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Stanford University Student SPIE Chapter Annual Report
February 2013 – January 2014
Officers
Co-President Cathy Jan, [email protected], 3457302 Co-President Matthew Lew, [email protected], 3099623 Treasurer Stephen Wolf, [email protected], 3499730 Secretary Saara Khan, [email protected], 3525410 Outreach Co-Chair Nikolas Tezak, [email protected], 3455567 Outreach Co-Chair Marina Radulaski, [email protected], 3523598 Membership Chair Ilker Karakasoglu, [email protected], 3524256
Retreat Chair Jessica Piper, [email protected], 3420715
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Table of Contents
Chapter Programming Recruitment / Social Events
Tech Museum After Hours ...................................................................................................... 3 Summer Events ........................................................................................................................ 4 Recruitment Pizza Party .......................................................................................................... 5 Laser Tag .................................................................................................................................. 6 Jasper Ridge Walking Tour ...................................................................................................... 7
Technical Events / Professional Development Seminar Series ......................................................................................................................... 8 Newport Event ......................................................................................................................... 9 Young Professionals Networking Event ................................................................................. 10
Outreach Grant Writing Workshop ....................................................................................................... 11 Holography with RISE ............................................................................................................ 12 Girls Day ................................................................................................................................. 13 Stanford Splash ...................................................................................................................... 14 Bay Area Science Festival ...................................................................................................... 15 Bay Area Maker Faire ............................................................................................................ 16
Special Events Stanford University Photonics Retreat .................................................................................. 18 Elections ................................................................................................................................ 21 Exploratorium After Dark with Berkeley Photobears............................................................ 22
Appendices
Finances .................................................................................................................................... 23 Member Roster ......................................................................................................................... 24 Alumni Member Roster............................................................................................................. 26
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Tech Museum After Hours
The Tech Museum of Innovation San Jose, CA
February 7, 2013 20 participants
We organized a trip to the San Jose Tech Museum’s After Hours event to give our members a chance to get off campus and get to know one another in a different environment.
Our members enjoying a night out at the San Jose Tech Museum!
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Summer Events
Stanford, CA July 18, July 26, August 9, August 23, September 20, 2013
100 participants
We kicked off our slate of summer events with a BBQ July 18. The BBQ served many functions for our student chapter: we recruited new graduate students who had just arrived on campus, we announced our line-up of summer happy hours, and attendees of SUPR got a chance to reconnect with one another. About 50 people attended. Since SUPR attendees spanned nine departments and three schools, many of them don’t see each other on a regular basis. Our BBQ was followed by three biweekly happy hours that took place on July 26, August 9, and August 23. The locations of these events rotated between the Applied Physics, Electrical Engineering, and Chemistry buildings, in hopes of attracting new members to our chapter from those departments. Each happy hour had about 30 attendees. Finally, we advertised our last event of the summer, a pizza party, at various New Graduate Student Orientation and department orientation events as a means of growing our ranks. As a result, we were able to attract some new graduate students. The pizza party was held in front of the Applied Physics building on September 20, and about 40 people attended. We believe that by providing relaxed gatherings for our members, we are both promoting cohesiveness in our chapter and encouraging collaborations that stem from natural conversation.
BBQ on a beautiful summer day! Recruiting our newest generation of members!
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Recruitment Pizza Party
Stanford University Stanford, CA
October 16, 2013 100 participants
We hosted a pizza party in October to kick-off the academic year, recruit new members, and promote our new Facebook page. Our goal was to strengthen our chapter’s presence among Stanford’s science and engineering community, as new groups are constantly forming. This was a great success, as we had over 100 attendees and our first pizza order was completely polished off within ten minutes! We held a raffle to encourage people to “Like” our Facebook page, and we gained over thirty new sign-ups to our mailing list.
Pizza, making friends, and recruiting new members!
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Laser Tag
Laser Quest Mountain View, CA
October 20, 2013 9 participants
We delved into a different application of optics and lasers with a trip to Laser Quest! The nine participants formed one team and played two games against other clients. Those who participated had a great time and upon running into each other for months afterward, would go “pew pew pew!” and pretend like they were back in the arena.
