SPIE Chapter Report 2013-14 Govindpuri, Kalkaji New Delhi-110019 http://andcollege.du.ac.in Acharya Narendra Dev College JULY 2014
TABLE OF CONTENTS DESCRIPTION PAGE NUMBER President s Word 3 Present Members 4 Chapter Council 8 Chapter Activities 9 Publications 31 Financial Information 33 Planned Activities for the future 33 2 P a g e
PRESIDENT S WORD With the establishment of new benchmarks through the years, SPIE Student Chapter at Acharya Narendra Dev College has proved to be a huge success. From a group of handful of students to a family of young and innovative minds, SPIE at ANDC has always believed in unanimity and developing young talents to come forward and work for its ultimate focus Easing and promoting optics and photonics. Since 2010, these 4 years have helped us mark various milestones in the history of SPIE Chapter ANDC, as a result we have grown collectively and are still proceeding towards new horizons of achievements. As being the president of the SPIE Chapter at ANDC, I feel elated and honoured to hereby showcase our chapter s achievements in this fourth consecutive Annual Report of SPIE Student Chapter University of Delhi at ANDC for the academic year 2013-14. This year has been quite fun filled with its inception from the workshop on Innovative Pedagogies for modern optics and photonics which was a two-day workshop with first day dedicated to demonstration of geometrical optics kit and low cost fibre optics kit to the student attendees, whereas the second day was planned for hands- on wave optics related experiments using low cost CCDs and also we were able to reconstruct a 3D hologram also. Some of our chapter members attended and went for poster presentation in the IISER Kolkata Winter School 2013. Then in February, few of our chapter member went to CUSAT Cochin, Kerala to attend Annual Photonics Workshop on the occasion of National Science Day. This year in February, Mohd. Aiman Ali Raza, our student member made his mark in SPIE's one of the most prestigious and biggest conferences Photonics West held in San Francisco, CA, USA. Further in March, we were graced with the presence of Dr. Philip. H. Stahl, The President of SPIE who gave a remarkable presentation on the development of James Webb Space Telescope. His visit to our college filled us with a whole new enthusiasm and urge to work and explore even more. Our chapter triumphed so far under the supervision of one person, our guide Dr. Amit Garg. It will be futile without mentioning his efforts behind our success. I respect his striving hard work for our chapter in its continued endeavour. All of us have been fortunate to be able to explore the depth of optics and photonics under his guidance. Lastly, my good wishes to all my peers and juniors who are rigorously working for the society to elevate its position every successive year and hope that this journey of fathoms of success is longstanding. Prabhav Pushkar President (2013-14) 3 P a g e
LIST OF PRESENT MEMBERS 2013-14 S.No NAME POSITION 1. Ajay Acharya Student 2. Smiritilekha Acharyya Student 3. Abhishek Aggarawal Student 4. Harshit Agrawal Student 5. Mohd. Aiman Ali Raza Student 6. Mohd Anas Student 7. Ankit Baliyan Student 8. Satyam Bhakuni Student 9. Sadashiv Bharadwaj Student 10. Saptarshi Chakrabarty Student 11. Dashrath Chaudhary Student 12. Sarthak Chauhan Student 4 P a g e
13. Avi Dhall Student 14. Pankaj Dhaundiyal Student 15. Gazal Gulati Student 16. Abhishek Gupta Student 17. Anuj Gupta Student 18. Ashutosh Gupta Student 19. Sanchita Gupta Student 20. Smiriti Jain Student 21. Rakesh Jaiswal Student 22. Priyanka Kachru Student 23. Abhishek Kumar Student 24. Deepak Kumar Student 25. Gaurav Kumar Student 26. Nikhil Kumar Student 5 P a g e
