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Student Chapters 2004 Annual Report

July 2004 – December

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BAUMAN MOSCOW STATE TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY President: Konstantin Karapetyan (kotya@photonica.ru) Vice-President: Maxim Frolov (frolov@photonica.ru) Treasurer: Sergey Dubynin (dse@inbox.ru) 1. Current Activities • photonica.ru web-site. An online resource devoted to optics and photonics in

Russia. Joint project with OSA/BMSTU Student Chapter. • SPIE/RUS Chapter web-site. • Creation of chapter library. • Student optical laboratory, jointly with OSA/BMSTU. The project was started long

ago but is still in its infancy. There was a problem with the place for the lab, which we have recently received. Now we have three optical table tops to be mounted on some bases, which must be ordered and manufactured and assembled. This is another headache. Hopefully, Max Frolov who is very energetic and who now heads the technical activities of the chapter, will be able to cope with it. Our administration is very interested in this lab, but no one cares to help us, and everybody sends Max from one staff member to another. And since BMSTU is very large indeed this takes a lot of time to find someone.

Please address questions on this activity (if any) to Maxim Frolov with CC to Konstantin Karapetyan. 2. Members participation in conferences This year one member went to SPIE AM (Oleg Olkhovets) and four people went to Applied Optics 2004 conference in St.-Petersburg (Natalia Lisitsyna, Maxim Frolov, Victor Tolstoguzov and Vasily Grigoriev). Also 5 people (Natalia Lisitsyna, Valentina Koshechkina, Maxim Frolov, Oleg Olkhovets and Konstantin Karapetyan) participated in the meeting with Richard Hoover organized by MIIT Student Chapter (http://photonica.ru/oleg/index_photo.htm). 3. Planned Activities

• All the same activities as in 2004 (clause 2). • Development of our recently started chapter web page.

We ask SPIE to support our activities with the Student Chapter grant.

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BEIJING INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY President: Dong Liquan Vice-President: Sui Jing Treasurer: Zhou Xiaoxiao Secretary: Gao Bo Advisor: Qiming Xin (xinqiming@crystal-lens.com)

1. Current Activities • Some research seminars relating to the Optics and Photonics have been

carried out to promote and increase the interest of the related technical art. • Our chapter’s president, Dr. Dong Liquan, participated in the SPIE 49th Annual

Meeting 2-6 August 2004 in Denver, Colorado. • Chapter president reported on his visit in Denver during SPIE 49th Annual

Meeting. • We have held a seminar on “Optics and Digital Image Processing” among the

PhD. student members on 13 September 2004. • Activities on preparation and participation in the international conference

“Asia-Pacific Optical Communications 2004(APOC 2004)”, which was held on November 7-11, 2004 (part the members of our Chapter are in the local organization committee). Within this conference APOC-2004 we arranged the communion for students with the participants of the conference. (Dong Liquan, Sui Jing, Huang Fei, Chen Ya, Gao Bo, Zhou Xiaoxiao, Yang Jian, and others).

• Invited 2004 SPIE Dennis Gabor Award recipient Professor Francis T. S. Yu, from Department of Electrical Engineering, Pennsylvania State University on 10 November. Professor Yu gave a presentation on “White-light Information Processing”.

• Visit local companies, like China Daheng Group, Inc. to help students seek job opportunities, locate resources, keep in touch with newest developments in academic and professional research.

• Activities on the “The 4th Science and Technology Culture Festival of Graduate Students” in our university in November.

• Designed our chapter’s Logo. 2. Future Activities

• Prepare to publish SPIE Student Chapter newsletter at Beijing Institute of Technology, (primary news channel for Beijing Institute of Technology.)

• Participation in SPIE conferences. • Prepare to visit Tsinghua University’s Optical Lab. • Prepare to invite the officers of other chapters to have a seminar in our

department. • Prepare demonstrations for students: recently we received an optical kit from

SPIE and next academic year we are going to use it for optics demonstrations for students. We also would like to prepare more advanced demonstrations for high school students.

• Continue to give different lectures in optics during our meetings. • Continue to visiting local companies to encourage internship, locate jobs for

chapter members and get in touch with latest advances in industry developments.

• Maintain close relationships, interchange experience and plan common activities with other SPIE chapters around the world.

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3. Advice We think that SPIE's network channels have great importance for all student chapters to go beyond their borders and to see their optics studies through a worldwide spectrum. We think SPIE Digital Library is very useful for us, so we want the download limit for the students to be larger. Many international conferences are held in the United States. For Chinese students, only one student can attend the conference with SPIE’s Travel Grant, so we would like the travel grant for Chinese students to increase more than for other chapters. BEIJING UNIVERSITY OF POSTS AND TELECOMMUNICATIONS President: Jing An Vice-President: Zhenhua Cai Treasurer: Meiqin Fang Secretary: Yuan Zhong Advisor: Xiaomin Ren, (xmren@bupt.edu.cn) BRUNEL UNIVERSITY President/Treasurer: Maite Trujillo (Maite.Trujillo@brunel.ac.uk) Vice-president: Cyrille Lambert (Cyrille.Lambert@brunel.ac.uk) Secretary: Frank Sun (Frank.Sun@brunel.ac.uk) Chapter’s Advisor: Dr. Mustapha Sadki (Mustapha.Sadki@brunel.ac.uk) Introduction The Brunel SPIE student chapter was created in January 2004. Currently, we are fifteen members. Current Contact Details These details will be updated in the near future as new officers will be elected for 2005. The chapter advisor will be changed as well, as Dr. Sadki left Brunel University. Summary of current activities In August 2005, one of our members attended the Annual meeting in Denver. An overview of the activities that took place during that meeting was provided as well as leaflets and other information collected during the event. During the summer, the society requested a list of books from the SPIE available books list. Consequently, a small library was created for the members at Brunel University. In September/October, some members provided presentations to first-year undergraduate students in order to promote the activities of the Society and encourage new members to join and discover the opportunities of becoming a SPIE member. Interested students enquired about the society but they had not been registered yet.

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Other issues Our treasurer, Mr. George Paraskevas left the University at the end of the summer and the president, Ms. Maite Trujillo, got involved in the financial maintenance of the SPIE Brunel account. Mr. Paraskevas was also involved in the development of the chapter website. Therefore, unfortunately, the website has not been finished and it has not been updated yet into the website link: www.brunel.ac.uk/depts/ee/spie Planned Future activities We are expecting to invite an external speaker in the near future as well as concentrate more into the recruitment of new members. Chapter Grant A meeting took place at the end of September to discuss the priorities in which the society would invest the requested funds and it was agreed that due to the limitation of funds, it was not possible to provide free registration to SPIE sponsored conferences and therefore, the funds will be used to purchase other books not included within the free SPIE available books list. CALIFORNIA POLYTECHNIC STATE UNIVERSITY President: Adam Mednick Vice-President: Davianne Duarte Treasurer: Sarah Cowan Secretary: Kevin Eich Webmaster/Council Rep: Gerardo Lopez Advisor: Michael Wollman, (mwollman@calpoly.edu) CAMBRIDGE UNIVERSITY President: Oksana Ruzak Vice-President: Andreas Georgiou Treasurer: Jose Rosas-Fernandez Secretary: Diego Gil-Leyva Faculty advisor: Tim Wilkinson, (tdw@eng.cam.ac.uk) CHERNIVTSI NATIONAL UNIVERSITY President: Yuriy A. Ushenko, (ushenko@itf.cv.ukrtel.net) Vice-President: Yevheniya G. Ushenko, (ushenko@itf.cv.ukrtel.net) Treasurer: Kateryna V. Gryaznykh, (ssc@itf.cv.ukrtel.net) Secretary: Vadim V. Istratiy, (istratiy@mail.ru) Current activities • Activities on preparation to the international Conference “Correlation Optics

2005”, which will be held on September, 2005 (all the members of Students SPIE Chapter are in the local organization committee). Within the conference CO-2005 the workshops for students with the participants of the conference are being planned.

• Participation at the SPIE Annual Meeting 2004 in Denver, Colorado. • Participation of four of our Chapter member (Felde Christina V., Victorovska Yulia

Y., Oleksiy Arkhelyuk, Yuriy Ushenko and Yevheniya Makhrova ) at the Advanced

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Topics on Optoelectronics Microelectronics & Nano Techologies (ATOM 2004), 24-26 November, Bucharest, Romania;

• Participation of three of our students (Yuriy Ushenko, Oleksiy Arkhelyuk and Yevheniya Ushenko) at the International 2004 NASA Photon Correlation and Scattering Conference, August 16-18, Amsterdam, The Netherlands.

• Participation of two of our students at the International Scientific Conference MECHATRONICS 2004, September 23-25, Warsaw, Poland.

• Participation of ten of our Chapter members at the International Conference (COE 2004) Optoelectronic and electronic sensors, 27-30 June, Wroclaw, Poland.

• Participation of three of our members at the 6th International Conference on Laser and Fiber-Optical Networks Modeling, 6-9 September 2004, Kharkov, Ukraine.

• Meetings with the students of our university and with first-year students, with the main aims, tasks and activities of society and our student's SPIE Chapter were outlined and discussed (October 2004).

• The range of the scientific articles were translated and distributed among our Chapter members by our special group for translating and updating of different articles and courses.

• Using SPIE Chapter Donation ($900) for a laser printer which is aimed for printing and sharing the information from SPIE sources, adapted courses and materials among our members.

• Arrangement and carrying out the monthly (every third Saturday) seminars with the participation of the professors of Correlation Optics Department and Optics and Spectroscopy Department of Chernivtsi National University.

• Meetings with the school-leavers in schools, gymnasiums and lyceums for informing them about the society and membership benefits and arranging lectures in schools on Optics and Photonics.

• Three SPIE scholarships were received (Dmitry N. Burkovets, Oleksiy Arkhelyuk, Yuriy Ushenko).

• With the help of our Chapter members, our college LAN (Local Area Network) was upgraded (100Mb/s).

Future Chapter activities • Winter workshops and working with the press materials on current research and

achievements in science and technology and participation in creating new courses in Ukranian in the field of biomedical optics, fiber optics, fractal optics and holography (December - February 2004).

• Organization of the Information center in Chernivtsi National University and possibly in our city also. The purpose of this center is to spread information concerning SPIE, SPIE programs, membership and also about optics and Photonics.

• Meetings with the students of our university and with school-leavers, in which the main aims, tasks and activities of our Students’ SPIE Chapter are outlined and discussed.

• Participation in Optics & Photonics 2005 SPIE 50th Annual Meeting in San Diego, California.

• Participation at the SPIE Europe International Symposium Optical Metrology, 13 - 16 June 2005 in Munich, Germany.

• Maintaining and upgrading the chapter library on optics and photonics.

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COLUMBIA AREA CAREER CENTER (HIGH SCHOOL CHAPTER) President: Sean Diestel Vice-President: Jon Robinson Secretary: Jennifer Peterson Treasurer: Derek Rowland Webmaster: Lukasz Tomicki Photographer: Iona Florescu Advisor: Mr. Fred Unterseher, (f_unterseher@yahoo.com) INDIANA UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA President: Bradley Kamerer Vice-President: Andrew Visnansky Treasurer: Mary Mousley Secretary: Cinthia Grabiec Advisor: James Sherman, (jsherman@iup.edu) INSTITUTE FOR ATOMIC PHYSICS, ROMANIA President: Ioan Dancus Vice-President: Iuliana Iordache Secretary: Claudiu Feaca Advisor: Clementina Timus, timus@ifin.nipne.ro Current activities • Visit of SPIE President James Bilbro and Executive Director EugeneG. Arthurs July

6 in Bucharest at the laboratories of The National Institute for Laser, Plasma and Radiation Physics and meeting with SPIE Student Chapter.

• The students had discussions with SPIE representatives. They were advised how to apply for grants and about SPIE policy.

• Three SPIE Students: Ungureanu Cosmin, Laurentiu Rusen and Liviu Neagu attended the "6th Int.Conf.on Vibration Measuments by Laser Techniques & Short Course Ancona, and at the return presented reports concerning the participation in this scientific event.

• Ioan Dancus, elected president of Romania SPIE Student Chapter, attended the Annual SPIE Meeting in Denver July 31 - August 6.

• Ioan Dancus presented the events of the Denver meeting to the students and made proposals for the future activities

• The students have been consulted to select disposable books for donation and Ioan. Dancus sent the options. The books were received by the end of 2004.

• New young colleagues were presented the option to become SPIE members. Future Chapter activities: • New election have to be organized in the near future.

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KENT STATE UNIVERSITY President: Mingxia Gu (gu@lci.kent.edu) Vice-president: Bohdan Senyuk Treasurer: Ebru Aylin Buyuktanir Secretary: Xinghua Wang

I). Overview of the chapter in 2004 Kent State SPIE Student Chapter has been established at Kent State University since July 2002 with the vision of Dr. Oleg D. Lavrentovich, who is currently the chapter advisor, and the support of the SPIE committee. In the past of 2004, our chapter has held quite a few activities and established cooperation network with several other student chapters. Moreover, our chapter has been expanding via having new members included; till the moment of this report, there are totally 21 active members in spite that 4 members become inactive since graduation. Our chapter members have made academic achievements in publications and receiving awards. The following will give a detailed description of our chapter activities in 2004. II). Chapter activities in 2004 We had our regular chapter meeting in April, and discussed chapter development and adopted members’ suggestions to chapter’s future direction. We have elected new officers for 2004-2005 during our chapter regular meeting. We have invited SPIE fellow, Dr. Joseph W. Haus, Professor and Director of the Electro-Optics Program of University of Dayton, to visit our chapter in May. Dr. Haus also gave our chapter members a lecture regarding his research area - photonic crystal technology. Aziz Mahfoud, who is the current student chapter president of University of Dayton, also came with Dr. Haus, and along with three other chapter members, Gurkan Peksoz et al.

Dr. Haus (second left) poses with our chapter members in Liquid Crystal Institute’s Cleanroom during his visit in May, 2004.

