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 123rd session of the JINR Scientific Council (February 2018) and on the decisions of the JINR Committee of Plenipotentiaries (March 2018)

• R. Lednický

4. Information on the development of JINR's strategic long-range plan in the area of particle physics and in the area of relativistic heavy-ion physics and spin physics

• N. Russakovich
• R. Tsenov

5. Progress towards realization of the Nuclotron-NICA project

• A. Sidorin

6. Report from the Nuclotron Run Coordinator

• E. Strokovsky

7. Report on the infrastructure developments, including the Nuclotron

• N. Agapov

8. First Collaboration Meeting of the MPD and BM@N experiments at the NICA Facility

• V. Kekelidze

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

• V. Kolesnikov

10. BM@N project:

10.1. Progress towards realization of the BM@N project, including simulation results

• M. Kapishin

10.2. Report on the short range correlation study

• E. Piasetzky

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

11.1. NA61

• V. Kireev

Referees: P. Hristov, V. Burov, I. Tyapkin

11.2. NA62

• D. Madigozhin

Referees: A. Ereditato, G. Chelkov, M. Hnatič

11.3. HyperNIS

• D. Krivenkov

Referees: J. Cleymans, D. Kuzmin, L. Tkachev

11.4. ALPOM-2

• N. Piskunov

Referees: S. Dubnička, Yu. Uzikov, A. Zarubin

11.5. DSS

• M. Janek

Referees: H. Gutbrod, V. Burov, V. Glagolev

11.6. STAR

• Yu. Panebrattsev

Referees: P. Hristov, V. Ladygin, M. Hnatič

11.7. HADES

• V. Ladygin

Referees: Nu Xu, A. Baldin, M. Tokarev

11.8. Precision laser metrology for accelerators and detector complexes

• M. Lyablin

Referees: H. Gutbrod, V. Nikitin, B. Zalikhanov

11.9. SANC — written report and proposal for closure of the project

• L. Kalinovskaya

12. Proposal of a new project: "ARIeL: Physics at future e⁺e^- colliders" (under the theme "JINR's Participation in the BES-III Physics Research Programme")

• I. Boyko

Referees: A. Ereditato, V. Savrin, E. Khramov

13. Reports and proposals on themes approved for completion in 2018:

13.1. "Advanced Studies on Systems of New-Generation Accelerators and Colliders for Fundamental and Applied Research" — written report and proposal for extension of the theme

• G. Shirkov

Referees: J. Mnich, V. Nikitin, B. Zalikhanov

13.2. "Study of Neutrino Oscillations" — written report and proposal for extension of the theme

• A. Olshevskiy

13.3. "Dubna International Advanced School of Theoretical Physics (DIAS-TH)" — report and proposal for extension of the theme

• A. Filippov

Referees: P. Zavada, Yu. Kalinovsky

13.4. "Theory of Fundamental Interactions" — report and proposal of a new theme: "Fundamental Interactions of Fields and Particles"

• D. Kazakov

Referees: E. Boos, I. Savin

13.5. "Modern Mathematical Physics: Strings and Gravity, Supersymmetry, Integrability" — report and proposal of a new theme: "Modern Mathematical Physics: Gravity, Supersymmetry and Strings"

• A. Isaev

Referees: L. Jenkovszky, D. Sternheimer

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