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1. автобус ΠΎΡ‚ΠΌΠ΅Π½Π΅Π½ 23.05.25
(ΠšΡ€ΠΈΡΡ‚ΠΈΠ½Π° Π”ΡƒΠ±Π΅ΠΉΠΊΠΎ)
2. Friday 23.05.2025 (Stanislav Apostolov)


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Π£Π²Π°ΠΆΠ°Π΅ΠΌΡ‹Π΅ сотрудники ΠΈ студСнты!

На 23.05.25 (Π·Π°Π²Ρ‚Ρ€Π°) автобус ΠΎΡ‚ΠΌΠ΅Π½Π΅Π½.


Π‘ ΡƒΠ²Π°ΠΆΠ΅Π½ΠΈΠ΅ΠΌ,
К.


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Date: Thu, 22 May 2025 19:41:51 +0300
From: Stanislav Apostolov <sapostolov@itp.ac.ru>
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Π£Π²Π°ΠΆΠ°Π΅ΠΌΡ‹Π΅ ΠΊΠΎΠ»Π»Π΅Π³ΠΈ!

На засСдании Π£Ρ‡Π΅Π½ΠΎΠ³ΠΎ совСта ИВЀ Π² пятницу 23.05 Π² 11:30 Π±ΡƒΠ΄Π΅Ρ‚ Π·Π°ΡΠ»ΡƒΡˆΠ°Π½
Π΄ΠΎΠΊΠ»Π°Π΄:

Π₯Π°Ρ€ΠΈΠ½Ρ†Π΅Π² Π‘. Π‘. (Π˜Π½ΡΡ‚ΠΈΡ‚ΡƒΡ‚ Ρ„ΠΈΠ·ΠΈΠΊΠΈ, Казанский Ρ„Π΅Π΄Π΅Ρ€Π°Π»ΡŒΠ½Ρ‹ΠΉ унивСрситСт)
НСлокальная Ρ„ΠΎΡ‚ΠΎΠ½ΠΈΠΊΠ° разупорядочСнных срСд

НСлокальная Ρ„ΠΎΡ‚ΠΎΠ½ΠΈΠΊΠ° - это Π½ΠΎΠ²ΠΎΠ΅ Π½Π°ΡƒΡ‡Π½ΠΎΠ΅ Π½Π°ΠΏΡ€Π°Π²Π»Π΅Π½ΠΈΠ΅, ΠΊΠΎΡ‚ΠΎΡ€ΠΎΠ΅ ΠΈΠ·ΡƒΡ‡Π°Π΅Ρ‚
взаимодСйствиС свСта со срСдами, ΠΎΠ±Π»Π°Π΄Π°ΡŽΡ‰ΠΈΠΌΠΈ сильной пространствСнной
диспСрсиСй. Π£Ρ‡Π΅Ρ‚ пространствСнной диспСрсии (ΠΈΠ»ΠΈ пространствСнной
Π½Π΅Π»ΠΎΠΊΠ°Π»ΡŒΠ½ΠΎΡΡ‚ΠΈ) ΠΏΡ€ΠΈΠ²ΠΎΠ΄ΠΈΡ‚ ΠΊ сущСствСнно Π½ΠΎΠ²Ρ‹ΠΌ физичСским ΠΏΡ€ΠΈΠ½Ρ†ΠΈΠΏΠ°ΠΌ
взаимодСйствия свСта ΠΈ вСщСства. Π’ частности, Π² Π½Π΅Π»ΠΎΠΊΠ°Π»ΡŒΠ½Ρ‹Ρ… срСдах
Π²ΠΎΠ·Π½ΠΈΠΊΠ°ΡŽΡ‚ нСпрямыС оптичСскиС ΠΏΠ΅Ρ€Π΅Ρ…ΠΎΠ΄Ρ‹, обусловлСнныС пространствСнным
синхронизмом элСктронов ΠΈ Ρ„ΠΎΡ‚ΠΎΠ½ΠΎΠ², Π»ΠΎΠΊΠ°Π»ΠΈΠ·ΠΎΠ²Π°Π½Π½Ρ‹Ρ… Π²Π±Π»ΠΈΠ·ΠΈ структурных
нСоднородностСй. Π’ основС Π΄Π°Π½Π½ΠΎΠ³ΠΎ явлСния Π»Π΅ΠΆΠΈΡ‚ ΡƒΠ²Π΅Π»ΠΈΡ‡Π΅Π½ΠΈΠ΅ ΠΈΠΌΠΏΡƒΠ»ΡŒΡΠ°
Ρ„ΠΎΡ‚ΠΎΠ½ΠΎΠ² ΠΏΡ€ΠΈ ΠΈΡ… пространствСнной Π»ΠΎΠΊΠ°Π»ΠΈΠ·Π°Ρ†ΠΈΠΈ.

