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ANNUAL REPORT
January- December 2016
SPIE Student Chapter,
University of Calcutta,
Department of Applied Optics & Photonics,
Jd-2, Sector-3, Saltlake, Kolkata-700106,
West Bengal, India
INTRODUCTION
SPIE Student Chapter of University of Calcutta was establised in 2006. Just like a
sapling needs to be nurtured in order to turn it into a full grown tree, the hard work of
our chapter members has contributed a lot in the growth of this chapter. Thus we
proudly announce that the year 2016 marked the completion of 10 successful years of
SPIE Student Chapter of University of Calcutta. The year also witnessed many events
and activities which speaks volume of its success.
From previous year, SPIE Student Chapter activities were merged with the activities of
other Student Chapters of this Department of Applied Optics And Photonics - namely
Optical Society Of America (OSA) and Opical Society Of India (OSI). Since then all
the Student Chapter activities are jointly conducted.Working together incessently and
sincerely ,our SPIE Chapter members always try to disseminate the concepts of optics
among graduates, undergraduates and school going students by demonstrating optical
models, organising seminars and interactive sessions. The creative models made by
our members and most importantly the kits sent to us by SPIE helped the students
understand optics in an easier manner. Moreover, our members successfully organised
many departmental seminars where our research scholars, alumnus and faculty
members gave the students insight into discoveries and advancements in optics and
photonics, and also encouraged them to make career in this field.
This report summarizes all the activities organised by this chapter under the guidance
of our Faculty Advisor.
Office bearers OF 2017
The chapter members and the faculty advisor elected the office bearers in the meeting
held on 7th March 2017. The new office bearers are as follows:
Faculty Advisor
President Vice President Secretary
Co-Treasurer Co-Treasurer
NAME EMAIL ID
Faculty Advisor Prof. Kallol Bhattacharya [email protected]
President Ria Talukder [email protected]
Vice-president
Srijoyee Datta [email protected]
Secretary Subhendu Ghosh [email protected]
Co-Treasurer Amit Nath [email protected]
Co-Treasurer Debayan Das
Current student members of the chapter :
1. Jeyeta Banerjee
2. Sankalpa Banerjee
3. Sabyasachi Chattopadhyay
4. Debayan Das
5. Srijoyee Datta
6. Prasanna Deshmukh
7. Silpa Dey
8. Souvik Ghosh
9. Subhendu Ghosh
10. Priyanka Mandal
11. Joice Mathew
12. Sarbojit Mukherjee
13. Nabarun Polley
14. Hemanth Pruthvi
15. Shirsendu Sarkar
16. Pratyush Ranjan Sen Sarma
17. Irin Shabnam
18. Ria Talukder
CHAPTER ACTIVITIES : 2016
1. Outreach activity at Panskura Banamali College on 24th
February 2016:
First outreach of this year started with an outreach program in Panskura Banamali
College On 24th February 2016. The program was inaugurated by a speech by one
of the faculties of that college, followed by a speech by our faculty advisor Prof.
Kallol Bhattacharya. After the speech SPIE Team demonstrated the optical
models and it was satisfying to see the interest among the students to see them.
(Left) Faculty advisor Mr Kallol Bhattacharya interacting with the students; (Right) SPIE
member Sushmita Paul demonstrating an optical model to the students.
(Left) SPIE member with the students demonstrating reflecting telescope; (Right) SPIE
member Subhendu Ghosh giving an introduction before starting the demonstration of laser
show.
2. Outreach activity at Jadavpur University on 2nd March
2016:
SPIE team reached Jadavpur University, Saltlake campus on 2nd
March 2016. The
enthusiasm within the college students to see the optical demonstrations was
noteworthy. We interacted with them and encouraged them to make some of the
optical models. Though quest for knowledge never ends but there has to be the
zeal to know more, this is what our team tried to invoke in them.
(Left)Diffracion of light from single slit is being demonstrated; (Right) Prof. Jaya Basu
demonstrating anamorphic image.
(Left) Converging and diverging action of lenses and Total Internal Reflection is being
demonstrated; (Right) Faculty Advisor Prof. Kallol Bhattacharya demonstrating the interesting
sunset.
Group photograph of the SPIE team after the outreach
3. Witnessing the rare phenomenon :Mercury Transit on 9th
May 2016 :
Mercury transit is a rare astronomical phenomenon that occurs only 13 times in a
century. Calcutta observed this phenomenon on 9th may 2016. Initially one of the
chapter members Ms. Sushmita Paul gave a presentation on the significance of
this phenomenon and the reasons behind it, after that, our SPIE team gathered the
students on the rooftop of the University of Calcutta building, so that they can
witness this natural phenomenon. The telescopes were set and the students were
allowed to watch this phenomenon one by one.
(Left) Ms. Susmita Paul giving a presentation on the reason behind the mercury transit;
(Right) One of the slides presented by Ms. Paul.
SPIE members setting the telescope to view the rare phenomenon.
