From October 23 to 27, Samara National Research University named after Academician Sergey P. Korolev receives participants of the international collaboration SPD (Spin Physics Detector) NICA. These are theoretical physicists and experimenters, engineers, electronics engineers and software developers. All of them are busy preparing an experiment at the new ion collider, which will be launched in 2023 on the basis of the upgraded NICA nuclotron of the Joint Institute for Nuclear Research (JINR) in Dubna. It makes it possible to recreate in laboratory conditions a special state of matter in which our universe was in the first moments after the …