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f Universidad del Valle Ciudad Universitaria Meléndez – A.A. 25360 Phones: + 57 2 3394610 – 3307627 Ext : 25 Fax : + 57 2 3393237 E-mail: [email protected] Cali – Colombia
Universidad del Valle SPIE Student Chapter
ID 1019303
Report 2007 – 2008 July 2008
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Officers 2008 – 2009
President Mauricio Reyes Hurtado [email protected] Vice‐president Edison Rosero Salazar [email protected] Secretary Henry Gordillo Millan [email protected] Treasurer Alberto Osorio Dominguez [email protected] Advisor Efrain Solarte Rodriguez [email protected]
List of Current Members
1 Alberto Osorio [email protected] 2 Alvaro Casas Bedoya [email protected] 3 Boris Cabrera [email protected] 4 Carlos Melo Luna [email protected] 5 Claudia Valdes [email protected] 6 David Rivas‐Gongora [email protected] 7 Edinson Rosero [email protected] 8 Fernando Yepes fernando@gym‐group.org 9 Henry Gordillo [email protected]
10 Hernan Benitez Restrepo [email protected] 11 Julio Quiceno [email protected] 12 Lucero Plazas [email protected] 13 Martha Lopez [email protected] 14 Mauricio Reyes [email protected] 15 Willian Sanchez Mora [email protected] 16 Prof. Efrain Solarte [email protected]
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Past Activities
Identity T‐shirt: Last year, both SPIE and OSA Universidad del Valle Student Chapters were looking for an identity mark and decided to make T‐shirts for every member with the CUVO logo.
Here are some of our SPIE Student Chapter members wearing our new distinctive T‐shirt at the University Campus. From left to right: David Rivas, Mauricio Reyes, Julio Quiceno, Boris Cabrera, Claudia Valdes, our advisor Prof. Efrain Solarte, Carlos Melo, Edison Rosero and Alberto Osorio.
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A detail of the embroidered logo for our Universidad del Valle Optics Student Chapters, CUVO (Capítulo Universidad del Valle de Óptica).
Conferences Participation: Our past president, Alberto Osorio, participated in the 2007 version of the Student Chapter Leadership Workshop thanks to the Officer Travel Grant. In that workshop he socialized with people from other countries and he shared some experiences with some SPIE Chapter Leaders. Besides, he presented some of his undergraduate work results at the Optics + Photonics Conference in a poster called:”1D measurement of fluid speed by laser Doppler anemometry”.
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Above: Alberto with Juan Carlos from INAOE (Mexico), Kevin from PUCP (Peru) and Sandra also from INAOE. Below: Alberto at Optics + Photonics venue.
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In February 2008, Claudia Valdes attended the Winter College on Micro and Nanophotonics for Life Sciences, a workshop hosted by the International Center for Theoretical Physics, ICTP, in Trieste, Italy, and sponsored by SPIE. She presented a technical poster with some of her research results and also had the opportunity of meeting some members from INAOE SPIE Student Chapter.
Claudia during the visit to the Synchrotron and at the poster session. Below, she is with Maripaz Hernandez and Enrique Rodriguez from INAOE.
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Optics dissemination activity: Our outreach activity, for last period, combined the abilities and potentials of OSA and SPIE Student Chapters on a Workshop on Optics specially designed for children from a vulnerable zone in our city. The zone where we carried out the activity is located in the hillsides of Cali and it is known as “Pueblo Joven” (Young Town). This activity was possible thanks to a contact we made with some students of Sociology at our University, who lead a Community Center in that place, called “CENTRO CULTURAL LA RED, CCR”. This center is intended to promote varied cultural, artistic, recreational and technical activities, as well as sports, all around the year to the community people. In this opportunity they opened their doors and allowed us to bring their children basic knowledge on Optics with our activity: “Experience the magic of light and color”. The activity was aimed to boys and girls with ages between 8 and 13 years, and our main purpose was to bring them some easy concepts on Optics with some homemade experiments.
Alberto shows how a telescope functions and Boris explains the human eye anatomy and physiology.
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A Newton’s disk turns white, and two boys show their finished kaleidoscopes.
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Some Chapter members with children from CCR and their Leaders.
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Future Activities During the period 2008 – 2009, we want to keep on with our outreach activities for Science dissemination through Optics, joining efforts with the Universidad del Valle OSA Student Chapter. In August, our president is participating at the Student Chapter Leadership Workshop and he is attending the Optics + Photonics Conference, where he is going to present his own work results. He is also presenting a poster with our last year activities at the Student Chapter Exhibition. In September we are going to continue activities with the children of the Cultural Center “La Red” in the hillsides of Cali. We are going to construct with them a telescope and we are going to make some astronomical observations from the Center. The telescope will stay at the Center for future activities. Beginning the next academic semester, we are planning a new action to promote SPIE and to increase our chapter members. We are planning astronomical observations at the University Campus as a divulgation activity for everybody (students, staff or visitors). We are restructuring our Chapter webpage and we are looking for a new domain. This year we want to continue growing our relations with other SPIE Chapters sharing with them our experiences.
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Financial Information
Details Income* Expenses* Ending Balance* Beginning Balance (Dec‐31‐2006) $ 63 Chapter Grant (Feb 2007) $ 700 Underprivileged Zone Activity $ 100 Chapter Identity (T‐shirts) $ 100 Christmas Holiday Meeting 2007 $ 65 Membership Support $ 50 Chapter Meetings $ 25 Banking Charges and Taxes $ 52
Total $ 763 $ 392 $ 371
*All funds are in USD.