Dates and facts

History:
The department was established in 1972 during the formation of Karaganda State University. The first head of the department was appointed L. F. Ilyina, invited by the rector Ye. A. Buketov from Alma-Ata. The academic development of the department was reflected in its various names: the Department of General Physics and Methods of Teaching Physics, then the Department of General Physics, Thermophysics, the Department of General and Theoretical Physics, and now the Department of Physics and Nanotechnology.
In different years, the department was headed by colleagues Yu. A., Kontaev S. S. Kunakbayev T. A., Antipov Yu. N. Kurmanov M. K. Muratov T. M. Turmukhambetov A. Zh., Aryngazin K. M., Saulbekov A. O., Sakipova S. E. and Kudusov A. S. The staff of the department held senior positions in the management at the faculty and at the university: Ilina L. F. and Turmukhambetov A. Zh. were the deans of the Faculty of Physics, Antipov Yu. N. became the vice-rector for scientific work, Kontaev S. S.-the rector of the Institute for Advanced Training of Teachers. The department has always created favorable conditions for the development of teachers. Working at the department, they defended their PhD theses: Antipov Yu. N., Alzhanov K. Z., Ketsle G. A., Soynikov Yu. A., Kontaev S. S., Gladkov V. E., Bryukhanov V. V., Melnikov G. V., Kunakbayev T. Zh., Kusayynov K. K., Musenov K. K., Roizman G. Sh., Ospanov N. M., etc.

Students:
The department has 150 students, including holders of the state grant, representatives of other regions of Kazakhstan. Over the past five years, the number of students of the department has increased by 5 times.

Employment :
The employment rate of graduates of the programs 6B01504 "Physics-Informatics" and 6B01503 "Physics" is 100%, the program 6B05304 "Physics" - 80 %.

Teachers:
The department employs 22 teachers, including doctors, candidates, masters of Science, holders of the Republican title "The best teacher of the university".

Trilingual Education Program:
The department has developed programs that provide for one-time training in Kazakh, Russian and English: 6B01504 "Physics-Informatics", 6B01503 "Physics", 6B05304 "Physics".

Dissertation Council:
Since 2019, the department has a dissertation council for the defense of doctoral dissertations for the award of the degree of Doctor of Philosophy (PhD), doctor in the profile of the program 6D060400 – Physics. The chairman of the Council is Professor N. H. Ibraev.

Accreditation and leadership:
The programs of the department have national accreditation of IQAA and occupy worthy positions in the national ratings of "Atameken", IQAA, and IAAR.

Partners:
State Research Center "Institute of Organic Intermediates and Dyes" (Russia)
Institute of Crystallography of the Russian Academy of Sciences (Russia)
Institute of Chemistry and Technology of Polymer Materials, Almaty (Kazakhstan)
B.I. Stepanov Institute of Physics of the National Academy of Sciences of Belarus (Belarus)
Institute of Organic Chemistry of the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine (Ukraine)
Kaliningrad State Technical University (Russia)
K.I. Satpayev Kazakh State Technical University (Kazakhstan)
Lomonosov Moscow State University (Russia)
National Research Tomsk State Polytechnic University (Russia)
Taras Shevchenko National University (Ukraine)
Orenburg State University (Russia)
St. Petersburg State University (Russia)
Texas Tech University (USA)
Tomsk State University (Russia)
Lebedev Physical Institute of the Russian Academy of Sciences (Russia)
Institute of Physics and Technology, Almaty (Kazakhstan)
Center for Biochemistry and Structural Biology, Lund University (Sweden)
Center of Photochemistry of the Russian Academy of Sciences (Russia)
School of Pharmacy and Biomolecular Sciences, University of Brighton (UK).

Laboratory facilities:
Educational laboratories: methods of teaching physics; modeling of physical processes; optics and electromagnetism.
Research laboratories: computer modeling of photoprocesses; plasma surface cleaning of substrates; thin film technologies; chemical synthesis; electronic processes in nanosystems; luminescence kinetics; nanomaterial technologies; photovoltaics; laser physics; nanomaterial technologies and spectroscopy; solar cell assembly; organic nanostructure technologies; pulsed photolysis and magnetic effects.
At the disposal of students are computer classes focused on the study of computer science, programming, digital and analog electronics.