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2019 SPIE Student Chapter Annual Report

Prepared by: Xiaohui Xu President

Sarah Chowdhury

Treasurer

Executive Summary: The Purdue Univ Chapter was established on 27 October 2014. We hold monthly meetings and most activities on the main campus of Purdue Univ. The purpose of the Purdue Univ. Chapter is to promote the discipline of Optical Science and Engineering through the organized effort of this group in study, research, and discussion; to disseminate knowledge of the field of Optical Engineering; and to further the professional development of the students. The Chapter shall promote membership in SPIE by acquainting the student body with the ideas, purposes, and objectives of SPIE. This year, our chapter organized the “Women in Optics” program featured a forum comprising women in various stages in their research journey. The event was well attended and there was an interactive discussion between the panelist and the audience. And we won the 2019 WiO activity grant! One of the biggest challenges that our chapter faced this year has been the organization and arrangement of a conference at a larger scale that involved more than 100 participants. Due to the multiple seminar sessions and poster presentations, we found it difficult to manage with our limited organizing committee. Learning from this, we will be more prepared for big conference management in the future by getting support from more chapter members. Contact Information: For general questions about our chapter, please email our chapter advisor, Alexandra Boltasseva, at aeb@purdue.edu. Facebook Page: https://www.facebook.com/osa.spie.purdue/

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2018 - 2019 Officer Listing:

Soham Saha President 3rd year PhD student Saha11@purdue.edu

Oksana Makarova Vice president Senior undergraduate omakarov@purdue.edu

Deesha Shah Treasurer 3rd year PhD student shah263@purdue.edu

Sarah Chowdhury Secretary 2rd year PhD student Chowdh10@purdue.edu 2019 – 2020 Officer Listing:

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Xiaohui Xu President 2rd year PhD student xu969@purdue.edu

Omer Yesilyurt Vice president 1st year PhD student oyesilyu@purdue.edu

Sarah Chowdhury Treasurer 3rd year PhD student Chowdh10@purdue.edu

Zachariah Martin Secretary 1rd year PhD student mart1787@purdue.edu

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Student and Community Membership At the time of this report, there are 20 student members affiliated to the Purdue Univ. Chapter and 6 alumni members.

Name Email Expected Grad Month/Year

SPIE Membership Expiration Date

Sarah Chowdhury chowdh10@purdue.edu Dec 2021 9/14/2020

Zelong Ding ding66@purdue.edu May 2023 10/29/2020

Changqin Ding ding153@purdue.edu May 2021 12/13/2019

Aveek Dutta dutta6@purdue.edu May 2020 10/8/2020

Aaron Etienne aetienne@purdue.edu May 2020 3/5/2020

Jae-Sang Hyun hyun7@purdue.edu May 2020 1/5/2020

Suraj Iyer iyer7@purdue.edu May 2021 7/1/2020

Emroz Khan khan176@purdue.edu May 2021 7/8/2020

Katherine Leyba leybak@purdue.edu May 2021 7/7/2020

Chen Li li2117@purdue.edu May 2020 11/6/2019

Hsuan-Hao Lu lu548@purdue.edu May 2020 2/13/2020

Zachariah Martin mart1787@purdue.edu May 2023 8/26/2019

Salvador Rojas rojas23@purdue.edu May 2020 2/13/2020

Deesha Shah shah263@purdue.edu May 2021 10/10/2019

Casey Smith smit2698@purdue.edu May 2021 3/20/2020

Xuejing Wang wang3168@purdue.edu May 2020 8/20/2020

Xiaohui Xu xu969@purdue.edu May 2022 8/22/2020

Yan Zhu zhu631@purdue.edu May 2021 3/5/2020

Soham Saha Saha11@purdue.edu Dec 2020 10/4/2020

Omer Yesilyurt oyesilyu@purdue.edu May 2023 8/25/2020

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Activities Report 4th Annual Micro, Nano and Optical Science Joint Conference Organizer: Nanotechnology Student Advisory Council (NSAC) at Purdue, Purdue Univ OSA Chapter and Purdue Univ SPIE Chapter. Speakers:

Dr. Ali Shakouri, Director of Birck Nanotechnology Center, Purdue University. Dr. Xianfan Xu, Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Purdue University. Dr. Alexandra Boltasseva, professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Purdue University. Dr. Dana Weinstein, Associate Dean of Graduate Education, Purdue University. Dr. Jorg Appenzeller, Epstein Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Purdue University. Dr. Mukerrem Cakmak, Reilly Professor of Materials and Mechanical Engineering, Purdue University. Dr. Alexander Kildishev, Associate Professor of Electrical & Computer Engineering, Purdue University. Dr. Poolad Imany, Postdoc fellow at Purdue University.

