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.

In the auditorium of the Rectorate of the University of Split, the inauguration of the doctoral program in the Chemistry of the Mediterranean Environment at the Faculty of Chemistry and Technology, University of Split, was officially proclaimed today.

A bioinformatic web service, REVIGO, has been developed at the Division of Electronics of the Ruđer Bošković Institute, which is intended for researchers in biology and biomedicine whose results describe Gene Ontology (GO) categories.

Yesterday at CERN, an international team of scientists published the initial results of the complex and precise analysis of data within the framework of the OPERA experiment.

A seminar entitled Radiation Methods in the Protection of Cultural Heritage Artifacts, organized by the Radiation Chemistry and Dosimetry Laboratory of the Ruđer Bošković Institute (RBI) and the Croatian Conservation Institute will be held on October 4 and 5, 2011.