Fr om the 22nd of June to the 1st of July the University has hosted a regular session of the international seminar “Advanced Accelerator & Radiation Physics” (AARP), devoted to various aspects of radiation physics, application of radiation, beams of neutral and charged particles in medicine and tasks of analysis of structure and properties of matter starting from its physical and chemical properties to high-temperature superconductivity.
International seminar AARP, organized by Professor S. Dabagov, was conceived as a scientific forum, which discusses the most recent ideas and results on actual problems of physics. It is not tied to a particular place; different sessions can be conducted in different scientific and educational centers without borders, as it should be in a scientific world. It differs from other events (such as conferences and schools), wh ere participants can only hear some materials in brief with rather limited time for questions.
Each AARP event is a full cycle of lectures on different research within any unifying theme, accompanied by a broad discussion of presented results and the whole problem of the lecture in general. Seminars are held regularly since 2011, when the first session was successfully organized in the University. It was followed by sessions in different cities and towns of Europe – in Moscow (MEPhI), in Frascati (LNF INFN), in Geneva (CERN), in Maikop (ASU), in Cadarache (ITER), in Naples (IM CNR). And here again, the seminar meets its lecturers in the native University.
Teachers and scientists, postgraduates and students of the University had a unique opportunity to hear firsthand news from various fundamental and applied areas of physics, directly ask questions to speakers, present their own research results at the seminar and discuss problems in the format of a “round table”.
Not only Russian scientists, but also guests from Italy were speakers at the seminar: Graziano Venanzoni and Augusto Marcelli – scientists from the Laboratori Nazionali di Frascati (LNF INFN), Antonio Bianconi – Director of the Rome International Center for Materials Science (RICMASS), Roberto Amendola – a leading researcher of the Italian Agency for New Technologies, Energy and Sustainable Economic Development (ENEA), Marcello Coreno – a scientist from the Institute of Structure of Matter (CNR ISM) and Angelo Schiavi – researcher from the University of Rome “La Sapienza”.
MEPhI scientists also told about their developments and research. Professor N.Kalashnikov presented a report devoted to description of a scattering process of an exterior electromagnetic radiation on particles, channeled in a crystal target. It should be noted that research of channeling of charged particles in crystals are actively conducted in MEPhI; the University traditionally participates in the organization of an international conference “Channeling: Charged & Neutral Particles Channeling Phenomena”, dedicated to this phenomenon and organized by INFN in Italy.
The most important organizational outcome of the seminar was planning of further joint research activities. MEPhI rector M. Strikhanov and a Director of RICMASS A.Bianconi have signed a Memorandum on further cooperation in the research of high-temperature superconductivity. In addition, it was planned to have academic exchanges for young researchers from Italy and Russia, who work in spheres of a project “g-2”. Also they agreed to conduct several cycles of lectures of Italian scientists for students and postgraduates of the University.