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The Great Lakes Photonics Symposium was held in Cleveland, OH in June. Our chapter have taken part of the organizing work by contacting universities across the United States, and help attendees finding hotels with low cost etc. Our chapter hosted a reception for all the student attendees during the conference, SPIE secretary Paul F. McManamon and James G. Grote from Air Force Research Lab along with other SPIE fellows and committee members attended the reception.

Paul F. McManamon (middle) along with James G. Grote poses among students attendees during the reception hosted by Kent State SPIE Student Chapter in

Cleveland Renaissance Hotel June, 2004.

1. Ivan Smalyukh, our chapter founder was elected as Secretary of the newly established Great Lakes SPIE Regional Chapter, Xinghua Wang, president of our chapter for 2003-2004 was nominated to coordinate the Student Chapters in the Great Lakes Region serving as a member of the Education Committee. Our current chapter vice president Bohdan Senyuk designed and constructed the web site for the Great Lakes SPIE Regional Chapter:

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A snapshot of the Great Lakes SPIE Regional Chapter website http://dept.kent.edu/spie/glsrch/index.html

2. Eleven members of our student chapter have attended the 49th SPIE annual

meeting with support of 2004 SPIE travel grant in Denver, Colorado in August. The members also attended the student chapter meeting on the first of the conference. Several members gave presentations during the conference.

From left to right, Ke Zhang, Cheng Chen, Mingxia Gu, Yanli Zhang, Dong Wang pose at the SPIE Symposium Welcome Reception during the SPIE 49th Annual

Meeting in Denver, CO August 2004.

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3. Our chapter has visited Ferroelectric Liquid Crystals Materials Research Center

(FLCMRC) at University of Colorado, Boulder in August. Students and faculty gave us a brief description of the research area they are working on.

Prof. David M. Walba, Co-Principal Investigator of the research center poses with

our chapter member at the FLCMRC Boulder, CO in August, 2004

4. Our chapter has visited Boulder Nonlinear System (BNS) in August. Teresa Ewing has given us a wonder tour of the BNS and showed us some of BNS products, like SLM, Beam Steering device etc.

Teresa Ewing, Senior Research Specialist (Middle) poses with our chapter during

our visit to Boulder Nonlinear System (BNS) in August, 2004

5. Oleg Pishnyak, one of our chapter members, was funded by National Science Foundation (NSF) to do research in the Department of Electrical and Electronic Engineering, Akita University, Japan for 2 months.

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Oleg Pishnyak is with Prof. Susumo Sato and other members of the group in Akita University

6. Discuss the possibility of online and remote academic exchange program with

University of Dayton, Pennsylvania State University and Notre Dame University’s SPIE student chapters. A draft proposal was finished.

III). Perspective in 2004-2005 In the next academic year, we will continue to improve our chapter, enhance members’ academic experience, and extend the network of collaborations and communications. The following is a list of planning activities.

1. Invite SPIE committee member, Dr. James G. Grote (Air Force Research Lab) to visit Kent State University.

2. Fund raising through Graduate Student Senate of Kent State to support Dr.

Grote’s visit, and student activities during their visit

3. Start extensive collaboration with University of Dayton, Pennsylvania State University and Notre Dame University’s SPIE student chapters

4. Collaboration with newly founded Great Lake SPIE Regional Chapter.

5. Further discuss the implementation of the remote and online academic

exchange program with the University of Dayton, Pennsylvania State University and Notre Dame University’s SPIE student chapters.

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6. Proposing the Great Lake Tour for high school students project, joint with Great Lake SPIE Regional Chapter, and University of Dayton, Pennsylvania State University and Notre Dame University’s SPIE student chapters.

7. 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.

8. Give lectures to undergraduate students at Kent State University about liquid

crystals and their applications, as well as about fascinating opportunities of research in this area.

9. Organize tours for undergraduate students to visit Liquid Crystal Institute,

and optics research in the Physics department.

10. Meet high school students interested in science, and possible seminars and tours will be arranged.

11. Take part in scientific conferences in the fields of Optics, Chemistry,

Engineering, Physics and Applications of Liquid Crystals.

12. Try to create chances for the members to intern during the summer vacation in numerous companies related to field of their studies.

13. Visit local companies working in the fields of Optics, Engineering, and

Applications of Liquid Crystals

14. Maintain close relations, interchange experience and plan common activities with other SPIE chapters around the world

15. Apply for SPIE grants and scholarships available to chapter and individual

chapter members KOC UNIVERSITY President: Bora Akcay Vice-President: Abdullah Memis Treasurer: Mehmet Emin Tastan Secretary: Ozlem Yanar Other: Mehmet Ali Dundar Advisor: Ali Serpenguzel, (aserpenguzel@ku.edu.tr)

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M.V. LOMONOSOV MOSCOW STATE UNIVERSITY President: Nikolay A. Panov (panov_na@mail.ru) Vice-President: Igor A. Perezhogin (iap@fromru.com) Secretary: Vladimir Yu. Fedorov (fedorov_v@hotbox.ru) Treasurer: Vladimir O. Militsin (militsin@msuilc.phys.msu.su) Web: http://msuilc.phys.msu.su/spie/ Current Activities

1. Eight Student Chapter members visited the lecture of ex-president of SPIE Richard Hoover. The lecture was a great success and raised lots of questions. In addition, this lecture was a good event where several Student Chapters from Moscow Institutions met each other in a friendly atmosphere, were acquainted more and made agreements to invite each other to the future SPIE events held in their institutions. The meeting was held at Moscow State University of Railway Transport (MIIT) on September 21, 2005. The following members of our chapter took part in this meeting: Dina Shelepina, Vladimir Militsin, Nikolay Panov, Stanislav Konorov, Leonard Kouzminskiy, Vladimir Fedorov, Stanislav Zabotnov, Igor Perezhogin. Faculty advisor Olga Kosareva participated in the meeting of faculty advisors of other Moscow Student Chapters with Prof. Hoover.

3. Participation of MSU SPIE Student Chapter members in joint meeting of SPIE Student Chapters held in St.-Petersburg. (The Chapters from State University of Informational Technologies, Mechanics and Optics; Lomonosov Moscow State University and Saratov State University were present.) The meeting was held within the frameworks of the 3rd International conference “Basic problems of optics” (October 18-21, 2004, St.-Petersburg, Russia) where Master’s and Ph.D. students of the SPIE MSU Student Chapter were authors of oral and poster presentations. The following Chapter members were present: Vladimir Militsin, Nikolay Panov, Leonard Kouzminskiy, Vladimir Fedorov, Stanislav Zabotnov, Alexy Popov, Mikhail Kirillin. SPIE Student Chapter President Vladimir Militsin was one of the chairs of the Chapter meeting and gave a 15-minute talk about the activity of our Chapter.

4. Five members of MSU SPIE Student Chapter (Vladimir Militsin, Nikolay Panov, Leonard Kouzminskiy, Igor Perezhogin, Vladimir Fedorov) made oral and poster presentations at the advertising meeting for the undergraduates (October 29, 2004) who choose their major in physics and plan to specialize in optics and nonlinear optics at the Chair. More than 60 undegraduates were present at the meeting. We introduced undergraduates to the activity of SPIE MSU Student Chapter. Nikolay Panov, the secretary of MSU SPIE Student Chapter, made 15-minutes oral presentation of SPIE, its general goals and ideas and particular benefits for the students. Through the presentation and questions afterwards, the undergraduate students learned the way that SPIE supports young scientists by demonstrating outstanding results in the field of optics and laser physics.

Conferences

Our Chapter students participated in the SPIE-sponsored conferences (in addition to St. Petersburg meeting): • Alexey Popov and Mikhail Kirillin made presentations at International

conference for young scientists and students on Optics, Laser Physics, and Biophysics SFM 04 (21-24 September 2004, Saratov, Russia)

• Alexei Belyakov made an oral presentation at Remote Sensing Europe (13 - 16 September 2004, Maspalomas, Canary Islands Spain)

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• Dobrolenskiy Yury made a presentation at the 9th School on Acousto-Optics Applications (6 - 10 September 2004, Gdansk, Poland)

• A.P. Popov made a presentation at the Advanced Laser Technologies (ALT04) (10 - 15 September 2004, Rome, Italy)

Our grants and awards

• 2004 SPIE Educational Scholarship in Optical Science and Engineering: Yulia Mikhailova, Stanislav Konorov, Vladimir Militsin, Evgeniy Serebriannikov

• Student Chapter Officer Travel Grant 2004: Nikolay Panov has obtained the US visa and is going to Photonics West 2005

• Yuri Dobrololenskiy received Academician Migulin's diploma for the best Diploma thesis 2004.

• Nikolay Panov received the third award in Khokhlov competition between the student scientific works 2004.

• Igor A. Perezhogin has graduated from M.V. Lomonosov MSU with Red Diploma 2004.

• Mikhail Kirillin has won the Scholarship of the President of Russian Federation for Ph.D Students.

• Stanislav Konorov has won the First award in MSU Physics Department competition for young scientists.

Chapter meetings held within the period June 2004 – December 2004: 1. September 17, 2004 // The Chapter meeting devoted to the activity planning for the period September – December 2004, visiting Richard Hoover lecture in http://msuilc.phys.msu.su/spie/miit21Sep2004.htmlTar at September, 21, and the organization of the Chapter travel to St. Petersburg conference “Basic problems of optics” (Oct 18-21, 2004). 2. November 26, 2004 // The Chapter meeting devoted to the activity planning for the period December 2004 –March 2004. Elections of the new Chapter office. President Nikolay A. Panov, Vice President Igor A. Perezhogin, Treasurer: Vladimir O. Militsin, Secretary: Vladimir Yu. Fedorov have been elected.

Future Chapter activities Activities planned for the next half of the year: 1. Under the leadership of the Head of General Physics and Wave Processes Chair, Prof. V.A. Makarov, the organization of a new contest of Diploma thesis for all students at Physics Department specializing in laser physics, optics and nonlinear optics. Winners will receive the souvenirs with SPIE logo. 2. Participation from SPIE MSU Student Chapter member Nikolay Panov at Photonics West 2005, 22 – 27 January 2005, San Jose, California USA. 3. Participation of Master’s and Ph.D. students of the SPIE MSU Student Chapter in the International Conference on Coherent and Nonlinear Optics / The Lasers, Applications, and Technologies 2005 (ICONO/LAT), May 11-15, 2005 in St. Petersburg, Russia, as authors of oral and poster presentations. 4. Support of the SPIE Student Chapter website located at http://msuilc.phys.msu.su/spie/

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MOSCOW STATE UNIVERSITY OF RAILWAY TRANSPORT (MIIT) President: Olga S. Smoleva Vice-President: Evgeniya N. Serova Treasurer: Roman B. Ryabichenko Secretary: Elena A. Krivosheina Meeting Discussion Topics

• Control facilities for FKR on signal processor. (speaker O. Smoleva - January 14)

• Report on work at conference Photonics West 2004 (speaker Roman B. Ryabichenko - February 3)

• Rail slumps measuring subsystem (speaker D. Popov - February 17) • Nomination of Student Chapter Vice-President E. Serova for participation in

SPIE Annual Meeting (March 16) • Calculation of dynamical parameters CMOS-APS pixels (invited speaker Prof.

V. A. Shilin - 14 April) • Report about results of probation in Prague, Czech Republic (speaker O.

Smoleva - June 3) • Report on work at conference “Optical Science and Technology – 49th SPIE

Annual Meeting” (speaker E. Serova – August 17) • “Life in the Cosmos” (invited lecturer R. Hoover, NASA –September 22) • Report on work at conference “26th International Congress on High-Speed

Photography and Photonics” (speakers R. Ryabichenko, D. Popov –September 30)

• Report on work at the conference “FIO/OSA Annual Meeting” (speaker O. Smoleva – 25 September)

• Report about results of probation in Prague, Czech Republic (speaker E. Serova - 5 November)

Career Successes

• R. Ryabichenko attended the conf. Photonics West 2004 (January 24-29, San Jose, CA, USA)

• E. Serova, O. Smoleva had take part in the conf. "Youth and Science 2004" with posters (26-30 January, Moscow)

• O. Smoleva has worked on probation in Czech Technical University in Prague (May 1-31, Prague, Czech Republic)

• E. Serova, E. Krivosheina, D. Popov, R. Ryabichenko attended the conf. “Optical Science and Technology – 49th SPIE Annual Meeting” (1-6 August, Denver, CO, USA)

• R. Ryabichenko, D. Popov attended the conf. “26th International Congress on High-Speed Photography and Photonics”, (19-24 September, Alexandria, VA, USA)

• E. Serova, E. Krivosheina, A. Udovichenko, J. Shiryaev, A. Kochetov met with former president SPIE Richard Hoover (21 September, Moscow, Russia)

• E. Serova has worked on probation in Czech Technical University in Prague (1-31 October, Prague, Czech Republic)

• O. Smoleva, R. Ryabichenko, E. Krivosheina, J. Shiryaev attended Workshop "Smart Imagers and their applications" (October 6 – 8, Sofrino, Moscow Region, Russia)

• O. Smoleva attended the conf. “FIO/OSA Annual Meeting” (October 9 – 13, Rochester, NY, USA)

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In this year MIIT SPIE Student Chapter are participated in organizing of Conference for students and young scientists "Smart Imagers and their applications" is supported by SPIE RUS, Institute for Design Problems in Microelectronics of RAS, Russian Academy of Sciences. This conference was as a forum for young scientists, graduate and postgraduate student, engineers, system designers, and manufacturers to discuss theoretical, experimental, and system aspects of smart imagers design, development, and applications.

Invited lecturers conducted the following seminars: E. Kostyukov (R&D Corp."Pulsar") Modern Photosensitive CCDs A. Skrylev (PhD, R&D Corp."Pulsar") Photosensitive CCDs Structures V. Shilin (Prof., MIIT) Theory and Design of CMOS APS Imagers A. Pugachev (PhD, IPPM RAS) Numerical Simulation of Photosensitive Pixels Yu. Nosov (Prof., President TOPEK) History of Russian Optoelectronics V. Chernokogin (PhD, R&D Corp."Pulsar") IR-silicon Photosensors: Process and

Structures V. Shilin (Prof., MIIT) Smart Measuring and Machine Vision Systems Represented articles were considered and discussed on special section for

student.

