3rd International School and Conference «Saint Petersburg OPEN 2016»

We kindly invite all the undergraduate, graduate and PhD students as well as young scientists of Your organization to attend 3rd International School and Conference «Saint Petersburg OPEN 2016» on Optoelectronics, Photonics, Engineering and Nanostructures, which is chaired by academician Zhores I. Alferov, Nobel Prize Laureate in Physics (2000) and vice-president of the Russian Academy of Sciences.

Abstract submission due date is February 25, 2016. Please, find attached the official poster of the Conference. The detailed information can be also found on the official page of the conference: http://spbopen.spbau.com/ . Each paper has a chance to be published in Journal of Physics: Conference Series cited in Web of Knowledge.

We are proud to announce that this year the conference will be supported by Russian Science Foundation (RSF), Skolkovo Foundation, International Society for Optics and Photonics (SPIE) and The Optical Society (OSA). The Conference will be hosted by St. Petersburg Academic University RAS and will take place on March 28 – 30, 2016 in St. Petersburg, Russia.

The topics will cover key areas of modern Physics of Semiconductors, Optics, Photonics, Opto- and Nanoelectronics, Spintronics, Electro- and Magnetooptics as well as Biophysics. During the first part (School) invited speakers will give their talks. During the second part (Conference) Poster Session will take place during which all the participants can deliver their results.

There are no registration fees for attendees. We also ask You, as far as it is possible, to arrange the poster of the Conference in Your organization and on its web site as well as to inform Your potentially interested colleagues (under- and graduate students, PhD students) about the Conference.
With kind regards,
Prof. Dr. Alexey E. Zhukov

The Head of Organization Committee,
Vice-rector on Higher Education of St-Petersburg Academic University,
corr. member of Russian Academy of Sciences.

Participation in the international conference PhysicA.SPb/2015

On the 26-29 of October 2015 the International Youth Conference on high energy physics, quantum field theory, mathematical physics and cosmology, dedicated to the 70th anniversary of the ITEP, PhysicA.SPb/2015 was held in the Ioffe Institute. Our research group presented two posters: Alla Dadonova «Radiative transitions in collisions of H- + H», Olga Aleksandrovich «The study of electron detachment of negative hydrogen ions in collisions with hydrogen molecules via classical trajectories method»