UCLA SPIE Student Chapter Annual Report 2018

1 - Names, email addresses, and Member numbers of elected Officers

Name Email Position SPIE Member Number

Yichen Wu wuyichen@ucla.edu President 3694290

Ping Keng Lu piano790521@gmail.com Vice President 4037119

Jacky Chan jckchan@ucla.edu Treasurer 3554575

Calvin Brown calvinbrown@g.ucla.edu Secretary 3733374

2 - List of current Student Chapter Members (total 20 people). Pauline Arriaga 15 May 2019

Calvin Brown 29 December 2018

Jacky Chan 31 October 2018

Jaime Flor Flores 11 January 2019

Yunshan Jiang 12 November 2018

Nicholas Julian 29 December 2018

Yen-Ju Lin 21 September 2019

Cejo Lonappan 11 January 2019

Yutong Lu 1 February 2019

Ping Keng Lu 14 January 2019

Steven Moran 12 December 2018

Nikan Namiri 12 November 2018

Dingkun Ren 11 January 2019

Madhuri Suthar 4 December 2018

Deniz Turan 13 February 2019

Muhammad Wahi-Anwar 25 January 2019

Ziyuan Wang 15 October 2019

Yichen Wu 14 December 2018

Baichuan Yuan 27 November 2018

Yi Zeng 10 October 2019

3 - Details of Chapter activities since last report. We organized and participated in 15 activities from Aug 2017 to July 2018:

(1) Aug 12, 2017 - Stargazing trip to Joshua Tree National Park Our student chapter travelled to Joshua Tree National Park and stayed overnight there to see the 2017 Perseid meteor shower. 20 members and friends were able to join us at the stargazing trip.

(2) Aug 21, 2017 - Great American Solar Eclipse Viewing @ UCLA In collaboration with the outreach division of the Earth, Planetary and Space Sciences (EPSS) department, the Institute for Planets and Exoplanets (iPLEX) and the Physics and Astronomy club (Astronomy Live!) at UCLA, we held a public viewing event for the 2017 Great American Solar Eclipse. We were featured in the LA Times (http://www.latimes.com/science/sciencenow/la-scisn-eclipse-los-angeles-20170817-htmlstory.html) and the UCLA Newsroom (http://newsroom.ucla.edu/stories/new-page-2640297). More than 2,000 people from the public, as well as UCLA staff and students, were able to join us at UCLA to look through the 9 eclipse-safe telescopes at an eclipse with up to 60% obscuring, as well as being informed at the educational booths present there. We also had an “Eclipse Selfie Station” where we projected the eclipse onto a screen for pictures. Our student chapter took advantage of the opportunity to also show the public spectroscopes and lens systems demonstrations for how telescopes works. We also gave out the eclipse glasses graciously provided by SPIE. The chapter celebrated the successful event with (a late) lunch together afterwards.

(3) Sept 17, 2016 - FIOS / LS OSA officer presentation We were happy to have Vice President Yichen Wu take advantage of the OSA Student Officer Travel Grant this year to attend the OSA FIOS / LS conference. At the conference, Yichen also presented a poster that detailed our chapter activities.

(4) Oct 9, 2017 - CNSI Nano Days exhibit This was an outreach event for high school students on optics and photonics, and research done at UCLA, in partnership with the CNSI Nanoscience outreach department. About 50 students and teachers (two classes) came out to the CNSI Nanoscience Centre at UCLA as a field trip. We gave some demonstrations of optical toys and equipment, such as the digital microscope, optical radio demonstrations, refractive index-matched aerosol “boba” beads.

(5) Oct 12, 2017 – Seminar by Dr. Alex Bui We invited Dr. Alex Bui from the UCLA Radiology Department to give a talk over lunch on Computational Image Analysis Challenges for Biomedical Imaging”. The talk was well received, with 18 graduate students from various departments joining us.

(6) Nov 5, 2017 – Explore Your Universe (EYU) 2017 The student chapter in EYU 2017. Hundreds of families have visited the "Magic and Mystery of Light" booth, and explored how cool optics is! We thank all chapter officers and members, as well as OSA and SPIE for funding the great event. It is one of the largest science outreach event on UCLA campus with over 7,000 participating guests, an estimated total of around 500 people visited our booth.

(7) Jan 28, 2018 – SPIE Photonics West chapter conference We were proud to have vice president Yichen Wu and Madhuri Suthar represent our joint OSA&SPIE student chapter at the SPIE Photonics West at San Francisco.

