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Student Chapter Advisors
Prof. Mourad Zghal [email protected]
Dr. Rim Cherif [email protected]
Student Chapter Executive Committee – Officers:
President: Abderrahmen Trichili [email protected]
Vice president: Latifa Guesmi [email protected]
Secretary: Ibrahim Elleuch [email protected]
Treasurer: Amani Ben Khalifa [email protected]
Student Chapter Members:
Amira Baili [email protected]
Abir Hraghi [email protected]
Ines Aroui [email protected]
Sarra Rebhi [email protected]
Rawdha Mhadhbi [email protected]
Zacharia Zayen [email protected]
Rania Triki [email protected]
Dorra Chakchouk [email protected]
Molka Gafsi [email protected]
Arbia Jalassi [email protected]
Salma Elleuch [email protected]
Sana Rannen [email protected]
Yesmine Dissem [email protected]
Ala Houimel [email protected]
Ahmed Mbarek [email protected]
Amine Besrour [email protected]
Rim Farhat [email protected]
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Our chapter has been particularly active this past year in organizing Outreach & education
activities in secondary schools, organizing seminars, workshops, and attending conferences
abroad. We are summarizing in this report the main activities that we were involved in, the
last year.
1. Outreach & Education Activities:
With the Optics and Photonics student chapter, we visited a secondary school, organized a
scientific summer camp and performed hands on activities in two universities, reaching
around 100 students.
Activity 1: Hands on Activity in The Secondary School ‘’Tahar Sfar’’ Mahdia
May 8th 2015: 30 secondary school students attended the event.
Activity 2: OPTSC Summer Camp on Optics and Astronomy
June 4-6th 2015: The camp was targeted towards high school students with ages between 14
and 16. The main purpose of the event is to diffuse knowledge of astronomy and optics
through astronomy and optical demonstrations for more than 20 young students.
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Activity 3: Hands on Activity in Polytec Central Private University
February 24th 2016: 25 undergraduate students and 8 OPTSC members attended the event.
Activity 4: OPTSC Presentation and Hands on Activity in the Faculty of Sciences
of Bizerte
March 16th 2016: More than 35 undergraduate students attended the event.
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2. Conferences, Workshops and Seminars:
Activity 5: Organizing ‘’IONS/FOCUS Tunis’’ Conference
September 1-5th 2015: We organized the first North African IONS/FOCUS conference which
was held in Carthage, Tunis. We had 30 participants from 9 countries (Tunisia, France, Senegal,
Burkina Faso, Germany, Algeria, Iran, South Africa and Egypt). The main objectives of the
conference were:
– Networking: Moving beyond the borders and having more international students
– Discussing scientific results
– Sharing experiences
IONS/FOCUS : Invited Talks
Prof. Andrea Galtarossa, University of Padova, Italy.
Prof. Vasudevan Lakshminarayanan, University of Waterloo, Canada.
Prof. Germano Montemezzani, University of Lorraine, Metz, France.
Prof. Rim Cherif, University of Carthage, Tunisia.
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Activity 6: Organizing a Recruitment Day Event
February 2nd 2016: We organized a student chapter recruitment event in the entrance hall of
Sup’Com. We performed a series of demonstrations to motivate new students to join the
OPTSC Team.
3. Attending Conferences and International Events
Activity 7: Presenting the OPTSC in The World Metrology Day
May 20th 2015: We celebrated the world metrology day with different organizations and
national scientific societies. Our chapter advisor Prof. Mourad Zghal gave a talk ‘’Ibn Al
Haytham: 1000 years of optics’’ while chapter advisor Dr. Rim Cherif presented ‘’The white
laser’’.
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Activity 8: Attending SPIE Student Leadership Meeting in San Diego
August 8-13th 2015: OPTSC president Abderrahmen Trichili and former president Amira Baili
attended the SPIE leadership in San Diego California on the 8th of August 2015 and participated
in the optics outreach Olympics games. Both of them presented also research papers on the
Optics and Photonics conference.
4. Social Event for Chapter Members
Activity 9: Laser Game Event
May 29th 2015: We organized a laser game for our members in Star Games Tunis.
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Future Activities
2015-2016
In 2016, we are aiming to organize the following activities:
July 2016: After the successful first edition of 2015 we aim to organize a second edition of the
scientific summer camp. In this year we aim to extend the number of participants to 35 and
involve different scientific communities like the Tunisian Society of Astronomy and the
national organization of Youth and Science.
We will focus on two major fields: astronomy and optical demonstrations. We will coordinate
with the society of Astronomy in Tunisia to give courses on planets and provide telescopes to
observe the sky at night. The members will perform the demonstrations and organize a
competition of optical design between participants.
October 2016: Hands on activity in Sfax pioneer secondary school.
November 2016: Visiting Lecturer
Invitation of Professor Vasudevan Lakshminarayanan from the University of Waterloo.
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OPTSC Financial Information
1. Incoming funds (in TND local currency)
2000 TND: From the Engineering School of Communication.
2. Expended funds
250 TND: Student chapter recruitment event.
300 TND: Lunch and coffee break for the OPTSC members in the Faculty of Sciences of
Bizerte visit.
250 TND: Social program in the summer camp.
250 TND: Poster printing and flyers for the events.
200 TND: Best student awards for the Education activity in Mahdia Secondary school.
250 TND: Laser Game Event.
500 TND: Bus rental for transportation for the hands on activity events.
*Financial report for the 4000$ grant for Focus Tunis was sent separately after the event.
Balance to 05/2016: 0 TND
