Universidad de Guadalajara SPIE Student Chapterspie.org/StudentChapterReports/Guadalajara_Report_200908.pdf · Electronics Metrology Unit and hanged out with the doctors. Dr. Guillermo

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Annual Report

Universidad de Guadalajara SPIE Student Chapter

1. Elected officers

(2008-2009)

President Name: José Juvenal Ramírez Martín Email address: [email protected] Member number: 03236384

Vice-President Name: Irma Nayeli Angulo Sherman Email address: [email protected] Member number: 03232171

Treasurer Name: Antonio Navarro Hernández Email address: [email protected] Member number: 03236396

Secretary Name: Norma Alicia González Arreola Email address: [email protected] Member number: 03236387

(2009-2010)

President Name: Irma Nayeli Angulo Sherman Email address: [email protected] Member number: 03232171

Vice-President Name: Jorge Sánchez Preciado Email address: [email protected] Member number: 03236381

Treasurer Name: Norma Alicia González Arreola Email address: [email protected] Member number: 03236387

Secretary Name: Hugo César Beltrán Gómez Email address: [email protected] Member number: 03290589



2. Current Student Chapter Members.

(2008-2009)

(2009-2010)

New members/Already renewed 1. José Juvenal Ramírez Martín

2. Marco Vinicio Tovar Padilla

3. Anuar Benjamín Beltrán González

4. Enrique Vargas Obieta

5. Antonio Navarro Hernández

6. Norma Alicia González Arreola

7. Jorge Sánchez Preciado

8. Irma Nayeli Angulo Sherman

9. Abril Adriana Angulo Sherman

10. Ileana Wendoli Ortiz Cabrera

11. Ignacio Omar Mireles Noera

12. María Fernanda Villegas Huízar

1. Hugo César Beltrán Gómez

2. Jorge Sánchez Preciado

3. Irma Nayeli Angulo Sherman

4. Josue Caleb Muñoz León

5. David Fernando Horta Velázquez

6. Norma Alicia González Arreola

7. Andrés Francisco Macías Villa

8. Sandra Verónica Cantero Ávalos

9. María Fernanda Villegas Huízar

10. Rodrigo de la Peña Gutiérrez

11. Jaime Alberto Ramírez Giraldo

12. Ruben Estrada Marmolejo

13. Antonio Navarro Hernández

14. Hector Torres Ortega

15. Carlos Figueroa Cárdenas



3. Details of Chapter activities since last report.

As we enlisted in our previous activities report, the following activities were done:

Presentation of the club and its activities program to the university community Attendants: about 35 On Tuesday, December 16, 2008 took place the presentation of the Univ. de Guadalajara SPIE Student Chapter to the students of this institute with the presence of some university authorities, such as Dr. Alberto de la Mora, director of the Division of Electronics and Computer Science; Jaime Almaguer, the BA in Physics coordinator; Vladimir Quiroga, the BA in Electronics and Communications Engineering coordinator, also Dr. Jorge L. Flores and Dr. Guillermo García Torales, chapter advisors.

Dr. De la Mora inaugurated the activities of the chapter giving a speech to motivate the students to join the chapter and participate in scientific and cultural activities.

José Juvenal Ramírez, president of the club, presented the work plan for the 2008-2009 period and talked about the opportunities that a SPIE Chapter offers to its members; furthermore, the importance of promoting academic mobility and to strengthen collaboration bonds with other SPIE chapters that exist in the country.

Professor Vladimir closed the event expressing the support offered by the coordination that he leads to the chapter; he encouraged students to join research and technical development projects and invited them to be part of the activities and projects to be performed in CONCIBE and to the VII Symposium of Optics in Industry.

With this presentation the chapter began its work-plan for 2008-2009 cycle.

The director of Division of Electronics and Computer Science, Alberto de la Mora, gave a motivational speech to the students.

From left to right: Dr.García-Torales, Professor Quiroga, Dr. Flores-Núñez, José J. Ramírez, Irma Angulo and physicist Almaguer.



Visit of Dr. J. María Yzuel to the campus Attendants: 113

In March 3rd of 2009 Dr. J. María Yzuel visited the Centro Universitario of Ciencias Exactas e Ingenierías.