ΠŸΡ€ΠΈΠΌΠ΅Ρ€ΠΎΠΌ Π½Π΅Π»ΠΎΠΊΠ°Π»ΡŒΠ½Ρ‹Ρ… срСд ΡΠ²Π»ΡΡŽΡ‚ΡΡ Π΄Π²ΠΎΠΉΠ½Ρ‹Π΅ систСмы «ΠΊΡ€ΠΈΡΡ‚Π°Π»Π»-ΠΆΠΈΠ΄ΠΊΠΎΡΡ‚ΡŒ»,
структура ΠΊΠΎΡ‚ΠΎΡ€Ρ‹Ρ… ΠΎΠ±Π»Π°Π΄Π°Π΅Ρ‚ дальним порядком ΠΈ Π»ΠΎΠΊΠ°Π»ΡŒΠ½Ρ‹ΠΌ бСспорядком. К
Ρ‚Π°ΠΊΠΈΠΌ систСмам относятся Π³Π°Π»ΠΎΠΈΠ΄Π½Ρ‹Π΅ пСровскиты, ΠΆΠΈΠ΄ΠΊΠΈΠ΅ кристаллы,
ΠΊΠΎΠ»Π»ΠΎΠΈΠ΄Π½Ρ‹Π΅ систСмы, высокоэнтропийныС кристаллы, ΠΏΠΎΠ»ΠΈΠΌΠ΅Ρ€Ρ‹, Π²ΠΎΠ΄Π°,
ΠΌΠΈΡ†Π΅Π»Π»Ρ‹, Π±Π΅Π»ΠΊΠΈ ΠΈ Ρ‚.Π΄. [1, 2].

Π’ Π΄ΠΎΠΊΠ»Π°Π΄Π΅ Π±ΡƒΠ΄ΡƒΡ‚ рассмотрСны Ρ‚Π°ΠΊΠΈΠ΅ ΠΏΠΎΠ»ΡƒΠΏΡ€ΠΎΠ²ΠΎΠ΄Π½ΠΈΠΊΠΈ ΠΊΠ°ΠΊ ΠΊΡ€Π΅ΠΌΠ½ΠΈΠΉ [3] ΠΈ
ΠΌΠ΅Ρ‚Π°Π»Π»-Π³Π°Π»ΠΎΠΈΠ΄Π½Ρ‹Π΅ пСровскиты [4], Π² ΠΊΠΎΡ‚ΠΎΡ€Ρ‹Ρ… Π½Π°Π±Π»ΡŽΠ΄Π°Π΅Ρ‚ΡΡ ΡˆΠΈΡ€ΠΎΠΊΠΎΠΏΠΎΠ»ΠΎΡΠ½ΠΎΠ΅
Π½Π΅ΡƒΠΏΡ€ΡƒΠ³ΠΎΠ΅ рассСяния свСта, извСстного ΠΊΠ°ΠΊ элСктронноС ΠΊΠΎΠΌΠ±ΠΈΠ½Π°Ρ†ΠΈΠΎΠ½Π½ΠΎΠ΅
рассСяниС свСта [1-3]. Π‘ΡƒΠ΄Π΅Ρ‚ ΠΏΠΎΠΊΠ°Π·Π°Π½ΠΎ, Ρ‡Ρ‚ΠΎ элСктронноС рассСяниС свСта
Π²Ρ‹Π·Ρ‹Π²Π°Π΅Ρ‚ аномальноС ΡƒΠ²Π΅Π»ΠΈΡ‡Π΅Π½ΠΈΠ΅ показатСля прСломлСния Π³Π΅Ρ‚Π΅Ρ€ΠΎΠ³Π΅Π½Π½Ρ‹Ρ… срСд
ΠΈ ΠΏΡ€ΠΈΠ²ΠΎΠ΄ΠΈΡ‚ ΠΊ ΠΈΡ… оптичСскому Π½Π°Π³Ρ€Π΅Π²Ρƒ. Π’ Π»Π΅ΠΊΡ†ΠΈΠΈ Π±ΡƒΠ΄ΡƒΡ‚ рассмотрСны
Π½Π΅ΠΊΠΎΡ‚ΠΎΡ€Ρ‹Π΅ прилоТСния Π² области оптоэлСктроники, Ρ„ΠΎΡ‚ΠΎΠ²ΠΎΠ»ΡŒΡ‚Π°ΠΈΠΊΠΈ ΠΈ
Π±ΠΈΠΎΠΌΠ΅Π΄ΠΈΡ†ΠΈΠ½Ρ‹.

