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ANNUAL REPORT
By
SPIE STUDENT CHAPTER
CENTRO DE INVESTIGACIONES EN OPTICA, A.C.
LOMA DEL BOSQUE NO. 115, LOMAS DEL CAMPESTRE 37150
LEON, GUANAJUATO, MEXICO.
PHONE: (52) 477 441 4200 EXT. 111
FAX: (52) 477 441 4200
2012
SPIE-CIO Chapter Officers :
M.C. Hector Santiago Hernandez (president).
Ing. Yuliana Mariem Espinosa Sanchez. (vice-president)
M.C. Andrea Ceja Fernandez. (Teasurer)
M.C. Davıd Ignacio Serrano Garcıa. (secretary)
CIO Directors:
Dr. Oracio C. Barbosa (Chapter advisor)
Dr. Francisco Cuevas de la Rosa (Academic Director).
Dr. Fernando Mendoza Santoyo (General Director).
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Contents
Contents v
List of figures vii
Acknowledgements x
1 Introduction 1
2 Current Chapter Members 3
3 Chapter Activities 5
3.1 Informative Talks about SPIE Membership . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5
3.2 Informal Talks . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6
3.3 Introductory course: Machinery Shop . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7
3.4 Workshop in a rural community (Plazuelas) . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9
3.5 Children’s Day festival . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10
3.6 Courses . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11
3.7 Guanajuato City Tour with Prof. Maria J. Yzuel . . . . . . . . . . 11
3.8 A look at the science of light . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 18
3.9 Tour to CIO-Labs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19
3.10 Transit of Venus . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 20
3.11 Pizza Party I . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 21
3.12 Scientific photography and Journalist article contests . . . . . . . . 22
3.13 Science in motion (The Technological University of Leon) . . . . . 23
3.14 SPIE student chapter leadership workshop . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 24
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3.15 SPIE/OSA of Mexico chapters meeting . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 25
3.16 Pizza-party II . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 28
3.17 Discovering Jupiter . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 30
3.18 VISITING LECTURER: Prof. Laura Marcu. . . . . . . . . . . . . 31
4 Financial Information 37
5 Chapter officers 39
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List of Figures
3.1 Talks presenting the benefits offered by SPIE. . . . . . . . . . . . . 5
3.2 Informal Talks with researchers of the CIO and visits to theirs lab-
oratory. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6
3.3 a) Visit of the Subdirector of the Secretariat of Economy Devel-
opment of Guanajuato, Ing. Froylan Salas. c y d) The students
show their research to the Mexican National Council on Science
and Technology (CONACYT) director Dr. Enrique Villa Rivera . 7
3.4 Course Machine Shop. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8
3.5 We showed high-school students experiments related to Optics. . . 9
3.6 Workshop in Children’s Day festival. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10
3.7 Courses. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11
3.8 Guanajuato Tunnels railroads, one of the beautiful characteristics
of the city and making this place unique in the world. . . . . . . . 12
3.9 Union Garden, one of the most beautiful meeting places of the city
were the people can eat traditional dishes of Mexico while listening
to traditional music. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13
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3.10 Guanajuato Mummy Museum presents the mummified bodies of
local people (a consequence of the peculiar mineral composition of
the region’s soil) have been on display since 1870. . . . . . . . . . . 14
3.11 One of the traditional narrow alleys of the city is The Kiss Alley,
the site of a romantic legend that tells the tragic story of two Young
Sweethearts. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15
3.12 The “Alhodiga de Granaditas” represents the beginning of Mexico’s
struggle for independence, an important fight took place here when
was an important storehouse in those times. . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16
3.13 Panoramic view of Guanajuato City with David Serrano, Prof. Elsa
Quiroga, Prof. Maria Yzuel and Hector Santiago. . . . . . . . . . . 17
3.14 Workshop “A look at the science of light”. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 18
3.15 Tour to undergraduate students to CIO-Labs. . . . . . . . . . . . . 19
3.16 Transit of Venus. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 20
3.17 Pizza-Party . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 21
3.18 Awards Ceremony. a) Talk “The Photography” by Dr. Zacarias
