ANNUAL REPORT January 2009 – December 2009
NITT-SPIE STUDENT CHAPTERNATIONALINSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY
TIRUCHIRAPPALLI 620015
TAMILNADU
INDIAEmail: [email protected]
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Outline of the Report
Chapter Leaders and Advisor – 2009
List of Current Student Chapter Members
Chapter Activities (since last report)
<A> Scholar Talk
<B> Guest Lectures
<C> SPIE - Visiting Lecture Program
<D> Workshop on Optics (WoO-10)
<E> School visit
<F> SPIE Scholarships & SPIE Student Leadership Meet
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Mr. Jegatheesan Periyannan
President
Ms. Sathya Sheela Subramanian
Dillibabu Sastikumar
Faculty Advisor
Mr. Renganathan Baluswamy
Mr. Krishna Kumar Krishnamurthy
Secretary
Chapter Leaders and Advisor – 2009
Ms. Saranya
Joint-Secretary
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List of Current Student Chapter Members
Brindha Ananthan
Total Members - 38
Prakasam Annamlai
Govindasamy BalakrishnanKeerthana BalakrishnanNatarajan Balasubramanian
Renganathan Balusamy
Saranya Bhupathi
Subramanian Ganapthi
Gobi Govindan
Jayalakshmi Gurusamy
Sanitha Haridasan
Nasiha Jaheer Hussain
Mangaiyarkarasi KandasamyKrishna Kumar Krishnamurthy
Balakrishnan Lakshmi Narayanan
Jegatheesan Periyannan
Srinivasan Ponnusamy
K. Prakash
Talakonda Prasada Rao
Petchimuthu Rajarajan
Navanitha Krishnan Rajeshwari Yogamalar
Ramesh Ram
Deepthi Ramakrishnan
Rajesh Ramakrishnudu
Khasim Shaik
Govindan ShankarMichael ShanthiSaranya Shupathi
Gokulraj Srinivasan
Ramasamy Srinivasan
Gowrishankar Subramaniam
Balakrishnan Subramanian
Prabhakaran Thandapani
Pandiyarajan Thangaraj
Shanmugavel Thangavel
Arun Thirumurugan
Ramya VenkatesanAnbarasu Venugopal
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Scholars Talk
SPIE Member Dr. S. Gokulraj has presented his views on research ethics to our SPIE – research scholar members
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Inauguration of the workshop
More than 100 participants benefitted from the workshop. A portion of audience is shown. Invited speakers can be seen in the front row.
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Organizing team after successful completion of the workshop.
A member is busy in the lab demo session during the workshop.
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School visit
*A team of 10 Members visited a nearby school on 18 & 19 September 2009.
*Various activities are performed to explain reflection, interference and polarization.
* More than 75 students enjoyed the program.
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* NITT-SPIE president is handed over optical kit and a book containing 101 simple science experiments to school teachers.
*Officials of the schools can be seen.
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SPIE Scholarship
SPIE Student Leadership Meet
•Our member
Mr. Franklin Savarimuthu
is awarded
the “SPIE Educational Scholarship - 2009”.
Our Member Mrs. M.S.L. Shanthi
has been awarded a travel grant
to participate in the student chapter leadership meeting
followed by a conference on “Optics and Photonics 2009”,
San Diego, CA, USA.
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Future Chapter Activities
•Arrange many School visits
•Arrange visits to optical industries
•Renovate chapter’s library
•Complete student chapter web page
In Short…….NITT – SPIE Student Chapter aims to motivate the student community in and around its locality in the Optics related Research and Development. We are shedding the light on the younger generation to work in Optics.
The slogan of our chapter is
“Seek The Success Through Synergy”
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