SPIE Beijing Jiaotong University (BJTU) Student Chapter Annual Report (Sep. 2008- Sep. 2009) Officers of the chapter President: Kuanglu Yu Kuangluyu@gmail.com Vice-President: Zhen Feng Zhenfeng32@gmail.com Secretary: Chao Shang 08118354@bjtu.edu.cn Treasurer: Yaping Wang 05121783@bjtu.edu.cn Webmaster: Kaiqiang Gao kaiqiang.gao@gmail.com Advisor: Chongqing Wu cqwu@bjtu.edu.cn Members of the chapter Prefix Family Name Given Name Membership Expires Mr. Wang Yongjun 31 December 2009 Mr. Li Zhengyong 31 December 2009 Mr. Tian Changyong 31 December 2009 Ms. Wang Yaping 31 December 2009 Mr. Gao Kaiqiang 31 December 2009 Ms. Zhao Shuang 31 December 2009 Mr. Yu Kuanglu 31 December 2009 Mr. Yang Shuangshou 31 December 2009 Mr. Feng Zhen 31 December 2009 Ms. Shi Yinting 5 January 2010 Ms. Guo Xuan 5 January 2010 Ms. Li Yongdi 5 January 2010 Mr. Xie Xinfei 5 January 2010 Mr. Gao Yacheng 5 January 2010 Mr. Sun Lingyu 5 January 2010 Ms. Wang Jing 5 January 2010 Mr. Zhang Qingtao 5 January 2010 Mr. Wang Yang 5 January 2010 Mr. Zou Sihua 5 January 2010 Ms. Wang Qiao 5 January 2010 Mr. Shang Chao 5 January 2010 Chapter activities 1. Outgoing activity- Hiking to QinglongXia (Oct/12-13/2008) At the beginning of a brand-new school year, lots of new students from all over China and even the world became one member of the big BJTU family, and our SPIE Chapter enrolled new members for the next year. For the sake of building connections between old and new members, and professors, a two-day ice-break activity, hiking to QinglongXia, was organized. All the participators can not only make new friends, but also enjoy the barbecue in the breeze and the great sunshine of the mountaintop where the Ming Dynasty Great Wall was located. Page 1 of 6
2. Attend SPIE Asia-Pacific Optical Communications (APOC) 2008 (Oct/26-30/2008) Five of our chapter members took part in the Asia-Pacific Optical Communications 2008 which was hold by Zhejiang University during October 26 to 30 2008 in Zhejiang International Conventional Center, Hangzhou, China. Eleven papers were submitted to and accepted by the conference committee. Our chapter members are always encouraged to attend conferences, which is considered to do well to their future developments and careers. Hiking to Qinglongxia, we were on the mountaintop. (Background: the Great Wall) Chapter members in Hangzhou. 3. Visit Zhejiang University (Oct/30/2008) After APOC 2008, chapter members were invited by SPIE Zhejiang University Student Chapter to visit Zhejiang University and their laboratory, center for optical and electromagnetic research of Zhejiang University on Oct 30 2008. 4. Invited lecture by Dr. Quanhuai Yang (Nov/6/2008) Dr. Yang works with the Franhofer Institute for Applied Solid State Physics IAF in Germany. He was invited to give a seminar on Quantum Cascade Laser (QCL), and he did give a wonderful lecture on QCL principles and recent research progress in the Franhofer IAF to BJTUers on Nov. 6 2008. And later that day, he was interviewed by a pressman from BJTU TV station. Dr. Yang was answering questions from the audience. Page 2 of 6
5. Elect the officers of the chapter (Feb/21/2008) After a nice one-month long spring festival vacation, members of our chapter returned to BJTU and gathered around for a meeting. During that meeting, the new chapter officers were elected. 6. Design&make flag and of the chapter (Mar/2008- Apr/2008) BJTU student Chapter is a newly founded club, after a discussion the chapter officers all agreed to design and make a chapter flag and an official seal of the chapter for possible future use. The flag is blue with yellow logo and letters, where the blue colour represents high technologies while the yellow colour means light. And it stands for our sincere desire to build better lives for everyone with optical technologies. There is a gear with SPIE written in the center, which comes from the Beijing Jiaotong University badge, in the logo of our flag and official seal. Flag of SPIE BJTU Student Chapter in black and white. Official seal of SPIE BJTU Student Chapter. 7. Attend Progress In Electromagnetics Research Symposium (PIERS) (Mar/29/2008) The advisor of our chapter, Prof. Chongqing Wu, is the session chair of Fiber Optics, Optical Sensors, and All-optical Signal Processing in Progress In Electromagnetics Research Symposium (PIERS) which is an IEEE conference. Five members of our chapter had attended 2009 PIERS hold by BJTU in Beijing. 8. BJTU SPIE&OSA Student Club Serial Seminars In order to have better understandings of others research fields and enhence the communications and connections between members, a series of seminars was organized for members and non-members. These seminars were usually composed of talks by our Ph.D. candidates on their research fields and table games after the technical part. These seminars could help the new members and students with choosing their fields and future developments of their optical careers. Note: These seminars were co-organized with BJTU OSA student chapter. Ms. Zhao was giving a talk on SOA. 3 rd Seminar by BJTU SPIE and OSA club. Page 3 of 6
