Summer school of the Dynasty Foundation is completed

A bird's-eye view of Protvino, the physicists' town. In the center is the largest Russian accelerator, the U-70, built at the Institute for High Energy Physics in 1967. Photo from the website hyperon.ihep.su

The summer school was held from August 10 to August 20, 2009 in Protvino under the auspices of the International Center for Fundamental Physics in Moscow.
Thirty-two Russian physicists—young scientists, graduate students, and college students in upper years of college from Moscow and Novosibirsk, Tomsk and Yaroslavl, Saint Petersburg and Samara, Orenburg and Krasnoyarsk, and Nizhny Novgorod and Dnepropetrovsk (Ukraine) selected competitively—participated in the school.

This year's school theme was “Elementary particle physics in anticipation of the Large Hadron Collider.”

The participants had an opportunity to hear six lecture courses:

• “The Standard Model” (A. Leonidov, Lebedev Physical Institute, RAS, Moscow)
• “Supersymmetry” (R. Nevzorov, Institute of Theoretical and Experimental Physics, Moscow)
• “Cosmology” (I. Tkachev, Institute for Nuclear Research, RAS, Moscow)
• “Top quark, Higgs boson, and supersymmetry physics” (E. Boos, Skobeltsyn Institute of Nuclear Physics, Moscow State University)
• “B physics” (V. Shevchenko, Institute for Theoretical and Experimental Physics, Moscow)
• “Nonsupersymmetric extensions of the Standard Model” (V. Rubakov, Institute for Nuclear Research, RAS, Moscow).

V. Rubakov, Institute for Nuclear Research, RAS, Moscow

The Dynasty Foundation, under the auspices of the International Center for Fundamental Physics in Moscow, organizes an annual summer school for young scientists that is dedicated to relevant areas of modern physics.
The themes of the Protvino summer school for young scientists were the physics of fundamental interactions in 2006; low-temperature nanophysics, one of the most actively developing fields of modern solid state physics, in 2007; and modern astrophysics in 2008.

The organizers of these schools aim to attract prominent lecturers and leading specialists in the field of physics to which a school is dedicated.

The audience has an opportunity not only to learn things that have not yet become part of the university curriculum but also to directly interact with those who do modern science.