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University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign Student
Chapter Annual Report
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TABLE OF CONTENTS
1. Elected Officers .................................................................................................... 3
2. Chapter Members and Alumni Members ............................................................ 4
3. Chapter Activities: iOptics Seminar Series .......................................................... 5
4. Outreach Events .................................................................................................... 8
5. Future Plans ........................................................................................................ 13
6. Financial Summary ............................................................................................. 14
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1. Elected Officers
President: Shyamala Devi Malagari [email protected] (SPIE ID: 3521655)
Vice-President: Andrey Mironov, [email protected] (SPIE ID: 3494034)
Treasurer: Mikhail Eugene Kandel [email protected] (SPIE ID: 3634201)
Website: http://uiuc.osahost.org/
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2. Chapter Members and Alumni Members
a. Chapter Members:
1. Qing Ding
2. Daifeng Guo
3. Neeraj Kumar
4. Zhiyuan Lin
5. Carlos Renteria
6. Sarvagya Sharma
7. Homin Song
8. Yang Xu
9. Fredrick South
10. Yi Sun
11. Mikhail Eugene Kandel
12. Shyamala Devi Malagari
13. Qinglan Huang
14. Andrey Mironov
15. Chenfei Hu
16. Yue Zhou
b. Alumni Members:
1. Kent Choquette
2. Sarah Erickson-Bhatt
3. Shamira Sridharan
4. Santosh Tripathi
5. Renjie Zhou
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3. Chapter Activities: iOptics Seminar Series
In the Fall of 2016 and Spring 2017, our chapter has collaborated with the OSA chapter and the
IEEE photonics chapter to organize a bi-weekly seminar series. Every two weeks, we invite one
speaker to give a lecture about their research in a seminar series called “iOptics” (Illinois Optics).
The speaker are a faculty, postdoc, independent researchers or graduate student working in optics,
photonics, and biomedical imaging. iOptics was created with the goal of bringing together a
community of students, staff and faculty who share interests in the broad area of optics, including
nanophotonics, optical communication, optical imaging, and biophotonics. The iOptics seminars
happen during lunch and are open to anyone! On an average, about 25-50 people attend each
seminar. Details on the speakers of the iOptics are given below:
Fall 2016
1. September 7, 2016: Dr. Jim Jaques
Topic: Multispectral Laser Sources and their Applications
2. September 14, 2016: Prof. Sharon Weiss
Topic: Exploiting Light-Matter Interaction in Silicon Photonics for Biosensing”
3. September 23 2016: Prof. Scott Carney
Topic: Synthetic Optical Holography
4. October 7, 2016: Prof. Peter Dragic
Topic: Designer Optical Fibers: Its not just about the waveguide anymore.
5. October 21, 2016: Prof. Virginia Lorenz
Topic: Engineering photonic quantum states for quantum applications.
6. October 28, 2016: Prof. Douglas H Werner
Topic: Arbitrary Manipulation of Electromagnetic Waves: From Meta-atoms to Meta-
devices.
7. November 4, 2016: Dr. Renjie Zhou
Topic: Pushing the performance limits in quantitative phase imaging: higher
sensitivity, faster speed, and better resolution.
8. November 11, 2016: Stewart T. M. Fryslie
Topic: Modulation of Coherently-Coupled, Surface-Emitting Laser Arrays.
9. November 18, 2016: Prof. Tony Low
Topic: Strong light-matter interactions with 2D materials.
10. December 9, 2016: Prof. Levent Gürel
Topic: Solution of Extremely Large Forward and Inverse Problems in Computational
Electromagnetics: BIG DATA Aspects.
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Spring 2017
1. January 25 2017: Dr. Jinyang Liang
Topic: Advances in optical and photoacoustic coded-aperture imaging: visualizing
light-speed phenomena, listening to cellular dynamics and manipulating particles.
2. February 3, 2017: Prof. Gary Eden
Topic: Recent experiments in laser physics: Biomolecular Lasers, Spin polarized atoms
and Novel optical resonators.
3. March 7, 2017: Prof. Laura Marcu
Topic: Fluorescence Lifetime Techniques for Biomedical Applications
4. March 15, 2017: Prof. Liang Gao
Topic: Developing Next Generation Multidimensional Optical Imaging Devices
5. April 7, 2017: Prof. Seth Bank
Topic: New Materials for Photonics in the Mid-Infrared: From Lasers and Detectors to
Plasmonics and Metamaterials
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4. Chapter Outreach Events
There were primarily two outreach events we hosted during Spring-2016 and Fall-2017.
