ANNUAL REPORT FOR YEAR 2017 Authors: Aleksandra Wieloszyńska Page 1 of 5
1. Elected officers for academic year 2016/17: President: Aleksandra Wieloszyńska alewie3@gmail.com SPIE ID: 3583871 Treasurer: Magdalena Mróz SPIE ID: Secretary: Krzysztof Milewski SPIE ID: 4096130 Advisor: dr inż. Marcin Strąkowski SPIE ID: 3065422 Chapter e-mail: pgsoliton@gmail.com 2. List of current Student Chapter Members: Mateusz Ficek Maciej Głowacki Aleksandra Kamińska Monika Kosowska Daria Majchrowicz Maciej Marchwiński Marcin Marzejona Krzysztof Milewski Marcin Mrotek Edyta Sobaszek Aleksandra Wieloszynska Total of: 11 Alumni members: Bogdan Kosmowski Maciej Kraszewski Adam Mazikowski Total of: 3 3. Chapter activities: Chapter meetings: Out student chapter meeting are held every two weeks in a room at out Faculty s building. During them, we discuss about current projects. Furthermore, the meetings are an opportunity for our members to present their work, both on the university and Authors: Aleksandra Wieloszyńska Page 2 of 5
extracurricular. Sometimes, we visit laboratories located at out university (e.g. Immersive 3D Visualization Lab). Each meeting takes around 60 minutes. Workshops We organizes cyclical workshops from electronic and optoelectronics. They take place around twice a month. There are greatly appreciated by our younger students,, and help recruit new members into the chapter. Conferences: Our members take parts in several conferences during the year. We have attended the OPTO2017 conference in Warsaw. OPTO are the annual conferences organized by Polish chapters. Five of our members have presented their work. During the conference we were able to renew our contacts with other chapters from Poland, discuss about our chapter activities. We have sent our members to the XL-th IEEE-SPIE Joint Symposium Wilga 2017. During the conference they have presented their work in form of presentation. Two of our members represented our chapter on SPIE Optics + Photonics 2017 conference in San Diego. They took part in leadership workshops, variety of workshops on how to present your scientific research and presented their own research during poster sessions. Authors: Aleksandra Wieloszyńska Page 3 of 5
Baltic Science Festival The Baltic Science Festival is annual event organized by few cities and universities in Pomerania. Every year Gdansk University of Technology, which we are part of, takes part in the organization of the festival. Its goal is to spark interest in science among young people (mostly high school and junior high school students). One of the events we have prepared for them was a visit in the Data Visualisation Systems laboratory at our university, where we have presented them thermographic cameras, materials that change colour when illuminated with different light sources, and a laser game where the goal was to guide a laser beam to a target using mirrors and lenses. The second event was a laser shooting range, which uses a modified BB-gun with an IR laser and a CCD matrix target. PG Open The goal of these event was to encourage high school students to study science, preferably at our university. We presented our chapter activities, and showed the laser shooting range. Electronics Workshops Our chapter took part with the organization of the workshops for high school students. During four meetings they had learned the basic of electronics and optoelectronics. Students had an opportunity to assemble analog and digital circuits using discrete components and a breadboard, test and play around with them. The workshops meetings lasted around 3 hours and had approximetly 20 active participants. Authors: Aleksandra Wieloszyńska Page 4 of 5
4. Future planned activities: We are organizing the next edition of OPTO Conference OPTO2018 in July We are going to attend on the few conference during next year: Symposium Wilga, Optics and Photonics 2018, etc. We are going to continue organising the workshops from electronics and take part in workshops organised at our University and Department: LabView etc. We are going to continue organising chapter meetings every two weeks, encouraging our chapter members to practice their presentation skills and our Vice President is going to organise workshops on How to present your research and write a good scientific paper? basing on the knowledge she gained at SPIE Optics + Photonics 2016. 5. Financial information: We have used funding from SPIE activity grant to pay for conference in Wilga as well as printing posters for our chapter. Also we used them to buy necessary elements for workshops mentioned before and projects made by members. We also have used the funding to bought some posters, leaflets, and distributed during events We have used Officer Travel Grant to send Agnieszka Szreder and Aleksandra Wieloszyńska to conference Optics & Photonics 2017 and Student Chapter Leadership Workshop held in San Diego. Next year we plan to use Activity Grant for founding chapter projects as well as for marketing purposes. Also we would like to send one of our officers to a conference using Officer Travel Grant and we plan on using Visiting Lecturer grant. In next year we organize the OPTO2018 conference. That s why we pla to submit the FOCUS conference grand request. 6. Financial report: 1. Beginning balance Funds from previous year 100 $ From Student Council at the GUT 100 $ SPIE Activity Grant 500 $ 2. Expended Elements for workshops (electronics, and photonics) 200 $ Projects spending 220 $ Promotion materials 100 $ Participation in the conference in Wilga 50 $ Participation in the OPTO2017 conference in Warsaw 50 $ 3. Final balance: 80 $ Authors: Aleksandra Wieloszyńska Page 5 of 5