(8) Feb 08, 2018 - Seminar talk from Xiaowei Sun

We invited Dr. Xiao Wei Sun, chair professor and head of the EEE department in Southern University of Science and Technology (SUSTech), and a distinguished OSA traveling lecturer, to present a talk on “Quantum Dot Displays”. Dr. Sun first introduced the properties and advantages of quantum dot. After posing the challenge of stability of quantum dots, he addressed it by demonstrating his techniques called QLuMis, which stands for quantum dot luminasent microsphere. Then he demonstrated how this QLuMis can be used in LCD displays as an illumination source, as well as an electron-controlled display itself. He demonstrated the advantages of their quantum dot displays including more efficiency, better color fidelity and better durability. He also showed the application of QLuMis in flashlight and LED lighting, and presented how to make polarized sources. The were several exciting questions and discussions from the audiences including commercial capability of this technique as well as exploring theoretical limitations of quantum dots. The chapter members as well as other audiences learned a lot from this talk and enjoyed it. Dr. Sun also gave a brief introduction about SUSTech and their hiring program, which is valuable opportunity for the students and post-docs who will graduate soon. The talk attracted 31 members and non-members from UCLA, including a professor to attend. It was an exceptional experience for both the chapter members as well as other attendees of the event.

(9) Mar 13, 2018 - OFC exhibition Field trip

We grouped and visited the Optical Fiber Conference (OFC) for the (free) exhibition trip. 5 student

chapter members were able to attend.

(10) Mar 15, 2018 - lunch seminar with Dr. Hon Ki Tsang from CUHK.

Dr. Tsang is a Professor the Director of the Centre for Advanced Research in Photonics at CUHK, He is an

expert in designing optical elements for silicon photonics, e.g. grating couplers, polarizers, variable

optical attenuators etc. We organized a lunch seminar, titled "Functional Elements for Silicon Photonic

Integration and High Speed Interconnects", which was jointly held with the IEEE Photonics Society LA

Chapter. A total of 15 students came for the lunch seminar.

(11) Apr 20, 2018 – Field trip to Newport Corp

Together with the OSA/SPIE student chapter at UCR and USC, the OSA/SPIE student chapter visited

Newport Corp. The student chapter teamed up with the OSA/SPIE student chapter at USC and UCR in

the visit to Newport. The students were guided through the fabrication line of many optic devices and

systems, from the giant optical table to the delicate microscopes. Great thanks to Jack for the invitation

and Anna for the so inspiring tour!

(12) Apr 27, 2018 - Outreach event to El Marino School in Culver City

Collaborated with the CNSI (California NanoSystems Institute at UCLA) outreach department, we went

to El Marino elementary school and did a three-hour outreach event during their annual science fair

from 5 PM to 8 PM. There were more than 300+ kids, parents and teachers attended the outreach event

and we presented optics demos to more than 100+ of them. Thanks to the outreach kits that we

received from OSA, SPIE, the new suitcase from OSA as well as chapter developed/purchased kits, we

were able to show the kids and their parents interesting optics experiments including the laser radio,

optical cloaking and hologram etc. as well as newly received thermal optic magic patch and polarizer

kits. The kids and parents are very intrigued by our demos and impressed by the power of science and

optics. An estimated total of 150 kids and their parents came for this event

(13) May 02, 2018 - Prof. Skaljo talk about fiber communication

We were glad to have Prof. Skaljo come and talk about the fiber-to-the-home (FTTH). The talk was a

success. Prof. Skaljo first introduced SPIE and related programs. Then he talked about the choice of

optical components and architectures can influence finding a cost-effective solution, and some specific

examples, including GPON, XGPON (10 Gigabit PON) and NGPON 2 (PON with a capacity of up to 80

Gbps). He also discussed coexistence mentioned PON technologies on one fiber. Around 15 graduate

students and post-docs who specifically research in optics and/or optical communication attended this

talk, and had very good discussions / Q&As over the technology. Together with Prof. Skaljo, we also

visited internet museum (UCLA is a birth place for modern internet), and a couple of related labs at

UCLA. We really appreciate the support from SPIE traveling lecturer program. A total of 15 people came

for this lunch seminar.

(14) May 16, 2018 – International Day of Light

In celebration of the first international day of light, we collaborated with the EPSS and astronomy club

and organized a huge educational and demo event at our school – UCLA campus. The events features

“the history and mystery of optics”. We reserved the whole court of science and did demo on:

1. Holograms and 3D vision using outreach kits and some facilities we purchased

2. Laser radio that we built ourselves (a mimic of optical free space and fiber communication)

3. Optical motion and delusion kits

4. Sun spotter and space telescopes from the astronomy club

5. Arc lamp and spectrometer to show the light spectrum composition and atom emission

6. Posters of the major events in optics history

Around 300 students and staffs of UCLA attended this event and learned from it, as well as some high-

school students and UCLA alumni. Thanks for the posters from SPIE, the giveaway kits from OSA, and the

funding from the SOLE office of UCLA for providing facilities and some printing.

(15) July 21, 2018 -- Laser tag for student members at UltraZone

This was a team-building / welcome event in which we went to play laser tag together. We also had

some discussions on research and volunteering interests, vision planning and chapter expectations. 12

of our student chapter members participated in this event.