Published Papers

• E. Serova, V. Shilin. CMOS APS with analog and digital image processing. In Proc. Conf. on "Youth and Science", Moscow, 2004, pp. 181-183.

• E. Serova, V. Shilin, A. Stempkovsky. On-chip CMOS APS with Mixed Image Processing. In Proc. Conf. "Electronics, micro- and nanoelectronics", Moscow, MEPHI, 2004

• O. Smoleva, P. Skrylev. Computation unit for image processing in measuring system. Proc. Conf. "Electronics, micro- and nanoelectronics", Moscow, MEPHI, 2004

• O. Smoleva "Electro-optical stand for non-contact measurement equipment calibration". Proc. Conf. "Modern television", Moscow, 2004

• R. Ryabichenko, D. Popov “High-speed imaging and processing for rail track inspection”, Proc. Conf. “26th International Congress on High-Speed Photography and Photonics”, (19-24 September, Alexandria, VA, USA)

• E. Serova, V. Shilin, A. Stempkovsky. On-chip CMOS APS with Mixed Image Processing. In Proc. Int. Conf. “OPTO 2004”, Nuremberg, Germany, 2004.

Part of facilities from chapter funding (400$) was expended in conducting schools and providing of participation of the invited post-graduate students from Czech. NATIONAL TAURIDA V. VERNANDSKY UNIVERSITY President: Izdebskaya Yana (yana-simfer@yandex.ru) Vice-President: Rubass Alexander (Optical-vortex@narod.ru) Treasurer: Lagunov Sergey Secretary: Egorov Yuriy Advisor: Prof. Alexander V. Volyar (volyar@ccssu.crimea.ua) http://www.tnu.crimea.ua Tel:+380 652230248

SPIE Crimea Chapter is a society dedicated to advancing engineering and scientific

applications of optical and optoelectronic applied science and engineering.

1. Membership At this time, there are 12 students listed in our SPIE Student Chapter.

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All members paid their membership payments on time and worked to benefit the student chapter. They organized and participated in conferences and educational courses and established contacts around the world. 2. SPIE Student Chapter Officers All opportunities on use of rights of SPIE members in educational and scientific fields are shown. Elections of the most active members are executed for the organization of work of our Chapter. 3. Education

3.1 New research specialties (since October 2004) for the students of General Physics Department:

• Design of Optical Systems due informational method

• Diffraction Theory of Image

• Optics of Crystals • Topology of optical vortices

For lectures, we invited all interested people (the students from other departments of our university, institutions, colleges and schools). Guest lectures are the professors and candidates sciences (Phys. and Math.) of our university and other institutions.

3.2 Guest lectures

1. Prof. Yuriy Kivshar (The Australian National University) read lecture "Nonlinear photonics in optically-induced lattices" and conducted debate with members of our chapter (October, 2004);

2. Konstantin Аlekseev (Candidate of science (Phys. and Math.) read lecture “Eneric elliptic optical vortices in highly elliptic low-mode fibres”, Taurida National V. Vernadsky University, Department of Theoretical Physics) (October, 2004);

3. Prof. Yuriy Fridman read lecture “Structures in paraxial and exact Gaussian-type solutions via a separation of variables” (Taurida National V. Vernadsky University, Department of Theoretical Physics) (November, 2004); 4. Prof. Lenur Arifov read lecture “X-ray spectra from pyroelectric generator” (Taurida National V. Vernadsky University, Department of Theoretical Physics) (November-December, 2004). 3.3 The library Prof. Alexander V. Volyar (Student’s Chapter Faculty Advisor) has filled the SPIE Student Chapter library of Student Chapter with new journals editions to include: “Proceedings of SPIE”, “Journal of Optics A: Pure and Applied Optics”, “Ukrainian journal of physical optics”; “OE Magazine”; “Quantum Electronics”; “Abstracts of 10th International Conference “Nonlinear Optics of Liquid and Photorefractive Crystals NOLPC’2004”. These editions are used for the study of courses with the purpose of updating the newest information and for the best orientation of the students in high technologies published in these editions.

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4. Scientific activity

4.1 Students of our Chapter participated at:

• International conference “Education in Ukraine-2004” on February 4-8, 2004, Kiev, Ukraine.

• Annual Student’s Conference “Singular Optics” on April 12-16, 2004, Simferopol, Ukraine.

• Olympiad "Computer modeling-2004" on May 12-16, 2004, Crimea, Ukraine. • “SPIE’s Annual Meeting-2004” on 2-6 August, 2004, Denver, Colorado

(Sergey Lagunov). • 10th International Conference “Nonlinear Optics of Liquid and

Photorefractive Crystals NOLPC’2004” on October 3-8, 2004, Alushta, Ukraine.

Scientific works of our students in International Journals (2004):

1) Izdebskaya Ya. V., Shvedov V. G., Volyar A. V. Singular Beam Diffraction by the Edge of

a Dielectric Medium//Ukr. J. Phys. Opt. V. 5 (3)(2004) 2) Ya.V. Izdebskaya, V.G. Shvedov, A.V. Volyar Structure of an optical vortices at the

boundary of dielectric medium //Proceedings of SPIE 2004, V. 5582. -P. 222-230 3) Volyar A.V., Egorov Yu.A., Rubass A.F., Fadeyeva T.A.//Techn. : Phys. J. Lett., 2004,

V.30, № 16, P.82-89 4) Volyar A.V., Egorov Yu.A., Rubass A.F., Fadeyeva T.A.//Techn. : Phys. J. Lett., 2004,

V.74, № 12, P.90-93. 5) Egorov Yu.A., Fadeyeva T.A., Volyar A.V. The fine structure of singular beams in

crystals: colours and polarization// J. Opt. A: Pure Appl. Opt., 2004, V.6, P. 217-228. 6) Izdebskaya Ya.V., Shvedov V.G., Volyar A.V. Generation of high-order optical vortices

by the optical wedge-system//Abstracts of NOLPC'2004, P. 92 7) Rubass A.F., Fadeyeva T.A., Egorov Yu.A., Volyar A.V. The orbital parameters of the

perturbed singular beams// Abstracts of NOLPC'2004, P. 93 8) Egorov Yu.A., Fadeyeva T.A., Rubass A.F., Volyar A.V. Focusing of the coherent and

incoherent Laguerre-Gaussian beams after uniaxial crystals// Abstracts of NOLPC'2004, P. 96

9) Egorov Yu.A., Fadeyeva T.A., Rubass A.F., Volyar A.V. White optical vortices in LiNbO3 crystal//Proceedings of SPIE 2004, V. 5582. -P. 286-296

10) Volyar A.V., Kiselev A.P., Egorov Yu.A. Eigen-Polarization beams in uniaxial crystals //Proceedings of SPIE 2004, V. 5582 pp. 98 - 106

4.2 Our Student Chapter created a video-course: "Caustics, their applications". We

presented this video-course on 10th International Conference “Nonlinear Optics of Liquid and Photorefractive Crystals NOLPC’2004” (October 3-8, 2004, Alushta).

4.3 Scientific student seminars during academic year (2004): “Singular Beam

Diffraction by the Edge of a Dielectric Medium” (Luiza Z. Mavlutalieva), “The Orbital Parameters of the Perturbed Singular Beams” (Rubass A. F.), “Generic elliptic optical vortices in highly elliptic low-mode fibres” (Dmitry V. Shmelev), “Optical vortices” (Vsevolod S. Gatsenko).

5. Grants, Awards

Sergey Lagunov (Treasurer of our Student Chapter) was awarded an SPIE travel grant for the SPIE Annual Meeting – 2004 in Denver, Colorado for presentation of the SPIE Student Chapters of Taurida National V. Vernadsky University.

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6. Exhibition

2nd Photo-Exhibition "Phase Singularities and Caustics" on September 6-10, Crimea, Ukraine.

7. Organizing Activity • Organization of 3rd Young Scientist Conference "Singular and Nonlinear Optics

2004" on April 19-23, 2004, Simferopol, Ukraine. 35 reports are represented (18 oral). The sections: Phase singularities and caustics, their applications, Laser physics/technology and applications, Non-linear effects in active and passive optical devices and systems.

• Co-organization of the 10th International Conference “Nonlinear Optics of Liquid and Photorefractive Crystals NOLPC’2004” on October 3-8, 2004, Alushta, Ukraine.

• Organization of the Olympiad "Computer modeling-2004"and 2nd Photo-Exhibition "Phase Singularities and Caustics" on September 6-10, 2004 TNU, Crimea, Ukraine.

• Organization of the excursion for members of SPIE in r/d "Domain".

8. Expected Actions within the Next Year (2005): • The Seventh International Conference “Correlation Optics” will be held in

Chernivtsi, Ukraine on September 6-9, 2005 • Travel grant on SPIE's Annual Meeting- 2005 for presentation of report about

activities of our chapter. • Organization of 4th Young Scientist Conference “Singular and Nonlinear Optics-

2005” at Taurida National V. Vernadsky University (April, 2005). • Making the video-course "Optical vortices" and presentation its on conferences

“Singular and Nonlinear Optics” and the Seventh International Conference “Correlation Optics”.

NATIONAL TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF UKRAINE “KIEV POLYTECHNICAL

INSTITUTE” President: Aleksandr Nazdravetsky Vice-President: Galyna Gaivoronska Advisor: Dr/Prof. Volodymyr Borovytsky Web: http://www.kpi-optics.com The goal of the SPIE student chapter is exchange and distribution of information about optics, photonics and imaging. Current Activities • Organization of meetings of the SPIE student chapter on a regular basis • Three invited lecturers made presentation:

o Prof. M. Kuyawinska presented the perspectives of SPIE activities and scientific works devoted to intrferometric measurements and 3D sensing.

o Prof. V. Molebny presented his works on measurements eye aberrations.

o Dr N. Licholit presented the activity of ukrainian optical company CDB “Arsenal”.

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• Participating in the scientific conferences o “Instrument-making 2004:”, Kiev, Ukraine, April, 20 - 21, 2004 o “Holography-2004”, Kiev, Ukraine, May, 21-23, 2004.

• Demonstration of two video-courses and one CD-course for students and professors using SPIE educational materials located at SPIE-Ukraine head-square.

• Presentations of components of optical instruments like digital control components, modulated light sources and optical sensors made by students of Optical Engineering Department, May 26, 2004.

• Visiting 12 technical and educational exhibitions including “Light-2004”, “Electronic components-2004”, “Machine building-2004”, “Laboratory Equipment-2004”, “Computer Expo-2004”, “Digital maniya - 2004”, “Computer and communications-2004”, “Internet communication-2004”, “Industry and material processing-2004” and etc.

• Development of the student WEB-site www.kpi-optics.com that has won the third place among ukrainian student WEB-sites.

• Working with SPIE publications at SPIE-Ukraine headquarters.

Plan of activity in 2005 In 2005 the efforts of the SPIE student chapter will concentrate on initialization of small student research projects in optical science and optical engineering. It helps to make information exchange more effective and motivated. These projects will be presented at SPIE conferences to help stimulate student activity in Optics and Photonics. Furthermore, the Chapter will undertake: • Participation in SPIE conferences “Correlation Optics-2005”, Chernovtsty,

Ukraine, “Advanced Optoelectronics and Lasers –2005”, Yalta, Ukraine. • Organization of two competitions for the best student project in optics, photonics

and imaging in May and in December, 2005. The winner projects will be presented at site of the chapter

• Creation with help of students of two educational courses devoted to digital imaging systems and testing of holographical elements.

• Organization of three presentations made by the visiting lecturers. • Visiting the exhibitions devoted to or connected with optical instruments, optical

measurements and their applications in industry, communication and daily life. • Presentation of SPIE educational materials like videocourses, courses on CD, SPIE

books and magazines to students on regular base. • Development of bilingual WEB site of the chapter. NIAGARA COLLEGE CANADA President: Phil Alfieri Vice-President: Chris Wentworth Treasurer: Carol Gordon Secretary: Justin Bolduc Outreach: Diane Coulombe Research: Ryan Glaves, Jeff Beaulne, Phil Laraque Webmaster: Ryan Haanappel Advisor: Treena Grevatt, tgrevatt@niagarac.on.ca

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NICOLAUS COPERNICUS UNIVERSITY President: Michal Mrozinski (s152327@phys.uni.torun.pl) Vice-President: Iwona Gorczynska (iwa@phys.uni.torun.pl) Treasurer: Katarzyna Tomczyk (s152044@phys.uni.torun.pl) Secretary: Mateusz Wedrowski (kokocko@phys.uni.torun.pl) Coordinator of Educational Projects: Anna Szkulmowska (dranna@phys.uni.torun.pl) Current activities 1 October 2004 • During the Opening Ceremony of Academic year at Department of Physics we

gave a short presentation of our Chapter • First recruitment of new members 5 October 2004 • Continuation of recruitment of new members. • Summary of our activity for the previous year: admitting our weakest points and

proudly hailing with brightest achievements in order to improve our activity in all possible fields

• We specified and announced our goals for the coming year. • Anna Szkulmowska gave a report from the Annual Meeting in Denver, in which

she took part. 19 October 2004 • We started to prepare for the fifth Festival of Art and Science. We had a meeting

with prof. Piotr Targowski, who was talking to us on the behalf of organizers. We were discussing what are our chapter’s responsibilities for the coming festival, of what use could we be and what are our ideas and projects. We decided, that we will prepare both lecture (concerning lasers) and exhibition (toys in understanding physics).

• We started preparations to the Polish SPIE Students Chapters Meeting and to the visit of Tec de Monterrey SPIE Student Chapter president CARLOS LOPEZ MARISCAL and SPIE member RADU MALUREANU from Universita degli Studi di Lecce, Italy, connected with the trip around Poland. We started to plan how our trip should look like, what would be the best route etc.

In November and December we were setting all the details for the trip, such as transport, exact date, detailed route, sightseeing details etc. 3-5 November 2004 • Our Chapter member IWONA GORCZYNSKA was visiting Institute of Physics at

Wroclaw University of Technology. On the 4th of November she presented a lecture: “Absorption Measurements in Spectral Domain Optical Coherence Tomography”.

