Conference on Physics of Ultracold Atoms in Russia – a new step towards deepening international cooperation

At the end of December 2021, there was held online the annual, fifteenth in a row, All-Russian Conference on Physics of Ultracold Atoms, in which scientists from other countries took part. Over the past years, this conference has changed dramatically: from a one-day workshop of participants in the integration projects of the Siberian Branch of the Russian Academy of Sciences, where the results of the year were summed up, into a full-scale All-Russian conference with a wide geographic coverage of participants from Vladivostok to Voronezh. Foreign scientists also took an active part in the work of the conference, but until recently they were Russianspeaking researchers, and so Russian remained the working language of the conference. In 2021, an important step was taken towards its transition to a full-fledged international format. Russian and English became the working languages, and in order to increase the level and significance of the conference, as well as to deepen international cooperation in this field of physics, a number of foreign scientists were invited.