A one-day online meeting on the occasion of Nikolai Ivanovich Shakura's 80th birthday will take place in zoom on 16 October 2025. This event aims to bring together his students, lifelong colleagues, and friends, providing a unique opportunity to connect with Nikolai in a virtual setting.
Meeting Details:
Date: October 16, 2025
Time: 9:00 UTC (12:00 Moscow Time, 11:00 Central European Time)
Duration: Approximately 3 hours, including one break
Speakers in the alphabetical order: Konstantin Postnov, Andrea Santangelo, Valery Suleimanov, Rüdiger Staubert, Jӧrn Wilms
Konstantin Postnov “Magneto-rotational instability in stratified differentially rotating flows”
Rüdiger Staubert “My 30 years with Nikolai Shakura”
Valery Suleimanov “Nikolai Shakura and non-steady state accretion disks”
Short Contributions (Ilfan Bikmaev, Nail Sakhibullin, Akihiro Inoue)
Andrea Santangelo “From Nikolai Shakura to eXTP: The guiding spirit that transcends generations”.
Closing remarks (Anna Chashkina, Sergei Popov)
Contact organizers: shakura80meeting @ gmail.com
Organizing committee: Galina Lipunova, Konstantin Malanchev, Sergei Popov, Valery Suleimanov
Звучат сегодня громкие фанфары,
но надо оценить, каков итог.
Пришёл ли момент закончить мемуары,
включив хороший эпилог?
Но нет, коллеги в письмах показали,
в науке пламень не совсем погас.
Они во всех имейлах убеждали,
что сил в Шакуре есть большой запас.
Отрадны юбиляровы добрые приветы,
а несколько из Казани тёплых слов
заложены в столь важные советы,
что возраст не беда и будь всегда здоров.
Желаем из Казани вам, чтобы всегда
другой, не ваш, маршрут избрали беды.
И будет радостна научная среда,
что много дисков объяснили вы на небе.
Спасибо всем, друзьям, родным, коллегам!
Вселяем мы надежду на успех.
Наш юбиляр ещё взрастит научные побеги
без всяких возрастных помех.
Today, loud fanfares sound with cheer,
But let’s take a moment to reflect on the score.
Is it time to finish the memoirs here,
And include a good epilogue, perhaps more?
Yet no, my colleagues have shown in their letters,
That the flame of science is not yet spent.
In every email, they’ve urged and they’ve said,
That in Shakura, there’s still great strength to be lent.
The joyful greetings from the celebrants rise,
And a few warm words from Kazan we impart—
In such important advice, wisdom lies:
That age is no burden; stay healthy at heart.
From Kazan, we wish that you always may find,
A route for your journeys, free from despair.
And the scientific community will be kind,
For you’ve explained many discs shining up there.
Thank you to all, friends, family, and peers!
We instill hope for success in the quest.
Our honoree will still nurture new frontiers,
Without any hindrance from age's test.
The theory of accretion is the engine of astrophysics (trv-science.ru)