27 Niraj Kumar Student 28. Raj Kumar Student 29. Shashank Kumar Student 30. Jyoti Kundu Student 31. Ramesh Maithil Student 32. Vikram Maurya Student 33. Kiran Meena Student 34. Sparsh Rajpai Student 35. Bharana Rajput Student 36. Gaurav Rathour Student 37. Abhijeet Sharma Student 38. Aman Sharma Student 39. Angad Sharma Student 40. Raj Sharma Student 6 P a g e
41. Ankit Singh Student 42. Shatakshi Singh Student 43. Sahil Talla Student 44. Vishal Thakur Student 45. Rishabh Tiwary Student 46. Saksham Tyagi Student 47. Amit Verma Student 48. Jitendra Verma Student 49. Nishant Yadav Student 50. Sandeep Yadav Student 51. Sundaram Yadav Student 7 P a g e
CHAPTER COUNCIL PRESIDENT- Prabhav Pushkar VICE PRESIDENT- Subhajit Dutta GENERAL SECRETARY- Harsh Arora TREASURER- Pulkit Saxena FACULTY ADVISOR- Dr. Amit Garg 8 P a g e
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WORKSHOP ON INNOVATIVE PEDAGOGIES FOR MODERN OPTICS AND PHOTONICS This workshop which was conducted by our SPIE student members, Faculty Adviser and external resource person on 10-11 October 2013 to keep ourselves intact with developments in the field of optics and photonics. It began with demonstrations of Geometrical Optics kit and Low cost Fibre Optics kit to new aspiring students who had signed up for SPIE Membership. Furthermore, all the students were given a chance to work hands-on the experimental setup of Analysing Diffraction and Interference patterns using low cost CCD s and Studying the properties of light through polarisation. This allowed students to probe into the depth of these concepts. Apart from this, a workshop on Reconstruction of a 3D hologram was also scheduled on these days. Reconstruction of a 3D hologram was completely fascinating concepts for the students, which in fact attracted many students and made this two-day workshop succeed in its motive to promote optics through a more advanced vision. LIST OF PARTICIPANTS DAY 1: 10 October 2013 S.No NAME 1. Anuj Gupta 2. Sundaram 3. Vishal Thakur 4. Abhishek Agarwal 5. Avinash Sudhanshu 6. Nikhil Kumar 7. Saptarishi Chakraborty 8. Nishant Yadav 9. Raini Kumari 10. Neeraj 11. Rahul 12. Navin Narota 13. Jitendra 14. Smriti Lekha 15. Rashmi 16. Harshit Agarwal 17. Abhishek Kumar 18. Abhijeet 10 P a g e
19. Aman Mishra 20. Richa Singla 21. Gokul Krishna 22. Bidyut Bikash 23. Shashank Kumar 24. Gaurav Dubey 25. Shreyak Chakravarty 26. Ankur Kumar 27. Deepak Kumar 28. Ashutosh Gupta 29. Amon Sharma 30. Satyam 31. Vishnu 32. Rajkumar 33. Saksham Tyagi 34. Vikram 35. Sadashiv Bhardwaj 36. Sparsh Vajpayee 37. Harsh Arora 38. Rishabh Tiwary 39. Gazal Gulati 40. Rakesh Jaiswal DAY 2: 11 October 2013 S.No NAME 1. Prabhav Pushkar 2. Pratibha Arya 3. Kamal Kishore 4. Rakhi Bight 5. Amit Verma 6. Sandeep Yadav 7. Varun Sikka 8. Ajay Acharya 9. Pulkit Saxena 10. Sahil Srivastava 11. Monika Kataria 12. Dashrath Choudhary 11 P a g e
13. Gaurav Kumar 14. Durgesh Kumar 15. Jitendra Verma 16. Karishma Vashishtha 17. Deepak Kumar 18. Subhajit Dutta 19. Rishi Pandey 20. Ankita Negi 21. Aiman Ali Raza 22. Suraj Kumar 23. Deepak Sharma 24. Vivek Trivedi 25. Priyanka Kachru LIST OF INSTRUCTORS for Geometrical Optics kit and Low cost Fibre Optics kit S.No NAME 1. Ajay Acharya 2. Karishma Vashishtha 3. Pulkit Saxena 4. Subhajit Dutta 5. Ankita Negi 6. Deepak Kumar 7. Deepak Sharma 8. Aiman Ali Raza 9. Suraj Kumar 10. Priyanka Kachru 11. Vivek Trivedi 12. Sahil Srivastava RESOURCE PERSONS for Interference, Diffraction, polarization Studies and Holography S.No NAME 1. Dr. Sanjay Kumar 2. Dr. Amit Garg 12 P a g e
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IISER Kolkata Winter School on Photonics-2013 Amongst top renowned research institutes in India, IISER Kolkata had organised its Winter School on Photonics in December 2013 with its sub events being the guest lectures conducted by esteemed Professors, whereas the other crucial event being the poster presentation by students of various colleges to boost up the morale of new talents in the field of Photonics research. Students of our SPIE Chapter also attended this winter school and presented our Chapter s work in form of poster presentation. We were applauded there for the vibrant range of innovations we have done at this undergraduate level. LIST OF ATTENDEES S.No NAME 1. Ajay Acharya 2. Amit Verma 3. Deepak Kumar 4. Prabhav Pushkar 5. Raj Sharma 6. Sandeep Yadav 7. Pulkit Saxena 8. Dashrath Chaudhary 9. Abhishek Agarwal 16 P a g e
