Annual Report

2016

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Introduction

SPIE is a not-for-profit professional society for optics and photonics

technology, founded in 1955. It organizes technical conferences, trade

exhibitions, and continuing education programs for researchers and

developers in the light-based fields of physics, including: optics,

photonics, and imaging engineering. On July 1, 1955 SPIE was founded as

the Society of Photographic Instrumentation Engineers in California to

specialize in the application of photographic instrumentation. In 1964 the

society changed its name to the Society of Photo-Optical Instrumentation

Engineers. In 1977 SPIE moved its headquarters to Bellingham,

Washington, and in 1981, to reflect a changing membership, the Society

began doing business as (DBA) SPIE—The International Society for

Optical Engineering. In 2007, the society ended its DBA, and is referred to

simply as "SPIE".

SPIE Student Chapter CSIO Chandigarh

Central Scientific Instruments Organisation (CSIO), a constituent unit of

Council of Scientific & Industrial Research (CSIR), is a premier national

laboratory dedicated to research, design and development of scientific

and industrial instruments. It is a multi-disciplinary and multi-dimensional

apex industrial research & development organisation in the country to

stimulate growth of Instrument Industry in India covering wide range and

applications. CSIO is a multi-disciplinary organization having well

equipped laboratories manned by highly qualified and well trained staff

with infrastructural facilities in the areas of Agrionics; Medical

Instrumentation and Prosthetic Devices; Optics based Instrumentation;

Fiber/Laser Optics based Sensors & Instrumentation; Analytical

Instrumentation; Advanced Materials based Transducers etc.

SPIE Student Chapter CSIO Chandigarh came into existence in February,

2016 with 34 members. It promotes Science among researchers,

academicians and students.

On Campus Activities:

We organised Photonics lab visits for undergraduate students of Indo

Swiss Training Centre, Chandigarh and imparted knowledge of different

optics equipment including Electric Arc Fusion Splicer, Optical Spectrum

Analyser, Light Runner, Interrogator, Magnetron Sputtering Unit etc.

We have also organise SPIE awareness program at our campus for the

undergraduate students various colleges near Chandigarh region and

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knowledge about our Chapter and ongoing activities were imparted to

them. We have Fiber Bragg Grating writing system at our lab. The

fundamental processes involved in creating grating in the core region of

the fiber were illustrated and the transmission spectra of the same has

been shown.

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We have also demonstrated about practical aspects and applications of

optics to school children. Experiments related to reflection, refraction,

dispersion and diffraction were demonstrated. LASER beam pattern of

HeNe LASER was shown to them.

We have organised seminars for topics related to optics and photonics for

researchers and members of SPIE at our campus.

Outreach activities:

During one year, various outreach activities were carried out to promote

active interactions among research scholars of our institute and other

nearby R&D organisations like IISER Mohali, INST Mohali and Panjab

University.

We have visited Physics Department in IISER Mohali and interacted with

faculty and students of department. We came across various R&D

activities going in their department. We also presented our research

activities to researchers of their department.

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Our outreach activities also comprise a two-day interactive lecture series

on light for high school students of Government Model School, Sector-30,

Chandigarh and a workshop for practical demonstration of different

phenomenon of light. This activity was very interesting and successful

which appeared from huge presence of students and their active

participation in Quiz competition conducted at the end of the session.

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A lecture session on fundamentals and applications of Optics was

organised for students of Indo Swiss Training Centre, Chandigarh in

information related to light, its applications and future prospects in this

field were provided. Students enjoyed the session, they enquired about

job opportunities and current scenario of Optical technology in Indian

market.

During CRIKC Nanoscience Conclave held at Institute of Nano Science and

Technology (INST), Mohali. Our Chapter President delivered a poster

presentation on "Fiber Technologies and their Applications". He put light

on SPIE student chapter activities.

We have attended the Chandigarh Science Congress Conference held at

Panjab University, Chandigarh. The faculty advisor of our chapter Dr.

Umesh Kumar Tiwari delivered lecture on "Fiber Grating Sensors and their

applications".

