"The National Academy of Sciences of Belarus (NASB); the "Academy," in the following) is the leading research centre of Belarus united scientists and the most qualified specialists in advanced fundamental and applied research."

"The Academy was founded in 1929 and currently incorporates about 50 research institutes, centres, divisions, and branches. In addition to the research centres, the Academy includes a well developed design base with pilot scale production. To promote scientific investigations the Academy has its own Central Scientific Library and Publishing House. The Academy's institutions are situated in all of the regional centres of the Republic."

"The work of the Academy is headed by the President and Presidium (the latter is an elective collective body). Institutions and individual members of the Academy are organized in 5 Departments: Physics, Mathematics and Informatics; Physical-Technical Problems of Machine-Building and Energetics; Chemical and Geological Sciences; Biological Sciences; and Humanitarian Sciences. Post-Doctoral and postgraduate programs are used for the training of highly skilled specialists."

"To fulfil successfully its duty - to obtain new knowledge about the phenomena and processes in nature, human society, and technology - the Academy concentrates its scientific and technological potential on the most important national problems: study of Belarusian history, language, literature, and culture; problems of State development, economical and natural conditions of its existence; development of new directions in natural and engineering sciences; and coordination of fundamental research in the Republic of Belarus."

"The annual scientific output of the Academy includes a lot of monographs, reports, and patents. The Academy publishes a number of scientific journals, and most of them are republished abroad."

"The research centres of the Academy annually organize international conferences, seminars, meetings, and symposiums, and participate in the international scientific and technical cooperation." (no file date for this information)




President:     ?

Vice President: Pyotr Vityaz




National Academy of Sciences of Belarus (NASB)
Surganov St., 6
Mensk, 220012
Belarus

Official Web site:   http://www.ac.by/

• See also Web page in UK for Linguistics, Speech Recognition, Semantics, etc., Studies in Belarus.
• Institute of Physics at Academy of Sciences of Belarus
  Research Type: Theoretical physics, Experimental physics, Accelerator physics and engineering, Other R&D related to HEP
  Research Programme : Group-theoretical, algebraic and topological methods; strings, solitons fractals, monopoles; nonlinear, nonperturbative methods; hadronization, intermittency; symmetries, polarizations; .nu.-astrophysics; heavy-quark physics; UNK detectors.
  Institute of Physics at Academy of Sciences of Belarus
  Scarina Avenue 70, BY-220 602 Mensk

  Telephone: + 7 172 394559
  Fax: + 7 172 393131
  Email: kilin@adonis.ias.msk.su

  Institute of Physics information from: CERN Directory of Research Institutes in High Energy Physics   (Switzerland)

• Optical Problems Department (of the Academy of Science)
  E-Mail: postmaster@bas.minsk.by

• Also, information about the Academy of Sciences as a member of IFIP (International Federation for Information Processing) at this Web site.

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