[1] S. S. Kharintsev, E. I. Battalova, V. Mkhitaryan, V. M. Shalaev. How
near-field photon momentum drives unusual optical phenomena: opinion //
Optical Materials Express, 2024. - V. 14. - P. 2017-2022.

[2] S. S. Kharintsev, E. I. Battalova, A. I. Noskov, J. Merham, E. O.
Potma, D. A. Fishman. Photon-Momentum-Enabled Electronic Raman
Scattering in Silicon Glass // ACS Nano 2024, - V. 18. - P. 9557-9565

[3] S. S. Kharintsev, A. I. Noskov, E. I. Battalova, L. Katrivas, A. B.
Kotlyar, J. G. Merham, E. O. Potma, V. A. Apkarian, D. A. Fishman.
Photon Momentum Enabled Light Absorption in Silicon // ACS Nano 2024, -
V. 18. - P. 26532-26540

[4] S. S. Kharintsev, E. I. Battalova, I. A. Matchenya, A. G. Nasibulin,
A. A. Marunchenko, A. P. Pushkarev. Extreme Electron-Photon Interaction
in Disordered Perovskites // Adv. Sci. 2024, - V. 11. - P. 2405709.

ID ΠΈ ΠΏΠ°Ρ€ΠΎΠ»ΡŒ ΠΎΠ½Π»Π°ΠΉΠ½-трансляций Π² Zoom Ρ‚Π΅ ΠΆΠ΅, Ρ‡Ρ‚ΠΎ ΠΈ для ΠΏΡ€Π΅Π΄Ρ‹Π΄ΡƒΡ‰ΠΈΡ…
трансляций сСминаров ΠΈ Π΄ΠΎΠΊΠ»Π°Π΄ΠΎΠ² Π½Π° Π£Ρ‡Π΅Π½ΠΎΠΌ совСтС:
https://zoom.us/j/96899364518?pwd=MzBsR2lYT0lYL2x2b1oyNU9LeWlWUT09
Meeting ID: 968 9936 4518
ΠŸΠ°Ρ€ΠΎΠ»ΡŒ: 250319

На 23.05.25 (Π·Π°Π²Ρ‚Ρ€Π°) автобус ΠΎΡ‚ΠΌΠ΅Π½Π΅Π½.
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Thursday, May 22, 2025

U.S. Space Force general selected to lead Trump's $175 billion Golden Dome space defense program

Space Force general selected for Golden Dome program | NASA legend Gene Kranz returns to mission control | Private Ax-4 mission to the ISS is 'go' for launch June 8
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Gene Kranz, who served in Apollo mission control as "White Flight," was at the head of the room when Apollo 11 landed on the moon and Apollo 13 "had a problem." He may have never said "Failure is not an option," but his record of success has earned him a prestigious award.
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The next private astronaut mission to the International Space Station (ISS) just completed a major milestone ahead of its upcoming launch. Houston-based company Axiom Space completed an internal Flight Readiness Review (FRR) on Wednesday (May 21) ahead of the launch of the company's fourth crewed mission to the ISS. Ax-4 is on track for a liftoff next month on a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket with a multinational crew aboard a brand-new Dragon spacecraft. The mission is scheduled to get off the ground on June 8 at 9:11 a.m. EDT (1311 GMT), from NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida.
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Tile-shedding private Chinese rocket launches 6 satellites
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The Chinese company LandSpace launched its methane-powered Zhugque-2E rocket on Saturday (May 17), carrying a batch of six satellites to orbit. Zhugque-2E lifted off Saturday at 12:12 a.m. EDT (0412 GMT; 12:12 p.m. in Beijing) from Site 96 at the Jiuquan Satellite Launch Center's Complex-43, in northwestern China's Gobi Desert. The mission, carried out by LandSpace for commercial satellite maker Changsha Tianyi Space Science and Technology Research Institute, known as Spacety for short, carried six Tianyi satellites into low Earth orbit (LEO).
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Jupiter used to be twice as big as it is now
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Long before it became the giant planet we see today, Jupiter was even bigger and had a much stronger magnetic field, according to a new study that looked back in time to reveal what the world was like in its early years.
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Starfish Space satellite will attempt 1st commercial docking
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Starfish Space plans to make history on its second-ever mission, which is set to lift off next month. On Tuesday (May 20), the Seattle-based startup unveiled the outline of the groundbreaking flight, which is called Otter Pup 2. It will send one of Starfish's small Otter satellite-servicing vehicles to low Earth orbit (LEO) on SpaceX's Transporter 14 mission, which is scheduled to lift off in June.
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Perseverance rover rolls into 'Crocodile' plateau on Mars
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NASA's Perseverance rover has made to a new region on Mars, which may contain some of the Red Planet's oldest and most interesting rocks. Perseverance landed inside the 28-mile-wide (45 kilometers) Jezero Crater in February 2021, on a mission to search for past signs of Mars life and collect dozens of samples for future return to Earth.
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'Star Wars: The Empire Strikes Back' at 45: Stop-motion master Phil Tippett on creating the iconic Battle of Hoth
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Today marks the 45th anniversary of "Star Wars: The Empire Strikes Back," which was released in theaters by 20th Century Fox on May 21, 1980, and has been aptly christened by adoring fans and sagacious critics as one of the greatest sci-fi sequels ever made. Two-time Academy Award-winning visual effects wizard Phil Tippett ("Return of the Jedi," "Jurassic Park," "Starship Troopers") and his talented ILM team shot the movie's pivotal stop-motion sequences in Lucasfilm's warehouse headquarters in San Rafael, California. These iconic scenes transported audiences to the icy world of Hoth for the rebel base opening's camel-like tauntauns and menacing Imperial AT-AT Walkers.
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ΠŸΡ€Π°Π²ΠΈΠ»ΡŒΠ½Ρ‹Π΅ Π΄Π°Π½Π½Ρ‹Π΅ для ΠΏΠΎΠ΄ΠΊΠ»ΡŽΡ‡Π΅Π½ΠΈΡ:

ZOOM Meeting ID: 825 1553 1170
Passcode: 654432

info+seminars@itp.ac.ru писал(а) 2025-05-20 10:02:
> Π£Π²Π°ΠΆΠ°Π΅ΠΌΡ‹Π΅ ΠΊΠΎΠ»Π»Π΅Π³ΠΈ!
>
> На ΠΎΠ½Π»Π°ΠΉΠ½ ΠΊΠΎΠ»Π»ΠΎΠΊΠ²ΠΈΡƒΠΌ ΠΏΠΎ тСорСтичСской Ρ„ΠΈΠ·ΠΈΠΊΠ΅ Π² Ρ‡Π΅Ρ‚Π²Π΅Ρ€Π³ 22.05 Π±ΡƒΠ΄ΡƒΡ‚
> Π·Π°ΡΠ»ΡƒΡˆΠ°Π½Ρ‹ 2 Π΄ΠΎΠΊΠ»Π°Π΄Π°:
>
> 1) 10:00:00 ΠΏΠΎ московскому Π²Ρ€Π΅ΠΌΠ΅Π½ΠΈ: Yakov Fominov (L.D. Landau
> Institute of Theoretical Physics Russian Academy of Sciences)
> Superconducting Diode Effect
>
> In this talk, I will discuss the rapidly developing field of
> nonreciprocal effects in superconducting transport, also known as the
> superconducting diode effect. The essence of this phenomenon lies in
> the asymmetry of a system's properties when a supercurrent flows in
> opposite directions. Such an effect requires the simultaneous breaking
> of time-reversal and inversion symmetries. The underlying physical
> mechanisms can vary significantly, including effects of magnetic (and,
> more specifically, exchange) fields, spin-orbit interactions, and
> geometric asymmetry of the system. These effects can lead to
> nonreciprocal charge transport both in systems homogeneous along the
> current direction and in Josephson junctions.
>
> BIOGRAPHY
>
> Prof. Yakov Fominov holds two PhDs in Theoretical Physics — one from
> the Kapitza Institute (Russia, 2003) and another from the University of
> Twente (Netherlands, 2003) — as well as a Doctor of Physics and
> Mathematics degree from the Landau Institute (2019). Since 2005, he has
> been a permanent member of the Landau Institute, where he currently
> serves as Deputy Director. Since 2023, he has also headed the Chair for
> Problems in Theoretical Physics (Gor'kov Theory Group) at the Moscow
> Institute of Physics and Technology. His research focuses on the
> superconducting proximity effect in hybrid structures (including normal
> and ferromagnetic metals), the Josephson effect in mesoscopic
> junctions, odd-frequency superconductivity, and superconducting spin
> valves.
>
>
>
> 2) 11:00:00 ΠΏΠΎ московскому Π²Ρ€Π΅ΠΌΠ΅Π½ΠΈ: Jiang-Ping Hu (Institute of Physics
> Chinese Academy of Sciences)
> Time Reversal Symmetry Breaking in Kagome Lattices
>
> In this talk, I will discuss quantum states in Kagome lattices with the
> time reversal symmetry breaking. Both theory and recent experimental
> progress will be reviewed. A brief review of this type of states will
> be given for cuprates and Kagome lattice superconductors. We will
> discuss a specific model to show the existence of loop current states
> which break the time reversal symmetry as ground states. In particular,
> we will address the superconducting diode effect can be used to probe
> such quantum states.
>
> BIOGRAPHY
>
> Prof. Jiang-Ping Hu is currently a researcher and the Deputy Director
> of the Institute of Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences. He received
> his BS from Peking University in 1994, MS from the Institute of
> Theoretical Physics of the Chinese Academy of Sciences in 1997 and PhD
> from Stanford University in 2002. His main research interests are
> theoretical condensed matter physics. He has made seminal contributions
> to topological physics, high-temperature superconductivity, and
> strongly correlated electron theory, with more than 280 publications
> and an H-index of 85. He was selected to be a Fellow of the American
> Physical Society in 2018, and was awarded the Zhou Peiyuan Prize for
> Physics in 2019, a New Stone Researcher in 2023.
>
>
>
> Zoom meeting ID: 890 7187 2369
> ΠŸΠ°Ρ€ΠΎΠ»ΡŒ: 544845
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Wednesday, May 21, 2025

