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Kent State SPIE Student Chapter Bi-Annual Report June 2006
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Kent State SPIE Student Chapter Bi-Annual Report
by Chapter President Fenghua Li
Liquid Crystal Institute, Kent State University Kent, OH 44242-0001 USA Phone: (330)672-1559 | Fax: (330)672-2796 Email: [email protected] | URL: http://dept.kent.edu/spie
Outline of the report
List of current student chapter members Detailed chapter activities since last report Details of activities planned for future Financial statement Current elected officers and advisor
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List of Current Student Chapter Members Name Member ID Email Mingxia Gu 00837170 [email protected] Oleg Pishnyak 00636605 [email protected] Oksana Olkhovyk 00776344 [email protected] Bohdan Senyuk 00775627 [email protected] Jianru Shi 00756027 [email protected] Ke Zhang 00841776 [email protected] Cheng Chen 00841777 [email protected] Xiaoli Zhou 00895594 [email protected] Guoqiang Zhang 00835033 [email protected] Xinghua Wang 00782255 [email protected] Ebru Buyuktanir 00871963 [email protected] Rui Guo 00861963 [email protected] Fenghua Li 00426935 [email protected] Shi-Ying Lu 03060211 [email protected] Lei Shi 03054558 [email protected] Chris Bailey 00784894 [email protected] John Harden 03065924 [email protected] Thomas Palermo 03066812 [email protected] Yong-Kyu Jang 03071284 [email protected] EnkhAmgalan Dorjgotov 03091650 [email protected] Shawn Hurley 03071333 [email protected] Jeremy Neal 03064594 [email protected] Shouping Tang 00842230 [email protected]
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Detailed Chapter Activities Since Last Report 1. In May 16, 2006, we have invited Dr. Ye Yin to give us a talk about Effect of Dielectric Relaxation on Nematic Liquid Crystal Switching. Around 10 students from Kent State student chapter attended this seminar.
2. Our student chapter received chapter fund for regular chapter activities and travel fund in April. The travel fund will be used for travel expense of members who will attend the 2006 SPIE annual meeting early August in San Diego. 3. We did field research on rainbow and investigated the optical properties of rainbow. Two members of our chapter went to Niagara Falls and performed advanced observation of rainbow under polarizer. The polarization of rainbow was determined to be along the tangent line of the rainbow curve at every single point.
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The view of the Niagara Falls from USA side.
Left: The rainbow is shown with horizontal polarizer. Right: The rainbow disappears with vertical polarizer. 4. We attended the Great Lakes Photonics Symposium on June 12-16, 2006 at Dayton convention center in Dayton. This Conference provides a forum to promote optics and photonics in the Great Lakes area. 10 focused conferences was planned to offer a comprehensive symposium. During the conference, Kent State SPIE student chapter have done a series of activities: 1) On June 12, we attend the SPIE student chapter meeting of great lake area. President Fenghua Li did a presentation to explain the activities among the Kent State student chapter.
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Student members of chapters from great lake area are attending the chapter meeting on
June 12, 2006.
Mr. Jeremy Neal from our chapter demonstrates the interesting presentation on “liquid crystal can swim” which is a great example how we can do about high school outreach.
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Three members, Shin-Ying Lu, Jeremy Neal and Fenghua Li of our chapter are receiving the certificates of the Great Lakes Photonics Scholarship 2006.
Group photo of chapter meeting.
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2) SPIE Student Chapter of University of Dayton organizes a cookout at Delco park of Dayton on June 13, 2006. Our student chapter members had a lot of during this party.
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Some photos of the cook out party.
3) University of Dayton Chapter organizes a campus tour in their university. Our chapter members are attending the tour.
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We are taking pictures in front of materials research lab of University of Dayton.
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4) The conference organized a banquet on June 13, 2006 at Air Force Museum at Dayton.
Professors and students of Kent State are in the Air Force Museum of Dayton.
Oksana Olkhovyk, member of Kent State SPIE student chapter is receiving the SPIE
scholarship from SPIE President Paul F. McManamon during the banquet.
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5) The conference held a very useful career workshop for SPIE student members. Our chapter have a few members attended this workshop.
The lecturer is answering the questions from student members.
Professor Robin Sellinger is doing the presentation how to prepare the research career
during the PhD study.
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Students and Professors are having face-to-face discussion how to prepare the future career.
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Details of Activities Planned for Future We will actively maintain our chapter’s good standing, advertising members’ academic research strength, attract more new students into members and broaden the network of collaborations and communications. The following is a brief list of planed activities:
1. We plan to use the Visiting Lecturer Program of SPIE and invite a lecturer from University of Arizona to do a lecture of optical design. The fund will be covered from SPIE.
2. Continue the extensive collaboration with University of Dayton, Pennsylvania State University and Notre Dame University’s SPIE student chapters
3. We are planning an educational tour for local high school in collaboration with the Great Lake SPIE Chapter.
4. Promote academic program in the fields of Optics, Engineering, Physics, Chemistry, and Applications of Liquid Crystals, especially the Graduate Chemical Physics Interdisciplinary program at Liquid Crystal Institute. We will present posters during the annual meeting exhibitions in San Diego.
5. Attracting undergraduate students from Physics and Chemistry by giving seminars, tours and interactive communications.
6. Actively participate in conferences in the fields of Optics, Chemistry, Engineering, Physics and Applications of Liquid Crystals.
7. Maintain close relations, interchange experience and plan common activities with other SPIE chapters around the world. Especially during the annual meeting, it is a great opportunity to build relationship for future collaboration.
8. Apply for SPIE grants and scholarships available to chapter and individual chapter members to support travel and research activities. The institutes fund is our major goal this year.
Financial Information Previous balance $2063.1 spring 2006 semester meeting include new students drink expense -$30.35 2/9/2006 $2032.75 recruit new members -$100.00 3/9/2006 $1932.75 student chapter fund $1,150 4/1/2006 $3082.75 2006 travel fund (to be reimbursed) $1,000.00 4/3/2006 $4082.85 Total balance $4082.85
Current Elected Officers President Fenghua Li Vice-President Christopher Bailey Secretary Thomas Palermo Treasurer Xiaoli Zhou
