Special meeting of the Presidium of the Russian Academy of Sciences, the Bureau of the General Physics and Astronomy Division, RAS and the Scientific Council of the P N Lebedev Physics Institute, RAS on the occasion of the 110th anniversary of the birth of Sergei Ivanovich Vavilov, and XXV Jubilee Vavilov Reading (28 March 2001)

Abstract

A joint scientific session of the General Physics and Astronomy Division of the Russian Academy of Sciences (RAS), theScientific Council on Luminescence of the Russian Academyof Sciences, and the United Physical Society of the RussianFederation was held in the Conference hall of the PNLebedevPhysics Institute, Russian Academy of Sciences, on 28 March2001 at 11 a.m. The session was dedicated to the 110thanniversary of the birth of Academician Sergei IvanovichVavilov (XXV Jubilee Vavilov Reading).The following reports were presented at the session: (1) Alfimov M V (Photochemistry Center, RAS, Moscow) 'Luminescence of guest – host type organic nanostructures'; (2) Bolotovskii B M (P N Lebedev Physics Institute, RAS, Moscow) 'Vavilov – Cherenkov effect: the history of the discovery and the current status of the problem'. (3) Osipov Yu S (President of the RAS, Moscow) 'Opening address'; (4) Ginzburg V L (P N Lebedev Physics Institute, RAS, Moscow) 'About Sergei Ivanovich Vavilov'; (5) Krokhin O N (P N Lebedev Physics Institute, RAS, Moscow) 'S I Vavilov — the founder of the P N Lebedev Physics Institute'; (6) Feinberg E L (P N Lebedev Physics Institute, RAS, Moscow) 'Sergei Ivanovich Vavilov and his time'; (7) Bonch-Bruevich A M (S I Vavilov State Optical Institute, St. Petersburg) 'Sergei Ivanovich Vavilov in my life'.