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1 Student Chapter Reports Beijing Institute of Technology Department of Optical Engineering Officers: President:Mr. Liquan Dong, Vice President:Miss. Jing Sui, Treasurer:Miss. Xiaoxiao Zhou, Secretary:Mr. Bo Gao, Advisor:Prof. Qiming Xin, List of current members No. Membership ID First Name Last Name Yang Cao Binghua Chai Kun Ding Liquan Dong Bo Gao Shule Ge Chuan He Zhenyu He Youwei Huang 10 Qin Jiang Fuwen Li 12 Hui Li Ting Li Zhifeng Li Maotong Liu Rong Lu 17 Heng Mao Shuzhen Nie 1

2 Xianbiao Shu Jing Sui Shunrong Sun Qiang Wang 23 Shuang Wang 24 Weichen Wang 25 Shuo Wu Bin Zhang 27 Lei Zhang 28 Xin Zhang Nan Zhou Xiaoxiao Zhou Zhonghai Zhou Chapter s Current Activities 1. Some research seminars relating to the Optics and Photonics have been carried out to promote and increased the interest of the related technical art. 2. Some Germany University students visit our Electrician & Electron Experiment Center and have a seminar talk with our chapter members on 3 March. 3. Chapter vice president Miss. Jing Sui gave presentation on A new nonuniformity correction algorithm for infrared line scanners to all the members of the chapter on 16 March. 4. Chapter president Mr. Liquan Dong has given a seminar talk on Friday, April 14, Title of his talk was A Crossing Path Scene-Based Algorithm for Nonuniformity Correction in Focal-Plane Array Sensors. 5. Chapter vice president Miss. Jing Sui attended the SPIE Defense & Security Symposium, which was held on April 17-21, 2006 in Orlando, Florida USA. And talked her paper with other attendees at the poster sessions on April Invited Professor Francis T. S. Yu, SPIE Fellow, 2004 SPIE Dennis Gabor Award recipient, from Department of Electrical Engineering, Pennsylvania State University to give us a lecture on 12 May. The title of his lecture was Academic Excellence in Universities: Experience from the United States. 7. SPIE President-elect Prof. Brain Culshaw visits China and gave the SPIE student members a lecture about SPIE on 22 May. And Mr. Liquan Dong, the president of our chapter given a report on the activities of our chapter in recent 2

3 three years. 8. Visit local companies, such as Beijing Western Asia Pacific Technology CO., LTD. Which can help students to seek job opportunities, locate resources, keep in touch with newest development in academic and professional research. 9. Visit the Institute of Opto-Electronics Technology, BeiHang University and have a seminar talk with the researchers of the institute. 10. We applied the travel fund to SPIE 51 st annual meeting at San Diego, CA, USA this August. And preparing the poster for displaying on the exhibition of the Annual Meeting. Future Activities 1. Participation in SPIE conferences. 2. Prepare to invite the officers of the Tsinghua University SPIE Student Chapter and Shanghai Jiao Tong University SPIE Student Chapter to have a seminar in our department. 3. Prepare to attend the 2006 Doctoral Forum of China, which will hold on 3-5 November, 2006 at Huazhong University of Science and Technology. 4. Prepare to design our chapter web site. 5. We are going to invite renowned persons in the field of optics and photonics to deliver talks in his/her field of research. 6. Continue to give different lectures in optics during our meetings. 7. Continue to visiting local companies to encourage internship, locate jobs for chapter members, and get in touch with latest advances in industry developments. 8. Maintain close relations, interchange experience and plan common activities with other SPIE chapters around the world. 3

4 Some Photos of Us Some Germany University students visit our Electrician & Electron Experiment Center and have a seminar talk with our chapter members. 4

5 Chapter vice president Miss. Jing Sui attended the SPIE Defense & Security Symposium, and talked her paper with other attendees at the poster sessions on April 21, 2006 in Orlando, Florida USA. 5

6 SPIE President-elect Prof. Brain Culshaw visits China and gave the SPIE student members a lecture about SPIE on 22 May. 6

7 Talking with Prof. Kangnan Qi, the Vice President of Beijing Optical Society Chapter president Mr. Liquan Dong to giving lectures. 7

8 Professor Francis T. S. Yu to give us a lecture on Academic Excellence in Universities: Experience from the United States. Visited the photograph exhibition of the experts in the field of optics and photonics 8

9 Daily research experiment Beijing Institute of Technology SPIE Student Chapter 06/14/2006 9

10 SPIE BMSTU Student Chapter Bi-Annual Report (May, 2006) 1. Members List First Name Last Name 1 Mikhail Androsov 2 Anna Benuni 3 Georgi Benuni 4 Dmitri Borin 5 Vadim Brendel 6 Armen Dallakyan 7 Andrey Danilovsky 8 Sergey Dubynin Treasurer 9 Ludmila Egorova 10 Ilia Ermakov 11 Maxim Frolov Vice-President 12 Basil Grigoriev 13 Konstantin Karapetyan 14 Vitaly Klimov 15 Michael Korenski 16 Valentina Koshechkina 17 Kseniya Kozlova 18 Semyon Krutman 19 Nataliya Lisitsyna President 20 Sergey Menabde Secretary 21 Alexander Morozov 22 Alexey Pniov 23 Mikhail Popov 24 Sergey Shamaev 25 Dmitry Sitnikov 26 Victor Tolstoguzov 2. Ongoing Chapter Activities 2.1. Web activity - Russian photonics Internet portal; - spierus.photonica.ru SPIE Russia Chapter official web-site; - SPIE/BMSTU SPIE BMSTU Student Chapter web-page and mailing list Library One more book purchased: Field Guide to Optical Lithography FG Conferences and Meetings; - Participation in organizing Young Opticians School in Armenia; 3. Planned Chapter Activities 3.1. Web activity - Russian photonics Internet portal; - spierus.photonica.ru SPIE Russia Chapter official web-site; - SPIE/BMSTU SPIE BMSTU Student Chapter web-page and mailing list.

11 3.2. Conferences and Meetings - Participation in SPIE 51st Annual Meeting and Optics & Photonics 2006 (13 17 August, 2006 ) - Participation in organizing Young Opticians School in Armenia; Library build-up; - Partial financial support of students participation in conferences and meetings 4. Finance Starting balance $982 Expenses Web ( and spierus.photonica.ru): Hosting $100 ($100/2) 2 years Domain name $20 ($20/2) 2 years Library FG06 $29 Bank Expenses $13 Communication Expenses $20 Total Expenses $182 Income $1350 (SC Activity Grant) ENDING BALANCE $2150

12 Person Completing Form: President of Chernivtsi National University SPIE Student Chapter, Yevheniya G. Ushenko Name of Chapter: Chernivtsi National University SPIE Student Chapter Number of Members in Chapter: 36 Names and addresses of Chapter Officers: President: Yevheniya G. Ushenko Vice President: Vadim V. Istratiy Treasurer: Halyna I. Basynska Secretary: Artem V. Motrych Chapter activities since last report: 1. Winter workshops and working with the press materials on current research and achievements in science and technology as participation in creating new courses in Ukrainian in the field of Biomedical Optics, Fiber Optics, Fractal Optics and Holography (February-March 2006). The following workshops were organized and conducted: Optical bistability in layer semiconductors and Spectrophotometric methods in medicine and biology. 2. Meetings with the students of our university and with school-leavers, in which the main aims, tasks and activities of Students SPIE Chapter mission and benefits were outlined and discussed (our tradition which was started just our student Chapter created in January 2001). 3. Maintaining and upgraiding the Chapter library on Optics and Photonics. The large ammount of free books, CDs and SPIE Conference Proceedings were obtained from SPIE. 4. Participation of two our new Chapter members (Gorsky Mykhaylo and Nehrych Andriy) at the Students Scientific Conference (KNS) 2006 which will be held in May 22 nd 24 th, 2006 at Wrocław University of Technology, Poland (our students is already their). The meeting with Wrocław University of Technology SPIE Student Chapter members is planned in order to share information about their scientific activities with the rest of SPIE society. 5. Organization of the section of Optics within the Annual Student Conference in Chernivtsi National University and the contest for the best scientific presentation (May 12). 6. Our Chapter members have celebrated the Day of our Engineering-technical college (all our Chapter members were in the Organizing Committee). 7. The members of our Chapter published more than 10 publications at the reported year. Some of them in such journals as Optica Applicata, Optics and Spectroscopy, Journal of Biomedical Optics, Physics in Medicine and Biology, Journal of Physics D: Applied Physics, Journal of Holography and Speckle, Optics Express Ukrainian Journal of Physical Optics. 8. Our Chapter Project Optics and Photonics Education is almost finished, we are planning to complete it this summer, and from the beginning of new academic year the Laboratory will start working. Future Chapter activities: 1. Winter workshops and working with the press materials on current research and achievements in science and technology as participation in creating new courses in Ukranian in the field of Biomedical Optics, Fiber Optics, Fractal Optics and Holography (December February 2007). 2. Meetings with the students of our university and with school-leavers, in which the main aims, tasks and activities of our Students SPIE Chapter will be outlined and discussed. 3. Maintaining and upgraiding the Chapter library on Optics and Photonics.

13 First Bi-Annual Report Centro de Investigaciones en Optica SPIE Student Chapter (Leon, Mexico) June 2006 Centro de Investigaciones en Optica, A.C. Loma del Bosque #115, Col. Lomas de Campestre C.P Leon, Gto. Mexico Phone: (52) Fax: (52)

14 CONTENTS 1. Introduction 2. Current Student Chapter members 3. Details of Chapter activities: January May Chapter acknowledgement to students 2. Visiting lecturer program 3. CIO Chapter presentation cards and shirts 4. Chapter meetings 5. Hands-on workshop (intended for high school teachers) 6. Science club for children 7. Student seminars 8. Chapter s website: updating and maintenance 4. Upcoming activities: period June 2006 December Financial Information 6. Current Chapter officers: contact information 7. Contacting CIO s Student Chapter Centro de Investigaciones en Optica SPIE Student Chapter First Bi-Annual Report, June

15 1. INTRODUCTION As a tangible result of the CIO s Student Chapter ongoing efforts to consolidate a solid organization, new students have become part of our project. This incorporation has benefit and strengthened the Chapter as a whole. In addition to the activities proposed, and implemented, during 2005, with the aid of the CIO Student Chapter, we are carrying out diverse tasks to fulfill the Chapter s three main objectives. Concerning the Chapter s academic objective, we are currently organizing a visit to our center, via SPIE s Lecturer Program. With respect to the divulgation efforts of our Chapter, we have committed ourselves to acknowledge member, as well as nonmember, involvement in Chapter activities. Furthermore presentation cards, as well as shirts, have been designed, and are currently being manufactured. These are intended for members, as well as non-members, of the Student Chapter. At our Chapter, we are encouraging members to participate in SPIE s international conferences, in order to embrace our third objective, i.e. professional career perspectives in Optics & Photonics. For new student recruitment purposes, we have popularized the Chapter s activities, and outreach. Furthermore we have underlined the importance, and benefits, of active involvement in Chapter activities. A more detailed description of the latter is presented hereafter. Centro de Investigaciones en Optica SPIE Student Chapter First Bi-Annual Report, June

16 2. CURRENT STUDENT CHAPTER MEMBERS Alfaro Gomez, Mariana Miss. (889985) Alvarez Herrera, Cornelio Mr. ( ) Aranda Ruiz, Juan Mr. (869081) Dignowity, Doreen Miss. ( ) Escalante, Luis Mr. ( ) Escobar Acevedo, Marco Antonio Mr.( ) Estrada Rico, Julio Cesar Mr. ( ) Flores Moreno, Jorge Mr. ( ) Galan Gonzalez, Maximiliano Mr. ( ) Gomez Vieyra, Armando Mr. ( ) Gutierrez Hernandez, David Asael Mr ( ) Gutierrez Herrera, Enoch Mr. ( ) Hernandez Alvarado, Matias Mr. ( ) Juarez Palafox, Lorenzo Mr. ( ) Lopez Padilla, Victor Mr. (760802) Mata Chavez, Ruth Miss. ( ) Parra Michel, Jorge Ramon Mr. ( ) Piña Villalpando, Luis Elias Mr. ( ) Ramirez, Claudio Mr. (813777) Romero, Victor Hugo Mr. ( ) Ruiz Berbena, Saul Mr. ( ) Sanchez-Morales, Maria Miss ( ) Saucedo Casas, Edgar Mr. ( ) Solis Satana, David Mr ( ) Toledo Muñoz, Luis Mr. ( ) Vacas-Jacques, Paulino Mr. (688385) Vazquez-Jaccaud, Camille Miss ( ) Villaseñor, Carlos Mr. ( ) Centro de Investigaciones en Optica SPIE Student Chapter First Bi-Annual Report, June

17 3. DETAILS OF CHAPTER ACTIVITIES: JANUARY MAY 2006 During this period, we continued to participate in diverse activities proposed, and implemented, during 2005 (e.g., Chapter meetings, hands-on workshops, science club for children, student seminars, and website updating and maintenance). Nonetheless, we have been working with perseverance to crystallize new activities. Concrete results from these strategies have flourished (e.g., Chapter acknowledgement to students, advances in visiting lecturer program planning, design and manufacture of distinctive CIO Chapter presentation cards and shirts). A more thorough discussion of the aforementioned activities will be presented next. 3.1 Chapter acknowledgement to students At the CIO Chapter we re convinced of the student involvement importance. Hence, we decided to acknowledge student participation in Chapter activities. A complementary objective, envisioned for this activity, was to invite new students to form part of the Student Chapter. In order to formalize this effort, we invited Dr. Fernando Mendoza (General Director of the CIO) and Dr. Manuel Servin Guirado (Academic Dean of our institution) to participate in this event. Dr. Fernando Mendoza greets the attendees during the Chapter s acknowledgement event. Centro de Investigaciones en Optica SPIE Student Chapter First Bi-Annual Report, June

18 In addition to the acknowledgments extended to the student community, Dr. Fernando Mendoza pointed out the importance, and benefits, of participating in such activities as the ones promoted by our Chapter. 3.2 Visiting lecturer program Many of our human, as well as economic, resources have been directed to this enterprise. First of all, four candidates were selected from the vast possibilities granted by SPIE. During two weeks the Student Chapter members, as well as those not enrolled, were encouraged to express their preferences concerning this event. All participants voted, for their particular candidate, electronically ( Once the process ended, a Chapter meeting was held. The main purpose of this meeting was to determine the visit s organizing committee. Two Student Chapter members were selected as Chapter representatives for this event: Enoch Gutierrez y Mariana Alfaro. However Enoch and Mariana will be supported by the organizing committee. The visiting Lecturer, Dr. Joan Lurie, has kindly accepted to visit our center this year. A tentative date for the event has been proposed (September 11 15). The estimated cost of the visit oscillates between $1, $1, USD. The visiting Lecturer election was very close, hence the Chapter decided to invite Dr. Valery Tuchin. He amicably replied to our petition, emphasizing that a visit during this semester would be impossible. Nonetheless, he proposed to visit our institution after SPIE s Photonics West conference. Therefore, the current Chapter officers are committed to ensure that enough resources are available for these two events, in order to avoid any hindrances to the upcoming board of officers. The new board of officers will be elected this upcoming August. 3.3 CIO Chapter presentation cards and shirts Since the promotion of diverse professional career perspectives is a core objective of our Chapter, we decided to design, and manufacture, distinctive Chapter institution presentation cards for the interested students. The design phase of this enterprise was carried out by V. Lopez, whereas the manufacture has been in charge of M. Alfaro, C. Vazquez, and E. Gutierrez. With regards to divulgation, we recognized the need to form a unified community of students participating in Chapter events. Therefore, we manufactured shirts with distinctive Chapter and institution logos. Also, these are intended to easily identify the CIO Student Chapter members during international assemblies. Centro de Investigaciones en Optica SPIE Student Chapter First Bi-Annual Report, June

19 Distinctive Chapter and institution logos for shirts 3.4 Chapter meetings The CIO Student Chapter members held one official meeting, and several unofficial short officers assemblies, during this period. The latter were of utmost importance since specific officers were selected to implement concrete activities. Moreover, with these short sessions the follow-up processes were greatly enhanced. The official meeting was held on January. The main points discussed were: Chapter detailed activity plan January June 2006, and reorganization of working groups. Several agreements were settled during the official meeting: 1. The implementation of most of the activities presented in this document. 2. Mariana Alfaro and Enoch Gutierrez were elected as logistic coordinators for the Visiting Lecturer Program. 3. Design and manufacture of acknowledgements was assigned to Camille Vazquez, Victor Lopez, and Paulino Vacas. 4. Design and manufacture of presentation cards was assigned to Camille Vazquez, Victor Lopez, and Enoch Gutierrez. 5. Jorge Mauricio Flores Moreno was reaffirmed as secretary during Chapter meetings. 6. The promotion coordinators were reorganized. The current coordinators are Armando Gomez Vieyra and Carlos Villaseñor: Hands-on workshop (intended for high school teachers), Jorge Parra and Rigoberto Castro: Science club for children, Jorge Mauricio Flores: Student seminars, Victor Lopez and Julio Estrada: Chapter s website: updating and maintenance. Centro de Investigaciones en Optica SPIE Student Chapter First Bi-Annual Report, June

20 3.5 Hands-on workshop (intended for high school teachers) This project, lead by Dr. Reyna Duarte, is supported by the CIO s Academic Department. The program is designed to introduce high school teachers in a theoretical and practical knowledge of Optics fundamentals, and their applications. It allows teachers to familiarize with the basic operation of optical systems. Teachers are expected to use this knowledge in designing experiments for their classrooms. The course consists of 8 sessions, covering the most meaningful concepts in: Image formation Geometrical optics Laser principles Interference Diffraction Holography Spectroscopy Polarization This course is carried out at the CIO academic laboratories. Chapter members, as well as non-members, collaborate in this project guiding the teachers with experiments. They provide components to attendants, set up demonstration experiments, and guide teachers through hands-on lessons. It takes approximately one month to complete one course composed by 8 sessions. Each course is attended by 6 to 9 teachers. They are grouped in teams of 3 or 4 teachers; each group is guided by a different Chapter member, or non-member, each session. More than 70 teachers have attended this program since its debut. Collaborating students: Claudio Narciso Ramirez, Jorge Mauricio Flores Moreno, Luis Enrique Toledo Muñoz, Mariana Alfaro Gomez, Jose Luis Cabellos*, Maria Eugenia Sanchez Morales, Cornelio Alvarez Herrera, Carlos Villaseñor Mora, Juan Arturo Aranda Ruiz, Lorenzo Juarez Palafox, Jorge Ramon Parra Michel, Haggeo Desirena Enriquez*, Paulino Vacas Jacques, David Octavio Solis Santana, Guillermo Huerta Cuellar*, Enoch Gutierrez Herrera, Luis Octavio Meza Espinoza. Here * denotes a student that does not pertain to the CIO s Student Chapter, and nevertheless supports the institution with this activity. Centro de Investigaciones en Optica SPIE Student Chapter First Bi-Annual Report, June

21 Jorge Parra Michel (red t-shirt) has provided guidance to the teachers taking part in this activity. 3.6 Science club for children Science Club for Children is a project managed by the Committee for Science Divulgation at CIO. This activity aims to awaken the children s interest towards science, and physical phenomena as a whole. The Chapter members, as well as those not pertaining to it, contribute with experiment explanations. Furthermore, they clarify any doubts that may arise. a) b) Photograph a) depicts the talk given by Maximiliano Galan within the Science club for children activity. Photograph b) shows Dr. Ascension Guerrero, as well as a disguised student, during the talk entitled: The science circus. The Club sessions are programmed monthly. During this semester (January May 2006), the Chapter has collaborated in the sessions presented hereafter. Centro de Investigaciones en Optica SPIE Student Chapter First Bi-Annual Report, June

22 Date: January 26 th Subject: Playing with magnets Speaker: Dr. Ismael Torres Involved students: Jorge Ramon Parra, Rigoberto Castro Beltran, Jose Matias Hernandez Alvarado. Date: February 23 th Subject: Physics and music Speaker: Dr. Zacarias Malacara Involved students: Luis Carlos Alvarez Nuñez, Jose Matias Hernandez Alvarado. Date: March 30 th Subject: Fluids Speaker: Dra. Cristina Solano and Ma. Teresa Arellano Involved students: Luis Carlos Alvarez Nuñez, Jose Matias Hernandez Alvarado. Date: April 27 th Subject: The science circus Speaker: Dr. Ascencion Guerrero, Carlos Javier Martinez, Maximiliano Galan, and Rigoberto Castro Beltran. Involved students: Maximiliano Galan, Rigoberto Castro Beltran, Mariana Alfaro. Date: May 25 th Subject: Oxidation Speaker: Invited professors (ITESM Leon). 3.7 Student seminars The seminars main objective is to create a forum wherein the student community may present a theme of interest and / or a related theme to the research they are working on. During this semester, doctorate student Gilberto Anzueto Sanchez presented his present research, entitled: Chalcogenide Glass Raman Fiber Laser. Currently at least three seminars are programmed for the upcoming period. 3.8 Chapter s website: updating and maintenance The website s main objective is to promote activities, organization, and relevant issues around CIO s Student Chapter. Furthermore, it has served as a very effective means of communication, since the site is weekly updated, and maintained. The website s implementation has been of uppermost importance for many of the Chapter s activities (for instance, during the Visiting Lecturer Program election). Centro de Investigaciones en Optica SPIE Student Chapter First Bi-Annual Report, June

23 Current start page within the Chapter s website Centro de Investigaciones en Optica SPIE Student Chapter First Bi-Annual Report, June

24 4. Upcoming activities: period June 2006 December 2006 The spotlight of the Chapter s activities will be directed towards the Visiting Lecturer Program. That is, Dr. Joan Lurie s visit will serve as breakthrough experience for consolidating Chapter participation and organization. Moreover, this visit will settle the foundation for Prof. Tuchin s visit on January. In short, this activity will be a core event in the upcoming period. Another important activity, concerning the Chapter s consolidation, is the election of a new board of Officers. This activity will ensure the continuity needed in order to establish a firm Student Chapter at our institution. This event will take place during August, starting activities at the beginning of September. Following the line of divulgation that we have established, running promotion activities will be supported by Student Chapter members. Moreover, during student seminars, the Chapter officers are planning to offer a coffee break to facilitate member integration. Furthermore, this activity will provide us with an incomparable opportunity to promote Chapter, as well as SPIE, events. Centro de Investigaciones en Optica SPIE Student Chapter First Bi-Annual Report, June

25 5. Financial Information During December 2005 the Chapter received the first transference of funds from SPIE. The initial balance for this report is $9, MP (Mexican Pesos), that is to say $ USD ($ MP = $ 1 USD, rate at transference date). Due to transference commissions, and exchange rate, our financial information differs from the assigned quantity. Description Date of transaction Expenses Total* Initial Balance December $9, Tax payment for receiving January $ $ SPIE s books 2006 Shirt prototypes for Chapter February $ $ members 2006 Final Balance $8, *All quantities are given in Mexican Pesos (MP). Exchange rate during transference date: $ MP = $ 1 USD. The remaining funds will be allocated to Dr. Tuchin s visit, this upcoming January. We are convinced that this event is of utmost importance, academically speaking. Other grants and scholarships The current Chapter president, Paulino Vacas, was granted an educational scholarship by The International Society for Optical Engineering, for potential long-range contributions to optics and photonics. Furthermore, the CIO Chapter received a travel grant. This grant will be utilized to assist to SPIE s Optics & Photonics conference next August. Centro de Investigaciones en Optica SPIE Student Chapter First Bi-Annual Report, June

26 6. Current Chapter officers: contact information The elected Officers for the period are: Paulino Vacas Jacques (President) Victor Eduardo Lopez Padilla (Vice President) Jorge Mauricio Flores Moreno (Secretary) Lorenzo Juarez Palafox (Second secretary) Enoch Gutierrez (Treasurer) Camille Vazquez Jaccaud (Second treasurer) 7. Contacting CIO s Student Chapter Centro de Investigaciones en Optica, A.C. Loma del Bosque #115, Col. Lomas de Campestre C.P Leon, Gto. Mexico Phone: (52) Fax: (52) Internet website: Centro de Investigaciones en Optica SPIE Student Chapter First Bi-Annual Report, June

27 3 rd BIANNUAL CHAPTER REPORT SPIE DCE CHAPTER May 2006 Delhi College of Engineering Bawana Road Delhi

28 SPIE DCE CHAPTER It has been 1 year since the inception of the SPIE Delhi College of Engineering Student Chapter, and, as we sit and think about our maiden term, we realize that although the path was treacherous, we succeeded in setting a challenging example for our successors to match. It was never easy to set up a student chapter specializing in optics and photonics in a college where majority of the students were undergraduate students in engineering streams of electronics, computer science, IT etc. But when the community realized that optics and photonics are vast streams, incorporating various aspects of other engineering fields, interest began to grow. We now are one of the biggest student chapters in DCE with 35 members from various disciplines like computers, electrical, IT, electronics engineering etc., and that too in the very first year of our existence. It has always been our aim to make sure that the members remain active in the working of the chapter and in the process improve not only their technical skills but also their managerial expertise. It is due to this effort that we are seeing a visible research culture developing amongst SPIE members at undergraduate levels with 7 national and international publications to their name. We now aim to better this precedent set by us by working with new zest in the new academic year.

