NITT - SPIE Student Chapter Connecting Minds, Advancing Light
NITT-SPIE Student Chapter, Department of Physics, NIT, Tiruchirappalli - 620 015, Tamilnadu, INDIA. Phone : +91 431 2503601, Fax : +91 431 2500133, Email: [email protected], Web site : www.nitt.edu
NITT – SPIE STUDENT CHAPTER National Institute of Technology
Tiruchirappalli – 620 015 Tamil Nadu, INDIA.
www.nitt.edu E-Mail: [email protected]
BI – ANNUAL REPORT: July 2007 – December 2007
NITT - SPIE Student Chapter Connecting Minds, Advancing Light
NITT-SPIE Student Chapter, Department of Physics, NIT, Tiruchirappalli - 620 015, Tamilnadu, INDIA. Phone : +91 431 2503601, Fax : +91 431 2500133, Email: [email protected], Web site : www.nitt.edu
Outline of the Report:
Chapter Leaders and Advisor - 2007
List of Current Student Chapter Members
Chapter Activities (since last report)
<A> Chapter Meetings <B> Conference – ROPE’ 07 <C> Educational Tour – OOO7 <D> Presentations & Publications
Ph.D., Synopsis Submitted
Activities Planned for the Future
Photographs
Research Areas of Student Chapter Members
Financial Report
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NITT - SPIE Student Chapter Connecting Minds, Advancing Light
NITT-SPIE Student Chapter, Department of Physics, NIT, Tiruchirappalli - 620 015, Tamilnadu, INDIA. Phone : +91 431 2503601, Fax : +91 431 2500133, Email: [email protected], Web site : www.nitt.edu
2. List of Current Student Chapter Members:
Total Student Members: 40
1. Mr. Alagan Viswanathan [email protected]
2. Mr. Petchimuthu Rajarajan [email protected]
3. Mr. Gobi Govindan [email protected]
4. Mrs. Michael Shanthi [email protected]
5. Mr. Franklin Savarimuthu [email protected]
6. Mr. Jayaraman Elanchezhiyan [email protected]
7. Mr. Jesson Martin [email protected]
8. Mr. Roshy Manayil John [email protected]
9. Mr. Balakrishnan Subramanian [email protected]
10. Mrs. R. Malarvizhi [email protected]
11. Mr. Joseph Esra [email protected]
12. Mr. V. K. Prakash [email protected]
13. Mr. Renganathan Balusamy [email protected]
14. Mr. Ramesh Rathnam [email protected]
15. Mr. K. Sathiyaraj [email protected]
16. Krishna Kumar Krishnamurthy [email protected]
17. Mr. G. Balakrishnan [email protected]
18. Mr. R. Sridhar [email protected]
19. Mr. Sekar Subramaniam [email protected]
20. Mr. Balamurugan Subramaniyan [email protected]
21. Mr. Parthasarathi Lekshmanan [email protected]
22. Mr. Srinivasan Ramasamy [email protected]
NITT - SPIE Student Chapter Connecting Minds, Advancing Light
NITT-SPIE Student Chapter, Department of Physics, NIT, Tiruchirappalli - 620 015, Tamilnadu, INDIA. Phone : +91 431 2503601, Fax : +91 431 2500133, Email: [email protected], Web site : www.nitt.edu
23. Ms. Rajeswari Navaneethapandian [email protected]
24. Ms. Sathya Subramanian
25. Ms. Jeyachitra Ramasamy Kandasamy
26. Ms. Srimathy Balasubramanian [email protected]
27. Ms. Leona Felicia [email protected]
28. Mr. Shankar Govindan [email protected]
29. Mr. S. Kazhugasalamoorthy [email protected]
30. Ms. Latha Krishnamoorthy [email protected]
31. Mr. V. Mahendran [email protected]
32. Ms. Mehala Muthukrishnan [email protected]
33. Ms. M. Neethu [email protected]
34. Ms. R. Nalini Pratibha [email protected]
35. Mr. Suresh Babu Ramasamy [email protected]
36. Ms. Z. Senthamizh Pavai [email protected]
37. Mr. Khasim Shaik [email protected]
38. Ms. Anbumozhi Somasundaram [email protected]
39. Ms. S. Sowmya [email protected]
40. Ms. Neethu Purushothaman [email protected]
NITT - SPIE Student Chapter Connecting Minds, Advancing Light
NITT-SPIE Student Chapter, Department of Physics, NIT, Tiruchirappalli - 620 015, Tamilnadu, INDIA. Phone : +91 431 2503601, Fax : +91 431 2500133, Email: [email protected], Web site : www.nitt.edu
3. Chapter Activities (Since Last Report): [A] Chapter Meetings & Activities:
Monthly Members Meet (MMM) & Scholars Seminar (SS):
29th June 2007: Our Chapter Secretary Mrs. M. S. L. Shanthi delivered a lecture on “The Rhythm
of Life” to our chapter members in our June - Monthly Members Meet.
