MLIT Director took part in JINR CP session in Mongolia On 5 November 2026, Director of the Meshcheryakov Laboratory of Information Technologies Sergei Shmatov delivered a talk at a meeting of the JINR Finance Committee held in Ulaanbaatar (Mongolia). On 6–7 November, MLIT Director participated in a session of the Committee of Plenipotentiaries of the Governments of the JINR Member States, as well as in a number of events marking the session. On 5 November, a workshop on scientific cooperation between JINR and Mongolia was held at the National University of Mongolia. The event featured overviews of scientific research and projects underway at JINR and Mongolian scientific organizations. Sergei Shmatov told the audience about the organization of distributed and high-performance computing at JINR, as well as about the structure and capabilities of the JINR Multifunctional Information and Computing Complex. His talk covered internal and external scientific projects for which MLIT provides data processing, analysis, and storage. On the same day, at the meeting of the JINR Finance Committee, MLIT Director presented a talk on artificial intelligence methods for information analysis and experimental data processing. Sergei Shmatov discussed approaches to AI applications and provided examples of how AI methods are currently being employed at the JINR Laboratories, ranging from fundamental scientific research to applied tasks and the Institute’s administrative needs. “Artificial intelligence is becoming an important and widely used tool in fundamental and applied research. At present, AI methods are used in one way or another by all JINR Laboratories, and applications range from detector modeling and particle reconstruction to neutron tomography, radiobiology, environmental monitoring, and accelerator design. This is capable of significantly influencing how scientific research is conducted and transforming it. Nevertheless, the outcome produced by AI requires critical assessment, verification, and interpretation within corresponding scientific and theoretical foundations,” Sergei Shmatov highlighted in his talk. On 6 November, Sergei Shmatov took part in the session of the Committee of Plenipotentiaries of the Governments of the Member States of the Joint Institute for Nuclear Research. JINR’s supreme governing body reviewed the Institute’s latest milestones, approved the 2027 Topical Plan and budget, as well as considered proposals for updating the Charter of JINR, being an international intergovernmental organization. At the CP session, Plenipotentiary Representative of the Government of the Republic of Kazakhstan at JINR, General Director of the Institute of Nuclear Physics (Almaty) of the Agency of the Republic of Kazakhstan for Atomic Energy Sayabek Sakhiyev presented Sergei Shmatov with a departmental award from the Ministry of Education and Science of the Republic of Kazakhstan, namely, a badge entitled “For Merits in the Development of Science of the Republic of Kazakhstan”.