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Jasper Ridge Hike
Jasper Ridge Biological Preserve Stanford, CA
November 10, 2013 25 participants
Hiking the Jasper Ridge Biological Preserve was a great way for our attendees to get outside and off campus! We had a private, docent-led tour through the preserve that emphasized Jasper Ridge’s ecosystem. In addition to graduate students, the hike also drew several professors! We are already planning on another trip in the spring for the wildflower tour.
Stanford Optical Society members after a three mile hike around Jasper Ridge.
Chatting with the docent.
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Seminar Series
Stanford University Stanford, CA
40 participants at each seminar
The Speaker Committee organizes a variety of technical talks for the optics community. Most seminars are held on campus in the Science and Engineering Quad. We try to invite speakers from a mix of academia, industry, and national labs. In the winter quarter of 2014, our chapter has the honor of organizing the Applied Physics Optics and Electronics Seminar. These seminars take place every Monday at 4:15 PM. For talk summaries and a list of future seminars, please see our website at http://photons.stanford.edu/seminars.
Time/Place
Speaker (Institution)
Title
February 20, 2013 Spilker 232
Prof. Alexandra Boltasseva (Purdue)
Plasmonic Metamaterials: Beyond Noble Metals
February 28, 2013 Spilker 232
Prof. Connie J. Chang-Hasnain (UC Berkeley)
Flat Photonics Using High Contrast Metastructures
March 6, 2013 Spilker 218
Dr. Steve Eglash (Stanford) Photonics Pioneers Luncheon
May 1, 2013 Huang 305
Tim Pearce (KJ Lesker) OLEDs and KJ Lesker Thin Film Deposition Systems
October 15, 2013 Astrophysics 102/103
Prof. Eli Yablonovitch (UC Berkeley)
Optical Antennas: Spontaneous Emission Faster Than Stimulated Emission
November 7, 2013 Spilker 232
Dr. Dave Welch (Infinera) The Intelligent Transport Network: Photonic ICs to SDN
November 14, 2013 Thornton 102
Dr. Mike Wiemer (Solar Junction)
Solar Junction's III-V Multi-Junction Solar Cell Technology
January 13, 2014 Spilker 232
Prof. Yuen-Ron Shen (UC Berkeley)
Chiral Nonlinear Spectroscopy
January 27, 2014 Spilker 232
Prof. Hans Zappe (University of Freiburg)
Optofluidics for Free-Space and Guided-Wave Optics
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Newport Special Seminar: Structural Stability of Optical Experiments
Stanford University
Stanford, CA November 20, 2013
40 participants
James Fisher, Vice President of Newport’s Optical Components and Vibration Control Business, came to Stanford and led a discussion about structural issues relating to optical experiments. Over lunch, he provided a quick overview then offered some best practices on how to maximize stability. His presentation drew a diverse crowd of 40 attendees, spanning the range of students, postdocs, and researchers on campus. Fisher’s bio: James Fisher is currently the Vice President of Newport’s Optical Components and Vibration Control Business with headquarters in Irvine, California. Prior to his current role James led various technical, sales and marketing groups within Newport and launched a number of new product platforms and patented products including the actively damped SmartTable, Vision Isostation workstation and M1 family of mirror mounts. James earned a Bachelor’s degree in engineering from the University of Illinois-Urbana and his MBA from the University of Southern California.
James Fisher, Newport
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Young Professionals Networking Event
Stanford University
Stanford, CA December 12, 2013
20 participants
We invited two young optics professionals in the Bay Area to join us for dinner and talk about their post graduate school experiences. Our guests of honor were Rebecca Schaevitz (Stanford PhD, Corning) and Brendan Kayes (CalTech PhD, Avogy). The evening started with a reception where all of the attendees socialized in a large group, and then we split them into two tables for dinner, one invited guest at each table. Halfway through the meal, the guests switched tables. Feedback from one graduate student attendee: “I found the event to be extremely helpful and would love to attend more of them! People who have already navigated this path give great advice. Also,
meeting them provides a window to what we can expect in the world outside.”
We received a lot of other positive feedback from the attendees both this year and when we hosted a similar event in 2012, so we plan on repeating it in the winter and summer quarters.
Attendees mingle over snacks. Brendan Kayes shares his experiences.
