St. Petersburg State Institute of Fine Mechanics and Optics

SPIE Student Chapter

Saint-Petersburg 1703-2003

Our University

Department of Photonics and Optoinformatics:

Integration of optics and informatics

Every year our university programming team takes part in ACM Programming Contest and

often wins medals.Strong potential in computer

science and physical modeling + excellent results in optics =

optoinformatics

New Photonics and Optoinformatics department

Prof. Sergei A. Kozlov is the Dean of Photonics and Optoinformatics department and is also the advisor of the SPIE Student Chapter of St. Petersburg Institute of Fine Mechanics and Optics (kozlov@mail.ifmo.ru)

Professor Victor G. Bespalov, Vice-dean of Photonics and

Optoinformatics , scientific supervisor of several students and PhD students

Educational council Olga V. Andreeva

Rosanov Nikolai. N., professor

Kolesnikov Yuriy L., professor

Utanova Ekaterina U., post-doc

Pavlov Alexander V., assistant professor

Staselko Dmitriy I., professor

• Analytical study and numerical modeling of the femtosecond supercontinuum generation• Theoretical and experimental investigations of dynamic holograms recording in fullerene solutions• Analytical study and numerical modeling of a few-cycle pulses self-focusing• Theoretical investigation of electromagnetic properties of the microwave photonic band-gap materials formed by periodic 3D lattices of dielectric or metallic inclusions• Investigation of low-coherent interferometry

Research directions of our Laboratory

Scientific researches of our laboratory colleagues and their graduate and postgraduate students are

supported by Russian Foundation for Basic Research (RFBR), Russian education Ministry funds

("Natural science", "Instrument-making", "Radiophysics"), program "Universities of Russia-

fundamental researches", international programs US Civilian Research and Development Foundation

(CRDF), International Association INTAS, International Society for Optical Engineering (SPIE),

Optical Society of America (OSA), International Soros Science Educational Program (ISSEP).

My report at the conference

Pavel Petroshenko,

Chapter secretary

Winner of International Soros Science Education Program in 1998, 1999, 2000, 2001 years in a row. Travel Grant of Russian Foundation for Basic Research (2000). Winner of Saint-Petersburg Municipality competition for young scientists (2000). Winner of President of Russian Federation competition for students (2001). Diploma for the best scientific student paper from the Ministry of Education of Russia (2001). Student Travel Contingency Grant of SPIE (2000, 2002). Scholarship of Holographic school of Denisyuk (2002).

Anna Pyajt,Chapter President

Pictures from the last SPIE Annual Meeting

Vice-president of the Chapter -Alex Ukrainsky, the "Soros student" (1998-2000); the laureate of the medal of Russian Education Ministry "For the best student scientific research in physics" (1999); SPIE Scholarships (1999-2002); OSA New Focus Student Award (2001).

CRDF Research Grant (Project Participant)

SPIE Students Travel Grant

Winner of International Soros Science Educational Program

Elena Ermolaeva, Chapter Treasurer

Yury Spolyansky, last year activities, awards and honors: Honors: Diploma of St. Petersburg Governor for 5 repeated wins in annual city grant competitions for young scientistsScholarships: SPIE (Nakajima), President of Russian Federation, Soros FoundationActivities: heading IFMO Association of Young Scientists “Optics–XXI”, guiding term papers of B.S. and M.S. students.

Dmitry Smirnov at the conference in Moscow

Lobanov Sergei’s making the report

“The spatial coherency of the SRS”

Sergei Pak’s making the report “The peculiarities of the SRS”

Dmitry Vasilenko’s making report at the conference

Kessel Sergey – winner of the Intel competition of the best student paper

Konstantin Kariaev – student investigating thin structure synthesis

Makarov Nikolai – winner of the Saint-Petersburg Municipality Grant

Aims and targets

IFMO SPIE Student Chapter was established by the students of IFMO interested in the deep study of

optics.

The aim of our chapter is to help our studentsto publish their works in the international journals,

participate in the international conferences worldwide and to find new friends in area of optics

and optical engineering.

The elders are sharing their experience with the youngest, and every year new people join our

chapter.

The meeting of SPIE Student Chapters of M.V. Lomonosov Moscow State University (MSU) and

Saint-Petersburg State Institute of Fine Mechanics and Optics (IFMO) 2002

The meeting of SPIE Student Chapters was held within the frameworks of the Scientific School for Young Scientists

"Optics-2002" (Russia, Saint-Petersburg, October 14 -17, 2002), which was part of the International Optical Congress "Optics-XXI". All the members of SPIE Student Chapter of

Saint-Petersburg State Institute of Fine Mechanics and Optics took part in organization both - the Optical Congress

and the School.

Oleg Bogumirsky

Some members of IFMO SPIE Student Chapter.

First row - Natalya Yastrebova, Dmitry Belov, Yuri Shpolyanskiy, Alexandr Kurasov, Oleg Bogumirskii, Pavel Petroshenko.Second row - Konstantin Karyaev, visitor from Kaliningrad and other guests of the meeting.

All participants of the meeting.

III International Conference for Students, Young Scientists and

Engineers «Optics'2003»20-24 October, 2003

Saint-Petersburg, Russiahttp://www.ifmo.ru/optics03/eng