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  • SEPTEMBER 12, 2015: Registration deadline for people with a visa application (mostly Schengen visa). Please send your visa request by E-mail to Этот адрес электронной почты защищен от спам-ботов. У вас должен быть включен JavaScript для просмотра. (indicate VISA in the Subject of email)
  • September 16, 2015: Program released
  • September 21, 2015: Final registration deadline
  • September 24, 2015: Arrival in St Petersburg
  • SEPTEMBER 25-26, 2015: Conference working days
  • September 27, 2015: [social program]Visit to PNPI (reactor PIK) http://www.pnpi.spb.ru/win/facil/pik.htm
  • September 26-27, 2015: Departure from St Petersburg

Hotel «Pulkovskaya Ltd.» Park Inn,

Saint-Petersburg, Pobedy sq. No1

http://www.parkinn.com/reservation/clearReservation.do

Rates:

We are delighted to offer hotel accommodation for the conference participants on special prices with a discount of hotel open rates according to our corporate agreement. Please use a special Corporate Rate PCR Number 120023 for a discount.

Single room - 4350 rubles

Double room 4850 rubles

Hotel «Akademicheskaya»,

Gatchina, Krupskaya str., No,12

http://www.pnpi.spb.ru/win/struct/hotel.htm

Single - 1700 rubles

Double (twin beds) – 1900 rubles

Double comfort - 2300 rubles

Since Gatchina is situated 25 km from Saint-Petersburg, transfer to the conference venue will be provided for conference participants (in the morning, arrival 30 minutes before the conference and back to Gatchina after the meetings).

The venue of the conference – Red Hall «D» of the hotel «Pulkovskaya Ltd.»

Contacts:

Natalia Nikitina

Rimma Zheronkina

International Department, Petersburg Nuclear Physics Institute

National Research Center «Kurchatov Institute»

Office Phone : +7 (81371) 30715

Mobile Phone: +7 (921) 9882008

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Dr Victor Ezhov - Head of the organizing committee

Head of Division of Innovations

Petersburg Nuclear Physics Institute

NRC Kurchatov Institute

Phone: +7-813-71-3-85-11

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MAIN CONTACT

Dr Sergey Bulat - Vice-Head of the organizing committee

Head of CryoAstrobiology laboratory

Petersburg Nuclear Physics Institute

NRC Kurchatov Institute

Phone: +7-813-714 6625

Mobile: +7-921-786 41 23

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Twenty-five minutes for presentation and five minutes for discussion.

AGENDA:

Sept 25, 2015 
09.00 – 09.40 Registration
09.40 – 09.50 Welcome – V Aksenov, director of PNPI, NRC KI, academician
09.50 – 10.00 Welcome – A Bystramovitch, Roshydromet
  General questions, drilling, geophysics, glaciology, geology
Moderator – V Aksenov
10.00 – 10.30 V Lukin (AARI) – Vostok station in Antarctica : establishment history, status quo and prospects for development
10.30 – 11.00 S Popov (PMGRE) – Remote sensing investigations of the Lake Vostok area
11.00 – 11.30 N Vasiliev (SPMI) – 5G borehole – drilling operations in ice deeper than 3000 m and Lake Vostok entries
11.30 – 12.00 Cofee
12.00 – 12.30 I Alekhina (AARI) - Lake Vostok studies: A review of recent results obtained in the frame of project supported by RSF
12.30 – 13.00 Philippe Jean-Baptiste (LSCE (CEA-CNRS) – Helium isotopes and neon in Vostok glacier and lake ice: 25 years of French-Russian collaboration
13.00 – 14.30 Lunch
  General questions, drilling, geophysics, glaciology, geology
Moderator – S Popov
14.30 – 15.00 G Leitchenkov (VNIIOceanGeology) – Geology of the subglacial Lake Vostok region – lake sediments
15.00 – 15.20 A Ekaykin (AARI) - Stable water isotope studies in the subglacial Lake Vostok region
15.20 – 15.40 O Troshichev (AARI) – Magnetic field at Vostok station (RS-index) as a record for “cosmic weather”
15.40 – 16.00 Cofee
  Biophysical/Technical tools/means/approaches for Lake Vostok water body studies
Moderator – S Bulat
16.00 – 16.30 V Ezhov (PNPI NRC KI), A Andreev, A Zakharov, V Solovei, Yu Chetverikov, A Bosak, V Lukin – Biophysical studies at the Vostok station and investigation of the subglacial Lake Vostok
16.30 – 16.50 A Bol’shunov (SPMI) – Technical approaches in delivering scientific devices to the Lake Vostok via 5G borehole
16.50 – 17.10 E Zagrivny (SPMI) – Technology and technical approaches in obtaining sediments of the subglacial Lake Vostok
17.10 – 17.30 V Solovei (PNPI NRC KI) – Technical support in performing biophysical experiments at the Vostok station (energy supply, Wi-Fi, electronics)
   
18.00 Depart to conference dinner by PNPI bus from Park-Inn hotel and back
19.00 – 23.00 Conference dinner at the Neva river cruiser  
Sept 26, 2015 
09.00 – 10.00 Registration
  Astronomy at Vostok station
Moderator – V Ezhov
10.00 – 10.30 Yu Nagovichin (GAO RAS) – Astronomical investigations in Antarctica
  Astrobiology
Moderator – V Ezhov
10.30 – 11.00 S Bulat (PNPI NRC KI) – Searching for life in the subglacial Lake Vostok
11.00 – 11.30 U. Böttger (DLR, Germany) - Identification of Inorganic and Organic Inclusions in the Vostok Lake Ice with Raman Spectroscopy
11.30 – 12.00 Cofee
12.00 – 12.30 V Galchenko (INMI RAS) – Life in the Universe and the Lake Vostok
12.30 – 13.00 L Ksanfomality (SRI RAS) – Pluto, the dwarf planet 134340
13.00 – 14.30 Lunch
14.30 – 15.00 N Demidov (IPBPSS, Pushchino) – Overview of conditions at the Vostok station and in the subglacial Lake Vostok as compared with those on Mars and Jovian Europa
  Cosmic dust and micrometeorites in Antarctica
Moderator – V Grokhovsky
15.00 – 15.30 E Zubko (Institute of Astronomy, V.N. Karazin Kharkov National University, Ukraine) - Sampling interplanetary dust particles in Antarctica: Scientific goals and practical challenges
15.30 – 16.00 Cofee
16.00 – 16.30 S Bulat (PNPI NRC KI) – Antarctic micrometeorites and cosmic dust at the Vostok station
16.30 – 17.00 V Grokhovsky (UrFU) – Collecting extraterrestrial material nearby Russian Antarctic stations
17.00 – 17.20 D Kuzina (KazFU) – Investigation of magnetic properties of sedimentary rocks in terms of detection of cosmic dust and extant magnetotactic bacteria
17.20 – 17.40 Yu Chetverikov (PNPI NRC KI) – Hydrogen in accretion ice of the Lake Vostok: geothermal activity and bio-available energy in the lake
17.40 – 18.00 General discussion, outcome of the meeting, development of the ‘Vostok program’ investigations. Conference close.
Sept 27, 2015
10.00 – 11.00 Trip to Gatchina (by PNPI bus)
11.00 – 12.00 Visiting PNPI NRC KI (reactor PIK)
12.00 – 13.00 Return to St Petersburg (by PNPI bus)

 

  1. Organizing Committee
  2. Program Committee
  3. Visa Information
  4. Biogeochemistry, biophysics and astrobiology studies at the Russian Antarctic "Vostok" station: results and prospects