University of Guanajuato

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Salamanca - Valle de Santiago road km. 3.5 + 1.8

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Salamanca, Guanajuato, México

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SEMIANNUAL REPORT

September 2008 - March 2009

University of Guanajuato Chapter

This year was full of activities for the student chapter. It began with the integration of new members to the chapter having a total of 22 members now and it keeps growing thanks to the work we’ve all done within the chapter. We report the activities done from the last report until now, we also report the financial information and future activities that we plan to carry out with the help of the academic group of optoelectronics of our faculty including our advisor of the chapter.

CHAPTER OFFICERS

President: Rosa J. Pérez janyluj@hotmail.com Vice-president: Maricruz Ortiz Secretary: Cristina Herrera Treasurer: Manuel Delgado Advisor: Igor Sukoivanov

MIEMBERS

During this year we’ve been working on making the chapter bigger because we believe that this is the way to grow as a chapter and, therefore, cover activities in areas such as research and recreation. We’ll continue working in order to have a stronger

chapter and with more participation of the students of our university. Now we show the list of the actual members of the chapter.

1. Agustín Filoteo 2. Juan Francisco Alfaro 3. Silvia Cano 4. Manuel Delgado 5. Ramón Gallardo 6. Carlos Hernández 7. Cristina Herrera 8. Daniel Jauregui 9. Helena López 10. Eduardo Mar 11. Alfredo Murrieta 12. Cesar Navarro 13. Omar Nieto 14. Maricruz Ortiz 15. Rosa Pérez 16. Daniel Razo 17. Irving Reyes 18. Fernando Salazar-Villanueva 19. Verónica Solís 20. Claudio Valencia Loredo

ACTIVITIES

1. 2nd Seminary of Optoelectronics 2008

To the personal grow of each member of the chapter and the people interested in the optic area, the chapter continue with the realization of the second seminary of optoelectronic in which some students and professors present their advances of their thesis and research projects, respectively. In this occasion we had the participation of a phD, a PhD student, two master students and three bachelors students. The seminary was the one presented next.

Student Theme Tutor

Cinthya Solís Casillas “Preparation of Sol-Gel Glasses with Liquid Crystals”

Dra. Mónica Trejo

M.I. Ruth I. Mata Chávez. "Fabrication of Long Period Gratings by Fattening Method”

Dr. Julián Estudillo

Ing. Cesar Navarro “Control and Automation of Optical Tweezers”.

Dr. Edgar Alvarado

Ing. Claudio Valencia "Report of SPIE Chapter Meeting In San Diego"

Daniel Jauregui Vazquez “Investigations Of The Guiding Of Hollow Core Microstured Fiber

Dr. Igor Sukhoivanov

Dr. Edgar Alvarado Mendez

“Photonics Nets on Non Linear Mediums”

Jose Manuel Delgado “Temperature Sensor Based on Liquid Crystals”

Dr. Julián Estudillo

Figure 1 PhD student living her lecture on Long Period Gratings.

Figure 2 Bachelor student participating on the seminary.

Figure 3 Professor giving his lecture on photonics nets on non linear mediums.

2. Participation on the “2nd Experimental Physics Fair to Basic Education”

The Chemistry Faculty of the University of Guanajuato carried out the 2nd Experimental Physics Fair for Basic Education, where the chapter was invited to present simples experiments of optics and photonics. Students of many primary schools of Guanajuato city made a tour by the installations and they observed the experiments that we had prepared. This event was on September 2008.

Figure 4. SPIE members showing the experiments to the children.

3. Lecture “Fabrication of optic fiber components”

This lecture was given by Ph. D. Miguel Andrés of the applied physics department of the University of Valencia, España. It took place on the facilities of our faculty on October 27, 2008. We count with the assistance of 40 persons among proffesors, member of the chapter and students of out faculty.

Figure 5 Ph. D. Miguel Andrés of the University of Valencia in his lecture and with members of the

chapter.

4. Lasers and Optic Fibers National Congress

The SPIE student chapter members of the University of Nuevo León among their chapter advisor hosted the 1st Lasers and Optics Fibers National Congress (1er CONALAFO, Congreso Nacional de Láseres y Fibras Ópticas) that took place on the physics-mathematics faculty of the University of Nuevo León. We were invited by the student chapter to participate in the congress and form bonds among our chapters.

Figure 6 Members of the student’s chapters of the University of Nuevo León and the University of

Guanajuato on the 1rst CONALAFO.

5. 4th Optic Regional Encounter and 1st Optic and Photonic University Reunion

The so expected 4th Optic Regional Encounter (4to ERO, Encuentro Regional de Óptica) and 1st Optic and Photonic University Reunion (1er RUFO, Reunión Universitaria de Fótonica y Óptica) took place on November 12-14, 2008. It’s quite a tradition that our chapter forms a part of the organization. It’s a success because it offers, beside lectures, workshops in which the participants can experience a little bit of photonics and optics. These events where realized for second time in the facilities of our faculty. We hosted more than 150 students coming from Zacatecas, Morelia, Oaxaca; and over 30 regional investigators.

Figure 7 Members of the chapter participating on the 4th ERO and 1st RUFO.

