Our love for scientific knowledge, excuse me, titles, primarily academic degrees, has been known for a long time. If for a researcher or university teacher an academic degree has always been a kind of certificate of professional suitability, then for others it is evidence of familiarization with something significant, important, a matter of prestige. In addition, “settled” citizens had a number of benefits and privileges.

Space Telescope "Herschel". Weight - 3.4 tons. The diameter of the mirror is 3.5 m. Two months ago, an important event occurred, let's hope for everyone who is interested in cosmos and cosmology: on May 14, the European Space Agency (hereinafter - ESA) launched two complex and expensive spacecraft - “Herschel” and “Planck”. Both are essentially telescopes, although they work far beyond the optical range. Both are associated with cryogenic to cool receivers.

This is the best thing! I remembered the other day when I heard President Medvedev express himself in the course of his foreign policy activities. There was, for example, something like this: Don’t push through the initiative, but take a period to study it.

The Russian scientific community is concerned about what is more important for passing a competitive application - setting a short deadline for completing the project or reducing the requested amount of funding (read about the features of financing the Federal Targeted Program “Personnel” competitions in the materials of Evgeniy Onishchenko). And the decaying, but pleasantly smelling West continues to move forward.

In St. Petersburg, from July 3 to July 8, 2009, an international “Euler” symposium in theoretical and mathematical physics was held. For reports and participation in discussions, the most famous and actively working physicists-theoreticians and Mathetists from America, Europe and Russia, including many prominent scientists from the Russian diaspora, were invited. Among the speakers were like the luminaries of science, such as L. Faddeev (in addition to the St. Petersburg), Llipatov (Piyaf, St.

The Joint Institute for Nuclear Research announces a competition for the Prize named after. N.N. Bogolyubov for young scientists. The prize is awarded to a scientist who has demonstrated early scientific maturity and produced results that are internationally recognized. The works nominated for the prize must combine a focus on solving specific problems in natural science with a high mathematical level.

TRV continues the topic of improving the quality of Russian graduate school. In the last issue, we turned to a number of leading Russian scientists with a request to comment on possible ways to reform graduate school.

In Moscow, TrV is sold at a book kiosk located in the lobby of the Faculty of Biology of Moscow State University, and at a kiosk next to the station. m. "Chekhovskaya" (Strostnoy Boulevard, 4; see map: www.novayagazeta.ru/ak/214230.html ). Both new and old TrV numbers are sold there. In St. Petersburg , TRV can be obtained at the Competition Center for Fundamental Natural Sciences, this is the courtyard of the main building of St.

Irina Levontina It has long been noticed that when talking with a foreigner, a person often distorts his own native language. A foreigner doesn’t speak Russian well, right? Well, if I also start speaking with stupid grammar and a funny accent, then maybe it will be clearer to him? Not that the person directly reasoned like that. He simply involuntarily adapts to his interlocutor, like Mironov’s hero in the famous comedy: “Shjort poberi!” This is the best thing!

Archaeologists of the Mozhaisk expedition of the Institute of Archeology of the Russian Academy of Sciences under the leadership of the candidate of historical sciences Boris Yanishevsky excavated small fragments of the walls of the residence of Boris Godunov-the so-called Tsarev-Borisov town, located on the way from the Vereya to Mozhaisk. Founded in 1600, the residence was a powerful fortress with four towers.

From June 28 to July 2, 2009 in the village of Moscow (Moscow Region) the annual conference of the laureates of the All -Russian competition of physics and mathematics of the Dmitry Zimin “Dynasty” Foundation was held. The 200 best teachers from all over Russia listened to lectures of world famous scientists and teachers, participated in master classes and active trainings, and exchanged experience.

...they are perplexed. The reason for their bewilderment was published in the issue of the newspaper “Troitsky Variant” No. 9 (28) dated June 12, 2009, which contains several “curious” documents and comments on them concerning the personnel policy of the Institute of Physical Chemistry and Electrochemistry named after. A.N.Frumkin RAS.

According to the official website of the Accounts Chamber of the Russian Federation, on July 10, the Board chaired by Sergei Stepashin considered the results of an analysis of the legality and effectiveness of the use of intellectual property created at the expense of the federal budget ( www.ach.gov.ru/ru/news/20090716-1/ ). Federal budget expenditures on “civil science” for 2007-2008. amounted to 232.4 billion rubles.

Dear edition! The ministers and other high -ranking officials are fighting for the happiness of the people, without lingering their hands: meetings, symposia, conferences, visiting meetings, friendly dinners and all that are laid out by the protocol are in a continuous stream. Another thing is that the results of this exhausting work will not affect our mournful being - such is the slowness of our bureaucratic system in the middle and lower links.

So, it happened! On the 40th anniversary of the crew of the Apollo-11 NASA crew, they made a luxurious gift. Several pictures of the new Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter apparatus, launched to the moon on June 18, have no particular scientific value, but put a spectacular point in a long -standing dispute - whether the Americans were on the moon.