Annual Report
Office Bearers
Sr. No.
Name Post Email ID Contact no.
1 Mayuri Kawale President [email protected] +91-8170894903
2 Shubham Sharma Vice-President [email protected] +91-7407845153
3 Umang Jain Secretary [email protected] +91-9679889954
4 Randhir Kumar Treasurer [email protected] +91-8170894902
5 Dr. Ayan Banerjee
Faculty Advisor [email protected] +91-9830059980
6 Jitendra Singh Outreach Coordinator
[email protected] +91-8170894925
Student Members
Currently there are 23 members in SPIE Student Chapter IISER Kolkata.
Chapter Activities
An outreach activity consisted of workshops and talks, was conducted during March 2015 in
Ek Pehal, an initiative by IISER Kolkata students for educating school students with poor
financial background. There were around 50-60 students who were involved in this activity.
The main focus of the workshop was to provide the school students basic knowledge in the
field of optics. Some simple optics related demonstrations were done. Outreach activity
optics kit provided by SPIE and additional purchased optics kits were used in this activity.
There are some glimpses of this activity…
SPIE Student Chapter IISER Kolkata awarded the winners of Eastern India Science Fair with
cash prices.
1st position: Abhijit Mondal
Project title: Automatic Street light Control; School: Keranitola Shree Shree Mohananda Vidya Mandir
Awarded ₹15,000 ($239.94)
2nd position: Md. Abdul Halim
Project title: Simple Water Microscope; School: Dhanyaram Karbaripara High School
Awarded ₹10,000 ($159.96)
3rd position: Puja Yadav Project title: Jyoti(meaning Light); School : Satsang High School Awarded ₹5,000 ($95.98)
SPIE Student Chapter IISER Kolkata conducted a trip to Birla Institute of
Technological Museum (BITM), Kolkata for SPIE members and non-members as well.
SPIE Student Chapter IISER Kolkata conducted an online photography event on the
occasion of International Year of Light and the winners were awarded with total
cash price of ₹1000.
First Position- The Infinite Well
Name: Krittish Ray Chaudhuri.
Company: Jampot Photonics Pvt. Ltd.
Designation : Photonics Designer
Second Position- TIR
Name: Anubhav Rajpoot
College: IISER Kolkata
Third Position- Refraction
Name: Vincent Akash Gomes
College: St.Xavier's college Kolkata
Physics department
2nd year
Planned Activities for the future
We plan to organize a two day workshop on Optics and Photonics in collaboration
with OSA chapter of IISER Kolkata.
Outreach activity in the north-eastern states of India, which is still educationally not so
developed, we aim to spread awareness among the students there.
We plan to start a small optics lab at our own institute to promote students to take interest
in optics and photonics and do some creativity based experiments.
Organize quiz competitions in different schools in our locality.
Optics based event in our institute’s science fest, Inquivesta 2016, which is one of the
largest in India.
FINANCIAL STATEMENT
Total Amount in Account (No activity grant received during the year 2014-15)
= ₹ 500
ACKNOWLEDGEMENT
This 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 chapter is thankful to its first set of office bearers who made all this possible.
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