SPIE Chapter Report

2013-14

Govindpuri, Kalkaji

New Delhi-110019

http://andcollege.du.ac.in

Acharya Narendra Dev College

JULY 2014

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TABLE OF CONTENTS

DESCRIPTION

PAGE NUMBER

President‟s Word 3

Present Members 4

Chapter Council 8

Chapter Activities 9

Publications 31

Financial Information 33

Planned Activities for the future 33

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PRESIDENT’S WORD

With the establishment of new benchmarks through the years, SPIE Student Chapter at

Acharya Narendra Dev College has proved to be a huge success. From a group of handful of

students to a family of young and innovative minds, SPIE at ANDC has always believed in

unanimity and developing young talents to come forward and work for its ultimate focus

“Easing and promoting optics and photonics”. Since 2010, these 4 years have helped us

mark various milestones in the history of SPIE Chapter ANDC, as a result we have grown

collectively and are still proceeding towards new horizons of achievements. As being the

president of the SPIE Chapter at ANDC, I feel elated and honoured to hereby showcase our

chapter‟s achievements in this fourth consecutive Annual Report of SPIE Student Chapter

University of Delhi at ANDC for the academic year 2013-14.

This year has been quite fun filled with its inception from the workshop on “Innovative

Pedagogies for modern optics and photonics” which was a two-day workshop with first

day dedicated to demonstration of geometrical optics kit and low cost fibre optics kit to the

student attendees, whereas the second day was planned for hands- on wave optics related

experiments using low cost CCDs and also we were able to reconstruct a 3D hologram also.

Some of our chapter members attended and went for poster presentation in the “IISER

Kolkata Winter School 2013”. Then in February, few of our chapter member went to

CUSAT Cochin, Kerala to attend “Annual Photonics Workshop” on the occasion of

National Science Day. This year in February, Mohd. Aiman Ali Raza, our student member

made his mark in SPIE's one of the most prestigious and biggest conferences “Photonics

West” held in San Francisco, CA, USA.

Further in March, we were graced with the presence of “Dr. Philip. H. Stahl, The President

of SPIE” who gave a remarkable presentation on the development of “James Webb Space

Telescope”. His visit to our college filled us with a whole new enthusiasm and urge to work

and explore even more.

Our chapter triumphed so far under the supervision of one person, our guide Dr. Amit Garg.

It will be futile without mentioning his efforts behind our success. I respect his striving hard

work for our chapter in its continued endeavour. All of us have been fortunate to be able to

explore the depth of optics and photonics under his guidance. Lastly, my good wishes to all

my peers and juniors who are rigorously working for the society to elevate its position every

successive year and hope that this journey of fathoms of success is longstanding.

Prabhav Pushkar

President (2013-14)

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LIST OF PRESENT MEMBERS 2013-14