Malacara. b) talk “Journalist article” by Dr. Enrique Castro. c)
Talk “History of Photography” by Lic. Laila Anaid Torres. d)
awards winners. c) Two winners: Guillermo Ramırez and Ray-
mundo Mendoza. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 22
3.19 Science in motion. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 23
3.20 Meeting of chapters as part of the SPIE conference “Optics and
Photonics 2012”. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 24
3.21 Officers of Mexican student chapter of SPIE and OSA. . . . . . . . 25
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3.22 The Mexican meeting of student chapters OSA/SPIE. The officers
of student chapters had the opportunity to interact and exchange
ideas. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 26
3.23 Meeting with representatives of the OSA, Dr. Phil Bucksbaum
(OSA Vice President) and Chad Stark (Responsible for organizing
conferences and congresses of the OSA). . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 27
3.24 Pizza Party with students of first entrance. . . . . . . . . . . . . . 28
3.25 Astronomical observation “Discovering Jupiter”. . . . . . . . . . . 30
3.26 Mrs Laura Marcu arrived to hotel. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 31
3.27 Welcome speech by the institution directors and visit to laboratories
of nanophotonis. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 32
3.28 Mrs. Laura presented the talk ”Fluorescence Lifetime Spectroscopy
and Imaging for Biomedical Diagnostics”. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 32
3.29 Informal talk with some students of the CIO. . . . . . . . . . . . . 33
3.30 typical Mexican food restaurat. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 33
3.31 Laboratories: femtosecond laser, optical properties, spectroscopy
an nantechnology. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 34
3.32 We visited Guanajuato city. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 35
5.1 SPIE-CIO Student Chapter Representatives fromt left to right:
David Serrano ([email protected]), Hector Santiago (fis [email protected]),
Andrea Ceja ([email protected] ) and Yuliana Espinosa ([email protected]). 39
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Acknowledgements
We are very grateful for the support provided by the SPIE, The CIO Academic
Director Dr. Francisco Cuevas de la Rosa ([email protected]), The CIO Chapters
Advisor Dr. Oracio Barbosa ([email protected] ) and the CIO General Director
Dr. Fernando Mendoza Santoyo ([email protected]) in all the events throughout
the year.
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1 Introduction
The student chapter of the Society of Optics and Photonics from Centro de Inves-
tigaciones en Optica A.C. (CIO) based in Leon, Gto. Mexico has the purpose of
promoting outreach events with the local community at different education levels.
During this year we have held several activities involving the promotion of our
Chapter that we want to share with all the SPIE student community. Each year,
since 2005, the student chapters of the CIO have been organizing several events
in our institution in order to promote the wide fields covered by optics. In this
brief note we want to present some of the events organized this year in order to
motivate other chapters to promote theirs.
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2 Chapter 1. Introduction
2 Current Chapter Members
1. Jose Aguilar
2. Armando Alvarez Fernandez
3. Diana Arroyo
4. Alan David Blanco Miranda
5. Cruz Yuliana Calderon Hermosillo
6. Andrea Ceja Fernandez
7. Joel Cervantes
8. Victor Ulises Contreras
9. Luis Corral Martinez
10. Sofia Carolina Corzo-Garcia
11. Luis Escalante Zarate
12. Yuliana Espinosa Sanchez
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4 Chapter 2. Current Chapter Members
13. Ernesto Garcia-Sanchez
14. Monica Martinez
15. Orlando Medina
16. Francisco Mejia
17. Jose Moises Padilla
18. Yenisey Ponce de Leon Villanueva
19. Piero Rangel-Fonseca
20. Pilar Rodriguez-Torres
21. Sergio Romero Servin
22. Juan Manuel Ruiz Aranda
23. Karla Salas-Alcantara
24. Guillermo Salceda-Delgado
25. Hector Santiago Hernandez
26. David Ignacio Serrano Garcıa
27. Alejandra Urbina Frıas
28. Marcelo Vaca Pereira
29. Miguel Angel Vazquez Lopez
3 Chapter Activities
3.1 Informative Talks about SPIE Membership
In order to raise our member’s chapter roster, we organized several talks presenting
the benefits offered by SPIE ,for example: The annual scholarship application,
discounts in registration conferences, travel grant applications etc. We gave brief
explanations of deadlines and how to apply for all of them taking into account
advice from some members that already obtained that grant, for instance, David
Serrano, who obtained one of the 2011 Scholarships.
