Today, the regional conference on “Active Learning of Optics and Photonics” was launched at the Pedagogical University.
The participants of the conference were greeted by the University Chancellor, Doctor of Historical Sciences, Professor Rouben Mirzakhanyan, by the President of the State Committee of Science of the RA Ministry of Education and Science Samvel Harutyunyan, also by the Director of the Physical Research Institute Aram Paponyan, and by Alexander Mazolini (Swinburne Technological University, Melbourne, Australia).
After the official opening of the conference the participants continued their work at the laboratory of new materials of Quantum Electronics and Integral Optics.
It should also be mentioned that the regional conference on “Active Learning of Optics and Photonics” is financed by the UNESCO.
In fact, the project started in 2003. It was initiated by the international working group of professionals from the UNESCO, the Optical Society of the United States of America (OSA), International Society for Optics and Photonics (SPIE), International Center for Theoretical Physics (ICTP), and Asian Physics Education Network (ASPEN).
First, the programme was piloted in the USA and in a number of other developed countries, initially aiming to raise the level of learning fundamental principles of physics by students.
To participate in and assist to the conference, the Pedagogical also welcomed a number of eminent professors from
abroad who have considerable contribution to the creation and development of the programme “Active Learning of Optics and Photonics”; among them are professors David Sokolov (University of Oregon, Eugene, USA), Alexander Mazolini (Swinburne Technological University, Melbourne, Australia), Zohra Ben Lakhdar (University of Tunisia, Tunisia), Jozeph Niemela (International Center of Theoretical Physics, Trieste, Italy) and Justei Jean-Paul Ngomei Abiagga (UNESCO, Paris, France).
And besides, teachers from high-schools of Yerevan and regions of Armenia, as well as from the Armenian State Pedagogical University, Yerevan State University, Gyumri State Pedagogical University also participated in the conference activities together with young researchers, lecturers, postgraduate students, applicants and PhD students of physics, optics and photonics from the Artsakh State University, Tabriz University of the Islamic Republic of Iran.
The following subjects will further be discussed at the conference: geometrical optics, rectilinear distribution of light, reflection and refraction, interference and diffraction, atmosphere optics, lenses and optics of eyes, optical communication, optical data transfer.
To conclude, the conference “Active Learning of Optics and Photonics” will resume its activities until 23 November.