More pictures can be found at: https://www.facebook.com/osaspiestudentchapterucla/

3.1 - Describe exactly how chapter grant funding was spent. We used chapter grant funding to buy snacks and drinks for seminars, food for mixers and chapter meetings, parking permits for seminar presenters, print flyers and banners for advertisement of our student chapter and SPIE, and buy optics for youth outreach program demonstrations.

3.2 - Were these activities described in your funding request? They were predicted in our previous funding request.

4 - Details of planned activities for the future. To keep the chapter this active, we plan to hold various activities throughout the year so that students and postdocs at UCLA may understand how important SPIE is to them. We will continue holding seminars about optics related research and mention at each seminar your support which makes the seminar better (e.g., drinks, snacks and travel). The research presented will keep photonics vibrant and keep SPIE a very important and relevant organization in the long run. 1) Exploring the Universe (EYU) 2018: The annual UCLA wide outreach event in which we perform many demonstrations of optical experiments, to more than 6000 attendees consisting of K-12 students, teachers, and parents from the Los Angeles County. Some of the experiments include the laser radio, kaleidoscope, microscope, telescope, praxinoscope, anamorphic art display with a cylindrical mirror, demonstrations using diffraction gratings, hologram creation and reconstruction, 3D imaging and viewing, thermochromic material experiments, etc. 2) Expert Seminars: Seminars by experts in the area of optics and photonics from academia and industry. Since the invited traveling lecture talk this year is a great success, we may continue to apply for the traveling lecturer benefit next year. We may also collaborate with University of Southern California (USC) to use their traveling lecturer benefit together. Light refreshments or lunch will also be served to the attendees. 3) School Visits for Outreaching to Young Inquiring Minds for Inspiring them to Explore STEM Subjects: Many schools in Los Angeles have shown great interest to have our student chapter at UCLA visit their school campus to give presentations and experimental demonstrations on optics and photonics technologies. We are in touch with a teacher from each school to plan and organize this event. 4) Host a laboratory visit to high school students from schools in Los Angeles County at Prof. Bahram Jalali's Photonics Laboratory at UCLA: We would present the research on imaging and cancer cell detection being done at UCLA and explain its impact on society. We also plan to demonstrate our highly popular demonstration of a simple laser radio through free space transmission and also using an optical fiber cable. We use this demonstration to explain the backbone of Internet using optical fiber communication technology. 5) Student Mixer Events and Meetings: Mixer events for UCLA students to improve their communication, networking, and presentation skills. We would have poster presentation social nights with food and refreshments. We also have lunch meetings with SPIE student members and officers to discuss plan events. We also plan to revisit the optics-themed game night that was introduced this year.

6) Team-building Activities: We plan to continue the chapter tradition of laser tag in the next summer for team building. We would also like to continue some other event, e.g., camping and stargazing trip. 7) Outreach Events Organized Jointly with other groups such as The Optical Society (OSA), AWiSE (Advancing Women in Science and Engineering), Grad SWE (Society for Women Engineers), Do-It-Yourself (DIY) Girls, California NanoSystems Institute (CNSI) High School Nanoscience Program etc. both at UCLA campus and outside venues. 8) Career building and Networking: Due to a lack of funds this year, we had minimal career-building events held, such as cutting out the Photonics Career Night which we had before. We plan to reintroduce it this year, during which students and postdocs will network with the local photonics industry. The companies will benefit from finding high-quality people to recruit in the future, and the students and postdocs will benefit from the professionals’ great advice and job opportunities, so that they stay in the photonics industry and increase the number of future SPIE members.

5 - Financial information. 5.1 - Beginning balance $156.10

5.2 - Funds raised and expended (indicate amounts and source/destination) · Please note that:

o negative = funds raised o positive = funds expended

2017 remained items resolved

Date Event Name Funds Transaction Partner

28-Nov-2017 Uncashed check by Cathy $25.61 Yunshan Jiang

2017-2018 report

Date Event Name Funds Transaction Partner

28-Nov-2017 EYU 2017 Refreshments for Volunteers $117.53 Jacky Chan

1-Feb-2018 SPIE chapter funding -$900.00 Jacky Chan

8-Feb-2018 Lunch seminar with Dr. Sun - visitor parking + coffee

$13.90 Yichen Wu

8-Feb-2018 Lunch seminar with Dr. Sun - food $42.00 Steve Lu

8-Feb-2018 Lunch seminar with Dr. Sun - Steve parking $12.00 Steve Lu

24-Apr-2018 SPIE posters shipment $20.00 Yichen Wu

21-Jul-2018 Laser tag booking $324 Jacky Chan

Total -$370.57

5.3 - Details of SPIE funding received $900 for the year

5.4 - Other sources (please specify)

OSA Check for Yearly Report $700 OSA

UCLA SOLE CPC Mini fund

Covered facility and

fees for international day of light

UCLA SOLE office

5.5 - Ending balance $1201.06