T he scientific research conducted at the Faculty of Physics covers almost all fields of modern Physics and fall into the following key directions: . ... Optics and quantum electronics; . ... S.I. Vavilov, P.L. Kapitsa, I.E. Tamm, A.A. Vlasov, N.N. Bogolyubov, L.D. Landau, A.N. Tikhonov, A.M. Prokhorov, R.V. Khokhlov, L.V. Keldysh, V.A. Magnitsky, G.T. Zatsepin, A.A. Logunov, V.P. Maslov, A.R. Khokhlov, V.G. Kadyshevsky, A.A. Slavnov, A.M. Cherepaschuk, O.V. Rudenko, and many others. ...