Kent State SPIE Student Chapter Bi-Annual Report

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1 Kent State SPIE Student Chapter Bi-Annual Report by Mingxia Gu Chapter President Liquid Crystal Institute Kent State University Kent, OH USA Phone: (330) Fax: (330) Outline of Report List of Current Student Chapter Members Detailed Chapter Activities Since Last Report Details of Activities Planned for Future Financial Information Current Elected Officers M. Gu Page 1 10/20/2005

2 1). List of Current Student Chapter Members Mingxia Gu Oleg Pishnyak Oksana Olkhovyk Ye Yin Bohdan Senyuk Yanli Zhang Jianru Shi Ke Zhang Dong Wang Hui Liu Cheng Chen Xiaoli Zhou Lanfang Li Guangxun Liao Guoqiang Zhang Fushan Zhou Xinghua Wang Ebru Buyuktanir Rui Guo Fenghua Li With regarding to recruiting new members, I have talked to 1-2 year graduate students at Liquid Crystal Institute, such as John Harden, Clinton Braganza, Badel Mbanga, Christopher Bailey, and Renyuan Liao at the Physics Department, they show their interest in knowing more about the SPIE society, and becoming members of SPIE and joining our student chapter. The SPIE student chapter handbook was sent via to students listed above for them to read more about the SPIE student chapter. 2). Detailed Chapter Activities Since Last Report 1. Our regular chapter meeting was held at noon on February 3 rd at third floor lounge of Liquid Crystal Institute (LCI), with the joy of enjoying pizzas and cokes. Besides our chapter s 20 regular members, there are six non-members, including Yuxiang Lin, Yong- Kyu Jang, John Harden, Clinton Braganza, Badel Mbanga, Christopher Bailey who are 1-2 year graduate student at LCI, also two students from Physics department, one student from Chemistry department. We reviewed the past activities and members gave suggestions for future activities. We described to non-members how easy it is to become a member of SPIE and join our chapter, what kind of benefits will be available, what kind of impact will be on people s future careers etc. Non-members are excited about the achievements out chapter have accomplished, and show great interest of becoming a member of SPIE and join our student chapter. There is a long duration of Q&A between members and non-members. We also discuss about the trip to annual meeting this August M. Gu Page 2 10/20/2005

3 in San Diego and the final list of members who made their decisions to attend the annual meeting, travel arrangement etc. 2. We have invited Dr. John L. West, vice president for Research and dean of Graduate Studies at Kent State University, former director of Liquid Crystal Institute, for a guest lecture. Dr. West gave a talk on Flexible Displays: the New Frontier, he went through a vivid presentation by leading audience a virtual tour of a local Best Buy store showing all kinds of Liquid Crystal applications in the store, concluded the trend for future development of display, compared LCDs with current competitors like Plasma displays, FED displays, OLEDs etc. More than 40 people listened to the lecture at Samsung Auditorium at LCI on March 7 th. Dr. John West gives chapter members presentation of Flexible Displays: the New Frontier M. Gu Page 3 10/20/2005

4 Dr. John West and Dr. Oleg D. Lavrentovich (our chapter advisor) Dr. John West and Dr. Oleg D. Lavrentovich pose with some of members after the presentation. 3. The second annual Liquid Crystal Day was held at Liquid Crystal Institute on April 22 nd (details see: our student chapter members helped during the preparation of the event. All the chapter members attended the five presentations including one from our chapter advisor Dr. Oleg D. Lavrentovich. The talk of Student Entrepreneurship from Dr. Gregory Crawford of Brown University, who graduated from LCI, attracted much attention from the audience by showing a vivid picture of achievements accomplished by Brown University graduate students. Eleven members actively submitted their research results for the poster session (see and G. Liao has won the Outstanding Paper M. Gu Page 4 10/20/2005

