Year in Review :

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1 Year in Review : OSA/SPIE Chapter of Columbia University in the City of New York Chapter Leadership: 1. President's name: Cathy Chen 2. President's address: 3. President s member #: Vice-President's name: Atiyah Ahsan 5. Vice-President's asa2157@columbia.edu 6. Vice-President s member #: Treasurer's name: Lee Zhu 8. Treasurer's xz2237@columbia.edu 9. Treasurer s member #: Secretary's name: Xiang Meng 11. Secretary's meng@ee.columbia.edu 12. Secretary s member #: Advisor: Christine Henden Chapter Members: Syed Bin Amir 29 October 2015 Cathy Chen 10 May 2015 Yu Gan 28 February 2015 Luozhou Li 27 November 2014 Ying Li 7 February 2015 Yuye Ling 22 November 2015 Xingsheng Luan 16 November 2014 Xiang Meng 1 September 2015 Kishore Padmaraju 19 July 2015 Hao Sun 18 February 2015

2 Noel Wan 15 December 2014 Lu Wei 18 July 2015 Xinwen Yao 5 February 2016 Xiaolang Zhu 5 November 2015 In the past year, the Columbia Chapter of the OSA/SPIE has held a number of events and programs in addition to our education and outreach efforts in the greater New York City area. The chapter meets once a month to discuss programing, events and guest lecturers. Lectures: On November 13 th, 2014 we will be hosting Dr. Michael Larson for a lecture entitled: Starting your Own technology Company: Dos, Don ts, and Doubts and raffle a Khet game after the lecture. Over 30 people have RSVP d so far for the event.

3 Outreach: On November 21 st 2013 chapter members collaborated with members of our school s chapter of the Graduate Society of Women Engineering and visited the Manhattan Center for Science and Math in Manhattan to speak to the Robotics and Engineering club about optics, photonics and networking. Demos were planned and presented to the students. A few pictures are below: Financial information.

4 In addition to bringing Demos to students, we also host lab tours for programs in our community. On July 31 st 2014 we brought the Apps Youth Leadership Academy into our Labs at Columbia for a lab tour and lecture:

5 On December 5 th, 2013 We hosted the Harlem Educational Activities Fund Quest Program in our labs for a lab tour and lecture. Pictures of that visit follow:

6 Education: We have developed a JellO and Lasers demo that has been a huge success with students. We provide participants with a waveguide, or large rectangular block of clear Jello. The participants can use a laser pointer and protractor to measure the incident and transmission angles of the laser inside the jello, up until the point of total internal reflection, at which point the laser stays inside the jello and travels along the block via multiple reflections. We will also demonstrate light going through an actual length of optical fiber, as well as sending multiple colors of light through the waveguide. If time allows we will also demonstrate sending music signals over a laser, using a modulator on one side, and a photo detector to detect the signal on the other side of the waveguide. (We can bring this equipment from our lab). On November 23 rd, 2014 the student chapter participated in Girls Science Day at Columbia University collaborating with the Columbia chapter of Women in Science (WiSc) to present a demo/experiment called JellO and Lasers

7 On March 29, 2014 the student chapter participated in Engineering Explorations in collaboration with the University s chapter of the Society of Women Engineers. We taught 2 sessions of the Lasers and JELLO demo to girls from in and around New York City, ages 7 th -9 th grade.

8 On September 20, 2014 the student chapter ran a workshop in conjunction with the Johns Hopkins Center for Talented Youth s Engineering and Applied Science Day, part of their Science and Technology Series. The Science and Technology Series is inspired by the daily advances in technology that affect our lives in countless ways. In these programs, students and parents explore aspects of technology and science

9 through demonstrations, lectures, and hands-on workshops led by pioneering scientists, mathematicians, and academic researchers. Programs are for students in grades 7-10 unless indicated otherwise. The typical Science and Technology program runs from approximately 9:00 a.m. to 4:00 p.m. The day includes specially-designed workshops and presentations in which scientists share their research and experience. For part of the day, adults may explore the theme of the program in separate, concurrent sessions specifically designed for CTY parents. The Series also includes overnight and extended programs. On November 15 th 2014 we will be hosting an experiment again for Girls Science Day.

10 Lobbying: Chapter members Hsu-Cheng Huang, Alex Meng, and Cathy Chen attended the National Photonics Initiative (NPI) sponsored Congressional Visits Day in Washington, DC., on travel grants through SPIE and OSA. The students met with Congress members from the state of New York including staff for Senator Kirsten Gillibrand, Representative Tom Reed, and Representative Brian Higgins to discuss the importance of optics and photonics technologies.

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13 Financial information. o Beginning balance: $ o Funds raised and expended (indicate amounts and source/destination) Raised Amount Expended Amount SPIE $500 Popular Community Bank, order of checks Columbia Girls Science day outreach supplies Travel to SPIE leadership conference o Note SPIE funding distribution for this year is stored in EE departmental account UR o Ending balance: $2,341.69