In February 2022, the traditional, third in a row, lecture session of the Joint Institute for Nu-clear Research scientists for the «Virtual Science Camp» was held. Nikolai Anfimov gave a lecture «What is JINR?» to students from 10 countries.
In order to popularise science and introduce school students to the achievements and projects of the Joint Institute for Nuclear Research, the University Centre takes part in the international «Virtual Science Camp» lectorium. In 2020 and 2021, JINR staff members delivered lectures for the project participants.
The first lecture in the 2022 season was given by Nikolay Anfimov, head of the sector of the Laboratory of Nuclear Problems n.a. V.P. Dzhelepov. He told the audience about the NICA Collider, about the Factory of Superheavy Elements of the Laboratory of Nuclear Reactions n.a. G.N. Flerov and about the new chemical elements discovered in this la-boratory, about the developments carried out at the IBR-2M pulsed reactor of the Labora-tory of Neutron Physics n.a. I.M. Frank, about the neutrino telescope at Lake Baikal, about the search for water on Mars, about the JINR computer cluster, as well as about astrobio-logical research and work of JINR scientists in the field of theoretical physics. The meet-ing was attended by school students from 10 countries: Spain, France, Brazil, Germany, Ireland, Portugal, Romania, Serbia, Turkey, and Slovakia. After the lecture, the partici-pants asked questions about the lifespan of a neutron, the discovery of the quantum number of colour in quarks, and others.
Virtual Science Camp is an online society organised for children from all over the world by Michael Gregory, a Parisian school physics teacher. As part of the Virtual Camp, there are online lectures on physics from guest speakers from all over the world, as well as online excursions and demonstrations of physical experiments for schoolchildren inter-ested in science.
The scientific leader of the Virtual Science Camp Michael Gregory thanked the JINR Uni-versity Centre and personally Nikolai Anfimov for the presented lecture.