Figure 3.1: Talks presenting the benefits offered by SPIE.
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3.2 Informal Talks
One of the events organized were the informal talks with researchers and students,
not only from the CIO but also from distinguished visitors such as entrepreneurs
from our city. From the Secretariat of Economy Development of Guanajuato
subsecretary , Froylan Salas. The National Council on Science and Technology
(CONACYT) director (Dr. Enrique Villa Rivera ) and Dr. Maria Yzuel among
others, former president of SPIE.
Figure 3.2: Informal Talks with researchers of the CIO and visits to theirs lab-oratory.
3.3. Introductory course: Machinery Shop 7
Figure 3.3: a) Visit of the Subdirector of the Secretariat of Economy Develop-ment of Guanajuato, Ing. Froylan Salas. c y d) The students show their researchto the Mexican National Council on Science and Technology (CONACYT) directorDr. Enrique Villa Rivera
3.3 Introductory course: Machinery Shop
Another event promoted by the chapter was the organization of several specialized
courses to gain experience and knowledge in different areas besides Optics. We
began with an introductory course called Machinery Shop in which we learned
the basic skills to manufacture mechanical components for our projects. We are
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planning other types of courses like specialized Optics software, lens design, etc.
Such course was lectured by ME Gerardo Munoz and ME Diego Torres to whom
we’d like to express our sincerest gratitude.
Figure 3.4: Course Machine Shop.
3.4. Workshop in a rural community (Plazuelas) 9
3.4 Workshop in a rural community (Plazuelas)
Furthermore, we continued with the SPIE-CIO Student Chapter project involving
young people in science particularly in optics within our community. The chapter
focused on the spread-out of science in different events organized in our community.
One of the main events where the chapter participated was a workshop called “A
peek at the Light Science”, where we showed high-school students experiments
related to Optics. Another event was held at a small community where we showed
the spectrograph,the Newton disc and the color fusion as well as some optical
illusions and stereograms.
Figure 3.5: We showed high-school students experiments related to Optics.
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3.5 Children’s Day festival
Another event that we participated in was the Children’s Day festival held at a
local science park called Explora. In this event we taught kids how to build a
kaleidoscope, a dragon display showing how its head seems to be turning as you
walk by and some optical illusions.
Figure 3.6: Workshop in Children’s Day festival.
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3.6 Courses
In an effort to increase the academic level of the students who pursue graduate
studies at CIO. We implemented, for the second time, introductory courses for
students who want to take part in the process of admission to the Master’s degree
in science (Optics) and the master’s degree in optomechatronics. Both Chapters
(OSA-SPIE along with the academic department) taught introductory courses for
one month.
Figure 3.7: Courses.
3.7 Guanajuato City Tour with Prof. Maria J. Yzuel
With the visit of Prof. Maria J. Yzuel (2009 SPIE President) and Prof. Elsa
Quiroga (Bolivian organization of Women in Science representative) to the IX
Conference of Woman in Science held at CIO, in Leon, Mexico. The SPIE-CIO
chapter, represented by Hector Santiago Hernandez and David Serrano Garcıa,
both of whom were pleased to organize a trip to the city of Guanajuato to show
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these two outstanding women some of the beautiful places that this city has to
offer.
We headed to Guanajuato at 11 o’clock in the morning to arrive there at noon.
