University  of  California,  Irvine  student  chapter  annual  report  2015  

1.  Names,  email  addresses,  and  Member  numbers  of  elected  Officers.  

Officer  position   Name   Email  address   Member  number  President   Alba  Alfonso  García   albaa@uci.edu   3503283  Vice  President   Rupsa  Datta   rupsad@uci.edu   3536404  Treasurer   Julie  Hsu   juliech@uci.edu   3554348  Secretary   Brian  Albee   balbee@uci.edu   3720609    

2.  List  of  current  Student  Chapter  Members  

1) Brian  Albee  2) Alba  Alfonso  García    3) Michael  Capistrano    4) Jaedu  Cho    5) Christian  Crouzet    6) Mahsa  Darvishzadeh  Varcheie    7) Rupsa  Datta    8) Goutham  Ganesan    9) Andrew  Heidari    10) Julie  Hsu  11) Junghoon  Jahng    12) Sun  Ae  Kim    13) Jessica  Kwong    14) Tiffany  Kwong    15) Buu  Lee    16) Alex  Luk    17) Joonwon  Min      18) Akshay  Paul    19) Zhonglie  Piao    20) Yueqiao  Qu    21) Faezeh  Tork  Ladani    22) Mehdi  Veysi    23) Robert  Warren    24) Monique  Wonderly    25) Jie  Zheng    

3.  Details  of  Chapter  activities  since  last  report.  

a. Describe  exactly  how  chapter  grant  funding  was  spent.  

In   the  beginning  of   the  academic   year   (October)  we  hosted   the  Welcome  Event  with  over  40  attendees,  and  spent  a  total  of  $198,  fro  OSA  funds.  

 On  November  20  we  hosted  the  7th  edition  of  our  annual  Art   in  Science  contest.  We  received  more  than  30  entries  from  student  in  multiple  departments  of  UCI.  We  spent  a  total  of  $180.00  on   this   event   for   printing   the   art,   food   and   drinks   for   the   reception,   and   for   advertisement  purposes.  The  Art  in  Science  was  funded  by  SPIE  and  OSA.  

 This  year  we  had  6  invited  speakers  for  our  seminar  series  Frontiers  in  Photonics.  On  October  we   invited  Dr.  Anita  Mahadevan-­‐Jansen   from  Vanderbilt  University   as  our   first   speaker  of   the  year.   She   also   participated   in   a   Women   in   Science   discussion   session.   Dr.   Steven   Jacques  (Professor,  Departments  of  Biomedical  Engineering  and  Dermatology,  Oregon  Health  &  Science  University)  was   our   SPIE   travelling   lecturer   and   visited   us   in   December.  We   have   also   hosted  highly  qualified  professionals  in  well-­‐established  optics/photonics  companies:  Mr.  James  Fisher,  VP  from  Newport  Corporation  and  Mr.  Silberman  from  Physik  Instrumente  (PI).  In  March  2015,  we  hosted  a  professional  development  seminar   lead  by  Dr.   Jean-­‐luc  Doumont,  and   in   June  we  had   our   6th   speaker   Dr.   V.   Ramanathan   (Department   of   Chemistry,   SASTRA   University,   Tamil  Nadu,  India).  We  have  spent  a  total  of  $1200  on  these  events.  Funds  came  from  SPIE,  OSA,  and  CaSTL  (the  UCI  center  for  Chemistry  at  the  Space-­‐time  Limit).  

Recently  we  hosted   the  Ensenada  student  chapter   for  a   site  visit  as  a  part  of  student  chapter  interaction  activity.  We  did  not  spend  any  funding  for  this  event.  

We  participated   in  a  number  of  outreach  activities  throughout  the  year.  This   includes  the  San  Diego  Festival  of  Science  and  Engineering.  This  was  our  3rd  year  at  the  festival.  Over  500  children  of  all  ages  and  students  visited  us.  We  handed  out  our  Spectrobox  kits,  and  our  Kaleidoscopes  were  also  a  huge  success:  children  of  all  ages  lined  up  to  build  their  own  color-­‐pattern  tube.  We  spent   $950   for   this   event.   Our   outreach   activities   also   included   Santa   Ana   AVID   visit   to   UCI,  participation  in  “Light  the  future”  which  is  a  community  outreach  event  at  OFC  2015,  and  other  local  outreach  events,  such  as  the  Beall  Center  Family  Days  at  UCI  and  the  “Engineer's  Week”  at  the  Discovery  Cube  of  Orange  County.  This  summer  for  the  first  time  we  participated   in  “Tech  Trek   Light   Lesson”   which   is   a   weeklong   summer   course   that   brings   gifted   and   often  disadvantaged  young  girls   to   local  universities   to   learn  about   STEM   fields.   110  girls  whom  we  also  handed  out  our  Spectrobox  kits  attended  this  event.  Funds  of  our  outreach  activities  come  from  SPIE,  OSA,  and  in  great  part  from  CaSTL.  