First, she explained what SPIE is and its purpose, she talked about some of SPIE activities and how it both encourages and participate in advanced research. She explained what a SPIE student chapter is, the places where they exist and the opportunities it offers to its members.

Then, José J. Ramírez talked about the activities done by the chapter until then and he invited the students to join. The crowd asked some questions about SPIE that Dr. J. María Yzuel, Dr. Jorge Flores and Dr. Guillermo García Torales answered.

After doubts where solved Dr. J. María Yzuel gave a technical talk about LCD characterization, which was included as part of the seminar planned for this year, and once she finished some curious people surrounded her to know more about SPIE and LCD applications.

Later she visited the Optics and Electronics Metrology Unit where she saw all the experiments developed by students with guidance of Dr. Guillermo García-Torales and Dr. Jorge Flores.

Dr. J. María Yzuel with the chapter members Irma Angulo, Anuar Beltrán, José J. Ramírez and Jorge Sánchez.

Dr. Jorge Flores, Irma Angulo, Jorge Sánchez, Anuar Beltrán, Dr. J. María Yzuel, José Ramírez and Dr. Guillermo García-Torales.



Finally she went for a tour in the campus leaded by the doctors of the optics and Electronics Metrology Unit and hanged out with the doctors.

Dr. Guillermo Garcia, Dr. J. María Yzuel and Physicist Jaime Almaguer

(From left to right) Dr. Guillermo García, Dr. Gilberto Gómez, Dr. J. María Yzuel, Dr. Jorge Flores, Physicist Jaime Almaguer and two guests from the Centro de Investigaciones en Óptica.



Seminar for the university community

We invited advanced students and doctors to give a talk about they were working in. The speakers who participated were Dr. Jorge L. Flores, Dr. Guillermo García-Torales, Dr. J. María Yzuel and Dr. Erick Valdemar Cuevas. Students attended the lectures while they enjoyed some cookies.

Magnetic-optic materials, Dr. Jorge L. Flores Núñez February 19, 2009. Attendants: 13

This was first talk in our student chapter work-cycle. Dr. Flores exposed the work developed when he went to Uruguay, where he work on the development of current sensors with optic fiber and crystals (magnetic-optics material), whose optical properties were modified by the magnetic field that was consequence of the measured electric current. Dr. Flores got the students attention with some materials that were employed in his experiment as polarizers.

LCD characterization, Dr. J. María Yzuel March 3, 2009. Attendants: 113 Dr. Yzuel talked about the methods that are used in the University of Barcelona for the characterization of a LCD display by light polarization and interferometry techniques.



Tema 2, Dr. Guillermo García-Torales March 12, 2009. Attendants: 10 In the third conference Dr. Torales explained the interferometry field. He gave a summary about the history and mathematics related to the light interference phenomena. He brought a wide variety of distorted images that showed different pictures when they were superposed forming a fringe pattern. Intelligent Vision in Robots, Dr. Erick Valdemar Cuevas April 2, 2009. Attendants: 26

Artificial vision is considered an essential block for autonomous system operation, from simple recognition methods to complex robotic navigation assignments. All require a consistent representation of the environment they operate in.

This conference was about the principal perspectives and actual proposals of artificial vision applied to mobile robots, principally the ones considered computational intelligence.

Dr. Erick Valdemar Cuevas impressed the students with videos about the biped robots he has worked with, and also how robots could predict the movement of objects, such as people, and plan strategies in base on this movement.

The other planned conferences were cancelled due to A-H1N1 flu, but we plan to

invite them next year.



Short course for kids February 26 and March 3, 2009. Attendants: 17

For two Fridays 17 kids of junior school from different schools visited the physics and organic chemistry laboratories of the campus, in which they made and observed chemistry and physics experiments so they could learn and get more curious about science and optics.

Later they visited the Optics and Electronics Metrology Unit where Dr. Guillermo García-Torales showed them some of the equipment and instruments used in optics and explained some of the applications of optics. Also the Chapter member Jorge Sánchez gave a brief explanation of a project he was working on.

After their hard work they took a break and played in the sports installations.