8-9 December 2004 • MARCIN SZPULAK from Student Chapter SPIE at Wroclaw Institue of Technology and

dr TADEUSZ MARTYNKIEN visited our Chapter. We organized their visit in Medical Physic Group laboratories in Torun and in the Clinic of Eye Diseases in Bydgoszcz. The visit was connected to the sightseeing of Torun and Bydgoszcz.

• On the 9th December Marcin presented a lecture: “Photonics Crystal Fibers”

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27 December 2004 – 1 January 2005 • Polish SPIE Students Chapters Meeting connected to the visit of Tec de Monterrey

SPIE Student Chapter president CARLOS LOPEZ MARISCAL and SPIE member RADU MALUREANU from Universita degli Studi di Lecce, Italy, took place.

3 January 2005 • RADU MALUREANU presented a lecture: "Optical tweezers, theory and practice", • We organized a visit of our guests in the Department of Physics at our University

and in the National Laboratory for Atomic, Molecular and Optical Physics 4 January 2005 • Carlos Lopez-Mariscal gave a lecture: "Propagation of invariant beams: the

nondiffracting families" • Member of our Chapter, Jacek Drzycimski presented a lecture: “Upconversion

phenomena in the rare earth doped materials” Future Chapter activities • Participate in The Fifth Festival of Science and Art in Torun (April 2005) • Pepare a lecture with demonstrations devoted to lasers, and to prepare an

exhibition for the fesitival • Update our web page • Continue to give different lectures in optics during our meetings NOVOSIBIRSK TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY President: Pavel Kaliyk Vice-President: Aleksandr Secretary: Alexei Peshkov Treasurer: Aleksei Yakushev Advisor: Prof. Victor Pokasov, (vpokasov@nsu.ru) OREGON INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY President: Dan Gorski Vice-President: Larkin Carey Secretary: Douglas Skyler Advisor: Nancy Kincheloe, (kincheln@oit.edu) PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY President: Adam Willitsford (ahw112@psu.edu) Vice-President: Joseph Geddes (jbgeddes3@psu.edu) Treasurer: Yana Williams (yzz101@psu.edu) Secretary: Lili Tian (lxt174@psu.edu) Current activities Five Chapter meetings were held at the Penn State University Park campus. • The first meeting entailed a detailed description of the proposed web site for the

students of the PSU SPIE chapter.

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• The second meeting was focused around an invited talk from Dr. Yin on writing Bragg gratings to optical fibers.

• A third meeting was held at the in May of 2004 when the new officers were elected for the upcoming academic year within the SPIE student chapter.

• The fourth meeting was organized toward setting up tutoring sessions for undergraduate students

• at the university. • The fifth meeting included talks from an array of graduate students doing

research within the optical fields. Along with the meetings was a field trip to Corning, where students were exposed to the making of optical fiber, and the large glass museum. Lastly, the student chapter attended the SPIE meeting held in Denver in August. Future Chapter activities • The future has planned invited talks from members of the surrounding industry. • We are also planning a trip to JDS Uniphase located in Allentown, PA. • Future work towards setting up an outreach program to the local high schools is

currently being pursued. ROCHESTER INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY President: Lindsay Sargent Vice-President: Luke Sorensen Advisor: Andrew Davidhazy, (andpph@rit.edu) ST. PETERSBURG ELECTROTECHNICAL UNIVERSITY, LETI President: Evgeniy Enbert Vice-President: Andrey Esipov Treasurer: Alexey Golikov Secretary: Alexey Knyazev Advisor: Anatoly A. Buznikov, (buznikov@netsky.net)

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ST PETERSBURG STATE UNIVERSITY OF INFORMATIONAL TECHNOLOGIES, MECHANICS AND OPTICS President: Paul Petroshenko (chloory@mail.ru) Vice-President: Nikolai Makarov Treasurer: Natalya Yastrebova (nat_yastrebova@mail.ru) Secretary: Alexey Zakharov Chapter Scientific Adviser: Sergey A. Kozlov (kozlov@mail.ifmo.ru) Current activities: In year 2004 our members worked for extending their study to the following directions: • analytical study and numerical modeling of the femtosecond supercontinuum

generation; • analytical study and numerical modeling of a few-cycle pulses self-focusing; • investigation of low-coherent interferometry; • holographic technologies for artificial intelligence creation; • theoretical investigation of electromagnetic properties of the microwave photonic

band-gap materials formed by periodic 3D lattices of dielectric or metallic inclusions; etc.

All our members took part in organization of the third annual SPIE Student Chapters’ Seminar, which was the part of the International Optical Congress “Fundamental problems of optics”, held on 18-21 October 2004 at Saint-Petersburg, Russia (www.ifmo.ru/bpo2004). It was a meeting of chapters from: Saint-Petersburg State University of Informational Technologies, Mechanics and Optics University (ITMO), M.V. Lomonosov Moscow State University (MSU), Saratov State University. P.A. Petroshenko (University ITMO) and V.O. Militsin (MSU) were chairs of the meeting, N.V. Yastrebova (University ITMO) was scientific secretary. The meeting was very successful (http://ysa.ifmo.ru/spie/MEETINGS/OPTICS-2004/Spie2004.pps). It was a great opportunity to communicate with members from the chapters of different cities, exchange the experience, discuss results and problems and talk over future collaboration. It is good that one of the officers can participate at the SPIE Annual Meeting, traditionally organized in the USA, but our Seminar can give the other members (mainly from the countries of the former Soviet Union) opportunity to travel and to meet new friends from other chapters. It is important that we invite everybody; so several members from the one chapter can attend the Seminar, because the expenses for it are not large. Guests of our seminar not only made reports, but also had the possibility to take master-class on holography in Faculty of photonics and optoinformatics (University ITMO), which was based on the new courses on the latest trends in dynamic holography and optical devices development. We should mention an excellent cultural program: theatre, excursions at Saint-Petersburg, meeting party and so on. Photos from the meeting are on our site. Publications during accounting period: • C.R. Simovski, P.A. Belov "Low-frequency spatial dispersion in wire media" // Physical Review E, Vol.

70, p. 046616, 2004. • I.P. Gurov, E. Ermolaeva, A.S. Zakharov “Analysis of low-coherence interference fringes by the

Kalman filtering method” // JOSA A, Vol. 21,N 2, p. 242-251, 2004. • V. G. Bespalov, S. A. Lobanov, “Spatiotemporal dynamics of the amplitude phase characteristics of

stimulated raman scattering” // Optics and Spectroscopy, Vol. 97, N 1, p. 91-96, 2004. • P. Gurov, A. S. Zakharov “Analysis of characteristics of interference fringes by nonlinear Kalman

Filtering” // Optics and Spectroscopy, Vol. 96, N 2., p. 175-181, 2004.

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• S.V. Kessel, D.I. Staselko “Dynamical holograms and optical limitation: asymmetrical two-waves interaction” // Optics and Spectroscopy, Vol. 96, N 2, p. 197-202, 2004.

• V.N. Vasil'ev, A.S. Kozlov, P.A. Petroshenko, and N.N. Rozanov “Self-Broadening of Space-Time Spectra of Few-Cycle Pulses in Dielectric Media” // Optics and Spectroscopy, Vol. 96, N. 2, p. 182-186, 2004.

• N.V. Yastrebova, Yu. A. Shpolyanskiy, S.A. Kozlov “Self-division and self-compression of few-cycle light pulses during reflection of a bloomed interface” // Optical Journal, Vol. 71, N6, p. 78-83, 2004.

• E. Alarousu, I. Gurov, J. Hast, R. Myllyla, T Prykari and A. Zakharov, “Evaluation of a scattering liquid flow velocity profile using Doppler optical coherence tomography and dynamic stochastic interference fringe processing” // Proc. SPIE, Vol. 5475, p. 66-73, 2004.

• I.P. Gurov, A.S. Zakharov, “Evaluation of interference fringes and 2-D fringe patterns by recurrence processing algorithms” // Proc. SPIE, Vol. 5475, p. 74-80, 2004.

• S. A. Lobanov, V. G. Bespalov “Spatial coherence of transient stimulated Raman scattering” // Proc. SPIE, Vol. 5337, p. 190-196, 2004.

• I.P. Gurov, A.S. Zakharov and E. Voronina, “Evaluation of interference fringe parameters by recurrence dynamic data processing” // Proceedings of ODIMAP IV, 4th Topical Meeting on Optoelectronic Distance/Displacement Measurements and Applications (University of Oulu, Oulu, Finland, 16-18 June 2004), p. 60-71, 2004.

• P.A. Belov, C.R. Simovski, "Analytical modeling of semi-infinite photonic crystal's excitation by plane electromagnetic wave" // Proc. SPIE, Vol. 5508, p. 174-182, 2004.

• S.A. Lobanov, V.G. Bespalov “Spatial coherence of transient stimulated Raman scattering” // Optics Communications, Vol. 239, N 1-3, p 7-13, 2004

• P.A. Belov, C.R. Simovski “Reflection of electro-magnetic waves from photonic crystals and generalized theorem of extinguishing” // In book: Problems of coherent and nonlinear optics, St. Petersburg, Russia, p.154-169, 2004. (Rus.)

• P.A. Petroshenko “Scenario of nonparaxial self-focusing of (2+1) dimensional beam consisting of several light field oscilations and with spectra in normal group dispersion area” // In book: Problems of coherent and nonlinear optics, St. Petersburg, Russia, p.243-254, 2004. (Rus.)

• S.V. Kessel “Stationary two-waves interaction in media with guided nonlinear absorption and limitation of luminous fluxes” // In book: Problems of coherent and nonlinear optics, St. Petersburg, Russia, p.260-266, 2004. (Rus.)

• P.A. Belov, C.R. Simovski, "Excitation of semi-infinite electromagnetic crystal" // Physical Review B (arXiv: cond-mat/0402146). To be published.

• N.S. Makarov, V.G. Bespalov “The effective method of anti-Stokes generation by quasi-phase matched stimulated Raman scattering” // JOSA B. To be published.

• E. Alarousu, V. Bilyk, I. Gurov, J. Hast, L. Krehut, R. Mullula, A. Zakharov “Nonlinear dynamic filtering of logarithmically amplified fringe signals in optical coherent tomography” // Proceedings of OSAV2004, Saint Petersburg, Russia. To be published.

• Gurov, A. Zakharov, V. Bilyk, A. Larionov “Low-coherence fringe evaluation by synchronous demodulation and Kalman filtering method: a comparison” // Proceedings of OSAV2004, Saint Petersburg, Russia. To be published.

• Gurov, A. Zakharov, A.Kouznetsov “Dynamic nonlinear filtering of fringe signals distorted by quantization noise” // Proceedings of OSAV2004, Saint Petersburg, Russia. To be published.

Reports at the conferences: • P.A. Belov, C.R. Simovski "Excitation of semi-infinite electromagnetic crystal" // Proc. of 10th Conf. on

Complex Media and Metamaterials, Bianisotropics, Ghent, Belgium, p. 244-247, September 22-24, 2004.

• P.A. Belov, C.R. Simovski, R. Marques, S.I. Maslovski, S.A. Tretyakov, I.S. Nefedov, M. Silveirinha "Strong spatial dispersion in wire media in the very large wavelength limit" // Proc. of URSI 2004 International Symposium on Electromagnetic Theory, Pisa, Italy, Vol. 1, p. 621-623, May 23-27, 2004.

• P.A. Belov, C.R. Simovski "Analytical modeling of semi-infinite electromagnetic crystal's excitation by plane electromagnetic wave" // Proc. of Antennas and Propagation Society Symposium, Monterey, CA, USA, Vol. 4, p. 3781 - 3784, June 20-25, 2004.

• N.S. Makarov "Simultaneously SRS-amplification of informational signals in E and C channels of fiber-optical lines" // Young Scientists Internet-Conference "Promise and Development", September 1, 2003, –February 15, 2004. (Electronic Conference In Russian).

• N.S. Makarov, V.G. Bespalov "The possibility of experimental realization of QPM SRS in hydrogen" //Scientific School "Modern problems of laser physics", April 4-6, 2004. (In Russian).

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• N.S. Makarov, V.G. Bespalov "Quasi-phase matched anti-Stokes stimulated Raman scattering" // US-Russia partnership workshop Communications, Electronics, Lasers and Optics (CELO-2004), 7-11 June 2004, p. III-26.

• A.S. Zakharov. "Fringe parameters evaluation using nonlinear discrete Kalman filtering". NATO ASI in Biophotonics, Ottawa, Canada, 2004.

• V.N. Vasilyev, I.P. Gurov, A.S. Zakharov “Method of noncontact control of local geometric characteristics of surfaces’ microstructure with the use of interferometers with small coherence” // Conference of professorial staff, St. Petersburg, 2004.

• I.P. Gurov, M. Taratin, A.S. Zakharov “Analysis and optimization of the computational process of nonlinear discrete Kalman filtering” // Saratov Fall Meeting 2004, Russia, 2004.

• S.A. Kozlov, P.A. Petroshenko “Self-focusing of few-cycle light pulses of several wave length transverse sizes” // Day on Diffraction, Saint-Petersburg, 2004.

• N.S. Makarov, V.G. Bespalov "The effective generation of anti-stokes radiation in one dimensional photonic crystals" // International conference "Basic Problems of Optics-2004", 18-21 October, 2004, p. 152-154.

• N.V. Yastrebova “Shape control of few-cycle pulses during their reflection off a bloomed dielectric interface” //International conference "Basic Problems of Optics-2004", 18-21 October, 2004, p. 84-86.

• P.A. Petroshenko “Nonparaxial 2d self-focusing of TE-polirized pulses consisting of several light field oscilations in nonlinear media with dispersion” // International conference "Basic Problems of Optics-2004", 18-21 October, 2004, p. 84-86.

