2. The conditions of the permission to participation in the contest
All interested persons from the students of Kharkov Institutes of higher education, which write thesis of the level of the bachelor, master or the specialist, are admitted to participation in the contest.
3. The organization and carrying out of contest
3.1 The contest is carried outfrom February 1 till May 23, 2008.
3.2 From February 1 till April 8, 2008the applicant should submit the following documents on e-mail of organizing committee (best_diplom@ieee.org): 3.4 The organizing committee preserves the right to itself to demand additional documents.
3.5 The submission and registration of applicants’ documents give the applicants the status of participants of the contest.
3.6 In April 20, 2008 it will be the decision of jury of the contest concerning the participation of the contestantsin the final part of the contest which will be carried out in the frameworks of 1-st All-Ukrainian Young Scientist Conference 2008 on “Low Temperature Physics” which will take place on the basis of Institute for Low Temperature Physics and Engineering of the National Academy of Sciencies of Ukraine in May, 20-23, 2008.The opportunity to take part in conference and to report the materials on thesis will be given to applicants to victory. Winners of the contest will be determined subject to a level of the thesis presentation.IMPORTANT: for participation in the final part of the contest the applicants should refer the expert’s certificate with stamp on the publication of thesis materials in press to organizing committee.
3.7 Abstracts of theses of contestants-finalists will be published in the conference proceedings.
4. Criterions of assessment of contest works, definition and rewarding of winners.
4.1. The basic criterions of assessment of the degree of the works submitted on the contest:
1) Degree of novelty and urgency of the subject of research;
2) Volume and theoretical-experimental level of performance of work;
3) Scientific and practical importance of the obtained results;
4) Presence of publications on subject of the work.
4.2. The contest is carried out on OPTICS@PHOTONICS field.
Theworks on the adjacent scientific fields can be accepted to consideration under the decision of the organizing committee. If the contest work does not answer the indicated direction, the decision concerning the rejection of work is accepted by the organizing committee.
4.3 Winners of the contest are chosen by the jury, which includes not less than three scientists (candidates of science) who are connected to scientific and educational activity in Optics@Photonics field.
4.4 The reports of contestantswill be heard at session “Optics and Photonics”within the framework of 1-st All-Ukrainian Young Scientist Conference 2008 on “Low Temperature Physics”.
4.5 Winners of the contest will receive the awards and the diplomas of the winner of the Kharkov contest for the Best master’s thesis inOptics@Photonics fieldsigned by Presidents of the youth optical organizations.
4.4 Expenses for carrying out of competition, awards and prizes for winners are taken upon the organizers.
4.5 The information about the contest procedure, about participants and about winners will be publishedon the web-sites of organizers: OSA-SPIE IRE Student Chapter (www.ireosa.org,www.irespie.ucoz.ua), OSA-SPIE Karazina Student Chapter (www.spie-univer.org.ua,www-radiophys.univer.kharkov.ua/theor/OSA/index.html), IEEE LEOS Student Chapter (photonics.kture.kharkov.ua/leos/index.html), and also Young Scientists Councils of KhNURE(yscouncil.kture.kharkov.ua), IRE NASU (www.ire.kharkov.ua/ysc/index.html), ILTPE NASU(http://www.ilt.kharkov.ua/bvi/smu/smu_r.html) and KhNU.
