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2012 Annual report
Osaka University student chapter of SPIE
March 2013
Member list
Chapter Advisor
Satoshi Kawata
E-mail: [email protected]
Officers
President:
Shota Ushiba (SPIE ID: 3407798)
E-mail: [email protected]
Vice president:
Toshihiro Mino (SPIE ID: 3510897)
E-mail: [email protected]
Treasurer:
Takayuki Umakoshi (SPIE ID: 3417338)
E-mail: [email protected]
Secretary:
Masashi Miyata (SPIE ID: 3510906)
E-mail: [email protected]
Member Roster & Alumni Roster
Masaya Okada
Hiroyuki Morimura
Mitsuhiro Honda
Yosuke Ueba
Reiko Maehara
Harsono Cahyadi
Yoshito Okuno
Taichi Furukawa
Keisuke Nose
Yida Hsieh
Kentaro Mochizuki
Wilzuard Yonan
Yasuo Yonemaru
Yusuke Shiozaki
Yoshiro Ohashi
Takayuki Umakoshi
Masashi Miyata
Satomi Tagami
Mai Higuchi
Imad Maouli
Kazuki Bando
Bikas Ranjan
Alumni Roster
Jun Ando
Kyoko Masui
Yasuaki Kumamoto
Takeo Minamikawa
Masahito Yamanaka
Meiling Zheng
Kazumasa Uetsuki
Student Chapter Members
Student Chapter Banner
Activities
Outreach:
3rd Science School for Kids “Super Hikari-Jyuku”
~ You will be a Doctor of Light !! ~
We carried out a science school for elementary school kids in Osaka University, called Super Hikari-juku.
The purpose was to draw kids’ interests and attentions to science and light by providing a good opportunity
for curious experiments.
Thanks to the reputation of the past science schools we carried out
and also advertisement with 30000 flyers shown in the right, we
got more than 800 applications. 50 kids were luckily selected and
enjoyed all lectures listed in below.
- Spectroscope workshop
After a lecture about basic optics, kids made spectroscopes with
CDs and boxes of snacks.
- Firefly’s light
Introduction and experiment of cold light.
- PIKAPIKA: Doodle with light
Graffiti and characters were drawn in pictures by taking pictures
with long exposure time.
- Black light and secret code
Codes were written with a highlighter pen, which become
visible by irradiating black light. Kids got through the maze with revealing the code.
- Plastic bottle microscope
Microscopes were made of beads and plastic bottle. Kids observed cells through the microscope they
made.
- How telescope works?
Galilean and Keplerian telescope were made by kids after they learned about the mechanism.
- Exhibits (Plasma Teddy, etc.)
In this time, we expanded our purpose to remind the society of importance of such opportunities where kids
can enjoy scientific experiments. We successfully gathered a city chief, mass media, and company at our
event and had positive feedback.
Flyer advertising our science school
Group photo of staffs. There are more than 50 staffs.
Spectroscope workshop Plastic bottle microscope
PIKAPIKA: Doodle with light How telescope works?
More pictures can be accessed at:
http://parc.osaka-u.ac.jp/student_chapter/photos/?id=1&n=2012
Outreach:
Youth Education
We held science classes for more than 70 elementary school students 3 times in this year, aiming to inspire
evoke their interests in science. All events ware collaborative events with another student groups at Osaka
University.
In June and July of 2012, we co-organized science class for kids twice collaborating with
"Ishibashi-Handai" where they enliven a local shopping street “Ishibashi” near Osaka University. They
announced to community residents, and provided us with a common open space at the street. At the first
time, we demonstrated an experiment, "Plastic bottle microscopy". In this experiment, we embedded a
tiny glass bead, which worked as a lens, into a cap of plastic bottle, and observed cells of onion, pollen, and
so on. We taught them functions of lens in the class. At the second time, we demonstrated an experiment,
"The Glow of A Firefly” to teach a biological light sources.
In October, we held science class with Osaka University JSAP (the Japan Society of Applied Physics)
Student Chapter for kids in a neighborhood association. We separated participants into two groups by age,
and demonstrated “The Glow of A Firefly” and “painting with Black Light Pens”. These successful events
ware already decided to continue.
We bought chemicals, highlighters and ultraviolet light lamps for the experiments by the support of SPIE
Education Outreach Grant. It was a very fruitful experience for use to have interaction with kids and we
were sure that they also enjoyed the activity and learned the interesting point of optics and photonics.
SPIE Asia Student Conference 2012
Three members in our chapter attended SPIE
Asia Student Conference 2012 in Singapore.
The conference aimed at developing network
among students in Asia and expanding their
knowledge of optics. Six SPIE student
chapters in Singapore, China, India, Japan,
and Malaysia co-organized the conference.
More than 20 students from all over Asia had
an interaction with each other.
The contents of the conference were classified roughly into 3 categories, lectures by professional people,
student presentations, and institute & industry visit. The detail of each activity was as follows.
