Conferences

Scientific forum in memory of the scientist

On 15 September, the 26th Baldin International Seminar on High Energy Physics "Relativistic nuclear physics and quantum chromodynamics" opened at the JINR Laboratory of High Energy Physics. The event brought together 240 scientists and specialists from Russia, China, Vietnam, Belarus, Serbia, Egypt, Kazakhstan and Mongolia.

Academician of the Russian Academy of Sciences and Scientific Leader of the Institute Victor Matveev addressed the participants with a welcoming speech. He emphasized that the Seminar gains increasing popularity each year and attracts a significant number of young scientists. In his address, Victor Matveev recounted the history of the Baldin Seminar and paid tribute to its founder: "Undoubtedly, thanks to Alexander Mikhailovich, his colleagues and close associates, Dubna can rightfully be considered the birthplace of relativistic nuclear physics." He also announced that next year, the Institute will celebrate the 100th anniversary of Academician Baldin's birth and in honor of this event, a bust of him will be erected on the VBLHEP sites.

JINR Vice-Director and RAS Academician Vladimir Kekelidze also spoke at the opening of the Seminar, "Relativistic nuclear physics as a science has existed for over 55 years and among the current projects in this field is NICA, one of our Institute's flagship projects. This facility, being developed with the participation of you, your colleagues and friends will pave the way for cutting-edge research in relativistic nuclear physics."

The programme of the event opened with a report "Heavy ions in science and technology" by FLNR Scientific Leader Yuri Oganessian. The Seminar will also feature reports on the results of major international collaborations, such as MPD and BM@N and reviews of advances in theoretical and experimental relativistic nuclear physics.

The key topics of the 26th Baldin Seminar cover a wide range of areas: long-range quantum chromodynamics; relativistic heavy-ion collisions; hadron and multiquark spectroscopy; structure functions of hadrons and nuclei; polarization effects and spin physics; investigations of exotic nuclei in relativistic beams and applied applications of relativistic beams.

In addition, the participants will discuss the results of the NICA megascience project, the status and development prospects of accelerator complexes, as well as achievements in experimental research at the world's leading high-energy physics centres - JINR, CERN, BNL, JLab, GSI, KEK and others.

JINR Press Office