JINR Education Programme in 2006 and the University Centre D. Fursaev

101st Session of the Scientific Council

January 18, 2006

The UC’s activities in 2006

International activities Undergraduate and graduate programmes Student laboratories PhD studies at JINR Pre-university programmes Information support Professional education

International activities

International Summer Student Practice 2006

Acquaintance visits to JINR by students and school students

International schools and seminars

The UC’s aim is to attract the youth from the JINR Member States to the Institute

Summer Practice’ 06

the Czech Republic (Technical University in Prague) - 14

Poland (Universities of Gdansk, Krakow, Lodz, - 20Lublin, Poznan, Szczecin, and Wroclaw)

Romania (Universities of Bucharest, Craiova, - 9Cluj-Napoca, Iasi, and Timisoara)

Slovakia (Universities of Bratislava and Kosice) - 8

Record number of participants (51), including students from:

Practice organization

Morning:

- Presentations of the JINR Laboratories (a new feature) - Lectures on specific subjects

Afternoon:

- Individual work at the Laboratories - Excursions to the Laboratories

Culture programme

Practical work at the JINR Laboratories

FLNR - 6 exercises FLNP - 10 exercises VBLHE - 4 exercises DLNP - 2 exercises LRB - 4 exercises (a new laboratory

of the Practice)

The exercises especially highly appreciated by the students

FLNP: Neutron activation analysis (M.V. Frontasyeva) FLNP: Nuclear physics (A. Kobzev, Yu.M. Gledenov, N.

Rebrova, K. Zhdanova) FLNP: Neutron diffraction studies of the structure and

magnetic propreties of solids (M. Kraus) FLNR: all the exercises and supervisors (A.G. Artyukh, G.

Kaminski, S.V. Mitrofanov, O.L. Orelovich, V.F. Reutov, R. Wolski, V. Zhemenik)

DLNP: Fabrication of a germanium detector (J. Yurkowski and D. Borowicz)

DLNP: Molecular biology (I.D. Aleksandrov, M.V. Aleksandrova, M.Mumot)

LRB: Heavy ion beams in microbiological research (M. Deperas-Kaminska)

Information policy

The UC’s new Internet site Full and user-friendly presentation of information on the

possibilities of a scientific career at JINR

The site meets modern requirements

Presented are new opportunities for the UC’s students and postgraduates

Attraction of – Students from JINR Member States– School pupils– New partners

Admittance to JINR

Undergraduate students

JINR,University

Centre

Universitiesbased inDubna

Postgraduate (JINR PhD programme)

Graduate students

Elite Moscow Universities and

Institutes

Universities of Russia and other JINR Member States

Student education at JINR

about 600 students attended the courses orworked at the JINR Laboratories in 2006(short- term and long-term practices, preparation of diploma theses) including

60 graduate students from elite Moscow universities

400 undergraduate and graduate students from Dubna (Dubna International University and Dubna branch of MIREEA)

120 graduate students from universities of JINR Member States (Armenia, Belarus, Czech Republic, Poland, Russia, Ukraine, Uzbekistan)

Lecture courses supported by the UC

Spring 2006

Telecommunications and world information resources

V.V. Korenkov

Statistical physics G.G. Adamian

Mathematical statistics V.V. Kurbatov

Selected topics of the elementary particle physics (seminar)

Ye.A. Strokovsky

Computer modelling of physics processes in detectors using the GEANTt4 software package

A.S. ZhemchugovM.A. Demichev

C++ V.G. Olshevsky

Database management systems (lectures) V.V. Korenkov

Database management systems (practice) I.A. Filozova

Introduction to the object-oriented analysis of data using the ROOT software package

T.M. Solovyova

Introduction to the theory of accelerators G.V. Trubnikov

Elementary particle physics methodology Ye.A. Strokovsky

C++ V.G. Olshevsky

Autumn 2006

A new structure within the UC: the student laboratories

The UC’s functions at the student laboratories:

- Support of the whole laboratory infrastructure- Working out the strategy- Coordination of students of the JINR-based Departments

working at the laboratories- Bringing together the efforts to create the student laboratory

installations

more laboratory exercises have to be created at JINR’s basic facilities general physics laboratories are needed for undergraduates special laboratories are needed for graduates

The results of 2006

Laboratories of the general physics practicum were founded - 14 optic physics installations;

- 7 atomic physics installations;- Gamma and alpha spectrometers for the nuclear physicsLaboratory- 10 molecular physics installations (were provided in 2004-2005)

The fifth-floor rooms at Building 113 were vacated; two laboratory rooms were repaired

The UC financing breakdown in 2006

25%: JINR (repairs of rooms)

25%: Dubna University (standard laboratory equipment and furniture; payment to the laboratory assistants is not included)

50%: financed by sponsors (acquisition of expensive equipment)

JINR postgraduate studies

The function of the UC is to support the functioning of

JINR postgraduate studies

In 2006, the UC prepared the documents for the

prolongation of the JINR license to offer postgraduate

programmes.

The license is valid until 2011.

JINR postgraduate studies in 2006

Total enrolment: 67

17 completed the studies

18 were accepted

7 came from Armenia, 5 from Belarus, 3 from Ukraine, 1 from Uzbekistan

Distribution of postgraduates over the JINR Laboratories

Laboratory Number of postgraduates in 2006

BLTP 20

DLNP 21

FLNR 5

VBLHE 6

FLNP 4

LPP 1

UC 1

LIT 7

LRB 2

Total 67

Distribution of the postgraduates over the specialties

SpecialtyNumber of

postgraduates in 2006

Nuclear and Elementary Particle Physics(01.04.16)

26

Theoretical Physics (01.04.02) 19

Charged Particle Beam Physics and Accelerator Techniques (01.04.20)

3

Solid State Physics (01.04.07) 3

Physics Experiment Techniques, Instrument Physics, and Physics Research Automation (01.04.01)

5

Mathematical and Software Support of Computers, Computational Complexes, and Networks (05.13.11)

1

Mathematical Modelling, Numerical Methods, and Software Complexes(05.13.18)

7

Radiobiology (03.00.01) 3

Secondary-school oriented activity of the UC

2nd Open Scientific Conference on Physics and Mathematics for Moscow Region's School Pupils (29-31 March 2006)

Visits by school pupils (Germany, Poland)

Physics practicum for school pupils of Dubna

Acquaintance visits in 2006

February: 8 school pupils and 2 teachers from Poland (the cities of Leszno, Poznan, Swinoujscie, and Tarnowskie Gory)

May: 15 school pupils from a physics class (Berlin, Germany)

September: 10 students of Opole University, Poland

Draft plan of some of the UC’s activities in 2007

June: seminar “The problem of physical reality in modern theoretical physics” (jointly with the Philosophy Faculty pf Moscow State University)

June: 3rd Open Scientific Conference on Physics and Mathematics for Moscow Region's School Pupils (Dubna)

24 June – 7 July: 4th International Summer Student Practice in JINR Fields of Research

8 – 19 июля: International Summer School „Nuclear Physics Methods and Accelerators in Biology and Medicine“ (08.07 – 19.07, Prague)

September: School on Neutrino Physics in Memory of Bruno Pontecorvo (Alushta, Ukraine)

September: acquaintance visit by a delegation of the International Association of Physics Students

Acquaintance visits by students and school pupils from JINR Member States

Other projects in 2007

Developing the student laboratories (room repairs and fundraising)

Developing the GRID education infrastructure (together with Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology and Dubna University)

New special courses 2007

“Introduction in nano-system physics” (V.O. Nesterenko)