The main reason for the press conference was the naming of Corneliy Todyshev and Fyodor Ignatov as the young scientists of 2012 in the domain of science and innovation by the Russian President. At the beginning of the meeting the organizers showed a 3-minute film about the award-winning Novosibirsk scientists after which Corneliy and Fyodor spoke about the meeting with Vladimir Putin and made some acknowledgements by 鈥減utting in a word for the Specialized Educational-Scientific Centre at NSU and NSU itself and thanking their relatives and colleagues at BINP for cooperation鈥�.
As Alexander Bondar鈥�, the head of the laboratory at BINP and the Dean of the Physics Department at NSU, remarked later, this prize was established recently with the dual purpose of celebrating the achievements of young scientists and encouraging new talent to get into science.
He said, 鈥淪ociety cannot develop without science, and science can not develop without young people. As such, the interaction between science and education is very important. These two young physicists got through all the stages at NSU competitions for schoolchildren, studied at the Specialized Educational-Scientific Centre of NSU, then at NSU itself and came to science quite early. The University and SB RAS are equally important and indivisible in the course of training young researchers.鈥�
At the meeting the participants also discussed the future of BINP. According to Alexander Aseev, the Chairman of SB RAS, the Institute has been given the go-ahead for a mega-project. They will create a new class of nuclear accelerator for the Federal Nuclear Centre in Snezhinsk. The project is to take more than five years.
Novosibirsk scientists are to make about 16 bln roubles with this work, which is only a rough estimation.
In the evening NSU President Mikhail Fedoruk received the laureates of the President Prize. The meeting was also attended by Alexander Bondar鈥�, and Nikolay Yavorsky, the Director of SESC of NSU. During the casual part of the meeting the scientists and administrators talked a lot about the importance of integrating education and science, studies at NSU and SESC, and other steps in the development of a researcher.
鈥淚 am proud that you both graduated fr om our Physics-Mathematics School and the Physics Department,鈥� said Mikhail Fedoruk.
Corneliy Todyshev added at the end of the meeting, 鈥淣SU is an exclusive place wh ere you can receive the right education to begin research in physics of high energy and elementary particles and work at BINP in a unique equipment.鈥�
