1. Elected Officers

President: Michael Geiselmann michael.geiselmann@icfo.es

Vice‐President: Esteban Bermudez esteban.bermudez@icfo.es

Secretary: Can Yao can.yao@icfo.es

Treasurer: Yannick Alan De Icaza Astiz yannick.deicaza@icfo.es

2. Current Chapter Members:

Marina Mariano

Chaitanya Suddappalli

Alexander Grün

Federica Beduini

Pelayo Garcia

Stephan Teichman

Alejandro Zamora

Nadia Formica

Giorgio Colangelo

Rafael Betancur

Philipp Hauke

Valeria Fajardo

Carmelo Guadalupe

Piotr Migdal

  

Marta Castro

Yannick De Icaza

Esteban Bermudez

Ana Belen Sainz

Domenico Tulli

Florian Wolfgramm

Michela Badioli

Monica Marro

Luis Martinez

Naeimeh Behbood

Alexandre Thai

Seth Cousin

Alberto Gonzalez Curto

Francisco Silva

Marc Jofre

Venkata Ramaiah

Kavita Devi

Can Yao

Fabian Oliver

Osamu Takayama

Giorgio Volpe

Chirag Dhara

Jon Donner

Ulrich Ebling

  

Parisa Farzam

Michael Geiselmann

Dhriti Ghosh

Jan Gieseler

Domenico Tulli

Omar Olarte

Maria Ortega

3. Activities during August 2010 – August 2011

3.1 Weekly Seminar

The members of ICFO‐SPIE student chapters organize a series

of seminar every Wednesday at our home institute, ICFO‐The Institute of Photonic Sciences.

The speakers are mainly PhD Students and Post‐doc researchers, as well as undergraduate students, professors at ICFO and visitors. To encourage people to attend the seminars, some drinks and snacks are also offered.

2011/07/27 DHRITI SUNDAR GHOSH ’Avoiding Indium for optoelectronics applications’ DHRITI SUNDAR GHOSH Winner of this year's Photonics21 Award Optoelectronics group

2011/07/13 MATTHIAS BAUDISCH ‘Ultra Broadband Terahertz Spectroscopy in Doped Semiconductor Quantum Wells’ MATTHIAS BAUDISCH Attoscience and Ultrafast Optics group

2011/06/29 CHRIS GALLOWAY 'Vibrational Pumping in Surface Enhanced Raman Scattering' CHRIS GALLOWAY Plasmon nano-optics group

  

2011/06/15 SEBASTIAN THOMPSON 'Thioglycosylated Phorphyrin as Photodynamic Therapeutic Agents and their possible use as Bioimaging Agent' SEBASTIAN THOMPSON Plasmon Nano-Optics group

2011/05/25 MARCELO CIAPPINA 'Monte Carlo Event Generators in Atomic Physics: A New Tool to Tackle the Few-Body Dynamics' MARCELO CIAPPINA

2011/05/18 TOMASZ SOWINSKI 'Alternatives for Coal Energy... Do They Really Exist?' TOMASZ SOWINSKI Institute of Physics of the Polish Academy of Sciences Faculty of Biology and Environmental Sciences, CSW University, Warsaw, POLAND

2011/04/27 FLORIAN WOLFGRAMM 'Entanglement-Enhanced Optical Magnetometry: Showdown at High NOON' FLORIAN WOLFGRAMM Quantum information with cold atoms and non-classical light group

2011/04/13 MARIO NAPOLITANO 'Interaction-Based Quantum Metrology Showing Scaling Beyond the Heisenberg Limit: A Social Network for Photons' MARIO NAPOLITANO Quantum information with cold atoms and non-classical light group

2011/03/30 DANE AUSTIN 'Wavefront Measurements of an Attosecond Strobelight' DANE AUSTIN Attoscience and ultrafast optics group

2011/03/16 NELA DURISIC 'Proton-Induced Changes of Quantum Dot Fluorescent Properties in Biological Environments' NELA DURISIC Advance Fluorescence Imaging and Biophyscis group

  

2011/03/02 NICOLAS GODBOUT 'Optical Fibre Devices and Systems, Applications to Quantum Information'

NICOLAS GODBOUT Quantum Optics Group

2011/02/16 JOHANNES JOHANSSON 'Radio-Frequency Lesioning and Optical Measurements in the Brain' JOHANNES JOHANSSON Medical optics group

2011/02/02 ALBERTO G. CURTO 'Directional Optical Antennas as an Interface to Quantum Emitters' ALBERTO G. CURTO Molecular nanophotonics group

2010/12/13 KOEN THUIJS 'Experimental Demonstration of a Long-Range Plasmon Point to Point Coupler' KOEN THUIJS Molecular nanophotonics group

2010/11/17 MARC JOFRE 'Micro-Optical Sources for Quantum Communication in Space' MARC JOFRE Optoelectronics group

2010/11/03 PHILIPP HAUKE 'Devil's Staircases, Quasi-supersolids, and Crystal-superfluid Transitions in Dipolar Spin Chains: A Trapped Ion Quantum Simulation' PHILIPP HAUKE Quantum optics theory group

2010/10/20 RAFAEL BETANCUR 'Sputtered Hole-Transporting Layer and Semi-Transparent Metallic Electrodes for Organic Solar Cells Fabricated in Ambient Air' RAFAEL BETANCUR Organic nanostructured photovoltaics group

  

2010/10/06 DAAN BRINKS 'How (not) to publish a Nature paper' DAAN BRINKS Molecular nanophotonics group

3.2 Monthly ICONS meeting

To organize the activities of the ICFO-SPIE student chapter, we meet up to discuss upcoming activities. Usually this is held during lunch once a month and usually with a treat of pizza.