Our grants and awards: SPIE grants: • P.A. Belov: SPIE Educational Scholarship in Optical Science and Engineering

2004; • Yu.A. Shpolyansky: SPIE Educational Scholarship in Optical Science and

Engineering 2004; • P.A. Petroshenko: SPIE Educational Scholarship in Optical Science and

Engineering 2004; • N.V. Yastrebova: SPIE travel grant for SPIE Annual Meeting, Denver, USA (02.08-

06.08.2004). Others: • N.S. Makarov: Grant of Saint-Petersburg City Administration for students,

aspirants and young specialists-2004, Grant of fund for noncommercial researches “Dynasty”;

• P.A. Belov: Denis Gabor medal for the best work on theoretical optics; • A.S. Zakharov: Travel grant for NATO ASI in Biophotonics, Ottawa, Canada

(29.09-09.10.2004); • N.V. Yastrebova: Grant of fund for noncommercial researches “Dynasty”,

Scholarship of President of Russian Federation. Three students of our chapter defended their Bachelor of Science theses and continue their education in MS Program of our University, seven our Bachelors are defended their Master of Science theses and start their works at our PhD Program, three of our PhD students are defended their PhD theses. SARATOV STATE UNIVERSITY President: Elena V. Salomatina Vice-President: Liana V. Kuznetsova Treasurer: Elena L. Surmenko Secretary: Anna A. Altshuler Advisor: Valery V. Tuchin, (tuchin@sgu.ru)

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SHANGHAI JIAO TONG UNIVERSITY President: Qi Li (qili@sjtu.edu.cn) Vice-President: VictorSheng Cheng (chengsheng77@263.net) Secretary: Huayong Ge (huayongge@yahoo.com.cn) Treasurer: Haibo Zhou (hai2000@sjtu.edu.cn)

Members of Shanghai Jiao Tong University’s SPIE Student Chapter

Details of Chapter activities 1. Guest lectures Time: October 14th, 2004 Place: Institute for laser medicine & Biophotonics Speaker: Prof. Zhuang Songlin Topic: The development of negative-index media On October 14th, Prof. Zhuang Songlin was invited to our institute to give a report on the development of a new material with negative optical index and its application. Prof. Zhuang Songlin is now a national academician of optics, Dean of China Institute of Metrology and College of Optics and Electronics Engineering, University of Shanghai for Science and Technology.

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His report was focused on a unique media with negative refraction index, so called left-handed media, which have become popular in solid-state physics, material science, optics and applied electromagnetism in the past two years. The appearance of this new material will lead to a revolution in the history of applied technology. For instance, the replacement of traditional electronics-crystala by optical crystals have introduced people to a new optical era. This is the same with negative-index media, with a wide range of application in the future. Left-handed media can be used to filter, control and focus microwaves, and possibly be used in new wave-guides and fibers. Prof. Zhuang’s wonderful lecture excited all the students in our chapter and we were encouraged to be devoted to optical science and discovering a new world. 2. Plant/facility tours Time: September 10th, 2004 Place: Shanghai Institute of Optics and Fine Mechanics Visitors: 11 Students from Shanghai Jiao Tong University SPIE Student Chapter On September 10th, the students set off for Shanghai Institute of Optics and Fine Mechanics, which is located in No.390, Qinghe Road, Jiading, Shanghai. Shanghai Institute of Optics and Fine Mechanics (SIOM), Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS). It was established in 1964. It is the earliest and the largest institute in China specializing in laser science and technology. It has now developed into a comprehensive scientific research institute with modern optics as the leading orientation with exploration of significant fundamental science frontiers, the development of large engineering techniques and pioneering laser and optoelectronic applications as the focal point, with high-tech innovation and basic research for applications being the major task. Guided by Ms. Li, Director of Foreign Affairs Department in SIOM, we visited 3 basic research laboratories (the Key Laboratory for High Intensity Optics of CAS, the Key Laboratory for Quantum Optics of CAS, and the Laboratory for Information Optics), two high-tech. application and innovation research laboratories (the National

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Laboratory for High Power Laser Physics, the High Density Optical Storage Laboratory). We were moved by their concrete achievements to our national industrial development, especially in “Shenguang” High Power Laser Facility which is the only one in China and one of a few in the world. We were informed with wide range of knowledge in optics and realized the use of transforming theory into practice. After the tour, students gathered and had supper together. During the meal, we talked about the feeling after visiting and exchanged our ideas about the development of laser science.

3. Attendance at SPIE Events Meeting: Photonics ASIA, 2004 Time: November 8-12th, 2004 Place: Beijing International Convention Center, Beijing, China Number of Students: 2 In November, President Qi Li and Vice President Sheng Vik Cheng went to Beijing to attend Photonics ASIA (PA), and gave presentations respectively, with the topic of “Correlation Among Auto-refractor, Wavefront Aberration, and Subjective Manual Refraction” and “Design of a Synchronized Scanning System for Size Measurement of Human Body.” At the same time, two other student papers were posted in the conference. The conference provided a large range of optical knowledge in various fields. The two students took back some advanced developing information in optical design, optics in health care and biomedical optics, adaptive optics, etc. and shared it with other students for discussion. 4. Chapter Meetings Time: October 30th, 2004 Place: Institute for Laser Medicine & Biophotonics On October 30th, all the students in our institute took part in the chapter meeting, and our advisor Prof. Qiushi Ren also attended. During this meeting, we reported the development of our work and outlined the possible directions in the future of his and her subjects, respectively. Most students are in different workshops and this is a

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good opportunity for them to broaden their views in science. They exchanged information and gained good suggestions from our advisor and colleagues. 5. Details of future activities 1.Try to invite more famous professors in biomedical engineering, laser medicine and dermatology to visit our institute and give lectures and direction to us. Prof. Bille, the world famous specialist in Ophthalmology, will come to visit our institute again and give us lectures and instruction in March 2005. 2.Try to attend the annual meeting of SPIE and other important international conferences to broaden our views. 3.Try to visit more fellow institutes in China and communicate with the students and directors to improve each other. We expect to visit some institutes for summer vacation, including Shandong Academy of Medical Science, Medical College of Fudan University and the Bio-medical institute of Qingdao Ocean University. And if possible, try to visit the International Institute in Biomedical Engineering, Laser Medicine and Dermatology. TARAS SHEVCHENKO KYIV NATIONAL UNIVERSITY President: Mykhailo Ozerov (ozer@ukr.net) Vice-President: Sergiy Balytskiy (BalytskiyS@univ.kiev.ua) Treasurer: Yaroslav Filipov (filipov@univ.kiev.ua) Secretary: Angelika Luchenko (luchenko@univ.kiev.ua) Advisor: Prof. Leonid V. Poperenko (plv@univ.kiev.ua) http://www.spie.kiev.ua e-mail: spie@univ.kiev.ua Committees Executive Committee, total 5 members, Chair Viktor Lysiuk Program Committee, total 5 members, Chair Yaroslav Filipov Membership Committee, total 5 members, Chair Olexandr Guzey

Chapter Meetings

• Special Additional Spring Meetings: organized twice: 25 and 28 May 2004 • 25 May 2004, present: SPIE Vice-President Prof. Malgorzata

Kujawinska, chapter officers, advisor and the most part of members. Program of the meeting: Scientific Lecture in field of Holography; Overview of the benefits of SPIE Membership and informal talking.

• 28 May 2004, present: Chair of SPIE Membership Committee, Dr. James Grote, chapter officers, advisor and the most part of members. In program of the meeting: informal lecture on DNA, properties and technologies and discussion of ideas about possibilities of applying SPIE resources for students needs.

• Summer Meeting: was held on 12 June 2004 with presence of Acad. V. Arpishkin, the President of Rozhdestvensky Optical Society (St. Petersburg, Russia) together with Dr. L.Konopaltseva, the President of Ukrainian Optical Society. In program: informal lecture and discussions with chapter advisor about possibilities of further collaboration and participation at Conferences organized in Ukraine and Russia.

• Fall Meeting: was held 31 October 2004 during the last Day of the SPO Conference, co-organized by SPIE Student Chapter Chapter. Present: Invited

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speaker Prof. A. Davidhazy, advisor of RIT SPIE Student Chapter, Rochester, NY, USA and all members of the Chapter.

Invited Lecturers

• 28-31 October 2004: Prof. A. Davidhazy, advisor of RIT SPIE Student Chapter, Rochester, NY, USA was invited to give lectures under the SPIE Visiting Lecturer program. The Travel Grant of $800 was given by SPIE for compensation of his travel needs. The accommodation was made by chapter funds.

• In addition, there were organized 5 Invited lectures during SPO 2004 Conference: OSA and APS Fellow Prof. Yuriy Kivshar (Cranberra, Australia), Dr. Mauro F. Pereira (Cork, Ireland), Dr. Tom Oates (Germany), Dr. Vladimir Kuzkov (Ukraine), Dr. Morten Thorhauge (Denmark).

• In the last Fall Chapter meeting in November Prof. Partch (New York, USA) gave a lecture in the topic of biomedical optics.

Attended Conferences

• Yaroslav Filipov, 20-th International Conference of Condensed Matter Division of European Physical Society, 19-23 July 2004, Prague, Czech Republic.

• Ruslana Udovytska, 49-th SPIE Annual Meeting “Optical Science and Technology”, 2-6 August 2004, Denver, CO, USA.

• Viktor Lysiuk, 88-th OSA Annual Meeting “Frontiers in Optics/Laser Science”, 10-14 October 2004, Rochester, NY, USA.

• More than 20 SPIE student members present their current scientific work at SPO 2004 Conference co-organized by our SPIE Student Chapter annually.

Grants

• Ruslana Udovytska: SPIE Leadership Travel Grant ($1,000) for attending 49-th SPIE Annual Meeting 1-6 August 2004, Denver, CO, USA.

• Viktor Lysiuk: OSA Leadership Travel Grant ($ 814) for attending 88-th OSA Annual

Meeting 10-14 October 2004, Rochester, NY, USA. OSA Foundation Travel Grant ($318) for attending 88-th OSA Annual

Meeting. ICTP Travel Grant for attending Winter College 7-18 February 2005 in

Trieste, Italy. Organizing Activity Chapter is the co-organizer of Annual International Young Scientists Conference “Problems of Optics and High Technology Material Science”. The conference was organized 28-31 October 2004 at Department of Physics, Taras Shevchenko Kyiv National University. The main topics were: A. Nanotechnology, thin films and Coatings; B. Lasers and Optoelectronics: materials and devices; C. Biomedical application of Optics. Number of participants: 108. Countries represented: Australia, Belarus, Denmark, Finland, France, Germany, Ireland, Romania, Russia, Turkey, Ukraine, United Kingdom, USA, and Uzbekistan. Proposed Activity for 2005

• Popularization of Optics through SPIE Publications, Conferences, Visiting Lecturers and Short courses.

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• Sending of SPIE Student members to SPIE Symposia and Exhibitions. • Organization of the International Conference “Optics and High Technology

Material Science 2005” 27-30 October 2004, Kyiv, Ukraine. • Help students to apply for Scholarships, Grants and to publish their best

papers at SPIE and other peer-reviewed Journals. • Attend Izum Optical Factory (Izum, Kharkov region, Ukraine) by all SPIE

Student members for practical study of Glass and Lens production technology. • Continue existing collaborations and finding new partners and sponsors. • Upgrade Chapter Library and purchase some technical equipment for

presentations. • Participation of two or more students with Chapter advisor at 50-th SPIE

Annual Meeting. TEC DE MONTERREY President: Carlos López Mariscal Vice-President: Raul Hernández Aranda Treasurer: Ahylim Zamayoa Layrisse Secretary: Manuel Guízar Sicairos Activity Coordinator: Beatriz Alvarez Elizondo Social Action: Rodrigo Ponce

Just as the Fall term at Tecnológico de Monterrey reaches its end, it is time to look back at this term’s student activities.

• Firstly, Martha Álvarez’ time and effort has resulted in the functional, yet

unstable, operation of the Bessel-Gauss beam resonator. Congratulations to Martha!

• Last September, our invited speaker

Victor Rodriguez (alumni of Tec), from the University of Houston and Thomas Jefferson National Accelerator Facility (TJNAF) in Virginia, spoke to Student Chapter members about the early research on the interactions of neutrinos and matter. He also discussed the stat of the art technological advancements to improve experimental work in this area, which was of particular interest during 2004.

Victor Rodriguez addresses student Chapter members

• Looking forward to 2005 as the World Year of Physics, the Student Chapter

devised Physics and Optics Awareness talks for non-science undergraduate majors. Sessions were unexpectedly well attended and kept on taking place on a

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regular basis for the remainder of the school term. In particular, the lectures were most positively criticized when using “Classroom Demonstrations With the Overhead Projector” by D. Goodman.

• Volunteering Student Chapter

members gathered with G. Zavala, from the Physics Department in order to develop and implement educational classroom and lab techniques that will make it easier for instructors and teaching assistants to teach fundamental Physics. In particular, Dr. Zavala works on the teaching of Electromagnetism. These initiatives are aimed at undergraduate students from all engineering and science majors.

Prof. G. Zavala and Student Chapter members demonstrating an electric motor prototype for demonstrating magnetic induction in Electromagnetism courses. • Chapter members attended Student

Leadership meeting at Optical Science and Technology 49 in Denver. The experience was most rewarding and useful. We managed to network with Chapters from other countries and with SPIE staff. We finally put a face on the names of the people who make it possible for student chapters to communicate and benefit from SPIE student services. Additionally, several technical presentations took place during the Annual Meeting. Thanks!

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• As the term of Office of 2004 Chapter officers concluded, new officers were appointed. The outgoing board was glad to commemorate the first anniversary of the Student Chapter and to see that its efforts since the foundation of the Chapter, in late 2003, have been fruitful. Incoming President, Gerardo Tide, commented on the challenges for the Chapter for the next year, stressing that he will make sure the efforts that started this past year will be continued with success.

Outgoing Officers 2003-2004 and incoming board of officers for 2005

• In the astronomical arena, while the planned trip for observation of the Leonids was suspended due to weather conditions, the total moon eclipse of October 27, 2005 was clearly seen from the top of the Physics building on campus. A number of spontaneous student members gathered for the event, which was surprisingly popular amongst late-night by passers.

