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Stanford Optical Society
http://photons.stanford.edu
Stanford University SPIE Chapter Annual Report
2015-2016
Executive Team:
Co-President (SPIE) Stephen Wolf, [email protected], 3499730
Co-President (OSA) Alex Diezmann, [email protected], 3530162
Secretary Tiffany Huang, [email protected], 3696261
Treasurer Sage Doshay, [email protected], 3572437
Webmaster Joshua Yoon, [email protected], 3601859
SUPR Chair Therice Morris, [email protected], 3602816
Outreach Chair Andrew Ceballos, [email protected], 3532724
Membership Chair David Sell, [email protected], 3647567
Speakers Chair A. Fatih Cihan, [email protected]
Membership Events
Laser Tag
February 14, 2015
17 Participants
What kind of fun is more related to optics than laser tag? I sure can’t think of
anything right now, so that’s why we treated these lucky members of the
Stanford Optical Society to a few rounds of this most illustrious activity.
SUPR Reunion BBQ
July 10, 2015
60 Participants
Sometimes, when one partakes in an experience that is so mind blowing that it
cannot be expressed in words to those who were not present, a lasting impact is
made on that individual. They quickly realize that they cannot relate to anyone
who is unaware that such greatness exists in the world, that such meticulous
event planning is even possible. It is no surprise, then, that after experiencing the
2015 Stanford University Photonics Retreat, all of the attendants coalesced
together, bonded by the power of shared experience. However, there were also
those who were lost to the winds, who lost contact, who felt trapped with no
means to recollect their experiences with anyone who will understand. We
understand the anguish that must have been felt by these people, and so
organized a tremendous gathering to reunite them with the participants in the
greatest experience of their lives.
Bubbly Happy Hour
August 14, 2015
25 Participants
In an effort to make all of our events unique in some way, the use of themed
happy hours has been crucial. The first such happy hour was carbonation themed,
featuring a large variety of drinks that were carbonated at the event using a
special attachment to a CO2 tank.
Room Escape
September 5, 2015
11 Participants
Room escapes have gained popularity in recent years as an excellent activity for
bringing groups of people together using frantic, high-stress situations. In an
effort to instill a sense of camaraderie to the Optical Society, we decided to make
the trek to San Francisco to experience the Puzzle Room from Real Escape Games.
Unfortunately, we were unable to complete the last puzzle before time ran out,
so the explosives in the room detonated, and all of the participants were killed.
OSA Welcome BBQ
October 9, 2015
150 Participants
Every year we throw a huge BBQ during autumn quarter in order to get together
with new students, and promote interest in our group. This year, the turnout was
considerable, bringing in nearly 150 people to this gathering of free food and
beer. This event was sponsored by Ginzton Lab.
Miracle Berry Happy Hour
November 11, 2015
40 Participants
Every once in a while, someone hands you a red tablet and says “here, try this”,
and you proceed to have one of the most amazing sensory experience of your life.
In order to bring this magic to the Optical Society, we hosted a happy hour based
around the miracle berry – a small tablet composed of corn syrup and freeze-
dried special berries that cause any sort of acidity present in food to be
experienced as a sweet taste. People were brought together to experience the
joys of drinking pure lemon juice and vinegar.
Winter Happy Hour
January 22, 2016
40 Participants
Sometimes there’s a recipe that you really want to try, but it is very difficult to
scale for a small number of people. In order to alleviate this issue, we organized a
happy hour featuring a variety of homemade attractions, including spiced cider,
marshmallows, hot chocolate, and hard cider.
Speakers and Workshops
Seminar Series
Stanford University
Stanford, CA
~40 participants at each seminar
The Speakers Committee organized both technical and non-technical talks for the
optics community. Speakers consisted of experts from both industry and
academia. All of the seminars were held on campus in the Science and
Engineering Quad.
For talk summaries and a list of future seminars, please see our website at
http://photons.stanford.edu/seminars.
Date Speaker Title
02/11/2015 Dr. Reuven Gordon (University of Victoria)
Extraordinary Acoustic Raman (EAR): Listening to Proteins
02/17/2015 Dr. Charles Clark (National Institute of Standards and Technology and the University of Maryland)
Over the Rainbow: The Other World Seen by Animals
02/18/2015 Nicholas Tezak and Ryan Hamerly (Stanford University)
Scientific Computing with Python
02/26/2015 Yousif Kelaita (Stanford University)
Scientific Visualization with Blender
04/02/2015 Dr. Jonathan Waldern (DigiLens Inc.)
