NITT-SPIE STUDENT CHAPTER of chapter members -29 (as on 1 March 2011) • Hasina Abdul Hakkim • Renganathan Balusamy • Sivasankari Chandran • Subramanian Ganapthi • Jayalakshmi

ANNUAL REPORT

JAN 2010 to DEC 2010

NITT-SPIE STUDENT CHAPTER

Department of Physics

NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY

TIRUCHIRAPPALLI

TAMILNADU

INDIA

Email: [email protected]

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Outline of the Report

• Chapter leaders and advisor - 2010• Office bearers and advisor - 2011• List of current chapter members• Scholar talk• Special lecture• Guest lectures• SPIE Visiting lecture program• Scientific visit• Leadership meet• Services of the members

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Dillibabu SastikumarFaculty [email protected]

Mr. Renganathan BalusamyPresident

[email protected]

Mr. Jegatheesan PeriyannanVice-President

[email protected]

Mr. Prabhakaran ThandapaniTreasurer

[email protected]

Mr. Arun ThirumuruganSecretary

[email protected]

Office bearers of 2010

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New office bearers of 2011

Mr. Jegatheesan [email protected]

Mr. Prabhakaran [email protected]

Mr. Prakash [email protected]

Dillibabu SastikumarFaculty [email protected]

Mr. Pandiarajan [email protected]

Mr. Gowrishankar [email protected]

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List of chapter members -29 (as on 1 March 2011)

• Hasina Abdul Hakkim

• Renganathan Balusamy

• Sivasankari Chandran

• Subramanian Ganapthi

• Jayalakshmi Gurusamy

• Nithya Devi J

• Nasiha Jaheer Hussain

• Udaya Kumar K.

• N. Sudharasana K. Nagaray

• C. Kanagaraj

• Krishna Kumar Krishnamurthy

• Balakrishnan Lakshmi Narayanan

• Shobin Loukkose Rosemary

• Anand Mishra

• R. Pandiyarajan

• Jegatheesan Periyannan

• K. Prakash

• Talakonda Prasada Rao

• Nabeel Rashin

• Michael Ruby Raj

• Bhuvaneswari Sakthivel

• Michael Shanthi

• Gokulraj Srinivasan

• Gowrishankar Subramaniam

• Lakshmi Suresh

• Prabhakaran Thandapani

• Arun Thirumurugan

• Beatrice Valdaris

• Kotharu Venkateswarlu

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MMM OCT 2010

Invitation prepared for MMM October 20106

Mr. K. Venkateswarlu ResearchScholar giving lecture on“Internet Hacking: Security”

Mrs. M.S.L. Shanthi, formervice-president of our chapter,presenting certificate andmemento to the speaker

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Special Lecture

Special lecture delivered byProf. M. Lakshmanan from CNLD,Bharathidasan University on “NonlinearElectronic Circuits”

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Guest lecture – 25th Oct 2010

Invitation send to Mr.Shariff S.M. for guest lectureon “Recent Trends in Laser Materials Processing inIndustry”

Photograph of Mr. Shariff S.M.Scientist DCenter for Laser Processing ARCIHyderabad, India

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SPIE - Invited lectures - 22 &23 Dec 2010

Invitation of the invitedlecture program

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Guests sitting with Staff advisor

On 1st day of Lecture

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Dr. V.M. Murugesan, Associate professor, NTU, Singapore delivered a talk on “Biomedical Optics and Nanoscale Optics”

23 Dec 2010, Dr. A.R. Ganesan, Associateprofessor, IITM, Chennai delivered a talk on“Holography and NDE”. The speaker is aformer staff advisor of NITT-SPIE studentchapter.

On 2nd of Lecture

Part of the participants during lecture

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Head of our department Presenting Memento to the

speaker

Our guest in sri rangam temple

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Members of the chapter with invited speakers and Faculty members

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SPIE student Leadership Meet 2010

Mr. Prasad Rao T has been awarded travelgrant to participate in leadership meetingfollowed by a conference on “Optics andPhotonics 2010” San Diego, USA

Mr. Prasada Rao with Ben Lockwood

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Scientific Visit to Indian Institute ofAstrophysics, kodaikanal, Tamilnadu,India during 16-18 December 2010

The members visited (part of the members only in the photo)

Scientific Visit

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Members in the Pine forest kodaikanal

Place in Kodaikanal

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GATE Coaching class

Members taken special coaching to M.Sc. Students.

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Mr. Nabeel Rashin M (left) Mr. Kanagaraj C (Right)

Financial Report(Calendar year 2010)

• Activity grand received 1100 USD

Expenditure

1. MMM 80 USD

2. Special lecture 200 USD

3. Guest lecture 220 USD

4. Foreign Invited lecture 110 USD

5. Scientific visit 490 USD

Total Expenditure 1100 USD

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Future plan 2011

• MMM• School visit• Invited lectures• Workshop for school students in association with NITT OSA

Student Chapter• In the 2nd half of the year workshop targeting undergraduate

students for the prosper of research activities will beorganized.

• Vision of this year activity is to organize open house exhibitionfor intermediate school students. In particular, the programwill be targeting rural area students.

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