50 years of the Condensed Matter Physics Research Council of the Russian Academy of Sciences (Scientific session of the Physical Sciences Division of the Russian Academy of Sciences, 9 November 2011)

The scientific session of the Physical Sciences Division of the Russian Academy of Sciences (RAS) commemorating the 50th anniversary of the RAS Scientific Council on Physics of Condensed Media took place on 9 November 2011 at the conference hall of the P N Lebedev Physical Institute of the RAS.
The following reports were put on the session agenda posted on the website www.gpad.ac.ru of the RAS Physical Sciences Division:
(1) Kveder V V (Institute of Solid State Physics, RAS, Chernogolovka, Moscow region) “50th anniversary of the RAS Scientific Council on Physics of Condensed Media”;
(2) Vul' A Ya (A F Ioffe Physical–Technical Institute, RAS, St. Petersburg) “Carbon nanostructures: from fullerenes to graphene. Achievements and unsolved problems”;
(3) Glezer A M (Bardin Central Research Institute of Ferrous Metallurgy, Moscow) “Development of new-generation multifunctional structural materials: guiding principles”;
(4) Pyatakov A P (M V Lomonosov Moscow State University, Moscow; A M Prokhorov General Physics Institute, RAS, Moscow) “Magnetoelectric phenomena and micromagnetism”.
The paper that follows is based on the oral report 3. The contents of report 4 are presented in expanded form in the review by A P Pyatakov and A K Zvezdin, “Magnetoelectric and multiferroic materials”, which will be published in one of the later issues of Physics–Uspekhi.