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SPIE Carleton University Chapter
December 1, 2013 Page 1
Student Chapter Reports
Department of Electronics, Carleton University
AP 332, 1125 Colonel By Drive, Ottawa, ON, Canada K1S 5B6
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Current Chapter Officers
President: Bryce Dorin ([email protected])
Vice President: Seyed Alireza Aleali
Secretary: Ryan Veenkamp
Treasurer: Yule Xiong
Advisor: Winnie Ye
Carleton Univ. Chapter’s activities since last report
1. Leadership Development
Laser World of Photonics 2013, Munich, Germany
May 12, 2013
Summary: The chapter made use of its travel grant by sending Bryce Dorin to the SPIE
Leadership Workshop held in conjunction with Laser World of Photonics 2013. The workshops
run by Dirk Fabian and Jean-luc Dumont taught leadership and communication skills. They also
gave advice for recruiting new members.
Bryce attended many of the social events organized by SPIE and by the other chapter
executives present. He was able to develop relationships with SPIE chapters around the world,
and gain some industry contacts after attending the “Getting Hired” advice panel.
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2. Campus Light Outreach
Carleton University, Ottawa, ON, Canada
July 12, July 17, July 19 2013
Presenters: Winnie Ye, Scott Newman, Ryan Veenkamp, Juan Heredia, Ali Alireza, and Bryce
Dorin
Summary: For the second year in a row the Carleton SPIE Chapter gave presentations for Shad
Valley and Virtual Adventures, which are high school summer camps at the university. Our
presentations included fun experiments making use of polarizers, diffraction gratings,
waveguiding, solar cells, and other interesting optics. We had a wide variety of experiments
which allowed us to tailor the presentation to the age group. We hope that these
demonstrations inspire students to pursue optics when they reach the university level.
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3. Recruiting Khet Tournament
Carleton University, Ottawa, ON, Canada
June 12, 2013
Summary: The chapter organized a Khet tournament to bring in new potential members. The
event was held in the evening at a campus bar. To make the event more attractive, the chapter
bought a 7’’ tablet as the grand prize. The tournament ran well, and was chance for the SPIE
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members to relax together outside of the work environment and meet other potential
members. Next year we hope to advertise more heavily and bring in more students from
outside the chapter.
4. SPIE trip to Rochester
Rochester, NY, USA
Rochester Precision Optics, Toptica, and the University of Rochester
July 30th – 31st, 2013
Summary: Bryce Dorin, Ian Smith, Juan Heredia, Ryan Veenkamp, Scott Newman, and Yule
Xiong teamed up with the University of Ottawa SPIE members Brett Smith, Majid Naji and Fanqi
Kong on a trip to Rochester, NY. The goal of the trip was the develop relationships with
industry and academia in this optics hub. The group drove down in three separate vehicles.
After meeting Matthew Pembroke at Laser World of Photonics 2013, Bryce and Brett were able
to organize a tour of Rochester Precision Optics on July 30th, where the group was exposed to
the process of making precision lenses. A tour of Toptica was organized for the same day,
where we learned some theory on ultrafast fiber lasers, and saw some examples and
demonstrations of the technology.
On the evening of July 30th, the group met with the University of Rochester SPIE chapter for
dinner and a short tour of Rochester. The next day our tour group was shown around many
labs in the Institute of Optics at the University of Rochester. Our SPIE chapter saw a variety of
interesting projects, from quantum optics to laser vision correct during the tour. After lunch
the group then drove home.
Both Ottawa SPIE chapters feel the trip was a huge success and hope to do something similar in 2014.
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5. Paper Review Sessions
Carleton University, Ottawa, ON, Canada
Bi-weekly, 2013
Summary: As a group we noticed that it is easy for one to get too absorbed in his or her specific
research project, and forget about the huge variety of work there is being done in optics. That is what
inspired the bi-weekly weekly paper review sessions held in a room on campus. One student is selected
for each meeting to pick a journal paper in a subject area they find interesting but are not working in.
They then send the paper out to the group a few days before so everyone has a chance to read it. In the
meeting we then discuss normal SPIE activities at the beginning, but also spend 30 minutes or so going
over everyone’s thoughts on the paper. We try to explain points some people found confusing, and talk
about why this research is important. The group has enjoyed these very much, and as researchers we
feel more in touch with optics as a whole.
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6. Ottawa IONS Conference
The University of Ottawa, Ottawa, ON, Canada
May 31st – June 2nd, 2013
Summary: The Carleton SPIE chapter helped organize the IONS conference held at the University of
Ottawa. Using our visiting lecturer grant, we arranged for Eustace L. Derniak to speak at the conference.
SPIE member Yule Xiong also gave a presentation at the conference on his work with polarization
rotators. As well, our SPIE chapter dealt with the Faculty of Engineering at Carleton University and
convinced them to sponsor some of the events.
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Future activities plan:
1. Participation in SPIE conferences.
2. Hosting a SPIE FOCUS conference.
3. To prepare to invite professors and experts in photonics to make lectures in Carleton
University.
4. To organize several group lectures on photonics during our meetings
5. To cooperate with other SPIE chapters around the world, and to cooperate with OSA chapter
in Ottawa.
Conclusion
During the past year, we have collected experience through organizing events and lectures. In
January we will elect new officers, who hope to continue the work we started this year. We
hope to grow our chapter considerably.
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Current list of members
Name Expires
Alireza Aleali 1 December 2014
Katherine Bock 29 January 2014
Shuyu Ding 10 December 2014
Bryce Dorin 5 July 2014
Juan Heredia 1 July 2014
Deepak Kaushal 22 January 2014
Owen Marsh 13 November 2014
Ian Smith 2 July 2014
Yao Sun 20 November 2014
Ryan Veenkamp 16 January 2014
Yule Xiong 14 November 2014