President of Tatarstan meets with academician Rashid Syunyaev
3 September 2012, Monday
The Tatarstan President Rustam Minnikhanov met with academician of the Russian academy of sciences, honourable member of Academy of sciences of the Republic of Tatarstan Rashid Syunyaev.
The meeting took place at the RT Government House with participation of President of the RT Academy of sciences Akhmet Mazgarov, Head of the Department for higher, secondary professional education and science of the RT Cabinet Staff Renat Zamanov, academician of the RT Academy of sciences Nail Sakhibullin.
The prominent Russian scientist Rashid Syunyaev is taking part in the international conference “X-ray sky: from starts and black holes to cosmology”. The forum will last till September 7.
The conference is organized by the RT Academy of sciences, the department of astronomy and space geodesy of the Kazan Federal University, the Institute of Space Research of the Russian academy of sciences (Moscow), the Institute of astrophysics named after Max Plank (Germany).
Rashid Syunyaev is the main initiator of the event. Outstanding astrophysicists from Russia, USA, Germany and other countries take part in the conference.
Main topic to be discussed at the event is scientific and technical problems connected with planned launch of a space observatory “Spectrum-RG” into the near-Earth orbit in 2014.
The satellite is meant for studying various unique objects of the Universe: black holes, active galaxies, remote clusters of galaxies and solving problems regarding origin and evolution of the Universe.
Rustam Minnikhanov thanked Rashid Syunyaev for having chosen Kazan to hold the conference.
Participants also discussed development of fundamental scientific research in Tatarstan and Russia.
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