Date/Time/Location: April 12, 2019 from 10:30 am to 6:30 pm at Birck Nanotechnology Center, Purdue University. Participants: ~100 students (most of them are graduate students and postdocs), 15 faculty members. Cost: the cost was covered by NSAC, while SPIE Chapter helps to arrange the conference. This one-day conference was held together by OSA chapter, SPIE chapter and Nanotechnology Student Advisory Council (NSAC) at Purdue University, and our chapter was heavily involved in the organization of the conference. The conference featured invited speakers, consisting of eminent lecturers in the field of optics, electronics and photonics. The event was interactive and stimulated research conversations between students from different disciplines. There was also a poster exhibition after the seminar talks, and the best poster was voted. This joint conference has turned out to be a great success in prompting interdisciplinary research activities, and we want to host a similar conference with even higher impact in the following year.

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Invited speaker seminar Organizer: Purdue Univ SPIE Chapter and Purdue Univ OSA Chapter Speaker: Dr. Ilya A. Rodionov Date/Time/Location: March 1, 2019 from 11:00 am to 12:00 pm at Birck Nanotechnology Center, Purdue University Participants: ~25 students and 5 faculty members Cost: $109.78. Dr. Rodionov is a professor at The Nauman Moscow State Technical University (BMSTU) and his research group focuses on nanophotonics and quantum technologies. Due to the close collaboration between Dr. Rodionov’s group and Birck Nanotechology Center, he was invited to Purdue University for a talk on Quantum Computing. After the talk, Purdue Univ SPIE Chapter also arranged a student lunch with Prof. Rodionov, where he shared his research experience and answered questions from students. This event helps to stimulate the collaboration between Purdue University and BMSTU.

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Visiting Lecturer-1 Organizer: Purdue Univ SPIE Chapter and Purdue Univ OSA Chapter Speaker: Dr. Marko Loncar Date/Time/Location: April 9, 2019 from 12:30 pm to 2:00 pm at Birck Nanotechnology Center, Purdue University Participants: ~35 students and 10 faculty members. Cost: $155.30 (covered by the SPIE visiting lecturer grant) Dr. Loncar is a professor from Harvard University and is the visiting lecturer invited by SPIE Purdue Univ Chapter this year. He is an expert in the quantum Optics field. Right before the talk, SPIE Chapter held a student lunch and provided an opportunity for students at Purdue University to talk closely with Prof. Loncar. The student lunch as well as the seminar were well attended. We believe that the visit of Prof. Loncar helps to improve the collaboration of Purdue with Harvard University and the impact of Purdue Univ SPIE Chapter.

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Visiting Lecturer-2 Organizer: Purdue Univ SPIE Chapter and Purdue Univ OSA Chapter Speaker: Dr. Stefan Preble Date/Time/Location: April 25, 2019 from 10:30 am to 12:30 pm at Birck Nanotechnology Center, Purdue University Participants: ~30 students and 5 faculty members Cost: covered by OSA Chapter Together with Purdue Univ OSA Chapter, we hosted Dr. Preble from Rochester Institute of Technology. During Dr. Preble’s visit, he first gave a talk on integrated photonics, and then had a student lunch with ~10 students from OSA and SPIE Chapters. We received very positive feedbacks from the student lunch as Dr. Preble shared his research experience and provided valuable advices for graduate students!

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Women in Optics Organizer: Purdue Univ SPIE Chapter and Purdue Univ OSA Chapter Speaker: Dr. Alexandra Boltasseva, Dr. Dana Weinstein and Dr. Swati Pol Date/Time/Location: August 5, 2019 from 12:30 pm to 1:30 pm at Birck Nanotechnology Center, Purdue University Participants: ~20 students Cost: $224.71. As planned last year, Purdue Univ SPIE Chapter successfully held the Women in Optics program. The event featured a forum comprising women in various stages in their research journey, led by experienced panelists including Prof. Alexandra Boltasseva, Prof. Dana Weinstein and Dr. Swati Pol who discussed topics like challenges faced by women in their careers in science, and steps we could take to address the challenges. The participants had an opportunity to ask questions and share their experiences. We believe this program has helped to promote personal and professional growth for women through community building and networking opportunities. We won the 2019 WiO activity grant based on this event!

