08.12.2016

 Physics-Uspekhi, Volume 59 (2016), Issue 9

REVIEWS OF TOPICAL PROBLEMS
Biological microstructures with high adhesion and friction. Numerical approach V L Popov, A E Filippov, S N Gorb	829
FROM THE CURRENT LITERATURE
Bubston structure of water and electrolyte aqueous solutions N F Bunkin, F V Bunkin	846
METHODOLOGICAL NOTES
Notes on phase transitions and the role of spin fluctuations S M Stishov	866
Nonlinear dynamics of high-power ultrashort laser pulses: exaflop computations on a laboratory computer station and subcycle light bullets A A Voronin, A M Zheltikov	869
CONFERENCES AND SYMPOSIA
On the first direct detection of gravitational waves (Scientific session of the Physical Sciences Division of the Russian Academy of Sciences, 2 March 2016)	878
The road to the discovery of gravitational waves V B Braginsky, I A Bilenko, S P Vyatchanin, M L Gorodetskii, V P Mitrofanov, L G Prokhorov, S E Strigin, F Ya Khalili	879
Thermooptics of magnetoactive media: Faraday isolators for high average power lasers E A Khazanov	886
Discovery of gravitational waves: a new chapter in black hole studies A M Cherepashchuk	910
Astrophysical meaning of the discovery of gravitational waves V M Lipunov	918
PERSONALIA
Vasilii Vasil'evich Parkhomchuk (on his 70th birthday) A E Bondar, A P Derevyanko, N S Dikanskii, S V Ivanov, G N Kulipanov, E B Levichev, P V Logachev, I N Meshkov, R A Salimov, A N Skrinsky, G V Trubnikov, Yu M Shatunov	929
Mikhail Valentinovich Kovalchuk (on his 70th birthday) E P Velikhov, V I Ilgisonis, M A Kambolov, V M Kanevskii, N M Kropachev, N N Kudryavtsev, V A Matveev, O S Naraikin, V Ya Panchenko, V A Sadovnichy, M N Strikhanov, L A Feigin	931
Vladislav Borisovich Timofeev (on his 80th birthday) Zh I Alferov, A L Aseev, A G Zabrodsky, A A Kaplyansky, V V Kveder, L V Keldysh, I V Kukushkin, V D Kulakovsky, N N Sibel'din, R A Suris, A V Chaplik, G M Eliashberg	934
In memory of Lyudmila Andreevna Prozorova A F Andreev, G D Bogomolov, S S Gershtein, I E Dzyaloshinskii, V V Kveder, N M Kreines, V I Marchenko, L P Pitaevskii, M P Ryutova, L E Svistov, A I Smirnov, S S Sosin	937
BIBLIOGRAPHY
New books on physics and related sciences E V Zakharova	939
Physics news on the Internet (based on electronic preprints) Yu N Eroshenko	942

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