One of the characteristics of Guanajuato city is that it is built on very hilly ground
and the city has a network of underground tunnels that are used as roads, making
this place really unique in the world.
Figure 3.8: Guanajuato Tunnels railroads, one of the beautiful characteristics ofthe city and making this place unique in the world.
3.7. Guanajuato City Tour with Prof. Maria J. Yzuel 13
We began our tour visiting The Hidalgo Market to see and buy some of Gua-
najuato popular handcrafts. After showing them some of the typical dresses and
candy of Mexico we headed to the Union Garden where we ate a traditional meal
listening to Mexican popular songs like “Maria Bonita”, “Amor Eterno” and other
distinctive Guanajuato music. The Union Garden, Guanajuato’s most important
meeting place, along with the Church of San Diego and the Juarez Theater are
together the heart of the city.
Figure 3.9: Union Garden, one of the most beautiful meeting places of the citywere the people can eat traditional dishes of Mexico while listening to traditionalmusic.
After having a nice meal with Prof. Yzuel and Prof. Quiroga we visited the
city’s Mummy Museum were the mummified bodies of local people (a consequence
of the peculiar mineral composition of the region’s soil) have been on display since
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1870. The museum consists of various exhibitions halls, in which 119 mummified
bodies are on exhibition to the general public. The collection consists 79 women,
21 men and 19 children, one of which is the smallest mummy in the world.
Figure 3.10: Guanajuato Mummy Museum presents the mummified bodies oflocal people (a consequence of the peculiar mineral composition of the region’ssoil) have been on display since 1870.
The next place we visited was The Kiss alley. It is a traditional narrow alley,
which has two balconies opposite to each other with just 27 inches apart; this
alley was the scenario of a romantic legend that tells the tragic story of two young
sweethearts, one of whom was assassinated by her own father.
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Figure 3.11: One of the traditional narrow alleys of the city is The Kiss Alley,the site of a romantic legend that tells the tragic story of two Young Sweethearts.
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Another place we visited was “Alhondiga de Granaditas” .It is a very typical
place of the beginnings of Mexico’s struggle for Independence where a Regional
Museum is located presenting the major pre-Hispanic collections, handcraft works
of art and historic items from Mexico’s past.
Figure 3.12: The “Alhodiga de Granaditas” represents the beginning of Mexico’sstruggle for independence, an important fight took place here when was an impor-tant storehouse in those times.
In order to finish this pleasant trip, we visited the Pipila’s Monument to take
a picture of us all with the beautiful panoramic view presented. At this point we
were told a description of the city explained by a little and fun local boy.
3.7. Guanajuato City Tour with Prof. Maria J. Yzuel 17
Figure 3.13: Panoramic view of Guanajuato City with David Serrano, Prof. ElsaQuiroga, Prof. Maria Yzuel and Hector Santiago.
The SPIE student chapter of the CIO sends greetings to these two experienced
women and we are very grateful for their visit to our institute to share their
experience and knowledge with our SPIE colleagues Hector Santiago and David
Serrano. Also, we are very grateful for the support provided by the IX Conference
of Woman in Science committee.
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3.8 A look at the science of light
A look at the science of light, the workshop for young people from several schools
and universities, both public and private shows concepts such as interferometry,
polarization, imaging, reflection, refraction, reflection total internal and optical
illusions.
Figure 3.14: Workshop “A look at the science of light”.
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3.9 Tour to CIO-Labs
In this activity, we show the diverse areas of research that the students develop
in the Center of Research in Optics (CIO). First, with a talk, we explain optical
concepts and then give a tour of the laboratories of the CIO where we show to
undergraduate students many experiments. This activity helps undergraduate
students to know the work of the graduate student and learn topics of optical
science.
Figure 3.15: Tour to undergraduate students to CIO-Labs.