29 MESSAGE FROM THE DESK OF OUR HONOURABLE PRINCIPAL PROF. P.B. SHARMA It gives me immense pleasure that Delhi College of Engineering has been given the opportunity to showcase the strides it has taken in the field of OPTICS AND PHOTONICS. Since the past few years, Delhi College of Engineering has seen a rapid rise in the field of Optics and Photonics. Some of the research scholars have completed their Post-doctoral studies and others are in the process of doing so in the frontier areas like Photonics Crystal Fibers, Photonics band Gap Devices, Optical Fiber Amplifiers, Semiconductor Opto-electronic devices, Electron Waveguides, Optical Sensor Technology, DWDM and Quantum Computing. Our enthusiastic Undergraduate and Postgraduate students who possess exemplary interdisciplinary zeal are also involved in various creative R&D activities. Government of India has also recognized the efforts of DCE in this direction and has granted our institution a project for establishing a world-class centre in Fiber Optics and Optical Communication under Technology Mission 2020 Programme TIFAC CORE. The opening of TIFAC CORE at DCE has enabled the creation of world-class R & D facilities. The establishment of SPIE DCE Chapter in 2005 has further created a forum which has acted as an interface for students and faculty pursing R&D activities in the area of Optics and Photonics. We have also seen an increase in continuing education program in the field of Optics and Photonics due to endeavors of student members of SPIE DCE Chapter. I extend my very best wishes to the student chapter of SPIE at DCE in their future endeavours and pledge full institutional support to the activities of the CHAPTER PROF. P.B. SHARMA PRINCIPAL December 10, 2005

30 List of current Student Chapter members PLATINUM MEMBERS: Platinum members are those who are working on some part time projects either paid or voluntary for duration greater then three months. This membership is generally for undergraduate and post graduate students GOLDEN MEMBERS Golden members are those who are carrying out independent research leading to publication in either professional meetings or in international journals for duration greater than one year. This membership is generally for post graduate students and research scholars. However exceptional undergraduate students may also be elevated to this criterion. Vikrant Agrawal Vishal Bansal Prashant Baveja Ketan Bhasin Chhitiz Buchasia Alpesh Chaddha Arunesh Chaddha Aditi Chaturvedi Kumar Chaudhary Rohit Chaudhary Akshit Dayal Rahul Gaba Gahandeep Gill Kunal Gulati Ankit Gupta Anshul Gupta Anupam Gupta Gorav Gupta Jayesh Jayarajan Ram Karn Jatin Kataria Pranav Kedia Yogesh Kochar Krishna Kumar Yogita Nagpal Vikas Phogat Rahul Rai Anurag Sanena Manirh Sharma Sunny Sharma Bikramjeet Singh Param Singh Surinder Singh Tejbir Singh Anshu Varshney

31 Names and addresses of elected officers Sno Name SPIE ID Post ID 1 Alpesh Chaddha Electrical Engineering President alpeshchaddha@yahoo.com 2 Chhitiz Buchasia Mechanical Engineering Vice President chhitiz_buchasia@yahoo.co.in 3 Prince J Bovas Research Scholar + Arunesh Chaddha Electrical Engineering Id awaited Treasurer + Associate Treasurer prince_bovas@yahoo.co.in chaddhaarunesh@yahoo.com 4 Akshit Dayal Electrical Engineering General Secretary akshit_dayal@yahoo.co.in 5 Arunesh Chaddha Electrical Engineering Website Manager chaddhaarunesh@yahoo.com 6 Sunny Sharma Information Technology Paramdeep Singh Electronics and Communication Engineering Event Coordinator sunny_dce2005@yahoo.co.in neo656@gmail.com 6 Surinder Pal Singh Electronics and Communication Engineering Chief Editor lordsurinder@rediffmail.com

32 COLLABORATION TIFAC-CORE in Fiber Optics and Optical DCE and SPIE DCE CHAPTER SPIE DCE CHAPTER has collaborated with TIFAC-CORE@DCE for research and development activities in the field of optical communication and optical engineering. TIFAC-CORE@DCE will provide student members the latest facilities available in their labs and the students will undertake and help in industrial projects assigned to TIFAC-CORE@DCE.

33 LIST OF PROJECTS HIGH DC VOLTAGE MEASUREMENT USING ELECTRO-OPTIC EFFECT HIGH DC CURRENT MEASUREMENT USING MAGNETO-OPTIC EFFECT FUSION SPLICING MACHINE MEASUREMENT OF DIELECTRIC CONSTANT CHARACTERIZATION OF OPTICAL FIBERS OPTICAL TIME DOMAIN REFLECTOMETER WDM NETWORK ANALYZER ANALYSIS OF MODAL PROPOGATION INWAVEGUIDES CCD BASED IMAGING SYSTEMS LASER DIFFRACTION MEASUREMENT OF SPEED OF LIGHT FIBER OPTIC VOICE AND VIDEO LINKS COMPUTATIONAL AND SCIENTIFIC SOFTWARE MATLAB RELEASE 14 OPTIWAVE FIBER LASER CAD ( OPTIAMPLIFIER 4.0) RSOFT BPM BEAM PROPOGATION METHOD(DESIGN OF INTEGRATED OPTICAL COMPONENTS) OPTI_HS ( SEMICONDUCTOR HETROSTRUCTUREMODELLING) OPTIWAVE FIBER_CAD ( FIBER CAD SUITE) FEMLAB VPI TRANSMISSION MAKER (UNDEREVALUATION)

34 Dedicated Data Mining and Analytics Center [above] Research labs with experiments on optical sensors and fiber optics and communications [below] Clean room with experiments

35 Details of Chapter activities since last report One Day Seminar on Optics and Photonics ' and SPIE Student Chapter Meet IIT Madras, 6th January, 2006 Three student members (Alpesh Chaddha, Arunesh Chaddha, Chhitiz Buchasia) of SPIE DCE Student Chapter were invited for the seminar. Informative lectures by the scholars on various topics on optics and photonics like Optical Tomography and Clastography, White light interferometry, Optical characterization of non linear materials etc. set the tone of the day. Our presentation on SPIE DCE CHAPTER: Goals for Future was received with a warm response. The illuminati present were greatly impressed by the meteoric rise of our chapter in the one year of our existence. The chief guest, Dr. R.S. Sirohi congratulated us and encouraged us to keep up the good work we have been doing regarding developing a research culture in DCE.

36 Industrial Excursion to Picture Tube Manufacturing Plant Badli, New Delhi, 21st January, 2006 An industrial trip of 20 student members along with our faculty advisor Dr. R.K. Sinha to a Picture Tube Manufacturing plant was organized. The students were enriched with a first hand experience of picture tube manufacturing process. A demonstration regarding the construction and manufacturing of cathode ray tube was also given. Visit by US Ambassador, David A. Gross 24th February, 2006 On February 24, 2006, Ambassador David A. Gross, US Coordinator for International Communication and Information Policy, addressed the students and faculty at DCE. He emphasized the role of technology in the social, ecomomic and political aspects of life. He also reiterated the role of technology in transcending international borders between India and US. He also visited the exhibition set up by SPIE DCE Chapter in collaboration with TIFAC CORE in Fiber Optics and Optical DCE. He was impressed by the developing research culture amongst undergraduates and encouraged us to continue our endeavors.

37 Lecture on Datamining for Bioinformatics: Technology and Applications 3rd March, 2006 On 3 rd march 2006 Dr Sumeet Dua, Director DMRL Louisiana Tech. University, delivered a lecture on Datamining for Bioinformatics: Technology and Applications. The topic was interdisciplinary in nature and was of germane interest to people from all branches of engineering. The lecture was well attended by student members of SPIE DCE CHAPTER, student community of Delhi College of Engineering and faculty members of DCE. This lecture was first in part of five lecture series that we plan to organize for benefit of student members of SPIE DCE CHAPTER and student community at DCE. The lectures will be delivered by eminent speakers and will be on interdisciplinary topics. We are thankful to SPIE for approving additional funding of $250 for this purpose.

38 Lecture on Photonic Packet Switching 22nd April, 2006 On 22 nd April, Dr Y.N. Singh, IIT Kanpur, delivered a lecture on Photonic Packet Switching. This was the second lecture, part of the planned five lecture series. The Focal theme of his talk was switch architectures for high speed optical switching He gave a detailed presentation on evolution of optical switching, switch architectures, key technologies in high speed optical switching and finally, the drawbacks of optical switching.

39 SPIE grants and scholarships received SPIE DCE Chapter received its annual chapter development fund of $1100 in the month of May, Our chapter also received an extra $250 as collaboration fund for our tie-up with TIFAC- CORE Center in Fiber Optics and Optical Communication at DCE. SPIE DCE CHAPTER President, Alpesh Chaddha, has also been selected for the travel grant to attend the leadership meet at Optics and Photonics 2006 at San Diego, USA. Details of planned activities for the future 1. Introduction of more paid projects for students in collaboration with TIFAC DCE 2. Seminar on graduate studies in America by leading educational consultants in New Delhi 3. Special Outreach Activity, Optics in High Schools, in which we will be demonstrating some simple experiments related to optics and also give talks on careers in optics to graduating high school students 4. Organizing three remaining lectures of the five lecture series 5. With the beginning of the new academic year, orientation programs for sophomores will be organized.

40 Semi-annual Report May 2006 SPIE Student Chapter of Institute of Atmospheric Optics SB RAS, Tomsk Adviser: Prof. Gennadii G. Matvienko President: Lidiya Bol basova Vice President: Dmitry Kchoroshaev Secretary: Evgeniya Starikova Treasurer: Nina Uzhegova Website: Printed Name SPIE Membership # 1 Akimov Alexander Barabanov Alexey Bol'basov Evgeniy Bol'basova Lidiya Bulygin Andrew Burnashov Aleksey Bykova Elena Dzumiy Diana Elgin Alexander Gromova Olga Khoroshaev Dmitriy Kolotkov Gennadii Kopylov Evgeny Lavrinov Vitaly Nuterman Roman Olshukov Alexey Starikova Evgenya Sudarchikova Natasha Uzhegova Nina Zuev Cyril

41 Activity: In January there was the first meeting of SPIE Student Chapter. On this meeting the activity plan of SPIE Student Chapter for 2006 year was developed as well as the financial accounts were discussed: 1. Making a decision about technical assistance for XII-th Joint International Symposium "Atmospheric and Ocean Optics, Atmospheric physics" July, 2-7, 2006, Tomsk, Russia. 2. Choice of working group for the V International Young Scientists School "Physics of the environment" ( This workgroup includes the following members of our Chapter: Nina Uzhegova, Elena Bykova, Natalia Sudarchikova, Alexey Burnashev, Lidiya Bol basova. The working group is engaged in search of the invited lectors for the school, conducts talks and makes up questions on the given problem. Nina Uzhegova (Treasurer) is scientific secretary of the Organizing Committee and Lidiya Bol basova (President) is Member of the Organizing Committee. ( In February 2006 the scientific seminar was held and SPIE Student Chapter members presented reports about their scientific work. Professor Aleksandr A. Zemlyanov has presented three scientific lectures Nonlinear optics : 1 «Bases of Nonlinear optics» 2 «Some tasks of theoretical nonlinear optics» 3 «Nonstationary nonlinear optics» Choice one of the officers for participation at annual meeting of SPIE Student Chapters leaders to present the summary report about work of our Chapter and for participation at the scientific conference «Optics and Photonics 2006» in San Diego, CA, August 2006 (Evgeniya Starikova).

42 In March 2006 the informal meeting of members of our Chapter has taken place. Choice of members for participation at V annual SPIE Russian Student Chapters Meeting to present the summary report about activity of our Student Chapter and for participation at the scientific conference «ICO Topical Meeting on Optoinformatics/Information Photonics 2006» in St. Petersburg, Russia, 4-7 September 2006 (Lidiya Bol'basova and Alexey Olshukov). In April 2006 scientific seminar was held with the excursion in the laboratory of Nonlinear Optical Interactions of IAO SB RAS where Andrei M Kabanov, senior staff scientist, Dr., has informed students about work of the laboratory and presented the report "Interaction of high-power laser radiation with atmosphere matter (model conditions)". In May 2006 meeting of SPIE Student Chapter devoted to annual report.

43 Publications: The total amount of our SPIE Student Chapter member s publications is I.G. Adamishin, D.V. Apeksimov, R.A. Asylbekov, E.E. Bykova, Yu.E. Geints, A.A. Zemlyanov, A.M.Kabanov, E.S. Protasevich, T.V. Cherepanova, Investigation of effectivity of high-power femtosecond laser radiation transportation in the atmosphere//izvestiya VUZov. Physics An-Wen Liu, O. N. Ulenikov, G. A. Onopenko, O. V. Gromova, E. S. Bekhtereva, Shui-Ming Hu, and J.-M. Flaud, Global fit of the high resolution infrared spectrum of D 2 S//JMS, in press. Grants and scholarships: Starikova Evgenya is winner of Prize of academician V.E.Zuev (the first place), January 2006, Tomsk, Russia Kolotkov Gennadii is laureate of Prize of academician V.E.Zuev (the third t place), January 2006, Tomsk, Russia Alexey Olshukov 1. Laureate of Student's Regional Olympiad Optics-2006, April 2006, Novosibirsk, Russia 2. The Diploma of second degrees for the report on the International readings "Interaction of electromagnetic radiation with substance", March 2006, Tomsk Bykova Elena is performer of two grants. 1. Grant for young scientists (IAO SB RAS), Lavrent'ev grant of SB RAS, 2006 Sudarchikova Natasha - competition on a rank the best young scientist of Institute of atmospheric optics of the SB RAS. Future activity: 1. Continuation of the extensive collaboration with the Tomsk State University and other institute of SB RAS in Tomsk. 2. Support of the SPIE Student Chapter website 3. Increasing of the number of scientific seminars, lectures and visits in laboratories of our Institute.

44 4. This summer we plan the realization of new lectures and practical courses on optical sciences for our institute students, for students of the physical faculties of Tomsk State University and for students of the higher school.. 5. Technical assistance for the XII Joint International Symposium "Atmospheric and Ocean Optics, Atmospheric physics" July, 2-7, 2006, Tomsk, Russia (if our grant for this will be supported) 6. Technical assistance for the V International Young Scientists School "Physics of the environment" June 26 July 2, 2006, 75 km near Tomsk, beside the river Ob., Russia 7. Use of SPIE grants and scholarships available to Chapter and individual Chapter members to support travel and research activities. 8. Participation in SPIE conferences. Financial information: 1. Beginning balance $ 2. Carrying out of Chapter meetings and scientific seminars 170$ 3. Pay registration fees for participation in conferences of Student Chapter members 250 $ 4. Photo-report of V International Young Scientists School "Physics of the environment" - 30$ 5. Propagations and promotional materials -200$ 6. Payment of a membership dues for Chapter members 250$

45 Bi Annual Report of IIT Madras SPIE Student Chapter India January 2006 June 2006 Details of Chapters activities since last report 1. One day seminar on Optics & Photonics was conducted on 6 th January 2006 under the student chapter where representative from all the Indian SPIE Student Chapter were present. There were around 150 participants participated in the seminar. The activity can be seen in 2. Dr. B. M. A. Rahman, Professor, School of Engineering, City University, London has given a seminar talk on Wednesday, May 10, The title of his talk was Rigorous design optimization of Photonic devices by using the Finite Element Method. Details of Planned activities for the future 1. A tour with student chapter members to Optical Industry 2. To conduct an open house in Optics & Photonics 3. We are going to invite Prof. James C. Wyant, Prof. Malgorzata Kujawinska and other eminent scientists for series of lectures under our chapter. 4. Our Chapter Secretary Mr. Basanta Bhaduri was awarded the financial support to attend the conference Optics & Photonics 2006, San Diego, CA for SPIE Student Chapter Annual Meeting.

46 List of current student chapter members Sl. No. First Name Last name 1 Kaladevi Sendhil 2 Pushpa Kurian 3 Sanjit Debnath 4 K. Prahlad Rao 5 Basanta Bhaduri 6 Umakanta Tripathy 7 Sailaja Rallabandi 8 Thiyagarajan Panchatcharam 9 Kailash Jena 10 Krishnan Sathiyamoorthy 11 Ummal Momeen 12 Dhanasekar Baladhanaqpani 13 Mohan Koraganji 14 Ambika Nautiyal 15 Nibedita Ram 16 Abu Thomas 17 Paul Upputuri Name and e mail addresses of our Officers Officer Name E mail ID President Sanjit Kumar Debnath sanjit@physics.iitm.ac.in Vice- President K. Sathiyamoorthy krissat@rediffmail.com Secretary Basanta Bhaduri basanta@physics.iitm.ac.in

47 INSTITUTO NACIONAL DE ASTROFÍSICA, ÓPTICA Y ELECTRÓNICA President: Sandra Eloísa Balderas-Mata (smata@inaoep.mx) Vice-President: María de la Paz Hernández-Garay (mgaray@inaoep.mx) Treasurer: Rosario G. Porras-Aguilar (rosariop@inaoep.mx) Secretary: Melquíades García-Soto (melsoto@inaoep.mx) Advisor: Rubén Ramos-García(rgarcia@inaoep.mx) LIST OF MEMBERS OF THE SPIE STUDENT CHAPTER AT INAOE 1.- María de la Paz Hernández Garay 2.- Rosario Guadalupe Porras Aguilar 3.- Sandra Eloísa Balderas Mata 4.- María Luisa Cruz López 5.- Mario Enrique López Medina 6.- Adalberto Alejo Molina 7.- Ibis Ricárdez Vargas 8.- Luis Ignacio Olivos Pérez 9.- Miguel Alcaraz Rivera 10.- José Luis Avilés Urbiola 11.- Gerardo Díaz González 12.- Pedro Moreno Zarate 13.- José Adán Hernández Nolasco 14.- Helen Janeth Zúñiga Osorio 15.- Edmundo Rodríguez Vázquez 16.- Eber Enrique Orozco Guillen 17.- Juan Carlos Juárez Morales 18.- Óscar Javier Zapata Nava 19.- Melquíades García Soto 20.- Francisco Méndez Martínez 21.- María de la Luz García Cruz 22.- Daniel Rojano Guido 23.- Alberto Sánchez Castillo 24.- Jaime Sánchez Peredes 25.- Luis Rodríguez Castillo 26.- Brasilia Cabrera Pérez

48 27.- Juan Carlos Valdiviezo Navarro 28.- Miguel Velázquez de la Rosa Becerra 29.- Iván Hernández Romano 30.- Miguel Bello 31.- Daniel López Cortés 32.- Anmi García Arellano 33.- Joel Herrera 34.- Ileana Guizar Iturbide 35.- Reyle Mar Sarao 36.- Jaime Gutierrez Gutierrez 37.- Zulema Navarrete Meza 38.- Mauro Sánchez Sánchez Introduction We had a great year in our Student Chapter, full of activities both academic and social. This has created a very enthusiastic atmosphere among the Chapter members. At the beginning we were 17 members and nowadays our Chapter has grown up to 38 members. In our fist report we set the goals for our for our future activities, namely 1. - Increase the number of workshops (holography and photography) and talks 2. Participation in SPIE conferences 3. Invite a lecturer from the Beckman s Laser Institute 4. The construction of the chapter web page 5. The design of a logo for the Chapter 6. Continue with the movie projections In resume, we did implement the photography workshop and we continue with the informal talks. This year some SPIE Student Chapter members went and will go to some SPIE conferences and workshops, or SPIE-OSA Conferences. Among them are; Photonics West, Astronomical Telescopes, International Optical Design Conference, International Workshop on Information Optics, and Optics & Photonics. We invited a lecturer from the Beckman s Laser Institute but he couldn t come because of his hectic schedule. But, instead of him we invited Dr. Bahaa Saleh from the University of Boston. Nowadays, we have a web page and also we have a logo. We had continued with the film projections, we had projected more than 10 movies from January to May. Chapter Activities 1. Ph.D. Bahaa E. A. Saleh s visit On May 22, we had the visit of Prof. Saleh, who gave us a seminar called, Recent Advances in Nonlinear and Quantum Imaging. Which was divided into two parts; the first one was about the recent research in nonlinear imaging and microscopy, and in the second

49 he talked about quantum imaging including conventional and quantum coherence tomography, in which his lab is pioneer. He also gathers with some Chapter students, and he went into a tour trip around some optics labs. Ph. D. Saleh with some members of the chapter. We were in the restaurant "Mi ciudad" with Ph. D. Saleh who was exchanging ideas with students. 2. Workshops a) Science workshop for High school teachers ( Taller de Ciencia para Profes ). We took part of this event thanks to an invitation from Dr. Raul Mujica, who was in charge of this activity. It was focused on, how to promote Science among teenagers as well as among kids. The Chapter members who participate gave a workshop on black & white photography with a pinhole camera. Also, some students gave a lab talk in which they explain Image formation with simple optical elements. They did an excellent work, and also learn some tips from the high school teachers. Due to this workshop, some of us thought that it was a great idea to have an optics kit of our own. So, we decided to take this as a new Chapter activity. Some students are giving a talk about Image formation. Teachers in a laboratory where they did some experiments.

50 Teachers were posing for a picture with a pinhole camera. In the dinner. b) Math fair ( Feria de las Matemáticas ) Each year, the Instituto Universitario de Puebla A.C., organize the Math fair, at Atlixco, Pue.; in which every year, INAOE is invited. This year, the INAOE OSA-SPIE Student Chapter was chosen to represent our Institute. We participate with different experimental demonstrations of basic optics (Geometric optics, Dispersion and Color decomposition, Polarization, and Optics illusions and Stereoscopic images). The activities in the fair were very fun and dynamical. There were 1000 people who attended it, among them; the main actors were the children. But, we have all kind of public, from high school teachers to the kids parents. We enjoyed being there. It shows stereoscopic images. Demonstration of the behavior of light (geometric optics).

51 Children in some experiments of light composition with student s chapter. Members of the INAOE Student Chapter who participated in this event Scientific informal talks a) Visits of undergraduate students from Universities all over the country to some optics labs to show some more advanced optical setups. Most of them are about the thesis theme of some Chapter students. Visit to the solar telescope. b) Lectures on optics issues. A picture in one of the informal conference.

52 c) Simple optics experiments such as ray trace, image formation, polarization, optics illusions, etc. Some of the children were visiting the laboratories Chapter s party On April we had a BBQ, where we could interact in an informal way with the whole Chapter. Also, we discussed some new ideas for Chapter activities. From the left to the right, Mario, María de la Paz, Eber, Sandra, Luis, Rosario, Maria Luisa, Ibis and Adalberto. They are or were officials of the SPIE or OSA Chapters at INAOE and members of the SPIE chapter. Members of the SPIE chapter enjoying the BBQ Weekly film projection You can check them out in our web page. We have the titles and the link of the synopsis of each of them. 6. The Chapter Logo 7. - The construction of the chapter web page ( 8. Invitation to Dr. María Luisa Calvo We had invited Dr. Calvo to visit our Chapter. She will be able to come on February next year.

53 9. - Grants In this year Sandra E. Balderas, President of the Chapter, apply to the SPIE officer travel grant. She will be representing our Chapter in the SPIE's 51st Annual Meeting., in company of Maria de la Paz Hernandez (Vice-president). Future Activities 1. - Increase the number of workshops (holography). We already have the kaleidoscope and the photography workshops. 2. Give informal talks about optics and also tours to the optics labs for students from kindergarden to undergraduate Participation in SPIE conferences Short course of Dr. Calvo on February Participation with a workshop in the International Book Fair for kids and young people (Feria Internacional del Libro Infantil y Juvenil) 4. The creation of a magazine to promote Science, this Project will be supported by SPIE and OSA. The name of the magazine will be, Light Hunters. 5. Optical kits 6. - Continue with the cultural film projections.

