ISTC Deputy Executive Director Rashitdin Kokenov presented opening remarks at the recent International Forum for Nuclear Science and Technologies in Almaty, Kazakhstan on October 7. The Forum, organized by ISTC and the Institute for Nuclear Physics (INP) in Kazakhstan’s Ministry of Energy, among other organizations, was dedicated to the 125^th birthday of esteemed Kazakhstani academic, Kanysh Satbayev, who was one of the founders of the INP in 1957, and also to the 30th anniversary of the creation of the INP.

The Forum, conducted in the Scientific Library of Al-Farabi Kazakh National University from October 7 through 11, was a platform for discussing achievements in fundamental and applied nuclear physics, high and ultra-high energy physics, solid state physics, radiation materials science, nuclear energy, radiation ecology, nuclear-physical methods of analysis and application of nuclear and radiation technologies in medicine, industry and agriculture. Three separate conferences were conducted within the Forum: The 15^th International Conference on Nuclear and Radiation Physics; the 4^th International Conference on Nuclear and Radiation Technologies in Medicine, Industry and Agriculture; and, the 8^th European Center for Nuclear Research Introduction to High-Energy Physics, Accelerator Technology and Nuclear Medicine.

Additional Forum organizers were the Kazakhstani Ministry of Science and Higher Education, the European Center for Nuclear Research, the National Academy of Sciences under the Presidency of Kazakhstan, Al-Farabi National Kazakh University, Gumilyov National Eurasian University, the Satbayev Kazakh National Research Technical University and the Kazakh-British Technical University. Forum participants included representatives of the Kazakhstani Government, the office of the Kazakhstani President and diplomatic missions and international organizations. In addition, a ceremonial Memorandum of Understanding was signed between the INP, the European Center for Nuclear Research, the University of China and the Scientific and Technological Research Council of Turkey.