The 100th anniversary of the birth of I M Lifshitz (Scientific session of the Physical Sciences Division of the Russian Academy of Sciences, 18 January 2017)

On 18 January 2017, a scientific session of the Physical Sciences Division of the Russian Academy of Sciences (RAS) was held at the conference hall of the P N Lebedev Physical Institute, RAS, in honor of the 100th anniversary of the birth of I M Lifshitz.

The following reports were put on the session agenda as posted on the PSD website www.gpad.ac.ru:

(1) Grosberg A Yu (New York University, USA) “Ilya Mikhailovich Lifshitz and physics of biopolymers”;

(2) Pastur L A (B I Verkin Institute for Low Temperature Physics $\&$ Engineering, National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine, Kharkiv) “Disordered fermions”;

(3) Volovik G E (L D Landau Institute for Theoretical Physics, RAS, Moscow; Aalto University, Finland) “Exotic Lifshitz transitions in topological materials”;

(4) Krapivskii P (Boston University, USA) “Lifshitz–Slyozov–Wagner theory and social dynamics”;

(5) Gorsky A S (Institute for Information Transmission Problems, Moscow) “New critical phenomena in random networks and multiparticle localization”;

(6) Nechaev S K (P N Lebedev Physical Institute, RAS, Moscow; Interdisciplinary Scientific Center Poncelet, Moscow) “Rare event statistics and hierarchy: from Lifshitz tails to modular invariance”.

Papers based on oral reports 1, 3, and 6 are given below.