A joint session of the Physical Sciences Division of the Russian Academy of Sciences (RAS) and the Joint Physical Society of the Russian Federation was held on December 1, 2005 in the conference hall of the Lebedev Physics Institute of RAS. The following reports were presented at the session.
(1) Kuzmin L S (Chalmers University of Technology, Gothenburg, Sweden) “Supersensitive cold-electron bol- ometers in studies of dark matter and dark energy”;
(2) Tkalya E V (Lomonosov Moscow State University Research Institute of Nuclear Physics, Moscow, Russia) “Induced decay of the nuclear isomer ^178m2Hf and the ’isomeric bomb’”.
Abridged versions of these reports are given below.