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ANTARDHVANI-2014 A MULTIDIMENSIONAL CULTURAL FESTIVAL OF UNIVERSITY OF DELHI Antardhvani is University of Delhi s annual multidimensional cultural festival where all colleges under University of Delhi showcase their manifold achievements throughout the year in every aspect. This was our second consecutive year to unveil our SPIE Chapter activities in this mega event. SPIE Chapter at ANDC figured amongst the key features highlighted in the festival by our college as part of its of Beyond the Classroom approach. Special pamphlets and booklets were designed and printed for distribution during the festival. Acharya Narendra Dev College was awarded Award For Good Practices and bagged third position in this humongous festival after competing with 64 other University of Delhi colleges. 18 P a g e
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ANNUAL PHOTONICS WORKSHOP 2014 Cochin University of Science And Technology, Cochin, Kerala On 27-28 February,2014 students of our chapter went to Cochin University of Science And Technology to attend Annual Photonics Workshop on the auspicious occasion of National Science Day. In spite of being the only undergraduate lot of students, our student members participated in all the sessions of the workshop with utter zeal to inherit knowledge and also propagate it to fellow members. Their interaction with the eminent professors manifested their enthusiasm to explore photonics and gathered a lot of praise from the professors. S.No LIST OF ATTENDEES NAME 1. Ananya Paul 2. Mohd. Anas 3. Priyanka Kachru 4. Sahil Talla 21 P a g e
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A VISIT BY Dr. H. PHILIP STAHL PRESIDENT OF SPIE In the month March, we welcomed the much awaited day of our SPIE Student Chapter when we were adorned with the presence of a much esteemed NASA Scientist and also the current SPIE President Dr. H. Philip Stahl. Starting from his warm welcome in the college by our Principal Dr. Savithri Singh, Faculty Advisor Dr. Amit Garg and SPIE Student Chapter at ANDC President: Prabhav Pushkar, Mohd. Aiman Ali Raza, a student member who went to attend the international conference SPIE Photonics West 2014 in San Francisco, CA, USA gave a presentation on the developments of our Student Chapter in the past four years. Finally, Dr. Stahl commenced with his talk on James Webb Space Telescope after which he interacted with students and clarified their queries related to his presentation. Students members demonstrated the Geometrical Optics Kit and the Low cost Fibre Optics Kit which is fabricated by our chapter members. Various activities, vibrancy and enthusiasm of the chapter were greatly appreciated by SPIE President. 26 P a g e
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PARTICIPATION IN SPIE OPTICS+PHOTONICS 2014 Priyanka Kachru of B.Sc.(Honours) Physics Part II has been awarded Officer s Travel Grant to attend SPIE Optics + Photonics conference to be held from 16-21 August 2014 at San Diego Convention Center, San Diego, California, USA. She will be presenting a research paper under Optics Outreach Education. COUNCIL MEETINGS Chapter holds regular meetings to discuss the plan of action for the promotion activities of the chapter. It helps us regularly monitor our progress and work on the areas where chapter can improve. 30 P a g e
