Vladimir Ostrovsky

Interesting links related to your field you’d like to share   

• http://www.aps.org/   
• There are  also  numerous links to interesting experiments and demos.

Please provide a brief description of your teaching philosophy.

•     I believe that the primary goal of education is development of critical thinking and creation of student’s attitude to the surrounding world, not a mechanical accumulation of information and axioms.
• I believe that the basic principles of physics can be and must be explained as simple as possible (but not simpler)

What do you enjoy most about teaching at Poly?        

• I like the friendly environment, colleagues, and the inquisitive students

Aside from textbooks, what other reading material would you recommend to your students?

• There are many books written by outstanding scientists who “made” contemporary physics.
• Also there are evem much more masterpieces outside of science which are must for cultured people.