Fifth Russian Workshop on Fibre Lasers

The Fifth Russian Workshop on Fibre Lasers was held in Akademgorodok, Novosibirsk, Russia on 27 — 30 March 2012. The idea to organise the workshop emerged in summer 2006 during an English-speaking conference held in Russia, where most participants were Russians. After a session where a Russian-speaking scientist reported his achievements to other Russian-speaking scientists in broken English, a group of attendees came up with the idea to launch a scientific workshop in Russian. That group included S. Turitsyn (Aston University, UK), S. Kobtsev (Novosibirsk State University, Novosibirsk), S. Babin [Institute of Automation and Electrometry, Siberian Branch (SB), Russian Academy of Sciences (RAS), Novosibirsk], and me.