Student Chapter Report August 2010 August 2011
Officers 2010-2011 Adrián Ruelas, President Manuel Jurado-Taracena, Vicepresident Dorilián López-Mago, Treasurer Adad Yepiz, Secretary
Elected Officers 2011-2012 Manuel Jurado-Taracena, President E-mail: valhifi@gmail.com SPIE ID#: 03045496 Antonio Ortiz, Vicepresident E-mail: aortiza@gmail.com SPIE ID#: 03416075 Adrián Ruelas, Treasurer E-mail: dougstone7@gmail.com SPIE ID#: 03242682 Dorilián López-Mago, Secretary E-mail: dorilian8@gmail.com SPIE ID#: 03067739
Membership Since all of our officers were either on conference trips or on a research stay elsewhere, we didn t hold our sign-up and membership renewal activities during the second week of school as was usual. A lot of our previous members have their memberships expired, so the roster here reported is expected to grow after the first exam period is over. Our current members are: Ivan Aldaya Leobardo Camacho Rodrigo Cañas Cesar Clemente María Gallardo Garza Hipolito Garcia-Gracia Manuel Jurado-Taracena Sylvia Leyva Martinez Dorilian Lopez-Mago Francisco Martinez Garcia Antonio Ortiz Felipe Ramon Adrian Ruelas Ricardo Salinas Aviñiga Jaime Wong Samuel Zarate Vargas
Activities 1. Math and programming workshops 2. Khet Tournament 3. Colloquia 4. Outreach 5. Optics+Photonics
Activities Math and programming workshops We held five three-hour long courses on the following subjects: Linear Algebra Matrix methods in physics Perturbation theory Orthogonal polynomials and applications Green s functions We held a two-hour long workshop on basic MATLAB programming. Khet Tournament: We continued last year s tradition. Adad Yepiz is still the reigning champion.
Activities Colloquia SPIE member and current grad student Hipólito García-Gracia gave a talk on electromagnetically induced transparency with Rydberg atoms. This talk was borne out of his research stay at The University of Calgary. Tecnológico de Monterrey alumnus and SPIE member Carlos López- Mariscal gave a talk on optical tweezers for microfluidics systems. Tecnológico de Monterrey alumnus Blas Manuel Rodríguez Lara gave a talk on phase transitions in extended Dicke models. Jean-Luc Doumont gave a talk on how to give effective oral presentations. Chapter members also attended other talks that were given by Tecnológico de Monterrey s Physics Department.
Activities Outreach (total impact: around 120 people) Monterrey International Book Fair 2011 The student chapter participated with two workshops aimed at K- 12 students. Both of them were given on consecutive Sundays. In the workshop kids saw that white light is composed of the colors of the rainbow; that there is something called polarization, and that it can affect how light is transmitted; and that lasers are a special type of light source, different from the ones they re used to. We had around 60 kids the first Sunday and 40 the second Sunday. Engineering Physics Open House Aimed at high-school students. We gave a talk on what it means to work with optics. We did a workshop on polarization. 23 students attended.
Activities Optics+Photonics SPIE members and grad students Adrián Ruelas, Antonio Ortiz and Manuel Jurado-Taracena attended SPIE Optics+Photonics 2011. All three attended the Studen Leadership Workshop. It was a first for Antonio and Manuel! Adrián Ruelas presented a poster on solitons in non-diffracting parabolic lattices.
Planned Activities Recruitment activities (pizza and movies) Khet Tournament Colloquia, both from within our university s community and with the visiting lecturer grant (perhaps A.R.M. Zaghloul) K-12 optics workshop at the Monterrey International Book Fair 2011 Math and programming short courses Collaboration with the city s planetarium for outreach activities (through the student astronomical society)
Financial Report Expenses (in MXN) $1,424.52 Sheraton Suites Hotel, extra night at Optics+Photonics 2010 $2,000.00 August meeting s food and refreshments $4,880.34 New member registration and membership renewals Monterrey International Book Fair transportation and meals for members (2 days, $1,100.00 11+7 members) $1,000.00 December meeting s food and refreshments $600.00 Meal with Jean-Luc Doumont Meal with Jean-Luc Doumont and the optics research group + 2 nights of $4,200.00 Doumont's hotel room $150.00 Jaime Wong's scholarship paid by the chapter $3,744.00 4 copies of Doumont's "Trees, maps and theorems" book $691.00 March meeting's food and refreshments
Financial Report Income (in MXN) $19,183.70 May 2010 Balance $5,400.00New members and renewals August 2011 Balance $4,793.84