SPIE-IISc Chapter Report 2017 · 2017-12-26 · 15 Swetha Pant 16 Sruthi Menon (New Member) 17 Bhawani Shankar Leelar 18 Senthil V (New Member) 19 Ravali Pampala (New Member) 20 Afshan

SPIE-IISc Chapter Report 2017

About SPIE-IISc Chapter:

Since the inauguration of the SPIE-IISc chapter in August 2010, the chapter has been

successful in regularly conducting educational and technical talks and events by eminent

speakers. In this report the SPIE-IISc chapter activities for the current year, 2017 are

presented.

The Executive Committee is composed of:

Name Officer Email Membership No.

Rohit

Ramakrishnan

President [email protected] 3655891

Archana K Vice-president [email protected] 4102765

Krishna M Secretary [email protected] 4090009

Shafeek A Samad Treasurer [email protected] 4035344

All of them are Research Scholars at Indian Institute of Science (IISc) in Photonics area.

New officers will be selected from the new members and informed accordingly.

Faculty Advisor:

Prof. T. Srinivas (SPIE Membership No.327086)

Associate Professor, ECE Dept, Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore 560012

email: [email protected]

List of Members

1 Shafeek Abdul Samad

2 Shivesh Berwal

3 Nirav Singh Dabhi

4 Rakesh Manjappa

5 Renilkumar Mudachathi

6 Rohit Ramakrishnan

7 Swathi Suran

8 Yadunath Thamerassery Illam Rameswaran

9 Santosh Aparanji

10 Krishna M

11 Viphreto Mere (New Member)

12 B.S Vikram (New Member)

13 Archana K (New Member)

14 Chandrika T.N (New Member)

15 Swetha Pant

16 Sruthi Menon (New Member)

17 Bhawani Shankar Leelar

18 Senthil V (New Member)

19 Ravali Pampala (New Member)

20 Afshan Begum (New Member)

21 Chandana Rao

22 Venkiteswara Rao Kolli

23 Earu Santhu

24 Ravikiran Saripalli

25 Vadivukkarasi Jeyaselvan (New Member)

26 Santosh Kumar (Alumni Member)

27 Rekha Gautam (Alumni Member)

28 Rajan Kanhirodan (Alumni Member)

29 Mayanglambam Singh (Alumni Member)

30 R Vasu (Alumni Member)

31 Talabattula Srinivas (Alumni Member)

We have more than 30 members in IISc chapter.A membership drive to enrol new students

was conducted on the 15th of November 2017. With lot of new students interested to join and

another few interested in renewing their old SPIE memberships, we can proudly say that our

strength is best in recent years. We plan to enrol more students through promotional events.

Chapter Activities:

To increase the involvement of the student members, we have a webpage for the Applied

Photonics Initiative, (API) IISc.

https://sites.google.com/site/appliedphotonicsiisc/spie-chapter.

A facebook group is managed, https://www.facebook.com/groups/spieosaiisc/ (Optics-

Groups-IISc) where all students working in the Optics and Photonics related areas can

coordinate and plan meetups etc. Updates on chapter events and other activities are regularly

posted online. A google group also has been created. [email protected].

As per the previous report many activities in the areas of Nonlinear Optics, Quantum optics,

Biophotonics and Nanophontonics were conducted. Below are the activities conducted and

co-ordinated by the SPIE-IISc student chapter. The members of the chapter have actively

contributed their time and effort in the organization and functioning of these activities.

Chapter Meetings: Some of the executive committee meetings were held on:

➢ Date: 18 Jan 2017, Wednesday evening 6pm; Venue: Dept of ECE

➢ API students execom meet on 16 Feb 2017 evening 6 PM ; Venue: Dept of ECE,

Agenda: IISc Openday activities

➢ API students execom meet, Date: 20th March 2017, Monday evening 6pm; Venue:

ECE Dept, Agenda: Summer school 2017 program committee.

