Annual Report Centro de Investigaciones en Óptica A. C. (CIO) SPIE Student Chapter December 2010

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1 Annual Report Centro de Investigaciones en Óptica A. C. (CIO) SPIE Student Chapter December 2010 Centro de Investigaciones en Óptica, A. C. Loma del Bosque #115, Lomas del Campestre Z. C , Leon, Guanajuato, Mexico Phone: (52) Fax: (52)

2 Content 1. Introduction 2. Current member list 3. Chapter Activities 3.1 workshop on Entrepreneurship and Business innovation 3.2 Spring 2010 Workshop DRAFT assistance in Tucson Arizona 3.3 Astronomy Fans Club 3.4 Visiting schools in small towns (laser talks and exhibition) 3.5 Student s lectures and talks 3.6 Workshops for medium and high school students 3.7 Women in science 3.8 Optics + Photonics and SPIE Student Chapter Leadership workshop Visit of Professors Sune and Katarina Svanberg 3.10 First SPIE-OSA Mexican Student Chapters Meeting th laser anniversary talks and exhibitions 3.12 Recruiting members officers election 3.14 Visiting lecturer program 4. Financial information 5. Current chapter officers: contact information

3 1. Introduction The 2010 was a special year for all optics and science world because we were celebrating the 50 th laser birthday. In addition, we are also celebrating the 30 th CIO anniversary. Those special celebrations let us to organize new and exciting activities such as: laser exhibitions, laser talks and seminars. This year we also were honored with K. Svanberg s visit, 2011 SPIE elected President and her husband Dr. Sune Svanberg. Furthermore we continue with the SPIE-CIO Student Chapter project about involving young people into science and especially into optics in our community. Spread-out science into small towns in Guanajuato state was one of our main and new goals. In addition to the activities reported on 2009, we start new activities such as an Astronomy fans club and a national meeting of SPIE-OSA student chapters as major activities. 2. Current member list During this year we increased the member list from 28 to 39 students. One student from Universidad Autónoma de Zacatecas joined the chapter. This is the current list of members: Name 1. José Aguilar (Mr.) 2. Alejandro Alcaraz (Mr.) 3. Mariana Alfaro (Miss) 4. Bernon Ayala (Mr.) 5. Servando Barroso (Mr.) 6. Josue Calderon (Mr.) 7. Guillermo Cardenas-Sevilla (Mr.) 8. Rigoberto Castro Beltran (Mr.)

4 9. Victor Ulises Contreras Loera (Mr.) 10. Adrian Coronel (Mr.) 11. Luis Corral Martinez (Mr.) 12. Diego Esparza (Mr.) 13. Enoch Gutierrez-Herrera (Mr.) 14. Francisco Hernandez (Mr.) 15. Guadalupe Lopez (Miss) 16. Monserrat Lopez (Miss) 17. Yaneli Machuca (Miss) 18. Adrian Martinez (Mr.) 19. Mónica Martinez (Miss) 20. Elvia Moreno (Miss) 21. Rodolfo Moreno (Mr.) 22. Gilberto Munoz Moreno (Mr.) 23. Miguel Navarro (Mr.) 24. Jorge Roberto Oliva-Uc (Mr.) 25. Geliztle Parra (Miss) 26. Diecenia Peralta Dominguez (Miss) 27. Marcelo Pereira (Mr.) 28. Leonardo Perez Mayen (Mr.) 29. Christian Ruiz (Mr.) 30. Claudio Ramirez (Mr.) 31. Maria Rodriguez (Miss) 32. Jose Samano (Mr.) 33. Juan Sanchez (Mr.) 34. David Serrano (Mr.) 35. Analia Sicardi (Miss) 36. Alejandro Tellez (Mr.) 37. Diego Torres (Mr.) 38. Alejandra Urbina (Miss) 39. Irma Lorena Villegas-Garcia (Miss)

5 3. Chapter Activities 3.1 Workshop on Entrepreneurship and Business innovation. SPIE chapter students participated in the workshop on Entrepreneurship and Business innovation organized between Tecnológico de Monterrey (campus León) and Centro de Investigaciones en Óptica. The workshop was focused on the issues involved in integrating ideas of entrepreneurship and business innovation into PhDs and Msc programs in optics. At this event attended businessmen from various local industrial sectors linking and interacting research from CIO with industrial sector. In this event students talk about their own research projects and people from Tecnológico de Monterrey gave talks about opening industries and business. Event photos: Business talk by Tecnologico de Monterrey profesors

6 Research projects by CIO students CIO and Tecnológico de Monterrey assistants 3.2 Spring 2010 Workshop DRAFT assistance in Tucson Arizona. On March 1-3 officers from the SPIE-CIO student chapter attended to the Spring 2010 Workshop DRAFT, event in which different industry sectors attend workshops and talks organized by the Optical College of the University of Arizona with the aim of linking directly with research, even investing on issues who develop graduate students. At this event attend businessmen from various sectors, from lens manufacturers to the US Army. The purpose of attending the workshop was to interact directly in such high profile events linking research with the industrial sector and have the necessary tools to organize events like this in Mexico that link Academy with industry. Also was held a meeting between directives of SPIE CIO Chapter and University of Arizona Chapter, in which share ideas and experiences, also agreements was

7 reached as to extend the bi-national participation between both Chapters with talks, conferences and other activities. Event photos: Affiliates Group photo spring. Arizona University and CIO chapter officers meeting.

8 Arizona University and CIO students and professors 3.3 Astronomy Fans Club We began with the astronomy Club, whose main purpose is divulge the astronomy between CIO members, share knowledge and experiences about astronomy, do observations with telescopes and binoculars, rediscover night sky and have fun. On Thursday, March 18 the club was honored to open the activities with a talk given by Dr. Daniel Malacara, who talks about telescopes and mainly of his first amateur observations. In the first month of the club, moon observations were done, looking over its surface craters and plains. Vesta asteroid, Venus and Mercury from the top of Cerro Gordo hill were observed too. Night-out observations to the sky away from the city lights were organized during the summer. Another activities related with the club are talks and conferences about astronomy by guests, researchers and CIO staff, and club members. We also are planning visits to observatories, and a workshop focused to build telescopes. Event photos:

9 Dr. Daniel Malacara Hernández inaugurating the club Some astronomy fans in their first observation Picture taken from astronomy fans

10 3.4 Visiting schools is small towns Student chapter officers and Dra. Solano group visited high schools in small towns around the city of Leon. The main idea was to talk about the laser and its 50 th anniversary to young people and prepare some science experiments for them. Many high schools in small towns have no access to lasers and most of them ignore the real potential and applications of lasers. For this reason we think that it is important to continue with those activities in our community. Students talking about lasers and SPIE student activities Some experiments and exhibitions in elementary and high schools

11 3.5 Student s lectures and talks On april 9 in the festivities of the 30 aniversary of the CIO, the Centro de Investigación en Matemáticas A.C. (CIMAT) organized a series of talks and workshops for children. Both events have the objective of promote and rise in math and science. This year, the CIMAT invited institutions to give lectures an science demonstrations. CIO was also invited and the SPIE Chapter developed the anaglyph worwshop. Those anaglyphs are images in two dimensions and a 3D effect occurs when they are viewed with special glasses (different color for each eye). They are based on the phenomenon of synthesis of binocular vision patented by Louis Ducos du Hauron in In the workshop the children made their own lens with which they could observe the 3D images. In addition students supported origami workshops and group guide. Event photos: SPIE-CIO Students organizing and giving the anaglyph workshop at CIMAT. Children participating in the workshop at CIMAT.

12 3.6 Workshops for medium and high school students As the last three years, CIO Student chapter organize the High School and Optic Workshop. The 4th annual Optic Workshop was organized from April 27 th to April 29 th and a total of 84 students from different local high schools assisted to the workshop. The same experiments and exhibitions from 2009 were done. Small talks about some optical phenomenal like diffraction light and image formation using simple lenses were given. Laboratory explanations were prepared in order to generate a scientific way to think on youth people besides understanding the nature of light. Students interact in experiments and demonstrations like interferometers and waveguides and learn about wave nature of light and reflection. Practical explanations for a simple microscopy and telescopes help us to demonstrate real and virtual images on an easy and funny way. Holograms and polarization experiments also were discussed. Event photos: High school students in a conference

13 An introduction to the workshop Optical experiments for high school students (I) Optical experiments for high school students (II) 3.7 Women in science Students from CIO chapter collaborated in logistic activities from Women in Science event organized by CIO. This year the event was celebrated from May 26 th to May 28 th. For more information about the event there is an available website:

14 3.8 Optics + Photonics and SPIE Student Chapter Leadership workshop 2010 As every year since the foundation of the chapter, officer students from CIO-SPIE assisted to the Optics + Photonics and the SPIE Student Chapter Leadership workshop in San Diego. From June 31 st to August 5 th students interacted with other chapter officers around the world sharing social and professional experiences and participating in workshop activities such as talks with experts, conferences and so on. We also participate in the Olympics Outreach activity. Event photos: CIO students participating in some activities Conferences and discussion panels

