At the invitation of the Embassy of the Republic of France in the Republic of Croatia, delegates from the Ruđer Bošković Institute (RBI) led by the Director General, Dr. Danica Ramljak, will pay an official visit to France, organized by Embassy for the purpose of establishing and strengthening cooperation with top scientific institutions and universities of strategic interest to the RBI.

The cover article in the most recent issue of the European Journal of Organic Chemistry (IF = 3.206) is a paper by Dr. Robert Vianello, Irreversible Inhibition of Monoamine Oxidase B by Antiparkinsonian Medicines Rasagiline and Selegiline: A Computational Study.

A DAQ/FPGA workshop is being organized at the RBI on November 4 and 5 as part of the Particle Detectors FP7 project.

The latest article by Dr. J. Sancho-Parramon of the Division of Laser and Atomic Research and Development, entitled “Near-field coupling of metal nanoparticles under tightly focused illumination”, has been published in the journal Optics Letters (IF 3.316) and attracted great interest among the academic community. In the month of September, it was in second place in terms of the number of downloads from the website of the journal Optics Letters. 

On Thursday, November, 3, 2011, starting at 3 p.m. in the Auditorium of Wing III of the Ruđer Bošković Institute (RBI), Prof. Dr. Branko Malenica will deliver the third lecture in the Popular Science Series on the awarding of the 2011 Nobel Prizes in the Natural Sciences, entitled Receptors for the Recognition of Microorganisms and the Activation of Effector Mechanisms of Innate and Acquired Immunity.

Following two significant papers in Physical Review Letters, members of the Group for Hadron Spectroscopy, Division of Experimental Physics, of the RBI, led by Dr. Alfred Švarc, published two related papers on excited nucleon states (1,2) manifested in the form of baryon resonances, in one of the world's leading journals of nuclear physics, the most recent issue of Physical Review C - Nuclear Physics.

Professor Emeritus Reshef Tenne (Department of Materials and Interfaces, Weizmann Institute of Science), will deliver a lecture entitled Inorganic Nanotubes and Fullerene-Like Nanoparticles: An Update, on Friday, October 28, 2011, at 2 p.m., in the auditorium of Wing III of the Ruđer Bošković Institute.

Scientists from the Division of Physical Chemistry published the paper “New Insight into Solid-State Molecular Dynamics: Mechanochemical Synthesis of Azobenzene/Triphenylphosphine Palladacycles” in Chemical Communications(IF2010=5.787), a prominent journal in the field of chemistry.

The Division of Experimental Physics from the Rudjer Boskovic Institute is hosting the NA61 collaboration meeting. About 40 physicists are expected to come.

Today, at a special session of the Croatian Parliament, State Awards for Science were presented to scientists, researchers and research assistants for exceptionally important achievements in scientific research, the expansion of scientific knowledge and achievements in the applications of the results of scientific.