Annual Report SPIE CIO Student Chapter November 2016 Centro de Investigaciones en Óptica, A. C. Loma del Bosque #115, Lomas del Campestre 37150, León, Guanajuato, México Phone: (52) 477 441 4200 Ext. 111 Fax: (52) 477 441 42
CONTENT 1) Introduction 2) Elected officers 2017 3) Chapter members 4) Activities 2016 I. 10 th Anniversary Dinner II. Planning meeting III. Recruitment activity / Pizza Party IV. 2016 Official Photo V. Visiting Lecturer VI. Outreach Activities VII. Summer School Students a) Cineclub b) Optics games c) Soccer Match VIII. Optics Experiments Contest IX. Photography contest X. SPIE Optics and Photonics 2016 XI. Visit from Prof. Boreman 5) Future Activities 6) Financial Balance
I. Introduction The SPIE Student Chapter from the Centro de Investigaciones en Optica (CIO), located in the city of Leon, Guanajuato, Mexico, has as purpose, promote outreach events with the local community in different educational levels. The chapter also promotes the interaction and partnership among students from this and other academic institutions. In this report we show the activities done from December 2015 to November 2016. This year we celebrated our 10 th anniversary as a SPIE student chapter, we had the visit of Prof. Mike Fiddy, participated in the SPIE Student Chapter Leadership workshop, had an outreach activity contest and a photography contest among many other activities involving bachelor students. We are very grateful to our Academic Director Dr. Luis Armando Díaz Torres, our Chapter Advisor Dr. Oracio Barbosa and the CIO General Director Dr. Elder de la Rosa for their support to all the activities promoted by the SPIE CIO chapter, thank you to all of you.
II. Elected officers 2017 President Vice-president MARIBEL JUAREZ HERNANDEZ FRANCISCO JAVIER GANTES NUÑEZ SPIE ID#: 3611500 SPIE ID#: 3611493 mjuarez@cio.mx gantes@cio.mx Treasurer OSCAR ANDRES NARANJO MONTOYA Secretary JORGE EDUARDO AGUIRRE ROCHA SPIE ID#: 3643775 SPIE ID#: 4026422 oscarnaranjo@cio.mx eduaguirre@cio.mx III. Chapter members 1. Ana Aguayo Alvarado 2. Jorge Eduardo Aguirre Rocha 3. Abril Arellano-Morales 4. Mirna Barreiro Argüelles 5. Alan Blanco 6. Priscilla Castillo Velazquez 7. Ramon Cruz Torres 8. Paula Cutipa Gimenez 9. Mario Flores-Bustamante 10. Francisco Javier Gantes 11. Jason Gomez Jamaica 12. Maria Fernanda Gonzalez- Rodriguez 13. Brenda Guzman Valdivia 14. Francisco Ulises Hernandez Ledezma 15. Jesus Pablo Lauterio-Cruz 16. Carlos Moreno-Hernández 17. Jacqueline Muro Rios 18. Ulises Ramirez Meza 19. Pedro Pablo Rocha Garcia 20. Eduardo Roco 21. César Tavera Ruiz 22. Francisco Vargas
IV. Activities 2016 I. 10th Anniversary Dinner The SPIE student chapter from Centro de Investigaciones en Optica, placed in Leon, Gto., Mexico, celebrated its 10 th anniversary with a Dinner for old, current and new members. The special guests were Prof. Socorro Hernandez, Prof. Mauricio Flores and Prof. Haggeo Desirena, former members of the chapter as students, and now they work as researchers at CIO. The advicer of the chapter, Prof. Oracio Barbosa, Prof. Amalia Martinez, Prof. Eric Rosas and Prof. Cristina Solano were invited due to their continuous support to the chapter activities. The president of the chapter received from our advisor a commemorative plaque celebrating the anniversary.
II. Planning meetings In order to plan the activities to be done, each month the chapter offices had a meeting where they assigned everyone s job.
III. Recruitment activity (Pizza Party) Twice a year we host a pizza party, where new students met the chapter and had the chance to know the benefits they could get from international societies such as SPIE. We bought pizza, sodas and the students that decided to join the chapter got a T-shirt from the SPIE Chapter.
IV. 2016 Official photo At the begging of the year, the members from the chapter meet to receive their official T-shirt and the to take the official photo, celebrating a new year of activities.
V. Visiting Lecturer. Prof. Mike Fiddy Through the visiting lecturer program, we had the visit of Prof. Mike Fiddy, from the University of Charlotte. First, Prof. Fiddy gave a technical talk about her work in infrared metamaterials. With an audience of students, researchers and workers from the center, the talk last about an hour. After that, he visited some of the labs in CIO, where researchers and students presented the work they are developing. Once the activities in the center were done, the chapter officers took Prof. Fiddy to taste Mexican food and spend the rest of the evening in a tour through the downtown of the city of Leon.
