On May 28–29, the V International Scientific Conference “Optics of Heterogeneous Structures – 2019” was held at the Mogilev State A. Kuleshov University. The event was attended by over 150 scientists from Belarus, Azerbaijan, Germany, the Netherlands, Russia, Spain, Ukraine, and Uzbekistan.
As the participant of the plenary session Candidate of Physical and Mathematical Sciences, Deputy Director for Research of the Federal Research Center Crystallography and Photonics of the Russian Academy of Sciences Viktor Ivanovich Sokolov noted, “Optics of Heterogeneous Structures” was organized in 2004, and the modern format of this level and scale was acquired in 2007.
The conference is traditionally organized by our university and the Interstate Educational Institution of Higher Education “Belarusian-Russian University”. The coordinator is the Department of General Physics headed by Inna Ivashkevich, Candidate of Physical and Mathematical Sciences.
The scope of research covered by the conference is adjacent to the important modern field of science — nanotechnology, which is of fundamental importance in creating and improving new microelectronic devices, semiconductor structures for generating coherent light beams and pulses, converting light into electrical voltage, transmitting optical signals through waveguides: planar, fibre optic and microstructural. Since 2007, issues of a methodological nature have also begun to be considered at the conference.The conference was opened by Vice-Rector for Research, Candidate of Physical and Mathematical Sciences Elena Timoschenko, who is an active participant in this event. She noted that every year interest in the scientific conference increases, the geography of the participants expands. Also, Elena wished the scientists productive work, successful cooperation, new discoveries.
After a short break, the work of the conference was continued at breakout sessions. The sections discussed current issues of modern optics: the nonlinear dynamics of supercrystals, the formation of capillary waveguides, the development of waveguide spectroscopy, spectrophotometry, ellipsometry, optics of crystals, dynamics of semiconductor lasers, etc. Also the urgent problems of natural science education were considered: the use of non-core students in teaching students, teaching physics to students of non-core specialties, forms and methods of implementing the principle of scientific character in teaching physics to students of institutions of general secondary education.
An excursion to the Museum of Geology and Paleontology was held for the conference participants. The next day, the sections continued their work, after which excursions were organized in the laboratories of the Belarusian-Russian University and “Buynichskoye Pole” (the Buynichy Field) memorial complex. At the end of the day the summing up of the conference was held.