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Annual Report
SPIE CIO Student Chapter
November 2016
Centro de Investigaciones en Óptica, A. C.
Loma del Bosque #115, Lomas del Campestre
37150, León, Guanajuato, México
Phone: (52) 477 441 4200 – Ext. 111
Fax: (52) 477 441 42
CONTENT
1) Introduction
2) Elected officers 2017
3) Chapter members
4) Activities 2016
I. 10th Anniversary Dinner
II. Planning meeting
III. Recruitment activity / Pizza Party
IV. 2016 Official Photo
V. Visiting Lecturer
VI. Outreach Activities
VII. Summer School Students
a) Cineclub
b) Optics games
c) Soccer Match
VIII. Optics Experiments Contest
IX. Photography contest
X. SPIE Optics and Photonics 2016
XI. Visit from Prof. Boreman
5) Future Activities
6) Financial Balance
I. Introduction
The SPIE Student Chapter from the Centro de Investigaciones en Optica (CIO), located in
the city of Leon, Guanajuato, Mexico, has the purpose of promote outreach events with
the local community in different educations levels. The chapter also promotes the
interaction and partnership among students from this and other academic institutions.
In this report we show the activities done from December 2015 to November 2016. This
year we celebrated our 10th anniversary as a SPIE student chapter, we had the visit of
Prof. Mike Fiddy, we participated in the SPIE Student Chapter Leadership workshop, we
had an outreach activity contest and a photography contest and many other activities
involving bachelor students.
We are very grateful to our Academic Director Dr. Luis Armando Díaz Torres, our Chapter
Advisor Dr. Oracio Barbosa and the CIO General Director Dr. Elder de la Rosa for their
support to all the activities promoted by the SPIE CIO chapter, thank you to all of you.
II. Elected officers 2017
President Vice-president MARIBEL JUAREZ HERNANDEZ FRANCISCO JAVIER GANTES NUÑEZ
SPIE ID#: 3611500 SPIE ID#: 3611493 [email protected] [email protected]
Treasurer Secretary OSCAR ANDRES NARANJO
MONTOYA JORGE EDUARDO AGUIRRE ROCHA SPIE ID#: 3643775 SPIE ID#: 4026422
[email protected] [email protected]
III. Chapter members
1. Ana Aguayo Alvarado
2. Jorge Eduardo Aguirre Rocha
3. Abril Arellano-Morales
4. Mirna Barreiro Argüelles
5. Alan Blanco
6. Priscilla Castillo Velazquez
7. Ramon Cruz Torres
8. Paula Cutipa Gimenez
9. Mario Flores-Bustamante
10. Francisco Javier Gantes
11. Jason Gomez Jamaica
12. Maria Fernanda Gonzalez-Rodriguez
13. Brenda Guzman Valdivia
14. Francisco Ulises Hernandez Ledezma
15. Jesus Pablo Lauterio-Cruz
16. Carlos Moreno-Hernández
17. Jacqueline Muro Rios
18. Ulises Ramirez Meza
19. Pedro Pablo Rocha Garcia
20. Eduardo Roco
21. César Tavera Ruiz
22. Francisco Vargas
IV. Activities 2016
I. 10th Anniversary Dinner
The SPIE student chapter from Centro de Investigaciones en Optica, placed in Leon, Gto.,
Mexico, celebrated its 10th anniversary with a Dinner for old, current and new members.
The special guess were Prof. Socorro Hernandez, Prof. Mauricio Flores and Prof. Haggeo
Desirena, former members of the chapter as students, and now they are researchers
working in CIO.
Also, Prof. Oracio Barbosa, advisor of the chapter, Prof. Amalia Martinez, Prof. Eric Rosas
and Prof. Cristina Solano were invited due to the continuous support given to the chapter
activities.
The president of the chapter received from our advisor a commemorative plate
recognizing the anniversary.
II. Planning meetings
In order to plan the activities to be done, each month the chapter offices had a meeting
where they assigned everyone’s job.
III. Recruitment activity (Pizza Party)
Twice a year we host a pizza party, where new students met the chapter and had the
chance to know the benefits they could get from international societies such as SPIE. We
bought pizza, sodas and the students that decided to join the chapter got a T-shirt from
the SPIE Chapter.
IV. 2016 Official photo
In the begging of the year, the members from the chapter received their official T-shirt
and the official photo was taken celebrating a new year of activities.
V. Visiting Lecturer. Prof. Mike Fiddy
Through the visiting lecturer program, we had the visit of Prof. Mike Fiddy, from the
University of Charlotte. First, Prof. Fiddy gave a technical talk about her work in infrared
metamaterials. With an audience of students, researchers and workers from the center,
the talk last about an hour and after that he visited some of the labs in CIO, where
researchers and students presented the work they are doing.
Once the activities in the center were done, the chapter officers took Prof. Fiddy to taste
Mexican food and spend the rest of the evening in a tour through the downtown of the
city of Leon.