Group photograph of the chapter members after watching Mercury Transit.
4. Outreach at Pareshnath Girls’ School, Dhakuria on 24th
May 2016 :
As Margaret Mead said, “Children must be taught how to think, not what to
think”- with this in mind SPIE team reached Pareshnath Girls School, Dhakuria
on 24th
May 2016. Students of standard VI o XII attended our outreach program.
As usual optical model demonstration took place. The students found them very
interesting as the wonders of optics were revealed. At the end of this program our
faculty advisor Prof. Kallol Bhattacharya handed over a hands-on optical kit to
one of the teachers as a gift for the students so that they can explore more about
light.
(Left) SPIE member Shirsendu Sarkar demonstrating the 3D Show to the students; (Right)
SPIE member Silpa Dey demonstrating different optical models to the students
Prof. Kallol Bhattacharya handing over the optical kit to one of the teachers of that school.
Group photo at Pareshnath Girls’ School after the outreach program
Faculty Advisor Prof. Kallol Bhattacharya with the students and teachers of Pareshnath Girls’
school
5. Participation in SPIE Leadership Workshop and Optics +
Photonics Conference 2016, Sandiego, USA :
Our SPIE Student Chapter President, Ms. Sushmita Paul participated in the SPIE
Leadership Workshop held at San Diego, USA on 27th August 2016. She had
presented a poster constituting all the activities of our SPIE Student Chapter. She
also attended the Optics + Photonics Conference from 28th
August- 1st September
2016 and got an opportunity to interact with other Office Bearers of SPIE Student
Chapter from different institutes all over the world.
(Left) SPIE Student Chapter President Ms. Susmita Paul during her poster presentation;
(Right) Ms. Susmita Paul with other Student Chapter Office bearers attending the
Conference.
6. Departmental Seminar organised on 5th September 2016 :
On 5th September 2016 our SPIE team arranged a departmental seminar on
“Devices and Circuits to address the challenges of IOT”- the speaker was Mr. Ayan
Datta, who is a Component Design Engineer in Intel (Bangalore), we are thankful to
him as he has travelled a long way to give a presentation in the seminar, and to Dr.
Kanik Palodhi as well for inviting him. Many students attended the seminar.
Before starting of the seminar
7. Outreach at Indian Institute of Engineering Science and
Technology (IIEST), Shibpur on 29th September 2016 :
Our SPIE Student Chapter in collaboration with a professional organisation
named “Sunshell Power” held a workshop on renewable energy, energy
efficiency and smart city. Natural Energy conservation is the prime need of the
hour, so it’s high time we start conserving natural energy for our future use. This
workshop was divided in three phases. Initially many eminent professors from
significant universities talked about the need to conserve energy and different
process of harnessing natural energies like wind and solar energy, and then they
spoke of the concept of green building and smart city. After that the students were
given hands-on experience with the software like PVSS and metronome. Finally
an extended part of this workshop was to visit IIEST (formerly known as BESU)
labs in order to get a better insight of practical implementation of the methods of
energy conservation.
Dr. Tathagata Sarkar of IIEST (Shibpur) showed the students the solar panels
installed on the roof of their institute and described how they use solar energy to
generate electricity which drives one of the wings of the building. He also showed
the Rain Gauge they installed. There was another section where they produce bio
gas out of the natural composts. At the end of the workshop all students were
given certificates.
(Left) Dr. Tathagata Sarkar explaining the working principle of the Rain Gauge, and there
were solar panels which they installed on the roof of IIEST. (Right) Dr. Tathagata Sarkar
explaining the instrument which monitors the movement of the sun and prepares a database.
Members of SPIE Student chapter in front of CEGESS
Members of SPIE Student Chapter along with Dr. Tathagata Sarkar
8. Outreach at SDPU Vidyachakra school, Raiganj on 3rd
November 2016 :
On 3rd
November 2016, a team of 14 members visited SDPU Vidachakra School at
Raiganj at a distance 444 km from Kolkata. Most of the students who took part in our
outreach program were from secondary and higher secondary level. Our members
demonstrated the optical models and were pleased to see that the students were taking
interest in it. Young minds had lots of questions regarding the working of different
optical models and our members answered them patiently. After completion of our
model demonstration the Principal of the school personally spoke to us and
appreciated our effort.
(Left) Ria Talukder, SPIE member explaining how the ultraviolet absorbing beads absorb the UV
Rays from Sun and change their colours. (Right) Surajit Sinha and Sajib Chowdhury two of the
SPIE members demonstrating LDR switch based light and Wave-guiding of light .
(Left) One of the Suchandra Saha demonstrates the basic principles of reflection and
refraction of light; (Right) Srijoyee Datta explaining the working of reflecting telescope to the
students.
SPIE Team in SDPU Vidyachakra School
9. Outreach at Karnajora High School, Raiganj on 4th
November 2016:
On 4
th November 2017, SPIE team organised another outreach at Raiganj in the
school named Karnajora High School. The students as well as the teachers took
part in our outreach program. The students were divided according to their classes
and they were waiting patiently in queues to see our optical model demonstration.
