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Meet the New Student Chapters of 2005!
University College Dublin OSA Student Chapter
Location of Chapter: Dublin , Ireland
Month Chapter was approved by OSA: April 05
Number of members: 9
Chapter activities this year, if any: The inaugural society event was held in September 05 to Skirmish paintballing. We are hosting an invited speaker in December from Clemson University of South Carolina
Chapter goals for 2006: At the moment we are developing an outreach program for the chapter to encourage interest in optical sciences. We have two illustrious invited speakers lined up for early next year. Hope to have a chapter website running by the end of February promoting the groups activities. We aim to increase the groups presence at and participation in OSA events such as FIO. We look forward to hosting a variety of both social and academic events with UCD's SPIE chapter
Person submitting this response and officer title: Ciara Close, President 05
Chapter website, if any: None, but I promise there will be soon!
The photo is taken in front of the old Jameson beam engine - that's Jameson as in the famous whiskey. It's the centre piece of the engineering building. Appropriate, wouldn't you say?
Università Politecnica delle Marche Student Chapter of the
Optical Society of America
Location of Chapter: Ancona, Italy
Month Chapter was approved by OSA: August 2005
Number of members: 5 founders + 2 new members
Chapter activities this year, if any:
- Formal Foundation of the chapter with the Università Politecnica delle Marche Headmaster.
- Presentation of the chapter during lessons of optics, physics and electronics.
- Advertising and recruiting promotion with open labs days.
Chapter goals for 2006:
- First Italian Workshop for students, Phds and young researchers in optics and photonics.
- Optics and Photonics promotion days at the Università Politecnica delle Marche .
- Trip to the Institute of Optics of Paris - France
Person submitting this response and officer title: Matteo Gentili - Secretary
Chapter website, if any: Coming soon at http://www.univpm.it/associazioni/
Optical Society of America Student Chapter of the University of Notre Dame
Location of Chapter: Notre Dame, Indiana
Month Chapter was approved by OSA: March 2005
Number of members: 10
Chapter activities this year, if any:
- Recruited another 5 new members
- 5 student seminars
- 7 monthly chapter meetings
- South Bend local high school outreach program (collaborated with SPIE student chapter at Notre Dame)
- High School Outreach Program Competition in Great Lake SPIE Chapter, 2nd place prize ( Kent State University , OH )
- Co-sponsored 1 invited talk from Dr. Caulfield.
- Year-end celebration dinner
Chapter goals for 2006:
- Recruiting new members
- Monthly student seminar
- Monthly chapter meeting
- 3 invited talks from outsider speakers
- 1 company trip
- 2 outreach programs
- Chapter website construction
Person submitting this response and officer title: Di Liang, Chapter President
Chapter website, if any: www.nd.edu/~ndscosa (under construction)
Latvian Student Chapter of the Optical Society of America
Location of Chapter: University of Latvia , Riga
Month Chapter was approved by OSA: In approval process - December 2005
Number of members: 7
Chapter activities this year, if any:
- 14 th June. Harold J. Metcalf from USA gathered Latvian students in University of Latvia to suggest to make an OSA Student chapter. Temporal officers were elected in this meeting.
- 6 th October. First regular meeting. Aigars Atvars presented what OSA is. Then discussions about our interests in this chapter.
- 3rd November: Lecture "Search for Dark Matter by atomic physics methods" told by new researcher Dr. Frorian Gahbauer.
- 1st December. Lecture "Dye lasers" told by bachelor student Peteris Spels.
Chapter goals for 2006:
- To be accepted in OSA as student chapter.
- Have regular meetings- lectures once in a month.
- Together with SPIE Latvian student chapter ( http://www.spie.times.lv/ ) to organize a student conference.
- Make a chapter web page.