S.No NAME POSITION

1. Ajay Acharya Student

2. Smiritilekha Acharyya Student

3. Abhishek Aggarawal Student

4. Harshit Agrawal Student

5. Mohd. Aiman Ali Raza Student

6. Mohd Anas Student

7. Ankit Baliyan Student

8. Satyam Bhakuni Student

9. Sadashiv Bharadwaj Student

10. Saptarshi Chakrabarty Student

11. Dashrath Chaudhary Student

12. Sarthak Chauhan Student

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13. Avi Dhall Student

14. Pankaj Dhaundiyal Student

15. Gazal Gulati Student

16. Abhishek Gupta Student

17. Anuj Gupta Student

18. Ashutosh Gupta Student

19. Sanchita Gupta Student

20. Smiriti Jain Student

21. Rakesh Jaiswal Student

22. Priyanka Kachru Student

23. Abhishek Kumar Student

24. Deepak Kumar Student

25. Gaurav Kumar Student

26. Nikhil Kumar Student

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27 Niraj Kumar Student

28. Raj Kumar Student

29. Shashank Kumar Student

30. Jyoti Kundu Student

31. Ramesh Maithil Student

32. Vikram Maurya Student

33. Kiran Meena Student

34. Sparsh Rajpai Student

35. Bharana Rajput Student

36. Gaurav Rathour Student

37. Abhijeet Sharma Student

38. Aman Sharma Student

39. Angad Sharma Student

40. Raj Sharma Student

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41. Ankit Singh Student

42. Shatakshi Singh Student

43. Sahil Talla Student

44. Vishal Thakur Student

45. Rishabh Tiwary Student

46. Saksham Tyagi Student

47. Amit Verma Student

48. Jitendra Verma Student

49. Nishant Yadav Student

50. Sandeep Yadav Student

51. Sundaram Yadav Student

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CHAPTER COUNCIL

PRESIDENT- Prabhav Pushkar VICE PRESIDENT- Subhajit Dutta

GENERAL SECRETARY- Harsh Arora TREASURER- Pulkit Saxena

FACULTY ADVISOR- Dr. Amit Garg

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CHAPTER

ACTIVITIES

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WORKSHOP ON INNOVATIVE PEDAGOGIES FOR

MODERN OPTICS AND PHOTONICS

This workshop which was conducted by our SPIE student members, Faculty Adviser and

external resource person on 10-11 October 2013 to keep ourselves intact with developments

in the field of optics and photonics. It began with demonstrations of “Geometrical Optics

kit” and “Low cost Fibre Optics kit” to new aspiring students who had signed up for SPIE

Membership. Furthermore, all the students were given a chance to work hands-on the

experimental setup of “Analysing Diffraction and Interference patterns using low cost

CCD’s “and “Studying the properties of light through polarisation”. This allowed

students to probe into the depth of these concepts. Apart from this, a workshop on

“Reconstruction of a 3D hologram” was also scheduled on these days. Reconstruction of a

3D hologram was completely fascinating concepts for the students, which in fact attracted

many students and made this two-day workshop succeed in its motive to promote optics

through a more advanced vision.

LIST OF PARTICIPANTS

DAY 1: 10 October 2013

S.No NAME

1. Anuj Gupta

2. Sundaram

3. Vishal Thakur

4. Abhishek Agarwal

5. Avinash Sudhanshu

6. Nikhil Kumar

7. Saptarishi Chakraborty

8. Nishant Yadav

9. Raini Kumari

10. Neeraj

11. Rahul

12. Navin Narota

13. Jitendra

14. Smriti Lekha

15. Rashmi

16. Harshit Agarwal

17. Abhishek Kumar

18. Abhijeet

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19. Aman Mishra

20. Richa Singla

21. Gokul Krishna

22. Bidyut Bikash

23. Shashank Kumar

24. Gaurav Dubey

25. Shreyak Chakravarty

26. Ankur Kumar

27. Deepak Kumar

28. Ashutosh Gupta

29. Amon Sharma

30. Satyam

31. Vishnu

32. Rajkumar

33. Saksham Tyagi

34. Vikram

35. Sadashiv Bhardwaj

36. Sparsh Vajpayee

37. Harsh Arora

38. Rishabh Tiwary

39. Gazal Gulati

40. Rakesh Jaiswal

DAY 2: 11 October 2013

S.No NAME

1. Prabhav Pushkar

2. Pratibha Arya

3. Kamal Kishore

4. Rakhi Bight

5. Amit Verma

6. Sandeep Yadav

7. Varun Sikka

8. Ajay Acharya

9. Pulkit Saxena

10. Sahil Srivastava

11. Monika Kataria

12. Dashrath Choudhary

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13. Gaurav Kumar

14. Durgesh Kumar

15. Jitendra Verma

16. Karishma Vashishtha

17. Deepak Kumar

18. Subhajit Dutta

19. Rishi Pandey

20. Ankita Negi

21. Aiman Ali Raza

22. Suraj Kumar

23. Deepak Sharma

24. Vivek Trivedi

25. Priyanka Kachru

LIST OF INSTRUCTORS for

“Geometrical Optics kit” and “Low cost Fibre Optics kit”

S.No NAME

1. Ajay Acharya

2. Karishma Vashishtha

3. Pulkit Saxena

4. Subhajit Dutta

5. Ankita Negi

6. Deepak Kumar

7. Deepak Sharma

8. Aiman Ali Raza

9. Suraj Kumar

10. Priyanka Kachru

11. Vivek Trivedi

12. Sahil Srivastava

RESOURCE PERSONS for

“Interference, Diffraction, polarization Studies” and “Holography”

S.No NAME

1. Dr. Sanjay Kumar

2. Dr. Amit Garg

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IISER Kolkata Winter School on Photonics-2013

Amongst top renowned research institutes in India, IISER Kolkata had organised its “Winter

School on Photonics” in December 2013 with its sub events being the guest lectures

conducted by esteemed Professors, whereas the other crucial event being the poster

presentation by students of various colleges to boost up the morale of new talents in the field

of Photonics research. Students of our SPIE Chapter also attended this winter school and

presented our Chapter‟s work in form of poster presentation. We were applauded there for the

vibrant range of innovations we have done at this undergraduate level.

