100th anniversary of the birth of I Ya Pomeranchuk (Extended session of the all-institute seminar at the Alikhanov Institute for Theoretical and Experimental Physics, 5 – 6 June 2013)

On 5 – 6 June 2013, an extended session of the all-institute seminar was held at the Russian Federation State Scientific Center ‘Alikhanov Institute for Theoretical and Experimental Physics’ (ITEP). It was devoted to the 100th anniversary of the birth of Academician Isaak Yakovlevich Pomeranchuk, the founder of the Theory Department of ITEP. The announced agenda of the session on the ITEP website (www.itep.ru/rus/Pomeranchuk100.html) contained the following reports:

(1) Gershtein S S (SRC ‘Institute for High Energy Physics’, Protvino, Moscow region) “I Ya Pomeranchuk and the large accelerator”;
(2) Keldysh L V (Lebedev Physical Institute, RAS (FIAN), Moscow) “Dynamic tunneling”;
(3) Vaks V G (National Research Centre ‘Kurchatov Institute’ (NRC KI), Moscow) “Brief reminiscences”;
(4) Smilga A V (Laboratoire Physique Subatomique et des technologies associées, Université de Nantes, France) “Vacuum structure in 3D supersymmetric gauge theories”;
(5) Khriplovich I B (Budker Institute of Nuclear Physics, SB RAS, Novosibirsk) “Gravitational four-fermion interaction and early Universe dynamics”;
(6) Dremin I M (FIAN, Moscow) “Elastic scattering of hadrons”;
(7) Belavin A A (Landau Institute of Theoretical Physics, RAS, Moscow) “Correlators in minimal string models”;
(8) Voloshin M B (Theoretical Physics Institute, University of Minnesota, USA) “Exotic quarkonium”;
(9) Nekrasov N A (Institut des hautes études scientifiques (IHES), France) “BPS/CFT correspondence”;
(10) Zarembo K (Uppsala Universitet, Sweden) “Exact results in supersymmetric theories and AdS/CFT correspondence”;
(11) Gorsky A S (ITEP, Moscow) “Baryon as a dyon instanton”;
(12) Blinnikov S I (ITEP, Moscow) “Mirror substance and other models for dark matter”;
(13) Rubakov V A (Institute for Nuclear Research, RAS, Moscow) “Test-tube Universe”;
(14) Kancheli O V (ITEP, Moscow) “50 years of reggistics”;
(15) Shevchenko V I (NRC KI) “In search of the chiral magnetic effect”;
(16) Kirilin V P (ITEP, Moscow) “Anomalies and long-range action”;
(17) Narozhny N B (National Research Nuclear University ‘MEPhI’, Moscow) “Superpower lasers as instruments for studying the properties of vacuum”;
(18) Kerbikov B O (ITEP, Moscow) “Hadrons in strong magnetic fields”;
(19) Neznamov V P, Safronov I I (Russian Federal Nuclear Center – All-Russian Scientific Research Institute of Experimental Physics (VNIIEF), Sarov, Nizhny Novgorod region) “A new method for solving the ‘Z > 137’ problem and determining hydrogen-like energy levels”;
(20) Vysotsky M I, Godunov S I (ITEP, Moscow) “Critical charge in a superstrong magnetic field”;
(21) Dolgov A D (Universitè degli Studi di Ferrara, Italy) “Cosmology: from Pomeranchuk to the present day”.
Papers written around the reports Nos 4, 5, 11, 12, 19 – 21 are published below. The content of report 6 in an extended form is reflected in I M Dremin's 2013 review of the same title published in Phys. Usp. 56 3 (2013). An extended version of report 13 is published in the present issue of Phys. Usp. 57 128 (2014).