54 Financial report On September 2005 our chapter was officially accepted as a Student Chapter of SPIE. In this table we show the financial movements from this date until May All quantities are given in American Dollars. Date Description Income Outcome Total Sep-05 Beginning Balance $ 0.00 $ 0.00 Oct-05 INAOE Support for Kaleidoscopes workshop Nov-06 Material for Kaleidoscopes workshop $ Dec-05 SPIE Support Dec-05 Pizza Party Jan-06 Digital Camera and accessories Jan-06 Printer and accessories Feb-06 Pop corns for Cine entre amigos Apr-06 BBQ Ending Balance $ 0.00

55 Bi - Annual Report 2006 and Outlay of Future Activities International School of Photonics SPIE Student Chapter Cochin University of Science & Technology Cochin , INDIA About the Chapter: The International School of Photonics SPIE (ISP SPIE) Student Chapter has been constituted in December 2004 by 12 student members of SPIE and subsequently received the official recognition in January The chapter has held a General Body Meeting (GBM) and three executive meetings since January The annual GBM was held on January 18. The GBM was presided over by the chapter president Mr. Jijo P U. Mr. Rajesh M; the chapter Vice-president welcomed all the chapter members to the GBM. Annual report was presented by the chapter secretary Mr. Thomas K J. Ms. Sheeba M, the chapter treasurer, presented the financial report. The reports were approved by the chapter members. A memento was given to Mr. Rajesh Kumar who had got scholarship from the Indian Physics Association. The GBM elected the new office bearers for The GBM gave recognition to various plans for the working of the chapter and constituted various committees to organize and/or assist in organizing various activities of the chapter. The GBM sanctioned partial payment for the membership of the first year M Sc. Students to encourage their active participation in the chapter activities. Current Strength: 99 members including Ph. D., M. Phil, M. Tech, and M. Sc students of ISP. Office Bearers for : Prof. Dr. V. P. N. Nampoori Staff Advisor Mr. Thomas K. J. President Mr. Dann V. J. Vice President Mr. Lyjo K Joseph Secretary Ms. Jayasree V. K. Treasurer The following members were also selected to the executive committee Mr. Jijo P U Mr. Rajesh M Mr. Harish Natarajan Mr. Praveen Cherian Ashok Mr. Jemy James Ms. Rose Mary Mr. Tanuj Various Committees and Members under the Chapter 1. Programme Committee Mr. Dann V. J. (Chair) Mr. Rajesh M.

56 Mr. Harish Natarajan S. K. Mr. Praveen Cherian Ashok Mr. Varun K A S 2. Publicity Committee Mr. Lyjo K Joseph (Chair) Mr. Vinu V Namboodiri Mr. Jithin Jose Mr. Aneesh Krishnan Mr. Jemy James 3. Membership Committee Ms. Jayasree V K (Chair) Ms. Sheeba M Mr. Tanuj Ms. Santhi A Ms. Rose Mary 4. Placement Cell Mr. Jijo P. U. (Chair) Mr. Deepak V Mr. Mathew Mr. Dhaneesh Ms. Priya Rose T. 5. Production Committee Prof V P N Nampoori (Chair) Mr. Praveen Cherian Ashok Mr. Adil Masood Mr. Aneesh Krishnan Mr. Sibilathulla Mr. Jijo P U Mr. Ahamed Thasleem Mr. Jemy James Ms. Sreeparvathy Warrier Ms. Gopika Ms. Deepa Kamath Financial Status Chapter bank account: A/c No. SB at the Federal Bank Ltd, Edappally, Cochin , INDIA Income (Indian rupees) Balance Brought Forward as on 13/1/06: Annual grant from SPIE: 58,927.00

57 Interest: Total (as on 16 th May, 2006): Rupees ( USD apprx) (1 USD= INR apprx) Expenditure (Indian rupees) LCD rent for project presentation competition Prizes & Mementos Sponsorship for Annual Photonics Workshop Stationery & printing charges Travel Expenses: Sponsorship for the membership of 1 st year M Sc Students: Postage Charge: Snacks for seminars Honorarium Advance given to chapter member for attending the annual SPIE student chapter meeting Total expenditure (as on 16 th May, 2006): Rupees ( USD apprx) Balance: Rupees ( USD apprx) 1. Weekly Seminars: Activities held prior to May 20, 2006 Envisaged to bring various people working in different fields within the department, this seminar series has given a good platform for students to discuss various aspects of research before an open forum. Following seminars were given so far under this activity. 1. Thursday, March 23, 2006: Quantum Well Lasers: A Dynamical Perspective by Mr. Jijo P U (Chapter Member and Doctoral Student). 2. Thursday, April 6, 2006: Spectrum Identification using Artificial Neural Network by Ms. Saritha M (Doctoral Student).

58 3. Thursday, April 20, 2006: Synchronisation of Chaos in Directly Modulated Semiconductor Lasers by Ms. Parvathi M R (Chapter Member and Doctoral Student). 4. Thursday, May 4, 2006: Temperature and Density Measurements of Laser Produced Plasmas using Spectroscopic Methods by Mr. Sajeev D (Chapter Member and Doctoral Student). 5. Thursday, May 11, 2006: Photoplethysmography and its Applications by Ms. Jayasree V K (Chapter Member and Doctoral Student). 2. Monthly Special Lectures: The chapter arranges a special talk to be given on selected dates of every month by a Professor or other experienced hands in the fields of research and teaching. The following lectures were given under this activity: 1. Thursday, March 30, 2006: Solar Saga by Prof C P Girijavallabhan, Dean of the Faculty of Technology and Professor Emeritus, Cochin University of Science and Technology. 2. Tuesday, April 25, 2006: Indian Contributions to Mathematics and Astronomy by Dr V B Panicker, Retired Principal, Palakkad Engineering College. 3. Visiting Lecturer Programme: Aimed to bring the expertise of Professors and Scientists visiting the university, the chapter organizes interactive session for the chapter members and the expert. Talks in this series were given as follows: 1. Monday, May 8, 2006: Fiber Optic Sensor for Industrial Applications Dr K T V Grattan and Dr. Tong Sun, School of Engineering and Mathematical Sciences, City University, Northampton Square, London. 2. Monday, May 8, 2006: Rigorous Design Optimization of Photonic Devices by using the Finite Element Method Dr B M A Rahman, School of Engineering and Mathematical Sciences, City University, Northampton Square, London. 3. Wednesday, 17 May, 2006: Holographic Memory Storage techniques by Dr. Joby Joseph, Department of Physics, IIT Delhi 4. Project Presentation Competition The chapter organized a project presentation competition for the senior M.Sc students on 24 th February The overwhelming response of the students was well appreciated. Mr Harish Natarajan and Mr Manulal became the winners for their project Crystal growth and study of electro-optic effect in KDP crystals. The prizes were distributed during the Annual Photonics Workshop. 5. Annual Photonics Workshop The chapter has joined hands with the International School of Photonics in organizing a two day National Workshop in Photonics on the 27 th and 28 th of February, About 100 participants comprising of University and college teachers,

59 researchers and scientists, and students with various background in science and engineering participated in this workshop with the focal theme: Ultrafast Processes. 6. Stephen Hawkings Film Festival A series of films on the well known astro physicist Stephen Hawkings were screened on 28 th February 2006 as a part of the national science day celebrations. The various notions and views of this distinguished scientist were well appreciated by the audience. 7. Photonics News This annual magazine of the department of photonics was released on 27 th February 2006 during the inaugural session of the annual photonics workshop. The magazine focuses on the various activities of the department during the last year. The magazine was a joint venture of the student chapters of ISP. 8. Industrial Visit A visit to the world famous firm NeST Photonics, Kochi was organized for the M.Tech students of the department in March. Social Outreach & Student Services Programs 1. Optics & Photonics to Schools and Colleges This will be the prime activity of the chapter under the social outreach programme which will give thrust in spreading awareness about the relevance of optics and photonics careers among school and undergraduate college students. The chapter members Jijo P U, Rajesh M and Vinu V Namboodiri were eagerly shared their knowledge on fiber optics to the post graduate students on 21 st February The programme included both technical and practical sessions. Mr Jijo Ulahannan talked about Optical Fibers and Mr. Vinu V N on Optical Sources and Detectors. Mr Rajesh M handled on practical session and also talked about Applications and Future Enhancements of fiber optics. This programme was conducted as a part of Fiber est a one day national level workshop on Optical Fibre Communication at Sri Krishna Arts and Science College, Kuniamuthur, Coimbatore. This was a joint venture of the department of electronics and communication systems of SKAC and the ISP- SPIE student chapter. 2. Open Lab Programme for Visiting Students from Schools and Colleges Chapter members are always enthusiastic to demonstrate various experiments and facilities at the department to the students of schools and colleges visiting the University from time to time. Students from various institutions in the state are welcome to visit the labs throughout the year. On the 4 th of May, 2006, half day was reserved for the young school children spending their summer vacation in the University doing many projects in the various fields of science.

60 On 15 th may 2006, Mauritius Vice President, H.E. Abdul Rauf Bundun and his team visited ISP laboratories. The chapter members eagerly explained various research activities and chapter activities. 3. Project Consultancy and Guidance The chapter has an active cell comprising its graduate students to provide consultancy and guidance to graduate and undergraduate students in science and technology to design and develop good projects in the fields of optics, photonics and optoelectronics. The programme is helpful to the students from various science and engineering colleges within the state of Kerala. 4. Placement Cell To the assist the chapter members to find good industrial and academic placements after their graduation, the chapter has constituted a placement cell under the stewardship of the chapter s former president. The cell through its dedicated webpage brings out the career profile of aspiring graduates to attract the necessary attention from industries and higher education institutions. Activities Planned for the Coming Year Simultaneously with the continuation of regular activities planned in the past, the chapter will be indulging in many more activities in the coming year as listed below. 1. Indo-UK Workshop on Fiber Optics: The chapter will be partially sponsoring the Indo-UK workshop on Fiber Optics which is going to be held on August 29-31, This workshop includes the presentations of various eminent scientists in the corresponding fields in India and the United Kingdom. There will be time slots for the presentations of the participants too. 2. Raman Day Celebrations: Quiz competitions, Essay writing competitions, Colloquiums, etc. for students of schools and colleges in the state are some of the programmes planned to be organized by the chapter spanning over five months starting from July, Raman Day Celebrations and Spectra 2006 to be held on the 7 th of November, 2006 will be the grand finale of these programmes. 3. Industrial Visits & Study Tour: The chapter will organize visits to the nearby industries and research labs to get hands on experience for the members in various areas of R&D going on in the field of optics and photonics. These will be organized with study tours and leisure trips for the chapter members for refreshing their minds from the labors of handwork. June is the month fixed by the chapter GBM for the first trip in this programme. 4. SPIE Visiting Lecturer Programme: Under this programme, the chapter will actively work to bring some best scientists and academicians to interact

61 and deliver lectures on various topics of current and subjective topics to the student community in the University. 5. Optics & Photonics to Schools and Colleges: This will be the prime activity of the chapter under the social outreach programme which will give thrust in spreading awareness about the relevance of optics and photonics careers among school and undergraduate college students throughout the state of Kerala. To make this a wonderful reality, the chapter has constituted a production unit to design various experiments and demonstrations to be presented to the schools and colleges the chapter team visits. This unit will work in tandem with the programme committee and the publicity committee to launch the activities in the coming academic year starting from June, Training Programmes: The chapter will organize various training programmes and workshops in modern trends in optics and photonics for both school and college teachers, students from science and engineering colleges apart from conducting research level workshops in the national level. 7. Problem Solving Sessions: The chapter is planning to commence a problem solving session for the students by the end of June. A problem will be given to the students on every week and exciting prizes will be given to the winners. The discussion on these problems will be done once in a month.

62 Student Chapter Annual Report Saint-Petersburg State University of Informational Technologies, Mechanics and Optics Names and addresses of chapter officers: President: Paul Petroshenko, Vice-president: Ravil Zakirov, Secretary: Elizaveta Yankovskaya, Treasurer: Alexander Alekseev, Chapter Scientific Adviser: Sergey A. Kozlov, List of current Student Chapter members: 1. Abdusalamov Arsen 2. Alekseev Alexander 3. Antonov Oleg 4. Buyanovskaya Elizaveta 5. Chernov Ilya 6. Tsipkin Anton 7. Tsygankova Ekaterina 8. Fyodorov Fyodor 9. Kaplanov Vadim 10. Kiselev Alexei 11. Kiselev Andrei 12. Lashkin Daniil 13. Lesnichiy Vasiliy 14. Mohnatova Olga 15. Novoselov Evgeny 16. Pantas' Yaroslav 17. Petroshenko Pavel 18. Sidtikov Vladimir 19. Travin Denis 20. Volinskiy Maxim 21. Yankovskaya Elizaveta 22. Zakirov Ravil 23. Zlatov Anrei

63 Chapter activities since last report: This year our members worked for extending their study to the following directions: Analytical study and numerical modeling of the femtosecond supercontinuum generation; Analytical study and numerical modeling of few-cycle pulses propagation and reflection; Investigation of few-cycle pulses collision in waveguides and possibilities of received effects' use in ultrafast optoinformatics; Modeling of light propagation along rows of nanospheres and nanocylinders; Investigation of structures of permitted and forbidden zones in periodical system of intensifying an isotropic layers; Modeling of nanotubes growth; Investigation of holographic technologies for artificial intelligence creation. Most part of the Chapter s members took part in XXXV Scientific and Education Conference of St.Petersburg State University ITMO, "Achievements of scientists, post-graduate students and students of SPb SU ITMO in science and education ", 31 January 3 February, 2006, in III Interuniversity Conference of Young Scientists of St.Petersburg State University ITMO, April, Also few members of our Chapter have acted on the All-Russia school - seminar «Waves 2006», May, 2006, Moscow. Publications: Mokhnatova O.A., Berkovsky A.N., Kozlov S.A. «Interaction of extremely short light pulses at nonlinear reflection», In materials of the X All-Russian school-seminar "Wave phenomena in multivendor mediums", 2006 Buyanovskaya E. M., Kozlov S. A. «Generation of triple frequencies during the interaction of counter-propagating pulses consisting of few field oscillations in nonlinear dielectric mediums», In materials of the X All-Russian school-seminar "Wave phenomena in multivendor mediums", 2006 Alekseev A.M., Pavlov A.V., «Linguistic modeling by Fourier-holography technique: implementation of non-monotonic semantics», In materials of the 11-th International Conference «Speech and Computer», 2006

64 Conferences: Kiselev A.S., Kiselev A.S., Nazarov V.N., «RESEARCH OF INFLUENCE OF THE ERROR OF ASSEMBLY AND ADJUSTMENT OF SCOPE SIGHTS ON RESULT OF SHOOTING», XXXV Scientific and Education Conference of St.Petersburg State University ITMO, "Achievements of scientists, post-graduate students and students of SPb SU ITMO in science and education ", 31 January 3 February, 2006, Saint-Petersburg, Russia Mokhnatova O.A., Berkovsky A.N., Kozlov S.A., «Nonlinear paraxial reflection of extremely short light pulses from dielectrics», XXXV Scientific and Education Conference of St.Petersburg State University ITMO, "Achievements of scientists, post-graduate students and students of SPb SU ITMO in science and education ", 31 January 3 February, 2006, Saint-Petersburg, Russia Buyanovskaya E. M., Kozlov S. A. «Interaction of counter-propagating femtosecond pulses with continuum spectra in nonlinear dielectric mediums», XXXV Scientific and Education Conference of St.Petersburg State University ITMO, "Achievements of scientists, postgraduate students and students of SPb SU ITMO in science and education ", 31 January 3 February, 2006, Saint-Petersburg, Russia Kiselev A.S., Kiselev A.S., «POLARIZATION OF RADIATION AT THE RELATIVE MECHANISM OF THE SCATTERING», III Interuniversity Conference of Young Scientists of St.Petersburg State University ITMO, April, 2006 Tsygankova E.V., «FEATURES OF ETCHING OF LASER CRYSTAL LiYF 4 IN SOLUTIONS H 2 SO 4», XXXV Scientific and Education Conference of St.Petersburg State University ITMO, "Achievements of scientists, post-graduate students and students of SPb SU ITMO in science and education ", 31 January 3 February, 2006, Saint-Petersburg, Russia Mokhnatova O.A., Berkovsky A.N., Kozlov S.A. «Interaction of extremely short light pulses at nonlinear reflection.», X All-Russian school-seminar "Wave phenomena in multivendor mediums", Zvenigorod, Moscow region, Russia, May, 2006 Alekseev A.M., Konstantinov A.M., Pavlov A.V., «Logic & linguistic modeling by a method of Fourier -holography: realization of nonmonotonic reasonings», XXXV Scientific and Education Conference of St.Petersburg State University ITMO, "Achievements of scientists, post-graduate students and students of SPb SU ITMO in science and education ", 31 January 3 February, 2006, Saint-Petersburg, Russia Buyanovskaya E. M., Kozlov S. A. «Generation of triple frequencies during the interaction of counter-propagating pulses consisting of few field oscillations in nonlinear dielectric mediums», X All-Russian school-seminar "Wave phenomena in multivendor mediums", Zvenigorod, Moscow region, Russia, May 2006 Tsygankova E.V., «FEATURES OF ETCHING OF LASER CRYSTAL LiYF 4 IN SOLUTIONS HCl», III Interuniversity Conference of Young Scientists of St.Petersburg State University ITMO, April, 2006 Zlatov A.A., «Spectral and luminescent properties of high-concentration phosphatic and silicate ytterbium-doped glasses», XXXV Scientific and Education Conference of

65 St.Petersburg State University ITMO, "Achievements of scientists, post-graduate students and students of SPb SU ITMO in science and education ", 31 January 3 February, 2006, Saint-Petersburg, Russia Kiselev A.S., Kiselev A.S., «ABOUT THE PROBLEM OF ACCURACY OF ASSEMBLY AND ADJUSTMENT OF THE SCOPE SIGHTS», III Interuniversity Conference of Young Scientists of St.Petersburg State University ITMO, April, 2006 Mokhnatova O.A., Berkovsky A.N., Kozlov S.A., «Nonlinear paraxial reflection of fewcycle pulses from dielectrics», International seminar "Days on Diffraction", Saint Petersburg, Russia, 30 May 2 June, 2006 Zlatov A.A., «Research of parameters of semi-conductor lasers», III Interuniversity Conference of Young Scientists of St.Petersburg State University ITMO, April, 2006 Rosanov N.N., Semenov V.E., Vissotina N.V., Kiselev A.S., Kiselev A.S., «AMPLIFIED SELF-INDUCED TRANSPARENCY AND FEW CICLE PULSES AND DISSIPATIVE SOLITONS», International seminar "Days on Diffraction", Saint Petersburg, Russia, 30 May 2 June, 2006 Planned activities: In September 2006 we are planning to combine traditional V SPIE Student Chapters Meeting ( with ICO Topical Meeting on Optoinformatics and Photonics'2006 ( and to participate in work of Organizational committee of School for young scientists in the field of Photonics and Optoinformatics. We are going to continue: Conducting our theoretical and scientific research; Attending conferences and SPIE Student Chapters Meetings; Increasing number of the Chapter's members; Developing our chapter's web page; Renovation of the Chapter's library.

66 Current Members Dr. James Sherman Baccanti, Joseph Crawford, John Craig, Joshua Curren, Ben Filippini, Ruth Gladysiewski, Derek Gorr, Matthew Helmininack, Greg Jordan, Zane Kazunas, Peter Kyler, Tom Mettlen, Scott Zack, Stella Indiana University of Pennsylvania Student Chapter of SPIE May, 2006 Biannual Report I. IUP SPIE Chapter Activities-Spring 2006 The primary focus of our spring semester activities was youth outreach. These activities-along with other chapter events, is outlined below. A. Outreach Activities We regularly invite local high school groups to our IUP- Northpointe campus electro-optics labs for optics experiences. We also occasionally visit high schools to conduct hands-on optics events. The following is a list of high school EO experiences that our chapter participated in during the current semester. 1

67 Date Location 1/13 Northpointe (Visit by Kittanning HS) 1/27 Northpointe (Visit by Freeport HS) 2/17 Northpointe (Visit by Ford City HS) 2/17 Visit to Leechburg HS 3/3 Northpointe (Visit by West Shamokin HS) 3/3 Visit to Freeport HS 3/31 Northpointe (Visit by Northern Westmoreland Vo-Tech) 4/21 High School Optics day-held at the Penn State University Electro-Optics Center 5/12 Northpointe (Visit by Valley High School) B. Industrial Luncheon on 4/28/05 The IUP Applied Physics/Electro-Optics program held an industrial luncheon on Friday 4/28. Several local EO leaders attended the event. The meeting consisted of a 45 minute poster session, during which students majoring in the IUP Electro Optics program and members of the S.P.I.E chapter presented posters on their undergraduate lab projects to EO industry leaders. The following students presented 1. Matt Gorr: Light source and material characterization using Triax 320 Imaging Spectrometer. 2. Scott Mettlen: Holographic diffraction gratings. 3. Joni Stahlman: Interferometric Optical Component Testing. 4. Peter Kazunas: Full 3D image of our campus using a cyrax laser imaging system. 5. Greg Helmininack: Computer Controlled RGA We recruited several new members for our chapter toward the end of the spring of 2006 semester. The industrial luncheon was the biggest event that our chapter and this campus have been 2

68 involved in to date. The luncheon was a big success and helped to build the reputation of our campus and our S.P.I.E chapter. There is no financial information available for the chapter. Starting and ending balances are both zero. Future Activities: The chapter president and vice-president plan on attending the Optics and Photonics conference in San Diego. This will present an excellent opportunity to network with other student SPIE chapters-thereby obtaining new ideas for activities and sharing our own experiences with other chapters. Our chapter will continue with the high school outreach activities. We are going invite a guest speaker to give a lecture sometime during the fall. We are planning an astronomy night with pizza for the some of the local middle school students as part of our outreach program. We also intend to boost recruitment by printing flyers and submitting articles in the campus newsletter. We will also try to get some funding for new equipment to improve our outreach demonstrations. Scott Mettlen s poster at the Luncheon 3

69 Peter Kazunas poster at the luncheon Dr. Sherman, IUP Electro-Optics professor, talks with local high school students about the emerging, high-tech career field of Electro-Optics and the educational opportunities available at IUP's Northpointe Campus 4

70 High School students observed a computer interface and open space communication built by Scott Mettlen in the Electro-Optics program at Northpointe. Visiting high school students learn about fiber-optics from Dr. Zhou, IUP Electro-Optics professor, during the Electro-Optics Science Experience at IUP's Northpointe Campus 5

71 Matthew Gorr explains to visiting high school students how to measure the thickness of human hair using a He-Ne laser during the Electro-Optics Science Experience at IUP's Northpointe Campus Joe Baccanti explains how a laser works to visiting high school students using an opencavity He-Ne laser during the Electro-Optics Science Experience at IUP's Northpointe campus 6

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73 Annual Report May 2005-May 2006 Name of Chapter: SPIE Student Chapter at Ivan Franko Lviv National University Person Completing Form/Contact: Rostyslav O. Bilyy, Chapter President Number of members: 32 Chapter Officers elected for the next Academic year: President: Rostyslav Bilyy Vice President: Ivanna Yarynovska Secretary: Bohdan Tsop Treasurer: Cristina Mayor Chapter activities: 1. Establishing the Chapter organizing a workplace and meeting place for Chapter students. Formation of some shared informational recourses, both electronic and printed. Organization of cooperation between students in the Chapter, etc. 2. Development of Chapter s web-site: Support of the site. (Due to some specific port-readdressing by our University, some firewalls can block the site; some SPIE firewalls do, we hope to solve this in future). 3. Organizing the visit (in cooperation with Institute for Condensed Matter Physics) of SPIE President, Prof. Malgorzata Kujawinska to Lviv. Meeting with SPIE President and SPIE delegation. A lecture of Prof. Kujawinska Cooperation and Networking Opportunities through SPIE - The International Society of Optical Engineering". See details at the end of report. 4. During this year our chapter was very successful in receiving SPIE grants and support: 2006 SPIE Grant awarded to our Chapter SPIE 2006 Scholarship awarded to Rosyslav Bilyy Chapter President SPIE Student Travel Contingency Grant awarded to Ivanna Yarynovska Chapter Vice President 5. Chapter President, Rostyslav Bilyy, has presented an Invited Internet lecture at Saratov Fall Meeting (International School for Junior Scientists and Students on Optics, Laser Physics and Biophysics). The lecture is available here: (~3Mb). 6. Participation in the SPIE Annual Meeting and Optics and Photonics Conference in San Diego. Presentation of the Chapter - leaflets describing the Chapter. 7. Chapter Vice, President Ivanna Yarynovska, presented a poster during BIOS-2006 in San Jose, CA. 8. Chapter Bulletin Board was established and is constantly renewed. 9. Members 12 new members in January Most of them 1 st and 2 nd year students. We expect new members soon.

