June 12
2016
Geologists are holding a Youth International Conference in Akademgorodok
On Monday the 13th of June, the 8th International Siberian Early Career GeoScientists Conference has started in Akademgorodok.
The conference is organized by the V.S. Sobolev Institute of Geology and Mineralogy of the Siberian Branch of the RAS, the A.A. Trofimuk Institute of Petroleum Geology and Geophysics of the SB RAS and Novosibirsk State University. During the first days of the conference, participants will attend lectures by leading Russian and foreign geologists, to be followed by more than 100 oral reports and 50 poster presentations of young researchers, among which will be 30 foreigners. The official language will be English. The conference will end with two geological excursions of five days each, taking place at the same time, one in the Altaï Mountains and the second one in the Northwestern ("Rudnyi") Altaï. More than 50 geologists will take part in them.