The 20th Anniversary International Conference on Chemistry and Physical Chemistry of Oligomers (“Oligomers-2024”) Was Held at Samara University

On September 9–14, 2024, Samara University hosted the 20th Anniversary International Conference on Chemistry and Physical Chemistry of Oligomers (“Oligomers-2024”) organized jointly with the Ministry of Science and Higher Education of Russia, the Russian Academy of Sciences (RAS), the RAS Department of Chemistry and Materials Sciences, the RAS Scientific Council on High-Molecular Compounds, the RAS Scientific Council on Materials and Nanomaterials, the RAS Scientific Council on Chemical Physics, the N. N. Semenov RAS Federal Research Centre for Chemical Physics, the RAS Federal Research Centre for Issues of Chemical Physics and Medical Chemistry and Samara National Research University .

The responsible organizers of the Conference were the N. N. Semenov RAS Federal Research Centre for Chemical Physics, the RAS Federal Research Centre for Issues of Chemical Physics and Medical Chemistry and Samara National Research University.

The Conference begins with the decision (1976) made by Alfred Anisimovich Berlin, the founder of Russian oligomeric chemistry as an independent area in polymer science, and F. I Dubovitsky, Corresponding Member of the USSR Academy of Sciences, to hold the scientific forum for discussing issues related to oligomers. Arrangement was entrusted to S. M. Baturin and S. M. Mezhikovsky. So, on September 13, 1977, Academician N. N. Semenov, Vice-President of the USSR Academy of Sciences, Winner of the Nobel, Lenin and USSR State Prizes, twice Hero of Socialist Labour, Director of the Institute of Chemical Physics of the USSR Academy of Sciences, opened the 1^st All-Union Conference on Chemistry and Physical Chemistry of Polymerization-Capable Oligomers in the House of Scientists of the Noginsk Research Centre. Over 200 specialists took part in the Conference. The successful Conference resulted in the joint decision of the Council for High-Molecular Compounds of the USSR Academy of Sciences and the Department of Chemistry of the State Committee for Science and Technology on regularly holding oligomeric conferences with their frequency of 2–3 years.

This International Conference was participated by 87 people, 35 of whom were young scientists. The Conference participants mainly represented Moscow, Chernogolovka, Kazan, Nizhny Novgorod, Samara, as well as Tolyatti, Nalchik, Irkutsk, Volgograd, Yaroslavl, etc.

The Conference was attended by, inter alios, S. A. Ponomarenko, Doctor of Chemical Sciences, Corresponding Member of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Director of the RAS Institute of Synthetic Polymer Materials, and A. A. Yaroslavov, Doctor of Chemical Sciences, Corresponding Member of the Russian Academy of Sciences.

During the Conference, there were plenary and verbal presentations, two poster sessions, as well as the competition for young scientists.

Follow the results of the competition for young scientists, Anastasia Vechkutova, a student of Samara University’s Chemical Faculty has become one of the laureates.

More detailed information can be found on the conference website.