74 10. Meetings with the students of Ivan Franko Lviv National University, Lviv Polytechnic University and Lviv Medical University with the aim to promote SPIE activities (Sep 27). 11. During reporting period there were 11 Chapter meeting. The meetings are usually arranged last Thursday of the month (regular), additional meetings are arranged when needed. 12. Publications of Chapter members: R.O. Bilyy, A.I. Bilyi, V.B.Getman, Yu.Ya. Kit, Ch.Ya. Mayor, V.O. Antonyuk, R.S. Stoika. Some new approaches to the detection of programmed cell death / Proceedings of SPIE, 2006, V , SFM-05, in press. R.S. Stoika, R.O. Bilyy,, V.O. Antonyuk. Agglutination-based method for fast detection, isolation and quantification of apoptotic cells. US Patent Application, I.H. Yarynovska, A.I. Bilyi. Absorption spectra of sulfhemoglobin derivates of human blood. Proceedings of SPIE, 6094, 60940G (2006) R. Bilyy, Yu. Kit, U. Hellman, V. Tryndyak, V. Kaminskyy, R. Stoika. In vivo expression and characteristics of novel α-d-mannose-rich glycoprotein markers of apoptotic cells / Cell Biology International, V. 29(11). P R.O. Bilyy, A.I. Bilyi, V.B.Getman, Yu.Ya. Kit, V.O.Antonyuk, R.S.Stoika, some new approaches to the detection of programmed cell death. / Saratov Fall Meeting, SFM'05, International School for Junior Scientists and Students on Optics, Laser Physics and Biophysics, September 27-30, 2005, Saratov, Russia. Internet Invited Lecture. R.O. Bilyy, Yu.Ya. Kit, U. Hellman, R.S. Stoika, Mannose-rich glycoproteins - novel early markers of apoptotic cells: in vivo characteristics. 40 th Meeting of the Polish Biochemical Society. Lublin, Poland, , Acta biochimica polonica: v. 52 Sup. 1, 2005, p Poster presentation. Bilyy R.O., Kit Yu.Ya., Antonyuk V.O., Stoika R.S. Characteristics of specific membrane receptors of apoptotic cells. 5 th Parnas Conferene. Kyiv, Ukraine, , The Ukrainian Biochemical Journal: V. 77 (2), 2005, p. 96. Poster presentation. Drobchak Z.D., Drobchak O.Z. Simple method of sound measurement / Scientificmethodological digest on problems of physics learning.-drohobych: Kolo, p Drobchak O.Z., Drozd G.E. The elements of physical interaction model / Scientificmethodological digest on problems of physics learning.-drohobych: Kolo, p Dmytruk V., Kotsan J. Luminescence of Pb 2 Bi 6 O 11 ceramics /Heureka optics and Spectroscopy, P Bilyi O.I, Bordun O.M., Yarynovska I.G. Luminescent spectroscopy of dry urine tailings. / The sevent international conference Correlation Optics 2005, Chernivtsi, Ukraine. September Bilyi O.I, Yarynovska I.G. Optical spectra of sulfhemoglobin derivates in human blood. / 6 International young scientists conference Optics & High Technology Material Science SPO Abstracts - Ukraine, october Kyiv. P. 56. Other presentation in the conferences: IEP-2005, Uzhhorod, Ukraine, May 2005 (poster presentation, Yarynovska I.)

75 V-th Conferebce of Young Scientists in Charciv, Institute of Radiophysics and Electronics NAS of Ukraine, December (poster presentation, Yarynovska I.) "Optics and High Technology Material Science SPO 2005" in Kyiv, Ukraine, October Planned future activities: 1. In frames of Visiting Lecturer Program to organize a visit of Prof. Tuchin (Saratov, Russia) in It is planned that Prof. Tuchin will read a lecture "Biophotonics studies in Saratov State University" and short course "Tissue Optics and Controlling of Tissue and Blood Optical Properties". The visit was panned and arranged for April 2006, but at the last moment it was canceled because of the incident in Prof. Tuchin s family. We are sorry of this. 2. Chapter Advisor is going to prepare and read a course Physical principles of biomedical optics for clinical diagnostics SPIE Chapter Grant and of 2006 Chapter Activity Grants will be partly used for purchasing computer equipment and presentation materials. Database of available in the Chapter electronic materials (SPIE papers, etc) will be developed. 2. Promotion of SPIE activities among 1 st and 2 nd year students. During Chapter Meeting: Savaryn Victoria, Kobryn, Lesja, Rostyslav Bilyy, Levosyuk Lyuba, Yarynovska Ivanna (with SPIE Award Certificate), Partyka Maryan and Tsop Bogdan

76 Prof. Malgorzata Kuj awinska, SPIE President in 2005, visited our Chapter! SPIE delegation of 2005 SPIE President, Prof. Malgorzata Kujawinska, Prof. Pawel Kujawinski, Prof. Pierre Chavel, and Prof. Natalia Golnik has visited an ancient city of Lviv during the trip to the Conference on Correlation optics in Chernivtci, Ukraine. Main building of Ivan Franko Lviv National University - The oldest university in Ukraine, founded 1661 SPIE Delegation at Rynok Square - the heart of Lviv, most of buildings here were built in 15-17th centuries.

77 The SPIE delegation arrived to Lviv in Sunday, September 4, The shiny summer whether was perfect for a city tour. A city of Lviv was founded in 1256, and has a long history, so there are lots of interesting places to see. During the second day of the visit Prof. Kujawinska has an exalted lecture "Cooperation and Networking Opportunities through SPIE - The International Society of Optical Engineering".

78 After the lecture Prof. Kujawinska visited the office of SPIE Student Chapter at Ivan Franko National University of Lviv, Ukraine. During this short time we students of the Chapter) described our main activities. Dean of the Faculty of Electronics and Chapter advisor - Dr. Alexander Bilyi described scientific work of the Department of Physical and Biomedical Electronics. The lecture took place in the Large Astronomical Auditorium at the faculty of physics. And the Auditorium was almost full of interested students. The lecture was in English an was translated by the President of Student Chapter - Rostyslav Bilyy into Ukrainian.

79 Financial information: Beginning balance - $0. Funds obtained from SPIE - $900. Funds expended: $900 Details: $ Computer equipment: HDD Hitachi 160 gb 110 DVD-RW Drive LG 75 Printer Samsung 1710P 162 scanner Mustek 2448 CU Plus 68 Deveopment, hosting and support of Chapter's web-site 200 Participation in the conferences by Chapter members 200 Establishing of Chapter Bulletin Board 65 Other expenses: 20 Total 900 Ending balance - $0.

80 Kent State SPIE Student Chapter Bi-Annual Report June 2006 Kent State SPIE Student Chapter Bi-Annual Report by Chapter President Fenghua Li Liquid Crystal Institute, Kent State University Kent, OH USA Phone: (330) Fax: (330) URL: Outline of the report List of current student chapter members Detailed chapter activities since last report Details of activities planned for future Financial statement Current elected officers and advisor Page 1 of 18

81 Kent State SPIE Student Chapter Bi-Annual Report June 2006 List of Current Student Chapter Members Name Member ID Mingxia Gu Oleg Pishnyak Oksana Olkhovyk Bohdan Senyuk Jianru Shi Ke Zhang Cheng Chen Xiaoli Zhou Guoqiang Zhang Xinghua Wang Ebru Buyuktanir Rui Guo Fenghua Li Shi-Ying Lu Lei Shi Chris Bailey John Harden Thomas Palermo Yong-Kyu Jang EnkhAmgalan Dorjgotov Shawn Hurley Jeremy Neal Shouping Tang Page 2 of 18

82 Kent State SPIE Student Chapter Bi-Annual Report June 2006 Detailed Chapter Activities Since Last Report 1. In May 16, 2006, we have invited Dr. Ye Yin to give us a talk about Effect of Dielectric Relaxation on Nematic Liquid Crystal Switching. Around 10 students from Kent State student chapter attended this seminar. 2. 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 2006 SPIE annual meeting early August in San Diego. 3. We did field research on rainbow and investigated the optical properties of rainbow. Two members of our chapter went to Niagara Falls and performed advanced observation of rainbow under polarizer. The polarization of rainbow was determined to be along the tangent line of the rainbow curve at every single point. Page 3 of 18

83 Kent State SPIE Student Chapter Bi-Annual Report June 2006 The view of the Niagara Falls from USA side. Left: The rainbow is shown with horizontal polarizer. Right: The rainbow disappears with vertical polarizer. 4. We attended the Great Lakes Photonics Symposium on June 12-16, 2006 at Dayton convention center in Dayton. This Conference provides a forum to promote optics and photonics in the Great Lakes area. 10 focused conferences was planned to offer a comprehensive symposium. During the conference, Kent State SPIE student chapter have done a series of activities: 1) On June 12, we attend the SPIE student chapter meeting of great lake area. President Fenghua Li did a presentation to explain the activities among the Kent State student chapter. Page 4 of 18

84 Kent State SPIE Student Chapter Bi-Annual Report June 2006 Student members of chapters from great lake area are attending the chapter meeting on June 12, Mr. Jeremy Neal from our chapter demonstrates the interesting presentation on liquid crystal can swim which is a great example how we can do about high school outreach. Page 5 of 18

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86 Kent State SPIE Student Chapter Bi-Annual Report June 2006 Three members, Shin-Ying Lu, Jeremy Neal and Fenghua Li of our chapter are receiving the certificates of the Great Lakes Photonics Scholarship Group photo of chapter meeting. Page 7 of 18

87 Kent State SPIE Student Chapter Bi-Annual Report June ) SPIE Student Chapter of University of Dayton organizes a cookout at Delco park of Dayton on June 13, Our student chapter members had a lot of during this party. Page 8 of 18

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89 Kent State SPIE Student Chapter Bi-Annual Report June 2006 Some photos of the cook out party. 3) University of Dayton Chapter organizes a campus tour in their university. Our chapter members are attending the tour. Page 10 of 18

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91 Kent State SPIE Student Chapter Bi-Annual Report June 2006 We are taking pictures in front of materials research lab of University of Dayton. Page 12 of 18

92 Kent State SPIE Student Chapter Bi-Annual Report June ) The conference organized a banquet on June 13, 2006 at Air Force Museum at Dayton. Professors and students of Kent State are in the Air Force Museum of Dayton. Oksana Olkhovyk, member of Kent State SPIE student chapter is receiving the SPIE scholarship from SPIE President Paul F. McManamon during the banquet. Page 13 of 18

93 Kent State SPIE Student Chapter Bi-Annual Report June ) The conference held a very useful career workshop for SPIE student members. Our chapter have a few members attended this workshop. The lecturer is answering the questions from student members. Professor Robin Sellinger is doing the presentation how to prepare the research career during the PhD study. Page 14 of 18

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96 Kent State SPIE Student Chapter Bi-Annual Report June 2006 Students and Professors are having face-to-face discussion how to prepare the future career. Page 17 of 18

97 Kent State SPIE Student Chapter Bi-Annual Report June 2006 Details of Activities Planned for Future We will actively maintain our chapter s good standing, advertising members academic research strength, attract more new students into members and broaden the network of collaborations and communications. The following is a brief list of planed activities: 1. We plan to use the Visiting Lecturer Program of SPIE and invite a lecturer from University of Arizona to do a lecture of optical design. The fund will be covered from SPIE. 2. Continue the extensive collaboration with University of Dayton, Pennsylvania State University and Notre Dame University s SPIE student chapters 3. We are planning an educational tour for local high school in collaboration with the Great Lake SPIE Chapter. 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. 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. 8. Apply for SPIE grants and scholarships available to chapter and individual chapter members to support travel and research activities. The institutes fund is our major goal this year. Financial Information Previous balance $ spring 2006 semester meeting include new students drink expense -$ /9/2006 $ recruit new members -$ /9/2006 $ student chapter fund $1,150 4/1/2006 $ travel fund (to be reimbursed) $1, /3/2006 $ Total balance $ Current Elected Officers President Vice-President Secretary Treasurer Fenghua Li Christopher Bailey Thomas Palermo Xiaoli Zhou Page 18 of 18

98 2006 May bi-annual report of the MEPhI SPIE student chapter. by Alexander Radnaev and Nadezda Kotova Moscow, 2006

99 This is the first report of MEPhI SPIE Student Chapter since it was founded in January. I. List of current Student Chapter members II. Customer ID DuesPaidThru Name /31/2006 Radnaev, Alexander Mr /31/2006 Kotova, Nadezhda Ms /31/2007 Kozlova, Olga Ms /30/2006 Andreeva, Victoria Ms /30/2006 Bogdanovich, Denis Mr /30/2006 Bondarev, Denis Mr /30/2006 Burkin, Sergey Mr /30/2006 Daineko, Sergey Mr /30/2006 Dudin, Yaroslav Mr /30/2006 Gontsova, Marina Ms /30/2006 Gukasian, Elenora Ms /30/2006 Kandokhov, Zaur Mr /30/2006 Khaneft, Dmitry Mr /30/2006 Fronya, Mikhail Mr /30/2006 Kozhevnikova, Anastasiya Ms /30/2006 Nikolaeva, Tatiana Ms /30/2006 Rogulov, Maksim Mr /30/2006 Siushev, Peter Mr /30/2006 Shukin, Sergey Mr /30/2006 Sidorenkov, Leonid Mr /30/2006 Simonova, Darja Ms /30/2006 Sizykh, Iliya Mr /30/2006 Sviridov, Dmitry Mr /30/2006 Torshin, Danill Mr /30/2006 Zibrov, Sergei Mr /30/2006 Dalechina, Alexandra Ms /30/2006 Kargapoltsev, Sergey Mr /30/2006 Koroleva, Natalia Ms /30/2006 Krajushkin, Igor Mr /30/2006 Martynov, Igor Mr /30/2006 Menkova, Nataliya Ms /30/2006 Mezgin, Alexander Mr /30/2006 Petrovskaya, Anna Ms /30/2006 Popov, Alexander Mr /30/2006 Rodionova, Marina Ms /30/2006 Susekova, Evgeniya Ms /30/2006 Tugaenko, Anton Mr /30/2006 Zuzina, Alexandra Ms /30/2006 Zubareva, Anastasia Ms /31/2007Sivak, Alexander Mr. N/A 05/31/2007 Litvinov, Mikhail Mr. N/A 05/31/2007 Gabbasov, Rinat Mr. II. Chapter Activities. II.1 MEPhI SPIE members grants. Three members of our chapter have been awarded an SPIE Educational Scholarship in Optical Science and Engineering. Grant recipient are: Dudin Yaroslav (1000$), Kotova Nadezda (2000$), Sizykh Iliya (2000$). Kotova Nadezda also got Travel Grant ($1500). 2

100 On 19 April, first official meeting of our chapter was held in the MEPhI assembly hall. It was public meeting, so every MEPhI student was able to attend it. Also we had invited the dean of Basov Higher School of Physicists faculty where most Chapter Students are enrolled and some lecturers from the department of Photonics and Physics of Condensed Matter. II.2 Student chapter presentation in MEPhI. For a start, the president of the chapter Alexander Radnaev told the audience about SPIE and explained benefits of SPIE Membership and student chapter. Then Scholarship-Grant recipients reported about their scientific work. The reports were Amplifier for femtosecond pulses laser (Nadezda Kotova), Femtosecond fiber Er 3+ Photo 1. Nadezda Kotova reports about Amplifier for femtosecond pulses laser. laser for He-Ne/CH 4 frequency standard (Sizykh Iliya) and CPT (coherent population trapping) - compass (Yaroslav Dudin). At the end of the meeting we have started a Review of modern optics and photonics with a lecture of our adviser professor Velichansky Interesting problems of modern optics. III. 3. Optical knowledge competition We held a competition among the MEPhI students various faculties (there were three types of questions for humanitarian, physics, and cybernetics faculties) on solving various optical riddles. Laser pointers and LED flashlights and lamps were rewarded to the winners as a symbol of optics. After meeting some students decided to join our Chapter, so we have three new members. Alexander Sivak has been already registered. Photo 2. Sizykh Iliya reports about Femtosecond fiber Er 3+ laser for He-Ne/CH 4 frequency standard. II. 4 MEPhI SPIE on the web. We have designed the first version of the MEPhI SPIE web site. In addition, we have got hosting on mephi.ru domain, but due to technical problems, the web page is available on temporally. We plan to move to the soon. 3

101 III. Planned activities. 1. We have started a Review of modern optics and photonics with the lecture of our adviser Velichansky Some interesting problems of modern optics (see details above). Now we plan to go on with other lectures that concern hot topics of optics. Planned Invited Speakers are: 1) Alexei Jeltikov Photonic Crystals 2) Sergey Kulik Quantum cryptography 3) Victor Balykin Laser cooling of neutral atoms 4) SergeyVyatchanin Gravitation waves detection 5) Oleg Sarkisov Femto-second processes in molecular systems 6) Yuriy Golubev Magnetic control of the light group velocity 7) Petr Krukov Femto-second lasers. 8) Nikolay Kolachevsky Studying of fine structure constant changing via Hydrogen spectroscopy 9) Anatoliy Masalov Squeezed states of light 10) Valeriy Yakovlev Quantum computing. 11) Alexander Bogatov Dynamics of semiconductor lasers. 12) Eugene Pojidaev Liquid crystals. 2. Designing the Web-portal of the chapter. Upgrading web-site is necessary. 3. Optics and Photonics news in MEPhI posters We plan to post every 10 days a Photonics news poster with the latest major, interesting science and technology news. 4. Lebedev Physical Institute laboratories tour. On the third course of study students have to choose their specialization (e.g. condensed matter physics, modeling physics processes, optics, laser physics) and a laboratory, where there are going to study until the final diploma project. Usually some active students visit several labs and make their choice. We plan to organize a tour to a dozen Lebedev Physical Institute laboratories. Before it, we will announce about this event many laboratories, so they will have an opportunity to get ready for such visit (it should be noticed that this is a great chance for a lab to pick up some gifted and workaholic students). There is an idea to make a simple contest of the best lab presentation. 5. Creating MEPhI SPIE Optics and Photonics Library. In the beginning of the study year we plan to purchase some useful books (we are thinking of Quantum optics (Scully), Laser cooling (Metcalf)). 4

102 IV. Finance part: Income: activity grant: $1100 Total Income:.$1100 Outcome: Telecommunications:. $13,7 Meeting advertisement:..$54 Meeting badges:.$22 Meeting snacks:..$71,9 Optical competition prizes:.. $24,5 Mail service: $68 Bank commission: $11 Total Outcome:...$265,1 Ending balance:.. $835 V. Conclusion. After been established in January we have done chapter presentation in MEPhI, three members have got SPIE scholarships 2006, web-site have been developed, Review of modern optics and photonics has been started, an optics knowledge competition has been carried out, three new members are recruited. 5

103 Student Chapters 2006 Bi-Annual Report May 15th 2006 Montréal SPIE Student Chapter, Quebec, Canada We started the creation of our chapter early last April. Thus far, our members include: Aref Bakhtazad Stéphane Larouche Yannick Lize Sébastien Besner Dongwook Cho Paul Ndione Fulvio Ratto Etienne Boulais Paul Boyer Maguelonne Héritier Louis Jay Yasaman Soudagar François Busque Benoit Sévigny Jérôme Poulin Li Fanxin Félix Bussière Bill Baloukas David Rioux Our very first meeting was held on April 27th, In this meeting, by elections, we determined the executive members to be: President: François Busque ) Vice President: Sébastien Besner Secretary: Yasaman Soudagar Treasurer: Jérôme Poulin We decided on the following activities till January 2007: a) Creation of website. b) Networking between members and getting to know each other's research by giving talks: This work is already initiated and we hope to have our first talk in late May. c) Inviting speakers, organizing workshops and lab visits: A workshop is being organized in collaboration with the OSA Student chapter at Ecole Polytechnique de Montréal. It will be held some time within summer 2006 (the exact date to be determined). The duration of the workshop is two days and it is geared towards senior undergraduate and early graduate students. The purpose is to familiarize students with different topics in optics to help them choose their research subject according to their interest. To reach this objective, there will be four invited speakers, each of whom is specialized in a different field of optics and will give a 3 hour introductory lecture on the main concepts of that field. The experimental workshops, in which students gain practical knowledge of a number of specific experimental techniques, will be held each day after the theoretical sessions. During this time students will gain the opportunity to visit different laboratories and learn about the kind of research being carried on in each of these labs. d) Recruitment: (1) SPIE publicity inside universities. (2) Organizing SPIE day (3) Introducing SPIE in classes (4) Setting up a SPIE Kiosk during the initiation week

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105 Annual Student Chapter Report Person Completing Form/Contact: Panov Nikolay Name of Chapter: SPIE Student Chapter of M.V. Lomonosov Moscow State University Names and addresses of Chapter Officers: President: Nikolay A. Panov Vice President: Igor A. Perezhogin Treasurer: Dormidonov Alexander Secretary: Vladimir Yu. Fedorov Faculty Advisor: Olga Kosareva Number of members in Chapter: 35 Chapter activities since June 2005: Accomplished chapter activities for the period from June 2004 till June 2005: 1. June 18, Detailed planning of the visit of Prof. Malgorzata Kujawinska, 2005 SPIE President. 2. June 22, of 31 Student Chapter members headed by Prof. V. Makarov, Director of the International Laser Center of MSU, Faculty Advisor Dr. O. Kosareva and the Chapter president N. Panov hosted Prof. Malgorzata Kujawinska, 2005 SPIE President, and Executive Director of SPIE Eugene Arthurs accompanied by Executive Director of SPIE Russian Chapter Prof. Edmund Akopov. The honored visitors came to Lomonosov Moscow State University to give a talk and to communicate with the representatives of Moscow and St-Petersburg student chapters. The meeting finished with lively discussions which took place during a banquet for all the participants of the meeting. Prof. Kujawinska and Prof. Eugene Arthurs were in the middle of the crowd answering a great number of students questions. MSU and guest students were extremely thankful for such communication. 3. August 13 17, Vladimir Militsin (thanks to full financial support of SPIE) and Alexei Belyakov participated in Optics and Photonics 2005 conference held at San Diego, California, USA. Vladimir Militsin made oral presentation of his scientific results at Atmospheric Optical Modeling, Measurement, and Simulation and participated in the exhibition with the poster presentation on the activity of MSU SPIE Student Chapter. Alexei Belyakov presented his experimental setup on studying the human eye aberrations and made oral presentation at Advanced Wavefront Control: Methods, Devices and Applications III. 4. August 28 September 2, Ph.D. students of the Chair of Oscillations Physics Yurii Dobrolenskii and Natalia Polikarpova, took part in the International Congress on Optics and Optoelectronics (Warsaw, August 28 September 2, 2005) devoted to the 50 th anniversary of SPIE. They made their presentations at the session on Acousto-optics and Photoacoustics. The presentation of Natalia Polikarpova was recognized as the best presentation of the International Congress. Yurii Dobrolenskii participated in SPIE Student Chapter Integration Meeting organized by SPIE Student Chapter of Warsaw University of Technology. Natalia Polikarpova took part in SPIE Women in Optics Dinner, the event which took place during the International Congress. 5. September 27, The Chapter meeting devoted to the activity planned for the period September December 2005: visiting Young Opticians meeting, participation

106 in the IVth International Conference for Young Scientists and Specialists Optics 2005 held in St. Petersburg, organizing reception for the undergraduates, organizing Workshop devoted to the anniversary of the Chair of Wave Processes; discussion on the items to be included in the new website. 6. September 27 30, Ph.D. student Mikhail Kirillin took part in the annual Saratov Fall Meeting conference (Saratov, Russia). He presented the results of his study on non-invasive methods of blood oxygenation sensing in the section Optical Technologies in Biophysics and Medicine. In the frames of the conference Mikhail Kirillin participated in the meeting with former and present members of Saratov State University SPIE Student Chapter and discussed with them modern problems in biophotonics September, Fifteen people from MSU Student Chapter under the leadership of Nikolay Panov, the Chapter President, participated in Young Opticians Meeting 2005 held at Moscow Institute of Transportation Engineers. This event was a great possibility to exchange the very different experience between Moscow and Armenian Student Chapters. At this meeting MSU Student Chapter suggested two directions of collaboration between the Chapters: website tools development, such as Resume Wizard accessible internationally to all Student Chapters; development and exchange of computerized lecture courses in different areas of optics October, Participation in the IVth International Conference for Young Scientists and Specialists Optics 2005 held in St. Petersburg. The Chapter students Nikolay Panov, Elena Kachan, Alexander Grigoryevskii, Alexander Dormidonov, Alexei Bezborodov, gave their talks at the conference. Alexei Bezborodov received the 1 st prize for the best talk of the session. SPIE Student Chapter President Nikolay Panov reported on the recent Chapter activities at the Chapter meeting held in the frameworks of the conference October, Nikolay Panov, Vladimir Militsin, Vladimir Fedorov, Alexander Dormidonov, Alexander Grigoryevskii organized welcome reception for the 3 d year undergraduate students planning to start specializing in optics. SPIE Student Chapter President Nikolay Panov gave an overview of the Chapter activities. The Chapter organized and sponsored the reception with soft drinks and snack for about 50 undergraduates. Extensive information about SPIE put on the posters in the reception hall helped the younger students to further understand and ask lots of questions about SPIE membership benefits. 10. November 11, Workshop and tutorials devoted to the celebration of the 40 th anniversary of the Chair of Wave processes. SPIE Chapter students were among the organizers of the Workshop. The two-day meeting consisted of about 20 short tutorials and review talks delivered by the former honored graduates from the Chair addressed to the student audience. These honored graduates either come specially from abroad as Prof. Boris Zhdanov, USA, or arrived from different institutions, as the correspondent member of the Russian Academy of science Prof. Panchenko. Among the lecturers there was a guest speaker from China Prof. Dan Zhu from the Key Laboratory of Administrator of Education of China, Huazhong University of Science and Technology. 11. September 2005 June 2006: Construction of the new Chapter website with the new design and resume wizard, which can be filled and/or downloaded by SPIE student

