Modern problems in the physical sciences (Scientific session of the Physical Sciences Division of the Russian Academy of Sciences, 30 November 2011)

On 30 November 2011, a scientific session of the Physical Sciences Division of the Russian Academy of Sciences (RAS) was held in the conference hall of the Lebedev Physical Institute, RAS. The agenda of the session announced on the RAS Physical Sciences Division website www.gpad.ac.ru included the following reports:
(1) Ivchenko E L (Ioffe Physical Technical Institute, RAS, St. Petersburg) “Spin physics in semiconductor nanosystems”;
(2) Golub L E (A F Ioffe Physical Technical Institute, RAS, St. Petersburg) “Spin transport in heterostructures”;
(3) Levchenko A A (Institute of Solid State Physics, RAS, Chernogolovka, Moscow region) “Capillary turbulence on the surface of quantum liquids”;
(4) Babin S A (Institute of Automation and Electrometry, Siberian Branch of the RAS) “New generation modes in fiber lasers”;
(5) Kurt V G (Astro-Space Center of the Lebedev Physical Institute, RAS, Moscow) “Motion of the Sun through the interstellar medium”;
(6) Lukash V N (Astro-Space Center of the Lebedev Physical Institute, RAS, Moscow) “Cosmological flow generation in general relativity”.
Papers written on the basis of oral reports 1–3, 5, and 6 are presented below.