On 23 November 2011, the scientific session of the Physical Sciences Division of the Russian Academy of Sciences (RAS) was held at the conference hall of the Lebedev Physical Institute, RAS.
The following reports were put on the session agenda posted on the website www.gpad.ac.ru of the RAS Physical Sciences Division:

1. Ionin A A (Lebedev Physical Institute, RAS, Moscow) “High-power infrared and ultraviolet lasers and their applications”;
2. Romanovskii M Yu (Prokhorov General Physics Institute, RAS, Moscow) “Laser-induced acceleration of the forbidden captures of orbital electrons by nuclei”;
3. Petrukovich A A (Space Research Institute, RAS, Moscow) “Earth’s magnetosphere as a plasma laboratory”;
4. Shchur L N (Landau Institute for Theoretical Physics, RAS, Chernogolovka, Moscow region) “Computational physics and the verification of theoretical predictions”.