STUDENT MEMBERS · ANNUAL REPORT STUDENT MEMBERS At present there are 20 student members and the list is as following: Shreya Basak Aritra Biswas Shubham Chandel Amar Deo Chandra

ANNUAL REPORT

STUDENT MEMBERS

At present there are 20 student members and the list is as following:

Shreya Basak

Aritra Biswas

Shubham Chandel

Amar Deo Chandra

Subhrokoli Ghosh

Ranadeep Ghosh Dastidar

Angad Gupta

Sourav Islam

Umang Jain

Ajmal Kolapparamban

Avijit Kundu

Debapriya Pal

Vinay Pareek

Shuvojit Paul

Vikash Prasad

Varun Ramaprasad

Sudipta Saha

Tushar Kanti Saha

Souvik Sil

Roshan Tiwari

Chapter activities

Workshop on Space Astronomy and Telescope Making 24th-26th March 2017

Organised by SPIE student chapter IISER Kolkata and CESSI in association with the outreach cell of IUCAA Pune

Web : http://www.cessi. in/tmw/Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/telescopeworkshop/Twitter : https://twitter.com/TelescopeWorks1

Speakers

Samir Dhurdhe, IUCAA PuneTushar Purohit, IUCAA PuneChirantan Neogy, Kalyani UniversityArvind Paranjpye, Nehru Planetarium MumbaiRajesh Kumble Nayak, IISER KolkataSoumitro Banerjee, IISER Kolkata

Scientific Organising Committee

Dibyendu Nandi (Chair)Ayan Banerjee (Co-chair)Nirmalaya GhoshSoumitro BanerjeeRajesh Kumble Nayak

Local Organising Committe

Amar Deo ChandraSubhrokoli GhoshMaitraya K BhattacharyyaAvijit KunduRoshan Tiwari

Day 1 (24 th March 2017, Friday)

Day 2 (25 th March 2017, Saturday)

Day 3 (26 th March 2017, Sunday)

Talk by Prof. Kishan Dholakia, University of St. Andrews

Prof. Dholakia delivered two talks during his visit to IISER Kolkata chapter on 17th March 2016. The first public talk was intended for undergraduate students while the second talk was more technical and was attended by researchers from the Physics department.

Collaboration with the SPIE chapter of Manipal University for conducting the Asian Students Photonics Conference (ASPC)-2016

Participation of SPIE members in ASPC 2016

Four student members from IISER Kolkata attended the ASPC conference 2016 inManipal University, Karnataka, India during December 2016.

PLANNED ACTIVITIES FOR FUTURE

We wish to conduct telescope making workshop in future on a much larger scale and having more participants.

We will collaborate with the INQUIVESTA (Annual science fest of IISER-KOLKATA) in next year and try to organise some competitionsto increase awareness about optics and photonics in daily life.

We will do outreach activities for nearby school children. We want to organise a one day symposium on current researches in

optics and photonics. We are planning to organise regular outreach programme called “A

LIGHT EVENING” which will include popular talks by SPIE student members and visits to optics labs. This programme will mainly be focused on under graduate students.

FINANCIAL STATEMENT

The chapter organised and co-sponsored the Telescope Making and Space Astronomy Workshop from 24th-26th March 2017. INR 50000 from the activity grant was used for sponsoring this workshop.

Current account balance is INR 15986.

ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS

The chapter is thankful to all its members for working whole heartedly and actively participating in its activities. We express our sincere gratitude to Tasha Chicovsky for her undying support, whenever needed. We are also thankful to our faculty advisor Dr. Ayan Banerjee. Last but not the least the chapter is thankful to its current office bearers who made all this possible.