1. Science at the Market 2016
For the 7th year, the U of I is bringing "Science at the Market" on most Saturday mornings to the
Farmers Market at Lincoln Square mall in Urbana. The U of I and other experts will be on hand
with demonstrations illustrating the science they represent, and to answer questions from the public
about the researchers' discipline.
The SPIE student chapter volunteered to participate along with the IEEE Photonics and OSA
student chapters to demonstrate the SPIE outreach kits to children in the city of Urbana market
square on two occasions in Fall-2016 on July 2nd 2016 and September 24th 2016.
https://physics.illinois.edu/outreach/science-at-the-market/
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2. Beckman Institute Open House 2017
The SPIE chapter, IEEE Photonics society and OSA chapter of UIUC has jointly organized an
exhibition booth at the Engineering Open House on campus this year on March 10th to March
11th, 2017. We have shown optics demos to kids, give out small gifts to attendees and recruit new
members. So far, we have support of the Beckman Institute and resources (posters, kits and IYL
logos) from the SPIE, IEEE Photonics society and OSA. We also recruited many volunteers to
help us with this activity. Many young children and their parents who visited our booth enjoyed
viewing through SPIE outreach kits such as the reflection, refraction lenses, laser pointers and
others.
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3. SPIE Student Leadership Conference 2016.
One of the chapter member attended the SPIE student leadership conference in Fall-2016. It was
learning experience for our chapter and obtained insights of how to increase student chapter
activity. Also the conference focused on all aspects of the student chapter involvement such as
electing new students, organizing events, handling situations with committee members which
provided some helpful tips to avoid conflicts and support the primary objective of the student
chapter. It was a very useful networking event to interact and learn from other chapter officers.
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5. Future Plans
We plan to continue our previous year activities including iOptics seminars and outreach activities
and further plan to participate in the following events for the future.
1. Saturday Engineering For Everyone
In past 2015, our chapter are working with the ECE department at UIUC to organize the Saturday
Engineering for Everyone. The purpose of the talk is teaching kids and parents on science every
weekend. The SPIE chapter will bring nice optics demos for this outreach activities. The past year
we were unable to host during SEE event, in future we plan to organize which broad audience of
about 120 people has attended each. Breakfast is served with the event from funding of the ECE
department. We plan to engage in future SEE seminar events.
2. Engineering Open House (EOH)
The SPIE student chapter, IEEE Photonics society and OSA chapter of UIUC will join organize
an exhibition booth at the Engineering Open House on campus in the coming year in the month of
March 2018. We plan to recruited volunteers to help us with this activity.
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6. Financial Summary
We used funds from previous year which had a start balance of 480$. We collaborated our events
with other student chapters and below lists the expenses spent for different activities. Our ending
balance is currently 94.61$.
Summary Cash inflow total 385.39
Cash outflow total 385.39
Outstanding liability total 385.39
Net cash available 94.61
Date Details Cash
Inflow
Cash
Outflow
Outstanding
liability
Comments
10/7/2016 iOptics seminar pizza 41.93
41.93 SPIE funds available from previous year
Green Street, Champaign
41.93
Pay to: Hassan Majeed
10/21/2016 iOptics seminar pizza 36.49
36.49
Green Street, Champaign
36.49
Pay to: Hassan Majeed
10/28/2016 iOptics seminar pizza 72.38
72.38
Green Street, Champaign
72.38
Pay to: Shyamala Devi Malagari
11/18/2016 iOptics seminar pizza 61.66
61.66
Green Street, Champaign
61.66
Pay to: Shyamala Devi Malagari
12/9/2016 iOptics seminar pizza 77.0
77.0
Green Street, Champaign
77.0
Pay to: Zihe Gao
2/3/2017 iOptics seminar pizza 43.18
43.18
Green Street, Champaign
43.18
Pay to: Shyamala Devi Malagari
3/7/2017 Meeting with iOptics speaker
19.73
19.73
Beckman Institute, Champaign
19.73
Pay to: Zihe Gao
4/4/2017 Seminar supplies 4.98
4.98
ECEB supply store, Urbana
4.98
Pay to: Shyamala Devi Malagari
4/28/2017 Outreach supplies 28.04
28.04
Officemax, Champaign
28.04 Pay to: Shyamala Devi Malagari