26th July 2007: Our Chapter member
Mr. S. Balakrishnan delivered a lecture on “Earth Quake – The Cause and its Effects” to chapter members in
the July - Monthly Members Meet.
13th September 2007: Our Chapter member Mr. N. L. Parthasarathy delivered a lecture on “Crashworthiness
of Automotive Sheet Metals and Occupant Safety” to our chapter members in our September - Monthly Members
Meet.
NITT - SPIE Student Chapter Connecting Minds, Advancing Light
NITT-SPIE Student Chapter, Department of Physics, NIT, Tiruchirappalli - 620 015, Tamilnadu, INDIA. Phone : +91 431 2503601, Fax : +91 431 2500133, Email: [email protected], Web site : www.nitt.edu
[B] Conference – ROPE’ 07
Research Orientation Programme for Entrants (ROPE’ 07) – A two day conference was held at our department on 8 and 9 August to encourage and motivate the college students to take research as their carrier. The photographs shown below depict the inauguration, welcome decoration, The ROPE-07 team, the audience, the invited talk and valedictory function. This conference reached many students of our region.
NITT - SPIE Student Chapter Connecting Minds, Advancing Light
NITT-SPIE Student Chapter, Department of Physics, NIT, Tiruchirappalli - 620 015, Tamilnadu, INDIA. Phone : +91 431 2503601, Fax : +91 431 2500133, Email: [email protected], Web site : www.nitt.edu
[C] Educational Tour – OOO7 Operation Ooty -07 (OOO7) – SPIE family has successfully made a educational
trip to Ooty where The Radio Astronomy Center and Hindustan Photo films factory are visited in the month of October. The first two photographs are taken in front of the aforementioned places. The Ooty Botanical garden and Dottabetta are famous tourist spots from where the last two photos graphs are taken. The enthusiasm of the SPIE members in making the trip is lucidly seen in the center photograph.
NITT - SPIE Student Chapter Connecting Minds, Advancing Light
NITT-SPIE Student Chapter, Department of Physics, NIT, Tiruchirappalli - 620 015, Tamilnadu, INDIA. Phone : +91 431 2503601, Fax : +91 431 2500133, Email: [email protected], Web site : www.nitt.edu
[D] Presentations & Publications:
List of Research publications of our Chapter Members International Journals:
1. G. Gobi, A. Balaji Ganesh, T.K. Radhakrishnan and D. Sastikumar,
“Laser based optical sensor to observe metal surfaces subjected to early microbic corrosion”, Lasers in Engineering, Volume 17, Number 5‐6, 2007, pp 397‐404.
2. G. Gobi, A. Balaji Ganesh, T.K. Radhakrishnan and D. Sastikumar, An Optical Approach To Estimate The Surface Roughness of Metals”, Journal of American Science, 3(3), 2007.
3. J. Elanchezhiyan, K.P. Bhuvana, N. Gopalakrishnan and T.
Balasubramanian, “Substrates effect on Zn1−xMnxO thin films grown by RF magnetron sputtering”, Journal of Alloys and Compounds (In Press).
4. J. Elanchezhiyan, K.P. Bhuvana, N. Gopalakrishnan and T.
Balasubramanian, “Realization of room temperature ferromagnetism in Zn1‐xCrxO thin films grown by RF magnetron sputtering” Journal of Alloys and Compounds (In Press).
5. N. Gopalakrishnan, B.C. Shin, K.P. Bhuvana, J. Elanchezhiyan
and T.Balasubramanian, “Improvement of stoichiometry in (ZnO)1−x(GaN)x thin films grown by Laser ablation”, Journal of Alloys and Compounds (In Press).
NITT - SPIE Student Chapter Connecting Minds, Advancing Light
NITT-SPIE Student Chapter, Department of Physics, NIT, Tiruchirappalli - 620 015, Tamilnadu, INDIA. Phone : +91 431 2503601, Fax : +91 431 2500133, Email: [email protected], Web site : www.nitt.edu
6. N. Gopalakrishnan, B.C. Shin, K.P. Bhuvana, J. Elanchezhiyan and T.Balasubramanian, “Fabrication of GaN Doped ZnO Nanocrystallines by Laser Ablation”, Journal of Nanoscience and Nanotechnology, Vol.8, 1–4, 2007.
