75th anniversary of the N V Pushkov Institute of Terrestrial Magnetism, Ionosphere and Radio Wave Propagation of the Russian Academy of Sciences (IZMIRAN)

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A scientific session of the Physical Sciences Division of the Russian Academy of Sciences (RAS) celebrating the 75th anniversary of the N V Pushkov Institute of Terrestrial Magnetism, Ionosphere, and Radio Wave Propagation of the RAS (IZMIRAN) was held in the IZMIRAN conference hall on 25 February 2015. The agenda of the session announced on the website http://www.gpad.ac.ru of the RAS Physical Sciences Division contained the following reports: (1) Kuznetsov V D (IZMIRAN, Moscow) “N V Pushkov Institute of Terrestrial Magnetism, Ionosphere and Radio Wave Propagation of the Russian Academy of Sciences (IZMIRAN) yesterday, today, and tomorrow”; (2) Gvishiani A D (Geophysical Center, Moscow) “Studies of the terrestrial magnetic field and the network of Russian magnetic laboratories”; (3) Sokoloff D D (Faculty of Physics, Lomonosov Moscow State University, Moscow) “Magnetic dynamo questions”; (4) Petrukovich A A (Space Research Institute, RAS, Moscow) “Some aspects of magnetosphere-ionosphere relations”; (5) Lukin D S (Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology (State University), Dolgoprudnyi, Moscow region) “Current problems of ionospheric radio wave propagation”; (6) Safargaleev V V (Polar Geophysical Institute, Kola Scientific Center, RAS, Murmansk), Sergienko T I (Swedish Institute of Space Physics (IRF), Sweden), Kozlovskii A E (Sodankyl Geophysical Observatory, Finland), Safargaleev A V (St. Petersburg State University, St. Petersburg), Kotikov A L (St. Petersburg Branch of IZMIRAN, St. Petersburg) “Magnetic and optical measurements and signatures of reconnection in the cusp and vicinity”; (7) Kuznetsov V D (IZMIRAN, Moscow) “Space solar research: achievements and prospects”. Papers written on the basis of oral reports 1, 3, 4, 6, and 7 are given below. • N V Pushkov Institute of Terrestrial Magnetism, Ionosphere and Radio Wave Propagation of the Russian Academy of Sciences (IZMIRAN) yesterday, today, tomorrow, V D Kuznetsov Physics-Uspekhi, 2015, Volume 58, Number 6, Pages 590–600 • Problems of magnetic dynamo, D D Sokoloff Physics-Uspekhi, 2015, Volume 58, Number 6, Pages 601–605 • Some aspects of magnetosphere-ionosphere relations, A A Petrukovich, M M Mogilevsky, A A Chernyshov, D R Shklyar Physics-Uspekhi, 2015, Volume 58, Number 6, Pages 606–611 • Magnetic and optical measurements and signatures of reconnection in the cusp and vicinity, V V Safargaleev, T I Sergienko, A V Safargaleev, A L Kotikov Physics-Uspekhi, 2015, Volume 58, Number 6, Pages 612–620 • Space solar research: achievements and prospects, V D Kuznetsov Physics-Uspekhi, 2015, Volume 58, Number 6, Pages 621–629