6. Lecture “Nonlinear Fiber Optics”

We had the opportunity to have Professor Mario Ferreira, researcher of the University of Aveiro, Portugal, as an invited of the chapter using the visiting lecturer benefit of the SPIE in the activities of the 4th ERO. As a SPIE student chapert we felt honored to had professor Ferreira in his lecture "NONLINEAR FIBER OPTICS". This gave us an idea about the research in fiber optics around the world. We had the participation of 50 persons of many institutions. Besides the lectura, profesor Mario had the chanse to participate in other informal activities with the members of the chapter.

Figure 8. Professor Mario Ferreira, invited by the chapter to the 4th ERO and 1st RUFO.

7. Gattering of end of year

At the end of 2008 we got together with the optoelectronic group of the faculty to talk about our experiences, good ones and bad ones, and how much have we learned from them. We also enjoyed a delicious meal.

Figure 9 End of 2008 gattering.

8. Seminario del Profesor Harvey N. Rutt.

In January 2009 we participated on the seminary of Professor Harvey N. Ruth of the University of Southampton where he talked about optic fibers. This was a one day event where we had the participation of 20 persons approximately between teachers and members of the chapter. 9. 3th Seminary of Optoelectronics Winter 2009

At the beginning of the year we planed, with the collaboration of the optoelectronic group of our faculty, the first seminary of 2009. As always we have the participation of professors, chapter members and students working in the optic area. We had the participation of 15 persons per season. Now we show the program.

Student Theme Tutor

Daniel Jáuregui V. "Investigation of the Chacaryteristics of the Guiding of Light on

Microstrucures Fibers of Halow Core "

Dr. Julián M. Estudillo A.

Marlene A. González R. "Optic Fiber Amplifiers doped with Erbium "

Dr. Roberto Rojas L.

Julissa A. Estrada R.

"Simulation of a fattening grating by the wave propagation method "

Dr. Julián M. Estudillo A.

Carlos A. Lozano "Filtres with fattening gratings " Dr. Roberto Rojas L. José M. Delgado N.

"Investigation of Liquid Crystals 4-Cyano-4'-Hexylbiphenyl and 4, 4'

Dihexylazoxybenzene with changes on electric field and temperature "

Dr. Julián M. Estudillo A.

Ing. Agustín Filoteo R.

"Dispertion measurement on steandar optic fibers "

Dr. Roberto Rojas L. Dr. Julián M. Estudillo A.

Ing. Claudio E. Valencia L. "Caracterization of optical materials " Dra. Mónica Trejo D. Dr. Edgar Alvarado M.

Dr. Jorge Ojeda C. “Image processing applied to optical” Dra. Ruth Mata C. “Long-period gratings” Ing. Cristina G. Herrera D.

"Displacement measurement of particles trapped with optical

tweezers "

Dr. Edgar Alvarado M.

Ing. Omar E. Nieto Z. "Estudy of a guided beam over photonic periodic structures "

Dr. Edgar Alvarado M.

10. Visito f the Internacional President of SPIE

Past March 4, 2009 we had the honor of the visit of Professor Maria Yzuel, International president of SPIE. In her visit, she gave us the lecture “Characterization and Analysis of LCoS displays” and a chat about SPIE. We had the opportunity of showing her the activities that we’ve done and the ones we planed to do. We also show her the laboratories that we count on our faculty and the research projects that we’re working on under the assessor of the optoelectronic group. We count with the participation of 25 persons including students and chapter members.

Figure 10 Members of the chapter and Profesor Maria Izuel.

WEB SITE

We have created our web site where we report our news, activities, events and information of the work that we’ve done. We update continuously the web site in order to have the recent activities done by our chapter. Know we’re working on the English vertion of our website.

Figura 11. University of Guanajuato SPIE Studen Chapter web site.

FINANTIAL INFORMATION

Financing 2008 $ 900 dollars

Expenses

Concept Total Balance SPIE shirts $188.00 $712.00 Monterrey trip $285.00 $427.00

Cups $104.00 $323.00 Pens $29.00 $294.00 Photogalery $25.00 $269.00

Posters $75.00 $194.00 Kids material $40.00 $154.00 Oficce material $64.00 $90.00

documentary videos $40.00 $50.00 End of year meal $50.00 $0.00

Total $900.00

NEXT ACTIVITIES

We’ve done many proposals to make our chapter grow in any ways that include divulgation and formation. DIVULGATION

1. To invite high school students and/or middle school to give them a chat about the chapter and optics. Show them our facilities and laboratories.

2. To organize a science fair for our campus students and other schools. 3. To create short workshops for all people interested in optics. 4. To create an optics week. 5. To promote the chapter among other students groups of our campus for further

activities.

6. To invite other SPIE students chapters to our campus to interchange ideas about working together and create bounds among us.

7. To organize a Job fair to bring business men, companies and investigators of other universities that need employees or students.

8. To have meetings every two or more weeks with the chapter members to comment important issues and future activities.

9. To have an information stand every beginning of trimester to bring new members to the chapter.

10. To update our web site in Spanish as in English.

FORMATION 1. To invite professors of our campus to show the students the investigation projects

that they are working on. 2. To exhibit movies and documentaries about optics and photonics to the campus

students. 3. To ask the professors to talk with the students about an specific project and to

invite them to form a part of it. 4. To participate on SPIE congresses. 5. To invite professors of other universities to give lectures about their research

projects in optics or photonics. 6. To invite international lectures using the SPIE grant. 7. To visit companies that develops optics products. 8. To visit laboratories of other universities or investigation centres. 9. To visit “la luz” (the light) and “la azotea” (the roof), observatories in Guanajuato

city.