Reviews of topical problems

B.Ya. Zel’dovich, N.F. Pilipetskii, V.V. Shkunov “Phase conjugation in stimulated scattering” Sov. Phys. Usp. 25 713–737 (1982)

A.A. Ovchinnikov, N.S. Érikhman “On vibrational energy localization at high levels of excitation. Vibrational excitons” Sov. Phys. Usp. 25 738–755 (1982)

Meetings and conferences

Yu.E. Nesterikhin, S.G. Rautian, M.I. Shtokman “Selective laser modification of macromolecules” Sov. Phys. Usp. 25 756–758 (1982)

V.F. Kitaeva, A.S. Zolot’ko, N.N. Sobolev “Self-focusing of laser radiation in the case of a Fredericks transition” Sov. Phys. Usp. 25 758–760 (1982)

E.V. Shuryak “The quark-gluon plasma” Sov. Phys. Usp. 25 760–761 (1982)

E.A. Turov “Violated symmetry and elementary excitations in solids” Sov. Phys. Usp. 25 761–762 (1982)

A.A. Samokhvalov “Active electron-magnon interaction in magnetic semiconductors” Sov. Phys. Usp. 25 762–762 (1982)

I.M. Tsidil’kovskii “Gapless semiconductors: A new class of substances” Sov. Phys. Usp. 25 762–763 (1982)

Ya.S. Shur “Magnetization reversal of magnetically uniaxial highly anisotropic ferromagnetics” Sov. Phys. Usp. 25 763–764 (1982)

Yu.A. Izyumov “Symmetry of magnetically ordered crystals and the scattering of slow neutrons” Sov. Phys. Usp. 25 764–765 (1982)

S.K. Sidorov “Neutron-diffraction study of alloys of transition metals with mixed exchange interaction” Sov. Phys. Usp. 25 765–766 (1982)

B.N. Goshchitskii “Nonequilibrium state of defective ordered crystals” Sov. Phys. Usp. 25 766–766 (1982)

S.M. Klotsman “Structure, properties, and interactions of point defects and their influence on radiation-stimulated phenomena in metals” Sov. Phys. Usp. 25 766–767 (1982)

V.D. Sadovskii “Structural heredity in steel” Sov. Phys. Usp. 25 767–768 (1982)

V.V. Sagaradze “Strengthening austenitic nonmagnetic steels by phase hardening” Sov. Phys. Usp. 25 768–768 (1982)

V.I. Syutkina “New hardening mechanisms of ordered alloys” Sov. Phys. Usp. 25 768–769 (1982)

V.A. Trapeznikov “Investigation of the surface layers of solids by electron spectroscopy” Sov. Phys. Usp. 25 769–770 (1982)

V.E. Shcherbinin “Magnetic, magnetoelastic, and magnetoacoustic nondestructive quality-control methods” Sov. Phys. Usp. 25 770–770 (1982)

D.I. Khomskii “Electron phase transitions and the intermediate-valence problem” Sov. Phys. Usp. 25 771–772 (1982)

B.I. Ivlev, N.B. Kopnin “Theory of resistive states in narrow superconducting channels” Sov. Phys. Usp. 25 772–773 (1982)

K.B. Efetov “Field-theory description of Anderson localization and the conductivity of two-dimensional disordered metals” Sov. Phys. Usp. 25 774–774 (1982)

N.F. Shul’ga “Development of electrodynamic processes in space and time at high energy” Sov. Phys. Usp. 25 774–776 (1982)

Yu.L. Sokolov, V.P. Yakovlev “Measurement of the Lamb shift in the hydrogen atom” Sov. Phys. Usp. 25 776–777 (1982)

Personalia

B.K. Vainshtein, I.M. Lifshitz, A.B. Migdal, O.B. Ptitsyn, D.S. Chernavskii “Mikhail Vladimirovich Vol’kenshtein (on his 70th birthday)” Sov. Phys. Usp. 25 778–779 (1982)

“Sergei Georgievich Suvorov (on his 80th birthday)” Sov. Phys. Usp. 25 780–780 (1982)