University Hosts 50th All-Russian Conference "Physics of Space"

10:24, January 31, 2023

Astronomers discuss black holes, star formation, cosmic threats, and more

Students and scientists from all over Russia will discuss black holes wandering in the Milky Way, cosmic threats, the early stages of the formation of star systems, galactic spirals, and much more. They are taking part in the 50th All-Russian Student Scientific Conference with International Participation "Physics of Space", which will be held at the Ural Federal University from January 30 to February 3.

For example, a lecture on the chemistry of excited states will be given by Dmitry Wiebe, Head of the Department of Physics and Evolution of Stars at the Institute of Astronomy of the Russian Academy of Sciences. He will talk about the peculiarities of astrochemical processes involving isolated molecules in excited vibrational and rotational states. Maria Kirsanova, Senior Researcher at the Department of Physics of the Ural Federal University, Specialist at the UrFU Kourovka Astronomical Observatory and Evolution of Stars of the Institute of Astronomy of the Russian Academy of Sciences, will talk about interstellar molecules in the ultraviolet range. A review lecture on the Galaxy will be given by Olga Silchenko, Head of the Department of Physics of Emission Stars and Galaxies at the Sternberg Astronomical Institute of the Moscow State University.

"Our universe has existed and expanded for 13.8 billion years. The first galaxies within it, giant systems of stars and gas, also appeared long ago, more than 13 billion years ago. What were they like at the beginning of the universe's evolution, in the first billion years after the Big Bang? Cosmological theory has long since painted a complete picture. But we have already learned something from the observations, and not everything is similar to what the theorists predicted," says Olga Silchenko in her thesis.

These and other topics from experts and students are presented in the collection of articles accompanying the reports. The full program is available on the conference website.

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Every year since 1970, for more than 30 years, the Astronomy Council of the Russian Ministry of Science and Higher Education, the Astronomical Observatory and the Department of Astronomy and Geodesy of the Ural State University (now the Ural Federal University) have organized and conducted scientific conferences of students, postgraduates and young professional astronomers. Since 1996 the organization of the student scientific conference "Physics of Space" has been supported by grants from the Russian Foundation for Basic Research. In 1997-2000 the conference was included in the Federal Targeted Program "State Support of Integration of Higher Education and Basic Research for 1997-2000".

The main topics of the conferences are the latest achievements in the study of solar system objects, stellar physics, stellar systems, interstellar medium, physics of the galaxy, near-Earth space, and relativistic objects in the Universe. The main goal of the conferences is to bridge the traditional gap between science and education. The solution to this problem is achieved by reading special review lectures on modern problems of astronomy by both university professors and leading scientists of academic institutions in a language understandable to listeners who have a basic knowledge of astronomy but no special knowledge of the topics of the lectures.

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