FRPE specialty at RF NNSU

contacts:
Mikhail Ivanovich Bakunov, Prof., Head of the Chair of General Physics of the Radiophysical Branch of Nizhny Novgorod State Uiversity
Mikhail Yurievich Emelin, PhD, Senior research fellow, Division 330
emelin@ipfran.ru

In 2000 a new speciality “Fundamental Radiophysics and Physical Electronics” (FRPE) appeared at the Radiophysical Branch of Lobachevsky Nizhny Novgorod State University, aimed at training physicists-investigators for the institutes of Russian Academy of Sciences. The appearance of this speciality at RPF coincided successfully with the formation of the SEC in IAP RAS, offering for the latter one more possibility to draw greater amount of talented youth to academic institutes.

The number of candidates admitted to the speciality is 25 persons. To achieve of more “individual” training of scientific personnel, the leading scientists of academic institutes work also at the faculty as the pluralists alongside with the staff lectuters. The base training is ensured by the staff of the faculty, and specialized education is ensured by investigators who intensively work in science using modern scientific equipment. First-year students of the FRPE group are delivered the course “Outlines of Scientific Communications”, which gives the notion of scientific trends developed in IAP RAS and IPM RAS. The programs of the second and third courses include an original discipline – the education-scientific experiment; the lessons are conducted directly at the experimental set-ups of IAP RAS and IPM RAS. As a result, at the fourth course the students orientate themselves rather well in the theme of institutes and are able to choose the scientific specialization and, consequently, corresponding specialized courses.

More than 40 graduates from FRPE work atively in IAP RAS and IPM RAS, present their results at All-Russian and international scientific conferences, publish articles in leading scientific journals.