Our chapter made a lab tour at ILC MSU for 14 students from Bauman university. Enjoy some photos from the activity.

Photos by Gregory Golovin.

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The 8th European IONS conference is organized by students of Moscow State and Bauman State Technical Universities and will take place from June 21st until June 25th, 2010.

The conference program includes:

• Scientific Session
  • International keynote speakers:
    • Dr. James C. Wyant, 2010 OSA President, University of Arizona
    • Dr. Vladimir Shalaev, Purdue University
  • Student technical talks
  • Student poster session
  • Best talk/poster award
• Professional development program
  • “Making the most of your presentation” by Dr. Jean-luc Doumont (Effective Communication in Science, Principae)
  • “Manuscript Preparation and Submission” by Dr. Rachel Won (Nature Photonics)
  • “Patents and Intellectual Property” by Dr. Tatyana Vakhnina (Innotec)
• Lab tours to Moscow State University and Bauman State Technical University
• Short course
• Student Chapters presentations
• Career networking event
  • Dr. Torben Jacobsen, Ibsen Photonics President
  • Dr. Rachel Won (Nature Photonics) “Career as journal editor”
• Evening excursions in Moscow
• Exciting social day on June 25th.

More information about speakers, events and program will be posted very soon. Please, check the website of IONS (http://www.ions-project.org/ions_europe.php?topic=ions_europe_8) for updates or follow us on facebook - “IONS-8 Moscow” group or on twitter -@ionsmoscow.

One day exploring the OSA.org I came across the Optics Suitcase by Rochester Section, a set of different optics stuff and handouts  made for presentations in middle school. As a teacher I took an interest and filled in online form to order it. In spite of problems on Russian customs (big black case packed with a lot of strange things made officers crazy, I suppose) it came to Moscow pretty fast. I prepared a plan of a special lesson about light organised around handouts from this suitcase and asked my friends (Sergey Stremoukhov and Fedor Potemkin) from our OSA Student Chapter to help me in this activity. Here you can see some “how it was” photos (thanks to Irina Zhvania, our secretary and photographer).

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Dear friends! I’m happy to say that our chapter activities are starting up!

We have a lot of plans about future events, so…

Stay tuned!