➢ 25 May 2017 Thursday evening 5 pm in Nisarga Cafe, IISc

➢ 10th October 2017, Tuesday evening 5:30 pm; Venue: ECE Dept, Agenda:

Membership drive, New Execom

➢ SPIE Chapter General body, 17 October 2017, Monday evening 5:30 PM, ECE

Department. Election of new office bearers

➢ SPIE Execom, 1 November 2017, Planning of future activities and budget

presentation, evening 5 PM Nisarga Cafe

Technical Activities

➢ 12-16 June 2017:

Summer School in Optics And Photonics (SOAP)

http://iisc-soap.org/

Venue: Golden Jubilee Seminar Hall, Dept. of ECE, IISc

Summer school in Optics and Photonics was organized by Applied Photonics

Initiative (API), Indian Institute of Science. As the significant part of API, SPIE

members had put diligent effort in the organisation of the program.

This summer school was meant for graduate students, research scholars, post docs and

faculty members currently doing research or plan to do research in the area of optics

and photonics. The school brought together the experts in the field from India and

abroad and provide a platform for interaction with them and networking. Talks were

organised such that 4 hours each of basic and advanced lecturers in three focussed

topics were covered. Participants also got chance to visit IISc labs and the class-100

clean room, nano fabrication and characterisation facilities at the Centre for Nano

Science and Engineering. A Hindustani Classical Vocal by Ustad Fayez Khan and

troupe was performed at the closing ceremony

No. of speakers: 9 ; Total lecture hours : 22 ; Attendees: 120.

The list of speakers and their talks are given below:

Speaker Affiliation Title of Talk

Dr. Peter Rohde

University of Technology

Sydney (UTS), Sydeny,

Australia

Advanced Quantum Optics

and Communications

Prof. Murukeshan

Vadakke Matham

Nanyang Technological

University, Singapore

Nano and Biophotonics,

Biomedical Optics

Prof. Joby Joseph Indian Institute of

Technology Delhi (IITD)

Advanced Nanophotonics

Dr. Anil Shaji Indian Institute of Science

Education and

Research(IISER)

Thiruvananthapuram.

Basic Quantum Optics

Dr. Puspendu K Das

Indian Institute of Science

(IISc), Bangalore

Advanced Nonlinear

Optics and applications

Dr. Supradeepa V R

Indian Institute of Science

(IISc), Bangalore

Nonlinear Optics

Dr. Manoj Varma

Indian Institute of Science

(IISc), Bangalore

Nano and Biophotonics

Dr. Varun Raghunathan

Indian Institute of Science

(IISc), Bangalore

Nonlinear Optics

Dr. Gopal Hegde

Indian Institute of Science

(IISc), Bangalore

Nanophotonics

Technology

➢ 13th June 2017:

SPIE Travelling Lecturer Prof V M Murukeshan gave a talk on Nano and Biomedical

Optics: “Diagnostic multi-modality imaging and the effect of nanoscale contrast

agents”, on Tuesday 13-06-17, 9 AM- 12.30 PM at Golden Jubilee Hall, Dept of ECE.

The event was live streamed around the campus.

➢ 17th November 2017:

4-5 PM Students Talk by SPIE Chapter President Mr. Rohit Ramakrishnan on

Quantum Computing and Communications. Attended by 100+ people from various

departments

Three-minute presentation of his talk

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2F-308ehO4c

Outreach Activities

➢ March 4, 2017

IISc Open day Activities:

http://www.iisc.ac.in/open-day-when-iisc-unveils-its-research-to-the-public/

API and SPIE has taken active role in organising live demonstrations during the IISc-

Open day in various departments around the campus including Dept of ECE, Centre

for Nanoscience, Dept of Physics and Dept of Instrumentation and Applied Physics.

➢ December 9, 2017

Science for Kids: Venue: Thippasandra, Bangalore. 3-5 PM. SPIE supported the

event by providing optics outreach kits for experiments.

➢ December 16, 2017

Science for Kids: Venue: Dodda Aladamar, Ganapathi Halli, Bangalore,

11AM- 1 PM. SPIE supported the event by providing optics outreach kits and

demonstrating optics experiments for students.

