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The article reports that the Zababakhin Institute of Applied Physics of the Russian Federal Nuclear Center has developed a software package called TUR, which can be used for constructing and investigating equations of state. It consists of four libraries, and these are the library of special codes, library of theoretical models that describe thermodynamic material properties, library of equations of state, and library of sets of constants for equations of state for specific materials.

The Astrakhan crest is one of the largest sub-salt structures of the Pricaspian basin containing a huge carbonate massif. Numerous indications on possible locations of oil-and-gas fields in the older sediments were found during the exploration of the Astrakhan gas field located in the region. To understand the regional structural and geothermal history, the geological profile along the Astrakhan crest is back-stripped using constraints on the duration of erosion and paleo-water depths. We develop a numerical technique based on a finite difference method applied to solve a two-dimensional non-stationary heat conduction equation in a stratified domain. We apply the technique to model the geothermal evolution of the region associated with its structural evolution. A present geothermal model contains 11 sedimentary layers: salt, 4 layers of its overburden, and 6 sub-salt layers. The heat flux at the lower model boundary and temperature at the upper boundary are estimated in such a way to fit the measured temperatures in several drilled boreholes. In the post-Kungurian (post Late Permian) times, the temperature depends primarily on depth with the maximum temperature of about 220 ° C reaches in Paleozoic deposits. If our major assumptions, concerning the constant heat flux at the lower model boundary during the basin evolution and the absence of fluid influx into sediments since the Devonian times, are valid, hydrocarbons are most likely to be generated in the post-Kungurian times rather than before it. © 2006 American Institute of Physics [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Presents an overview of the status of women in physics in Russia. Personal aspects; Nonrecognition of feminine achievements in physics; Improving the climate for women in physics; Gifted girls; Balance of family and career; Positive steps.

Subjects of discussion 1. Different scenarios 2. Higgs window to a New Physics 3. Anomalies in the interactions of gauge and Higgs bosons 4. Some problems in QCD and hadron physics. 5. By-product: Production of axions, etc. from region of conversion e→γ. © 2001 American Institute of Physics. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

© 2000 American Institute of Physics. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

In the analysis of the institutional sphere of the pension system one should take into account that its entities operates in three different markets: the market of the obligatory pension insurance (pension savings), supplementary pension and participate in managing of financial funds in the framework of programs of co-financing of pensions. The article has analyzed the structure of external and internal environment of private pension funds in the market of obligatory pension insurance (OPI). The influence of surrounding entities on revenues and expenditures of private pension funds is determined. Risks generated by entities of external and internal environment are identified. The impact of the investment risks on obligatory pension insurance is shown and the comparative analysis of investment risks of pension systems of Russia and the OECD is held. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The Department of Energy’s Plutonium Materials Conversion Program for Russia is designed to assist Russia in defining a path for the destruction of weapons grade plutonium. A similar program is currently defining a program for destruction of US weapons grade plutonium. These two sister programs arose from the September 1998 meeting between President Yeltsin and President Clinton, after which they issued a “Joint statement of principles for management and disposition of plutonium designated as no longer required for defense purposes.” The US and Russia have each committed to convert 50 metric tons of plutonium from nuclear weapons programs to forms which are unusable for weapons. © 2000 American Institute of Physics. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The hypernuclear program at Dubna was started in 1988 with investigation of the light hypernuclei production and decay. Nowadays we are planning to measure lifetime and cross section of Λ3H and Λ4H hypernuclei. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Discusses the status of women in physics in Russia from 2002 to 2005. Participation by women physicists in building a civil society; Rise in the number of female physics students and female physics teachers; Development of gender awareness in the scientific community.