A joint scientific session of the Physical Sciences Division of the Russian Academy of Sciences (RAS) and Research Council of the P N Lebedev Physical Institute, RAS honoring the 90th birthday of Academician V L Ginzburg was held in the Conference Hall of the P N Lebedev Physical Institute, RAS on 4 October 2006. The following reports were presented at the session:
(1) Gurevich A V (P N Lebedev Physical Institute, RAS, Moscow) ’Nonlinear effects in the ionosphere’;
(2) Kardashev N S (P N Lebedev Physical Institute, RAS, Moscow) ’The radio Universe’;
(3) Ptuskin V S (Institute of Terrestrial Magnetism, Ionosphere and Radiowave Propagation, RAS, Troitsk, Moscow region) ’On the origin of galactic cosmic rays’;
(4) Maksimov E G (P N Lebedev Physical Institute, RAS, Moscow) ’What is known and what is unknown about HTSCs’;
(5) Belyavsky V I, Kopaev Yu V (P N Lebedev Physical Institute, RAS, Moscow) ’Ginzburg&nbsp-Landau equations for high-temperature superconductors’;
(6) Tsytovich V N (A M Prokhorov Institute of General Physics, RAS, Moscow) ’Polarization effects in a medium: from Vavilov&nbsp-Cherenkov radiation and transition radiation to dust-particle pairing, or the development of one of V L Ginzburg’s ideas from 1940 to 2006′.
Extended reports Nos 1 and 4 in the form of reviews will be published in subsequent issues of Physics&nbsp-Uspekhi. An abridge version of the other four papers is given below.

DOI: 10.1070/PU2007v050n05ABEH006214 URL: https://ufn.ru/en/articles/2007/5/e/ 2-s2.0-34548587909 2007PhyU...50..529K Citation: Kardashev N S, Ptuskin V S, Belyavskii V I, Kopaev Yu V, Tsytovich V N "Joint scientific session of the Physical Sciences Division of the Russian Academy of Sciences and Research Council of the P N Lebedev Physical Institute of the Russian Academy of Sciences honoring the 90th birthday of Academician V L Ginzburg (4 October 2006)" Phys. Usp. 50 529–534 (2007) BibTexBibNote ® (generic)BibNote ® (RIS) MedlineRefWorks PT Journal Article TI Joint scientific session of the Physical Sciences Division of the Russian Academy of Sciences and Research Council of the P N Lebedev Physical Institute of the Russian Academy of Sciences honoring the 90th birthday of Academician V L Ginzburg (4 October 2006) AU Kardashev N S FAU Kardashev NS AU Ptuskin V S FAU Ptuskin VS AU Belyavskii V I FAU Belyavskii VI AU Kopaev Yu V FAU Kopaev YV AU Tsytovich V N FAU Tsytovich VN DP 10 May, 2007 TA Phys. Usp. VI 50 IP 5 PG 529-534 RX 10.1070/PU2007v050n05ABEH006214 URL https://ufn.ru/en/articles/2007/5/e/ SO Phys. Usp. 2007 May 10;50(5):529-534 Оригинал: Кардашев Н С, Птускин В С, Белявский В И, Копаев Ю В, Цытович В Н «Научная сессия Отделения физических наук Российской академии наук и заседание Ученого совета Физического института им. П.Н. Лебедева РАН, посвященные 90-летию академика В.Л. Гинзбурга (4 октября 2006 г.)» УФН 177 553–558 (2007); DOI: 10.3367/UFNr.0177.200705d.0553