G.N. Makarov “Extreme processes in clusters impacting on a solid surface” Phys. Usp. 49 117–166 (2006)

O.V. Ivanov, S.A. Nikitov, Yu.V. Gulyaev “Cladding modes of optical fibers: properties and applications” Phys. Usp. 49 167–191 (2006)

V.M. Fridkin “Critical size in ferroelectric nanostructures” Phys. Usp. 49 193–202 (2006)

V.M. Pudalov “Metal-insulator transitions and related phenomena in a strongly correlated two-dimensional electron system” Phys. Usp. 49 203–208 (2006)

Conferences and symposia

V.M. Pudalov, S.V. Iordanskii, A. Kashuba, E.B. Olshanetskii, V. Renard, Z.D. Kvon, I.V. Gornyi, A.I. Toropov, J.C. Portal “Joint scientific session of the Physical Sciences Division of the Russian Academy of Sciences and the Joint Physical Society of the Russian Federation ’Strongly correlated electrons in two-dimensional systems’ (26 October 2005)” Phys. Usp. 49 203–208 (2006)

V.M. Pudalov “Metal-insulator transitions and related phenomena in a strongly correlated two-dimensional electron system” Phys. Usp. 49 203–208 (2006)

S.V. Iordanskii, A. Kashuba “Two-dimensional multicomponent electron gas as a model for silicon heterostructures” Phys. Usp. 49 208–211 (2006)

E.B. Olshanetskii, V. Renard, Z.D. Kvon, I.V. Gornyi, A.I. Toropov, J.C. Portal “Interaction effects in the transport and magnetotransport of two-dimensional electrons in AlGaAs/GaAs and Si/SiGe heterojunctions” Phys. Usp. 49 211–216 (2006)

“Aleksandr Nikolaevich Skrinsky (on his seventieth birthday)” Phys. Usp. 49 217–218 (2006)

Personalia

Zh.I. Alferov, A.F. Andreev, V.L. Ginzburg, N.S. Kardashev, L.V. Keldysh, B.M. Koval’chuk, S.D. Korovin, O.N. Krokhin, M.V. Sadovskii, E.L. Feinberg, V.E. Fortov, V.G. Shpak “Gennadii Andreevich Mesyats (on his seventieth birthday)” Phys. Usp. 49 219–221 (2006)

Physics news on the internet

Yu.N. Eroshenko “Physics news on the Internet (based on electronic preprints)” Phys. Usp. 49 223–224 (2006)