From December 9 to December 10, Doctor of Physical and Mathematical Sciences, Head of the “Hadron Structures” Sector of the Laboratory of Theoretical Physics of the Joint Institute for Nuclear Research (JINR) (Dubna, Russia) Andrei Arbuzov gave a course of lectures for students of the Faculty of Physics and IT.
At the beginning of the first lecture, A.B. Arbuzov told the students about JINR, about laboratories and their areas of work, about the NICA accelerator complex (Nucleotron based Ion Collider fAcility) under construction to study the properties of dense baryonic matter. After the NICA collider is launched, JINR scientists will be able to recreate in laboratory conditions the special state of matter in which our Universe was in the first moments after the Big Bang.
The lectures addressed the problems faced by modern fundamental physics. Topics covered:
- fundamental interactions,
- vacuum stability,
- cosmology as an exact science,
- dark matter and dark energy, the anthropic principle,
- the Fermi paradox – the great silence of the Universe, etc.
Andrei Arbuzov visited the laboratories of the faculty, met with teachers and the dean of the faculty, discussed prospects for further cooperation.
This year, an agreement on cooperation in research activities and personnel training was signed between the Francisk Skorina Gomel State University and JINR.
The meeting was held thanks to the State Program “Education and Youth Policy”, the subprogram “Development of the higher education system”.