Participation in diffusion or research projects

Our partner Jorge Sánchez worked from June to December with our advisor, Dr. Jorge Luis Flores, in a research project called “Spatial integrating joint transform correlator for pattern recognition by use of an infinite grating filter”. In the proposed setup the joint transform of the images to be correlated is filtered by an infinite Ronchi ruling, which is generated by a spatial light modulator, SLM, at the Fourier plane.

The proposed technique significantly reduces the processing time needed for real-time applications. The paper was accepted to be presented into this year SPIE Optics + Photonics, on August 5th, on the poster presentation type.

Also Hugo Beltrán worked for eight months with Dr. Jorge Flores on an optical current sensor monitored with LABVIEW. This sensor will be presented on September 11 on a Poster in the VII Symposium of Optics in Industry. This sensor will be a fundamental part for his thesis.

Anuar Beltrán worked with Dr. Guillermo García and Dr. Jorge Flores on a system capable of locating and object in the viewing field of a CCD camera, pointing at the object and following it. This work was presented in the LI National Meeting of Physics-II Latinamerican Meeting of Physics on October 20-24 of 2008.

Anuar Beltrán working on a new project.



Participation in congresses

Optics + Photonics Meeting in San Diego July 31- August 6, 2009. Jorge Sánchez and José Juvenal Ramírez travelled to San Diego. José Juvenal, president of the chapter, was supported with the Officer Traveling Grant. Our partner Jorge was supported with the SPIE Contingency Student Travel Grant so he could present on a poster the “Spatial integrating joint transform correlator for pattern recognition by use of an infinite grating filter” research project.

José Ramírez and Jorge Sanchez were our chapter representants at the Student chapters leadership workshop. As they participated in all the leadership talks and activities they got new knowledge about the management and direction of an organization, like our student chapter.

They also attended to the conferences, meals and events in the Optics+ Photonics meeting, such as “No ties”, in which the members of different chapters hanged out and “Lunch with the experts”, where our chapter members could spend time with executives and researchers of different multinational companies. Also the “All-conference Welcome reception” dinner at the Marriot hotel that had a Mexican theme.

Jorge and José spend time with the other chapters in the “Student Chapter Exhibit Mixer”. We are looking forward to participating in it next year with a presentation of our chapter.

Jorge Sánchez and Dr. Jorge Luis Flores at the poster session.

Jorge and José with Rachel Won.



VII Symposium of Optics in Industry in Guadalajara

One of our current activities is to collaborate in the organization of the VII Symposium of Optics in Industry, that will take place in September 10th, 11th and 12th and for which we invited all chapters in Mexico to attend the event and work together and the Univ. Autonoma de Nuevo Leon, Univ. de Guanajuato, Ctr. De Investigaciones en Óptica and the Instituto Nacional de Astrofísica, Óptica y Electrónica chapters have confirmed their participation in this event. Now we are making the arrangements needed for it to be done. The chapters activities planned besides attending workshops and conferences are providing visual information about each chapter recent work and about the research center or university they belong to, organizing a round table just for SPIE student chapters so we can discuss our ideas and plan future collective chapter activities. Jorge Sánchez, Hugo Beltrán and Jaime Ramírez had already sent abstracts and they will participate on poster session. Our chapter applied to the visiting lecturer program grant to bring Dr. Alan Kost to the symposium for the lecture Advanced concepts for photovoltaics.

José Ramírez, Ben Lockwood, Dirk Fabian and Jorge Sánchez after the Leadership Workshop.

Our partners with Dr. María J. Yzuel, Dr. Upendra Singh and Dr. Katarina Svanberg.



Visiting research centers

As students get their degree they need to set options for their further education. There are some master courses in other universities and research centers and some of the students in our university, included the chapter members Hugo Beltrán and Jorge Sánchez, attended to a course from may 13 to may 22 at the Centro de Investigaciones en Óptica (CIO).

There they got a closer view of the different optics fields worked on this research center and meet researchers and professors, as well as CIO Student Chapter members. On this visit our members could work with some of the doctors, working with fibers and an interferometer.

This kind of visits helped our chapter members to meet different places in our country to continue with our postgraduate studies.

Jorge Sánchez wearing a mask in an activity of the

course of de Centro de Investigaciones en Óptica.