International Conferences:
1. A. Viswanathan, D. Sastikumar, Harish Kumar, A.K. Nath, “Laser
generated TiC reinforced with Fe‐Al matrix composite layer on Al‐
Si alloy”, Proc. of SPIE Vol. 6666 66660R‐1 (2007) pp1‐10.
2. S. Franklin, K. P. Bhuvana and T. Balasubramanian "Optical
Studies of Gel Grown Magnesium Phosphate ‐ An Inorganic NLO
Crystal" in the Frontiers in Optics 2007/Laser Science XXIII
conferences in San Jose, California held at the Fairmont Hotel,
September 16‐20, 2007.
3. J. Elanchezhiyan, K. P. Bhuvana, N. Gopalakrishnan and T.
Balasubramanian, “ZnO based diluted magnetic semiconductor
thin films by RF magnetron sputtering for spin photonic devices”,
Proc. of SPIE, Vol. 6674, 66740C, (2007).
4. K. P. Bhuvana, J. Elanchezhiyan, N. Gopalakrishnan, B. C. Shin
and T. Balasubramanian “Codoping and Transition metal doping
in ZnO thin films for opto electronic and spintronic application”,
ICMS‐ICMR Winter School on Chemistry and Physics of
Material, JNCASR, Bangalore, December 06 – 13, 2007.
NITT - SPIE Student Chapter Connecting Minds, Advancing Light
NITT-SPIE Student Chapter, Department of Physics, NIT, Tiruchirappalli - 620 015, Tamilnadu, INDIA. Phone : +91 431 2503601, Fax : +91 431 2500133, Email: [email protected], Web site : www.nitt.edu
National Conferences:
R. Srinivasan, N. Rajeswari Yogamalar and A. Chandra Bose,
“Synthesis and Structural Studies on Nanocrystalline Yttrium
oxide”, DAE Solid state physics symposium University of
mysore December 27 – 31, 2007.
Summer School attended by the member:
Mr. V. K. Prakash attended Kodai Summer School program
during 4 – 23 June 2007 at Kodaikanal Observatory, Tamilnadu.
International Conferences attended by the member:
Mr. S.Balakrishnan, “11th Workshop on Quantum Information
Processing”, December 17‐21, 2007, New Delhi, India.
National Conferences attended by the member:
Miss. N. Rajeswari Yogamalar, DAE Solid state physics
symposium University of mysore December 27 – 31, 2007.
NITT - SPIE Student Chapter Connecting Minds, Advancing Light
NITT-SPIE Student Chapter, Department of Physics, NIT, Tiruchirappalli - 620 015, Tamilnadu, INDIA. Phone : +91 431 2503601, Fax : +91 431 2500133, Email: [email protected], Web site : www.nitt.edu
4. Ph.D., Synopsis Submitted:
Our chapter president Mr. Alagan Viswanathan has presented Ph.D., degree synopsis successfully.
Our chapter member Mr. Jayaraman Elanchezhiyan has presented Ph.D., degree synopsis successfully
5. Future Chapter Activities:
Spread the awareness on optics in the university level
Incorporate new members
Organize lab visits
Renovate chapter’s library
Complete student chapter web page
Arrange visits to optical industries
Conduct orientation programs on research awareness
NITT - SPIE Student Chapter Connecting Minds, Advancing Light
NITT-SPIE Student Chapter, Department of Physics, NIT, Tiruchirappalli - 620 015, Tamilnadu, INDIA. Phone : +91 431 2503601, Fax : +91 431 2500133, Email: [email protected], Web site : www.nitt.edu
6. Photographs:
SPIE members are actively involved in imparting the Computer knowledge and explaining the experiments to the school students.
SPIE members are contributing their services to the other programs held in the department. The above pictures depict involvement of the members in
lab demonstration and conducting quiz program.
NITT - SPIE Student Chapter Connecting Minds, Advancing Light
NITT-SPIE Student Chapter, Department of Physics, NIT, Tiruchirappalli - 620 015, Tamilnadu, INDIA. Phone : +91 431 2503601, Fax : +91 431 2500133, Email: [email protected], Web site : www.nitt.edu
SPIE members are eagerly hearing the talk of an industrialist in a
conference held at our department in collaboration with Bharat Heavy Electricals Limited, Tiruchirappalli.
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NITT-SPIE Student Chapter, Department of Physics, NIT, Tiruchirappalli - 620 015, Tamilnadu, INDIA. Phone : +91 431 2503601, Fax : +91 431 2500133, Email: [email protected], Web site : www.nitt.edu
8. Financial Report: (Calendar Year 2007)
Activity Grant Received USD870.00 Expenditure: Monthly Members Meet (3) USD090.00 (June, July and September) Two Day Conference USD550.00 (ROPE-07) Educational Trip USD230.00 (OO-07) Total Expenditure USD870.00
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