. “Tatiana Strizh was always in the thick of all our activities”, Vladimir Korenkov noted.

In 2004–2010, she headed an important direction on the application of grid technologies in Russia within the EGEE (Enabling Grids for E-sciencE) European project. Tatiana Strizh made a considerable contribution to the implementation of a number of other projects using grid technologies. These include the creation of a prototype Russian center for basic grid services for intensive operations with distributed data, “GridNNN − National Nanotechnological Network”, “Russian Grid Network” of the Ministry of Communications and Mass Media, the EGI-InSPARE European project, the development of a model of a shared distributed system for acquiring, transferring, and processing extremely large data volumes for the NICA accelerator complex, etc.

With her active participation, in 2015, a Tier1 center for the CMS experiment at the Large Hadron Collider was created at MLIT and occupies a leading position among seven world data processing and storage centers; in 2018, the “Govorun” supercomputer was created.

Tatiana Strizh is the author of more than 140 scientific papers. For her activity, she received a large number of awards, the uppermost one being the Medal of the Order “For Merit to the Fatherland”, 2nd class, for her contribution to the implementation of state policy in the field of scientific and technological development.

“Everything that Tatiana Strizh has done for our Laboratory over the past 30 years is a remarkable achievement, almost a feat. She is not only a highly qualified specialist ready to share her extensive experience with colleagues, but most importantly, she is the soul of our Laboratory,” Vladimir Korenkov concluded.