VI. Outreach Activities Once a month, CIO host a workshop for about 20 bachelor students who come from many parts of the country and even from another country. In these workshops students learn about an specific optic s topic such as fibers, metrology, lasers or lens design. By the end of these workshops, the SPIE student chapter from CIO gives a talk about what a student chapter is, also we encourage them to join the chapter at their institutions and oriented them of the way to form a new chapter. From this talk, a student from the Instituto Tecnologico de Tuxtla Gutierrez, at the south of Mexico is trying to form their chapter, which could be the first in the state of Chiapas. During the talks, we use the outreach kits from SPIE (Light Blox Science Kit) and OSA (Optics suitcase) and show them how light works and how we can use it in our daily lives. Phenomena such as polarization, diffraction and decomposition of light were explained using simple experiments.
VII. Summer School Students Every year, CIO invites 30 bachelor students to visit the labs and to participate in a one month staying to work in a research project with one of the professors of the center. This year, students from several universities from Mexico and Colombia lived this amazing experience. In order to improve the experience of these young students, the SPIE student chapter was invited to participate with several activities: a) Cineclub We organized the projection of the movie 2001: A Space Odyssey. With popcorn, sodas and candies, almost 40 people enjoyed the movie and had a great time.
b) Optics games Using the outreach kits, summer students played with light and learned about some phenomena like polarization, diffraction and color theory. Using the light blox science kit, they had to obtain the most distinctive image they could get to impress their colleagues.
c) Soccer Match Students from the summer school challenge the SPIE members to a soccer game. With a final score of 8 vs 5 the chapter won the match, but all the players had a great time.
VIII. Optics Experiments Contest We organized our fourth Optics Experiment Contest, having the participation of 3 ideas that, by using easy to get or recycled materials, explained 3 phenomena of light. The projects where: First place: Sonolight Using a laser pointer, a solar cell and a speaker, Carlos Moreno created a simple but amazing microphone. Second place: Laser and the eye Using a laser pointer and a diffuse surface, Cesar Tavera used the speckle effect to explain the difference between a coherent light and white light.
IX. Photography Contest We organized the Photography contest, having 18 participants with scientific and natural photos, always showing an the beauty of light. The winner of this year was Ulises Contreras with the photography Pinceladas de Luz showing an aurora borealis. The winners were elected taking in account the evaluation of the technical characteristics of the photography but also with the support of the audience with the Likes in the Facebook page of the Student Chapter.
X. Participation in SPIE Optics and Photonics 2016 Our officers travel to San Diego to attend the 2016 SPIE Optics and Photonics meeting. They participated in the Student Chapter Leadership Workshop, where they could improve their leader capabilities and had the chance to interact with students from all over the world. The CIO Student Chapter participated in the Poster Exhibition showing the activities the chapter does along the year. The poster exhibition is a great opportunity to get new ideas of activities the chapter could implement, that were tested in another chapter, saving time knowing what things should be or shouldn t be done.
XI. Visit from Prof. Boreman The 2016 elected president of SPIE, Prof. Glenn Boreman, visited CIO and had a nice meeting with the members of the chapter, encouraging new students to join the chapter. After this, Prof. Boreman talk to students and researchers from CIO about the work SPIE does around the world and the great effort to create a link between researchers.
V. Future Activities New T-shirts. As a way to motivate new members, we organize a contest to design the new T-shirt for the chapter. Once the new shirts were done, will be given to the new members or for those who renew their memberships. Coffee science. We will have a researcher to talk about his experience in science. Recruitment activity. Twice a year we will organize a recruitment activity to get more people into the chapter. We will have pizza, sodas and T-shirts. Photography contest. Every year we organize a photography contest with two categories: Scientific and artistic, involving all the center community Summer activities. In collaboration with CIO, we participated in activities involving bachelor students who come during a month to work the labs of the center. During this summer experience, we organize a movie projection, we made the optics games, an exhibition of the outreach activity kits the chapter got from OSA and SPIE. Outreach activity contest. Every year we organize a contest to present an activity that can be done using accessible, recycled and easy to get materials, explaining a light based phenomena. Visiting Lecturer. We will use the visiting lecturer program to take an international researcher to our center.
VI. Financial Balance (currency: USD) Description Income Expense Beginning balance $ 857.30 Activity grant $ 900.00 2016 T-Shirts $ 231.30 Recruitment Activities $ 206.06 10th anniversary dinner $ 200.00 $ 533.33 Outreach Activity contest $ 60.61 Visiting Lecturer $ 60.61 Photography contest $ 345.45 Balance 2016 Total $ 1,957.30 $ 1,437.36 $ 519.94 (Conversion: 16.5 MXN/USD)