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3.10 Transit of Venus
Whit two telescopes we saw the memorable Transit of Venus. In this activity, we
invited the whole community of the CIO to witness the transit of Venus in front
of the Sun. This astronomical event occurs when Venus passes directly between
the Sun and the Earth. This phenomena is analogous to solar eclipses caused by
the Moon, but the distance and the apparent size of Venus make Venus seem like
a small black dot crossing the Sun’s visible face.
Figure 3.16: Transit of Venus.
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3.11 Pizza Party I
In this event we shown the activities made throughout the year for the SPIE
student chapter of the CIO. Also, the distinctive shirt of the chapters were offered,
new members were registered and ended this event with pizzas and soft drinks.
Figure 3.17: Pizza-Party
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3.12 Scientific photography and Journalist article con-tests
This event was held to the community of CIO to approach the science, to appreci-
ate the moments that occur in the laboratory and everyday life expressed through
photographs and articles written disclosure, concluding the event with the award
determined by a specialized jury.
Figure 3.18: Awards Ceremony. a) Talk “The Photography” by Dr. ZacariasMalacara. b) talk “Journalist article” by Dr. Enrique Castro. c) Talk “Historyof Photography” by Lic. Laila Anaid Torres. d) awards winners. c) Two winners:Guillermo Ramırez and Raymundo Mendoza.
3.13. Science in motion (The Technological University of Leon) 23
3.13 Science in motion (The Technological Universityof Leon)
In order to motivate young people and disseminate science (Optics), the workshop
“A look at the science of light” transferred to the facilities of the Technological
University of Leon, with teachers and students of various careers. In this activ-
ity, we shown concepts such as interferometry, polarization, imaging, reflection,
refraction and total internal reflection.
Figure 3.19: Science in motion.
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3.14 SPIE student chapter leadership workshop
The representatives of the SPIE student chapter of CIO, attended the annual
meeting of chapters as part of the SPIE conference “Optics and Photonics 2012”.
Where various activities were conducted such as workshops on equipment, food
with experts on the field of Optics, short courses, presentation of our activities
throughout the year 2012, attending conferences, presentation of our research
projects, professional interviews and especially networking for future collabora-
tions. It also acquired new knowledge, experiments for children and youth, and
even a book of experiments which will enrich and make more professionally the
activities of student chapters.
Figure 3.20: Meeting of chapters as part of the SPIE conference “Optics andPhotonics 2012”.
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3.15 SPIE/OSA of Mexico chapters meeting
This event took place from 19 to 21 September this year as part of the conference
“Mexican Optics and Photonics Meeting” (MOPM). The chapters meeting was
fully organized and headed by the representatives of the CIO student chapters
of SPIE and OSA. In the organization of the meeting was contemplated lodging,
Figure 3.21: Officers of Mexican student chapter of SPIE and OSA.
meals and conference fee MOPM of attendees representing all chapters of Mexico
(SPIE and OSA), with the support of the same student chapters of the CIO (OSA
/ SPIE), Mexican Academy of Optics (AMO) and MOPM organizing committee.
At the meeting of chapters OSA/SPIE of Mexico, about 30 officers of the
chapters had the opportunity to interact and exchange ideas, showing the activities
each student chapter of Mexico had during the year. The main objectives of the
meeting were:
• Creating links between the student chapters of Mexico.
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• Schedule activities in short, medium and long term.
• Lay the groundwork for the organization and conduct of the conference “In-
ternational OSA Network of Students” (IONS).
• Lay the groundwork for applying for the scholarship of the “Federation of
Optics College and University Students” (FOCUS) in order to support fi-
nancially the IONS.
• Form the respective monitoring committees with representatives of chapters
(leaders) in Mexico.
• Select the next venue for the Fourth Meeting of Chapters 2013.
Figure 3.22: The Mexican meeting of student chapters OSA/SPIE. The officersof student chapters had the opportunity to interact and exchange ideas.
