SPIE Student Chapter of Saint-Petersburg Institute of Fine Mechanics and Optics

(Technical University)

My oral presentation at SPIE 45th Annual Meeting

Our Association of Young Scientists “Optics – XXI century” arrived in Minsk, Belarus,

to take part in conference ICONO-2001

Alex O. Ukrainsky (left)receives 2001 OSA

New Focus Student Award from Dr. Murray Reed

(of New Focus Inc.) at a special section of OSA

Annual Meeting and Exhibit 2001,

Long Beach, CA, USA, 14 – 18 October 2001

Yuri A. Shpolyanskiy (right) receives 2001 OSA New Focus Student

Award from Dr. Murray Reed (of New Focus Inc.)

at a special section of OSA Annual Meeting and Exhibit

2001, Long Beach, CA, USA, 14 – 18 October 2001

Michael Volcov at conference in Nizhniy Novgorod

Nikolay Makarov at the conference in Moscow

Michael Bakhtin at the conference in Moscow

Dmitry Smirnov and Satoshi Kawata at Photonics Prague 2002

Elena Ermolaeva in Nizhniy Novgorod

SPIE delegation visited our University and listened reports of out students

The visit of 2001 SPIE President Dr. Richard Hoover (fourth from the left) and SPIE Executive Director Dr. Eugene Arthurs

(seventh from the left) to IFMO, June 2001. IFMO President Prof. Vladimir N. Vasiliev is the first from the left. The President of SPIE Russian Chapter Dr. Edmund I. Akopov is

the second from the left. Prof Sergei A. Kozlov (the third from the right),

Dr. Victor G. Bespalov (the first from the right) and students of SPIE Student Chapter.

Our scientific advisers Dr. Bespalov and Prof. Kozlov in San-Jose,Photonics West - 2002

The Second Young Scientists' School «Optics-2002»Saint Petersburg, Russia, 14 - 17 October, 2002.

Abstract and summary submission deadline - 15 September 2002. The Second Young Scientists School for Optics'2002

continues the tradition of regular meetings of opticians under 35 which commenced in

Leningrad in 1956 and were renewed in St.-Petersburg in 1999. The program of the Scientific School includes lectures of leading

scientists on basic and applied optical science. The main topic of the School in 2002 is «Optical technologies in

computing». Lectures will be given on physical fundamentals, technical aspects and

development perspectives of optical technologies in information transmission systems, systems of processing and storing

and of optical calculation. Participants of the School will be able to carry out some experiments in

laboratory on modern femtosecond laser complex.