Person submitting this response and officer title: Aigars Atvars, chapter president
Chapter website, if any: no
MIT student chapter of OSA
Location of Chapter: Cambridge , MA
Month Chapter was approved by OSA: August 2005
Number of members: 16
Chapter activities this year, if any:
- Dupont Photonics Center field trip
- Retreat
Chapter goals for 2006: Create an active and energetic optics community in MIT
Person submitting this response and officer title: Fuwan Gan, president
Chapter website, if any: http://mit.edu/osa/
V. Karazin Kharkiv National University OSA Student Chapter
Location of Chapter: Kharkiv , Ukraine
Month Chapter was approved by OSA: KNU OSA Student Chapter was organized in November 2005 and is in process of being approved by OSA MES Council
Number of members: 8 - All of them are graduate students at the School of Radiophysics at V. Karazin Kharkiv National University .
Chapter activities this year, if any: N/A
Chapter goals for 2006: We have defined our goals and have several activities planned for the next year, including:
- Creating the Chapter's web-site
- Organizing an optic effects photo-contest for high school students
- Giving a number of public lectures for high school students and their teachers of Kharkiv region to awaken their interest to science and study
We also plan to organize a series of research and career development seminars for the Chapter members and general public.
We hope that these activities will increase the number of the Chapter members by the end of the year, will enhance future careers of the Chapter members, make educational and information resources of OSA accessible to the KNU students, and will help to better educate the public about science in general and optics in particular.
Chapter website, if any: no website
Person submitting this response and officer title: Nikolay A. Karyaka, Chapter's leader.
[On the photo from left to right: Sergey A. Radionov, Misha J. Vidil, Svetlana V. Boriskina(our Faculty Advisor), Maxime N. Legenkiy, Svetlana V. Pishko(The Secretary), Nikolay A. Karyaka(The President), Eugene V. Derevyanko(The Treasurer), Vladimir S. Kozlyakov(The Vice-President).
ICFO-OSA Student Chapter
Location of Chapter: Barcelona , Spain
Month Chapter was approved by OSA: 1 March 2005
Number of members: 18
Chapter activities this year (2005):
1.) ICFO-OSA Student Chapter Seminars 2005
Summary: All the members were invited to give presentations related to their own field of research activity. Thus, every month we have 2 such seminars among our chapter members. Invitation is send to non-members as well.
2.) Meeting with Professor Emil Wolf at ICFO
Summary: When Professor Emil Wolf visited Barcelona , ICFO-OSA Student Chapter took the lead in welcoming him at ICFO. The students had a long informal chat with him in Optics as well as other fields.
3.) Publicity campaign 2005
Summary: ICFO-OSA Student Chapter members took part in a campaign to get our chapter known to all the University students. We also talked about the importance of Optics in day to day life as well as its importance in the present industrial scenario. The management of our institute was impressed with our campaign and presented us with a funding of 500 USD.
4.) Recruitment drive 2005 for student chapter
Summary : ICFO-OSA Student Chapter members took part in a recruitment drive, among the Ph.D. students at ICFO, to explain the goals of our chapter and the advantages associated in being a member of our chapter. This resulted in 7 new members agreeing to join us in the coming year. Some Postdocs were also interested in the activities of the chapter and we happily placed them in our Board of Advisors.
Chapter goals for 2006:
- Student Chapter Seminars 2006
- Publicity campaign 2006
- OPTICS for High School students
- Interaction and Collaboration with the Industries related to Optics and Universities .
- Recruitment drive 2006 for University students.
Person submitting this response and officer title: Gajendra Pratap Singh, Secretary ICFO-OSA Student Chapter, Barcelona , Spain
Chapter website: http://osa.icfo.es
Taurida National V. Vernadsky University
Student Chapter of the Optical Society of America
Location of Chapter: Vernadsky av 4, Simferopol , Crimea, 95007, Ukraine
Month Chapter was approved by OSA: September 2005
Number of members: 6
(Izdyebs'ka Yana , Yevheniy Semuk , Nataliya V. Shostka, Aleksandr F. Rybas, Kirilo G. Kotlyariv)
Chapter activities this year, if any:
- ' 50 th Annual Meeting SPIE / Optics and Photonics' on 30 July - 06 August, 2005, San Diego , CA , USA ( Yana Idyebs'ka);
- ' 89 th OSA Annual Meeting/ Frontiers in Optics' on 16 - 21 October , 2005, Tucson , AZ , USA ( Yana Idyebs'ka);
- "Correlation Optics' 2005" on September 6-9, 2005, Chernivci , Ukraine // The analysis of the vertical and mode structure after the fiber (Kiril Kotlyarov);
- "Correlation Optics' 2005" on September 6-9, 2005, Chernivci, Ukraine //Evolution of the vortex core and the polarization state of the singular beams in crystals ( Aleksandr Rybas ).