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As part of the same session the different chapters had the opportunity to interact
with the representatives of the OSA (Dr. Phil Bucksbaum and Mr. Chad Stark) in
a meal with experts, which discussed issues related to student chapters of Mexico,
feasibility of organizing a conference in Mexico for students and by students of
Optics and photonics (IONS-FOCUS). Most attendees seized the opportunity to
walk in the historic downtown of San Luis Potosi, Mexico.
Figure 3.23: Meeting with representatives of the OSA, Dr. Phil Bucksbaum(OSA Vice President) and Chad Stark (Responsible for organizing conferencesand congresses of the OSA).
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3.16 Pizza-party II
The event ”PIZZA-first admission” was held on October 26 this year in the audi-
torium of academic training for various purposes:
• Interacting with fresh-men of the different programs (Master optomecatronica,
Master of Optics and PhD).
• Show the importance of the role of student chapters at regional, national
and international levels.
Figure 3.24: Pizza Party with students of first entrance.
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• Show the benefits of being a member of SPIE.
• General Tour to website SPIE and locate relevant information, such as schol-
arships and discounts.
• Enroll new members of SPIE.
• In addition, our freshman students had the opportunity to witness the var-
ious research areas currently being developed in the CIO, this areas were
explained by the CIO-researchers.
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3.17 Discovering Jupiter
This event took place on Thursday 6th December to observe the planet Jupiter.
On the same premises of the CIO, astronomical observation was made with three
telescopes. We also have prepared a brief lecture by Ph.D. student Alfredo Campos
Mejia. We also attended a musical duo (saxophone and guitar) whom performed
contemporary music, as an addition the event counted with a table of the finest
delicacies.
Figure 3.25: Astronomical observation “Discovering Jupiter”.
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3.18 VISITING LECTURER: Prof. Laura Marcu.
Mrs Laura is Professor of Biomedical Engineering and Neurological Surgery at the
University of California Davis, the activities that were carried out during the visit
of Prof. Laura were:
December 5th Mrs Laura Marcu arrived to Leon city in Guanajuato. We
went to pick her up to the Bajio airport and we moved her to the hotel where she
would spend her stay.
Figure 3.26: Mrs Laura Marcu arrived to hotel.
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December 6th The first activity that was carried out, was a welcome speech
by the institution directors. At the end of this, we visited CIO’s laboratories of
nanophotonics, where students and researchers showed their work in the field.
Figure 3.27: Welcome speech by the institution directors and visit to laboratoriesof nanophotonis.
Later, Prof. Marcu presented the talk ”Fluorescence Lifetime Spectroscopy
and Imaging for Biomedical Diagnostics”, where she showed what her working
field is at UC Davis.
Figure 3.28: Mrs. Laura presented the talk ”Fluorescence Lifetime Spectroscopyand Imaging for Biomedical Diagnostics”.
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At the end of the conference she had an informal talk with some students of
the institution, where they had the opportunity to ask questions, or comments, or
establish contacts for future research stays.
Figure 3.29: Informal talk with some students of the CIO.
After the informal talk, the officers of the SPIE student chapter and Prof.
Marcu enjoyed a meal at a traditional mexican food restaurant in Leon city.
Figure 3.30: typical Mexican food restaurat.
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Returning from meal we visited three labs: femtosecond laser, optical proper-
ties, spectroscopy and nanotechnology. In these laboratories, both students and
researchers showed to Mrs. Laura what is done in each laboratory.
Figure 3.31: Laboratories: femtosecond laser, optical properties, spectroscopyan nantechnology.
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December 7th
The first activity was a breakfast with the directors of the institution and then
we visited Guanajuato city, where we went to different museums and historical
places.
Figure 3.32: We visited Guanajuato city.
December 8th Prof. Marcu was taken to the airport for a warm farewell and
her planned departure.
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4 Financial Information
Table 4.1: General Expense Balance Sheet.
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5 Chapter officers
Figure 5.1: SPIE-CIO Student Chapter Representatives fromt left to right:David Serrano ([email protected]), Hector Santiago (fis [email protected]), Andrea Ceja([email protected] ) and Yuliana Espinosa ([email protected]).
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