Students gather at the Physics rooftop in order to observe the total lunar eclipse. Special thanks to Quetzal for generously lending his telescope.

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• During the National Week for Science and Technology, Student Chapter Members

volunteered to set up an Optics exhibit for middle school visitors from the area. The purpose of the exhibit was to show the research activities that took place at the Optics Center and, in general, to contribute to Optical Science awareness amongst younger scholars. Visitors found an array of experiments which were explained by Student Chapter members.

Middle school students enjoyed the wave-optics demonstration during

National Week for Science and Technology at Tec. • For the first time at Tec, our Student Chapter organized the 1st Contest of

Scientific Photography SPIEI-TESM. We were generously sponsored by our local darkroom supplier Solgar, who donated over one thousand dollars in prizes. Despite short notice, we received over 30 entries, including photographs from other campuses. We plan to continue the contest and to further support activities that get students interested in science. Winners for this contest were Josue and Jose Ortiz Gonzalez and physics undergraduate students Josue Davila and Martin Gartz, as well as Nara Gonzalez and SPIE and OSA student member Peter Pfister. Several merit awards were given on the basis of technical achievement as well.

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Winners of the First Scientific Photograph Contest along with officers

and sponsor.

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Winning entries and Most Notorious entries of the First Scientific Photograph Contest. Soon online!

After the first year of its foundation, our Student Chapter has grown to have over 50 members. We are glad that the interest of students and faculty have maintained Chapter activities with an increasing number of participants.

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Chapter members in 2003 and in 2004, we have grown! THREE RIVERS COMMUNITY COLLEGE President: Greg Butler Vice-President: Dustin Laro Treasurer: Seth Hughes Secretary: Naomi Parker Other:Yevhen Rutovyskyy (Student Government Association representative) Chapter activities Fall semester, 2004 • Business meetings: 9/14, 9/21, 9/28, 10/26, 11/9, 12/6 (Guest Speaker Staff-

Sergeant Hand) • Bus trip to Trumpf. Trumpf is an international manufacturing company that produces:

CO2 Lasers, Welding lasers, and metal punching and cutting machines. • The SPIE light show was performed for guests at a college open house at the

Mohegan Campus. • SPIE performed a Laser Light show for a block party at the Thames Campus to

welcome guests and neighbors for a visit of the campus before the merger of the two campuses.

• Guest speaker, Staff-Sergeant Ed Hand spoke on Lasers and Optics applications in the military.

Future Chapter activities • Company visits: planning three in the Spring semester possibly in conjunction with

Advanced Laser Topics class to IPG Photonics, Nufern, and Joining Technologies. • Bus trip to Fiber Fest (Boxborough, MA) on May 2. • Have a guest speaker visit our campus and speak to us about Holography.

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TSINGHUA UNIVERSITY President: Zou Mingyuan Advisor: Prof. Shizhong Xie (xsz-dee@mail.tsinghua.edu.cn) UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA OPTICAL SCIENCES CENTER (OSC) President: Pouria Valley (pvalley@optics.arizona.edu) Treasurer: Elaine Ulrich (eulrich@optics.arizona.edu)

This is the first report from our chapter. We are glad to have joined the global network of SPIE student chapters, in the summer of 2004. The chapter started officially in October with an informal meeting, held at OSC. For this special event, pizza and refreshments were served. At the meeting, chapter’s officers and faculty advisor talked about various topics, especially the benefits of membership in SPIE and student chapter. We were happy to see that many eager students attended the meeting (about 40 students). List of current student chapter members is attached at the end of this report. Our mission is to provide intensive support for students through networking and a variety of assistance programs designed to ensure their academic success and persistence in their careers. We will try our best to promote membership in SPIE by acquainting students with ideas, purposes and objectives of SPIE We have planned a lot of activities for the future, including: Field Trips to local companies, observatories, research laboratories, etc… Outreach projects with local K-12 students Inviting an industry or academic speaker Contribute to new lobby display Creating a chapter web page and link it to SPIE web site Fundraising

We haven’t requested any financial aid from SPIE for our chapter, yet. But we would like to do so as soon as possible, for our various activities. We have planned to hold our next meeting in January 2005. Right now, our chapter has a president and treasurer. We are hoping to attract two more officers as vice president and secretary, at this meeting. The details of our activities will also be set. We look forward with great eagerness and anticipation to a productive and mutually beneficial year. UNIVERSITY COLLEGE DUBLIN Advisor: Dr. John T. Sheridan, john.sheridan@ucd.ie

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UNIVERSITY OF BUENOS AIRES, ARGENTINA President: Diego Sica (dsica@fi.uba.ar) Vice President: Norman Trench (ntrench@fi.uba.ar) Treasurer: José Lipovetzky (jlipove@fi.uba.ar) Secretary: Rodolfo Aparicio (arodolf@fi.uba.ar) Chapter activities Last report sent June 2004. It is worth mentioning that our academic year starts in February and ends in December. • Regular meetings of the Executive Committee (every month) to discuss the

activities of the Chapter. The Secretary registers the subjects under consideration in the Chapter Meetings Book

• Administration and maintenance of our web page with a link in the Faculty of Engineering main page and our email list.

• Interaction with other Student Chapters. • Diego Sica has finished a paper on free air optical communications to present at

SPIE 50th Annual Meeting. • Some members keep on working in a free air optical communication project in

the laboratory of Prof. Castro, Faculty Advisor of the Chapter. • Representation of the Student Chapter in the Master Course in Electro-Optics by

the President Diego Sica and Claudio Ejden. • Design of a presentation of our Chapter shown during the SPIE 49th Annual

Meeting. • José Lipovetzky represented SPIE UBA SC in the SPIE 49th Annual Meeting. • Special lecture on Free Space Opical Comunication Systems (Diego Sica) • Special lecture on Semciconductor Lasers (José Lipovetzky) • Special lecture on Fiber Optics (Leonardo Rey Vega) Future Chapter Activities • Representation of the Chapter at the SPIE 50th Annual Meeting in San Diego, CA. • Working in the free air optical communication project • Spread the optical discipline at secondary schools, advise and assist secondary

students in getting involved in optics and photonics. • Spread the optical discipline at the Faculty and incorporate new members. • Spread the optical discipline at the Master Course in Electro-Optics. • In collaboration with the SPIE Argentina Chapter to organize a regional

conference • Give conferences and special lectures scheduled for next year. UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA AT DAVIS President: David Woolf (dnwoolf@ucdavis.edu) Vice-President: Leila Fadavi (lfadavi@ucdavis.edu) Secretary: Amber Zertuche (anzertuche@ucdavis.edu) Treasurer: Adam Baker (acbaker@ucdavis.edu) EJC Representative: Adam Dittli (asdittli@ucdavis.edu) Outreach Chair: Cameron Austerheim-Smith (csaustrheimsmith@ucdavis.edu) Laser Maze Chair: Michael Bernacil (mabernacil@ucdavis.edu) Past Activities

• General Meetings - 10/05/04 & 11/02/04 - Attendance: 20

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• Officer Meetings - 10/19/04 & 11/17/04 - Attendance: 10 • Events

o Lunch Time Speaker Series (one Friday of every month) Mark Hart, Lawrence Livermore, Radiation, Oct 8th

• Attendance: 24 Robert Bernier and Glen Cole, Tinsley Laboratories, James

Webb Telescope, Nov 19th • Attendance: 27

o New Member Recruitment Barbecue • Attendance: 45

o Applied Optics Lab Tour Attendance: 15 (limit)

Planned Events

• General Meetings: 1st Tuesday of Every Quarter • Events:

o Lunch Time Speaker Series: Jan – May (one per month, speakers TBA) o Applied Optics Trip II, (Date TBA) o Resume Workshop, early January o Photonics West Booth o Lab Tour: JDS Uniphase (Date TBA) o Lab Tour: Lawrence Livermore (Date TBA) o E-Week Laser Maze (Date TBA) o Picnic Day Laser Maze (a Saturday in April)

UNIVERSITY OF CENTRAL FLORIDA/CREOL President: Charles Middleton (cmiddlet@mail.ucf.edu) Vice-President: Yi-Hsin Lin (yilin@mail.ucf.edu) Secretary: Costin Curatu (ccuratu@mail.ucf.edu) Treasurer: Christopher Middlebrook (cmiddle@mail.ucf.edu) The SPIE Student Chapter at CREOL/College of Optics and Photonics and Florida Photonics Center of Excellence (FPCE) at the University of Central Florida is an integral part of the CREOL Association of Optics Students (CAOS) and is working in synergy with the student chapters of OSA and IEEE/LEOS in a continuing effort to lead and coordinate the activities related to optics and photonics at the University of Central Florida. An important aspect of the SPIE CREOL/UCF Student Chapter is that being part of CREOL/FPCE it participates actively in all student events. During 2004, SPIE CREOL/UCF Student Chapter, in association with CAOS, OSA and IEEE/LEOS Student Chapters, participated in organizing various academic and social events. SPIE CREOL/UCF Student Chapter is also working closely with the UCF Student Government Association (SGA) through our CREOL CAOS Senator, representing the School of Optics in the UCF Senate. Chapter activities since last report: • Organization of the 2004 UCF Optics Day, a major UCF event sponsored by the

Student Government Association and promoting the fields of Optics and Photonics among the UCF student body. This initiative was once again successful in its second year.

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• Organization of the CREOL Industrial Affiliates Day: one of the major events in the establishment of long-term partnership between the optics industry in Florida and the US and the University of Central Florida/CREOL/FPCE.

• Organization of the 2004 annual CREOL “Spring Thing”: a major social event held by the UCF Vice President of Research and aimed at introducing CREOL faculty and students to various members of the regional and national optics industry, establishment of CREOL students’ community and recruiting of new optics students.

• Organization of the 2004 annual CREOL “Fall Picnic”: another major social event aimed at introducing the newly admitted CREOL students to their peers and CREOL Faculty members.

• 2004 Student of the year award: this award is intended to recognize outstanding academic and scientific achievements of the graduate students within the School of Optics/CREOL. The winner of the award received a Graduate Fellowship Enhancement in the amount of $500 provided by the School of Optics/CREOL and a certificate of achievements. The finalists received a Graduate Fellowship Enhancement in the amount of $100.

• 2004 CAOS Teacher of the year award: every year CREOL students are asked to nominate and vote for the professor who overall impressed them the most in class (laboratory) in terms of clarity of the message, lecture flowing, availability outside class, handouts, feedback on homework and exams, fairness in grading, etc.

• Organization of the 2004 annual Thanksgiving dinner and 2004 CREOL Christmas Party for CREOL students, staff, faculty members, board members, alumni and affiliates.

• Student mentoring: In 2004/2005 Academic Year SPIE Student Chapter, along with CAOS, OSA and IEEE/LEOS established student mentoring for students planning to take their Ph.D. qualification exam. Through this initiative senior Ph.D. students are mentoring students who are in the process of preparation for their qualification examination.

• Qualifier Study Sessions: To help students prepare for their qualifier exam, study sessions were organized so that older students could answer questions and help younger students to prepare both academically and psychologically for the exam. These sessions were incredibly successful: 100% of the students who attended more than one of the eight meetings passed the qualifier in August 2004.

• Numerous tours of CREOL for visitors ranging from middle/high school students to industrial affiliates and faculty members.

• Election of new officers in August: Charles Middleton, President; Yi-Hsin Lin, Vice President; Costin Curatu, Secretary; Christopher Middlebrook, Treasurer.

• Chapter meeting to form committees to increase student member participation in activities: with pizza paid for by SGA, we held a meeting for current and prospective SPIE members to discuss future chapter activities. We then called for volunteers to serve as committee chairs for the future activities, in an effort to involve more students (traditionally, the elected officers do all of the work and regular student members miss out on chances to learn and serve). Committee chairs will be able to draw on SPIE student chapter members to form ad hoc committees as activities approach and more help is needed. The response was very encouraging, with four volunteers who have never been involved in student chapter activities, and five new members joining as a result.

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Future chapter activities • 2005 Newport Exceptional Graduate Student Award: Award Program to recognize

outstanding scientific achievements of the graduate students in the School of Optics/CREOL.

• Organization of the 2005 Optics Day, activity funded by the SGA to promote Optics and Photonics throughout the UCF community, now building on the successes of the past two years.

• Organization of the 2005 CREOL Industrial Affiliates Day: one of the major events in the establishment of long-term partnership between the optics industry in Florida and US and the University of Central Florida/CREOL/FPCE.

• Organization of the 2005 annual CREOL “Spring Thing”: a major social event held by the UCF Vice President of Research and aimed at introducing CREOL faculty and students to various members of the regional and national optics industry, establishment of CREOL students’ community and recruiting of new optics students.

• 2005 Student of the year award. • 2005 Teacher of the year award. • Fall 2005 CREOL Picnic: a major social event aimed at introducing the new

students to the faculty and their peers. • Student mentoring seminar series. • Qualifier study sessions • Faculty seminar series. • More outreach activities, including visits to local elementary, middle and high

schools. Several students have expressed interest in such activities, and we have started to put together a set of demonstrations with materials to hand out to participants, such as diffraction gratings, holograms, and liquid crystals.

