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The presentation by scientists from the Tomsk Scientific Center of the SB RAS was selected as the best at the most popular international conference on combustion processes, the Asia-Pacific Conference on Combustion, held every two years by the authoritative international organization, the Combustion Institute.

On November 19, during the meeting of the Tomsk Consortium of Scientific and Educational Organizations, Tomsk research institutes, universities, and MEPhI signed the Charter of the Big University. This document included the main principles of joint work and academic freedom as fundamental values of each partner.

A new foreign researcher has been employed at the Tomsk Scientific Center (TSC) of the SB RAS. Sven Rutkowski, a highly qualified specialist in physical chemistry and engineering, has joined its research team in October 2021. The area of his scientific interests is physical and chemical surface treatment methods for medical devices.

Collaboration of the Siberian Branch of the Russian Academy of Sciences (SB RAS), including both Tomsk Scientific Center (TSC) and Institute of High Current Electronics (IHCE), with Milan Polytechnic University (Italy) continues. Scientists from two countries have proposed optimal methods for electron-beam processing of magnesium alloys, which enable to improve their corrosion resistance by several times. One of the results of this international cooperation is the ‘Surface properties modification alloys by low energy high current pulsed electron-beam’ paper in the ‘Surface and Coatings Technology’ journal (Q1 according to the Web of Science database).

The scientists from the Research Department for Structural Macrokinetics (Tomsk Scientific Center of the Siberian Branch of the Russian Academy of Sciences), Head of the Laboratory of Mathematical Modeling of Physical and Chemical Processes in Heterogeneous Systems Oleg Lapshin and Senior Researcher Oksana Ivanova have published an article "Macrokinetics of mechanochemical synthesis in heterogeneous systems: Mathematical model and evaluation of thermokinetic constants" in the high-ranking journal Materials Today Communications.

The sailing trimaran "Russian Ocean Way" departed for the round-the-world expedition organized by the Tomsk Branch of the Russian Geographical Society along the route of Russian round-the-world navigators on July 1, from Petrovskaya Pier (Kronshtadt).

Scientists at the Tomsk Scientific Center of SB RAS have developed highly efficient infrared gas burners that are superior to well-known world analogues.

On April 15, TPU initiated the first meeting of the Industrial Partners Council of the newly formed “Hydrogen Technology Valley” consortium.

Scientists from the Laboratory of Advanced Technologies of the Tomsk Scientific Center of the Siberian Branch of the Russian Academy of Sciences succeeded in developing a technology that enables synthesizing a NiAl surface alloy.

Mikhail Slobodyan, a researcher at the Laboratory of Advanced Technologies of the Tomsk Scientific Center of SB RAS, has published a series of reviews devoted to welding of zirconium and its alloys, which are widely used in the nuclear and chemical industries.

An article titled "High-temperature synthesis in activated powder mixtures under conditions of linear heating: Ni-Al system" prepared by Vadim Prokofiev and Valery Filimonov will be published in the scientific journal Combustion and Flame (Q1) in early 2021.

The issues of ecological safety of industrial enterprises have been worrying people for a long time. Modern efficient waste recycling technologies are of particular interest.

The result of the implementation of the first grant of Russian Science Foundation in the history of academic science in Tomsk on humanitarian topics was the publication of the monograph “Paradoxes in the Theory of Knowledge: Logical Foundation of Epistemological Criticism of Relativism”.

Research results of scientists from the Tomsk Scientific Center of the Siberian Branch of the Russian Academy of Sciences, obtained under the RFBR project, can be used to create new prototypes of electric cars with increased driving range.

At the Department for Structural Macrokinetics of TSC SB RAS a superhard ceramic powder material ("slippery ceramics") - aluminomagnesium boride AlMgB14 was developed.

The Department of Foreign Languages, TSC, Siberian Branch, Russian Academy of Sciences announces the 32d annual conference Focus Room-2020 to be held on Friday, 29th of May 2020.

Tomsk Scientific Center (SB RAS) is working on new and improved ways to get carbides, nitrides, and borides of titanium and zirconium. These materials are highly demanded in aerospace and atomic power industries as well as in making high temperature equipment.

In early February, a group of research engineers with the laboratory of physical activation (a division of the structural microkinetics department) have released the first working prototype of a portable commercially viable new generation space heater that, as the say, can beat the competition in a number of ways.

Autumn of 2019 Tomsk academic science celebrates its half-centenary. Its history dates back to the foundation of the first research institute in 1969, the Institute of Atmospheric Optics of SB AS USSR, it was the starting point for the further development of institute network and their integration into the Regional Scientific Center of Siberian Branch of RAS.

The Department of Foreign Languages REC Tomsk Scientific Center SB RAS announces the 31st annual conference Focus Room-2019 to be held on May 24, 2019 at the Department of Foreign Languages REC Tomsk Scientific Center SB RAS (Akademicheskii Prospekt, 5/1).