Holographic optical waveguide technology
04/21/2015 Prof. Robert L. Byer (Stanford University)
Presenting Your Research at Optics Conferences
04/30/2015 Prof. Laura Marcu (University of California, Davis)
Fluorescence Lifetime Spectroscopy and Imaging for Biomedical Diagnostics
05/05/2015 Dr. Dirk Weiss (First Solar Inc.) Introduction to First Solar Technology
08/25/2015 Dr. Ardavan Oskooi (Simpetus) Leveraging Advances in Computational Electrodynamics to Enable New Kinds of Nanophotonic Device Design
11/19/2015 Dr. Thomas Freeland (Stanford University)
Public Speaking, "Staging of a Non-fictional Performance", and Interview Workshop
01/28/2016 Dr. Rolando Toyos (Toyos Clinics, President of Ophthalmology Society of America)
Light Treatment for Dry Eye Disease - How to bring paradigm shifts to Medicine
Workshop on Scientific Computing with Python
Nicholas Tezak and Ryan Hamerly
Stanford University
February 18, 2015
Stanford University
Stanford, CA
~20 participants
In this workshop, the presenters trained attendees about various usages of Python
scripting for scientific computations, data manipulations and taking notes
alongside the results, data plotting methods, and creating interactive GUIs. The
attendees benefited from this workshop a lot in terms of not only the technical
usages of python but also non-technical aspects of it. The various ways of
optimizing python algorithms were also shown, which made the workshop more
applicable overall since this feature of python is what makes it more advantageous
against the other less efficient programming languages.
Workshop on Scientific Visualization with Blender
Yousif Kelaita
Stanford University
February 26, 2015
Stanford University
Stanford, CA
~20 participants
To train the attendees about how 3D modeling and plotting with Blender can be
used for scientific publications, Yousif Kelaita conducted an interactive
demonstration and training. Participants had their own computers ready so they
can work real-time on their own during the workshop. This workshop was planned
for 20 people while the number of applications reached a record high of 60.
Presenting Your Research at Optics Conferences
Prof. Robert L. Byer
Stanford University
April 21, 2015
~15 participants
For this event, Prof. Robert Byer, who is a very experienced speaker and one of the
former presidents of Optical Society of America, talked about important points
about presentation at optics-related conferences. There were detailed discussions
about how the presenter should approach the presentations for contributed talks,
invited talks or plenary talks. After the Prof. Byer’s training, 3 students did their
CLEO presentations while the audience and Prof. Byer provided live feedback.
Workshop on Public Speaking, “Staging a Non-fictional
Performance”, and Interview Skills
Dr. Thomas Freeland
Oral Communications Program, Center for Teaching and Learning, Stanford
University
November 19, 2015
~30 participants
This workshop was organized just before the hiring seasons started to prepare
those applying for the jobs for their professional interactions. In this workshop, Dr.
Thomas Freeland, who is also an acting coach, went through basic body language
tricks and issues that are critical for public speaking and professional interviews.
The talk was directly relevant to optics engineers/scientists looking for jobs and
internships. The attendees were mostly graduate students.
Outreach Events
Summer Holography Class for RISE - 7/29/15 - 4 volunteers, 30 students
The RISE (Raising Interest in Science and Engineering) Summer Internship Program for HS Students is sponsored by the Office of Science Outreach. It’s an intensive 7-week summer program for low income students interested in science, engineering, math, computer science, or psychology. We worked with the program to provide a half-day devoted to encouraging students interest in optics and photonics. Interactive demonstrations included a holography workshop where students made their own holograms, measuring a hair’s width using diffraction and building microscopes to learn about ray optics.
Escondido Science Night 2015 ~ 3/11/15 - 10 volunteers, 100s of attendees
For the third year, we have been involved in Science Night at Escondido Elementary School. We were given space to set up some of our interactive demos, primarily the laser maze and laser harp, which the event participants (children and their families, as well as members of the local community) were able to experience as an introduction to optics. While they waited, volunteers provided explanations of the demos, trivia, and answered questions. It was the first use of our laser maze with modifications to aid in ease of transport and setup.
MakerFaire - 2015 May 14-17 20 Volunteers 1000s of attendees
For the fourth year, we hosted a booth at the Bay Area Maker Faire, a weekend-long faire for artists, tinkerers and Do-It-Yourself-adherents. Maker Faire is the perfect venue to showcase our larger demos, such as the Water Waveguide, The Laser Maze and the Laser Harp. The fair had over 13,000 attendees, with many stopping by our booth to learn more about optics and play with our demos.
Apollo Engineering Day - 10/23/15 2 volunteers, 300 students
Apollo is a continuation high school on the east side of San José that services disadvantaged students. Before attending Apollo, these students were considered high school drop-out students and may not have had any exposure to engineering as a potential profession. Engineering Day invites local engineering businesses and groups to man booths providing information about different engineering careers. We brought along our demos to encourage excitement in optical engineering, and spoke with students about photonics and pursuing higher education in engineering in general.