107 chapters all over the world. During the period January June 2006 the new website feature was introduced: when clicking on the member name at the page the picture of the Chapter member appears. 12. April 26, 2006: SPIE Student Chapter meeting was held. 16 chapter members were present: Vladimir Militsin, Vladimir Fedorov, Perezhogin Igor, Khokhlova Tatyana, Mikhail Kirillin, Pavel Bokov, Kachan Elena, Dormidonov Alexander, Zabotnov Stanislav, Ostapenko Irina, Piskunov Nikolay, Dobrolenskiy Yury, Krutkova Elena, Bezborodov Alexey, Murtazin Ildar, Mitrokhin Vladimir. Two important questions were discussed: i) re-election of the student chapter office: since Nikolay Panov leadership was very fruitful, it was decided that he preserves his president position for half a year. The same situation is with Igor Perezhogin. Vladimir Fedorov retained his secretary position. A new office member, Alexander Dormidonov, the first year PhD student, was introduced into the Chapter as a Treasurer instead of Vladimir Militsin. ii) organizing and detailed event planning for the Second International Laser Graduate School «Modern Problems of Laser Physics» to be held in Moscow Region (Protvino), October 10-13, 2006, website This Graduate School is partially supported by SPIE and most of the Chapter members will be in the Organizing Committee of the event. The duties will be distributed among the responsibility centers as follows: - Olga Kosareva (advisor) and Nikolay Panov the overall coordination - Technical support: Vladimir Militsin, Vladimir Fedorov - program and abstracts: Mikhail Kirillin, Pavel Bokov - guest support: Kachan Elena, Dormidonov Alexander - Evening events and SPIE promotion action: Fedorov Vladimir, Khokhlova Tatyana, Panov Nikolay The duties, concerning each responsibility center, were carefully discussed and the students expressed their initiative in taking the responsibilities. The meeting was finalized late in the evening with informal discussion and soft drinks with snacks. Conferences Conference European Conference on Biomedical Optics ECBO-2005 (Munich, Germany, June 2005) "VIII International conference Optical Methods of Flow Investigation" (Moscow, Russia, 28 June 1 July, 2005) International conference Photonics West (31 July 4 August 2005, San-Diego, USA) NWP-2005 Topical Problems of Non-Linear Wave Physics (St.Petersburg Nizhny Novgorod, Russia, 2 9 August 2005) International Congress on Optics and Optoelectronics COO-2005 (Warsaw, Poland, 28 August 2 September 2005) International Conference Applications of Lasers in Technology ALT 05 (Tianjin, China, 3 6 September 2005) "2nd International Conference on Advanced Member(s) Alexey Belyakov, Alexey Popov, Mikhail Kirillin Alexander Bykov, Mikhail Kirillin Alexey Belyakov, Vladimir Militsin Daria Uryupina Yury Dobrolensky, Natalya Polikarpova Alexey Popov, Alexander Bykov Yury Dobrolensky

108 Optoelectronics and Lasers" CAOL-2005 (Yalta, Ukraine, September 2005) IX International School on Optics, Physics and Biophysics: Saratov Fall Meeting 2005 (Saratov, Russia, September 2005) The International Conference Micro- and nanoelectronics 2005 ICMNE-2005 (Zvenigorod, Russia, 3 7 October 2005) The International Conference of Young Scientists and Specialists Optics-2005 (St.- Petersburg, Russia, October 2005) The International conference for students and young scientists Lomonosov 2006 (Moscow, Russia, 14 April 2006) Our grants and awards: Mikhail Kirillin, Andrey Lugovtsov Pavel Bokov Elena Kachan, Alexander Dormidonov, Alexander Grigorievski, Alexei Bezborodov 11 Chapter students The talk by Elena Kachan and Vladimir Militsin The effect of aerosol layer thickness on the filament formation was awarded the first prize at the section Optics of conference Lomonosov Vladimir Fedorov received SPIE Student Chapter Officer Travel Grant SPIE Educational Scholarship in Optical Science and Engineering: Polikarpova Nataliya, Krutkova Elena, Serebriannikov Evgeniy, and Popov Alexey. Nikolay Panov received the Moscow prize for the excellent scientific activity (one among approximately 100 best PhD students studying all kinds of natural sciences in Moscow) The presentation of Natalia Polikarpova was recognized as the best presentation of the International Congress on Optics and Optoelectronics (Warsaw, August 28 September 2, 2005). Alexei Bezborodov received the 1 st prize for the best talk of the session at the IVth International Conference for Young Scientists and Specialists Optics 2005 held in St. Petersburg Oct , Did you use any of your chapter funds? Project/Activity Description: Amount: Funds spent in the calendar year Total amount received $1350 (January 2005) 1 2 Website support 100 Soft drinks and snacks 80 Total 180 Comment The practice of our Chapter is receiving the funds in January and spending them within a calendar year.

109 Polikarpova Nataliya Kirillin Mikhail Konorov Stanislav Vladimirova Yulia Militsin Vladimir Fedorov Vladimir Kouzminsky Leonard Panov Nikolay Perezhogin Igor Popov Alexey Uryupina Daria Zabotnov Stanislav Bokov Pavel Serebriannikov Evgeniy Khokhlova Tatyana Mel'nikov Vassili Mitrokhin Vladimir Krutkova Elena Dobrolenskiy Yury Belyakov Alexey Lugovtsov Andrei Kachan Elena Vorobiev Alexey Makarov Ivan Rykovanov Sergey Bezborodov Alexey Bolshakov Victor Bykov Alexander Dormidonov Alexander Grigorievskiy Alexander Zhigunov Denis Sterjantov Alexey Murtazin Ildar Ostapenko Irina Piskunov Nikolay Current members list

110 News and Activities of SPIE National Taiwan University Student Chapter By Yu-Xian Yan President of SPIE NTU student chapter SPIE NTU student chapter have organized 20 talks in last six months. Speakers from Japan (3), USA (2), China (2), Singapore (1), Australia (1) and local (11) universities or institutes are invited. Audiences and participants of these talks are ranged from 30 to 50. Many students and professors from NTU or near by universities attended those talks. Two members of our chapter, Hung Ji Huang and Tai Chi Chu received the "Best Poster Award" from The Physical Society of Taiwan on January 18, Shih Kai Lin, a member of our chapter won the The best poster award from 26th annual symposium of Microscopy Society of Taiwan on June 26, Prof. Din Ping Tsai, the advisor of our chapter, received the "Outstanding Achievement Award in Science and Technology" from The Exective Yuan of Republic of China on January 10, SPIE NTU student chapter has passed the rigorous annual club contest and awarded the Grade-A student Club out of 70 other student clubs on May 21, Honor: Certificate of Grade-A Club Photo of SPIE NTU club on exhibition

111 List of talks and photos: Date: 2006/02/08 Speaker: Prof. Pin Han (National Chung Hsing University, Taiwan) Title: Far-Field-Spectral-Intensity-Characteristics of a Time-Dependent Gaussian Pulse from Two Types of Apodized Slits Photos of activity: Date: 2006/02/08 Speaker: Dr. Juen-Kai Wang (Academia Sinica, Taiwan) Title: Nanoprobe Enhanced Optical Spectroscopy: Development and Applications Photos of activity: Date: 2006/02/27 Speaker: Prof. Shih-Hui Chang (National Cheng-Kung University, Taiwan) Title: 3D FDTD Study on Surface Plasmons in Metal Nanostructures Photos of activity:

112 Date: 2006/02/27 Speaker: Prof. Kuan-Ren Chen (National Cheng-Kung University, Taiwan) Title: Focusing of Light at Sub Wavelength Scale Photos of activity: Date: 2006/02/28 Speaker: Dr. Florian Formanek (Nanophotonic Lab, RIKEN, Japan) Title: Fabrication of 3D Metallic Nano/Microstructures by Two Photon Polymerization for Metamaterials Photos of activity: Date: 2006/03/20 Speaker: Prof. Yang-Ming Lu (Kun Shan University, Taiwan) Title: Preparation of Oxide Films and Their Applications Photos of activity:

113 Date: 2006/03/21 Speaker: Prof. Francis. T. S. Yu (Pennsylvania State University, USA) Title: Holography: Origin, Development, and Beyond Photos of activity: Date: 2006/03/24 Speaker: Dr. Yia-Chung Chang (Academia Sinica, Taiwan) Title: Simulation for Optical Properties of Nano structures Photos of activity: Date: 2006/03/24 Speaker: Prof. Shang-Yuan Ren (Peking University, China) Title: Electronic States In Crystals of Finite Size and Quantum Confinement of Bloch Waves: Two Closely Related Fundamental Problems in Modern Physics Photos of activity:

114 Date: 2006/05/01 Speaker: Dr. James Chon (Swinburne University of Technology, Australia) Title: Three Dimensions Optical Data Storage Under Two-photon Excitation Photos of activity: Date: 2006/05/05 Speaker: Prof. Yung-Chiang Lan (National Cheng Kung University, Taiwan) Title: Plasmonics and Application Photos of activity: Date: 2006/05/05 Speaker: Prof. Sheng Chung Chen (Far East College, Taiwan) Title: The Optical Properties and Applications of Silver Nanorods Photos of activity:

115 Date: 2006/05/26 Speaker: Prof. Ta-Jen Yen (National Tsing Hua University, Taiwan) Title: Engineering Electromagnetic Metamaterials Photos of activity: Date: 2006/05/26 Speaker: Prof. Pi-Gang Luan (National Central University, Taiwan) Title: Transmission Characteristics of Finite Periodic Dielectric Waveguides Photos of activity: Date: 2006/06/7 Speaker: Prof. Joshua Le-Wei Li (National Singapore University, Singapore) Title: Design and Synthesis of Metamaterials from Micro- to Nano-Structure Photos of activity:

116 Date: 2006/06/19~2006/06/22 Speaker: Dr. Takeo Ohta (Energy Conversion Devices Inc., USA) Title: Phase Change Memory Technologies Photos of activity: Date: 2006/06/23 Speaker: Prof. Dau-Chyrh Chang (DaYah University, Taiwan) Title: Antenna Measurement Technique. Photos of activity: Date: 2006/06/23 Speaker: Prof. Linfang Shen (Zhejiang University, China) Title: Studies on Simulation and Design of Photonic Crystals Photos of activity:

117 Date: 2006/06/26 Speaker: Dr. Takayuki Okamoto (Nanophotonic Lab, RIKEN, Japan) Title: Plasmonic Crystals and Their Applications to Emission Devices Photos of activity: Date: 2006/06/26 Speaker: Dr. Jun-ichi Kato (Nanophotonic Lab, RIKEN, Japan) Title: Plasmonics on Metallic Nano-structures Concept of Image Transfer with Multi-layered Slabs and Nanorod-array FDTD Simulations for Both of Models Photos of activity:

118 Report on SPIE NCU Student Chapter Activities Jun 15, Chapter Officers Chapter President Mr. Chien-Cheng Kuo Chapter Vice-President Mr. Te-Hung Chang Chapter Secretary Miss Ya-Yun Cheng Chapter Treasurer Mr. Ching-Yang Lin Chapter Advisor Prof. Cheng-Chung Lee Total Student Members: 12 Name Expires Mr. Te-Hung Chang Feb Dr. Sheng-Hui Chen Feb Miss Ya-Yun Cheng Feb Dr. Fan-Ching Chien Feb Mr. Hung-Ta Chien Feb Mr. Hua-Kung Chiu Feb Dr. Jyh-Wei Hsu Jun Mr. Chien-Cheng Kuo Feb Mr. Xuan-Hao Lee Jul Mr. Ching-Yang Lin Feb Mr. Chien-Jen Tang Feb Mr. Kai Wu Aug

119 In recent years, the optics products are more and more important in daily life, ex liquid crystal TV, projector, LED light, solar cell, CD-ROM driver even reaches the optics mouse. The optics products have already taken the fancy of people gradually; its application is broader in the future, such as communication, information, biochemistry, medical treatment, industry, and energy. This forum held in the National Central University in Taiwan, is sponsored by the Taiwan Chapter and the National Central University SPIE student's Chapter. In order to improve optical engineering research and technology, this forum will probe the developing at present and newest technical development of optical engineering; specially invite eight members (Fellow) in Taiwan of SPIE to participate in the conference. The fellows had Dr. Arthur Chiou, Dr. Burn J. Lin, Professor Ci-Ling Pan and Professor Ken Y. Hsu. The topics are Biomedical Applications of Optical Trapping and Manipulation, The Outlook of Microlithography, Recent Progress in Liquid Crystal THz Optics and Holography and Optical Data Storage. We had a discussion to talk to the fellows after seminar. Figure 1 was a group photo after the meeting. Figure 2 was the situation in the meeting. Figure 3 was the poster. We hope that can improve and condense the energy that Taiwan study in optics with this seminar, and bring the international optical engineering society (SPIE) into academia and industry, enable us to participate in the discussion of the international optics domain, strengthen academy and industry's competitiveness of our country. Fig.1 Fig.2 We obtained the funding from SPIE about 700 dollars and used in the meeting. In the summer, we will invite Dr. Macleod to give us a short talk. So we apply the funding to support the activity.

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121 Person completing form/contact: Anna Szkulmowska Name of Chapter: SPIE Student Chapter at Nicolaus Copernicus University in Torun STUDENT CHAPTER REPORT JANUARY MAY dranna@phys.uni.torun.pl Number of Members in Chapter: 32 Names and addresses of Chapter Officers: President: Anna Szkulmowska, dranna@phys.uni.torun.pl Vice President: Michalina Gora, misia@ phys.uni.torun.pl Secretary: Wojciech Fojt, wfojt@phys.uni.torun.pl Treasurer: Krzysztof Wlodarczyk, s189235@phys.uni.torun.pl Coordinator of Educational Projects: Bartosz Krajnik, reggiss@poczta.onet.pl Chapter activities since last report (meetings held, invited lectures, tutoring etc.): WORKING MEETINGS: March, April 2006 The build-up to the upcoming Science and Art Festival 6 March 2006 We met to check the progress in preparations to the Festival of Art and Science, Chapter members gave reports on realization of their tasks. CONTACTS WITH OTHER STUDENT CHAPTERS SPIE January 2006 Dawid Piatkowski visited Technical University in Wroclaw and the Student Chapter SPIE in Wroclaw where he gave a lecture: Excited-state absorption spectroscopy of Rare Earths 1-2 February 2006 Artur Podhorodecki a member of Student Chapter SPIE Technical University in Wroclaw visited our chapter in Torun and gave a talk: Photoreflectance investigations of intermixing processes in InGaAsP/InGaAsP quantum wells laser structures 8-9 March 2006 Slawomir Drobczynski from Student Chapter SPIE Technical University in Wroclaw visited our students in Torun and gave a talk: Imaging polarimetry with carrier frequency May 2006 Three members Wojciech Fojt, Jacek Drzycimski and Mariusz Pawlak went to SPIE meeting in Technical University in Wroclaw. They gave a lecture on "Stark Effect in hydrogen", "Spectroscopic properties new glass material CGGG(3CaO-Ga2O3-3GeO2) doped holmium ions" and talked about new techniques in nanotechnology in fotoluminescence crystal structure. They met students from SPIE Student Chapter in Lvov (Ukraine).

122 OTHER EVENTS April TH TORUŃ SCIENCE AND ART FESTIVAL Our Chapter prepared two big projects Unbelievable and " Va banque with the police". Both workshops enjoyed popularity first 2 days were only for school groups (all together more than 1200 students), the next 2 days for individual visitors and other organized groups (more than 800 people). - Unbelievable 20 surprising experiments in physics like: Heron's Fountain, Gaussian Gun, Vacuum Cannon, Human Cell, Bolting Suitcase and many, many others. - " Va banque with the police" workshop for future burglars (prowling in a laser tunnel, how to prepare vanishing ink, etc.) special agents (what can you see using hidden security cameras, thermovision camera or UV, what can you hear using interception, etc.) and policemen ;-) 18 May 2006 Meeting of Chapter members with the Science and Art Festival Committee. The authorities of our Department officially thanked us for our participation in the 6th Toruń Science and Art Festival and presented us with diplomas signed by the Head of our University. Celebration a success of our 2 festival projects a party. "Meetings in the optics laboratory" Our lab-meetings still continued. CONFERENCES JANUARY 2006, PHOTONICS WEST, SAN JOSE, CALIFORNIA 1. Quantitative analysis of photoreceptor layer in macular pathologies with threedimensional spectral optical coherence tomography - A. Szkulmowska, T. Bajraszewski, I. Gorczyńska, M. Szkulmowski, P. Targowski, A. Kowalczyk, M. Wojtkowski Conference plans for the nearest future: 12TH CONFERENCE ON LASER OPTICS, 26-30JUNE 2006, ST. PETERSBURG, RUSSIA 1. Varnish Ablation Control by Optical Coherence Tomography - M. Góra, A. Rycyk, J. Marczak, P. Targowski 2. Optical Coherence Tomography for Parchment Degradation Examination - M. Góra, M. Pircher, T. Bajraszewski, M. Strlic, J. Kolar, Ch. K. Hitzenberger, P. Targowski 3. Optical Coherence Tomography for Tracing of Canvas Deformation - P. Targowski, M. Góra, T. Bajraszewski, M. Szkulmowski, B. Rouba, T. Łękawa-Wysłouch OPTICS & PHOTONICS, AUGUST 2006, SAN DIEGO, CALIFORNIA M.Góra is going for SPIE s Annual Meeting so she is going to attend the conference.

123 Future Chapter activities: We are planning to: - update our web page - arrange movie marathon - visit Laboratory of Optical Fibre Technology at Maria Curie-Skłodowska University in Lublin Did you use any of your Chapter funds? Yes Project/ Activity description: D.Piatkowski s visit in Wroclaw A.Podhorodecki s visit in Torun board during the 6 th Festival of Art and Science to come together If not, why? Amount: $ 60 $ 30 $190 $120

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132 Novosibirsk SPIE Student Chapter Report Novosibirsk State Technical University, Russia 6-th June List of current Student Chapter members 1 Apraksina Ekaterina apraksina@ngs.ru President 2 Basnak Dmitriy basnak@gmail.com Secretary 3 Bragnikov Denis x-kvant@ngs.ru 4 Gorinova Olga 5 Ignatovich Stepan antil@ngs.ru 6 Ivanenko Alexey iv_ivanenko@ngs.ru 7 Karanin Andrey alternativa86@mail.ru 8 Kravtsov Kirill 9 Makashov Evgeniy makashov@ngs.ru 10 Mamaev Alexey 11 Mazorenko Ivan marko_@inbox.ru Vice President 12 Pahomov Ivan vanya.fl-32@mail.ru 13 Palagin Konstantin k_palagin@ngs.ru Treasurer 14 Shcherbina Andrey andrye@gorodok.net 15 Strelnikov Evgeniy jackson_urban@mail.ru 16 Sytin Kirill sytin@ftf.nstu.ru 2 Details of Chapter activities since last report December April The 40-year's anniversary of our Physics-technical faculty was the important event of this period. All members SPIE Student Chapter participated in a student's conference " Days of science NSTU ". The reports on lasers, optics, laser systems were made.

133 Interesting device was made by the students and presented to faculty. This optical device, which creates in space an image of globe and tape of a greeting around of it. The author of this product is Stepan Ignatovich. The applied photo illustrates it. February 4, 2006 carries out general meeting Novosibirsk SPIE Student Chapter. We discussed the plan and results of activity of Chapter during the period since February till May The informal meeting with the professor Dmitriev A.K from institute of laser physics of the Siberian branch of an Academy of sciences was carried out.. March Professors Denejkin E А. had invite us in Holografy laboratory and has told about scientific researches in this area The purpose of this meeting was attraction of the students to this area of researches within the framework of the academic program NSTU. Apraksina Ekaterina, President Student Chapter, has told about a calendar of scientific conferences SPIE 2006 and about prospective trip on a conference in San Diego, August 12-17, May We have carried out the fourth informal assembly Student Chapter on a coast ours Obskoe sea. Here there were discussions about our practice in institutes of the Siberian branch of Russian Academy of Sciences and still we sang songs under accompaniment of a guitar. Details of the planned actions in the future: organization of a Student's scientific conference in memory of the academician V. Chebotaev. He is graduate ours university and the founder of the first gas laser in Siberia in the invitation of the professor Meshalkin Y, - chief of laboratory Laser Biophysics we shall visit the International Fair " Science in Siberia " which will be spent in Novosibirsk at the end of October, we also have agreed upon visit in International centre of science in Novosibirsk Academgorodok. Supporting our SPIE Student Chapter web-page located at spie.ftf.nstu.ru 3. Names and addresses of elected Officers

134 President Apraksina Ekaterina Vice President Mazorenko Ivan Secretary Basnak Dmitriy Treasurer Palagin Konstantin Professor V. Pokasov Novosibirsk SPIE Student Chapter's Adviser SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering Tel: vpokasov@ngs.ru

135 Stepan Ignatovich Ekaterina Apraksina is the President of Novosibirsk SPIE Student Chapter

136 The students in institute of laser physics

137 Bi-Annual Report of activity in 2006 SPIE student chapter at National Technical University of Ukraine Kiev Polytechnical Institute, Kiev, Ukraine The goal of the SPIE student chapter is exchange and distribution of information about optics, photonics and imaging. The following activities have been organized and realized in 2006: 1. Organization of meetings of the SPIE student chapter on regular base. 2. Participating and presentation of scientific reports in the scientific conference - Instrument- Making 2006, Kiev, Ukraine - April, 25-26, Demonstration of one video-course and one CD-course for students and professors using SPIE educational materials located at SPIE-Ukraine headquarters. 4. Visiting technical and educational exhibitions including Enlightenment-2006, Light-2006, Electronic components-2006, Laboratory Equipment-2006, Kiev. OpticsTech-2006, Control and measurement devices and automatics and etc. 5. Development of the student WEB-site that has won the third place among ukrainian student WEB-sites. 6. Working with SPIE publications at SPIE-Ukraine headquarters. Advisor of the SPIE Student Chapter at the National Technical University President of the SPIE Student Chapter at the National Technical University Dr / Prof Volodymyr Borovytsky Galyna Gaivoronska

138 Plan of activity in 2006 SPIE student chapter at National Technical University of Ukraine Kiev Polytechnical Institute, Kiev, Ukraine In 2006 the efforts of SPIE student chapter will be concentrated on initialization of small student research projects in optical science and optical engineering. It helps to make information exchange more effective and motivated. These projects will be presented on SPIE conferences that can also stimulate students to activity in Optics and Photonics. 1. Participation in SPIE conferences. 2. Organization of competition for the best student project in optics, photonics and imaging in December, The winner projects will be presented at site of the chapter. 3. Creation with help of students of two educational courses devoted to digital imaging systems and testing of holographical elements. 4. Presentation of SPIE educational materials like videocourses, courses on CD, SPIE books and magazines to students on regular base. 5. Visiting the exhibitions devoted to or connected with optical instruments, optical measurements and their applications in industry, communication and daily life. 6. Development of bilingual WEB site of the chapter. Advisor of the SPIE Student Chapter at the National Technical University President of the SPIE Student Chapter at the National Technical University Dr/Prof Volodymyr Borovytsky Galyna Gaivoronska

139 3201 Campus Drive, Klamath Falls, OR phone To: From: Dirk Fabian Student Services Coordinator SPIE SPIE Student Chapter (a.k.a. "Laser Club") Oregon Institute of Technology Date: June 5, 2006 Regarding: End-of-Academic-Year Report The following is a synopsis of the year's activities for the Oregon Institute of Technology SPIE Student Chapter for academic year. During fall term of 2005, some students in Electronics Engineering Technology indicated that they would like to have a formal on-campus club to help promote their interests in optoelectronics. Known as the "Laser Club", the group of students had meetings to determine the direction the club would like to take and activities the club would like to participate in. Laser Club members decided to join SPIE and form a student chapter. The club has been active during this academic year and, in addition to organizing events to further their optics education and capabilities, has also participated in events to benefit OIT and the community. The first Laser Club activity was building a portable fiber optic displacement sensor for an in-house demonstration. The sensor was used for a Career Explorations class here on campus to highlight Optics as a career. Electronics Engineering Technology professors Andy Sedlock and Nancy Kincheloe were the presenters for the class. Laser Club members participated in "I'm going to college" in April and again in May. They participated in an hour long presentation of experiments in both electronics and fiber optics for local area 6 th graders. Laser Club gave a Cub Scout tour to cub scouts, parents and troop leader of optics labs and experiments currently in progress in the labs. Laser Club participated in spring term OIT open house, demonstrating a laser/optical fiber coupling to a video and audio system. In addition to the above activities, the Laser Club has participated in two field trips. In January, the Laser Club attended Photonics West in San Jose, CA. In May, the Laser Club and the IEEE Club made a trip to Portland OR to visit optics and electronics companies. Currently, all Laser Club members are students in the Electronics Engineering Technology department, although this is not a requirement. Any OIT student with an interest in optics and optoelectronics is welcomed and encouraged to join. This year, the Laser Club members have enjoyed their interaction with OIT and the community, from Cub Scouts to recruiting potential students to sharing their enjoyment of technology with the Career Explorations class and looks forward to more involvement next academic year.