Participation in SPIE

SPIE Chapter President Mr. Rohit Ramakrishnan participated on SPIE Photonics

West 2017 at San Francisco USA with the SPIE Officers Travel Grant. He

participated in SPIE Leadership Conference and presented two papers in the

Photonics West Conference

Publicity through SPIE

SPIE Chapter President Mr. Rohit Ramakrishnan was featured in SPIE Faces of

Photonics in Facebook page of SPIE Students July 2017.

Some of the papers presented by the student members at various SPIE events in 2017:

➢ Photonic crystal ring resonator: a promising device for a multitude of

applications

Yadunath T. R., Resmi R. Kumar, Sreenivasulu T., Anusree Kandoth, Kamal John,

Rohit K. Ramakrishnan, Partha P. Das; Badrinarayana T., Mohan S., Gopalkrishna

Hegde, T. Srinivas, Indian Institute of Science (India) Published in Proceedings

Volume 10108: Silicon Photonics XII

➢ Integrated optics-based quantum communication devices

Rohit K. Ramakrishnan, Shafeek A. Samad, Archana K., Yadunath T. R.,; Partha P.

Das, ; Srinivas Talabattula, Indian Institute of Science (India)

Published in Proceedings Volume 10118: Advances in Photonics of Quantum

Computing, Memory, and Communication X

➢ A cost-effective LED and photodetector based fast direct 3D diffuse optical

imaging system

Manob Jyoti Saikia, Univ. of Rhode Island Rakesh Manjappa, Rajan Kanhirodan,

Indian Institute of Science (India). Published in Proceedings Volume 10412: Diffuse

Optical Spectroscopy and Imaging VI

➢ Diffusion doped plasma dispersion silicon modulators

Vadivukkarasi Jeyaselvan, Shankar Kumar Selvaraja, Indian Institute of Science

(India). Published in Proceedings Volume 10108: Silicon Photonics XII

Note: Three more papers are submitted by the student members for SPIE Photonics

Europe 2018.

Planned Activities

We plan Summer school in Optics and Photonics 2018, on the topics

1. Silicon Photonics

2. Nonlinear Optics and Lasers

3. Microscopy and Imaging techniques

Workshops on Nonlinear optics, Biophotonics and Biomedical Optics is also under planning.

This is mainly to benefit the student community and to increase membership growth.

Technical talks are also planned at various Educational Institutions as outreach activity.

We also plan to visit more schools and colleges to create awareness on optics and photonics

lives. The chapter also plan to conduct a career guidane program for students in optics and

photonics to educate them about the career oppertunities in the field of Photonics. This will

be done in association with the Placement Cell of Institute.

Financial Position

Technical talks are open to all.

Major Workshops are charged for Non-members

Expenses usually shared with OSA and IEEE Chapters.

The account of the SPIE-IISc students chapter is managed at Canara bank, Indian Institute of

Science

Income:

Opening Balance: Rs. 59919 /-

Interest: Rs.981/-

Annual Chapter grant: NIL (requested on 15-12-2017)

Expenditure:

Registration kits for participants Rs. 23000

Posters and publicity materials Rs. 13000

Lunch for delegates Rs. 23900

Banking charges Rs. 40

Balance: Rs.960/-

Pictures of SPIE-IISc Student Chapter activities

1. IISc Open day:

SPIE Stall in IISc

SPIE Vice President Archana K at the SPIE Stall

A moment of huge rush at the SPIE stall

Somebody was so curious about Optics at our stall !

2. Summer school in Optics And Photonics 2017 (SOAP 2017)

Inauguration

Out-station participants

Prof. Anil Shaji taking classes during SOAP

Audience

Cultural programme : Hindustani Classical by Ustad Fayez Khan

3. SPIE Traveling Lecturer Program

SPIE Travelling Lecturer Prof. Murukeshan (NTU, Singapore) delivering his lectures.

Prof. Gopal Hedge presenting a memento to Prof. Murukeshan as a token of

gratitude from SPIE Chapter

3. Outreach programs

Few snaps from Science for kids conducted at (i) Tippasandra and (ii) Ganapathi Halli

4. Participation in SPIE events

SPIE Chapter President Rohit Ramakrishnan at SPIE Photonics West 2017, San

Francisco, USA.