In recent years, the Institute of Physics has continued to maintain collaboration with traditional scientific partners: the DUBNA Institute of Nuclear Research; the KEK Institute for High Energy and Nuclear Physics (Japan); the International Center for “Institute of Applied Optics”; the Institute of Physics, Belarus Academy of Sciences; the Department of Physics, Center for Theoretical Sciences in Taiwan; the International School for Advanced Studies (SISSA) in Italy; the Laser Engineering Institute at Osaka University (Japan); and the Synchrotron Radiation Research Institute (Thailand).