On December 18 2025, the Ukrainian Optical and Photonic Society held a meeting with the “Karazin Photonics” student union, which combines Optica and SPIE student chapters of V. N. Karazin Kharkiv National University. During the meeting, we reviewed its achievements over the past five years, including a number of events, outreach activities, and members’ career […]
On November 17, 2025, the article of the young participants of the Ukrainian Optical and Photonic Society, was included in the Editors’ Suggestion and Highlights list of Physical Review A. The Editors’ Suggestion distinction is a marker of high quality that the editors award to only about 3% of articles they consider particularly important, interesting, […]
On June 15 2025, we started the membership of the Ukrainian Optical and Photonic Society. It is free of charge until 31 December 2026. June 15 is a special date for us, when James Clerk Maxwell’s groundbreaking paper “A Dynamical Theory of the Electromagnetic Field” was formally approved by the Royal Society’s Committee 160 years […]
From May 14 to 17, Oleh Yermakov visited the Institute of Physical, Technical and Computer Sciences at Yuriy Fedkovych Chernivtsi National University (ChNU). May 14: We explored the newly inaugurated student engineering space “Spectrum” and had the opportunity to connect with many prominent Ukrainian personalities in optics and photonics. May 15: Oleh delivered a plenary […]
The popular lecture, “Photonics: From Fundamentals to Latest Discoveries 2025”, delivered by Oleh Yermakov took place at the atmospheric venue MODI Art&Wine Gallery on 3 May 2025. The videorecording is available on YouTube. The questions discussed include: We also explored some of the latest scientific breakthroughs of 2024-2025: we “surfed” on electromagnetic waves, learned how to […]
On April 29, 2025, the article by Oleh Yermakov and Anton Ovcharenko, the co-founders of the Ukrainian Optical and Photonic Society, was published in the Advanced Photonics Nexus journal. It is the first scientific publication recognizing the support by the Ukrainian Optical and Photonic Society. The article investigates the anti-reflective coating for solar cell developed by combining […]