LIST OF ATTENDEES

S.No NAME

1. Ajay Acharya

2. Amit Verma

3. Deepak Kumar

4. Prabhav Pushkar

5. Raj Sharma

6. Sandeep Yadav

7. Pulkit Saxena

8. Dashrath Chaudhary

9. Abhishek Agarwal

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ANTARDHVANI-2014

A MULTIDIMENSIONAL CULTURAL FESTIVAL OF

UNIVERSITY OF DELHI

Antardhvani is University of Delhi‟s annual multidimensional cultural festival where all

colleges under University of Delhi showcase their manifold achievements throughout the

year in every aspect. This was our second consecutive year to unveil our SPIE Chapter

activities in this mega event. SPIE Chapter at ANDC figured amongst the key features

highlighted in the festival by our college as part of its of Beyond the Classroom approach.

Special pamphlets and booklets were designed and printed for distribution during the festival.

Acharya Narendra Dev College was awarded “Award For Good Practices” and bagged

third position in this humongous festival after competing with 64 other University of Delhi

colleges.

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ANNUAL PHOTONICS WORKSHOP 2014

Cochin University of Science And Technology, Cochin,

Kerala

On 27-28 February,2014 students of our chapter went to Cochin University of Science And

Technology to attend “Annual Photonics Workshop” on the auspicious occasion of

National Science Day. In spite of being the only undergraduate lot of students, our student

members participated in all the sessions of the workshop with utter zeal to inherit knowledge

and also propagate it to fellow members. Their interaction with the eminent professors

manifested their enthusiasm to explore photonics and gathered a lot of praise from the

professors.

LIST OF ATTENDEES

S.No NAME

1. Ananya Paul

2. Mohd. Anas

3. Priyanka Kachru

4. Sahil Talla

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A VISIT BY Dr. H. PHILIP STAHL

PRESIDENT OF SPIE

In the month March, we welcomed the much awaited day of our SPIE Student Chapter when

we were adorned with the presence of a much esteemed NASA Scientist and also the current

SPIE President Dr. H. Philip Stahl. Starting from his warm welcome in the college by our

Principal Dr. Savithri Singh, Faculty Advisor Dr. Amit Garg and SPIE Student Chapter at

ANDC President: Prabhav Pushkar, Mohd. Aiman Ali Raza, a student member who went to

attend the international conference “SPIE Photonics West 2014” in San Francisco, CA,

USA gave a presentation on the developments of our Student Chapter in the past four years.

Finally, Dr. Stahl commenced with his talk on “James Webb Space Telescope” after which

he interacted with students and clarified their queries related to his presentation.

Students members demonstrated the “Geometrical Optics Kit” and the “Low cost Fibre

Optics Kit” which is fabricated by our chapter members. Various activities, vibrancy and

enthusiasm of the chapter were greatly appreciated by SPIE President.

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PARTICIPATION IN SPIE OPTICS+PHOTONICS 2014

Priyanka Kachru of B.Sc.(Honours) Physics Part II has been awarded Officer‟s Travel

Grant to attend SPIE Optics + Photonics conference to be held from 16-21 August 2014 at

San Diego Convention Center, San Diego, California, USA. She will be presenting a research

paper under Optics Outreach Education.

COUNCIL MEETINGS

Chapter holds regular meetings to discuss the plan of action for the promotion activities of

the chapter. It helps us regularly monitor our progress and work on the areas where chapter

can improve.

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PUBLICATIONS

1. Easing wave optics understanding through technology, Amit Garg, Priyanka Kachru,

Shatakshi Singh, Rishabh Tiwary , Optical Engineering + Applications(SPIE Optics +

Photonics), 17–21 August 2014, San Diego Convention Center, San Diego, California,

USA

2. Development of open source low cost wireless data acquisition systems for science

experiments, Amit Garg, Avinash Kumar Shudhanshu, Raj Kumar, Shadashiv Raj

Bharadwaj, Roopesh Tehri, Chandra Kanta Samal, International Journal of Information &

Computation Technology, Vol 4(2), Page 1123-1128, 2014.

