Bowling Green State University SPIE Student Chapter Bowling Green State University

Center for Photochemical Sciences

132 Overman Hall

Bowling Green

Ohio

43403

First Chapter Report:

Introduction and list of members

The student chapter for Bowling Green State University was originally created in

November 2005. A first meeting was held and the purposes of SPIE were explained to a

group of students from the Center for Photochemical Sciences by a member of SPIE. The

idea to create a chapter in our University in our center was brought to us by Dr. Eugene

Arthurs, member of the Scientific Advisory Board of our Center.

That day of November 2005, four students were elected to hold and start all the process

necessary to obtain certification and approval as student organization from our

University. Later, we applied for regular status from the SPIE organization. Those

students elected were:

• Victor Montes, President

• Cesar Perez Bolivar, Vice-President

• Rajib Mondal, Treasurer

• Ravi Adhikari, Secretary

We counted on the advices and guidance of two SPIE members, an alumnus from our

University, Brigitte Wex, Ph.D.; and our Faculty advisor, Dr. Evgeny Danilov.

By December 2005, we applied for regular status as student organization in the

university, being granted that category by January 2006. As a student organization, we

were able to apply for funds from our university, which became the purpose of our first

meeting, and to plan activities to create a budget to be shown in front of the Student

Budget Committee. By February 2006, we were approved a budget, which will be

detailed in another section of this report.

Since the first officers had a temporary character, new officers were elected after

approval as student chapter in front of SPIE (April 2006). The current officers gained

their status after an election held on July 5, 2006. The list is as follow:

• Victor Montes, vmontesm@gmail.com, President

• Cesar Perez Bolivar, cesarp@bgnet.bgsu.edu, Vice-President

• Rajib Mondal, rmondal@bgnet.bgsu.edu, Treasurer

• Ying Hu (Hannah), hying@bgnet.bgsu.edu, Secretary

The current members registered in SPIE are the following:

1. Mr. Ravi Adhikari

Dec-31-2006

2. Mr. Leandro Estrada

Jan-31-2007

3. Ms. Ying Hu

Dec-31-2006

4. Mr. Dmitry Komarov

Dec-31-2006

5. Miss Thilini Kuruwita-Mudiyanselage

Jan-31-2007

6. Mr. Rajib Mondal

Dec-31-2006

7. Mr. Victor Montes

Jan-31-2007

8. Ms. Maria Muro

Jan-31-2007

9. Mr. Manuel Palacios

Jan-31-2007

10. Mr. Sujeewa Palayangoda

Jan-31-2007

11. Mr. Cesar Perez-Bolivar

Jan-31-2007

However, we currently have more students not only from our Photochemical Sciences

Center, but from other departments such as physics. We hope to have them as SPIE

members in a close future.

Their names and e-mail addresses are the following:

• Shantanu Karve, karves@bgsu.edu

• Elena Shikhova, selena@bgsu.edu

• Fei Hua, fhua@bgsu.edu

• Radiy Islangulov, rislan@bgsu.edu

• Mithun Bhowmick, mithunb@bgsu.edu

• Jagannath Paul, pauljag@bgsu.edu

• Fei Xie, fxie@bgsu.edu

• Jiufeng Fan, fanj@bgsu.edu

• Xianchun Zhu, zhux@bgsu.edu

• Jing Hong, jhong@bgsu.edu

Chapters Activities

Since we were a recently approved chapter by the moment of the semiannual report

due in June, we did not submit any at that time. However, by that moment we already

have had our first activity.

Every year, in Bowling Green State University, the departments of chemistry, physics

and biological sciences, get together to hold a Science Fair. In this fair, called Sci-Fest,

high-school students are invited to come to campus and get the opportunity of observing

several scientific demonstrations.

For the SciFest 2006, we counted on some members, to first hold a demonstration or

the high-school students, and other group of members, who helped to escort the student’s

groups to go to the different locations on campus for each presentation. The topic of the

presentation held by our group was Optics and Materials.

For this presentation we had four topics:

• Optic fibers and how they work

• Organic light emitting diodes

• Photolithography

• Up-power conversion using a mix of compounds

Please find attached some pictures from this first successful activity, also available in

our website http://www.bgsu.edu/departments/photochem/spie/sci%20fest/photo.htm

Cesar is demonstrating the principle of fiber optics

Cesar is demonstrating the principle of fiber optics and Rajib is helping him

Radiy is explaining photo-upconversion

Rajib is demonstrating the principle of stereolithography

Victor is demonstrating the future of OLEDs

Group of students from a local high school is trying to understand the chemistry of color.

Cesar, Victor, Rajib, Radiy (from left to right).

In our third meeting of the year, July 2006, the current officers were elected; the names

were already given in a previous section.

In July we also started planning for campus fest, a large event that takes place year to

year in the university, in which besides the free food offered by the President’s office, all

the student organizations set up different stands and the new students get the chance to

get involved with them.

For this event the chapter showed a stand, which contained information about SPIE

and our organization. We used for this purpose all the publicity material that we received

from SPIE (sent by Pascale Barnett). We gave away pens, bottle of water and pencils

(donated by the Center for Photochemical Sciences). Please find attached some pictures

from this event.

SPIE BGSU student chapter’s stand.

SPI stand, Victor and Cesar

SPIE stand Cesar and Maria Luisa

Victor Montes, Dr. Eugeny Danilov, Maria Luisa Muro, Cesar Perez Bolivar

In August 2006, our secretary Hannah Ying attended SPIE 2006 O&P. For her

attendance to the conference she was awarded with a travel grant for $1000. She showed

a presentation of her experience to our chapter in September 2006.

For the moment when you probably would have received this report, the chapter would

have given away some P.O.P. material and contributed to the Department of Chemistry’s

Luncheon. Every year, our Department offers a lunch for Faculty, Staffs and Students.

We thought that one of the best opportunities to reach out for the most of our community

would be this occasion. For this event, we planned to contribute with some deserts, and

have some visual material as give a small talk inviting new students to join our chapter.

Future Plans

For the upcoming year we have already planned several activities, one of them is the

use of the Visitor Lecturer Program. For this activity, we are going to start contacting

three candidates, and ask them for available dates. As soon as any of the candidates

answer to us, and his availability can allow us, we will organize the event. For this

activity, we are wide open to available dates from the speaker, since we planned to be in

any moment during spring of 2007.

The proposed candidates for this visit were selected from SPIE web site and later

debate among the organizers, and the list came down to the following possible candidates

(no particular importance related to the order in the list):

• Dr. Paul McManamon

• H. Johm Caulfield

• Prof. Ian M. Kennedy

We hope to establish communication with them, and after checking availability set up

for a date. For this visit, we count on logistic help from the Center for Photochemical

Sciences and the Department of Chemistry, since both entities can help us to get rooms in

our Campus, as serve to advertise the event and reach for more public.

The next activity planned for next year is a visit to an industry related to our studies

field, such as solar cell industries. In this matter we count on the help provided by Dr.

Douglas Necker, for his advice and contact with different industries around our campus.

For this activity, we are planning to go on a field trip and arrange a tour through the

installations. The funds for this activity are requested in our Funding request for 2007.

We plan on participate in the Sci-fest in spring of 2007 and in the On-campus festival

for fall 2007.

Financial Information

Cesar Perez Bolivar Vice-President SPIE BGSU Student Chapter Bowling Green State University

December 14, 2006