140 PhotoBears U. C. Berkeley Student Chapter of the SPIE Bi-Annual Report May 12, Current Members Name Member Number Daniel Ceperley Yibin Tian Jie Yao pending Wojtek Poppe Marshall Miller pending Paul Friedberg Jing Xue Eric Chin Juliet Holwill Greg McIntyre Qiaolin Zhang pending 2. Chapter Activities This student chapter was founded in January. Consequently, activities this semester have been directed at getting the chapter up and running. We held a kickoff luncheon on April 7 th to raise awareness of the student chapter on campus and to recruit members and assistance for future chapter activities. Twenty people attended representing groups from Vision Science, Mechanical Engineering, and Electrical Engineering and Computer Science (EECS). Over lunch we discussed slides detailing the research efforts of each group and future plans for the student chapter. The chapter s first elections were held on May 12 with the results detailed in the Officers section of this report. Finally, a website was created at which we plan to develop into a bulletin board for announcing optics related seminars and research on campus. 3. Planned Activities

141 The primary focus of the chapter is starting a general interest optics seminar series by both directly inviting speakers and by co-sponsoring lectures with other student organizations and research groups. The officers come from EECS, Vision Science, and Mechanical engineering creating a broad base of support which will be beneficial to recruiting speakers. To support this effort we will also be developing our website to both promote optics seminars on campus and to link together the different optics research groups. Early in the fall semester, we plan to hold a Research Opportunities in Optics meeting to direct incoming graduate students interested in optics to the appropriate research groups. We also intend to reach out to undergraduates by hosting recruitment sessions for industry and graduate schools in conjunction with the seminar series, alerting undergraduates to general interest optics seminars, and helping them to find optics related research projects. 4. Financial Information No funds were raised this year. The chapter s faculty sponsor, Prof. Andrew Neureuther, graciously paid for the lunches for our kickoff luncheon on April 7 with his own funding. 5. Officers The chapter s first elections were held on May 12 and the following members were elected: President: Daniel Ceperley (EECS), ceperley@eecs.berkeley.edu Vice-President: Yibin Tian (Vision Science), ybtian@berkeley.edu Secretary: Jie Yao (Mechanical Engineering), yaojie@berkeley.edu Treasurer: Wojtek Poppe (EECS), poppej@eecs.berkeley.edu

142 Student Chapter Report Person Completing Form/Contact: Yana Williams Name of Chapter: Penn State University SPIE Student Chapter Number of members in Chapter: 21 Names and addresses of Chapter Officers: President: Yana Williams Vice President: Michael Stinger Treasurer: Shaoying Kang Secretary: Eftihia Vlahos Chapter activities since last report: (meetings held, invited lectures, tutoring, etc.) *01/30/2006: SPIE-PSU Student Chapter Officer meeting. Year long planning for Chapter Activities and Outreach programs *02/28/2006: SPIE-PSU Student Chapter participated in the Engineering Open House activity. SPIE members introduced basic optics to about 200 high school students and their parents. *03/01/2006: SPIE-PSU Student Chapter general meeting and presentation of Optical Demos for the Outreach Program *04/26/2006: Dr. Qi Li (Physics Department, Pennsylvania State University) gave an invited lecture on "Pulsed laser deposition of multifunctional complex materials". *April 26, 2006: Officer Annual Election. Chapter Officers of 2006 are: Chapter President: Mr. Michael Stinger Chapter Vice-President: Mr. Shaoying Kang Chapter Secretary: Mr. Justin Liou Chapter Treasurer: Miss Eftihia Vlahos Chapter Advisor: Dr. Andres Diaz *April 27: Sponsorship of EE414 Lasers: Principles and Applications Final Projects presentation

143 Future Chapter activities: *Outreach Activities to local high schools in Pennsylvania *Field trip to Applied Research Lab in Pittsburg, PA *Invited Lectures, from Penn State University and outside companies / institutions *Increase / improve recruiting of new members Did you use any of your chapter funds? Project/Activity Description: Snack food for meetings, van rentals, travel expenditures for speakers Amount: ~$ If possible please attach a current member list or fax to: Dirk Fabian Student Services Coordinator SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering Tel: Fax: dirkf@spie.org

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146 SPIE Chapter Report Shanghai Jiao Tong Univ. Chapter May. 2006

147 Member List Name Expires Mr. Changsi Cai Mar Mr. Vincent Cazenave Mar Dr. Sheng Cheng Jun Mr. Yinghui Li Mar Mr. Zhiqiang Li Mar Mr. Zhenhua Liao Mar Mr. Huaxu Liu Mar Mr. Jingbo Ma Mar Mr. Yuzhao Ma Mar Mr. Yunkun Tian Mar Mr. Cheng Wang Mar Ms. Zheng Xue Mar Mr. Kun Yang Mar Miss Qian Yang Mar Miss Zhiping Yao Mar Mr. Lei Yu Mar Mr. Wei Yu Mar Miss Wenjuan Yu Mar Mr. Leilei Zhang Mar Mr. Ying Zhao Mar Mr. Chuanqing Zhou Mar Mr. Yang Zhou Mar

148 Chapter History established April Officers President: QiLi Vice President: ShengVikCheng Secretary: HuayongGe Treasurer: HaiboZhou hand over and take over Officers President: KailaiLiang Vice President: TaojiongWu Secretary: Shigangwei Treasurer: Jianxiashao Officers President: Chuanqing Zhou Vice President: Huaxu Liu Secretary: Zhiping Yao Treasurer: Huaxu Liu

149 Details of Chapter Activities

150 Current Activities Mar Hold Ping-pong game among the chapter members

151 Current Activities Guest lecture Time: Mar 25th 2006 Place: Institute for lasermedicine Biophotonics Speaker: Prof. Jiping He Topic: Adaptation and Plasticity in CorticalControl of Reach and Grasp

152 Current Activities Chapter Meeting Time: April 15, 2006 Place: Institute for laser medicine & Biophotonics During this meeting, we reported the development of our work andoutlined the possible directions in the future of his or her subjects respectively. Since most students are in different work shops and this is a good opportunity for them to broaden their views in science.

153 Current Activities Attendance of Meeting of the National Basic Research Program of China Time: May 14th 2006 Place: Dong Fang Green Island in Shanghai Topic: the rehabilitation of the Retina Number of Students: 2

154 Current Activities May.20th 2006 The delegation from Holland came to visit the Institute for laser medicine & Biophotonics

155 Following Activities visit more fellow institute in China and communicate with the students and directors communicate with and visit other student chapters in China More More

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157 Taurida National V.Vernadky University Vernadsky av 4 Simferopol, 95007, Crimea, Ukraine Annual Report of SPIE TNU Student Chapter Chapter Leaders President: Izdebskaya Yana Vice President: Nataliya V. Shostka Treasurer: Yevheniy Yu. Semuk Secretary: Andrey V. Klimukh List of all current student members of SPIE Student Chapter of Taurida National V. Vernandsky University: 1. Yana V. Izdebskaya 2. Nataliya V. Shostka 3. Alexander F. Rubass 4. Yevheniy Yu. Semuk 5. Sergey I. Lagunov 6. Dmitry V. Solodovnichenko 7. Yaroslav S. Kachin 8. Sergey V. Hablenko 9. Kirilo I. Kotlyariv 10. Dmitry V. Shmelev 11. Luiza Z. Mavlutalieva 12. Anna O. Romanova 13. Ivan A. Ostovskiy 14. Andrey V. Klimukh 15. Babichev Ye. Yevheniy

158 Activities Completed: Students of our SPIE Chapter took part at international conferences ( ): 1. Olympiad "Computer modeling-2005" on May 17-21, 2005, Crimea, Ukraine (Sergey Lagunov). 2. Annual Young Student s Conference Singular Optics on April 12-16, 2005, Simferopol, Ukraine (all students of TNU SPIE Chapter) th Annual Meeting SPIE / Optics and Photonics on 30 July - 06 August, 2005, San Diego, CA, USA (Yana Izdebskaya) th OSA Annual Meeting/ Frontiers in Optics on October, 2005, Tucson, AZ, USA (Yana Izdebskaya), 5. Correlation Optics 2005 on September 6-9, 2005, Chernivci, Ukraine//The analysis of the vertical and mode structure after the fiber (Kiril Kotlyarov). 6. Correlation Optics 2005 on September 6-9, 2005, Chernivci, Ukraine//Ya. Izdebskaya (Ukraine). New type of singular beams generated by optical wedge. 7. Correlation Optics 2005 on September 6-9, 2005, Chernivci, Ukraine //Evolution of the vortex core and the polarization state of the singular beams in crystals (Aleksandr Rubass). 8. Photonics Europe on 3-7 April, 2006, Strasbourg, France (Yana Izdebskaya). 9. Organization of 6-nd Young Scientist Conference Singular and Nonlinear Optics-2006 at Taurida National V. Vernadsky University (17-21 April, 2006) (all SPIE students); Our students made oral reports during academic year: 1. Laser measurements for biomedical applications (Luiza Mavlutalieva) 2. Fast electrically switchable holographic mirror (Yaroslav Kachin) 3. Propagation of optical vortices in optical fibers with Kerr nonlinearity (Sergey Hablenko) 4. Nonlinear optical beams carrying phase dislocations (Alexander Rubass) 5. Optical Vortices (Yevheniy Yu. Semuk) 6. Generation of Higher-Order Optical Vortices by the Dielectric Wedge (Nataliya V. Shostka) 7. Spiral-type beams (Kirilo I. Kotlyariv) 8. Composite optical vortices (Sergey I. Lagunov)

159 Education New short courses were listening by students of Phys. Department: New applications of correlation optics in biology and medicine Electronic design automation and circuit design There were all interested persons. Mainly, there are professors, candidates of sciences, students and PhD Candidates from our University, Technical Institutions, Colleges and High schools). 6. Grants, Awards 1. SPIE Activity grant for TNU Student chapter ($700). 2. Yana Izdebskaya has gotten 2006 SPIE Educational Scholarship Optical Science and Engineering. 3. Yana Izdebskaya (The President of SPIE TNU Student Chapter) has gotten travel grant on Optics and Photonics 06 in Strasbourg, France. 4. Nataliya V. Shostka SPIE Leadership Travel Grant ($1,250) for attending SPIE Annual Meeting August 2006, San Diego,CA,USA Organizing Activities Organization of 6-nd Young Scientist Conference "Singular and Nonlinear Optics" on April, 2006, Simferopol, Ukraine. The sections: Phase singularities and caustics, their applications, Laser physics and applications, Nonlinear effects in active and passive optical devices and systems; Co-organization Correlation optics 2005 on September 6-9, 2005, Chernivci, Ukraine; Organization the excursion for new SPIE members to r/d "Domain". Organization of Olympiad "Computer modeling-2005"and Photo-Exhibition "Optical vortices" on September 20-23, TNU, Crimea, Ukraine;

160 8. Expected Actions within the Next Year: 1. Travel grants on SPIE's Annual Meeting- 2006; 2. Organization of 7-nd Young Scientist Conference Singular and Nonlinear Optics-2006 at Taurida National V. Vernadsky University (April, 2007); 3. Organization of Olympiad "Computer modeling"; 4. host speakers; 5. Photo-Exhibition "Optical vortices, caustics" on September, TNU, Crimea, Ukraine for next new SPIE members; Participation in: 6. 5th World Congress of Biomechanics, Munich, Germany (29 July - 4 August, 2006); 7. Frontiers in Optics, Rochester, NY, USA (October, 2006).

161 3. Host speakers 1. Prof. Yuriy Fridman read lecture Spin continuity and birefringence in locally isotropic weakly inhomogeneous media (Taurida National V. Vernadsky University, Department of Theoretical Physics) (March, 2005); 2. Prof. Igor Dzedolik «Envelope equations of guided vortex pulse in optical fibers» (Taurida National V. Vernadsky University, Department of Theoretical Physics) (March, 2005); 3. Prof. Sergey Roshupkin Nonparaxial singular beams of higher orders (Taurida National V. Vernadsky University, Department of Theoretical Physics) (April, 2005). 4. Dr. Constantin Аlexeyev Generic singular beams in elliptic fibers, Taurida National V. Vernadsky University, Department of Theoretical Physics) (January, 2005); 5. Prof. S.G. Odoulov (Ukraine) (INVITED). Anomalous pulse propagation in media with dynamic gratings and optical forerunners. (September, 2005) 6. Prof. V.N. Obuchovsky Singularities of the Pointing vector and the structure of optical field //Kiev National University (October, 2005) 7. Prof. Yu. S. Kivshar Singularities in incoherent light //Australian National University (October, 2005).

162 Contact Information Prof. Alexander V. Volyar President: Yana V. Izdebskaya Vice-President: Nataliya V. Shostka Tel:

163 May 2006

164 1. Introduction 2. Vision 3. Mission 1. Introduction 4. Officers 2006 Content 5. Research Activities 6. Community Activities The SPIE student chapter at Tec de Monterrey is formed by 37 active members, mostly undergraduate and graduate students from the physics, optics and other engineering programs at Tec. Lead by our advisor, Dr. Gutiérrez-Vega, the Chapter has grown steadily and contributed with original research work to the Research Chair in Optics. 2. Vision Consolidate an active Student Chapter at Tec de Monterrey leaded by undergraduate and graduate students interested in optics research and community projects. Our Chapter should be recognized as a support research program in our university and contribute to optics awareness within the general public. 3. Mission Involve undergraduate and graduate students in optics program at Tec de Monterrey due by the promotion of currently research projects and educational activities of the Student Chapter. The promotion of our research should be based in lectures, visiting industry and community science divulgation. Our Chapter should encourage members to participate in educational and community activities, present works in SPIE Conferences and use all benefits to be in SPIE student chapter.

165 4. Officer 2006 Rodrigo Ponce-Díaz, President Gerardo Tadeo Martinez-, Immediate Past President Raul Hernandez-Aranda, Vice-President Moises Jezzini, Secretary Carlos Lopez-Mariscal, Treasurer Active Members 2006 Jorge Arturo Alvarado-Sanchez Martha Alvarez-Elizondo Juan Atkinson Luis Baldomero Fernando Cadena Santiago Canales Gonzalez Esteban Canseco-Viveros Anuar Davizon Castillo David Elizondo-Arguelles Jose Flores Morales Diego Garcia Cacho Manuel Garcia-Jurado Taracena Librado Garza Gutierrez Cruz Gonzalez-Rodriguez Raul Hernandez-Aranda Cheng Ho Moises Jezzini de Anda Juan Lazcano Ricardo Leal Lozano Dorilian Lopez Carlos Lopez-Mariscal Adriana Martinez-Meza Jorge Mastache de los Santos Fabio Monaco Juan Montoya-Urdaneta Sandra Ozuna Chacon Nadia Perez Peter Pfister Rogelio Pozo-Gonzalez Cuauhtemoc Quintanilla Luis Sandoval Andrade Rocio Alejandra Santoscoy David Serrano Garcia Vanessa Smer Barreto Gabrielle Theriault Juan Velarde-Magaña Juan Pablo Yanez-Garza 5. Research and Educational Activities The student chapter organized this semester different activities with the aim of promoting optical sciences in our university and local community. We developed these two type of activities. In order to promote our chapter in our university we organized the following events:

166 Promotional Stand This event is becoming a tradition the first week of each semester. This stand offers information about our activities in our university and around the conferences, the benefits of becoming SPIE members, additionally brochures with this information are distributed to passing by students. In accordance with our mission, every semester we look forward to get more students involved into science, and become part of the international optical community. Rodrigo Ponce-Díaz working in this year stand.. Each membership is accompanied by an optical souvenir such as a key chain laser, magnifying glass, diffraction grating. In addition, the new members are encouraged to take one or two of the past and current issues of OE Magazine available for free. This strategy has proven to be very successful. Promotion of the chapter was also supported by faculty from the physics department and optics center, who generously allowed us to visit their classrooms for a few minutes to invite more people to join us. Open House at Optics Center External visits are traditional events that encompass several activities: junior-high school students take a tour of the Optics Center and usually graduate students (all Chapter members) prepare a series of short courses on scientific photography, holography, interference and several demonstrations. Students from schools are invited to attend and are given promotional items. This semester the student chapter organized and Open House in order to give information and encourage the interest of graduate students of our university in Optics and in Optical Engineering.

167 Rodrigo Ponce-Díaz giving the welcome for Optics Center Open House. The invited students belong to the first semesters to Electronic and Telecommunication master programs. Most of these students are looking for thesis project advisors. Our event began with a welcome presentation and small talks about the projects developed by the Optics Center. Raul Hernandez (Top) and Moises Jezzini (Bottom) explaining the theoretical work of invariant beams. The second part of the Open House, we walked along our offices and labs. In the offices we explained the theoretical work we do for our research. Raúl Hernandez and Moisés

168 Jezzini explained about the simulation of laser resonators and invariant beams. Finally Rodrigo Ponce-Díaz and Martha Alvarez shown the labs and their experiments related with image processing and CO2 lasers. Rodrigo Ponce-Díaz showing an experiment of diffractive optic, and Martha Alvarez showing the CO2 laser. This event has an important impact in our institution, because Optics is a growing research area and it is not well known. Also we promote the SPIE student chapter for students in other research areas of electronics and optics. Local Seminars Activities related to the promotion of science within our local student s community include the organization of seminars with invited lecturers from different institutions. This semester the student chapter participated in the following seminars: Optical Micro-manipulation Technique Carlos López Mariscal, PhD Student. March 9 th, 2006

169 Rodrigo Ponce-Díaz explaining the 3D reconstruction of Integral Imaging Carlos Lopez is shown how the interaction is between small particles and coherent or incoherent light. He talked about Mathieu beams to transfer angular momentum to dielectric particles, also he explain the final dynamic of particles. Finally he show results from an experiment about Bessel beams using white light. This work was developed during a visiting scholar at Saint Andrews University. Three-Dimensional Recognition of Occluded Objects Using Computational Integral Imaging with Volumetric Object Rodrigo Ponce Díaz, PhD Student. March 14 th, 2006 Rodrigo Ponce-Díaz explaining the 3D reconstruction of Integral Imaging

170 Rodrigo Ponce-Díaz talked about a proposed a method to recognize partially occluded three-dimensional (3D) objects using 3D volumetric reconstruction integral imaging (II). This work was developed at the University of Connecticut, as a visiting scholar during To the best of his knowledge, this is the first report that uses a 3D ray space reconstruction approach to recognition of partially occluded objects. The proposed technique uses a II system that captures multiple perspectives of occluded objects using a micro-lens array. The reconstruction of the occluded 3D scene and the target recognition are done digitally to reduce the effects of the occlusion. The correlation results of occluded 3D images using volumetric reconstruction show substantial improvements compared with that of the conventional 2D imaging correlation results of occluded images. Twisted light and the hunt for earth-like planets Grover A. Swartzlander, Jr., PhD. College of Optical Sciences University of Arizona, Tucson, Arizona, US March 28th, 2006 Carlos Lope, Professor Grover and Raul Hernandez after the seminar. Professor Grover visited our university as a shared activity with the student chapter of OSA and ITESM Research Chair in Optics. At his talk He described how an optical vortex lens may be used to completely null light from a star so that only the planet light is detected. Current optical techniques do not allow astronomers to analyze the light from earth-like planets circling nearby stars. If analysis of this light reveals oxygen absorption lines it will be the first evidence of life beyond Earth.

171 6. Community Activities The workshop: liquid crystals and mood patches The workshop liquid crystals and mood patches was created by Spencer and her group in the summer of Some of our members take the workshop prepared by K. Spencer, A. Marino, R. Varshneya, J. Wilson, T. Pfunter and S. Jacobs from the University of Rochester. There we get three kits, each kit with material for thirty persons. This members proposed that this workshop was a great activity to encourage people in science. Optics class in Tecnológico de Monterrey The class of optics is imparted to students of the sixth semester of the undergraduate students from the physics engineering program at Tec. This semester the professor Dr. Gutiérrez-Vega allows us to make this pilot workshop in this group. The group counts with 25 students. The workshop was given in Juanary 30 th, The workshop was given in the next sequence: first, we give the honors to the creators and facilitators of this workshop. Then, we use the document: liquid crystals and mood patches, a lesson plan for Middle School to explain fast and easy the liquid crystals. Then we use the kits that we have to give to the students the materials to make the workshop. The workshop was half an hour long and has had a very good acceptation between these students. The participant members were Peter Pfister and Moisés Jezzini. The workshop was an excellent activity, because it gives us the opportunity to show this students one of the interesting phenomenons that they can study in optics, it also serves as a forum to speak them about the SPIE and OSA, the workshop also worked as pilot for future sessions. University students in the workshop 1J. Carpenter & S. D. Jacobs, In the Mood for Science Oemagazine, march

172 High school students at Ínstituto Laurens The workshop was given in February 28 th, The workshop followed the same order than in Tecnológico de Monterrey but we made a deeper explanation of the phenomena, because this was the first time this students hear about this topic. The workshop take place in the laboratory of this institution. The workshop toke one hour per group and was given to two groups of 18 people. The workshop was given by Moisés Jezzini. Moisés Jezzini at Ínstituto Laurens Elementary school students in Ínstituto Bilingüe Country In March 3, 2006; several chapter members gave the workshop to elementary school students of the Ínstituto bilingüe Country. The students were coursing the fifth and sixth grade. This workshop was given in Spanish. First, Raúl Hernandez and Sergio Camacho explain the liquid crystal to the students. For this purpose, Raúl elaborates several slides in Spanish explaining the topic. After the explanation the students pass to a table were we give then the warnings and procedure to make their mood patch, this was made by Moisés Jezzini and Peter Pfister. The workshop was 2 hours long. After this day, we get comments from the students. They were asked to write what do they think about the workshop, we receive 10 comments. Everybody says that they like a lot the experiment and the explanation. We get two complains: one wants to make liquid crystals with common materials and the other didn't made the experiment well.

173 Students showing their mood patch, Behind is Raúl Hernandez This last activity was the most gratifying because the students were very happy and impressed with the activity. We hope some of them get interested in physics and optics. They ask very interesting questions and they were very participative. In the future, we hope to give this workshop in more schools.