3. Measuring the size of quantum dots using a low cost CCD, Amit Garg, Priyanka Kachru,

Ananya Paul, Shatakshi Singh, Subhajit Dutta, SPIE Asia Student Photonics Conference

(ASPC), 2014 organized by IISER Kolkata , 18th

-21st July 2014. Best Oral paper in

Postgraduate Student Category

4. Innovation in Basic Science Laboratory through Sensors and Open Source Technology,

Avinash Kumar Shudhanshu, Amit Garg, Raj Kumar, Sadashiv Raj Bharadwaj, Gaurav

Singh, International Journal on Recent Trends in Engineering & Technology(IJRTET),

Vol 11(2) page 313-319 published by ACEEE, USA

5. Technology Based Laboratory to Improve Science Learning‟ , Avinash Kumar

Shudhanshu, Raj Kumar, Sadashiv Raj Bharadwaj, Gaurav Singh, Amit Garg,

„7th

National Level Science Symposium-2014‟ on “Recent Trends in Science and

Technology” Christ College, Rajkot , 22nd

- 23rd

February 2014.

6. Effect of spinner rotation speed and post-annealing on the optical constants of ZnO thin

film, Arijit Chowdhuri , Pinky Rehman , V. Bhasker Raj and Amit Garg , International

Conference on “Innovative Trends in Applied Physical, Chemical, Mathematical Sciences

and Emerging Energy Technology for Sustainable Development”,(APCMET-2014), 19th

-

20th

April, 2014, Jawahar Lal Nehru University, New Delhi

7. Automating Physical Chemistry Laboratory using sensors and data acquisition systems,

Rambir, Sachin Kumar, Amita, Pankaj Khanna, Amit Garg , Vishal Dhingra, CRSSI,

BHU 15th CRSI National Symposium in Chemistry (NSC-15), 1st -3rd February 2013,

Banaras Hindu University

8. Glucose Detection- a biosensing approach, Animesh Kar, Gunjan, Harsh Bishen, Raj

Keshri, Deepak Kumar, Rajender, Durgesh Kumar, Kapil Joshi, Dikshant hans, Rajesh

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Choudhary, Arijit Chowdhuri, Amit Garg , National Conference On Redefining Science

Teaching: Future of Education, 7-9th March, 2013, University of Delhi, South Campus,

New Delhi – 110 021

9. Mobile Phone as a real time sensor based undergraduate laboratory, Amit Verma, Dhruv

Dosad, Hemant Adhikari, Rakhi Bisht, Prabhav Pushkar, Kamal Kishore, Sandeep

Yadav, Sachin Kumar, Rambir, Amita, Amit Garg, Vishal Dhingra , Pankaj Khanna,

National Conference On Redefining Science Teaching: Future of Education, 7-9th March,

2013, University of Delhi, South Campus,New Delhi – 110 021

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FINANCIAL STATEMENT

S.No Activity Withdrawn Deposited Balance

1. Opening Balance Rs.49047/-

2. Grant received Rs. 90840/-

3. Two day workshop ,

Participation in conferences

by students and others

Rs. 54247/-

4. Material for school

demonstrations(committed)

Rs. 71000/-

Closing Balance Rs.14660/-

PROPOSED ACTIVITIES WITH FINANCIAL

ESTIMATES FOR THE YEAR 2014-15

S.No Activity Estimates Remarks

1. Promotional Material for

distribution to other colleges and

departments of University of Delhi

Rs.3000/- Printing of A3 size

posters highlighting

SPIE, Student

member benefits,

proposed activities of

the Student Chapter,

postage and transport

2. Two Days Workshop on Photonics Rs.40000/- Remuneration to

speakers, material,

Refreshments,

Travel,

Contingencies

3. Participation by Student members

in Conferences

Rs.20000/-

4. Visit to industry/research labs

engaged in photonics

Rs.15000/- Travel Expenses+

Food

5. Invited Talks Rs.10000/-

6. Promoting Photonics in Schools/

colleges through workshops

Rs.10000/- Travel+ Refreshment

7. Innovative Project work by Student

members

Rs.30000/- Material Cost

8. Contingencies Rs.10000/-

Total Rs. 138000/-

(app USD 2300)