15 CIO students assisting to workshops and conferences at the leadership workshop. 3.9 Visit of Professors Sune and Katarina Svanberg From August 9 th to August 13 th Professors Sune and Katarina Svanberg visited Centro de Investigaciones en Óptica in Leon. SPIE student chapter organized a whole day of activities like talks and technical conferences, and student poster sessions. At the end of the day students organized a traditional Mexican dinner in order to share time and experiences about their own student life time. Event photos:

16 Professors Sune and Katarina Svanberg and SPIE-OSA chapter officers Professors Sune and Katarina Svanberg and SPIE-OSA chapter officers

17 Students showing posters about their own research to professors Svanberg 3.10 First SPIE-OSA Mexican Student Chapters Meeting In order to improve the activities from student chapter around the country CIO, and Universidad de Guadalajara, and INAOE chapters organized the first SPIE-OSA national meeting. Chapter officers from five different chapters around the country arrived to Leon city from September 9 th to Sept 11 th. The main objective from this meeting was to share activities and opinions about our own chapters and support each other. Interesting ideas come from this meeting and all participants suggested organize that meeting every year. Besides the main meeting between chapter officers, there were organized different technical and non-technical conferences. The main speaker from the event was Mitsuo Takeda from University of Electro-communications (Tokyo). During the event five different short courses were imparted by CIO professors, most of them such as technical activities in CIO laboratories. Poster sessions and cultural activities were organized. At the end of the meeting time to play sports between visitor and local students was available. Event photos:

18 SPIE-OSA Mexican student officers and Mitsuo Takeda (CIO, INAOE, Universidad de Guadalajara, CISESE, Universidad Autónoma de Monterrey) Mitsuo Takeda conference audience in the national meeting.

19 Mitsuo Takeda and students visiting CIO laboratories Student poster session th laser anniversary talks and exhibitions CIO is celebrating the 50 th laser anniversary and an exhibition was open for people from the city of Leon. Students from the chapter participated giving talks and explaining some applications and laser history to the public. Laser graffiti from graffiti research lab was exhibited. The exposition was open to the public from October 15 th to November 19 th. Event photos:

20 How the laser works. Lasser graffiti exhibition High school students visiting the exhibition

21 3.12 Recruiting members In order to recruit members, last November 12 th we organized an activity in CIO. Some food and free time to talk about chapter activities were promoted to the CIO student community, especially to new students. A total of 16 new and renewed memberships were collected in this event. This event was organized inside the facilities of the CIO in a kind of picnic event. Event photos: 2010 SPIE-CIO Chapter members recruitment Officers election Officer s election from SPIE-CIO student chapter was celebrated in November 29 th. New officer were democratically elected by members. New officer are David Serrano (President), Adrian Martinez (Vice-president), Julieta Medina (Secretary) and Monserrat Lopez (treasurer) Visiting Lecture program This year we were honored with the visit of Jean Luc Doumont. Jean Luc is an interesting and very enthusiastic speaker who is in the SPIE visiting lecturer program. His area of expertise is the effective communication including oral presentations, scientific writing, graphical displays, etc. During the visit there were organized an interesting talk and a short workshop. The talk titled was an interesting talk about general mistakes in oral presentations and tips to avoid them. Students and professors from CIO were very pleased with this talk. Another activity was a short interactive workshop titled. This

22 workshop was very dynamic were students from CIO and Universidad de Guanajuato learned a lot about scientific writing. Examples from participants were discussed in order to test our own writing. Event photos Visiting lecturer activities

23 4. Financial information This year SPIE-CIO student chapter was supported with MxN $2417 from last year and we received an annual transference found of MxN $13,870 (1,100 USD in December 2009 ) from the annual activity grant 2010 Balance sheet (MxN) Dates Revenues Expenses Description Total December , initial balance chapter 16,287 January- 1, Cultural Activities -1, December 2010 June Photography workshop July-August 1, Materials from Optics -1, Outreach Olympics 2010 August Svanberg s visit September 2, First national SPIE-OSA -2, December 2010 December 2010 December 2010 chapters meeting 2, Recruitment and another meals during the year -2, , Visiting Lecturer -2, program 1, Posada -1, Total expenses Balance Current chapter officers: contact information MSc. Victor Ulises Contreras Loera ulises@cio.mx 2010 President MSc. Student David Serrano david@cio.mx 2010 Vice-President

24 MSc. Orlando Medina Cáceres 2010 Treasurer MSc. Student Jorge Caballero 2010 Auxiliar PhD. Oracio Barbosa García 2010 Chapter advisor Centro de Investigaciones en Óptica A. C. Loma del Bosque 115 Lomas del Campestre León Gto., México. Phone Fax Annual report. December 2010