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Grant Writing Workshop
Stanford University
Stanford, CA February 28, 2013
60 participants
After receiving lots of positive feedback in previous years, we held another grant writing workshop catered towards middle and high school science teachers. The workshop was led by Ann Shioji, a local high school biology teacher. Per the event’s advertisement, the workshop “is intended for the teacher who is new to grant writing. Subjects covered include: how to keep an eye out for interesting grants, a quick overview of the grant process, anatomy of a typical grant, how to find information on your school's breakdown, and pointers from a grant recipient. The last part of the session will include outlining our typical grant and how to make your grant appealing for committees. A grant graphic organizer will be included!” About 60 teachers attended. The evening began with a light dinner, and then the workshop itself lasted for about an hour. We were not able to accommodate all of the people who were interested, so we’ll be hosting another workshop this year!
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Holography Class with RISE Interns
Stanford University Stanford, CA July 31, 2013
20 participants
This past spring, we designed a brand new holography class to teach at our outreach activities, based on holography. We test drove the lesson plan with a group of high school interns on campus participating in a program called Raising Interest in Science and Engineering (RISE). The students were asked ahead of time to bring a small object to be the motif of their holograms. The class started with a high-level explanation of light, waves, interference, photography, and holography. Then in small groups, students entered a makeshift dark exposure room to develop their holograms, which they got to keep. For this class, we purchased two Litiholo holography kits, which include a laser, chemicals, and plates to make 20 holograms. When the plates run out, we will purchase new ones and continue using the rest of the kit.
Litiholo holography kit
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Girls Day
Boys and Girls Club of the Peninsula Redwood City, CA
March 9, 2013 90 participants
The Boys and Girls Club of the Peninsula hosted this event for 11-14 year old girls in the area. We held three 45 minute workshops with 30 participants in each. We brought a slew of hands-on activities, including jello waveguides, polarizers, mirrors, lenses, and the miragescope.
Interactive optics demonstrations for pre-teen girls.
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Stanford Splash
Stanford University Stanford, CA
November 3, 2013 45 participants
Splash is a semiannual event held on Stanford’s campus in November and in May. Students, staff, and local community members design and teach short workshops on topics of their choice to middle and high school students. In the past, we’ve taught a workshop called “Fun with Photonics” that serves as an introduction to basic optics concepts such as fluorescence, waveguides, and polarization. This year, we taught a workshop we developed over the summer called “Make Your Own Hologram.” Each class was one hour and 45 minutes long. Half of the class was geared towards encouraging interest in optics while instilling an understanding of its fundamental principles. We do this through a combination of basic physics with examples of everyday applications. Topics covered include waveguides, Snell’s Law, polarization, color, and fluorescence. The latter half of the class was spent giving a big picture overview of holography, and then the students had a chance to make their own hologram to take home. Each of our workshops had 15 attendees. We already had two holography kits from the RISE class taught over the summer, but we purchased three more to speed up the process. For more information about Splash, see http://www.stanfordesp.org/.
The Splash crew Holography kits in action!
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Bay Area Science Festival: Discovery Days at AT&T Park
AT&T Park
San Francisco, CA November 2, 2013 20,000 participants
Once again, we participated in the Bay Area Science Festival’s (BASF) Discovery Days event. This took place in AT&T Park, home of the San Francisco Giants. We brought a variety of fun optics demonstrations suitable for large crowds, and the total attendance of the event was around 20,000 people. In addition to our homemade laser harp, we also brought materials to show the concepts of waveguides, Snell’s Law, polarization, color, and fluorescence. More information about the BASF can be found at http://www.bayareascience.org/.
Wowing the crowds with the laser harp. Fun with polarizers!
