Reviews of topical problems

N.N. Achasov, S.A. Devyanin, G.N. Shestakov “The problem of scalar mesons” 27 161–180 (1984)

S.I. Anisimov, A.M. Prokhorov, V.E. Fortov “Application of high-power lasers to study matter at ultrahigh pressures” 27 181–205 (1984)

B.I. Ivlev, N.B. Kopnin “Theory of current states in narrow superconducting channels” 27 206–227 (1984)

Meetings and conferences

Yu.P. Dobretsov, S.P. Kruglov “μSR-83 conference in Japan” 27 228–229 (1984)

Personalia

V.I. Arnol’d, G.I. Barenblatt, V.L. Ginzburg, B.B. Kadomtsev, P.L. Kapitsa, L.B. Okun’, L.P. Pitaevskii, R.Z. Sagdeev, R.A. Syunyaev, L.D. Faddeev, V.Ya. Frenkel’, Yu.B. Khariton “Yakov Borisovich Zel’dovich (on his seventieth birthday)” 27 230–232 (1984)

V.L. Ginzburg, Ya.B. Zeldovich, L.V. Keldysh, D.A. Kirzhnits, M.A. Markov, V.I. Ritus, V.Ya. Fainberg, E.L. Feinberg “Efim Samoilovich Fradkin (on his sixtieth birthday)” 27 233–234 (1984)