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Outreach: Nanodays Organizer: Birck Nanotechnology Center at Purdue, Purdue Univ SPIE Chapter, etc. Date/Time/Location: April 3-5, 2019 at Birck Nanotechnology Center, Purdue University Participants: ~50 Purdue students, ~200 K-12 students, teachers and parents Cost: covered by the Optics Outreach Kit from SPIE Nanodays is a traditional nano-science showcase that takes place annually. On Nanodays, K-12 kids were invited to Birck Nanotechnology Center and learn about optics and nanoscience. As part of the tradition, SPIE student chapter set up an Optics & Photonics booth in Birck Nanotechnology Center on NanoDays and showed intriguing optical demonstrations. The theme of our demonstration this year was “reflection, diffraction grating, hologram”.

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SPIE Optics and Photonics 2019 Organizer: SPIE Date/Time/Location: April 11-15, 2019 at San Diego Convention Center, San Diego, USA Cost: covered by SPIE Officer Travel Grant Our previous president, Soham and previous treasurer, Deesha, were funded by the Officer Travel Grant to attend the conference and the leadership workshop!

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SPIE and OSA Purdue Student Chapter Callout 2019 Organizer: Purdue Univ SPIE Chapter and Purdue Univ OSA Chapter Date/Time/Location: October 10, 2019 at PHYS 238, Purdue University Cost: covered by OSA student chapter We presented our chapter activities to the attendees, and invited Dr. Simeon Bogdanov from ECE department to give an inspirational talk titled “High speed room-temperature control of quantum emitters with plasmonic nanostructures”.

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Treasurer’s Report [This section should be completed by the chapter treasurer and based off of accounting done throughout the year. Things that are necessary include a starting balance, any income in the year with descriptions, any expenses during the year with descriptions, and an ending balance. Table formats work best. You may choose to track expenses in Excel in order to use formula functions. Preference is in chronological order of expense. Please adapt format to meet your chapter’s needs. Below is an example of the minimum requirements. If your chapter tracks expenses in local currency, please include a column for USD conversions using the date of reporting as the date of conversion. If your chapter has anticipated expenses that will occur after the report is submitted, indicate the anticipated amounts here.]

Date Description Notes Credit (Income) Debit (Expenses) Total

1/1/2019 Previous Year’s Funds $ 2442.29

Everything in Between $ 657.21

12/31/2019 Anticipated End of Year Balance $ 1785.08

Date Description Notes Credit (Income) Debit (Expenses) Total

1/1/2019 Previous Year’s Funds $2442.29

11/12/2019 SPIE Activity Grant We haven’t added this check to our account

$700 $2442.29

4/2/2019 Women in Optics grant We haven’t received this check

$ 500 $2442.29

4/1/2019 Student lunch with Dr. Ilya A. Rodionov Pizza $ 109.78 $ 2332.51

4/9/2019 Student lunch with Dr. Marko Loncar Pizza $ 155.30 $ 2177.21

4/20/2019 members meeting with Prof Solnstev Pizza Event from the year before

$ 59.46 $ 2117.75

4/30/2019 Members lunch with Professor Patsalas Pizza Event from the year before

$ 70 $ 2047.75

8/5/2019 Women in Optics panel discussion Pizza $224.71 $ 1823.04

8/23/2019 Purdue Univ SPIE student chapter 2019 election

Snacks $56.54 $ 1766.50

9/03/2019 Transfer out fee $ 2.77 $ 1763.73

6/30/2019 Checking interest from BOSO $ 21.35

12/31/2019 Anticipated End of Year Balance $ 1785.08

*Anticipated funding amounts based on chapter budget and last year’s costs/incomes. Conclusions and Recommendations This year we had an opportunity to organize an event with a purpose of holding a panel discussion with some leading women engineers, scientists and researchers in the field of optics and photonics. It was a successful event where we addressed the challenges that women face. This also gave the students an overview of the work environment, research opportunities and obstacles. We hope to organize similar events in the future with a broadened sphere of audience. The editor of Nature Physics, Luke Fleet (luke.fleet@nature.com) said that he is interested in visiting Purdue University in the spring of 2020. As SPIE is closely related to optics as well as physics, we highly recommend holding Luke’s visit in the spring.