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Bay Area Maker Faire
San Mateo County Fairgrounds San Mateo, CA
May 18-19, 2013 150,000 participants
For the third year, we hosted a booth at the Bay Area Maker Faire, a weekend-long affair to “celebrate arts, crafts, engineering, science projects, and the Do-It-Yourself (DIY) mindset.” Our booth was titled “Laser Craze” and contained four separate sections: the laser maze, laser Etch-a-Sketch, persistence of vision, and our newest demo, the laser harp. The laser maze is modeled after the laser protection systems seen in many movies, including Ocean’s Twelve. Usually a valuable item is placed in the center of it, so anyone wanting to reach the item after the maze is turned on must flip and contort through the laser beams without breaking them. We had a fog machine to illuminate the beams, and played music while the attendees made their way through the maze. If a beam was broken, the music changed into a buzzer. The laser Etch-a-Sketch is based on the popular children’s toy. Attendees burn patterns into paper with the laser, often drawing pictures or writing messages. The system has a safety viewing window. We also had some LED wands onto which we uploaded different images. When the wands were waved rapidly back and forth, the images were displayed, showing persistence of vision. Lastly, we had our laser harp, which has laser “strings” spanning an octave. It is “played” by breaking the laser beam. While some participants enjoyed playing random notes, we also had some serious musical talent in the audience! Beethoven’s Ode to Joy was especially a favorite. Over the course of the weekend, this event drew around 150,000 participants, making it our largest outreach event. Photos from the Faire and all of the demos mentioned can be found here: http://photons.stanford.edu/media/photos?albumid=5880293714315982673
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Laser Etch-a-Sketch Laser Maze
Persistence of Vision Wand Laser Harp
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Stanford University Photonics Retreat
Doubletree Hotel Sonoma Wine Country Rohnert Park, CA April 12-14, 2013 75 participants
The 2013 Stanford University Photonics Retreat (SUPR), affectionately nicknamed SUPR 5, was again a great success! The weekend event, organized by a student committee, united roughly 75 participants representing the diverse photonics community at Stanford and beyond: graduate students, postdoctoral researchers, invited speakers and faculty guests. The Stanford academic participants spanned nine separate departments in three schools, representing 21 different research groups. The retreat was held in April at the DoubleTree Hotel in Sonoma, California. We kicked off the program on Friday night with a welcome reception and dinner to allow the diverse group of attendees to meet one another. Our first keynote speaker was Dr. David Blake, senior research scientist at NASA and principle investigator of the Curiosity Rover’s CheMin instrument. The evening ended with a rousing
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team trivia competition, which helped participants “break the ice” and get to know each other in a fun environment. Saturday morning began with a breakfast and two of our invited faculty speakers, Professor Leo Hollberg from Physics and Professor Jennifer Dionne from Materials Science. After a short break, we were treated to a workshop by Chris Golde, Stanford’s Associate Vice Provost, titled “Making the Most of Your PhD.” Then attendees were given the afternoon to socialize and 30 of them joined an organized tour of the Sebastiani and Gundlach Bundschu Wineries. During dinner, our second keynote speaker, Professor Arthur Bienenstock, regaled us with tales of his stint as Special Assistant to the President for Federal Research Policy. This was followed by a panel discussion titled “Forces Shaping the Future of Optics,” which allowed four panelists representing Corning, NIST, the government, and IFOS to discuss their views on the direction of optics research. The evening ended with a mixer to allow attendees to talk one-on-one with the panelists and other presenters. Our final day began once again with breakfast and two invited faculty speakers, Professor Manish Butte from the School of Medicine and Professor Jim Harris from Electrical Engineering. We then had our second student poster session, ate lunch, awarded prizes to the best student posters, and gave closing remarks. With the Stanford optics community spread across so many disciplines, we feel that SUPR is an invaluable experience that fosters collaboration amongst the diverse group of researchers working on optics at Stanford. We are already looking forward to our sixth annual retreat, to be held April 4-6, 2014 at the Marconi Conference Center in Marshall, California.
The attendees of SUPR 5.
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Clockwise from upper left: The winning trivia team with their poster prizes; Dr. Chris Golde leads a workshop on “Making the Most of your PhD”; keynote speaker Professor Arthur Bienenstock talks about his work in science policy; “Forces Shaping the Future of Light” panelists; Corning’s Jim Renfro speaks to students during an evening mixer; enjoying a glass of wine at Sebastiani Winery.
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Elections
Stanford University Stanford, CA May 9, 2013
30 participants
We held elections for the 2013-2014 Executive Board. A pizza lunch was provided.