PUBLICATIONS 1. Easing wave optics understanding through technology, Amit Garg, Priyanka Kachru, Shatakshi Singh, Rishabh Tiwary, Optical Engineering + Applications(SPIE Optics + Photonics), 17 21 August 2014, San Diego Convention Center, San Diego, California, USA 2. Development of open source low cost wireless data acquisition systems for science experiments, Amit Garg, Avinash Kumar Shudhanshu, Raj Kumar, Shadashiv Raj Bharadwaj, Roopesh Tehri, Chandra Kanta Samal, International Journal of Information & Computation Technology, Vol 4(2), Page 1123-1128, 2014. 3. Measuring the size of quantum dots using a low cost CCD, Amit Garg, Priyanka Kachru, Ananya Paul, Shatakshi Singh, Subhajit Dutta, SPIE Asia Student Photonics Conference (ASPC), 2014 organized by IISER Kolkata, 18 th -21 st July 2014. Best Oral paper in Postgraduate Student Category 4. Innovation in Basic Science Laboratory through Sensors and Open Source Technology, Avinash Kumar Shudhanshu, Amit Garg, Raj Kumar, Sadashiv Raj Bharadwaj, Gaurav Singh, International Journal on Recent Trends in Engineering & Technology(IJRTET), Vol 11(2) page 313-319 published by ACEEE, USA 5. Technology Based Laboratory to Improve Science Learning, Avinash Kumar Shudhanshu, Raj Kumar, Sadashiv Raj Bharadwaj, Gaurav Singh, Amit Garg, 7 th National Level Science Symposium-2014 on Recent Trends in Science and Technology Christ College, Rajkot, 22 nd - 23 rd February 2014. 6. Effect of spinner rotation speed and post-annealing on the optical constants of ZnO thin film, Arijit Chowdhuri, Pinky Rehman, V. Bhasker Raj and Amit Garg, International Conference on Innovative Trends in Applied Physical, Chemical, Mathematical Sciences and Emerging Energy Technology for Sustainable Development,(APCMET-2014), 19 th - 20 th April, 2014, Jawahar Lal Nehru University, New Delhi 7. Automating Physical Chemistry Laboratory using sensors and data acquisition systems, Rambir, Sachin Kumar, Amita, Pankaj Khanna, Amit Garg, Vishal Dhingra, CRSSI, BHU 15th CRSI National Symposium in Chemistry (NSC-15), 1st -3rd February 2013, Banaras Hindu University 8. Glucose Detection- a biosensing approach, Animesh Kar, Gunjan, Harsh Bishen, Raj Keshri, Deepak Kumar, Rajender, Durgesh Kumar, Kapil Joshi, Dikshant hans, Rajesh 31 P a g e
Choudhary, Arijit Chowdhuri, Amit Garg, National Conference On Redefining Science Teaching: Future of Education, 7-9th March, 2013, University of Delhi, South Campus, New Delhi 110 021 9. Mobile Phone as a real time sensor based undergraduate laboratory, Amit Verma, Dhruv Dosad, Hemant Adhikari, Rakhi Bisht, Prabhav Pushkar, Kamal Kishore, Sandeep Yadav, Sachin Kumar, Rambir, Amita, Amit Garg, Vishal Dhingra, Pankaj Khanna, National Conference On Redefining Science Teaching: Future of Education, 7-9th March, 2013, University of Delhi, South Campus,New Delhi 110 021 32 P a g e
FINANCIAL STATEMENT S.No Activity Withdrawn Deposited Balance 1. Opening Balance Rs.49047/- 2. Grant received Rs. 90840/- 3. Two day workshop, Rs. 54247/- Participation in conferences by students and others 4. Material for school demonstrations(committed) Rs. 71000/- Closing Balance Rs.14660/- PROPOSED ACTIVITIES WITH FINANCIAL ESTIMATES FOR THE YEAR 2014-15 S.No Activity Estimates Remarks 1. Promotional Material for distribution to other colleges and departments of University of Delhi Rs.3000/- Printing of A3 size posters highlighting SPIE, Student member benefits, proposed activities of the Student Chapter, postage and transport 2. Two Days Workshop on Photonics Rs.40000/- Remuneration to speakers, material, Refreshments, Travel, Contingencies 3. Participation by Student members Rs.20000/- in Conferences 4. Visit to industry/research labs engaged in photonics Rs.15000/- Travel Expenses+ Food 5. Invited Talks Rs.10000/- 6. Promoting Photonics in Schools/ Rs.10000/- Travel+ Refreshment colleges through workshops 7. Innovative Project work by Student Rs.30000/- Material Cost members 8. Contingencies Rs.10000/- Total Rs. 138000/- (app USD 2300) 33 P a g e