<Topics of lectures>
- Imaging spectrometer instrumentation (by Prof. Eustace Dereniak)
- Effective presentation (by Dr. Jean-luc Doumont)
- Harnessing optical fiber technology (by Prof. Perry Ping Shum)
- Laser treatment and diagnosis (by Prof. Kunio Awazu)
- Leader ship workshop (by Dr. Andrew Brown)
- Terapixel imaging (by Prof. David Brady)
- Computer-generated hologram for 3D displays (by Prof. Hiroshi Yoshikawa)
- Current and future trends in laser technology and applications (by Dr. John Ambroseo)
- Semiconductor devices for mobile applications (by Dr. Andy Hawryluk)
- Optical coatings 101 (by Ms. Amber Czajkowski)
Group photo of students
Lecture by Prof. Awazu Lecture by Dr. Brown
<Student oral presentation>
16 students including 3 members in our chapter talked about their own research. After their presentation,
each student had a feedback from Dr. Jean-luc Doumont who gave lectures about effective presentation. 2
members in our chapter were selected as awards winners of the student presentation competition.
<Institute & Industry visit>
We visited the national metrology centre (NMC) of Singapore and a local company “Sunny instruments”.
Many measuring systems were demonstrated.
<Achievement and Next plan>
The attendees are connected through facebook now. Actually, interaction on the internet is not enough, so
our chapter is organizing SPIE Asia Student conference 2013 in Osaka to maintain and develop the
network.
Award ceremony Student presentation
Logos of SPIE Asia student conference. Left: 2012 in Singapore. Right: 2013 in Osaka.
The conference in Osaka is held from July 24th to 26th 2013. The detail is accessed at:
http://parc.osaka-u.ac.jp/student_chapter/aspc/
Asia Student Photonics Conference 2012
We organized an international student conference “Asia Student Photonics Conference 2012 (ASPC
2012)”, collaborating with Photonics Center Osaka University. The conference was held on 16th - 17
th,
September 2012 at Photonics Center in Osaka University, Japan. The goal was to build up networks
among students and young researchers through the conference. We invited students from China, Taiwan,
India, and Japan, where the Photonics Center collaborates in research of optics and photonics. We also
invited Prof. Colin Sheppard at Istituto Italiano di Technologia and Prof. Brooke Hester at Appalachian
State University as invited lectures. More than 70 people attended to the conference, which is the
largest student conference we have ever hosted.
We had the following sessions; chapter introduction, panel discussion, student oral/poster presentation,
invited lectures, group discussion, coffee break, banquet, and excursion.
Chapter introduction:
Student chapters from Osaka Univ., Peking Univ., and National Taiwan Univ. introduced their activities.
All chapters have different and unique activities, which inspired us a lot for our future activities.
Panel discussion:
We discussed the following topic “What should we do to encourage the future researching network in
Asia beyond the chapter?”
Student oral/poster presentation:
We had 6 oral presentations and 40 poster presentations. Through this session, we quickly and
effectively know other researches, which resulted in effective network making among students.
Invited lectures:
Prof. Colin Sheppard, who is a pioneer of confocal microscopy, multiphoton microscopy and so forth that
are commonly used in the world, talked about history of microscopy he developed. Prof. Brooke Hester,
who hosted the 1st IONS that is a large student conference financially supported by OSA, talked about the
effective network making and the collaboration. Her talks further motivated us to plan the next student
conference.
Group discussion:
We separated attendees into several groups, and discussed different topics, such as “where do good ideas
come from?” for more than 1 hour. After discussion, all groups presented their discussion and
conclusions. In this session, it was required to summarize our discussion in a short time, so that we
expressed our opinions quickly and effectively, which is a good experience for us.
Coffee break, Banquet, and Excursion:
Social works, including coffee break, banquet, and excursion, led to effective network making among the
attendees. The attendees casually talked and effectively knew each other during these sessions, which is
definitely needed to achieve our goals of our conference.
Overall, we achieved our purpose through the conference including above sessions. We built up
networks among students in China, Taiwan, India, and Japan, which encourages our future collaborative
works.
Photonics Student Club (PSC)
The Photonics Student Club (PSC) is a scientific seminar for students. We invite a speaker, who is
usually a Ph.D student or a young researcher, and the speaker gives a talk on his research and discuss
with us. We launched this activity in 2009, and we have hosted 6 times so far. In 2012, we held the 7h
PSC on 4th July. In this event, we made a minor change from previous PSC. We invited 6 speakers to
the event, and opened for everyone including non-chapter members, and undergraduate students. All
speakers had their tables, and introduced their researches for a few people for ~15 min. After the term,
the audience moved to the other tables, where they were interested. This event is held for 3 hours. It is
very good for audience because they did not hesitate to ask questions to the speaker so that this event
motivated them a lot. This style of event is also good for speakers because they learned a way to
introduce their researched to the others who are not experts in fields where the speakers research. This
ability is very important for scientists.
The speakers and their titles in the 7th PCS are as follows;
- Yosuke Ueba; “Future Light Bulb”
- Reiko Maehara; “Light for Future Medical Treatment”
- Masaya Okada; “Visualize a Living Cell with Light”
- Toshihiro Mino; “Explore Nano-World with Light”
- Shota Ushiba; “3D Laser Nanoprinter”
- Yoshiro Ohashi; “Transparency Cloak”
More than 40 students joined this event, and this is the largest number of attendees in the PSC we have
ever had. Also, this event is featured on Osaka University website;
(http://www.eng.osaka-u.ac.jp/en/index.html)