Commemoration of the centenary of the birth of Academician V A Kotel'nikov Joint Scientific Session of the Physical Sciences Division of the Russian Academy of Sciences and the Division of Nanotechnologies and Information Technologies of the Russian Academy of Sciences (17 September 2008)

The joint scientific session of the Physical Sciences Division of the Russian Academy of Sciences and the Division of Nanotechnologies and Technologies of the Russian Academy of Sciences (RAS), devoted to the centenary of the birth of Academician A Kotel'nikov, was held on September 17, 2008 in the Rotunda Hall of RAS. The following reports were presented at the session: (1) Gulyaev Yu (Kotel'nikov Institute of Radioengineering and Electronics, RAS, Moscow) Creative career of Aleksandrovich Kotel'nikov (opening address); (2) Pustovoit I (Scientific and Technical Center of Unique Instrument Making, RAS, Moscow) Acousto-optics: modern status and prospects; (3) Zelenyi L M, Armand N A (Space Institute, RAS, Moscow) Vladimir Aleksandrovich Kotel'nikov and Solar System studies; (4) Mikaelyan A L (Research Institute of Systems Studies, RAS, Moscow) Research on waveguide techniques for communication systems; (5) Kardashev N S (Astrocosmic Center, P N Lebedev Physical Institute, RAS, Moscow) V A Kotel'nikov and terrestrial and space radio astronomy; (6) Kuznetsov N A, Sinitsyn I N (Kotel'nikov Institute of Radioengineering and Electronics, RAS, Moscow) Development of Kotel'nikov's sampling theorem; (7) Kaevitser I, Razmanov M (Fryazino Branch of the Kotel'nikov Institute of Radioengineering and Electronics, RAS, Fryazino, Moscow region) Remote sensing of sea bottom by hydroacoustic systems with complex signals; (8) Matyukhin G (Information Technologies Federal Agency, Moscow) Information protection in an electronic State. An abridge version of Yu Gulyaev's opening address and reports 3, 6, and 7 is given below. •Creative career of Aleksandrovich Kotel'nikov (opening address), Yu Gulyaev Physics-Uspekhi, 2009, Volume 52, Number 2, Pages 183-185 •Model Nonrelativistic Quantum Mechanics. Considerations, A Kotel'nikov Physics-Uspekhi, 2009, Volume 52, Number 2, Pages 185-190 •Vladimir Aleksandrovich Kotel'nikov and Solar System studies, L M Zelenyi and N A Armand Physics-Uspekhi, 2009, Volume 52, Number 2, Pages 190-197 •Development of Kotel'nikov's sampling theorem, N A Kuznetsov and I N Sinitsyn Physics-Uspekhi, 2009, Volume 52, Number 2, Pages 197-199 •Remote sensing of sea bottom by hydroacoustic systems with complex signals, I Kaevitser and M Razmanov Physics-Uspekhi, 2009, Volume 52, Number 2, Pages 199-205