On the celebration of the jubilee year of the Russian Academy of Sciences (1724-1999)

The celebrations of the 275th anniversary of the Russian Academy of Sciences are taking place in Moscow from 31 May to 5 June 1999. Joint Jubilee Session of the Division of General Physics and Astronomy and the Division of Nuclear Physics of the Russian Academy of Sciences (RAS) was held at the P N Lebedev Physics Institute, RAS on 1 June 1999. The following talks will be presented: (1) Andreev A F 'Mesoscopic superconductivity in superspace'; (2) Rubakov V A 'Particle physics and cosmology: current status and anticipation'; (3) Gaponov-Grekhov A V, Luchinin A G and Talanov V I 'Physical foundations of remote-control probing of the ocean'; (4) Alferov Zh I 'Quantum-dimensional nanostructures'; (5) Boyarchuk A A 'Binary stars'; (6) Danilov MV 'Current status and prospects in elementary particle physics (experimenter's outlook'). Papers based on these talks will be published in a special jubilee issue of Physics-Uspekhi.