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SPIE Activities Report 2013/2014
Engineering School of Communication of Tunis
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OPTICS & PHOTONICS TUNISIA STUDENT CHAPTER
Student chapter Advisors
Prof. Mourad Zghal: [email protected]
Dr. Rim Cherif: [email protected]
Student Chapter Executive Committee - Officers
President: Amor Gueddana, [email protected]
Vice president: Amira Baili, [email protected]
Treasurer: Abir Hraghi, [email protected]
Secretary: Abderrahmen Trichilli, [email protected]
Student Chapter Members
Imen Abidi: [email protected]
Latifa Guesmi : [email protected]
Saddam Gafsi : [email protected]
Hamdi ghodbane : [email protected]
Imene Nejah : [email protected]
Leila Nechi : [email protected]
Ahmed Haroun Ferjani: [email protected]
Fatma Ezzahra Salem: [email protected]
Sarra Rebhi : [email protected]
Imene Maaloul : [email protected]
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Activity 1: Participation to the 12th Education and Training in Optics and Photonics Conference, ETOP’2013
http://www.optica.pt/etop2013/
23-26 July 2013: Participation to the ETOP’2013, 12th Education and Training in Optics
and Photonics Conference held at the Faculty of Science of the University of Porto in Porto,
Portugal.
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Activity 2: First African Summer School on Optics and Applications to Sustainable Development (ASOSD)
http://school-tunisia-optics.org/
31 August – 08 September 2013: The summer school was intended to be the first of a
series of schools/workshops that are organized periodically by universities in African countries,
in order to provide education and training for advanced graduate students, and postdocs faculty
who would like to acquire sufficient knowledge to begin having an impact in research areas based
on optics, laser science and technology. The summer school took place in Carthage, Tunis,
Tunisia.
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Activity 3: Visiting optical Labs at SUPCOM with invited
SPIE fellow
02 November 2013: We invited to our engineering school Prof. Vasudevan “Vengu”
Lakshminarayanan, professor of Optometry, Electrical Engineering and Physics at University
of Waterloo in Canada, and made him discover our research lab “GRESCOM” as well as the
optical demonstrations given for engineering students of SUPCOM.
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Activity 4: Active Learning on Optics and Photonics (ALOP)
04 – 06 November 2013: Organization of the Active Learning on Optics and Photonics
(ALOP) activity, which took place in Carthage, Tunis, Tunisia. Prof. Vasudevan
Lakshminarayanan was also present to teach his module.
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Activity 5: First North Africain Workshop on OPTICS (NAW OPTICS).
http://tunisia-optics.org/comasyst/
27 February – 02 March 2014: We contributed to the organization of
the First North Africain Workshop on OPTICS that took place at Hotel Medina Solaria &
Thalasso at Hammamet, Tunisia.
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Activity 6: SpecUP Spectrophotometer Workshop
http://tunisia-optics.org/activities/specup/
27 – 28 March 2014: Organization of the SpecUP spectrophotometer Workshop. It was
animated by prof. Patricia Forbes (University of Pretoria, South Africa). It took place at Esprit,
Tunisia.
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Activity 7: Attending the 3rd European SPIE Student Chapter Leadership meeting Parallel to SPIE PHOTONICS EUROPE.
13 – 17 April 2014: Invitation of our vice president Amira BAILI and scretary Abir
HRAGHI to attend the 3rd European SPIE Student Chapter Leadership meeting and
Photonics Europe 2014 conference which were held in SQUARE Brussels Meeting
Centre, Brussels, Belgium.
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Activity 8: Optical demonstrations in two secondary schools
23 April 2014: We moved to the Pioneer Secondary School “Bourguiba” of Tunis, Tunisia,
and gave several demonstrations about optical phenomena such as reflection, refraction,
polarization of light. A small presentation was made about the use of optics in our daily life as
well as in telecommunication. About 25 secondary school students were too excited and
motivated, they were attentive to the demonstrations and asking about explanations, we were
supported by one of their secondary teacher for the demonstrations.
02 June 2014: The same demonstrations were also given at the Pioneer Secondary School of
KEF, Tunisia. About 12 secondary school students were present. In addition to the
demonstrations and presentation, and at the end of the activity, students passed a test and the
student that obtained the best marks was awarded.
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Future Activities 2014-2015
In the next school year 2014-2015, we are hopefully aiming to organize the following
activities:
Visit of Telecommunication companies: We are planning also to visit the companies
“Tunisiana” and “Alcatel Lucent” with engineering students at the higher school of
communication to discover and learn about their facilities and optical equipment used in
telecommunication
Recruitment event: Organized at the entrance of the Engineering school of
communication of Tunis, we will explain to students what is optics, the student chapter’s
missions and the interesting role of such science to make life easier and achieve advances, this
will encourage them to join out chapter.
Organization of an Optics and Photonics Education Outreach activity: this project
is addressed to secondary school students and their teachers. Over a time period of six days, we
will teach optics and its application in a future career. To pay tribute to the Tunisian revolution,
we intend to organize the event in secondary schools in marginalized regions situated in the
northeast part of Tunisia (Kef, Béja and Jendouba). The demonstrations are addressed for both
teachers and students. For teachers, the demonstrations will cover three topics: “Optical Data
Transmission”, “Wavelength Division Multiplexing” and “Interference and Diffraction”. The
demonstrations for students are about light diffraction, polarization and selective reflection using
the kits “rainbow peephole”, “magic stripes” and “magic patch”, respectively.
Organization of a conference about optics and photonics: this activity is still under
study and discussion.
Tunisia Student chapter financial information
2013
1. Incoming funds (in TND local currency)
Source Amount in TND Date
SPIE 692,000 18/12/2012
OSA 1.967,520 01/07/2013
Engineering school of
communications of
Tunis (Sup’Com)
500,000 30/04/2013
TOTAL 3.159,520
2. Expended funds:
260 TND : student chapter activity during ASOSD (activity 2)
200 TND: Lunch with SPIE visinting lecturer Prof. Vasudevan
Lakshminarayanan (activity 3)
300 TND : Social program with Prof. Vasudevan Lakshminarayanan
(activity 3)
320 TND: optical components for ALOP experiments (activity 4)
450 TND: optical components for the Spec-up experiment (activity 6)
120 TND: Social program with the invited Prof. Patricia Forbes from
University of Pretoria, South Africa (activity 6)
230 TND: Poster printing, Flyers for the events
300 TND X 2 : Bus rental for transportation to the secondary school in
Tunis and Kef (activity 8)
240 TND: Two best student awards (activity 8)
420 TND: Tee Shirts for OPTSC advisors, officers and members
350 TND: Chapter advertising including posters print and pens including
SPIE logo
Balance to 31/12/2013 : 0 TND
