The Khorezm Ma’mun Academy was not accidentally chosen as a home for such kind event. Khorezm, a land of unique and original culture, gave the world a great number of thinkers and scientists who left an indelible track in the development history of world science and culture. The world science community showed good interest in the conference of physicists in Khiva. The conferences assembled over 125 scholars from the world’s 20 countries representing Great Britain, Germany, France, Russia, Japan, United State and Iran.

In the Republic of Uzbekistan researches on magnetism and superconductivity are conducted by scientific research institutes of the Uzbek Academy of Sciences (Institute of Nuclear Physics, Physic-Technical Institute, Department of Thermo Physics), National University of Uzbekistan, Samarkand and Bukhara State universities. The Uzbek scientists’ progress in physics is widely known abroad. The world scientific circles express great interest in the scientific projects of Uzbek scholars in various branches of physics. For instance, recently the American agency UPI issued an article on the progress of Uzbek physicists in solar power engineering that was republished by a number of foreign media.

The UPI’s article notes that the increase of Uzbekistan’s interest in the renewable energy sources, particularly, solar power has been observed in recent time. Besides a favorable climate for solar power generation, Uzbekistan enjoys such advantages as long-term experience of projects on solar power engineering, developed industrial infrastructure and high intellectual potential. Experts estimate that the Republic can compensate annual power consumption that is today 65 million tons of oil four times, stressed the UPI’s article.

The Academy of Sciences of Uzbekistan issues quarterly magazine “Geliotexnika” (applied solar power engineering) on solar power generation. The magazine’s articles are about the problems of solar radiation, photoelectrical power engineering and technologies. The main problem in the development of this branch is relatively high starting expenses. In spite of it, Uzbekistan has taken measures to integrate extremely solar power generation into the heating system of communal, agricultural and cattle-farming households. For instance, within the frameworks of UNPD’s grant the scholars of the Physic-Technical Institute of Uzbekistan have developed the “Pure Water for Rural Areas of Karakalpakstan” Project. The project ensured that specialists of the OSC “Foton” manufactured 25 photoelectrical systems for supplying the people of Aral city of Ayazkala (Karakalpakstan) with electricity and heating.

At present the “Large Solar Stove”, located in the area of the Institute of Materialogy (Parkent district of Tashkent region) having capacity of 1 Megawatt, is of great importance among the solar equipments of Uzbekistan, states the UPI.

Today Uzbekistan is about to develop the alternative energy sources. The Uzbek solar specialists provide their foreign colleagues with good opportunities to cooperate with the “Physics-Sun” Scientific Industrial Association. Particularly, they are establishing contacts with Israel, Demark and Japan. The UPI’s experts think that from the point of view of high interest in the renewable energy sources, the progress and gained scientific potential will allow Uzbekistan to take leading positions in this sphere.