• Student seminar series. • Various outreach events. • Tours and visits. UNIVERSITY OF DAYTON President: Aziz Mahfoud Vice-President: Patrick Berry Secretary: Joseph Binford Treasurer: Gurkan Peksoz

1. Meeting Minutes

• Attendance There were a total of twelve people in attendance. Those in attendance included Patrick Berry (Vice President and OSA Student Chapter President), Joe Binford (Secretary), Adam Cooney, Cong Deng, Jang Pyo Kim, Aziz Mahfoud (President), Zasim Mozumder, Georges Nehmetallah, Khan Peksoz, Dave Pikas, Dr. Andrew Sarangan (LEOS Student Chapter Faculty Advisor), and Sree Talluri. • Introduction Aziz Mahfoud gave a brief introduction while those in attendance enjoyed refreshments of pizza and soft drinks. He encouraged members and others to become more involved in SPIE Student Chapter activities, including those of the

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OSA and LEOS Student Chapters. He mentioned that there are many opportunities for students to become more involved, to include listing ideas for educational outreach efforts such as the Wright-STEPP program. He also discussed the possibilities of arranging tours to optics-related companies and bringing speakers to UD to give optics-related talks. Finally, he encouraged students to pursue educational opportunities in writing proposals, applying for scholarship funds, researching information on SPIE’s Optics InfoBase, helping to develop the SPIE Student Chapter website, and generally looking for ways to further enhance one’s professional development in the optics field. • Educational Outreach Aziz Mahfoud discussed ways students could encourage optics education in the Dayton community, specifically for K-12 level students. Aziz mentioned the success of the Wright-STEPP program for 10th grade students held during the last school year in cooperation with the Air Force Research Laboratory (AFRL) at Wright-Patterson Air Force Base (WPAFB), where students were introduced to the concepts of laser radiation, polarization, and spectroscopy. He also talked about the Optics Education Kit received from SPIE for the purpose of educational outreach. Aziz and Patrick Berry mentioned the usefulness of videos such as the included IR video for educating students prior to demonstrating various optics experiments. Joe Binford mentioned the idea of talking with teachers prior to presenting optics demonstrations to students in their classes. He suggested that this might encourage more teacher involvement and allow teachers to give our chapter feedback on effective ways to encourage their students to learn more about optical science and technology. Aziz mentioned the need for English speakers in the K-12 educational outreach. • Optics Tours/Speakers Aziz Mahfoud brought up ideas for arranging tours to various optics-related companies in the area. He mentioned our past visit to Kent State University to see the Liquid Crystal Institute. Ideas for possible tours included Mound Laser in Dayton, Ohio. Dr. Sarangan mentioned the idea of visiting CMC Electronics in Cincinnati, with a possible entertaining trip to Paramount’s Kings Island. Joe Binford mentioned contacting 3M Precision Optics to see if a tour could be arranged. Although it wasn’t brought up, ideas for bringing speakers to UD are also welcomed. The group thought the best time to arrange these optics tours would be on Fridays beginning at 2:00 p.m. or 2:30 p.m. Mention was made to set the tour date on a day after classes are concluded this semester. The UD van could also be used for travel as long as the driver had taken the proper UD driver training.

• Other Activities Aziz Mahfoud thanked Jang Pyo Kim for creating the UD SPIE Student Chapter website, located at http://www.udayton.edu/~spie. He also encouraged other students to get involved in the development of the site. Aziz and Patrick mentioned the desire of many students to obtain access to SPIE’s Optics InfoBase, located at http://www.opticsinfobase.org. They stated that, with a chapter username and password, students will be able to gain access and download the information they need for their optics research. The group also discussed funding issues in the chapter. Aziz and Patrick mentioned the funding opportunities for students from SPIE and LEOS, in addition to those offered through DAGSI. SPIE has an application, available at http://www.spie.org, that allows students to apply for scholarships and travel grants. Funding through

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SPIE can typically be $3,000 or $4,000 and as high as $10,000. Funding through LEOS may be as high as $5,000. The group agreed that applying for this funding is well worth the effort, especially since the chances are high that the funding will be granted. Dr. Sarangan mentioned that, in regard to travel grants, if SPIE awards one-third of the necessary funding, that the EO department and UD would cover the other two-thirds in most cases. Aziz and Patrick mentioned that the annual funding for the SPIE and OSA student chapters is $500 each. Dr. Sarangan mentioned that the annual funding for the LEOS student chapter is about $2000.

• Conclusion Aziz Mahfoud encouraged everyone to become more involved in the SPIE/OSA/LEOS student chapters and thanked everyone for coming. He also encouraged everyone to contact him or Patrick Berry if they had any questions or suggestions. Dr. Sarangan had brought a digital camera and took several pictures of the group in attendance. Hopefully these pictures will be posted on the SPIE student chapter website! Aziz dismissed the meeting at about 7:30 p.m.

University of Dayton SPIE Student Members

2. SPIE Lecture Series - Guest Lecturers • Prof. Vladislav Yakolev – Department of Physics, University of Wisconsin-

Milwaukee “Nonlinear Optical Interaction on a Nanoscale”, March 26, 2004.

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Prof. Yakolev with members of the SPIE student chapter. From left to write, Aziz Mahfoud, President; Patrick Berry, Vice-President; Cong Deng, member.

• I.I. Smalyukh – Chemical Physics Interdisciplinary Program and Liquid Crystal Institute - “3D-Imaging of Orientational Structures in Cholesteric Liquid Crystals and Electro-optic Applications”

The student members of the Kent State University and the University of Dayton student chapters.

• Jason Heikenfeld, Ph.D. - Extreme Photonix, Cincinnati, OH - “Electro-wetting for

Electro-optics”, Friday, October 8, 2004

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• Martin Herms - Fraunhofer Institute for Nondestructive Testing, Dresden - “Raman Spectroscopy - A Versatile Tool for Characterization of Semiconductor Materials, Devices and Processes”, Friday, October 29, 2004

3. SPIE Annual Meeting The University of Dayton SPIE student chapter had the opportunity of sharing ideas with other students representing 11 countries at the SPIE 49th Annual Meeting in Denver Colorado last August. Aziz Mahfoud, Student Chapter President and Yasser Abdelaziz represented the University of Dayton at this event. The meeting was full of information about student benefits for the student members. The existence of the SPIE Educational Scholarship was a benefit that passed unperceived from us as well as the access to the SPIE Digital Library. The meeting also helped us brainstorm ideas with other members about possible chapter activities and about programs like K-12 outreach. Aziz Mahfoud and Yasser Abdelaziz with the student leaders of the Kent State University and Poland SPIE Student Chapters.

4. SPIE Student Chapter Underlined in 20th Anniversary University of Dayton Electro-Optics Program

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5. K-12 Outreach Program It has been an objective for the Electro-Optics program of the University of Dayton to promote optics education through organizing experiments and demonstrations that encourage the interest in optics in the K-12 environment. In this sense, the University of Dayton’s SPIE Student Chapter’s joint effort with the Air Force Research Laboratory, Sensors Directorate, Air Force Research Laboratory, Materials Directorate, Science Applications International Corporation (SAIC) and the University of Dayton, Electro-Optics Program was to bring a series of optics experiments and discussions to junior high school students. The students were introduced to the concepts of wavelength, frequency, polarization and light source spectrum (LED’s, lasers, incandescent bulbs, etc.). Also, the students had the opportunity to assemble a Keplerian and Galilean Telescopes. Emily Heckman, Jangpyo Kim and Aziz Mahfoud from University of Dayton, explaining to the students the principles of an optical spectrometer.

Dr. Perry Yaney illustrating a ray optics analysis of a concave lens.

Dr. Stanley Rogers from the AFRL-SN, Aziz Mahfoud and Emily Heckman with the last competitors in the knowledge contest.

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6. Visit of Kent State University In order to promote cooperation among chapters, the Student Chapter of the University of Dayton visited the Liquid Crystal Institute at Kent State University. The Liquid Crystal Institute was named in honor of its founder, Dr. Glenn H. Brown, by the Kent State University Board of Trustees in 1986. Kent State University constitutes the center spot for research related with new technologies involving liquid crystal. The members of our chapter had the opportunity to interact with the SPIE student members of Kent State and to understand the whole process of fabrication of liquid crystal.

The students in the cleanroom at Kent State University

7. Visit to Mound Laser and Photonics Center Miamisburg, Ohio, November 23, 2004 at 12:45 p.m.

• Introduction Most of the group met on campus at the University of Dayton in KL341 at 12:15 p.m. to travel by van to Mound Laser and Photonics Center, Inc. (MLPC) in Miamisburg, Ohio. Dr. Haus drove the van for our group. Upon our arrival, we met with Dr. Larry Dosser, President and CEO of MLPC, who had agreed to take us on a tour of the facility. Dr. Dosser welcomed us and explained that there are three main services provided by his company: laser welding, laser marking/engraving, and laser micromachining. He encouraged all of us to feel free to look around during the tour and ask any questions that came to mind.

• Laser Welding Dr. Dosser first brought us to the laser welding area where two of the employees explained the laser welding services provided to their customers. Their primary system consists of a neodymium-doped yttrium aluminum garnet (Nd:YAG) laser with 220 W of optical power at 1064 nm that incorporates a 600 µm fused silica step-index optical fiber to deliver the power to the target weld area with a "top hat" beam profile. The target piece is mounted on a 4-axis assembly (3-D translation plus one

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rotation axis) for accurate positioning of the region to be welded. The employees explained that this laser system uses relatively long pulse widths to achieve proper welds and is commonly requested for components in medical and automotive devices.

• Laser Marking/Engraving Next, Dr. Dosser brought our group to see the laser marking/engraving area. Dr. Dosser explained the use of the two primary laser marking systems consisting of 1064 nm Nd: YAG lasers. Both systems incorporate an x-y galvanometer scanning subassembly with an f-theta field lens to raster the beam over the desired target regions of the sample to be marked. Both systems have 4-axis assemblies for mounting parts to be marked. The first system Dr. Dosser showed us produced a beam with about 70-75 W of optical power. The other system produces a power of 90 W. Dr. Dosser mentioned that these systems take off the top layer of material up to a 1 mm depth. Components can be engraved up to a 0.020" depth. Some typical materials that can be marked or engraved with a laser include anodized aluminum, graphite, and various plastics. The markings that can be made with these systems include logos, 1-D and 2-D barcodes, and alpha-numeric characters. • Laser Micromachining Finally, Dr. Dosser brought our group to see the laser micromachining area. There, several of the employees explained the processes used in micromachining components for their customers. They explained that the laser micromachining system consists of a neodymium-doped yttrium vanadate (Nd: YVO4) laser crystal pumped with the fiber-delivered light from a laser diode array. The laser system produces 18 W of power at 1064 nm, but is frequency-tripled with the crystal to produce the third harmonic at 355 nm. The power at 355 nm is typically 4.5 W with a pulse frequency of 20 kHz, operating at just above threshold. At the 355 nm wavelength, the beam can be focused to a 13-micron spot on the component to be micromachined. Again, a 4-axis assembly is used to properly position the sample while a telecentric f-theta lens system following an x-y galvanometer assembly is used to maintain the rastered beam's orthogonality and field flatness to the machining plane. The employees explained that the low pulse energy and high pulse rate were found to perform better for laser micromachining applications. For large components, they explained that stitching algorithms were used to perform micromachining on areas larger than 2" by 2", stating that stitching errors were minimized by accurately characterizing the system operation. They also discussed the use of a laser sensor for accurately mapping surfaces that were to be machined. The resolution for this laser micromachining system is ±0.5 µm with a minimum feature size of 10 µm. • Conclusion Overall, our group really enjoyed the tour of MLPC given by Dr. Larry Dosser and thanked him for giving us the opportunity to learn more about his company and the innovative optics work that is being done there. He encouraged us to become more involved in the optics community and to look for opportunities that enhance our professional growth. We took some group photographs and left MLPC at around 2:15 p.m. Most of us stayed to visit the Native American mound for which the site is named. After taking some pictures, we adjourned and returned to the University of Dayton campus at around 3 p.m. More information about MLPC can be found on their website at http://www.mlpc.com on the Internet.

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SPIE student members with Larry Dossier, CEO of Mound Laser and Photonic Center and Dr. Joseph Haus Electro-Optics Program Director at the company installations.

UNIVERSITY OF LATVIA President: Renars Erts Vice-President: Zanda Gavare Secretary: Rita Veilande Treasurer: Ilze Vingre Advisor: Professor Janis Spigulis (janispi@latnet.lv) VІNNYTSІA NATIONAL TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY President: Ruslan L. Kobzarenko Vice-president: Sergey V. Shulle Secretary: Yelena V. Burmakina Treasurer: Igor I. Tyutyunnyk Adviser: Volodymyr P. Kozhemyako, (kvp@vstu.vinnica.ua) Web: http://www.vstu.vinnica.ua/~spie E-mail: spie@lili.vstu.vinnica.ua SPІE VNTU Student Chapter realizes its activity with direct support and constructive assistance of leading experts of scientific school of Laser and Optoelectronic Engineering Chair of VNTU and Ukrainian SPІE Chapter.

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Current Activity • The cooperation with a number of industrial enterprises of Vіnnytsіa region and

Ukraine as well as Technological University of Podilia (Khmelnitsky, Ukraine), Saint-Petersburg State University of Information Technologies, Mechanics and Optics (Saint-Petersburg, Russia), M.V. Lomonosov Moscow State University (Moscow, Russia), Belarusian State University (Minsk, Belarus) have been established.

• President of SPІE VNTU Student Chapter Olha V. Malinochka was awarded with SPIE Travel Grant and participated in Student Chapter Program at SPIE’s 49-th Annual Meeting, August 2-6, 2004 in Denver, Colorado USA.

• The relations with SPIE Student Chapters of Russia, Poland, Romania, Turkey, Argentina, Canada, USA have been established, the cooperation is carried out.

• Members of the Chapter took part in joint meetings with the delegation of International Centre of Students Education of Jinan (China) that visited VNTU in December 2003.

• Members of the Chapter under the auspice of VNTU participated in Scientific Workshops, monthly held on the base of UNESCO International Research and Training Centre of Information Technologies and Systems of Ministry of Education and Science of Ukraine and National Academy of Science of Ukraine (Kyiv, Ukraine).

• Members of SPIE VNTU Student Chapter delivered Lecture Course “SPIE – building your future in optics. Learn how you can achieve academic success and reach your career goals”. The course was intended for junior students, pupils and all those who are interested in this field. The given course was a part of the celebration program of “The Day of the University” held at VNTU early October 2004.

• SPІE VNTU Student Chapter official Web-site (http://www.vstu.vinnica.ua/~spie) has been regularly updated;

• During the semi-annual activity period the meetings of SPІE VNTU Student Chapter were periodically held to discuss the results of the activity and elaborate program and directions of further Chapter actions.

• All the members of SPIE VNTU Student Chapter regularly participate in major Scientific Conferences, Exhibitions and Workshops held in Ukraine.