BASF Science Day - 11/7/15 - 12 volunteers, 1000s of attendees
The 5th Annual Discovery Day at AT&T Park saw over 30,000 visitors interested in learning about science and engineering. We showcased demos on persistence of vision, color, lenses and other topics. As always, the Laser Harp was a major hit with the kids.
SUPR 2015
SUPR 2015 was hosted at the Asilomar Conference center in Monterey Bay with
84 student attendees. Various departments were present, including EE, Applied
Physics, Physics, Chemistry, Bioengineering, Biophysics, and Material Science. Our
keynote speaker was W.E. Moerner, the 2014 Nobel Laureate for chemistry.
Other speakers included talks by Stanford Professors: Karl Deisseroth, Tony Heinz,
Jelena Vuckovic, Jonathan Fan and Manu Prakash.
Attendees also participated in events such as a poster session, workshop on
reducing stress for graduate students, hot chocolate and s’mores by the ocean,
and visits to the local aquarium/hiking trails. Planning for SUPR 2016, to take
place in the Marconi conference center in Marshall CA, is already well underway!
Financial Summary
Membership Events
Laserquest $206.00
Nature Hike $75.42
SUPR Reunion BBQ $232.22
Miracle Berry Happy Hour $207.90
Winter Themed Happy Hour $125.16
Mixers $462.44
Outreach
Maker Faire $258.23
Bay Area Science Festival $17.25
Demo Supplies $361.79
Speakers
Seminars $562.57
Workshops $246.76
Chapter Expenses
FiO Volunteering $393.88
Exec Outings $106.00
Election Snacks $91.46
Delayed 2014-2015 Reimbursements $350.00
Deposits
OSA Grants $1990.00
SPIE Grants $2100.00
Net Cash Flows
Starting Balance $6163.18
Net Expenditures $3697.08
Net Deposits $4090.00
Ending Balance $6496.10
Chapter Student/Alumni Roster
Current Students
Name Expires
Arushi Arora 10 February 2016
Camille Bayas 3 February 2016
Victoria Borish 11 February 2016
Iliana Bray 7 July 2016
Andrew Ceballos 20 May 2016
Rongrong Cheacharoen 13 July 2016
Colin Comerci 15 February 2016
Christine Cordeiro 25 January 2017
James Cybulski 5 April 2016
Constantin Dory 11 February 2016
Sage Doshay 5 January 2017
Yu Guo 3 February 2016
Lily Hu 25 February 2016
Tiffany Huang 23 June 2016
Jaehee Kim 11 June 2016
Sandra Kjono 4 February 2016
Maurice Lee 13 February 2016
Michael Leung 18 February 2017
Orly Liba 13 December 2016
Qian Lin 13 February 2016
Lei Liu 12 January 2017
Sonya Mollinger 28 June 2016
Therice Morris 11 February 2016
Mehmet Mutlu 17 February 2016
Rishi Patel 24 February 2016
Marina Radulaski 2 February 2016
Christopher Rogers 13 February 2016
Colleen Rosania 8 February 2016
Hardeep Sanghera 12 February 2016
David Sell 1 October 2016
Colleen Shang 19 January 2017
Idan Steinberg 21 November 2016
Ateeq Suria 30 March 2016
Gil Tabak 21 February 2016
Nikolas Tezak 7 February 2017
Qiyuan Tian 16 March 2016
Huiliang Wang 24 February 2016
Jenny Wang 20 January 2017
Jeremy Witmer 23 February 2016
Stephen Wolf 26 September 2016
Xuerong Xiao 3 February 2016
Mimi Yang 22 February 2016
Linda Yi 2 February 2016
Jingying Yue 12 February 2016
Jingyuan Zhang 23 July 2016
Kai Zhang 9 February 2016
Alumni Roster
Name Graduation Date
Dirk Englund (not available)
Peter Catrysse (not available)
Jonathan Liu (not available)
Michelle Povinelli (not available)
Yang Wang Sep 2007
Jan Bogdanski Apr 2009
Andrei Faraon Sep 2009
Paulina Kuo Sep 2008
Linyong Pang Jun 2000
Yannis Paulus Jun 2009
Zongfu Yu Sep 2009
Margaret Hsu Jun 2010
Young Chul Jun Jan 2011
Thomas O'Sullivan Jan 2011
Sarah Bohndiek Aug 2013
Aaswath Raman Jun 2013
Lieven Verslegers Jan 2012
Tianhua Xu Jun 2012
Yijie Huo Mar 2013
Charles Rudy Sep 2013
Adam Wang Apr 2012
Ross Audet Sep 2013
Robert Chen May 2014
Kirk Ingold Sep 2015
Ray-Hon Sun Jun 2014
Quan Wang Jan 2015
Kristen Lurie Jan 2016
