UCLA  SPIE  Student  Chapter  Annual  Report  2013-­‐2014  1  -­‐ Names,  email  addresses,  and  Member  numbers  of  elected  Officers  

Name   Email   Position   SPIE  Member  Number  

Claire  Chen   lchen@seas.ucla.edu   President   3408878  

Cejo  Lonappan   cejo@ucla.edu   Vice  President  

3451632    

Jacky  Chan   jckchan@ucla.edu   Treasurer   3554575    

Najva  Akbari   njakbari@ucla.edu   Secretary   3561066  

 

2  -­‐ List  of  current  Student  Chapter  Members.    Najva  Akbari    Jacky  Chan    Claire  Chen    Peter  T.  DeVore    Alborz  Feizi  Jing  Gao  James  Garritano    Alon  Greenbaum    Wei  Hu  Abde  Ali  Kagalwalla  John  Koulakis    Sarah  Logsdon    Cejo  Lonappan    Wei  Luo  Ata  Mahjoubfar    Adam  Scofield    Yang  Shen    Breann  Sitarski    Scott  Strutner    Shijun  Sung    Carlos  Torres    Navid  Vafaei-­‐Najafabadi    

3  -­‐ Details  of  Chapter  activities  since  last  report.      

• Seminar  by  George  Abe  from  Anderson  School  o October  4,  2013  o Topic:  Startups  and  Invention  Disclosures  In  Photonics  and  Optics  

   

• Seminar  by  James  Wyant  o October  17,  2013  

 

     

• Student  Chapter  Welcome  Night  Poster  Session  o October  17,  2013  o This  event  provided  new  students  with  a  welcoming  environment  and  was  a  good  

opportunity  to  advertise  SPIE  to  them.  

 

 

       

• Seminar  by  Phillip  Wyatt  o November  1,  2013  

 

 

• Explore  Your  Universe  2013  o November  17,  2013  o Here  we  showed  optics  demonstrations  to  ~  500  members  of  the  community.  

 

                                 

 

 

   

       

• Seminar  by  Megan  Frisk  o March  14,  2014  

   

   

   

• Banner  week  and  organizational  meeting  o January  29,  2014    

 

   

• Laser  Tag  o March  02,  2014  

     

• Industry  outreach  and  seminar  by  Donn  Silberman  o May  07,  2014  

   

   

     

   

• Seminar  by  Shouleh  Nikzad  o May  14,  2014  

   

 

• Social  mixer  with  gradSWE  (Society  of  Women  in  Engineering)  o May  29,  2014  

 More  pictures  can  be  seen  on  our  website  at  http://ucla.orgsync.com/org/osaspie/Pictures.  

3.1  -­‐ Describe  exactly  how  chapter  grant  funding  was  spent.  We  used  chapter  grant  funding  to  buy  snacks  and  drinks  for  seminars,  food  for  mixers  and  chapter  meetings,  parking  permits  for  seminar  presenters,  print  flyers  and  banners  for  advertisement  of  our  student  chapter  and  SPIE,  and  buy  optics  for  youth  outreach  program  demonstrations.    

3.2  -­‐ Were  these  activities  described  in  your  funding  request?  They  were  predicted  in  our  previous  funding  request.  

4  -­‐ Details  of  planned  activities  for  the  future.  To  keep  the  chapter  this  active,  we  plan  to  hold  various  activities  throughout  the  year  so  that  students  and  postdocs  at  UCLA  may  understand  how  important  SPIE  is  to  them.  We  will  continue  holding  seminars  about  optics  related  research  and  mention  at  each  seminar  your  support  which  makes  the  seminar  better  (e.g.,  drinks  and  snacks).  The  research  presented  will  keep  photonics  vibrant  and  keep  SPIE  a  very  important  and  relevant  organization  in  the  long  run.  We  will  also  hold  fun  activities  so  that  people  may  take  a  break  from  the  laboratory,  and  will  give  us  the  opportunity  to  explain  the  benefits  of  SPIE  in  a  relaxed  environment.  We  also  plan  to  hold  our  first  ever  Photonics  Career  Night,  during  which  students  and  postdocs  will  network  with  the  local  photonics  industry.  The  companies  will  benefit  from  finding  high-­‐quality  people  to  recruit  in  the  future,  and  the  students  and  postdocs  will  benefit  from  the  professionals’  great  advice  and  job  opportunities,  so  that  they  stay  in  the  photonics  industry  and  increase  the  number  of  future  SPIE  members.  

5  -­‐ Financial  information.  

5.1  -­‐ Beginning  balance  $2,584.78  

5.2  -­‐ Funds  raised  and  expended  (indicate  amounts  and  source/destination)  • Please  note  that:  

o negative  =  funds  raised  o positive  =  funds  expended  

 Date Event Name Amount Transaction partner

25-Sept-2013 OSA Check for Yearly Report -$100.00

OSA

18-Oct-2013 Food $60.87 UCLA hospital dining commons

18-Oct-2013 Food - Kickoff $430.50 Lamonicas NY Pizza 18-Oct-2013 Food - Visiting lecturer presentation $13.35 Diddy Riese Cookies 18-Oct-2013 Food - Kickoff $92.23 Sams Club 24-Oct-2013 Food - Cookies $20.00 Subway 17-Nov-2013 Food $69.52 Various shops 24-Jan-2014 OSA/SPIE visitor - Megan Frisk $105.00 OSA/SPIE 30-Jan-2014 OSA/SPIE Lunch meeting $123.62 OSA/SPIE 30-Jan-2014 OSA/SPIE Lunch Meeting $64.35 OSA/SPIE

5-Mar-2014 Laser Tag Dinner $203.00 Brat's Bros 5-Mar-2014 Laser Tag $399.70 Ultrazone 5-Mar-2014 Laser Tag Parking $7.00 Ultrazone

12-Mar-2014 OSA/SPIE membership reimbursement $40.00 Najva Akbari 21-Mar-2014 OSA/SPIE membership reimbursement $40.00 Jacky Chan 29-Apr-2014 OSA/SPIE visitor - Philip Wyatt (1-Nov-

2013) $24.65 Cafe Synapse

11-Jun-2014 UCLA Vernal Gala - food and drinks $500.31 Mrinal Rath, on behalf of eGSA

   

5.3  -­‐ Details  of  SPIE  funding  received  Pending    

5.4  -­‐ Other  sources  (please  specify)  29-Jul-2013 OSA Check for 2013 -$1,950.00 OSA

25-Sep-2013 OSA Check for Yearly Report -$100.00 OSA  

5.5  -­‐ Ending  balance  $490.68