A scientific session of the Physical Sciences Division of the Russian Academy of Sciences (RAS) took place on 6 October 2010 in the Conference Hall of the Lebedev Physical Institute, RAS (FIAN) on the occasion of the 65th anniversary of founding of the Russian Federal Nuclear Center — All-Russian Research Institute of Experimental Physics (RFNC — VNIIEF).
The agenda of the session announced on the website www.gpad.ac.ru of the RAS Physical Sciences Division listed the following reports:

1. Ilkaev R I (RFNC — VNIIEF, Sarov, Nizhny Novgorod region). Opening remarks “On the fundamental physics research programs at RFNC — VNIIEF”;
2. Mikhailov A L (RFNC — VNIIEF, Sarov, Nizhny Novgorod region) “Hydrodynamic instabilities in various media”;
3. Trunin R F (RFNC — VNIIEF, Sarov, Nizhny Novgorod region) “Study of extreme states of metals using shock waves”;
4. Ivanovskii A V (RFNC — VNIIEF, Sarov, Nizhny Novgorod region) “Explosive magnetic energy generators and their application in research”;
5. Podurets A M (RFNC — VNIIEF, Sarov, Nizhny Novgorod region) “X-ray studies of the structure of matter in shock waves”;
6. Garanin S G (RFNC — VNIIEF, Sarov, Nizhny Novgorod region) “High-power lasers in studies of the physics of hot, dense plasma and thermonuclear fusion”;
7. Selemir V D (RFNC — VNIIEF, Sarov, Nizhny Novgorod region) “Physics research in ultrahigh magnetic fields”;
8. Mkhitar’yan L S (RFNC — VNIIEF, Sarov, Nizhny Novgorod region) “Gasdynamic thermonuclear fusion.”