1. Information on the Decisions of the March 2005 session of the JINR Committee of Plenipotentiaries V.G. Kadyshevsky 98 th session of the JINR Scientific Council 2 June 2005

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4. 2.06.2005 98th session of the JINR Scientific Council 4 Committee of Plenipotentiaries 17 March 2005

5. 2.06.2005 98th session of the JINR Scientific Council 5 Committee of Plenipotentiaries Directorate’s report –V. Kadyshevsky Finances: status and plans –V. Katrasev, A. Volodin On JINR’s innovation activity –A. Ruzaev Election of the JINR Director –V. Matveev Information of the Committee for the election of the JINR Director – A. Sissakian The programme of the candidate for the position of the JINR Director

6. 2.06.2005 98th session of the JINR Scientific Council 6 Decisions of the Committee of Plenipotentiaries To approve the activity of the JINR Directorate during 1992–2004 aimed at the preservation and development of the Joint Institute for Nuclear Research as a world centre of fundamental and applied research and at the education of highly qualified personnel. The Committee noted the growing role of JINR in the international cooperation among scientists, and its most important contribution — along with CERN — to bringing nations together in the area of the “peaceful atom” research.

7. 2.06.2005 98th session of the JINR Scientific Council 7 Decisions of the Committee of Plenipotentiaries The CP acknowledged the achievements of the Institute’s staff in the implementation of the scientific programme, in particular: –the achievement of a record intensity of the 6 He beam at the source of radioactive nuclei being constructed at FLNR (DRIBs project); –the construction and commissioning of the new movable reflector at the IBR-2 reactor, which is already successfully operated at this reactor and, what is essential, will be exploited at the future modernized reactor IBR-2M; –the production of an accelerated 12 C ion beam at the Nuclotron, which enhances the capabilities of JINR in the field of hadron therapy of cancer; –the first experiments on the chemical identification of the element “dubnium” as the end product of the consecutive alpha-decay chain of element 115, produced in the reaction 48 Ca + 243 Am; –the new results in the CP-violation studies obtained in the joint NA48 experiment at CERN; –the successful assembly and tests of systems of the ATLAS, CMS and ALICE detectors at the LHC; –the successful implementation of the JINR Educational Programme in close collaboration with Member States, which contributes to the education of young people inclined to creative labour and to an inflow of scientific personnel at JINR and its member-state institutions.

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9. 2.06.2005 98th session of the JINR Scientific Council 9 “Dark matter and dark energy in the Universe”. Report of Acad. V.Rubakov at the JINR Seminar. 25 March 2005. BLTP, JINR, Dubna.

10. 2.06.2005 98th session of the JINR Scientific Council 10 Decisions of the Committee of Plenipotentiaries The Committee of Plenipotentiaries approved the Plan of Research and International Cooperation for 2005. TOPICAL PLAN FOR JINR RESEARCH AND INTERNATIONAL COOPERATION IN 2005 JOINT INSTITUTE FOR NUCLEAR RESEARCH 11-8236 Dubna 2004 http://www.jinr.ru/plan/ptp-2005/title.htm

11. 2.06.2005 98th session of the JINR Scientific Council 11 Decisions of the Committee of Plenipotentiaries To give funding in 2005 to the priority activities as recommended at the 97th session of the Scientific Council: In-house facilities – operation and development of the Nuclotron accelerator complex, obtaining of a wider range of accelerated nuclei, improvement of the beam extraction system; acceleration of deuterons up to the maximum energy of 6 GeV/nucleon and the installation of a polarized ion source for increasing the intensity of deuterons up to 10 10 per cycle; – modernization of the IBR-2 reactor according to the schedule of activities approved by the agreement between JINR and the Russian Agency for Atomic Energy; – reconstruction of the U400 accelerator, implementation of work on the realization of the Dubna Radioactive Ion Beams (DRIBs) project; – dismantling of the IBR-30 reactor; – further development of JINR’s telecommunication links, networking, computing and information infrastructure, including Grid technologies; ОБЪЕДИНЕННЫЙ ИНСТИТУТ ЯДЕРНЫХ ИССЛЕДОВАНИЙ JOINT INSTITUTE FOR NUCLEAR RESEARCH 11-8245 97-я сессия Ученого совета ОИЯИ 20-21 января 2005 года 97th session of the JINR Scientific Council 20-21 January 2005 Дубна 2005

12. 2.06.2005 98th session of the JINR Scientific Council 12 Decisions of the Committee of Plenipotentiaries The Committee of Plenipotentiaries supported the Directorate’s activity on the concentration of the financial and human resources on the most important directions of research, on the optimization of the Institute’s staff employment, and on the recruitment of young scientists in accordance with the Regulation for the JINR Personnel and with the legislation of the Russian Federation.

13. 2.06.2005 98th session of the JINR Scientific Council 13 Decisions of the Committee of Plenipotentiaries The Committee of Plenipotentiaries was informed by the JINR Directorate that the reorganization of the Department of Radiation and Radiobiological Research into a Laboratory of Radiation Biology is being considered. This idea was supported. A detailed report concerning this reorganization will be presented by Professor E.A. Krasavin at the 98th session of the Scientific Council in June 2005.

