Follow us at: www.tunisia-optics.org Annual Report 2016/2017
Student Chapter Advisors Prof. Mourad Zghal Dr. Rim Cherif mourad.zghal@supcom.tn rim.cherif@supcom.tn Student Chapter Executive Committee Officers: President: Amani Ben Khalifa amenibenkhalifa@gmail.com Vice president: Latifa Guesmi Secretary: Rim Farhat Treasurer: Mohamed Boubaker Student Chapter Members: Amira Baili Abir Hraghi Abderrahmen Trichili Sarra Rebhi Mohamed Elmoncef Hamdi Haythem Souissi Nejmeddine Jaafar Ameni Hileli Oussema Boujelben Ben Hassine Ahmed Ayadi Alaeddine Hbaieb Kais Touil Kouloud Ben Aissa Ayoub Fathalla Oussama Chhayeder Mohamed Kamel Haithem Sefi latifa.guesmi@supcom.tn rim.farhat@supcom.tn mohamed.boubaker@supcom.tn baili.amira@gmail.com abir.hraghi@gmail.com trichili.abderrahmen@gmail.com sarra.rebhi@supcom.tn mohamedelmoncef.hamdi@supcom.tn haythem.souissi@supcom.tn nejmeddine.jaafar@supcom.tn ameni.hileli@supcom.tn oussema.boujelben@supcom.tn ahmed.benhassine@supcom.tn alaeddine.ayadi@supcom.tn kais.hbaieb@supcom.tn kouloud.touil@supcom.tn ayoub.benissa@supcom.tn oussama.fathalla@supcom.tn mohamedkamel.chhaiyed@supcom.tn haitham.sefi@supcom.tn 2
Our chapter has been active this past year in organizing seminars, workshops, and attending conferences abroad. We are summarizing in this report the main activities that we were involved in, the last year. 1. Outreach & Education Activities: The Optics and Photonics Tunisia student chapter organized a scientific school and performed hands on activities, reaching around 100 students. Activity 1: Presenting the OPTSC in Hackfest 2016: Smart Tunisia. May 7 st to 8 th 2016: The event took place in El Ghazala Technopark, Ariana between the 7 th and 8 th of May. The event contained a workshop and 12 hours Catch The Flag (CTF) competition. The OPTSC members proposed 3 tasks on optics and mathematics for the competitors. More than 100 students from different engineering school attended the event. Activity 2: Organizing Physics light lab. September 1 st to 4 th 2016: "Physics' light lab" was part of Interference International Light Art Project which was held in Medina of Tunis. Many people attended this event. 3
Activity 3: Presenting the OPTSC in Journée Portes Ouvertes. May 20 th 2015: We participate in Journée Portes Ouvertes with different organizations and national scientific societies at Sup com. 4
2. Conferences & Workshops: Activity 4: Organizing the spring school Emergent wireless and optical communication systems. April 21 st -23 rd 2017: We organized the spring school Emergent Wireless and Optical Communication Systems (WIROPT COM). This school will take place at Yasmine Hammamet, Tunisia from 21 st to 23 rd April 2017. The WIROPT COM school consists of lectures given by experts in the fields of wireless and optical systems from both industry and academia. It also includes poster presentations by participating Ph.D. students. The program covers fundamental, advanced and application oriented topics in communications. It will provide the attendees a comprehensive overview of emerging technologies and an opportunity to learn about issues affecting various aspects of wireless, optical systems, and also an opportunity to interact with each other. The WIROPT COM school is important for everyone in learning optical and photonic devices characterization and optical communication systems used in building solutions and architectures for complex ultra-broadband networks, especially for the future Internet. The school is intended for graduate students and researchers as well as design engineers, and product managers at industry. Invited Speakers: Prof. Han Vinck (Duisberg-Essen University, Germany) Prof. Adel Ghazel (Director of Grescom Lab, Sup com, University of Carthage, Tunisia) Prof. Fabien Ndagijimana (University-Grenoble-Alpes) 5
Dr. Habib Fathalla (Institute of Sciences of Bizerte, University of Carthage, Tunisia & KACST-TIC in radio frequency and photonics for the e-society, electrical engineering department, King Saud university, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia ). Dr. Timmo Van Der Beek (Senior researcher, Laboratoire Laser Afrique, Netherlands) Prof. Mario Ferreira (University of Aveiro, Portugal) Dr. Amine Ben Salem (Grescom Senior researcher, Sup com, University of Carthage, Tunisia) Prof. Tan Phu Vuong (Grenoble-INP, France) Dr. Mohamed Mabrouk (GRESCOM senior researcher, ISET COM, Tunisia) Prof. Tewfiq EL MALIKI (ITI Labo-Tcom, HEPIA, Geneva University, Switzerland) Mr. Babak Nikfar (Duisburg-Essen University, Germany) Dr. Fatma Rouissi (GRESCOM senior researcher, ENICarthage, University of Carthage, Tunisia) Dr. Nadia Khouja (GRESCOM senior researcher, ISET COM, University of Carthage, Tunisia) Dr. Yanling Chen (researcher at Institute for Digital Signal Processing (DSV), University of Duisburg-Essen, Germany) 6
Activity 5: Attending SPIE Student Leadership Meeting in San Diego August 27 rd -September 1 st 2016: OPTSC president Ameni Ben Khalifa attended the SPIE leadership in San Diego California on the 27 rd of August 2016. She presented also research papers on the Optics and Photonics conference. 7
Future Activities: 2016-2017 In 2017, we are aiming to organize the following activities: May 2017: Hands on activity in El Ghazala secondary school. September 2017: we aim to organize a Summer school. We aim to invite graduate students and researchers in optical communication systems. The school consists of lectures given by experts in the field of optical systems from both industry and academia. It also includes poster and oral presentations by participating Ph.D. Students. November 2017: Hands on activity in Mahdia secondary school. OPTSC Financial Information 1. Incoming funds (in TND local currency) 2000 TND: From the Engineering School of Communication. 2. Expended funds 350 TND: Dinner and coffee break for the OPTSC members in the Medina for 4 nights. 400 TND: Social program in the Emergent wireless and optical communication systems. 350 TND: Poster printing and flyers for the events. 8
400 TND: Best student awards for the poster session on the Emergent wireless and optical communication systems. 500 TND: Bus rental for transportation for the two events The Emergent wireless and optical communication systems and Physics light lab. Balance to 05/2017: 0 TND 9