• The majority of SPIE VNTU Student Chapter members publishes the results of their scientific research in leading Scientific Journals of Ukraine, and submits the materials for publication in “Proceedings of SPIE” and “Proceedings of SPIE/Ukraine”.

• Efforts are made to increase SPIE rating (including the rating of SPІE VNTU Student Chapter):

• Spreading of information dealing with SPIE activity by delivering lectures to the students of junior courses and college students as well as presenting the reports at scientific Sessions in Vinnytsia Region and Ukraine.

• An article has been published: • Newsletter “Impulse” (VNTU) №9 (631), October 2004. • SPIE and SPIE/Ukraine scientific materials, CD and video-materials (by support of

Ukrainian SPІE Chapter) have been periodically used while teaching a number of optoelectronic disciplines as well as studying and mastering English.

• Library funds of Vіnnytsіa National Technical University are constantly supplied with newest SPIE scientific publications (by support of Ukrainian SPІE Chapter).

• Library of SPІE VNTU Student Chapter is constantly supplied containing SPIE scientific publications (by support of Ukrainian SPІE Chapter).

• Enrolment new SPІE VNTU Student Chapter (Appendix 1).

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• SPІE VNTU Student Chapter members who graduated from the VNTU are recommended for the enrollment in Ukrainian SPІE Chapter (Appendix 1).

Future Chapter Activities • Participation in a Student Chapter Program at SPIE's 50th Annual Meeting and

SPIE International Symposium “Optical Science and Technology”. • Support the intensive exchange of information and practical experience with the

members of SPІE Student chapters of other states by means of organization of Conferences and Workshops visiting scientific institutions and realization of joint scientific projects, seminars and conferences;

• Development of international relations and signing of international agreements on cooperation with students scientific organizations of other states;

• Continue to involve the best scientific materials of the representatives of students and other SPІE chapters for publication in the International Scientific Journal "Optoelectronic Information-Power Technologies", published by the aegis of Vіnnytsіa National Technical University and Ukrainian SPІE Chapter;

• Submit scientific materials to leading scientific SPIE editions; • Continue to apply SPIE materials for further usage in teaching of optoelectronic

disciplines as well as studying and mastering English; • Support the activity aimed at promoting the rating of SPІE Student chapter

through out realization of information-educational activity; • Updating and actualization SPІE VNTU Student Chapter official Web-site; • Updating Vіnnytsіa National Technical University and SPІE VNTU Student Chapter

Library funds with new scientific SPIE publications (by support of Ukrainian SPІE Chapter);

• Enrolment of talented and gifted students of other departments and specialties of Vіnnytsіa Universities and other Universities of Vinnytsia Region, representatives of other scientific schools to SPІE VNTU Student chapter.

UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA - CHARLOTTE President: Brent Bergner (bcbergne@uncc.edu) Vice-President: Neil Gardner (ngardner@uncc.edu) Treasurer: Kert Edward (kedward@uncc.edu) Secretary: Kashif Hamid (koofi@yahoo.com) Web: http://www.sco.uncc.edu/spie/index.htm Activities in 2004 The UNC Charlotte SPIE Student Chapter was officially recognized by the Board of Directors of SPIE – The International Society for Optical Engineering in January of 2004. On April 30, 2004, several members of the chapter toured the facilities at Northrop Grumman Synoptics in Charlotte, NC. On October 8, 2004 we initiated “Lunch with the Speaker.” The Center for Optoelectronics and Optical Communications at UNC Charlotte (http://opticscenter.uncc.edu/) sponsors a weekly optics seminar. However, many students do not feel comfortable asking questions at these seminars. In an attempt to increase student participation we decided to ask selected speakers to have lunch with the SPIE Student Chapter in a more informal atmosphere. The first speaker to participate in this program was Dr. Bob Plemons, distinguished Reynolds professor from Wake Forest University. Dr. Plemons spoke about his current research in iris recognition. He was an excellent teacher and the students did seem more comfortable in the question and answer period at the seminar. SPIE Student Chapter members helped with the setup and audio-visual

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operations at the Optics in the South East (OISE) conference held in Charlotte, NC from November 4-5, 2004. In addition many students presented their work in oral presentations or in the poster session. The president of the chapter attended the SPIE Annual Meeting in Denver Colorado through the SPIE’s Travel Grant program. New officers (president, vice-president, treasurer, and secretary) will be elected at the first meeting in January. Activities Planned for 2005 The chapter plans to send several members to the SPIE Defense and Security Symposium. We also plan conduct a resume’ workshop and mock interviews with the help of several of the local optics companies. We will continue and expand the “Lunch with the Speaker” series and hope to arrange a tour with at least one other local optics companies (such as Digital Optics Corporation). UNIVERSITY OF NOTRE DAME President: Guanjun Zhang Vice President: Katie Hull Secretary: Kai Sun Treasurer: Jusong Wang Chapter Activities

Under the leadership of President Min Hu, we have successfully completed many activities in the past year.

• Mar. 25, 2004 First group meeting 275 Fitzpatrick Hall

All members attend the meeting. Wenchuang Hu gave a presentation to introduce the new student chapter. Officers were elected.

• Apr. 23, 2004 Academic seminar - 275 Fitzpatrick Hall

Wenchuang Hu gave an introduction to his current research project “Sub-50-nm Patterning of Gold Nanoparticles by Electron Beam Lithography (EBL)”.

• Min Hu, Guanjun Zhang, and Di Liang attended the SPIE student leadership program before the 49th SPIE annual meeting. Min introduced our new chapter on the meeting. We met student members from all over the world and shared experiences and knowledge with them. We also met SPIE president James W. Bilbro, executive director Eugene G. Arthurs, and many other officers on the meeting.

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• Aug. 1, 200 SPIE annual student

chapter meeting in Denver, Colorado.

• Aug. 4, 49th SPIE annual meeting

Denver, Colorado.

Min Hu made a presentation at SPIE 49th annual meeting with title: “Coherent excitation of vibrational modes in nanospheres and nanorods”.

• Aug. 4, 2004 49th SPIE annual meeting Denver, Colorado.

Min, Guanjun, and Di attended the special student lunch with the experts from industry.

• Oct. 18, 2004 Officer meeting LaFortune Student Center

All officers joined together to discuss and finalize our joint proposal: “Great Lake Science Tour for High School Students” with three other SPIE student chapters in the Great Lakes area.

• Nov. 11, 2004 Academic seminar 158 Stephan Hall

Xuan Wang gave a presentation on introduction of pump-probe laser technology.

• Dec. 8, 2004 Annual member meeting 275 Fitzpatrick Hall

All members and some interested students attended the lunch meeting. President Min Hu reviewed the achievements of our student chapter in 2004. New officers were elected.

• Dec. 9, 2004 Academic seminar 158 Stephan Hall Min Hu gave a presentation about "Coherent Vibrational Oscillation in Gold Prismatic Monolayer Periodic Nanoparticle Arrays".

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Members Currently, all of our 10 members are graduate students from a variety of disciplines from photonic integrated circuit, laser, to digital image processing, as listed in the following table. Future Plans

• Have academic seminars around the year for our student and faculty members to share their newest research progress at University of Notre Dame.

• Invite a speaker from other school to meet our members and give a seminar. • Launch of the “Tour for High School Students” project in summer 2005. • Rebuild the official website http://www.nd.edu/~spie and setup a local

member email list by the end of February 2005. • Attend the Student Activity Day 2005 at the University of Notre Dame to

introduce undergraduate students to SPIE and our student chapter. • Sponsor student members for the SPIE Annual Meeting. • Advertise our student chapter on the OE Magazine and local newspaper “The

Observer”.

WARSAW UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY President: Agata Jozwicka (a.jozwicka@mchtr.pw.edu.pl) Vice President: Pawel Bolewicki (p_bolewicki@o2.pl) Secretary: Aneta Michakiewicz (a.michalkiewicz@mchtr.pw.edu.pl) Treasurer: Mariusz Wnuk (m.wnuk@mchtr.pw.edu.pl) Advisor: Malgorzata Kujawinska (m.kujawinska@mchtr.pw.edu.pl) I. Actions for Warsaw University of Technology: 1. Organization of 8th Polish Festival of Science (17-26.IX.2004). This year‘s program consisted of two parts performed by: Faculty of Mechatronics:

a) Institute of Micromechanics and Photonics (IM&P) and Institute of Automatic Control and Robotics (IAC&R) - workshop on “Image and Voice Recognition - How Computers Can See and Hear”. As we have seen last year people are very interested not only what optics is, but also where optics can be applied, which is why we have decided to continue cooperation with IAC&R.

b) Institute of Metrology and Measurement Systems – course on “From tam-tam language to MPEG”

c) IAC&R has presented course on: “Robotronics on the Road to Artificial Man”

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Our Chapter coordinated all parts of the Festival of Science organized at Faculty of Mechatronics. You can find pictures and more information (in Polish) on: http://iair.mchtr.pw.edu.pl/festiwal

Faculty of Electronics: a) Institute of Microelectronics and Optoelectronics: “Lasers – Structure, Functioning

and Applications”. It was a course with few experiments to show people what kind of lasers are available and what we can do with lasers.

2. Our Chapter took part in the Fair of Scientific Chapters of WUT. The goals of

this fair were to present activities of Scientific Chapters of WUT to all students of our University. Because this entertainment was opened to all people – we had visitors from different ages.

3. Creation of a new and improved web site for the SPIE Student Chapter (http://spie.mchtr.pw.edu.pl ) 4. Supporting Student Research created at our Faculty in the field of 3D visualization in multimedia.

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II. Education and projects 1. We were awarded with SPIE Grants for Educational and Research Institutions. 2. We worked on project financed by Student Union of Warsaw University of Technology:

- „Opracowanie stanowiska dydaktyczno-naukowego do numerycznej i optoelektronicznej rekonstrukcji hologramów cyfrowych i syntetycznych „

III. Creation of links between SPIE Chapters 1. SPIE We took part in the organization of the visit of the SPIE Board of Directors in Warsaw. Besides organizing visit in our laboratories and presenting our work, our representatives took part in evening entertainment. 2. SPIE Student Chapters Four representatives of our Chapter took part in Annual Meeting in Denver. Besides presenting our scientific work during conferences, we were also very active in the SPIE Student Chapters Program.

After the conference, we took a two-week trip from Denver through Utah, Arizona and California. We are so grateful for SPIE for the possibility of meeting people from all around the world. We are cooperating with all of the Student Chapters from Poland. We also have very good contact with the Student Chapters from Kent State University, Chernivtsi National University and Tec de Monterrey, Mexico. 3. SPIE Poland Chapter We have cooperated with SPIE Poland Chapter. Aneta Michalkiewicz took the place of Agata Jozwicka and is the Student Chapters Coordinator in Poland and the Chief

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Editor of the SPIE-PL bulletin. Also, we are helping in organization of the SPIE-Congress on Optics and Optoelectronics, Warsaw'05.

WEST MESA HIGH SCHOOL President: Luis Sanchez Vice-President: Jason Sterns Secretary: Melissa Liampetch Treasurer: Michelle Parra 1. Activities KNME Pledge Drive- Dec. 9, 2004 John Adams Middle School Science Fair- Dec. 8, 2004 Alamosa Elementary Science Fair- Nov. 5, 2004 Sandia National Laboratories Field Trip- Dec. 2, 2004 2. Fundraising Laser-Etched Key Chains and Ornaments Sale Plaques for special orders Prom give aways 3. Planned Activities Field trip to UNM CHTM (Center for High Tech Materials), SNL (Sandia National Labs), Holography studio in Santa Fe Joint student Chapter/State chapter meeting Ice cream Social with Parents/students/guests 2 students to attend SPIE conference in January Present at Middle Schools

WROCLAW UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY President: Wojciech Rudno-Rudzinski Vice-President: Jacek Olszewski Treasurer: Magdalena Przybylo Secretary: Anna Zan Advisor: Prof. Waclaw Urbanczyk, (waclaw.urbanczyk@pwr.wroc.pl) Internet: http://www.if.pwr.wroc.pl/spie 1. Promotion of Science We were present at Wroclaw Festival of Science where we presented several experiments during “Circus of Physics” to promote physics and encourage young people to study science. 2. Contacts with other SPIE Chapters • We have continued a program of exchange of lectures between members of

Student Chapter in Wroclaw, Torun and Warsaw. • We have had a guest lecturer from Institute of Physics, University of Torun:Iwona

Gorczynska, “The investigations of absorption as a function of depth using OCT technique.”

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• A member of our Chapter in exchange presented a speech: M. Szpulak, “Holey fibers – properties and applications.”

3. Scientific Activities The members of our chapter prepared several papers: • M. Szpulak, T. Martynkien, W. Urbanczyk, „Effects of hydrostatic pressure on phase and group modal

birefringence in microstructured holey fibers”, Appl. Opt. 43, pp. 4739-4745, 2004. • M. Szpulak, G. Statkiewicz, J. Olszewski, T. Martynkien, W. Urbańczyk, J. Wójcik, M. Makara, J.

Klimek, T. Nasilowski, F. Berghmans, H. Thienpont, „Experimental and theoretical investigations of birefringent holey fiber with triple defect”, Applied Optics (in press)

• G. Statkiewicz, T. Martynkien, W. Urbańczyk, „Measurements of modal birefringence and polarimetric sensitivity of the birefringent holey fiber to hydrostatic pressure and strain”, Optics Communication, 241, Issues 4-6, pp. 339-348 2004.

• M. Szpulak, J. Olszewski, T. Martynkien, W. Urbańczyk, J. Wójcik, „Polarizing photonic crystal fibers with wide operation range” , Optics Communication 239, pp. 91-97, 2004.

• R. Kudrawiec, M. Motyka, J. Andrzejewski, J. Misiewicz, D. Gollub, A. Forchel “Photoreflectance and photoluminescence study of step-like GaInNAs/GaInNAs/GaAs quantum wells” IEE Proceedings Optoelectronics

4. Future plans • Intensify our program of lectures exchange • Visit the optical fiber facility at UMCS in Lublin • Take part in an educational fair TARED