NASU physicotechnical and mathematical section gets good results

By Svetlana Sytina
The Ukrainian Times

Over the last five years the physicotechnical and mathematical section of the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine (NASU) has got good results.

According to Anton Naumovets, head of the section and NASU vice-president, the participation of Ukrainian scientists in experiments
on the Large Hadron Collider of the European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN) allowed them to become co-authors of the establishment
of the existence of the Higgs boson that confirmed the standard model of particle physics. The results of theoretical investigations
of the new material graphene, which NASU researchers conducted in this country, have been proved by experiments performed by Nobel Prize winners Andre Geim and Konstantin Novoselov. Also, Mr. Naumovets pointed out achievements of institutions of the section in applied research: first of all, advanced developments designed for power engineering, medicine, aircraft construction, the space-rocket industry, mining and smelting complex.

In recent years scientists of the section have expanded activity aimed to develop and introduce nanotechnologies and nanomaterials into production. A part of receipts from the contracts, which were carried out by institutions of the section, accounted for 11% of the total financing last year. Anton Naumovets thinks it is possible to increase substantially this figure.

Speaking about short-range plans, the head of the NASU physicotechnical and mathematical section outlined the two directions: an improvement in work to draw youth into scientific research and ensuring of the extensive participation of section’s institutions in Horizon 2020, the EU framework program for research and innovation.