14. 2.06.2005 98th session of the JINR Scientific Council 14 Committee of Plenipotentiaries JINR’s financial activity in 2004 and plan for 2005 V. Katrasev, the JINR Assistant Director for Economic and Financial Issues A. Volodin (Russia), the Chairman of the JINR Finance Committee in 2005

15. 2.06.2005 98th session of the JINR Scientific Council 15 Decisions of the Decisions of the Committee of Plenipotentiaries JINR’s financial activity in 2004 and plan for 2005 The Committee of Plenipotentiaries The Committee of Plenipotentiaries took note of the information on the execution of the JINR budget in 2004: – –expenditure - 34 319.9 k$ US – –income - 36 454.6 k$ US (38.2 M$ were planned) The Committee of Plenipotentiaries The Committee of Plenipotentiaries approved the JINR budget for 2005 with the total expenditure of US$ 37.776 million, as well as the sums of Member States' contributions for 2005. 96%

16. 2.06.2005 98th session of the JINR Scientific Council 16 Decisions of the Decisions of the Committee of Plenipotentiaries Concept of “Dubna-Sistema” Technopark Committee of Plenipotentiaries The Committee of Plenipotentiaries approved the Directorate’s plans of the Institute’s participation in the technopark “Dubna-Sistema” (including development of the JINR “innovation belt”) as well as of the use of the mechanism of private and state partnership for creating a Special Economic Zone in Dubna, in accordance with the legislation of the host country of JINR.

17. 2.06.2005 98th session of the JINR Scientific Council 17 Committee of Plenipotentiaries Election of the JINR Director By unanimous vote the Committee of Plenipotentiaries elected Professor A.Sissakian as Director of JINR for a term of 5 years. In accordance with the procedure rules, Prof. A.Sissakian will serve as Director-Designate till 1 January 2006.

18. 2.06.2005 98th session of the JINR Scientific Council 18 Decisions of the Committee of Plenipotentiaries The Committee of Plenipotentiaries thanked Academician V. Kadyshevsky for his successful work as Director of JINR. The Committee considered it expedient to establish for him the honorary position of a scientific leader of JINR.

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20. 2.06.2005 98th session of the JINR Scientific Council 20 Cooperation between JINR and the Hungarian Academy of Sciences JINR A. Sissakian (JINR) and N. Kroo (HAS). Budapest, 28 January 2005

21. 2.06.2005 98th session of the JINR Scientific Council 21 Cooperation with Germany ● Location of centres collaborating with JINR JINR’s partners are 71 institutions and universities located in 45 cities 15 th session of the BMBF – JINR Coordination Committee. DESY, Hamburg, Germany. 22 February 2005.

22. 2.06.2005 98th session of the JINR Scientific Council 22 Science Bringing Nations Together CERN and JINR joint exhibitions: 1997:University of Oslo (Norway) 1998:UNESCO, Paris 1999:UN Office in Geneva 2000:European Parliament in Brussels 2001:Russian State Duma 2002:Ministry of Education and Sciences, Bucharest, Romania 2003:Yerevan University, Armenia Diplomatic Academy, Moscow 2005:University of Thessaloniki, Greece

23. 2.06.2005 98th session of the JINR Scientific Council 23 CERN - JINR joint exhibition: “Science bringing nations together” Greece, Thessaloniki, April 2005

24. 2.06.2005 98th session of the JINR Scientific Council 24 Cooperation with Greece National Centre for Scientific Research “Demokritos” Agricultural University of Athens National and Capodistrian University of Athens National Agricultural Research Foundation, Kalamata Aristotel University of Thessaloniki University of Ioannia University of Thessaly JINR Partners:

25. 2.06.2005 98th session of the JINR Scientific Council 25 Cooperation with Greece N.Giokaris (University of Athens), A.Sissakian (JINR), I.Tsoukalas (General Secretary for Research and Technology, Greece), V.Kadyshevsky (JINR), I.Antoniou (AUTH, Thessaloniki), V.Ivanov (JINR). Aristotel University of Thessaloniki, Greece, 7 April 2005.

26. 2.06.2005 98th session of the JINR Scientific Council 26 CERN – Russia Coordination Committee on the LHC project. Moscow, 30 April 2005.

27. 2.06.2005 98th session of the JINR Scientific Council 27 Decisions of the Committee of Plenipotentiaries The plenipotentiaries accepted the plan of the preparation for the celebration of the 50th anniversary of JINR and approved the proposal to set up an organizing committee for the preparation of this celebration headed by A. Fursenko, the Plenipotentiary of the Russian Federation.

28. 2.06.2005 98th session of the JINR Scientific Council 28 JINR, Dubna, 1966.Moscow, 26 March 1956.JINR, Dubna, 1976. JINR, Dubna, 1996.JINR, Dubna, 1986.