- Organization the excursion for OSA members to r/d "Domain".
- Organization of Olympiad "Computer modeling-2005"and Photo-Exhibition "Optical vortices" on September 20-23, TNU, Crimea , Ukraine ;
Chapter goals for 2006:
- Organization of 6-nd Young Scientist Conference "Singular and Nonlinear Optics-2006" at Taurida National V. Vernadsky University (April, 2006);
- Organization of Olympiad "Computer modeling";
- host speakers;
- Awards for researches and travel grants;
- Photo-Exhibition "Optical vortices, caustics" on September, TNU, Crimea , Ukraine for next new SPIE members;
Participation in:
- SPIE Europe International Symposium Photonics Europe (3 - 7 April 2006, Strasbourg , France );
- CLEO/QELS 2006 Conference on Lasers & Electro-Optics/Quantum Electronics & Laser Science Conference Long Beach , CA (May, 2006);
- Slow and Fast Light OSA Headquarters, Washington , DC , USA (July 23 - 26 2006)
- "Frontiers in Optics", Rochester , NY , USA (October, 2006).
Person submitting this response and officer title: Yana Izdyebs'ka, president of TNU OSA Student Chapter
Chapter website, if any: Not yet
IFSC OSA Student Chapter
Location of Chapter: Instituto de Física de São Carlos at Universidade de São Paulo ( São Carlos /São Paulo/ Brazil )
Month Chapter was approved by OSA: October 2005
Number of members: 10 active members
Chapter activities this year, if any:
Chapter goals for 2006:
- Organization of the 1º School on Optics and Photonics . This school will be held at IFSC-USP, and the target public is graduate students and undergraduate students, not only from our university but also from other locations of Brazil . The school will have 5 hot topics related to the area of Optics and photonics, which will be given by professors of several universities.
- Organization of the event "Optics in the school". The target audience of this activity includes high school students of schools that do not have a large budget, and therefore, have no teaching laboratory of Physics. Within this activity we will be carrying out optics experiments aiming to seed on them scientific spirit.
Person submitting this response and officer title: Mr. Daniel Souza Corrêa, Current President of the IFSC OSA Student Chapter
Chapter website, if any: www.osa.ifsc.usp.br
New Chapters in 2005 Complete List
- Beijing Institute of Technology (BIT), Beijing, China (5 members)
- University of Sydney , Sydney , Australia (8 members)
- Institut de Ciencies Fotoniques (ICFO) - See Profile Listed Above!
- University of Notre Dame - See Profile Listed Above!
- Cornell University, Ithaca, NY (10 members)
- University College of Dublin - See Profile Listed Above!
- International School of Photonics of the Cochin University of Science and Technology, Cochin, India (9 members)
- Massachusetts Institute of Technology - See Profile Listed Above!
- Università Politecnica delle Marche - See Profile Listed Above!
- University of (USP) São Carlos , São Paulo , Brazil (7 members)
- Ukraine - Taurida National V. Vernadsky University - See Profile Listed Above!
- Germany - Max-Planck-Institut für Quantenoptik, Garching, Germany
- United States - University of Texas - Austin, Austin , Texas
- Russia - Saratov State University - Saratov , Russia
- Latvia - Latvian Student Chapter - See Profile Listed Above!
- Russia - V. Karazin Kharkiv National University OSA Student Chapter - See Profile Listed Above!
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