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Acknowledgement:

We extend our gratitude to Professor R K Sinha, Director, CSIO for his

able guidance and encouragement to initiate this chapter. His inspirations

always stimulate us to do best for our chapter. We are extremely thankful

to our faculty advisor Dr. Umesh Tiwari for his meticulous efforts and

direction in functioning of our student chapter. We are grateful to SPIE

and CSIO for bestowing us responsibility of student chapter, as it is the

first SPIE Student Chapter of this region.

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Faculty Advisor

Name: Dr. Umesh K Tiwari

Email:uktiwari_2003@yahoo.co.in

SPIE ID: 3655625

Elected Student Chapter Officers:

PRESIDENT

Name: Siddharth Kaushik

E‐mail: sidbiochem88@gmail.com

SPIE ID: 3655625

VICE-PRESIDENT

Name: Rohit Sharma

E‐mail: rohitsharma.pec@gmail.com

SPIE ID: 3655166

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TREASURER

Name: Pooja Gupta

E‐mail: puzagupta1989@gmail.com

SPIE ID: 3719883

CO-TREASURER

Name: Rahul Kottath

E‐mail: rahulkottath@gmail.com

SPIE ID: 3778973

SECRETARY

Name: Manish Kalra

E‐mail:

manishkalra2012@gmail.com

SPIE ID: 3774561

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Student Chapter Members in 2016

1. Dr. Umesh Kumar Tiwari

2. VSRS Praveen Kumar

3. P. Sunita

4. Mukesh Kumar

5. Neha Khatri

6. Rohit Sharma

7. Shivani Gupta

8. Gaurav Dwivedi

9. Swagat Kumar samantaray

10. Totan Chand

11. Siddharth Kaushik

12. Keshav Samrat Modi

13. Pooja Gupta

14. Amit Pandey

15. Rashmi Achla

16. Kaushal Vairagi

17. Vijayasankar A.

18. Rahul Kottath

19. Gaurav Singhal

20. Rajiv Dubey

21. Manish Kalra

22. Priyanshu Goel

23. Devendra Singh Bisht

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24. Javed Ahmad

25. Ajay Kumar

26. Baljit Singh

27. Vishavpreet Singh

28. Vipender Singh Negi

29. Ishaan Jain

30. Tanvi Sharma

31. Raj Kumar Pal

32. Ripul Ghosh

33. Sanjit Debnath

34. Shravan Kumar

Planned Activities for 2017 – 2018

a. Member Recruitment Campaign (May, 2017)

During the first two weeks of May 2017, we will drive a campaign in

colleges of our city for member recruitment in order to increase the

member roaster of our SPIE Student Chapter.

b. Outreach Activities (June 2017 to December 2017)

Several outreach activities will be carried out through June 2017 to

December 2017. Some of the planned outreach activities are listed below.

1. Optics Lecture Series: The Optics Lecture Series will be designed to

give a brief introduction to fundamentals and applications of optical

technologies in day to day life to school level and undergraduate

students, we will impart six lectures different school and colleges of

Chandigarh.

2. Optical Fiber Workshops: We plan to give 3 optical fiber workshops

throughout the year. The hands-on training stripping and splicing

processes will be organised for different colleges.

3. Diffraction Workshops: In addition to the above workshops, we plan to

introduce secondary and pre‐college students to diffraction and other

related phenomena using the EDUKITs distributed for free by SPIE.

4. Workshops for School kids at National Science day: At National Science

day, we will give some optics workshops for kids, which will include the

EDUKIT activities.

c. Visiting Lecturer Program (November 2017)

We plan to hold one lecture by member of the Visiting Lecturer Program.

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d. On Campus Activities

1. Scientific Quiz and Photography Contest (September 2017)

We will carry out the Scientific Quiz and Photography Contest in both

categories: digital photography and printed photography

2. Optics Seminar Series (Every month)

We will organize an Optics Seminar Series which will take place every

month in this year where we will present some of the current research

done by members of our Student Chapter. These seminars will be open to

all researchers.

3. Hands on Training on Analytical Instruments: We will conduct sessions

for Hands on Training on Analytical Instruments of our Institue.