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WEEKLY OF THE SIBERIAN BRANCH OF THE RUSSIAN ACADEMY OF SCIENCES (SB RAS)

N 31-32 (2716-2717) August 2009

	NEWS
	THE MEASURE OF RESPONSIBILITY August, 1, 2009 at the Listvianka settlement of the Irkutsk Region in the building of the Baikal Museum of the SB RAS the Chairman of the RF Government V.V.Putin held a meeting concerning the problems of environmental control and environmental safety support.
	GEOLOGY AS A MODE OF LIFE The anniversary of Doctor Sc. (Geology and Mineralogy) Professor, Deputy director of the Trofimuk Institute of Petroleum and Gas Geology and Geophysics of the SB RAS N.V.Sennikov.
	FOR FRIENDSHIP BETWEEN PEOPLES Diplomas are delivered for the great contribution to the strengthening of the Russian - Kirghiz friendship and the development of scientific and technical cooperation.
	TO VISIT VIETNAM Russian and Vietnamese scientists for a long time are fruitfully cooperating in various fields of mutual interest.
	METROLOGIST - THERMOPHYSICISTS GATHERED IN YAKUTSK From July, 6 to July, 11 in Yakutsk, at the Institute of the Physical and Technical Problems of the North of the SB RAS an out joint session of the Commission for Metrology attached to Academic Council of the RAS on the complex problem "Thermophysics and heat-and-power engineering" and Technical committee for metrology "Thermal, thermophysical and dilatometric measurements" attached to the Metrology board of "RusTechRegulirovanie".
	SUMMER SCHOOL INTEL: MOVING IN THE NECESSARY DIRECTION July, 31 at the Novosibirsk State University a press conference took place where the results of the Intel-NSU Summer youth training school "High-efficiency calculations and parallel programming with the application of Intel technologies".
	PORTABLE GEOCHEMICAL AND GEOPHYSICAL INSTRUMENT MAKING For the geochemical methods of exploration activity, the environmental and special monitoring, a problem is urgent of the creation of portable, high- sensitivity and simultaneously snap devices for working under non-laboratory conditions.
	FOR LIFE WITHOUT STRESS! This year a group of the researchers - biologists began to work within the framework of the integration project directed on the studies of stress resistance mechanisms and obtaining stress resistant plants.
	CRISIS: YESTERDAY, TODAY... TOMORROW The theme of crisis is exciting for everybody, from Academicians up to schoolchildren, from pensioners up to successful businessmen. What are the reasons of the crisis occurrence, the depth of its penetration into the Russian economy, the possible ways for going out of it.
	ARE THE CENTRAL ASIAN RIVERBANKS NECESSARY FOR SIBERIAN RIVERS? In addition to the press review "Having eyes on water" ("SiS" No 28) Academician O.F.Vasiliev has given the editors his interview devoted to the problem of redistribution of a part of the drain of the Siberian rivers published earlier in the magazine "The directors’ committee of Siberia".
	TO SIBERIA FROM AMERICA If about ten years ago there was a frequent question in mass-media: "Why scientists leave from Russia?", now it is quite usual to ask: "Who and why is coming back?".
	SCIENCE AND EDUCATION IN THE MIRROR OF PRESS
	THE HIGHER SCHOOL OF TECHNICIANS The Higher College of Informatics has been found in 1990 on the basis of the Polytechnic School created in 1966 under the initiative of Michail Alekseevich Lavrentiev. Now the college graduates the specialist qualified as "technicians" in the field two most urgent specialties: "Software for computer facilities and the automatic systems" and "Computers, complexes, systems and networks".
	VACANCIES
	FOR ENTRANTS TO TAKE NOTE The crisis makes a dream to be more accessible: the training at the prestigious "School of journalism" has become by 20 percent cheaper.
	THE SB RAS CHAIRMAN CUP The first week of August, 2009 the seventh traditional tournament "The SB RAS Chairman Cup" was held at the central courts of the Academgorodok tennis club.
	"PIONEER’S COMMUNE" My parents were geologists and every summer leaved for expeditions. They placed me into pioneer camps in different areas of Novosibirsk suburbs.
	THE HUNTER’S NOTES