1. Opening of the meeting

• I. Tserruya

2. Implementation of the recommendations of the previous PAC meeting

• I. Tserruya

3. Information on the Resolution of the 122nd session of the JINR Scientific Council (September 2017) and on the decisions of the JINR Committee of Plenipotentiaries (November 2017)

• R. Lednický

4. Progress towards realization of the Nuclotron-NICA project

• A. Sidorin

5. Report on the infrastructure developments, including the Nuclotron

• N. Agapov

6. Information about the forced stop of Run 55 of the Nuclotron and plans for 2018

• H. Khodzhibagiyan

7. NICA grant programme and formation of the MPD and BM@N collaborations

• V. Kekelidze

8. Progress towards realization of the MPD project, including simulation results

• V. Kolesnikov

9. Progress towards realization of the BM@N project, including simulation results and the new addendum to the physics programme

• M. Kapishin

10. Progress towards realization of the SPD project

• R. Tsenov

11. Reports on themes and projects approved for completion in 2018 and proposals for their continuation:

11.1. Upgrade of the ATLAS detector

• A. Cheplakov

Referees: L. Jenkowszki, A. Kulikov, N. Piskunov

11.2. Upgrade of the CMS detector

• A. Zarubin

Referees: P. Hristov, Yu. Davydov, A. Dorokhov, V. Nikitin

11.3. Borexino/DarkSide

• D. Naumov

Referees: A. Ereditato, E. Yakushev, E. Kokoulina

12. Reports on the scientific results obtained by the JINR groups in the LHC experiments

12.1. ALICE

• B. Batyunya

12.2. ATLAS

• I. Yeletskikh

12.3. CMS

• M. Savina

13. Scientific report "Factorization theorem and duality: from low-energy to high-energy regimes"

• I. Anikin

14. Poster presentations by young scientists in the field of particle physics research

15. Meeting of the PAC members with the JINR Directorate

16. General discussion

17. Proposals for the agenda of the next PAC meeting

18. PAC recommendations

19. Closing of the meeting