Associate Professor of Physics. Author of study materials for CPUE.
Professor Victor I. Chivilev teaches graduate courses in Physics at MIPT since 1977.
In addition, every year he writes six to seven new study guides for MIPT's Distance
Learning School for high school students. His problem sets and study guides are considered
the best in the areas he covers. These include physics of gases and mechanics
(dynamics and statics). Professor speaks about importance of learning through solving
physical problems: "A physical problem may take anything from a few minutes to many years
to solve. Solving a hard problem requires a subtle mix of a strong technical background and
ability for non-standard thinking. The latter also includes imagination. And the subtle
art of teachers of Physics requires composing the right blend of the technicalities and
the stimuli for imagination for their students."
Professor Chivilev became involved in the Olympiads for High Schools in 1965, on his second year of study at MIPT.
Now he is a well-known author of many original problems in general Physics of various
levels of difficulty. As far as the Olympiads are concerned, Professor Chivilev's interests
include:
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Inventing new problems and refining
the problems prepared by the other MIPT's Professors for three major Olympiads in Physics supported by MIPT annually.
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Editing of the series of annual collections of the problems recommended for the MIPT's Annual Outreach Olympiad in Physics.
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Participating on the Commissions in Methodology of All-Russian Olympiads of all levels from Regional to National.
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Training the Russian National Teams for International Physical Olympiads.
See also some problems invented by Professor Chivilev.
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