8- a. Seminar 1 (Mar/20/2009) Talker Ms. Shuang Zhao Mr. Kaiqiang Gao Topic Instructions about utilization of SOA FPGA Develop Example_Flexible Packet Generator. 8- b. Seminar 2 (Apr/17/2009) Talker Topic Mr. Shuangshou Yang Introduction of Polarization Optical Time Domain Reflectometry (P-OTDR) Ms. Yaping Wang The optical replicator based on the active fiber ring 8- c. Seminar 3 (May/15/2009) Talker Mr. Kuanglu Yu Topic Sensors based on cavity ring-down spectroscopy (CRDS) 9. Awards the former chapter officers (May/15/2009) SPIE BJTU Chapter was established last year, and the former chapter officers had sacrificed a lot of time and energy to build it home for all members. Hence, an awarding ceremony was hold and a cerificate of service was awarded by the chapter advisor Prof. Wu to each officer for their hard work and contributions to the chapter. Former SPIE BJTU Student Chapter Officers are awarded by Prof. Chongqing Wu. 10. Take part in SPIE BUPT Chapter s activity (Apr/24/2009) Prof. Gee-kung Chang from Georgia Institute of Technology was invited to give course on Multi-dimensional Network Convergence in the 21st Century in Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications. And BJTU chpater members were invitational guests of this course, a dozen chapter members took the course. 11. Participate in the course of an Alnair 500G oscilloscope by Luster LightTech Company and visit Peking University Lab (May/18/2009) Invited by Luster LightTech Company, several members of BJTU chapter went to Peking University and participated the introduction course of an Alnair product, a 500G oscilloscope. After that, we visited few labs in Peking University. Page 4 of 6
BJTU chapter members with Prof. Chang. Introduction course to Alnair 500G oscilloscope. 12. Take part in the 2009 Student Leadership Workshop and Optics+ Photonics (Aug/1/2009- Aug/7/2009) Kuanglu Yu on behalf of BJTU chapter participated in the 2009 Student Leadership Workshop and the 2009 SPIE Optics+ Photonics hold in San Diego, CA during Aug 1 st to 7 th 2009. During that time, connections were built between our chapter and globle chapters, and professors from all over the top universities, and manufacturers in optical industry. 13. Assist in the International Conference on Optical Communicaitons and Networks (ICOCN) 2009 (Sep/15/2009- Sep/18/2009) The 8th International Conference on Optical Communicaitons and Networks (ICOCN), which was co-organized by Institute of Optical Information (IOI) of Beijing Jiaotong University and Nanyang Technological University, was hold in BJTU, Beijing, China during Sep. 15 to Sep. 18 2009. Most SPIE members participated and served in all aspects such as, organizing, reception and guest service, and their work and contributions were highly prized by conference delegates, enterprise supporters and the conference committee. Left: Kuanglu Yu with Zhenhua Tian, Ben Lockwood, and Drik Fabian during 2009 O+ P. Right: Shuang Zhao (on the right hand side) was helping a Korean student with his the poster. Planned activities 1. Attending conferences is a good way to meet new college, to make new friends, to know new companies, to establish new connections. So the next 12 months, we plan to partcipate in more conferences, such as, ACP, OFC, OFS, PIERS, ICOCN and so on. 2. Invite globle famed international professors in the fields of Optical communication and Optical sensors Page 5 of 6
to give lectures or courses of their research projects. 3. Keep connections and communicate with the other SPIE or OSA student chapters, and try to co-organize activities with them. 4. Out door activities received a lot praise both from members and professors, and this kind of activities is perfect for us as an ice-break activity while everyone can enjoy the beautiful scenery of suburban area around Beijing. 5. Four of our Ph.D. candidate students are about to graduate and now they are finding jobs, if possible, our chapter would invite some experts or graduated former members to give courses and advices in job-hunting. 6. Web site is a window to the outer world, therefore we would like to update and maintain our web site. 7. Organize student member talks on optical communications, all-optical signal processing, and optical sensors. 8. Enrolling new members is of vital importance, we hope enroll more members into our chapter and make more people know about SPIE BJTU chapter and our activites. 9. Host a public lab tour for professors and students from other lab or universities. Chapter Finances We received two sources of funding this year. First was $900 from SPIE for the chapter activity grant. This money went toward the costs of flag and official seal of BJTU SPIE Student chapter, a series of seminars of our Chapter, attending international conference, such as APOC 2008, PIERS 2009 and ICOCN 2009 as well as guest lecturers, and our outgoing activities. We also received up to $200 from Institute of Optical Information (IOI), BJTU which fully financed our t-shirts and partially funded chapter autumn outgoing activity. End Balance = $ 300 Reported by: Kuanglu Yu and Yaping Wang. Sep/28/2009 Reviewed by: Zhen Feng and Chao Shang. Sep/30/2009 SPIE BJTU Student Chapter Page 6 of 6