Meeting of ICS Academic Council
16.12.2015 /Director of ICS Acad. Telman Aliev opened the meeting with a speech about the 100th birthday anniversary of Prof. Ismayil Ibrahimov, Full Member of the Azerbaijan National Academy of Sciences, an outstanding Azerbaijani scholar, a founding father of such disciplines as cybernetics, computer science and control systems in Azerbaijan. T. Aliev pointed out that under the leadership of Prof. Ibrahimov the Azerbaijan Institute of Oil and Chemistry, the leading educational institution in the USSR and foreign countries that trained oil industry professionals, became an internationally known center of science and education. In the last 30 years, Prof. Ibrahimov has been working at the Institute of Cybernetics and made a great contribution to the development of this field of science. He received the highest awards of the former USSR, Hero of Socialist Labor and the USSR State Prize. For his achievements in science, education and public service, I. Ibrahimov was awarded "Sharaf” Order this year.
Director also said that the 70th anniversary of ANAS and the 50th anniversary of ICS had been celebrated this year and spoke about the issues facing ICS based on President Ilham Aliyev’s speech at the General Assembly devoted to the 70th anniversary of ANAS.
It was followed by Acad. Telman Aliyev’s report on the results of the scientific and scientific-organizational activity of the Institute in 2015: the performance on the plan of scientific research work for 2015, important obtained results, application of the results of fundamental scientific projects in industry and production, international relations and grants, publishing activity, conferences, sessions, workshops, jubilees and other conducted events.
The following issues on the agenda of the Academic Council were also discussed by the participants of the meeting:
- On establishing the web group to ensure and maintain the high standard of operation of the Institute’s website in line with the ANAS decree No 16/6 of 04 November 2015 "On the results of monitoring of ANAS websites”
- On the admission to the doctoral program of the Institute (for PhD and Doctor of Science degrees)
- ANAS decree No 18/5 of 09 December 2015 "On the plan of admission to the Master’s degree course of the Azerbaijan National Academy of Sciences for the academic year 2016/2017”
- On the "Azerbaijan National Encyclopedia” Science Center letter No 54-279 of 28 December 2015