The 100th woman in space: Emily Calandrelli talks about her Blue Origin flight and inspiring the next generation

100th woman in space talks inspiring the next generation | Asteroid passing between Earth and moon today | Are we ready for the worst space weather? 'We don't know'
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For Emily Calandrelli, known to many as "The Space Gal," the dream of spaceflight began over 20 years ago. Last year, that dream became a reality. As the 100th woman to travel to space, Calandrelli isn't just celebrating personal achievement -- she's using her journey to inspire others, uplift underrepresented communities and push the boundaries of STEM (science, technology, engineering and math) accessibility.
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Asteroid passing between Earth and moon today
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A newly discovered house-size asteroid is set to make a close, yet harmless approach to Earth today (May 21), passing within one-third of the Earth-moon distance. The close approach will happen at approximately 1:30 p.m. ET on May 21 (1730 GMT), at which point the asteroid, designated 2025 KF, will pass a mere 71,700 miles (115,000 kilometers) from Earth, according to NASA.
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Are we ready for the worst space weather? 'We don't know'
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Imagine being told a storm is heading your way, but you won't know how bad the winds are or whether they'll knock out power until just minutes before it hits. That's the challenge scientists face when it comes to predicting solar storms. We've come a long way in understanding space weather. We can spot solar storm eruptions, track their speed, and estimate when they'll arrive at Earth, sometimes with up to a day's warning. However, one critical piece of information remains frustratingly out of reach until the last moment: the orientation of the storm's magnetic field, known as the Bz component.
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Early universe 'zippers' and 'twisters' may solve mystery
(NASA, ESA, CSA, and STScI)
Structures known as "zippers" and "twisters" in the early universe may explain why dwarf galaxies tend to line up with each other, as well as hint at how dark matter operates in the universe. Every major galaxy like the Milky Way has a retinue of smaller dwarf galaxies orbiting it. The Milky Way has several dozen, including the famous Large and Small Magellanic clouds. Beginning in the 1970s, astronomers noticed that these dwarf galaxies' positions and orbits weren't entirely random. Instead, dwarf galaxies tended to exist within the same plane. For example, the 11 brightest satellites of the Milky Way share a plane, and many dwarf galaxies around the Andromeda galaxy form what is known as the Great Plane of Andromeda.
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SpaceX
23 Starlinks launch on brand-new Falcon 9 rocket (photos)
(SpaceX)
A brand-new SpaceX rocket just earned its wings. A Falcon 9 rocket lifted off from Florida's Cape Canaveral Space Force Station Tuesday (May 20) at 11:19 p.m. EDT (0319 GMT on May 21), carrying 23 of the company's Starlink broadband satellites to low Earth orbit (LEO).
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Technology
NASA's X-59 jet takes 'flight' without leaving the ground
(Lockheed Martin/Garry Tice)
During the testing, engineers turned on most of the aircraft's systems but left the engine off. The flight computer still had control over the X-59's control surfaces, responding to inputs that simulated changes in altitude, speed, temperature or the health of its various systems.
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Star Wars
Every upcoming 'Star Wars' movie officially announced
(Disney)
Star Wars is heading back to the big screen soon with both The Mandalorian & Grogu, and Star Wars: Starfighter, but what other upcoming Star Wars movies do we have to look forward to?
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