International School for Junior Scientists and Students on Optics, Laser Physics and Biophysics

Saratov Fall Meeting

SFM'12

September 25-28, 2012, Saratov, Russia

History, Methodology and Philosophy of the Optical Education IV

The goals of the Workshop are the development of the optical education, the actualization of the interdisciplinary investigation using optical conceptions and tools, the expansion of European educational field of optical physics and biophysics and the increase of creative resources and potential of bachelor, master’s degree, post-graduate training in Optics and Biophotonics.

Topics

There are five main discussing topics.

History of discoveries in optics:

• Founders of optical physics.
• History of optical scientific schools.
• Optical discoveries on chronicles of the world culture.
• Historical aspects of optical investigations for life science.

Methodology problems of the optical education:

• Lecture demonstrations of optics.
• University optical training.
• Methodology of teaching optics in the general course of physics at a natural-science department.
• Principles of optical mathematical simulation.

Teaching optics in the light of the interdisciplinary education and scientific knowledge integration:

• Problems of teaching optics at medical colleges and universities.
• Optical physics in the course “The modern natural scientific conception” at humanitarian departments.
• Minimum program of biology, biophysics, biochemistry, and biomedicine for student specialized in optics.

Master class: Optics of the twenty-first century. Elite lectures.

Round table: We and light. Philosophy problems of wave and quantum treatment of light nature.

Personnel to contact with:

Chair: Dr. Boris Abramovich Medvedev

Chair: Prof. Vladimir Petrovich Ryabukho

Secretary: Dr. Alexander Alexanderovich Skaptsov

 

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