The series of four lectures to be presented is devoted to : (1) studies and applications of glassy nanocomposites (glass-nanoceramics) containing dielectric and metal nanoparticles, and (2) electric field and ion exchange effects, because ion exchange and electric field modification of glassy media are powerful tools to produce new functional materials.

Professor  Andrey A. Lipovskii
Education: 
1970-1976　  undergraduate studies at Leningrad Polytechnic
1978-1981　  post-graduate studies at Leningrad Polytechnic
Degrees: 
M.S.　　　  in 1976 from Leningrad Polytechnic
Ph.D.　　　  in 1981 from Leningrad Polytechnic
Dr.Sci.　  in 1992 from Russian National Examination Committee
Position: 
Since 1992　 Full Professor at St. Petersburg Polytechnic University (Solid State Physics Dept.)，
1987-1992 Researcher, Senior Researcher, Associated Professor at St. Petersburg Technical University
1985-1986　  PostDoc at Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm, Sweden
1981-1984　  Junior Researcher at Leningrad Polytechnic
1976-1978　  Engineer at Leningrad Polytechnic
Visiting Position： 
2002 (3 months)  Visiting Professor at Swiss Federal Polytechnic, Lausanne
2000 (2 months)  Visiting Professor, University de Santiago de Compostella, Spain
1999 (2 months)  Invited Researcher at Inst. of Physics, University of Tsukuba, Tsukuba, Japan
1998 (2 months)  Invited Researcher at Centro de Investigaciones en Optica, Leon, Mexico
1997 (2 months)  Visiting Professor at Cornell University, USA
1996 (3 months)  Invited Researcher at University of Joensuu, Finland
1995 (2 months)  Invited Researcher at University of Joensuu, Finland
1994 (3 months)  Invited Researcher at Bar IIan University, Israel
1989 (4 months)  Invited Researcher at the Institute of Optical Research, Sweden

Prof. Lipovskii’s scientific experience covers essential part of Modern Optics and Optical Materials fields, and it is mainly concentrated in the field related to glasses and glassy composites. It includes glasses, embedded with semiconductor quantum dots, with ferroelectric and other dielectric nanocrystals, with metal nanoparticles, thermal and electrically assisted ion exchange in glasses, formation of 3D diffused structures like gratings, microlenses, channel optical waveguides, modeling of the diffusion processes and 3D graded index structures in glasses, characterization of glasses and glassy structures, design of new glasses. He published about 200 papers, last 15 years mainly in international journals, made more than 150 scientific reports at conferences, has 5 patents. Recent results of Prof. Lipovskii studies, except other scientific journals, were published in high-rating editions as Physical Review and Physical Review Letters (6 papers), Applied Physics Letters (7 papers), Optics Express (2 papers), Journal of Applied Physics and Applied Physics (9 papers), Nanotechnology. His Hirsch index is 17.
　  Prof. Lipovskii was the head of 12 Russian national scientific projects, the head of Russian team in 4 international projects funded by INTAS, one Russian-USA project funded by CRDF, one Russian-USA project funded by Delzell foundation, was one of team leaders in 3 international projects funded by CRDF, he also headed 3 international research contracts signed with USA, Taiwanese and Japanese companies.
　  Prof. Lipovskii obtained some essential achievements related with his studies of glasses, as followed:
　  Glass-metal nanocomposites and thermal-electric field processing of glasses and nanocomposites
　  First formation of glass-copper nanocomposite (GMN), studies of glass-copper and glass-silver nanocomposites for thermal-electric field imprinting (TEFI) and nonlinear optics. First TEFI imprinting in copper GMN, first registration of giant optical nonlinearity in the GMN and first 2D spectral mapping of the nonlinearity revealed a difference in pump- and probe dependence of the nonlinearity.First model of  GMN formation, first formation of surface relief on glasses and glass-metal nanocomposites using TEFI.
 　 Nanocrystals in glasses and the theory of crystal motifs in glasses/
　  Design and studies of glasses and glass-ceramics with extra-high Kerr electrooptical sensitivity and optical nonlinearity. Developing and verification of the theory of glass structure based on the hypothesis of crystal motifs. Design ion-exchange technique of glass-ceramics formation and modification.
　  Formation and studies of new phosphate glasses embedded with semiconductor quantum dots (SQD).
　  Design and study of novel phosphate glasses embedded with II-VI and IV-VI SQD, first formation and study of PbSe SQD in glasses, In particular, founding specific temperature dependence of IV-VI SQD properties, first modeling of IV-VI SQD, design and verification of a set of new SQD-based saturable absorbers for solid state lasers.