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BGU SPIE Student Chapter annual report 2011-12
The chapter was established on 28 January 2011.
Website : https://sites.google.com/site/spiebgu/
E-mail : [email protected] Location : Be’er Sheva, Israel
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1 Elected officers details President Hadar Reisman [email protected] 3401778
Vice-President Miri Gelbaor [email protected] 3400901
Secretary Atef Shalabney [email protected] 3260507
Secretary Yitzhak August [email protected] 3436702
Treasurer Oleg Zalizniak [email protected] 3401818
Advisor Ibrahim Abdulhalim
2 Current Student Chapter Members 1) Yitzhak August 2) Dima Bykhovsky 3) Miri Gelbaor 4) Malchiel Haskel 5) Sivan Isaacs 6) Mohamad Jabalee 7) Hezi Joseph 8) Serge Karabchevsky 9) Michael Ney 10) Hadar Reisman 11) Itay Remer 12) Yair Rivenson 13) Avner Safrani 14) Atef Shalabney 15) Boris Shulga 16) Oleg Zalizniak 17) Moshe Zohar 18) Etai Rosenkrantz
3 Details of Chapter activities since last report March 2011-February 2012
3.1 March 08, 2011, Ilse Katz Institute for Nanoscale Science and Technology, BGU
Familiarity tour at Ilse Katz Institute labs, located at Ben-Gurion University. Number of participants – 10.
3.2 March 08, 2011, Lecture of Prof. Neil Collings, BGU Prof. Neil Collings from University of Cambridge, England, gave a lecture on "Liquid crystal spatial light modulators for holographic projection and telecomms switching". Number of participants – 17.
3.3 March 09-10, 2011, OASIS 2011, Tel – Aviv
The 13th Meeting on Optical Engineering and Science in Israel. The chapter’s members have participated in the poster session and oral presentaions. Number of participants – 11.
3.4 March 22, 2011 Hebrew Optics, Jerusalem
An academic and social event of the Israeli OSA chapter’s members and BGU SPIE student chapter members, organized by HUJI OSA Chapter. https://sites.google.com/site/hebrewoptics/ Number of participants – 11 people from our chapter out of 50 participants at the event.
3.5 April 10, 2011, Orbotech tour, Yavne
Academic tour at Orbotech. Orbotech designs, develops, manufactures, markets and services automated optical inspection (AOI) systems for bare PCBs, FPDs, and imaging solutions for PCB production. Number of participants – 11 people
3.6 May 16, 2011 Optics and Photonics day , BGU
10th Anniversary of the Electro optic Engineering Unit at BGU. http://in.bgu.ac.il/SiteAssets/Pages/events/photonics/Conference%20program-
updated-May01011.pdf Student session: Graduate students research in optics and photonics. Chairs: Mrs. Alina Karabchevsky, former President of BGU-SPIE Students Chapter, Mr. Yair
Revinson, President of BGU-OSA Chapter. The chapter’s memebers have participated in the poster session and oral presentation. Number of participants – 11 people from our chapter.
3.7 May 24, 2011 OSA-SPIE meeting, BGU Number of participants – 5 people from our chapter.
3.8 May 24, 2011 Lecture of Miri Gelbaor, BGU
The lecture "Photo alignment of nematic liquid crystals on nano-dimensional Chalcogenide films" was given by Miri Gelbaor, BGU SPIE chapter secretary, during chapter meeting. Number of participants – 7 people.
3.9 June 20, 2011, IKI (Ilse Katz Institute for Nanoscale Science and Technology) day, BGU
The chapter’s memebers have participated in the poster session. Number of participants – 10 people from our chapter.
3.10 June 27, 2011, Lecture of Prof. Kopeika, BGU
The lecture "Relatively inexpensive imaging at THz frequencies” was given by Prof. Kopeika, from the department of Electrical and Computer engineering, unit of Electro Optics engineering, during chapters meeting.
Number of participants – 7 people.
3.11 August 20-25, 2011 Optics and Photonics, San-Diego Alina Karbachevsky, our former president, represented our chapter at the student chapter leadership workshop.
3.12 October 11, 2011, EL-OP tour, Rehovot
Elbit Systems Electro-optics - Elop ("Elop") produces electro-optics (EO), from Laser and Thermal Imaging systems to Head-up Displays, through ISR (Intelligence, Surveillance, Reconnaissance) systems for space, airborne, naval and ground-based missions. http://www.elbitsystems.com/elbitmain/elop
Number of participants- 12.
3.13 November 10, 2011, Lecture of Prof. Raúl José Martín Palma, BGU
Prof. Raúl José Martín Palma, a professor of physics at the Universidad Autónoma de Madrid (Spain), out of the SPIE lecturer directory, gave us a lecture entitled: "Nanostructured porous silicon and photonics". A chapter meeting was held after that. Number of participants – 15 people
3.14 December 12, 2012, officer elections and a Chapter Meeting, BGU
Election results are shown in item (1). Number of participants – 9 people
3.15 January 11, 2012 Applied Materials tour, Rehovot
The tour included an introduction to Applied Materials, to new technologies developed at Applied Materials, followed by a tour in the clean room.
Number of participants- 15
3.16 January 25, 2012, A lecture by Etai Rosenkrantz, BGU
Etai Rosenkrants, OSA/SPIE member gave us an overview lecture about Surface Plasmons and Nanoparticles. Light breakfast was served.
Number of participants – 10 people
3.17 Februery 7, 2012 a lecture by Yitzhak August
Yitzhak August, A chapter member gave us a lecture about Synthetic Aperture Radar Principles with Applications. Light breakfast was served. Participants estimation – 10 people.
4 Activities plan for 2012
1. brainstorming meetings
The chapter members monthly meet to short seminar in one or more of the
research topics they deal with. These meeting are exploited for updates, for
sharing ideas and for future planes. Usually this meeting is held during light
breakfast and coffee.
2. Round table meetings
Chapter officers meet up to discuss upcoming activities, actual events,
coordination, and update their current actions.
3. exploring the galaxy
Organizing visits to some of the leader companies in optics industries. The
tours are planed to wide manifold of industries and to research institutes as
well. Some of the potential places that we plan to visit are detailed in the
table below:
Company Location Specialization area
KLA Tencor Migdal Haemek, Israel Inspection and meteorology
equipment to the
semiconductor industry
NOVA Israel Rehovot, Israel Metrology systems for process
control
Fibernet Yoqneam, Israel Integrated electro - optic
systems
Intel Israel Haifa, Israel R&D center of Intel Israel
National solar
energy center
Sede Boqer, Israel Research and educational labs
for solar energy generation
4. meet the experts
Researchers from the state and abroad, industrialists and specialists in the
optical sciences are invited to lectures and presentation to the chapter
members.
5. chapter campaign
To prompt the chapter in the university, marketing and recruitment day will
be held this year to expose new students to the chapter activities and
benefits.
6. all for one and one for all
Social day to all the chapter members will be organized to encourage the
relationships among the students and other colleagues. We set up this week-
end, where we encourage people to join this activity for talking while
enjoying self-prepared dinner and drink together.
5 Financial information
1) Beginning balance – 3087 ILS 2) Funds raised and expended (indicate amounts and source/destination) – no
additional funds received 3) Details of SPIE funding received – 3087 ILS 4) Other sources (please specify) – no other sources 5) Ending balance – 1173 ILS