174 Three Rivers Community College SPIE Student Chapter Fall 2006 Chapter members, Spring 2005 Mr. William BrohinskyDec Mr. Gregory Giroux Dec Mr. William GouthroOct Mr. Jeffery Jaskot Dec Mr. Shawn McHugh Nov Mr. Justin Reed Dec Mr. Erik Royce Dec Mr. Yevhen Rutovytskyy Mar VICE PRESIDENT Mr. Jeffrey Smith Nov Mr. Ariel Thomas Feb Mr. John Wadsworth Dec PRESIDENT Mr. James Washington Dec Mr. Keith Zanardi Dec Mr. Michael Zerillo Dec Mr. Greg Tondreau Ms Heather Wade- TREASURER Mr. Joseph Zanavich- SECRETARY The chapter met 4-5 times during the semester to plan fundraisers and to work on other activities such as the art project. The chapter voted to provide financial assistance to the Advanced Laser Topics class by reimbursing for gas for field trip drivers and providing an honorarium for guest speakers. In the end, no one came forward to request reimbursement; however, the class sponsored three trips (Zygo, IPG Photonics and Nufern) and was visited by two guest speakers (Flemming Tinker, FTOptics, LLC and Karl Stetson, Karl Stetson Associates.) All chapter members were invited to the speaker presentations. The major event was a bus trip to the Boston University Photonics Center and MIT Museum, held on April 13. SPIE paid for the bus partially with funds raised through pizza and bake sales; the remainder was financed by the TOP Scholars (NSF/CSEMS) scholarship program. At BU, the group was hosted by Dr. Michael Ruane, who provided a top to bottom tour. Work on the art project (funded in part by an SPIE grant to the Chapter) has been continuing. The ceiling lights for viewing holograms have been purchased and will be installed by TRCC maintenance. We have been perfecting holograms for display (with mixed success.) An ultra-thin light box was purchased, and we are using a laser engraver to produce the cellophane shapes for the Polage art. Progress on the project has been slow in part because of busy student schedules, but also because renovation of the campus in preparation for major new construction has periodically made work in the

175 holography lab difficult. We hope to have the electrical work on the display case completed by September, after which the art will be displayed. At the final May meeting, the following officers were elected for Fall 2006: President: John Wadsworth Vice President: Yevhen Rutovytskyy Treasurer: Gregory Tondreau Secretary: Keith Zanardi SPIE budget, Date Description Debits Credits Balance 1-Jul-05 Opening Balance JV-1 $ Oct-05 Pizza/Bake Sale CR-4 $ $ Nov-05 Optics East Tickets CR-5 $ $ Nov-05 Budget Allocation #7 JV-10 $ 1, $ 2, Feb-06 Optics East Bus $ $ 1, Feb-06 Pizza/Bake Sale CR-8 $ $ 1, Mar-06 Mr. Pizza CD-9 $ $ 1, April-06 Bus to Boston $ $ May bake sale/bu tickets $ $ May Mr. Pizza $ 45 (est) $

176 Tsinghua University SPIE Student Chapter Bi-Annual Report June 2006 Chapter Officers President: Mr. Sigang Yang Vice-President: Mr. Tianliang Wang Secretary: Mr. Ming Xin Treasurer: Mr. Tianliang Wang Advisor: Prof. Shizhong Xie List of current Student Chapter members: First name Last name 1 Tianliang Wang 2 Xiaolong Hu 3 Hongwei Chen 4 Sigang Yang 5 Ming Xin 6 Liu Hong 7 Xiaoyan Liu 8 Yingliang Xu 9 Xingchen Zhao 10 Jian Zhang 11 Shilong Pan 12 Tianyi Guo 13 Hongtao Li 14 Ciyuan Qiu 15 Yang Lu 16 Dong Chen 17 Yurong Zhen 18 Mingming Wang 19 Weixin Liu 20 Yu Yao Chapter s Current Activities 1. On February 23, 2006, SPIE Vice President, Kevin Harding visited Tsinghua University. Part of chapter members had an informal discussion with Mr. Kevin Harding in a assembly room in 9003 building. Mr. Harding inquired the research field of each chapter members and gave

177 some suggestions. I introduced the general situation of Tsinghua chapter. 2. On March 31, 2006, Chapter members visited the state State Key Laboratory of Precision Measurement Technology and Instruments. Some members from Department of Precision Instrument and Mechanology introduced some test instruments developed by themselves. Then they showed us around the key lab. Most of our chapter members thought that we had a great harvest in this activity. 3. On May 13 rd, most of chapter members proposed to visit Beijing Planetarium. So we went there in the morning. At first we visited an exhibition of instruments that our ancestry observed the universe. Then we saw a dome film about the evolvement of our universe. Finally we visited some modern astronomy observation instruments. 4. On May 22rd, The SPIE President Elect Professor Brian Culshaw visited Beijing. Mr. Culshaw met with the student members of student chapters both at Tsinghua University and at the Beijing Institute of Technology. Mr. Culshaw gave us a lecture concerning their activities here in Glasgow. Then Mr. Culshaw Culshaw had an informal discussion with the student members. Details of planned activities for the future 1. We are planning to visit the National Observatory. 2. Because some of our chapter members will graduate soon, we will have a new recruitment in the beginning of the next semester. 3. Some members will attend the Asia Pacific Optical Communication conference held in Korea. 4. We will invite some academic fellow to give us a lecture. Some photos of our chapter On February 23, SPIE Vice President, Kevin Harding visited Tsinghua

178 On March 31, members visited the state key lab and members from the Department of Precision Instrument laid out their research fruits On May 13, chapter members visited the Beijing Planetarium

179 On May 22, Professor Brian Culshaw Visited Beijing and met with part of student members Financial information from Tsinghua University Chapter Starting balance: Support of members due: Activities on March 31 Activities on May 13 Activities on May 22 Ending balance 895USD+1800RMB 200 USD 682 RMB 1976 RMB 609 RMB 4134 RMB

180 Biannual Chapter Report January 2006 April 2006

181 Foreword First thing to note: activities of our year, the 2 nd year of operations of our chapter, are displayed in this biannual report and the May-December 2005 biannual report. The earlier report covers recruitment events and activities as well as several tours, and both reports can be found at the University of Alberta SPIE Chapter page on the SPIE Website. Full kudos should be directly given to Aleksandr Kylashitsky, Jaron VanDijken and Sarah Tsai for the content and activities found throughout this report. Having an out-of-province co-op work term for January-April 2006, I was reduced to an advisory role while they, the executive, took up the responsibilities of planning and running the events readily. Effectively, they became the Presidents of our chapter; capable, responsible, and professional, none of the massive events listed here would have been possible without their impressive commitment and drive. The help from our volunteers and officers must be mentioned as well. Believing in the cause of educating students and bringing fun optics to presecondary students, I am glad to note that their passion has helped them take on the new executive roles for the academic year. Thus, without further ado, we introduce and congratulate our new student chapter executives: Our New University of Alberta SPIE Student Chapter Executives Edward Lau President eclau@ualberta.ca Ivan Chan Vice President inchan@ualberta.ca Navid Vafaei Treasurer navid@ualberta.ca Dan Sirbu Secretary dan.sirbu@ualberta.ca The current executive team would also like to extend it s thanks to Dirk Fabian from SPIE for helping us throughout the year. It should be noted that both the laser maze project and the liquid crystal presentation both resulted from the Student Leadership Day at Optics and Photonics that Dirk puts together. We would also like to thank the ESGF (Engineering Student Group Fund) Committee for their approval of our funding request; among other projects, our laser maze and promotional events were made possible by these engineering student leaders. Finally, we d also like to thank the staff at the Electrical and Computer Engineering Department, University of Alberta, Faculty of Engineering for their continuing support of our new student chapter. In particular, we d like to thank Dr. Elezzabi, our SPIE Faculty Advisor, whose vision and advice in creating the student chapter resulted in the many activities to educate our students and promote the many fields of optical engineering. Sincerely, Eugene Chen President, University of Alberta SPIE Student Chapter

182 Outreach Program Laser Maze Project The original idea for the laser maze came from the Student Leadership Day at Optics & Photonics 2005, where student leaders from UC Davis proudly presented their laser maze. From this, members from our chapter made upgrades to the original design idea; the entire music circuit would be cut immediately when the laser was blocked. The moment the laser is blocked, the music would need to be restarted, indicating that the game is over and the next player is to start. 1

183 Outreach Program Laser Maze Project Trying to avoid the laser: Instead of using fog generated by a fog machine, which may be unsuitable for students with asthma, water sprayers were used to let students creatively spray water in the air to see the laser lines and then avoid them. This alteration also made it more fun and challenging The main outreach project at the University of Alberta SPIE Student Chapter this year was the Laser Maze. It included two trips to a local elementary school to teach students a bit about lasers and let them challenge the maze. We made two trips this year to Westbrook Elementary School, visiting the 4th grade students on February 21st and the 5th grade on May 12th. During the winter trip we had a Liquid Crystals presentation in conjunction with the laser maze. Our group included Juval Bothe, Jaron VanDijken, Sarah Tsai, Edward Lau, Jonathan Kwan, Ivan Chan and Aleksandr Klyashitsky. I ve been involved with the Laser Maze during both trips and I found that not only did the kids enjoy our visit immensely, but their excitement was allergic to the extent that we were soon having as much fun as they were. This was an excellent opportunity to introduce engineering and optics to a younger generation. Aleksandr Klyashitsky, Vice President, University of Alberta SPIE Student Chapter 2

184 Outreach Program Liquid Crystal Presentation Also resulting from the Student Leadership Day at Optics & Photonics 2005, our members made full use of the liquid crystal materials kindly provided by Dr. Stephen Jacobs, Professor of Optics and Chemical Engineering at the University of Rochester. The students had a lot of fun with creating their own mood rings ; the experiment was educational, easy to do, and the students really appreciated being able to create something they could bring home to show to friends and family. 3

185 Outreach Program Liquid Crystal Presentation I had presented the Liquid Crystal presentation, took pictures, and helped with the laser maze presentation. It was wonderful to see how excited and interested these elementary school students were in the presentations. They greatly enjoyed constructing the liquid crystal mood patches and were ecstatic while navigating through the maze. During our setup, students would approach us and ask some surprisingly in-depth questions about the projects and their setup. It was a delight to see how interested the students were to participate and learn about science and technology. Juval Bothe SPIE member and volunteer for both Laser Maze trips 4

186 Visiting Lecturer Program Dr. Paul B. Corkum Femtosecond Science Program Leader Steacie Institute for Molecular Sciences, National Research Council of Canada About Dr. Corkum: Dr. Paul B. Corkum is a Senior Scientist and Group Leader of Femtosecond Science Group at the NRC's Steacie Institute for Molecular Sciences in Ottawa. Paul Corkum's research is characterized by unusually brilliant theoretical insight which has led him to propose and perform the most important recent experiments towards the achievement of creating and measuring "attosecond" (10-18s) laser pulses. Some of the more notable awards presented to him are the 1996 Canadian Association of Physicists gold medal for lifetime achievement, and the 2003 Tory Medal of the Royal Society of Canada. Dr. Corkum presented two talks at the University of Alberta, the first geared toward undergraduate students where using only basic physics he described how femtosecond pulses are produced and measured and then how femtosecond pulses lead to attosecond pulses. Left to Right: Dr. Corkum, Scott Irvine, Kenneth Chau at the farewell dinner Dr. Corkum answering questions in the afternoon talk The second talk presented was geared to a more advanced audience and was centered around the use of interferometry to measure attosecond pulses and image a molecule s electrons. At the end of the day the U of A SPIE Chapter organized a farewell dinner for Dr. Corkum at a local restaurant with invitations going to a number of faculty, graduate and undergraduate students. 5

187 Chapter Promotion Spreading the Word on Optics We presented a tabletop version of our laser maze at a technology display at the Telus World of Science (a.k.a. The Odysseum), a popular science and technology venue in Edmonton. Visitors were intrigued by our design, and the children enjoyed playing with the system. Here is Jaron and Aleksandr presenting SPIE and our student chapter at a Grad Studies Conference at the University of Alberta by invitation from the president of the Electrical and Computer Engineering Graduate Students Association. 6

188 Tours Industrial & Lab Tours In 2006, the University of Alberta SPIE Studen Chapter organized an industrial tour to Micralyne, a full-service microfabrication company developing and manufacturing MEMS (Micro-Electro-Mechanical-Systems) -based products. With core competencies in micromachining, thin film deposition, and test & assembly capabilities, Micralyne develops and manufactures devices for the communication, energy, life sciences, and transportation markets. Later in the year, our student chapter organized a lab tour to Dr. Hegmann s laboratory at the University of Alberta. His lab studies ultrafast phenomena in materials and devices (semiconductors, nanostructures and organic materials) using a femtosecond laser source. Understanding of these materials is gained by exploring the transient properties over the femto, pico, and nanosecond time scales. Dr. Hegmann explaining the ionization of air by one of his lasers On this tour, Dr. Hegmann has given us an overview of his lab as well as research and highlighted is with some examples of his lasers capabilities. By focusing an ultrafast laser on a spot of air one is able to ionize the air and obtain an emission spectrum similar to that seen above. Furthermore, by focusing the same beam on a non-linear crystal, one can frequency shift the incident radiation. 7

189 Chapter Information Membership Member Name: Mr. Corey Baron Mr. Chris Bliss Mr. Juval Bothe Mr. Bryan Carter Mr. Ivan Chan Mr. Kenneth Chau Mr. Eugene Chen Mr. Marc Dumont Ms. Anastasia Elias Mr. Noland Germain Mr. Jake Goerz Mr. Garrett Hansen Mr. Sebastian Hanula Mr. Scott Irvine Miss Aneesha Jyoti Mr. Sean Kirkwood Mr. Aleksandr Klyashitsky Mr. Jonathan Kwan Mr. Edward Lau Mr. Jia Luo Mr. Maxwell McLeod Mr. Alexander Noot Miss Sarah Riske Mr. Chris Ryziuk Ms. Meghna Singh Mr. Dan Sirbu Mr. Steven Soneff Mr. Locke Spencer Miss Sarah Tsai Miss Heidi Tsang Mr. Navid Vafaei Mr. Andy van Popta Mr. Jaron VanDijken Mr. A. Zahidur Rahim Chowdhury Mr. Rami Zewail Membership Expiration: May Oct Oct Sep Jan Mar Oct Dec Jun Sep Oct Oct Oct Sep Sep Jan Oct Oct Sep Apr Oct Sep Sep Jan Dec Jan Oct Apr Jan Mar Oct Jun Oct Sep Jan This past year, we concentrated heavily on starting initiatives and events to attract new members for the upcoming year. Our current count of members is at 35, and we are looking forward to working with the new executive to increase this number by showing our projects, initiatives and various events over the past year. 8

190 This report was written on behalf of and approved by the 2005/2006 University of Alberta SPIE Student Chapter executives: Eugene Chen (President) - Aleksandr Klyashitsky (Vice President) - Sarah Tsai (Treasurer) - Jaron VanDijken (Secretary) University of Alberta SPIE Student Chapter University of Alberta ECERF Level 2 Edmonton, Alberta T6G 2V4, Canada

191 Date Description Credit Debit Balance 2005/1/19 Deposit $5.00 $ /2/10 Deposit $20.00 $ /4/10 Deposit (SPIE) $1, $1, /4/10 Handle Charge $14.00 $1, /4/29 Interest Earned $0.03 $1, /5/6 Paying back the $20.00 loan to Muhammad Jabakhanji $20.00 $1, /5/31 Interest Earned $0.04 $1, /6/30 Interest Earned $0.04 $1, /7/5 Paying back the $5.00 loan to Sarah Tsai $5.00 $1, /7/29 Interest Earned $0.04 $1, /8/26 Deposit (University of Alberta, ESGF - Engineering Student Groups Fund) $1, $2, /8/31 Interest Earned $0.05 $2, /9/30 Interest Earned $0.09 $2, /10/30 Interest Earned $0.08 $2, /11/29 Interest Earned $0.06 $2, /30 Interest Earned $0.06 $2, /1/31 Interest Earned $0.06 $2, /2/28 Interest Earned $0.04 $2, /3/9 Picture Frame for SPIE chapter certificate $5.50 $2, /3/31 Borrowed from Aleksandr Klyashitsky to help pay Dr. Corkum $ $2, Subtotal $2, $44.50 $2, Events Brainstorming Session 2005/4/10 Drinks $8.32 $2, Annual General Meeting 2005/5/6 Refreshement from Pizza 73 $66.80 $2, Graduate Student Talk 2005/5/24 Donuts from Tim Hortons $44.00 $2, /9/30 Donuts from Tim Hortons $66.00 $2, /1/11 Reimbursment from ECE Department for the refreshments $66.00 $2, Information Night 2005/9/27 Refreshments from Pizza 73 $ $2, /9/27 Drinks from Safeway $46.65 $2, /1/11 Reimbursment from ECE Department for the refreshments $ $2, Speaker 2006/1/23 Refreshments for speaker event $33.00 $2, /3/1 Drinks from Safeway $26.33 $2, /3/1 Picture Frame for Dr. Corkrum's certificate anda roll of tickets $19.25 $2, /3/2 Dr. Corkrum's travel and accomandation expenses $ $1, /3/2 Refreshments from Pizza 73 $ $1, /3/2 Dr. Corkrum's dinner $27.54 $1,698.64

192 Industrial Tour 2006/1/30 Transportation cost $ $1, ECEGSA 2006/1/30 Poster and report printing $88.81 $1, Subtotal $ $1, $1, Laser Project 2005/8/25 Smoke machine $ $1, /8/25 Mirrors and lasers from Dollar Store $17.12 $1, /8/27 WAL MART (Tripods) $ $1, /9/7 Nuts for the mirrors from the Home Depot $9.95 $1, /1/5 Photodiodes from Digi-Key $33.30 $1, /2/9 Laser Pointer from Staples $26.56 $1, /2/13 3 Mirrors from Walmart $6.29 $1, /2/13 Nuts for the mirrors from the Home Depot $3.08 $1, /2/13 Laser Pointer and 2 Magnifier Bifocal from Staples $38.95 $1, /2/13 Battery Holder from Active Electronics $8.54 $1, /2/17 9V DC adaptor from the Source $53.48 $1, /2/19 Carpets from Carpet World $54.57 $ /2/20 Printing liquid crystal handouts at Staples $ $ /2/20 Buying 4 more mirror from Dollar Store $4.28 $ /2/20 Nuts for the mirrors from the Home Depot $0.94 $ Subtotal $0.00 $ $ Library 2005/8/27 Popular Science Magazine Subscription $28.00 $ /8/27 WIRED Magazine Subscription $49.19 $ /1/11 Textbook Purchases $ $ /1/14 Textbook Purchase $ $ /1/23 Textbook Purchase $85.00 $ Subtotal $0.00 $ $ Promotion 2005/9/22 U of A bookstore $3.10 $ /9/22 Student's Union Print Centre $30.01 $ /9/27 Printing in ETLC Computer Room $2.20 $ /9/27 Student's Union Print Centre $59.39 $ /9/29 Student's Union Print Centre $79.08 $ /3/1 Printing Dr. Corkum's Certificate at Student's Union Print Centre $3.75 $ Subtotal $0.00 $ $ Total $2, $2, $ * Note that Aleksandr is still owed $250

193 Bi-Annual Report May 2006 SPIE Student Chapter at the College of Optical Sciences The University of Arizona This has been an exciting spring for the community of optics students at the UofA. A meeting was called on April 28 th, with 44 student attending, both graduate and undergraduate, as well as Dean James Wyant, Associate Dean Rick Shoemaker, and Dr. John Greivenkamp, our faculty advisor. All of the student activities in our department have now been assumed by the SPIE student chapter. This centralization will promote greater efficiency and the critical mass needed to raise our club to an appropriate level of activity. Dr. Wyant has proposed to allot space in our new west wing, once it is completed, for the use of the organization and its various sub-committees. Activities include the weekly Community Speakers Series, which sponsors a talk every Friday during the semester from one of our local researchers. This is usually a graduate student discussing his or her research, but sometimes may be an undergrad or a research professor. We provide this series in addition to the ongoing Thursday Colloquiums sponsored by the department, which brings in a wide variety of speakers from outside the local community. Our new President, Ben Richards, has also talked with Dr. Wyant, about a "distinguished speakers" series of lectures, maybe three per semester, where we have someone who has made major contributions to their field come and give a non-technical talk about their career, work, and experiences being a scientist. These talks would be interesting for everyone, including family members, etc., and a good way to give exposure to the Chapter. On April 9 th, our chapter organized a tour of the Lunar and Planetary Lab at the University of Arizona. Those who signed up got to see the wide array of devices designed and oftentimes manufactured by the LPL, including spacehardened infrared cameras, spectrometers, and detectors, as well as planet maps, photos, and other displays. Next fall we will tour the 6.5m MMT telescope at the Whipple Observatory atop Mt. Hopkins in the Santa Rita Mountains south of Tucson, possibly in conjunction with a hike in nearby Madeira Canyon.

194 On April 20 th, we were notified that sixteen students from our College of Optical Sciences received the prestigious 2006 SPIE scholarship award. This reflects our students dedication to science and their potential for long-range contribution to optics and photonics. Our 2006 SPIE scholarship recipients are: 1. Ivan Barrientos 2. Kyle H. Fuerschbach 3. Seth R. Ginter 4. Dathon Golish 5. Nathan Hagen 6. Sergio J. Johnson 7. Joshua J. Kim 8. Tracy H. Law 9. Brian W. Miller 10. Norman M.F. Milton 11. Jeff Richey 12. David R. Scherer 13. Matthew B. Schwab 14. Nicholas D. Trail 15. Pouria Valley 16. Yinying Xiao-Li On April 27 th, we were involved with national Take Our Daughters and Sons to Work day. Labs were opened and demonstrations were prepared. The laser transmission of music demo, run by Dr. Alan Kost, was repeated on June 12 and 14 as part of the week-long Optical Science Camp run by the department this summer. SPIE student chapter members helped out in this workshop, as well as other sessions throughout the Camp (June 12 th -16 th ). This camp was a part of the Arizona Youth University program. A few photos from this event are attached at the end. Also this summer, the UofA Student SPIE chapter is offering preparation sessions for the fall PhD preliminary exams. There may even be a prep competition in August; something along the lines of College Bowl. And for those who are graduating, we plan to bring in some of our corporate affiliates to hold mock interviews. Besides the academic and professional activities, students are organizing fun events. Every Friday evening is The Very Happy Hour (TVHH), generally

195 involving beer and pizza, though sometimes there is also dancing and once, even, a concert of Japanese-style Daiko drumming. Picnics are held every semester, usually coinciding with student recruitment in the spring. We hope to promote more sporting activities on these occasions, as well. A t-shirt design contest was held with college-wide elections in early March. The winning design is attached at the end. Proceeds from the sale of the shirts go toward the graduate student activities fund. Any left-over food from the picnic is donated to a local soup kitchen. Outreach is a third area of interest that we plan to develop in the fall. Some of our members have been working with the GLASS (Girls Learning Academic and Science Skills) program at a local middle school and are willing to expand the outreach to other schools. The officers for the new school year (starting fall 2006) will be: Ben Richards, President Kelleher Guerin, Vice President Wesley Hensel, Treasurer Josh Hendrickson, Secretary & Speakers Series Chairman Pouria Valley - Academic and Professional Activities Committee Chair Julian Sweet - Student Outreach Committee Chair Kellen Chase Undergraduate Liaison Student Chapter Members attending the election meeting were: Karlton Crabtree, Paula Smith, Jim Scholl, Craig Pansing, My Hoang, Sergio Johnson, Nathan Meraz, Tracy Law, Sheng Liu, Rui Zhang, Qing Wang, Benjamin Richards, Joshua Hendrickson, Mir Farrokh, Boris Glebov, Joseph Ortiz, Ivan, Barrientos, Grace Shih, Thomas Avilez, Chris Summitt, Jiefei Wang, Charles LaCasse, Jeff Scogin, Noah Gilbert, Tim Shih, Daniel Lam, Sukumar Murali, Scott Nielsen, Tara Maggiano, Wesley Hensel, Mkie Pajor, Wai-Sze Lam, Xiang Fan, Nick Bielat, Zachary Dowson, Andrey Alenin, Kellen Chase, Kelleher Guerin, Matt Wilhelm, Joshua Wiersma, & Nicholas Trail. Student members who filled out the UA Student Chapter activities survey in the beginning of the previous semester are listed below. These students are either a member of SPIE, or showed interest in becoming a member:

196 NAME last first Beenken Michael Burns Kathleen Coleman Justin Daugherty Brian Egan Jacob Eisenrod Jennifer Elezaby Shereen Fan Helen Fathalipour Parisa Gonnason James Guerin Kelleher Hawser Paul Heran Tracy Ho Yuk-Lun Humphreys Michael Lam Wai-Sze Meraz Nathan Nunley John Oberhelman Anita Richey Jeff Rupp Chad Sinclair Matthew Steward Chris Towslee Jessica Trail Nick Tsai Shih- Chuan Weir Larry Shih Grace Woidn Rigel Law Tracy Nash Nick Lilley Scott Montano Hugo Hoang My Johnson Sergio Weekes Robert Zugby Leonard Zimmer Chris Richards Evan Hill Luke

197 Harwell Kasey Bolton Time Montilla Leonardo Vo Tom Gan Chris Yullin Kim Florez Jose Sierchlo Justin Ginter Seth Gibbons Goldie Culler Rick Our current and previous SPIE members are listed below with the membership expiration dates: Dr. Abdeq Abdi Dec Ms. Rukiah Abdulmalik Jan Mr. Sarmad Albanna Jan Mr. Joe Aldridge Aug Dr. Jason Auxier Feb Mr. Christoph Baranec Mar Mr. Daniel Bauer Dec Mr. Justin Bergfield Jan Miss Timne Bilton Apr Mr. John Buchanan Dec Mr. Haripin Chandra Feb Mr. Chao-Nien Chern Sep Mr. Junoh Choi Nov Mr. Richard Colonna Jan Mr. Muhsin Eralp Jun Mr. Victor Florez Sep Mr. Kyle Fuerschbach Jan Mr. Haiyong Gan Jul Mr. Dominique Giesler Jan Mr. Seth Ginter Jan Mr. Dathon Golish Jan Mr. Jason Grant Nov Mr. Nathan Hagen May Ms. My Hoang Sep Mr. Michael Humphreys Sep

198 Mr. Charles Ingram Nov Miss Jennifer Jannusch Jan Mr. Joshua Kim Dec Mr. Charles LaCasse Mar Mr. Daniel Lam Jan Miss Tara Maggiano Nov Miss Anna-Britt Mahler Jan Mr. Elias Martinez Mar Mr. John McCloy Feb Mr. Brian Miller Jul Mr. Michael Misner Sep Ms. Keri Moos Jun Mr. Sukumar Murali Jan Mr. Tyler Neely Jan Ms. Anita Oberhelman Dec Mr. Craig Pansing Apr Ms. Irma Ramirez Jan Mr. Evan Richards Feb Mr. Jeff Richey Dec Mr. Jared Roberts May Mr. Oscar Romero Aug Mr. Aaron Roop Jul Mr. Chad Rupp Jan Mr. Greg Rupper Nov Ms. Alejandra Santiago Jan Mr. David Scherer Jan Mr. James Scholl Dec Mr. Matthew Schwab Jan Mr. Premchandra Shankar Apr Mr. Justin Sierchio Oct Mr. Matthew Sinclair Apr Mr. Suresh Sivanandam Apr Mr. Cecil Thomas Feb Mr. Nicholas Trail Jan Mr. Pouria Valley Feb Mr. Lirong Wang Dec Dr. Wit Wisniewski Apr Mr. Rigel Woida Jul Miss Yinying Xiao-li Dec

199 2006 College of Optical Sciences t-shirt design contest winner: FRONT: BACK:

200 Photos from Optical Sciences Camp, Arizona Youth University, June :

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202 Current Members University of California, Davis SPIE Student Chapter Report May 2006 Antipa, Nick Brahmbhatt, Ankit Lei, Li Juan Bricarello, Daniel Levinson, Erik Chu, Nathan Liu, Everest Deng, JJ McCutcheon, Eric Fung, Derek Mele, Michael Harrington, Matt Nackerud, Erik He, Hugh Newgren, Matt Hendratna, Stanley Nguyen, Kathy Ho, Eileen Nickles, Ian Hsia, Jon Patel, Ankit Hsia, Sarah Prast, Evan Huang, William Tong, Winnie Inaba, Sean Ullom, Stephen Khatri, Shayna Whitwer, Kenneth Kwan, Jennifer Zaheer, Ali A. Lai, Eric Zhao, Lee Lee, Allen Zhu, Yi Chapter Activities since January 2006 Jan. 12: First chapter meeting of the new year. Discussions include carpool and resume arrangements for Photonics West, outreach opportunities for the rest of the year, and how to begin gearing up for Davis annual Picnic Day event in April. Attendance: 18 Jan : A handful of chapter members attend Photonics West in San Jose, CA. Carpooling was minimal, but everyone that was really interested in attending managed to get a chance to see was PW was all about! Attendance: 7 Mar. 9: Club meeting. Discuss final options for the Picnic Day float, volunteer requirements for an upcoming outreach event, and arrange trial run for the laser maze setup. Attendance: 14 April 4: Club meeting and laser maze trial run. Attendance: 15 April 5: Laser vendor faire at UC Davis. We were involved in promoting the event on campus and also engaging the visiting companies with conversation and making sure everyone had a good time. Attendance: 15

203 April 7-20: Handful of Chapter volunteers sporadically work on the club float. The elected design featured a shark with a laser on its head (like Austin Powers). A couple pictures of the float are attached! Attendance: 2-10 April 19: Outreach at Center High School in Antelope, CA from 6-8pm. Fortunately, we still had some of the cholestoric liquid crystal experiment left from the SPIE Optics and Photonics conference in San Diego last year and were able to incorporate it into the event! A picture of the outreach group is attached. Attendance: 8 April 22: Chapter ran its annual Laser Maze event at Picnic Day. We had one of the most successful events on campus. Efficiency has been undoubtedly improved by the adjustments our Chairs made over the year; we safely accommodated hundreds of people over the course of six hours! Attendance: 18 April 25: JDS Uniphase lecture by Tom Kane and Guy Guzman. This company was fishing for new graduates and it was nice to see the dynamic between Tom Kane and resident professor Brian Kolner whom both graduated together. Attendance: 25 April 27: Zygo held a recruitment seminar on campus for new graduates as well. Three members were offered positions, and I believe one accepted. Attendance: 10 May 10: End of the year gathering for the club at a favorite restaurant. Attendance: 12 May 18: Election of new officers. We have a lot of faith in the next generation s ability to represent our club well in the future. This meeting solidified the club s hierarchy change from two laser maze and outreach chairs apiece to three Activities Chairs. Attendance: 23 May 31: New officers held a new member barbeque. Attendance: 38 Detail of Planned Activities About six of our chapter members plan to attend this year s Optics and Photonics event in San Diego. The elected officers plan to host one outreach and industry tour per quarter. Mike Mele plans to make a concerted effort to get our club more recognition in optics magazines including SPIE and OSA publications. Club meeting frequency may be increased as well in the future to promote awareness and investment in the club by its members.

