The Bruno Pontecorvo Prize 2005 was awarded ments in heavy-ion physics research and considerable to Professors L.Wolfenstein (Carnegie Mellon Univer- contribution to international cooperation and mutual un- sity, Pittsburg, the USA), S. Mikheev (the Institute for derstanding. Nuclear Research (INR), Moscow, Russia), A. Smirnov (INR, Moscow, and ICTP, Trieste, Italy) for the predic- The International ®Brightness Award¯ was tion and study of matter effects on neutrino oscillations, awarded to D. Donets, E. D. Donets, E. E. Donets and known as the MikheevÄSmirnovÄWolfenstein effect. V. Salnikov (VBLHE, JINR) for a series of works un- The Humboldt Research Award 2005 was awarded der the title ®Development of Electron String Source of to Professor M. Itkis (JINR) for outstanding achieve- Highly Charged Ions¯. PRIZEWINNERS OF JINR'S ANNUAL COMPETITION FOR BEST RESEARCH I. Theoretical Physics Research ®Experimental Model-Free Determination of Main Pa- rameters of the Cascade Gamma-Decay of Compound First Prize Nuclei from the Region 39 <A<201¯. ®Analysis of Experimental Data for Deep-Inelastic Lep- Authors: A. Sukhovoj, V. Khitrov. ton Scattering: Asymptotic Freedom and Nonperturba- ®Structures of Superheavy Hydrogen Isotopes¯. tive Effects in QCD¯. Authors: A. Fomichev, M. Golovkov, L. Grigorenko, Authors: A. Kotikov, V. Krivokhizhin, A. Sidorov, A. Korsheninnikov, Yu. Oganessian, A. Rodin, S. Sidor- A. Kataev, G. Parente. chuk, S. Stepantsov, G. Ter-Akopian, R. Wolski. Second Prize ®Looking for SUSY Dark Matter¯. III. Physics Instruments and Methods Authors: V. Bednyakov, F. Simkovic, H. Klapdor- Kleingrothaus. First Prize ®Development and Construction of the CDF II Muon II. Experimental Physics Research Scintillation Detector for Heavy Quark Physics Experi- ments at the FNAL Tevatron¯. First Prize Authors: A. Artikov, J. Budagov, A. Sissakian, ®Study of the Q2 Dependence of the Generalized I. Chirikov-Zorin, D. Chokheli, B. Grinyov, V. Senchy- GerasimovÄDrellÄHearn Integrals¯. shyn, G. Bellettini, S. Tokar, N. Giokaris. Authors: S. Gerasimov, O. Teryaev, J. Soffer, Second Prizes N. Akopov, A. Nagaitsev. ®Design and Implementation of the 160-Cell Aerogel Second Prizes Cherenkov Detector for the PHENIX Set-Up¯. ®Study of Semileptonic Decays of Neutral Kaons¯. Authors: S. Afanasiev, L. Zolin, V. Ivanov, Authors: V. Kekelidze, L. Litov, D. Madigozhin, A. Isupov, A. Litvinenko, A. Malakhov, I. Migulina, Yu. Potrebenikov, S. Stoynev, P. Hristov, C. Cheshkov. V. Peresedov. 27 ®Design and Development of the ECR Ion Source Authors: . Balagurov, G. Bokuchava, E. Kuzmin, DECRIS-SC with a Superconducting Magnet System¯. V. Sumin, A. Tamonov, Yu. Taran, J. Schreiber. Authors: V. Bekhterev, S. Bogomolov, S. Dmitriev, A. Efremov, A. Lebedev, S. Paschenko, N. Yazvitsky, Encouraging Prizes V. Drobin, V. Seleznev, Yu. Shishov. ®New Aspects of the Theory of the VavilovÄCherenkov and Synchrotron Radiation¯. IV. Applied Physics Research Author: G. Afanasiev. First Prize ®Neutron Spectroscopy and Quantum-Chemical Simula- ®JINR Gigabit Backbone¯. tion of Hydrogen Bonds and Dynamics of Biologically Authors: K. Angelov, B. Bezrukov, A. Gushin, Active Molecules¯. I. Emelin, V. Ivanov, L. Popov, A. Dolbilov, S. Medved. Authors: I. Natkaniec, A. Pawlukojc, K. Holderna- Second Prize Natkaniec, A. Szyczewski, I. Majerz, K. Parlinski. ®Neutron Fourier Diffractometry to Study Internal Me- ®Inuence of Helium on the Synthesizing of Nanostruc- chanical Stresses in Bulk Industrial and New Advanced tures in Solid States by Ion Implantation¯. Materials¯. Authors: V. Reutov, S. Dmitriev, A. Sohatsky. GRANTS In 2005 a number of research projects of the JINR tion ®Projects of Establishing and Developing Informa- staff members received a ˇnancial support of the in- tion, Computing and Telecommunication Resources¯, ternational funds CRDF (the USA), ISTC, INTAS, 1 project in the competition ®Oriented Fundamental Re- DFG (Germany), RFBRÄDFG, RFBRÄBRFBR (Be- search¯, 1 project in the competition ®Development of larus), RFBR and RF Ministry of Education and Science Material and Technical Basis for Scientiˇc Research¯, Funds. and 2 projects in the competition ®Regional Competi- RFBR, together with the National Scientiˇc Re- tion Science City 2005¯. search Society of Germany, ˇnanced 4 projects. RFBR In the framework of the State Programme of sup- and the BelarussianÄRussian Foundation for Basic Re- port for young Russian scientists and leading scientiˇc search ˇnanced 2 projects. schools, the Institute received 5 grants of the Presi- RFBR ˇnanced 64 projects in the competition ®Pro- dent of the Russian Federation, 4 of them for scientiˇc jects on the Initiative¯, 6 projects in the competi- schools and 1 for young scientists..