Training of optical engineers and physicists in Chernovtsy University

The first group of students to be trained in optics was admitted to Chernovtsy University in 1962. At thattime the Optical Division was part of the Physical Faculty and was represented by a single specializing department. The research interests of the Department members formed under the influence of leading specialists from all over the country, which gave lectures to the teachers and students of the Optical Division. The lectures were given by Professors A.A. Shishlovsky, G .V.Rozenberg, P. Sapozhnikov, V.M. Broude , V.M.Fine. The teachers and students were able to take part in the seminars held by Professors K.S. .Shifrin, I.V.Obreimov, Yu.N.Denisyuk, A.P.Ivanov. Thanks to the broad scientific contacts, the fields of research have been outlined which included both traditional fields such as optics of scattering objects, the theory of propagation and the theory of radiation transport, spectroscopy of scattering media, and new fields such as optical field coherence, laser theory and technology, holography, etc.