Commemoration of the 80th anniversary of the birth of Academician B B Kadomtsev (Scientific session of the Physical Sciences Division of the Russian Academy of Sciences, 10 December 2008):

scientific session of the Physical Sciences Division of the Russian Academy of Sciences (RAS) was held on December 10, 2008 at the conference hall of the P N Lebedev Physical Institute, RAS. It was devoted to the commemoration of the 80th anniversary of the birth of B B Kadomtsev. following reports were presented at the session: (1) Smirnov V P (Nuclear Fusion Institute of the Russian Research Centre 'Kurchatov Institute', Moscow) the 80th anniversary of the birth of Boris Borisovich Kadomtsev (opening address); (2) Mirnov S V (State Scientific Center of the Russian Federation 'Troitsk Institute of Innovative and Thermonuclear Research', Troitsk, Moscow region) Academician B B Kadomtsev and the International Thermonuclear Experimental Reactor (ITER); (3) Kruglyakov E P (G I Budker Institute of Nuclear Physics of the Siberian Branch of the RAS, Novosibirsk) Open magnetic systems for plasma confinement; (4) Kovrizhnyh L M (A M Prokhorov Institute of General Physics, RAS, Moscow) The current status of the stellarator program; (5) Gurevich A V (P N Lebedev Physical Institute, RAS, Moscow) phenomena in the ionospheric plasma; (6) Ilgisonis V I (Nuclear Fusion Institute of the Russian Research Centre 'Kurchatov Institute', Moscow) Classical results of B B Kadomtsev and the plasma rotation in modern tokamaks. An abridge version of the opening address and reports 2, 4, and 6, as well as a paper written on the basis of report 5, is given below. • Commemorating the 80th anniversary of the birth of Boris Borisovich Kadomtsev (opening address), V P Smirnov Physics-Uspekhi, 2009, Volume 52, Number 7, Pages 723–724 • B B Kadomtsev and the International Thermonuclear Experimental Reactor (ITER), S V Mirnov Physics-Uspekhi, 2009, Volume 52, Number 7, Pages 725–729 • current status of the stellarator program, L M Kovrizhnykh Physics-Uspekhi, 2009, Volume 52, Number 7, Pages 730–735 • Nonlinear phenomena in the ionospheric plasma. Effects of cosmic rays and runaway breakdown on thunderstorm discharges, A V Gurevich, A N Karashtin, V A Ryabov, A P Chubenko, A L Shepetov Physics-Uspekhi, 2009, Volume 52, Number 7, Pages 735–745 • B B Kadomtsev's classical results and the plasma rotation in modern tokamaks, V I Ilgisonis Physics-Uspekhi, 2009, Volume 52, Number 7, Pages 746–754