Finally,  we  hosted  the  Light  Symposium  to  celebrate  the  IYL.  This  was  a  two-­‐day  symposium  held  at   UCI.   We   spent   $7494   for   this   event.   Most   of   the   funds   were   raised   from   local   entities,  business  and  UCI  centers/departments.  OSA  and  SPIE  funs  were  also  used  for  this  purpose.  

SPIE  funds  of  $700  were  allocated  as  follows:  

• For  Art  in  Science  =  $50  • For  seminars  =  $250  • For  outreach  activities  =  $150  • For  IYL  special  event  =  $250  

 

 

 

Below  are  photos  from  some  from  the  events:  

 

Social  event:  Art  in  Science  contest,  Nov  2014  

   

Outreach  activity:  San  Diego  Festival  of  Science  and  Engineering,  March  2015  

 

Outreach  activity:  AVID  students  from  Santa  Ana  visit,  Jan  2015  

 

b. Were  these  activates  described  in  your  funding  request?  

Yes,  most  of  them  were  already  described  by  the  request  time.  

 

4.  Details  of  planned  activities  for  the  future.  

We  already  started  activities  for  this  year  with  our  Welcome  Event  which  was  held  in  October.  We  will  resume  the  Frontiers   in  Photonics  seminar  series  with  our  first   invited  speaker  Dr.  Bruce  S.   Itchkawitz  (from   Knobbe   Martens   Intellectual   Property   law)   in   November,   with   a   talk   entitled   “Protecting  Innovations  in  Photonics.”  We  have  a  list  of  speakers  whom  we  would  invite  for  our  seminar  of  the  year.  We   have   already   applied   for   the   OSA   travelling   lecturer   grant   and   will   apply   for   the   SPIE   traveling  lecturer  grant  soon.  The  8th  edition  of  Art  in  Science  has  been  planned  for  19thof  November  2015.    We  will  also  continue  with  our  outreach  activates   including  San  Diego  Festival  of  Science  and  Engineering,  March  2016,  Beall  Center  Family  Days  at  UCI  (24th  October  -­‐already  attended-­‐  and  April  2016),  and  Tech  Trek  Light.  Also,  we  will  have  a  chapter  officer  attend  the  SPIE   leadership  conference  at  the  Photonics  Europe  2016.  

5.    Financial  information.    

a.  Beginning  balance    

Our  chapter  account  balance  on  September  2014  was  $1763.  $700  from  SPIE  activity  grant  was  received  already.    

b.  Funds  raised  and  expended  (indicate  amounts  and  source/destination)      Funds  raised  for  2014-­‐15               Amount  ($)  SPIE  activity  grant                 700  OSA  Competition/Award               200  OSA  Professional  Development               500  OSA  Youth  Education                 500  OSA  IYL  education  outreach               500  OSA  Promotion  (IYL  symposium)             300  OSA  Professional  Development               750  OSA  Youth  Education                 500  CaSTL  (outreach)                 500  Horiba  (IYL  symposium)                 1000  UCI  Extension  (IYL  symposium)               500  UC  Irvine  Associated  Graduate  Student  fund  (IYL  symposium)       358            Total                     6308        

 Funds  expended                 Amount  ($)  UCI  Club  registration  2014               50  Welcome  Event  2014                 198  Art  in  Science  October  2014               180  San  Diego  festival  2015  +  other  outreach           1802  Frontiers  in  Photonics+Women  is  Science  (Mahadevan-­‐Jansen)       377  Frontiers  in  Photonics  (Dr.  Steven  Jacques)           80  Frontiers  in  Photonics  (Mr.  Fisher)             20  Frontiers  in  Photonics  (Mr.  Silberman)             20  Jean-­‐luc  Doumont  seminar                 760  Frontiers  in  Photonics  (Dr.  V.  Ramanathan)           20  IYL  light  symposium                 2408    Total                     5915  

 c.  Details  of  SPIE  funding  received      Over  the  past  year,  we  have  received  the  SPIE  Chapter  Activity  Grant  ($700)  and  the  Travelling  Lecturer  grant  that  covered  Dr.  Steven  Jacques  visit  to  UCI.    d.  Ending  balance      Our  balance  as  of  September  2015  was  $1439.