Students there are very much studious and enthusiastic to do something big in the
field of Science and Technology, according to them, our outreach programs
encouraged them a lot to pursue optics in their higher education. Moreover some of
them even shared with us their ideas of making different optical models. Such
feedback always motivates us to hold more and more outreaches so that students
from everywhere get to know the real essence of optics.
(Left) Suchandra Saha explaining laws of reflection and refraction of light; (right) Srijoyee
Datta explaining the reflection type telescope.
(Left) Irin Shabnam explains Converging and diverging action of lenses and Total Internal
Reflection; (Right) Anusua Majumder demonstrating Waveguiding of light.
(Left) Silpa Dey and Ipshita Chakrabarty demonstrating Newton’s Disc, and other optical models;
(Right) Ria Talukder demonstrating function of a Stroboscope.
Group photo of chapter members after the outreach program
10. Seminar given by Prof. Toyohiko Yatagai and Prof.Yukitoshi
Otani of Utsonomiya University, Japan, on 30th November :
On 30th November 2016, Professor Toyohiko Yatagai and Professor Yukitoshi Otani
of Utsonomiya University, Japan, came to India to renew their collaboration with our
University of Calcutta. However, as promised the professors gave a talk in the seminar
organised by the SPIE team. The seminar started with Professor Lakshmi Narayan
Hazra giving a speech on the achievements of our student chapter. Then Prof. Yatagai
took over the stage. He is an eminent personality and was former president of SPIE on
the year 2015. In the beginning he started his talk with a small informal quiz contest
which tested the knowledge of the students regarding SPIE. Then he went on
mentioning various achievements of the Optical Department in Utsonomiya
University. Moreover it’s worth mentioning that Prof. Yatagai taught the students how
“losing a way can make a new map”- this was very much inspiring. After that,
Professor Otani gave a talk on pursuing optics as a career. So the overall seminar
proved to be of immense importance to the students since they got to know how they
can channelize their learning in the correct path and build their career on it.
(Left) Prof. Hazra giving introductory speech and Prof. Yatagai standing beside him; (Right) Prof.
Yatagai giving a presentation.
(Left) Prof. Otani giving a presentation; (Right) SPIE Office Bearers along with the professors of
Calcutta University and Prof. Yatagai and Otani.
SPIE members with Prof. Yatagai and Prof. Otani
11. Collaboration with Manipal University, Karnataka, in
organizing the Asia Student Photonics Conference 2016 :
SPIE Student Chapter of University of Calcutta collaborated with Manipal
University, Karnataka (India) in arranging Asia Student Photonics Conference
2016.
This conference took place from 12th – 14th December 2016. Our chapter spent
its Visiting Lecturer Grant in that conference but unfortunately due to some
inconvenience regarding his VISA application, Professor Michael Boersch
couldn’t make it to the conference.
Moreover there was an on-going exam during that time, so none of our members
could attend the conference, however a poster has been sent by us to them. But
unfortunately due to their busy schedule they couldn’t send us any pictures of our
poster in their conference, so here i am attaching the soft copy of the poster sent
by us.
The poster sent to Manipal University, Karnataka for ASPC 2016
Name of SPIE Student Chapter of University of Calcutta (highlighted with a red box) displayed in
the Event Collaborators’ list in their website
12. Departmental seminar on “Optical Methods to Measure
Surface Topography with Nanometric Accuracy”, presented
by Kanik Palodhi, on 16th December 2016.
On 16th December 2016, our second departmental seminar took place which was
presented by one of our faculties, Dr. Kanik Palodhi on “Optical Methods to Measure
Surface Topography with Nanometric Accuracy”. Many students attended the
seminar and gained much knowledge on mentioned topic.
Dr. Kanik Palodhi as a speaker in the seminar.
13. Outreach activity at BKC College on 17th December2016:
SPIE team reached BKC College on 17th December 2016, as usual optical model
demonstration was done and our members interacted with the students and
explained how optics can help them shape their career.
(Left) Irin Shabnam demonstrating Refraction through lens and total internal reflection of light;
(Right) Prof. Kallol Bhattacharya interacting with the students.
(Right) SPIE team after the outreach
Financial Statement:
Chapter Bank Account details:
Savings Account (Account No. : 11152798582)
State Bank of India, Manicktala Branch,
Kolkata- 700 009,
India
Income:
Description Amount in INR
Available Balance 100797.40
Activity grant 70950.00
Amount received for Ten years
celebration of SPIE Student chapter
13014.00
Bank interest 7715.00
Net income 192476.40
Expenditures:
Description Amount in INR
Outreach Activity 65998.00
Seminar 3905.00
Expenditure on optical model design 1048.00
Meetings 1497.00
Miscellaneous 2464.00
Total 74912.00
Available balance as on 25th
December 2016: 117564.40 INR