  

3.3 Coffee sessions

2011/08/03 Up Close with Prof. Roy Glauber

ICONS members meet informally with Nobel Prize in Physics.

Prof. Roy Glauber, winner of the 2005 Nobel Prize in Physics and Distinguished Invited Professor at ICFO, met with members of the student organization, ICONS, for an informal discussion about his life’s work, his experience in the Manhattan Project and his interactions with other great professors. Making personal contact with a scientist of Prof. Glauber’s stature was both insightful and inspiring for all.

  

3.4 Visit to Research Infrastructures and Industries

In a new initiative, ICONS and KTT decided to organize visits to out-standing Research Infrastructures and Industries.

The first event of this new initiative was a visit to the ALBA Synchrotron Light Facility (http://www.cells.es/) close to Barcelona on Friday the 4th of March of 2011.

3.5 Social Friday

In order to encourage the relationship of the ICFO-SPIE student chapter with the PhD students and other colleagues, and for the recruitment purposes, we set up this Social Friday, where we encourage people to join this activity for talking while enjoying a drink and a snack together.

  

3.6 El Día de la Luz (The Day of Light)

‘El Día de la Luz’, the day of light in Spanish, is our educational outreach activity to teach the basics of optics mainly to local high school students between 16‐18 years, who come to our institute with their teachers.

We introduce optics to the students through presentations and demonstrations of basic examples of optics such as polarization, wavelength, color, energy conversion, reflection and refraction.

Furthermore, they experience how light is useful for our daily life, for example how light will be converted to heat by a radiometer, or also to electricity by a solar cell; students are also introduced to optical telecommunications by showing them how information is transmitted through optical fibers.

In total, 75 students from three schools, IES Ferran Casablancas, Escola Vedruna de Terrassa, and Institut de Vidreres participated in this activity with interest and passion during 13th-14th April.

3.7 Life Research Fair (Fira Recerca en Directe)

From 05/04/2011 to 07/04/2011

At Parc Científic Barcelona - La Pedrera de CatalunyaCaixa

"Live Research" is an exhibition of current research that aims to help improve the scientific literacy of our society by opening to the public the research that currently takes place in Barcelona, and reach the town by the characteristic features of the scientific method by the same researchers.

Organized by the Barcelona Science Park in coordination with the Social Work CatalunyaCaixa the Fair "Live Research" aims to communicate a coordinated research Barcelona Displaying research projects of various centers and institutes for R & D in the city.

  

It is a good opportunity for students as well as for the general public, as they can talk with researchers and scientists to solve puzzles by experimenting with laboratory instruments that are involved with the latest research projects in many different fields.

3.8 Open day of ICFO/Lab tour

We kindly received the visit of a student chapter of chemistry (Proton International) on April 18th, 2011.

The visitors were guided through different research labs in ICFO. Especially, the visitors showed great interest in the ICFO´s installations and worker friendly environment. It was interesting to receive students with another scientific background.

  

3.9 IONS Conferences

IONS, the International OSA Network of Students, connects young researchers with people from around the globe, all actively engaged in optics and photonics. In this conference ICFO‐SPIE student chapter gets the opportunity to communicate their academic results and broadcast their friendship with other chapters.

IONS‐9 Salamanca (4, 5 and 6 March 2010)

The meeting was held at Salamanca University, Spain.

Members of ICFO student chapter ICONS, Osamu Takayama, Venkata Ramaiah Badarla, Can Yao and Giorgio Volpe, contributed to the meeting.

  

Among these activities we organized, we requested the funding for

3.1 Weekly Seminars

3.2 Monthly ICONS meeting

3.3 Coffee sessions

3.4 Visit to Research Infrastructures and Industries

3.5 Social Friday

3.6 El Día de la Luz

3.7* Life Research Fair(Fira Recerca en Directe)

3.8 Open day of ICFO/Labtour

3.9 IONS conferences

*Note that the expenses for ‘3.7 Life Research Fair’ were covered by organizers.

  

The funding was spent in the following manner:

3.1 Weekly Seminars

$250: Refreshments (chips, cookies, drinks)

3.2 Monthly ICONS meeting

$300: Refreshments (pizzas and drinks)

3.3 Coffee sessions

$100: Refreshments (chips, cookies, drinks)

3.4 Visit to Research Infrastructures and Industries

$250: Transportation

3.5 Social Friday (Recruitment)

$400: Chapter advertisement (ICONS-banner, T-shirts) and refreshments (beers, chips, cookies, drinks)

3.6 El Día de la Luz

$300: Educational outreach activities for local high school, optics education kits and

demonstration setups.

3.8 Open day of ICFO/Labtour

$250: Printing posters and brochures, refreshments

3.9 IONS conferences

$400: for attending IONS‐9 Salamanca.

Total expenses:

$2250

  

4. Upcoming Events

1) September: International Food Day.

This is an annual activity held among ICFO-SPIE student chapter. Due to the international environment in ICFO, students and researchers cook in different groups cooking their special flavour from their own country.

This event amplifies the communication among the institute's researchers, and also is a good opportunity for recruitment for the student chapter.

2) November: ‘Futbolin’ tournament. Different groups of competitors will take part in this exciting competition. This hobby lives up students´ time in the institute, and amplifies our friendship by spending time together.

3) From October onwards: Local Outreach Programs.

5. Financial information.

Beginning balance

$1025 Balance from previous year 2009‐10

$900 from SPIE outreach grant

$900 from ICFO

Total $2825

Expenses

Total $2250 as described above.

Ending balance

$2825 – $2250 = $575