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Rocket Lab launching two Earth-observation satellites today: Watch live
(Rocket Lab)
Rocket Lab will launch two satellites tonight (Dec. 8), and you can watch the action live. A Rocket Lab Electron launcher carrying two commercial Earth-observation spacecraft is scheduled to lift off from the company's New Zealand site Wednesday during a 125-minute window that opens at 6:45 p.m. EST (2345 GMT; 12:45 p.m. on Dec. 9 local New Zealand time).
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SpaceX will launch a new space observatory for NASA overnight and you can watch the action live online. The private spaceflight company will launch the Imaging X-ray Polarimetry Explorer (IXPE) on one of its previously flown Falcon 9 rockets. The frequent flier is scheduled to blast off at 1 a.m. EST (0600 GMT) from Pad 39A at NASA's Kennedy Space Center here in Florida.
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Spaceflight
Japanese billionaire Yusaku Maezawa, two crewmates arrive at International Space Station
(NASA TV)
Three people just arrived at the International Space Station — and two of them are space tourists. A Russian Soyuz spacecraft carrying Japanese billionaire Yusaku Maezawa, video producer Yozo Hirano and cosmonaut Alexander Misurkin made contact with the orbiting lab Wednesday (Dec. 8) at 8:40 a.m. EST (1340 GMT). The trio left Earth just six hours earlier, launching atop a Soyuz rocket from Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan Wednesday at 2:38 a.m. EST (1738 GMT).
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Weather has delayed Blue Origin's third crewed launch by at least 48 hours, pushing off liftoff of "Good Morning America" (GMA) anchor Michael Strahan and five other individuals. The launch is now set for Saturday (Dec. 11), rather than Thursday (Dec. 9), due to windy conditions at Launch Site One in Van Horn, Texas.
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Science & Astronomy
See the total solar eclipse of 2021 from nearly 1 million miles away in this stunning photo
(NOAA)
The only total solar eclipse of 2021 was one few could see and this new photo from a spacecraft nearly 1 million miles from Earth shows why. The photo, taken by NOAA's Deep Space Climate Observatory (DSCOVR), tracked the solar eclipse as the moon's shadow passed over a remote stretch of Antarctica and the south pole on Dec. 4. Taken from a distance of more than 950,000 miles (1.5 million km), the moon's shadow appears as a dark blemish at the very bottom of our world in the image.
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A newfound alien world may force scientists to rethink some of their ideas about planet formation. An exoplanet 11 times more massive than Jupiter resides in b Centauri, a young binary star system about 325 light-years from Earth, a new study reports. The planet, known as b Centauri b, is among the heaviest ever found. And combined, the two stars in b Centauri are six to 10 times heftier than our sun, making the system by far the most massive in which a planet has been discovered to date. b Centauri is also the hottest known planet-hosting star system, researchers said.
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Skywatching
Look up! The moon is visiting bright Jupiter in the night sky
(NASA/JPL-Caltech)
The moon and its planetary pals are putting on quite the sky show this week. The moon has already visited Venus and Saturn in the night sky over the past few days, and tonight (Dec. 8) Earth's natural satellite will sidle up next to Jupiter. Look toward the western sky an hour or so after sunset to get a good look at the dazzling duo. Saturn and Venus will be part of that view as well, arrayed in a diagonal line extending downward and to the right of Jupiter.
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Entertainment
Will Smith explores planet Earth in new 'Welcome to Earth' series from Disney Plus, Nat Geo (exclusive clip)
(National Geographic for Disney+/Kyle Christy)
Will Smith is in for a wild ride. Today (Dec. 8), National Geographic's new series "Welcome to Earth" drops on Disney Plus, showcasing Academy Award-nominated actor Will Smith in his latest role: explorer. In the series, Smith teams up with different scientists and explorers who take on incredible, nail-biting adventures across the globe. The six-episode limited series does a masterful job highlighting the awe-inspiring natural beauty of planet Earth.
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Noah Hawley’s Alien TV series, which will debut exclusively on Hulu, is still a way off, but fans are eager to hear more from this take on the famous sci-fi horror franchise. Many of us expected Disney to put the IP on ice after their Fox takeover, but it appears that telling new stories set in that universe is a priority for the company – It has claimed so since 2019, but it'll be breaking new ground on TV first, giving theatrical Alien releases some breathing room.
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1. Friday 10.12.2021 (Serge Krashakov)


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Уважаемые коллеги!

На заседании Ученого совета в пятницу 10 декабря будут заслушаны 3 доклада:

1)___Д. А. Шабетник_, Я.П. Пугай
*On S-matrix in T ̄T-like perturbed RSOS models**
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We give a short introduction to the integrable TT-deformation of QFT by
Smirnov-Zamolodchikov. Basic properties of the deformed theories are
discussed: factorization, Burgers equation for energy spectrum and exact
deformed S-matrix. We study the lattice counterpart of the TT
deformation for the case of RSOS(2, 2s+1) models. Starting from the
deformed Bethe ansatz equations in thermodynamic limit, we obtain the
energies and momenta of the ground and excited states, as well as the
deformed breather S-matrix. In the scaling limit the results are in
agreement with Smirnov-Zamolodchikov answers.


2) Л.В. Богданов
*Dispersionless BKP Equation, the Manakov–Santini System and
Einstein–Weyl Structures* (короткий доклад)

We construct a map from solutions of the dispersionless BKP (dBKP)
equation to solutions of the Manakov–Santini (MS) system. This map
defines an Einstein–Weyl structure corresponding to the dBKP equation
through the general Lorentzian Einstein–Weyl structure corresponding to
the MS system. We give a spectral characterisation of reduction in the
MS system, which singles out the image of the dBKP equation solutions,
and also consider more general reductions of this class. We define the
BMS system and extend the map defined above to the map (Miura
transformation) of solutions of the BMS system to solutions of the MS
system, thus obtaining an Einstein–Weyl structure for the BMS system.

3) Л.В. Богданов
*Матричное расширение многомерных бездисперсионных интегрируемых
иерархий* (короткий доклад)

Последовательно развивается недавно предложенная схема матричного
расширения бездисперсионных интегрируемых систем для общего случая
многомерных иерархий, в основном для размерности d⩾4. Представлены
расширенные пары Лакса, уравнения Лакса–Сато, матричные уравнения на
фоне векторных полей и схема одевания. Обсуждаются построение решений,
редукции и связи с геометрией. Отдельно рассмотрен случай абелева
расширения, для которого уравнения Римана–Гильберта схемы одевания
решаются явно и дают аналог формулы Пенроуза в искривленном пространстве.


ID и пароль онлайн-трансляции в Zoom те же, что и для предыдущих
трансляций докладов на Ученом совете:
https://zoom.us/j/96899364518?pwd=MzBsR2lYT0lYL2x2b1oyNU9LeWlWUT09
Meeting ID: 968 9936 4518
Пароль: 250319
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