5 Award in the category of 3+ year graduate student. Members also attended the exhibitions from local companies, such as AlphaMicro, Hana, Kent Display etc, which is a great opportunity for members to interact with local liquid crystal industry. Chapter member Yanli Zhang explains her research results to students from LCI, Chemistry and Physics department during the Poster Session of LC Day (Photo Courtesy: LCI) M. Gu Page 5 10/20/2005

6 Chapter member Guangxun Liao is awarded the Outstanding Paper for the Liquid Crystal Day 2005 by our chapter advisor Dr. Oleg. D. Lavrentovich. (Photo Courtesy: LCI) 4. Our chapter president Mingxia Gu along with Bo Wang, former president of Pennsylvania State Student Chapter, attended the Engineering R&D Symposium held in Senate Hart Office Building of Capitol Hill and Loews L'Enfant Plaza Hotel from April 5 th to 6 th at Washington DC under SPIE s financial support. Mingxia and Bo listened to reports from major agencies such as NSF, NASA, DOD etc, learned the federal budget for R&D and top priorities research areas in fiscal year An oral summary presentation about this symposium will be presented in the ESTEP meeting at the SPIE Annual Meeting in San Diego July 31 st. Our chapter president Mingxia Gu and Bo Wang, former president of Penn State Student Chapter, attended the Engineering R&D Symposium held in Washington DC from April 5 th to 6 th. (Photo Courtesy: ASME) 5. Members of our chapter helped during the educational tour for local high schools by Liquid Crystal Institute s outreach program on April 29th. For example, Bohdan Senuyak our chapter vice president showed the colorful liquid crystal world under the polarized microscope; former member Bin Wang showed different types of liquid crystal displays and their working principles. 6. Our student chapter received chapter fund for regular chapter activities and travel fund in April. The travel fund will be used for travel expense of members who will attend the SPIE annual meeting early August in San Diego. 3). Details of Activities Planned for Future M. Gu Page 6 10/20/2005

7 We will continue to keep our chapter s good standing, enhance members academic and social experience, attract more new members and extend the network of collaborations and communications. The following is a brief list of planed activities: 1. Continue the extensive collaboration with University of Dayton, Pennsylvania State University and Notre Dame University s SPIE student chapters 2. We are planning an educational tour for local high school in collaboration with the Great Lake SPIE Chapter. 3. Fund raising through Graduate Student Senate of Kent State University to support the educational tour for high school students. 4. Promote academic program in the fields of Optics, Engineering, Physics, Chemistry, and Applications of Liquid Crystals, especially the Graduate Chemical Physics Interdisciplinary program at Liquid Crystal Institute. We will present posters during the annual meeting exhibitions in San Diego. 5. Attracting undergraduate students from Physics and Chemistry by giving seminars, tours and interactive communications. 6. Actively participate in conferences in the fields of Optics, Chemistry, Engineering, Physics and Applications of Liquid Crystals. 7. We have a preliminary idea of collecting information of intern and sharing with our members. And if it is successful, and we hope to expand it to regional scale, including University of Dayton, Pennsylvania State University and Notre Dame University s SPIE student chapters. 8. Maintain close relations, interchange experience and plan common activities with other SPIE chapters around the world. Especially during the annual meeting, it is a great opportunity to build relationship for future collaboration. 9. Apply for SPIE grants and scholarships available to chapter and individual chapter members to support travel and research activities. M. Gu Page 7 10/20/2005

8 4). Financial Information Balance Date Amount Previous Remaining 4/5/2005 $1, Chapter Fund 4/6/2005 $ Travel Fund (To be reimbursed) 4/15/2005 $1, Expense Chapter meeting Food & Refreshments 2/3/2005 -$61.36 Seminar by J. West,: Food & Beverage 3/7/2005 -$41.53 Total $3, ). Current Elected Officers President: Mingxia Gu Vice-president: Bohdan Senyuk Treasurer: Ebru Aylin Buyuktanir Secretary: Xinghua Wang M. Gu Page 8 10/20/2005