204 Financial Information Starting Balance $ Outreach Expenses (supplies/snack/gas) $ Food (meetings and end of year gathering) Laser Maze Investments (supplies) SPIE Chapter Grant Current Balance Club Officer List Sean Inaba President Michael Mele Vice President Stanley Hendratna Treasurer Kathy Nguyen Secretary Sarah Hsia Activity Chair Shayna Khatri Activity Chair Nick Antipa Activity Chair Yasuyuki Ichikawa Webmaster Kenneth Whitwer EJC Representative Thank you again for the opportunity to represent your organization, Matthew Harrington

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207 Student Chapter Annual Report-2006 University of Dayton Electro-Optics Program Chapter officers: President: Mohammad Masud Siraj Vice-president: Knorni Katte Secretary: Adam Cooney Treasurer: Georges Nehmetallah, Chapter Scientific Adviser: Dr. Partha Banerjee Student Members: There are 17 students members listed in our chapter. Joseph Binford Weibin Chen Kalyan Garre Emily Heckman Knorni Katte Jang Pyo Kim Aziz Mahfoud Familia Georges Nehmetallah Anup Pandey David Pikas Mohammad Saleh

208 Jason Schmidt Mohammad Siraj Neil Smith Lirong Sun Alain Tschimwangan Arun Venkataraman Chapter Activities: Attendance at SPIE meetings Ex-President Aziz Mahofoud and Ex-Treasurer Jang Pyo Kim of the University of Dayton SPIE Chapter attended the SPIE 50th Annual Meeting in San Diego. Field Trip : A group of student members from SPIE student chapter visit the University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign. Science Fair We participated at Miami Valley TechFest 2006 at Sinclair Community College on February 18, We setup a display booth which included posters detailing UD s EO graduate programs and several optics-related exhibits, including several demonstrations of polarization optics and our popular holographic animation.

209 Curious onlookers enjoying the holographic animation. University of Dayton professors recruiting future electro-optics students.

210 Cijy Elizabeth Sunny presenting to some 2006 techfest attendees. General Meeting and Election We held a SPIE general meeting on March 10, In this meeting we elected our new officers. The SPIE/OSA student chapter officers are as follows: Mohammad Masud Siraj (President), Nkorni Katte (Vice President), Adam Cooney (Secretary), Georges Nehmetallah (Treasurer, 1 st six-month term), Lirong Sun (Treasurer, 2 nd six-month term), and Patrick Berry (Webmaster). Congratulations to all of our newly elected officers! University of Dayton SPIE student chapter members at the election meeting.

211 General Meeting: We held another general meeting on May 16, On this day we discussed our future activities. We decided on this day to have our annual outreach at Miamisburgh High School on May 30. Also we discussed plans to invite a speaker in the fall. Outreach: We performed an outreach in Miamisburgh High School on May 30, This program involved University of Dayton SPIE student chapter members visiting science class students at Miamisburg High School for the purpose of promoting interest in optical science through presentations and demonstrations. Included in the demonstrations were principles of polarization, holography, spectroscopy, and optical communications. Mohammad Masud Siraj presents a lecture on optics to Miamisburg High School students.

212 Some presentations and hands-on demonstrations at the outreach program.

213 University of Dayton SPIE student chapter members pose for a picture at Miamisburgh High School with several science faculty members. Future Plans: GLPS Activity: The Great Lakes Photonic Symposium (GLPS) will be held from June 12 to June 15 in Dayton. As hosts we are planning activities with other attending student chapters. Attendance at SPIE meetings President, Mohammad Masud Siraj, vice-president Nkorni Katte and treasurer Georges Nehmetallah will attend the SPIE 51st Annual Meeting in San Diego. Field Trip: We are planning to have a field trip in January, location and date has not been decided yet. Invited Speaker: We are planning to invite a speaker from the SPIE distinguished lecturers list in end of October. Expenses:

214 Beginning Balance: $ General Meeting : $ Outreach : $ General Meeting : $ Current Balance : $

215 Student Chapter Report Person completing form: Denis Brousseau Name Chapter: Number of members in Chapter: SPIE Student Chapter at Laval University 16 (as our report) Name and addresses of Chapter Officers: President: Mr. Denis Brousseau Vice President: Mr. Yannick Rasmussen Vice President: Mr. Bernard Déry Secretary: Mr. Guillaume Androz Treasurer: Donald Peyrot Chapter activities since last report: The Chapter had planned to present a special activity during Photonics North 2006, to be held in Quebec City 5-8 June 2006, but the conference is quite short and the agenda is very tight. We were not able to fit in an activity. Also, our advisor, who is also the chairman of the conference, is recovering from a serious brain surgery. We wish him a complete recovery. Donald Peyrot, our treasurer, is defending his PhD this month. Almost every member of the Chapter Officers has been very busy this winter preparing the transfer of all equipment to the new building (see December 2005 report). Future Chapter activities: In July we will celebrate the anniversary of the COPL (Centre d Optique Photonique et Laser). We are in discussion with them to organize a special activity for the event and attract new members. Donald Peyrot is leaving us so we will need to elect a new treasurer. Ensure that each member of the Chapter renew their membership. Amount: US Dollars 0

216 University of North Carolina at Charlotte SPIE Graduate Student Chapter Bi-Annual Report: May 12, Officers President: Kristin Walker Vice-President: Brent Bergner Secretary: Yi-Chen Chuang Treasurer: Harsh Chataurvedi Advisor: Dr. Tsing-Hua Her Webpage: Current Members 1. Kavan Acharya 2. Brent Bergner 3. Harsh Chataurvedi 4. Yi-Chen Chuang 5. Kert Edward 6. Choon-How Gan 7. Neil Gardner 8. Mona Mayeh 9. Jerry McCoy 10. Khizar Muhammad 11. Wes Parker 12. Himansu Pattanaik 13. Daryl Purcell 14. Rahul Sahariah 15. Jeremy Spivey 16. Amit Suratkar 17. Mingzhen Tang 18. Kristin Walker Chapter Activities since last report January 22-27, 2006 Photonics West San Jose, CA Yi-Chen Chuang and Brent Bergner used chapter funds to attend Photonics West and represent our department as part of the Carolinas MicroOptics Triangle (CMOT) February 27+28, 2006 Our chapter provided appetizers for this evening short course on bio-detection organized by General Dynamics March 20, 2006 SPIE Student Chapter Meeting 15 students attended our first chapter meeting of the year. We elected new members and discussed ways to become more active this next year April 21, 2006 Lunch with the Speaker: Dr. Paul Scott Carney from the Beckman Institute for Advanced Science and Technology at University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign met with nine students over an

217 informal lunch. He answered questions about his talk entitled Interferometric Synthetic Aperture Microscopy: 3-D Optical Imaging Beyond OCT which was to be given to the department later that afternoon. This lunch provided students with a comfortable environment to talk about Dr. Carney s research, his experience in graduate school, career advice, etc. May 1, 2006 SPIE Officers Meeting The officers met to create chapter funding policies and procedures. As more students are aware of our SPIE student chapter and its benefits more students will be interested in receiving funding. To keep things fair for all students the officers began to create funding policies and procedures that will be revised as needed this next year. May 12, 2006 SPIE Student Chapter Meeting and Ice Cream Social At this meeting the new funding policy and procedures were presented to the members and the proposal to amend bylaw 3 was made to vote on in the next meeting. Members filled out response forms to get feedback about past events and suggestions for future events and find out what conferences members are interested in attending. Following the meeting was an ice cream social to end the spring semester. Upcoming Activities May 21-26, 2006 CLEO: Conference on Lasers and Electro-Optics Long Beach, CA Mingzhen Tang will use chapter funding to attend this conference May 30 - June 2, 2006 EIPBN: Election, Ion, and Photon Beam Technology and Nanofabrication Baltimore, MD Harsh Chaturvedi will use chapter funding to attend this conference August 28, 2006 SPIE Student Chapter Meeting The first chapter meeting of the semester will be used for recent conference attendees to report and to start planning activities for the fall semester. Also during this meeting amending bylaw 3 will be up for vote and funding policies and procedures will be up for discussion. September 6-8, 2006 HONET 2006 High Capacity Optical Networks and Enabling Technologies', OSE 2006 Optics in the Southeast, and Dedication of new Applied Optics Building UNCC, Charlotte NC Our chapter plans on helping with this big event and take this opportunity to spread the word about our student chapter. Funds may be used to help with registration costs for members. Fall Lunch with the Speaker Due to the success of our past lunch we plan on having at least one lunch with the speaker per semester.

218 Financial Statement 1/1/06 Beginning Balance - funds from college* /3/06 Yi-Chen Chuan Photonics West /3/06 Brent Bergner Photonics West /13/06 Short Course Hor dourves /13/06 Short Course Hor dourves /29/06 Harsh Chaturvedi EIPBN Conference /17/06 Mingzhen Tang CLEO Conference /17/06 Lunch with the speaker /3/06 Ice Cream Social Remaining Balance 1.08 * funds allocated by the UNC Charlotte Graduate and Professional Student Government and provided by the Student Activity Fees Pictures SPIE Meeting and Ice Cream Social May 12, 2006

219 Bi-Annual Report (May 2003 May 2005) VІNNYTSІA NATIONAL TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY (VNTU) SPІE STUDENT CHAPTER Vіnnytsіa National Technical University Institute of Automatics, Electronics and Computer Control Systems Functional Electronics and Laser Engineering Department Vіnnytsіa, Ukraine Adviser: Volodymyr P. Kozhemyako ( kvp@vstu.vinnica.ua ) Board of advisors: Sergey V. Svechnikov (Kyiv), Sergey A. Kostyukevych (Kyiv), Sergey V. Pavlov (Vinnytsia), Gennady L. Lysenko (Vinnytsia), Andryy A. Yarovyy, Anatoly S. Vasura (Vinnytsia) Telephone: +380 (432) oeipt@.vstu.vinnica.ua WWW: Chapter was registered in April, President: Ruslan L. Kobzarenko ( oeipt@vstu.vinnica.ua ) Vice-presidents: Sergey V. Shulle ( S_Shulle@ukr.net) Secretary: Yelena V. Burmakina (vll@sovamua.com) Treasurer: Igor I. Tyutyunnyk (igors@vn.ua) SPІE VNTU Student Chapter realizes its activity with direct support and constructive assistance of leading experts of scientific school of Laser and Optoelectronic Engineering Chair of VNTU and Ukrainian SPІE Chapter. THE BI-ANNUAL PERIOD OF SPІE VNTU STUDENT CHAPTER ACTIVITY COMPRISES: Members of the Chapter took part in International Symposium and Exhibition Photonics of Ukraine held by Ukrainian SPІE Chapter, June 26-28, 2003 in Kyiv, Ukraine. The Fourth International Young Scientist Conference Problems of Optics and High Technology Material Science (SPO-2003) was held on the base of Kyiv National Taras Shevchenko University. Students Chapters of SPIE (Kyiv National Taras Shevchenko University, Vіnnytsіa National Technical University, Chernivtsy National University, Kyiv National Technical University KPI ) were co-sponsors of the given Conference. President of SPІE VNTU Student Chapter Andriy A. Yarovyy was awarded with SPIE Travel Grant and participated in Student Chapter Program at SPIE s 48-th Annual Meeting, August 3-8, 2003 in San Diego, CA USA. Members of the Chapter took part in SPIE Europe Student Chapters Seminar and Third International Conference for Students, Young Scientist and Engineers Optics 2003, October 20-23, 2003 in Saint-Petersburg, Russia. Within the program of SPIE Europe Student Chapters Seminar the Semi-Annual Report concerning the activity of SPІE VNTU Student Chapter was submitted, the intensive exchange of information and practical experience with the members of SPІE Student chapters of other states provided. Member of the Chapter Olha V. Malinochka awarded with SPIE Travel Grant to participate in Student Chapter Program at SPIE s 49-th Annual Meeting, August 2-6, 2004 in Denver, Colorado USA. Efforts are made to increase SPIE rating (including the rating of SPІE VNTU Student Chapter): - Spreading of information dealing with SPIE activity by delivering lectures to the students of junior courses and college students as well as presenting the reports at scientific Sessions in Vinnytsia Region and Ukraine. - Next articles have been published: - Some results of SPІE VNTU Student Chapter Activity are noted in the article of Rector of VNTU, Newsletter Impulse (VNTU) 5 (616), May 2003; - Newsletter Impulse (VNTU) 7-8( ), September 2003; - Newsletter Impulse (VNTU) 10 (621), November The cooperation with a number of industrial enterprises of Vіnnytsіa region and Ukraine as well as Technological University of Podilia (Khmelnitsky, Ukraine), Saint-Petersburg State University of Information Technologies, Mechanics and Optics (Saint-Petersburg, Russia), M.V. Lomonosov Moscow State University (Moscow, Russia), Belarusian State University (Minsk, Belarus) have been established.

220 President of SPІE VNTU Student Chapter Olha V. Malinochka was awarded with SPIE Travel Grant and participated in Student Chapter Program at SPIE s 49-th Annual Meeting, August 2-6, 2004 in Denver, Colorado USA. The relations with SPIE Student Chapters of Russia, Poland, Romania, Turkey, Argentina, Canada, USA have been established, the cooperation is carried out. Members of the Chapter took part in joint meetings with the delegation of International Centre of Students Education of Jinan (China) that visited VNTU in December Members of the Chapter under the auspice of VNTU participated in Scientific Workshops, monthly held on the base of UNESCO International Research and Training Centre of Information Technologies and Systems of Ministry of Education and Science of Ukraine and National Academy of Science of Ukraine (Kyiv, Ukraine). Members of SPIE VNTU Student Chapter delivered Lecture Course SPIE building your future in optics. Learn how you can achieve academic success and reach your career goals. The course was intended for junior students, pupils and all those who are interested in this field. The given course was a part of the celebration program of The Day of the University held at VNTU early October SPІE VNTU Student Chapter official Web-site ( has been regularly updated; During the semi-annual activity period the meetings of SPІE VNTU Student Chapter were periodically held to discuss the results of the activity and elaborate program and directions of further Chapter actions. All the members of SPIE VNTU Student Chapter regularly participate in major Scientific Conferences, Exhibitions and Workshops held in Ukraine. The majority of SPIE VNTU Student Chapter members publishes the results of their scientific research in leading Scientific Journals of Ukraine, and submits the materials for publication in Proceedings of SPIE and Proceedings of SPIE/Ukraine. Efforts are made to increase SPIE rating (including the rating of SPІE VNTU Student Chapter): - Spreading of information dealing with SPIE activity by delivering lectures to the students of junior courses and college students as well as presenting the reports at scientific Sessions in Vinnytsia Region and Ukraine. - An article has been published: - Newsletter Impulse (VNTU) 9 (631), October SPIE and SPIE/Ukraine scientific materials, CD and video-materials (by support of Ukrainian SPІE Chapter) have been periodically used while teaching a number of optoelectronic disciplines as well as studying and mastering English. Library funds of Vіnnytsіa National Technical University are constantly supplied with newest SPIE scientific publications (by support of Ukrainian SPІE Chapter). Library of SPІE VNTU Student Chapter is constantly supplied containing SPIE scientific publications (by support of Ukrainian SPІE Chapter). The III International Scientific Conference "PHOTONICS - ODS 2005" under patronage of Ukrainian SPIE chapters and National Informative center of co-ordination with countries of the EC in the field of science and technology was carried out on the base of the Vinnytsia National Technical University (VNTU) during April 27-28, More than 120 participants took part in the Conference work. Academician of the Academy of Pedagogical Sciences of Ukraine, rector of the VNTU, Professor Mokin B.I. was the chairman of Conference. Members of the Vinnytsia student SPIE chapter took active part in organization of the Conference. Almost all members of chapter represented their abstracts and reports in the Conference. Work of the Conference "PHOTONICS - ODS 2005" was presented in mass medias. On the local TV channel a short popular scientific film about the VNTU department of Laser and optoelectronic technique and prospects of optoelectronic technologies development was shown. In the film the information about the Vinnytsia SPIE chapter was shortly represented. On May, , the solemn meeting of Vinnytsia region state leaders and leading scientists was carried out and it was devoted to the Day of Science. On this meeting the adviser of the Vinnytsia SPIE chapter professor Kojemiako V.P. was awarded by Diploma for a considerable contribution to development of Ukrainian Science and optoelectronic technologies in particular. Also Shtelmah O.O. (the 11-th class student of high-school) the youngest member of the Vinnytsia student SPIE chapter was marked by special letter for taking the first place in WEB-design competition of Vinnytsia region among high-school students and for creation of web-site Fiber-optic information technologies which presents information about modern development of fiber-optic technologies on Ukrainian and Russian languages. Awards were handed by the governor of the Vinnytsia region Dombrovsciy O.G. New Enrolment of SPІE VNTU Student Chapter (Appendix 1). SPІE VNTU Student Chapter members who graduated from the VNTU are recommended for the enrollment in Ukrainian SPІE Chapter (Appendix 1). SPІE VNTU STUDENT CHAPTER PROGRAM FOR THE NEXT YEAR: Representation of a scientific achievements of Laser and Optoelectronic Department and of information about SPIE student chapter work at Optics&Photonics 2005 and SPIE's 50th Annual Meeting, which will take place in San- Diego, 30 July 4 August. To take part in the 6-th International Young Scientists Conference Optics and High Technology Material Science SPO 2005, it will be performed on October, 27-30, 2005 in Kiev, under an aegis of SPIE, on the base of the Kiev National University of Shevchenko.

221 Support the intensive exchange of information and practical experience with the members of SPІE Student chapters of other states by means of organization of Conferences and Workshops visiting scientific institutions and realization of joint scientific projects, seminars and conferences; Development of international relations and signing of international agreements on cooperation with students scientific organizations of other states; Continue to involve the best scientific materials of the representatives of students and other SPІE chapters for publication in the International Scientific Journal "Optoelectronic Information-Power Technologies", published by the aegis of Vіnnytsіa National Technical University and Ukrainian SPІE Chapter; Submit scientific materials to leading scientific SPIE editions; Continue to apply SPIE materials for further usage in teaching of optoelectronic disciplines as well as studying and mastering English; Support the activity aimed at promoting the rating of SPІE Student chapter through out realization of informationeducational activity; Updating and actualization SPІE VNTU Student Chapter official Web-site; Updating Vіnnytsіa National Technical University and SPІE VNTU Student Chapter Library funds with new scientific SPIE publications (by support of Ukrainian SPІE Chapter); Enrolment of talented and gifted students of other departments and specialties of Vіnnytsіa Universities and other Universities of Vinnytsia Region, representatives of other scientific schools to SPІE VNTU Student chapter. Ruslan L. Kobzarenko President of SPІE VNTU Student Chapter May 23, 2005

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223 SPIE Student Chapter Warsaw University of Technology Officers: President Aneta Michalkiewicz Vice President Krzysztof Radzimowski Secretary Anna Pakula Treasurer Przemyslaw Czapski Representative of WEiTI department Mariusz Klimczak Number of members: 32 Activity report for the period January-May 2006 I. Actions for Warsaw University of Technology: - Arrangements for XX-th Polish Festival of Science (14-26.IX.2006). This year we plan to show few lectures linked with workshops for children in different age: o The eye human optics ; o Holography 3D photography ; o The magic of colors visible spectrum of light ; o Wave optics interference and diffraction ; o In the maze of geometrical optics. - On 26 of April and 17 th May we had visit of students from one of Warsaw s High Schools interested in field of optics. Aneta Michałkiewicz gave them lecture about holography and later on we have shown them our laboratories and workshop about the principles of holography : - Preparations for Fair of Scientific Chapters and Students Organizations of WUT at which we are going to show different aspects of holography and interferometry. We prepared leaflets and other promotional materials for this event. - Improvements on our website ( II. Education and projects: - Arrangements for SPIE Student Members trip to SPIE Annual Meeting and Optics & Photonics Conference in San Diego, USA; - 6 persons took a part in Photonics Europe 2006, which was held in Strasbourg in April We presented several papers: Miniaturized low-cost digital holographic interferometer, A. Michalkiewicz, M. Kujawinska, P. Marc, L. R. Jaroszewicz Application of photoelastic tomography to measurement of refractive indices in optical anisotropic microelements, P. Kniazewski, T. Kozacki, M. Kujawinska Design, modeling, and prototyping of microinterferometric

224 tomography system for optical fiber inspection, R. Krajewski, B. Volckaerts, Y. Meuret, M. Kujawinska, H. Thienpont Experimental proof-of-principle 3D measurements of microobjects by digital holographic tomography, A. Jozwicka, M. Kujawinska LCOS as a reference element in Twyman-Green laser interferometer, J. M. Kacperski, M. Kujawinska, M. Jozwik 4D measurement system for automatic location of anatomical structures, M. Witkowski, R. Sitnik, M. Kujawinska, W. Rapp, M. Kowalski, B. Haex, S. Mooshake We also took a part in Innovation Village and our product Virtual Studio for educational content production won a 1 st Prize in category: Best Marketability Marcin with our stand SPIE President Paul McManamon (left) presents the SPIE Europe Best Marketability Award to Marcin Witkowski and Aneta Michalkiewicz, with the help of head judge Henri Rajbenbach (right). - Preparations and verifications of our members presentations which will be given on XVIIth Conference on Photonics and Web Engineering held in Wilga, Poland; - Since February monthly chapter meetings have been arranged, and all the actual problems have been discussed. Also the lectures on certain topics have been given: o Holography 3D photography by Aneta Michalkiewicz; o o Lasers by Mariusz Klimczak; Wilga s presentations by Bartosz Zieliński, Bartosz Bilski, Pawel Blaszczyk, Jan Okraj, Krzysztof Radzimowski. III. Creation of links between SPIE Chapters 1. SPIE Student Chapters On 23-25th of April a few our chapter members were in Wroclaw and discussed with SPIE Student Chapter from there the possibility of tightening our relations We are cooperating with all Student Chapters from Poland. Especially we have excellent relations with members of Wroclaw University of Technology SPIE Students Chapter. Besides we have also very good contact with Student Chapters from Kent State University, Chernivtsi National University and Tec de Monterrey, Mexico. 2. SPIE Poland Chapter