VI. Outreach Activities
Once a month, CIO host a workshop for about 20 bachelor students who come from
many parts of the country and even from another country. In these workshops students
learn about an specific optic’s topic such as fibers, metrology, lasers or lens design. By
the end of these workshops, the SPIE student chapter from CIO gives a talk about what a
student chapter is, we encourage them to join the chapter at their institutions or we tell
them how to form a new chapter. From this talk, a student from the Instituto Tecnologico
de Tuxtla Gutierrez, at the south of Mexico is trying to form their chapter, which could be
the first in the state of Chiapas.
During the talks we use the outreach kits from SPIE (Light Blox Science Kit) and OSA
(Optics suitcase) showing how light works and how we can use it in our lives. Phenomena
such as polarization, diffraction and decomposition of light were explained using simple
experiments.
VII. Summer School Students
Every year, CIO invites 30 bachelor students to visit the labs and to participate in a one
month stay working in a research project with one of the professors of the center. This
year students from several universities of Mexico and Colombia lived this amazing
experience.
In order to improve the experience of these young students, the SPIE student chapter
was invited to participate with several activities:
a) Cineclub
We organized the projection of the movie “2001: A Space Odyssey”. With popcorn, sodas
and candies, almost 40 people enjoyed the movie and had a great time.
b) Optics games
Using the outreach kits, summer students played with light and learned about some
phenomena like polarization, diffraction and color theory. Using the light blox science kit,
they had to obtain the most distinctive image they could get to impress their colleagues.
c) Soccer Match
Students from the summer school challenge the SPIE members to a soccer game. With a
final score of 8 vs 5 the chapter won the match, but all the players had a great time.
VIII. Optics Experiments Contest
We organized our fourth Optics Experiment Contest, having the participation of 3 ideas
that, by using easy to get or recycled materials, explained 3 phenomena of light. The
projects where:
First place: “Sonolight” Using a laser pointer, a solar cell and a speaker, Carlos
Moreno created a simple but amazing microphone.
Second place: “Laser and the eye” Using a laser pointer and a diffuse surface, Cesar
Tavera used the speckle effect to explain the difference between a coherent light and
white light.
IX. Photography Contest
We organized the Photography contest, having 18 participants with scientific and natural
photos, always showing an the beauty of light. The winner of this year was Ulises
Contreras with the phtography “Pinceladas de Luz” showing an aurora borealis.
The winners were elected taking in account the evaluation of the technical
characteristics of the photography but also with the support of the audience with the
“Likes” in the Facebook page of the Student Chapter.
X. Participation in SPIE Optics and Photonics 2016
Our officers travel to San Diego to attend the 2016 SPIE Optics and Photonics meeting.
They participated in the Student Chapter Leadership Workshop, where they could
improve their leader capabilities and had the chance to interact with students from all
over the world.
The CIO Student Chapter participated in the Poster Exhibition showing the activities the
chapter does along the year. The poster exhibition is a great opportunity to get new
ideas of activities a chapter could implement that were tested in another chapter, saving
time knowing what things should be or shouldn’t be done.
XI. Visit from Prof. Boreman
The 2016 electec president of SPIE, Prof. Glenn Boreman, visit CIO and had a nice
meeting with the members of the chapter, encouraging new students to join the chapter.
After this, Prof. Boreman talk to students and researchers from CIO about the work SPIE
does around the world and the great effort to create a link between researchers.
V. Future Activities
New T-shirts. As a way to motivate new members we organize a contest to
design the new T-shirt for the chapter. The new shirts are been done and will be
given for the new members or for those who renew their memberships.
Coffee science. We will have a researcher to talk about his experience in science.
Recruitment activity. Twice a year we will organize a recruitment activity to get
more people into the chapter. We will have pizza, sodas and T-shirts.
Photography contest. Every year we organize a photography contest with two
categories: Scientific and artistic.
Summer activities. In collaboration with CIO, we participated in activities
involving bachelor students who come during a month to work the labs of the
center. During this summer experience, we organize a movie projection, we made
the optics games, an exhibition of the outreach activity kits the chapter got from
OSA and SPIE.
Outreach activity contest. Every year we organize a contest to present an
activity that can be done using accessible, recycled and easy to get materials,
explaining a light based phenomena.
Visiting Lecturer. We will use the visiting lecturer program to take an
international researcher to our center.
VI. Financial Balance (currency: USD)
Description Income Expense
Beginning balance $ 857.30
Activity grant $ 900.00
2016 T-Shirts $ 231.30
Recruitment Activities $ 206.06
10th anniversary dinner $ 200.00 $ 533.33
Outreach Activity contest $ 60.61
Visiting Lecturer $ 60.61
Photography contest $ 345.45
Balance 2016 Total $ 1,957.30 $ 1,437.36 $ 519.94 (Conversion: 16.5 MXN/USD)
