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According to the plan of international scientific co-operation of the Ministry of Industry, Science and Technologies of the Russian Federation and the Russian Academy of Sciences, the Institute for Prob-lems in Mechanics of the RAS, the Russian State Hydrometeorological University and M.V. Lomonosov Moscow State University are organising the international conference and the next 12th meeting of the Working Group "Laboratory modelling of dynamic processes in the ocean" of the RAS Scientific Council on World Ocean Problems.
The conference will be held at the Russian State Hydrometeorological University from June 23 to June 26, 2003. The meeting of the Working Group is to be held at the same place on June 22, 2003.
The principal objective of the Conference is to discuss recent results of theoretical and experimental investi-gations of the structures formed in stratified and/or rotating fluids by external fluxes of momentum, energy and other parameters, and on the associated processes of energy and matter transfer. The following subjects are discussing: modelling of the processes of structure formation, principles of their identification and classi-fication.
This Conference is considered a follow-up to the earlier conferences on critical problems in geophysical and astrophysical fluid mechanics, including, (i) "Contemporary problems in laboratory modelling of ocean proc-esses" – Svetlogorsk, 1987; (ii) "Modelling of fronts inside and on the surface of a liquid" – Kanev, 1988;(iii) "Non-linear internal waves" Novosibirsk, 1989; (iv) "Anisotropy of fluid currents in the field of external mass forces" – Jurmala, 1990; (v) "Waves and vortices in the ocean and their laboratory analogues" – Vladivostok, 1991; (vi) "Meso- and microstructure of the ocean: measurements and models of the proc-esses" – St. Petersburg, 1992; (vii) "Transport processes in the ocean and their laboratory modelling" – Moscow, 1993; (viii) "Boundary effects in stratified and/or rotating liquids " – St. Petersburg, 1995; (ix) "Stability and instability of stratified and/or rotating flows" – Moscow, 1997; and, (x, xi) "Fluxes and struc-tures in Fluids" – St. Petersburg, 1999, Moscow, 2001.
Papers on other related topics are also welcome.
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From the very start, St. Petersburg became the core of Russian culture, enriched by closed ties with the European culture. The first secular educational institutions in Russia were established here, - the Forestry Institute, Technological Institute, Institute of Mines. It was also here that the first Russian museum of natural sciences – the famous Kunstkamera (Exhibition of Rarities, Curiosities and Oddi-ties) – was set up, as well as the first Russian astronomical observatory and other institutions of the Academy of Sciences that was founded in 1724. The great Russian scientist M.V. Lomonosov, was working in St. Petersburg for many years.
In the streets and avenues of the city you feel a surprisingly refined combination of the architec-ture of miscellaneous epochs and different architectural styles. The city was built by Trezzini, Rastrelli, Kvasov, Voronokhin, Rossi, Stasov, Quarenhgi, Montferrant and other architects. The UNESCO in-troduced the historical centre of St. Petersburg into the World Heritage List, as well as the ensembles in the key city part of the Nevsky Prospect, the Foundry part, the Admiralty, Vasilyevsky Island, Pe-trograd District, Islands, the Neva River with its embankments and banks, the palace and park ensem-bles in the environs of the city – the towns of Pushkin, Pavlovsk, Gatchina, Petrodvorets, Strelna, Lo-monosov, the historical section of the town of Kronschtadt, the Oreshek (Nutshell) Fortress, the en-semble of the Pulkovo Observatory, totally, over four thousand objects.
St. Petersburg is a city of more than 170 museums. One of them is the world-famous Hermitage, one of the largest museums of the world. The Hermitage has about three millions exhibits, and the gal-leries of the museum are almost 19 km long. The collection of the Russian Museum reflects almost a thousand-year-long period in the history of the Russian art (from the 11th century up to present days). The museum possesses one of the best collections of icons, paintings and a collection of sculpture of the Russian masters, unique in its completeness.
At present, in separate places of the city one can still see the patches of the natural forest (Piskarevka, Sosnovka, also ones at the Technical University and Forestry Academy). Regular gardens and parks patterned following the Western-European style started to form in the first quarter of the 18th century.
In 1704-1720 the Summer Garden whose author of the project was the Emperor Peter The Great was founded. In the late 19th century the regular parks were replaced by the landscape, or English parks. The palaces and parks assemblies of Poushkin (Tsarskoe Selo), Pavlovsk, Peterhof are persived as the intergral part of the green belt of the city.
St. Petersburg can be rightly considered as the cultural capital of Russia. The city has more than hundred theatres and creative collectives, including such world famous ones as the Mariinsky Theatre of Opera and Ballet, M.P. Musorgsky Theatre of Opera and Ballet, Philharmonic society and others.
In 1704-1720 the Summer Garden whose author of the project was the Emperor Peter The Great was founded. In the late 19th century the regular parks were replaced by the landscape, or English parks. The palaces and parks assemblies of Poushkin (Tsarskoe Selo), Pavlovsk, Peterhof are persived as the intergral part of the green belt of the city.
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Because of the summer tourist season and the 300th anniversary of St. Petersburg to be cele-brated in May 2003, the participants are invited to inform the Organizing Committee of their hotel requests and to confirm the payment for hotel booking.
Address for correspondence:
Prof. Yuli D. Chashechkin
101/1 Prospect Vernadskogo,
Institute for Problems in Mechanics of the RAS
Moscow 119526
Russia
Fax: +7-095-938-2048
Tel.: +7-095-434-0192 (Yu.D. Chashechkin), 434-6063 (V.G. Baydulov)
E-mail: ńhakin@ipmnet.ru, bayd@ipmnet.ru
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