2013-2014 Executive Planning Team
President (SPIE Affairs): Cathy Jan (Solgaard Group) President (OSA Affairs): Matthew Lew (Moerner Group) SUPR Chair: Jessica Piper (Fan Group) Secretary: Saara Khan (Ellerbee Group) Treasurer: Stephen Wolf (Byer Group) Webmaster: Andre Esteva (Dionne Group) Membership Co-Chairs: Alex Diezmann (Mabuchi Group) and Ilker Karakasoglu (Fan Group) Outreach Co-Chairs: Marina Radulaski (Vuckovic Group) and Nikolas Tezak (Mabuchi Group) Speaker Chair: Farzaneh Afshinmanesh (Brongersma Group)
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Exploratorium After Dark: Freestyle
Exploratorium
San Francisco, CA August 1, 2013 20 participants
Together with the Berkeley Photobears, we organized a trip to the Exploratorium’s evening program called After Dark. The theme for the one we attended was “Freestyle,” which featured a special lineup of exhibits focused around improvisation, in addition to the regular displays. We enjoyed the Photobears’ company while meandering through the exhibits together.
Members of the Stanford and Berkeley OSA / SPIE Student Chapters
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Finances
Chapter Expenses Brochures -$115.00
Board meeting food -$117.00
SUPR venue visit -$92.35 Membership Events
Tech Museum After Hours -$90.00
Mixer -$330.00
Summer BBQ -$459.55
Exploratorium After Dark -$214.00
Laser tag -$300.00
Mixer -$186.40 Outreach
Miscellaneous supplies -$6.30
Holography setup -$131.98
Grant Writing Workshop -$511.43
Laser harp -$335.63
Laser maze -$747.91
Maker Faire -$729.36
Photocontest prizes -$897.16 Seminars
Total -$374.78
Deposits OSA Activity Grants $1,950.00
SPIE Activity Grant $1,700.00
Starting balance $7787.02
Net expenses -$5639.10
Net inflow $3650.00
Ending balance $5,797.92
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Member Roster Name
Membership Expiration Date
Christy Amwake 9 February 2014
Sercan Arik 2 February 2014
Ross Audet 3 June 2014
Adam Backer 20 February 2014
Andrew Ceballos 4 March 2014
Robert Chen 1 March 2014
Jang-Hwan Choi 30 January 2014
Colin Comerci 28 February 2014
Tim Cronin 22 February 2014
Sage Doshay 6 October 2014
Anna Evans 21 February 2014
Kevin Fischer 26 November 2014
Kirk Ingold 14 October 2014
Cathy Jan 13 February 2014
Ilker Karakasoglu 28 February 2014
Yousif Kelaita 21 February 2014
Saara Khan 28 February 2014
Sandra Kjono 4 February 2015
Lana Lau 4 February 2014
Hee Yoon Lee 7 January 2015
Marissa Lee 16 January 2015
Matthew Lew 4 December 2014
Yanying Li 28 February 2014
Orly Liba 13 December 2014
Steven Madsen 21 February 2014
Jessica Piper 4 January 2015
Marina Radulaski 2 February 2014
Hardeep Sanghera 12 February 2014
Victoria Savikhin 17 February 2014
Salil Soman 1 December 2014
Ray Sun 22 February 2014
Emel Tasyurek 5 January 2015
Nikolas Tezak 7 February 2014
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Quan Wang 15 January 2015
Stephen Wolf 26 September 2014
Jiafan Yu 19 February 2014
Kai Zang 4 March 2014
Livia Zarnescu 12 February 2015
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Alumni Member Roster Name
Graduation Date
Dirk Englund (not available)
Peter Catrysse (not available)
Michelle Povinelli (not available)
Rostislav Roussev January 2007
Hatice Altug January 2010
Chih-Wei Lai May 2004
Yuzuru Takashima June 2007
Yang Wang September 2007
Jan Bogdanski April 2009
Andrei Faraon September 2009
Paulina Kuo September 2008
Ragip Pala September 2010
Yannis Paulus June 2009
Xiaobo Yin September 2008
Young Chul Jun January 2011
Gennady Medvedkin December 2006
David Schoen September 2010
Thomas O'Sullivan January 2011
Christopher Sramek June 2010
Sarah Bohndiek August 2013
Jie Li August 2006
Wibool Piyawattanametha September 2004
Lieven Verslegers January 2012
Tom Hausken November 1990
Steven Lansel September 2011
Charles Rudy September 2013
Adam Wang April 2012