Chapter meetings

We had our first meeting at the beginning of the cycle to hold our first elections. Then we had a couple of meetings to discuss how we would carry out some of the chapter activities, such as the workshop for kids. We developed an activity work-plan for the activities that required the effort of most of the members; however we made groups depending on our needs.

We also had a meeting for welcoming new members after summer vacations and get

to know each other before we start the next year activities. In this meeting we invited all

chapter members, advisors and students who had interest of becoming a chapter member.

(From left to right) Dr. Jorge Flores, José Ramírez, Hector Torres, Rubén Estrada, Jorge Sánchez, Irma Angulo, Enrique Vargas, María Villegas, Hugo Beltrán, Carlos Figueroa and Dr. Guillermo García.



4. Details of planned activities for the future.

Activities 2009-2010 The activities that will be realized are the following ones:

August-December 2009

Website

Description: Updating and reorganizing our website so it is easier to website visitors

to get relevant information and to know who to communicate with and how to

subscribe to our student chapter.

Participation in congresses

Description: Presenting projects or helping in congresses organization. We will keep

participating as technical support and logistics in the organization of the event VII

Symposium of Optics in Industry, also three of our members are participating with

posters. We intend to present some projects on the University’s meeting V

International Congress on Electronics and Biomedical Engineering, Computers and

Informatics (CONCIBE). Two members are making arrangements for going to the

IONS-North America conference.


Description: Keep participating as research assistants on projects of applied science

and basic science on different fields in optics, electronics and biomedicine.

Chapter diffusion

Description: Spreading the club objectives and activities in the university, in national

and international (SPIE) meetings, such the VII Symposium of Optics in Industry.

Meetings

Description: Promoting monthly meetings of the club members, where subjects of

academic interest will be discussed. Also helping to integrate the students group and

encouraging new member joining. The last will be in December to finish the first half

of the year; we will discuss the activities realized until then so we can make some

improvements, after that we would hang out.



January-August 2010

Short course for youngsters/kids

Description: Creating interest in young students towards science (optics) applications

by helping them to understand the importance of this discipline, its use and letting

them apply it in a practical activity. We will make more interactive activities for the

participants. We will try to increase the number of kids and to divide them in smaller

groups.


Description: Getting involved in research, by getting close to researchers in CUCEI

and the university, in order to collaborate as research assistants. As a group, we will

be thinking on the development of a project that involves the participation of

students in different disciplines, such as optics, electronics and biomedicine.

Also we want to participate in a program for doing research in summer with a

researcher, such the Programa Delfín or the Verano Científico program, and exposing

the work done in a student national meeting.

Chapter diffusion in university events

Description: Spreading the club objectives and activities in the university, in national

and international (SPIE) meetings.

Conferences/workshops for the university community

Description: Its aim is to invite researchers or engineers whose fields are related to

optics, electronics, physics and biomedical engineering so they can share their

research work to student community or teach about their field by a practical

experience. We would invite advanced students to give a talk about their thesis or

their projects they are working on.

Visits research centers or companies

Description: In order to get close to national research groups, we will visit research

centers and leader businesses. Also we want to keep in touch all the year with the

national chapters in order to plan new activities.



Meetings

Description: Promoting the club members integration and inviting the student

community to know more about the student chapter in order to motivate them to

participate in the activities.

Between these meetings there is one ant the beginning of the scholar cycle to

organize the activities of this period. Another meeting will by the summer vacations

to make a last feedback about the work done along the year and welcome new

members and spend some time with them and integrate all members.

5. Financial information.

Details of funding Funds in dollars Ending balance

Date

Destination/Source Raised Expended Balance Date

Chapter Activity Grant $500.00 03/25/09

Bank expenses $17.19 03/25/09

Course at CIO $40.24 05/13/09 - 05/22/09

Workshop for kids $93.55 02/27/09 - 03/06/09

Office material (recuperation) $28.06 07/27/09

Material in laboratory $39.79 07/30/09

Chapter meeting $64.47 08/21/09

Chapter advertising ( Poster, cards, leaflets) $148.94 09/01/09

IONS-NA $63.83

Total $500.00 $496.07 $3.93

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