St. Petersburg State Institute of Fine Mechanics and Optics SPIE Student Chapter

Saint-Petersburg

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 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" ( ); the laureate of the medal of Russian Education Ministry "For the best student scientific research in physics" (1999); SPIE Scholarships ( ); 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 scientists Scholarships: SPIE (Nakajima), President of Russian Federation, Soros Foundation Activities: 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 I FMO 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 students to 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 , 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» October, 2003 Saint-Petersburg, Russia