The Head of the Department

Vladimir M.Kuvshinov, assistant professor, candidate ofphysico-mathematical sciences
Phone:+38 (0652) 23-02-69
E-mail: kuvshin@crimea.edu

History

It is directed by Professor E. I. Terez in 1977.

Faculty Members

Professors: E. I. Terez (practical astrophysics, atmosphere optics) and the NASU Academician N. V. Steshko (optic and astronomic instrument-making, solar physics);
Assistant Professors: V. V. Tsymbal (physics of star atmospheres), V. M. Kuvshynov (magnetic fields of stars and extragalactic peculiar objects, polarimetrics and spectropolarimetrics of galactic and extragalactic radiation sources), V. V. Panenko (coherent optics), T. A. Korostelina (general physics, physics teaching methods), L. P. Kuznetsova (physics lesson techniques), T. P. Gordienko (general physics, issues related to the history of physics in a school course on physics) and G. V. Bragina (fundamental pedagogical skills);
Assistants: A. N. Butenko (technical information media) and E. V. Shevchenko (demonstration experiment techniques).

Specialization

Student graduate as specialists in astrophysics and atmosphere physics.

Areas of Research

IAbsolute star spectrophotometry; atmosphere physics; Sun and Earth relations;
physics of star atmospheres; methods of physics teaching in secondary schools and universities.
Major completed research projects: a catalogue of star-spec-trophotometric standards. Prospective research projects: dynamics of the global ozone content; development of a high-precision ozone content test.

Academic and Educational Relations

are maintained with Shevchenko Kiev National University, the NASU Main Astronomic Observatory, the RAS Main Astronomic Observatory (Pulkovo), Max Planck Institute (Max-Planck-Insistut) (Germany), the Institute of Astronomy in Vienna University (Austria), Texas University (the United States).